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So, I am a huge fan of Steve Carell from *The Office*, and I really like his acting—especially in comedy and drama movies like *Beautiful Boy*. Because of this, I didn’t watch any trailers and jumped straight into the show. I thought the first three or four episodes were okay, but after that, nothing happened in the entire series. Also, I hated Katie. I mean, she is constantly hooking up with her #sshole husband again and again. Even though she knows he cheated and is expecting a child with Sunny, she still has an affair with her ex-husband. I am not from the West, so clearly I have no idea how relationships work there or how open people are. I watched the entire series just to test my patience and see how much torture I could take. In the whole show, only Steve Carell's character looked real or sane to me. I know this is just a fictional series, but I just wanted to vent.

I DONT get that prestige HBO feel from the show it just feels like the Reacher show which is very good but with superpowers the whole. I haven't really gotten a feel for what general audiences feel about the show only dc fans talking about how there's not enough green going on.

Me and 4 friends did a draft of "best" characters from HBO shows. There's been a lot of debate on the winner.

Decide for me reddit.

Team 1

1. Al Swearengen

2. Kenny Powers

3. Selina Meyers

4. Richard Harrow

Team 2

1. Logan Roy

2. ⁠Avon Barksdale

3. ⁠Nathan Fielder (Rehearsal)

4. ⁠Major Dick Winters

Team 3

1. Tony Soprano

2. ⁠Rustin Cohle

3. ⁠Larry David

4. ⁠Ari Gold

Team 4

1. Omar Little

2. Barry

3. Ser Duncan

4. Joel (The last of us)

Team 5

1. STRINGER Bell

2. Christopher Moltisanti

3. Larry Sanders

4. Tywin Lannister

These are all on my list so will get to them eventually but I can only choose one right now with young kids, I don't have much time but looking to start one of the following for a show to watch over the summer.

- Boardwalk Empire

- Deadwood

- Six Feet Under

- Carnivale

There's a post titled “There's a post titled “Half Man Ep 4 Nial & Ruben felt too real,” so here comes this counter-post.

Am I losing my mind, or is anyone else thinking like me that the second half of Ep. 4, starting from the hospital scene, is Niall’s fictional writing? It’s intense, confrontational, anatomical even, but to me it feels full of rhetoric and surreal moments — ultimately, it’s what Niall is familiar with, as suggested by his book contractor. It’s reader-pleasing and exploitative, both of his own pain and Ruben’s. Then comes the wedding, the reckoning for the imagined confession and for writing the unspeakable.

Another, perhaps more plot-relevant, guess is that Ruben did learn Niall was being blackmailed, but not from Niall himself if the hospital scene never actually happened. It might have been Niall’s mom, Joanna, or Gus. And the wedding IS their first post-prison interaction and what Naill chose is to publish his story about himself and Ruben which could ruin Ruben's life, which I could agree upon with some comments from that thread.

I want to get this off my chest and felt this subreddit would be the appropriate place to do so than in the actual Half Man subreddit.

We have only two episodes left and I’m struggling to connect and care for the relationship between Ruben and Niall.

Maybe it’s the time jumps but their relationship so far has been very one-note. I sort of see the initial attraction but everything after is lost on me. And I think in part that’s because Ruben’s character is very one-note. He’s angry and violent. That’s it. And while Niall is better written, he’s exhausting. So why do they keep coming back together? Why does Niall keep subjecting himself to Ruben’s abuse when so far, I haven’t seen Ruben bring anything into his life that makes him worthy of keeping around.

Watching the hospital scene, it feels like Gadd wrote that scene first and then tried padding it out with these moments in time, but there’s so much characterization that’s lacking. On paper that’s a good scene and the way the relationship is described is great, I just wish I would’ve seen it play out.

I don’t mean to start an argument here and I’m definitely not saying Half Man is a bad show, but in my opinion it feels like a rough draft. I’m wondering if anyone feels the same way.

I liked the new Lanterns teaser a lot more than the previous one. It got me really hyped for the show actually.

Article about "Stuart Fails To Save The Universe".

It's been a decade, and this show is amazing. Buscemi is great, but Shannon, Williams, McDonald, Graham, Wright, and so many more are great in this show. I cannot recommend it enough, especially for a US audience familiar with the period's history.

RIP Michael K Williams.