I feel like the S1 finale of True Detective was honestly great as it was. One of the themes it has going for it is the eldritch horror elements from The King in Yellow, and people wrongfully interpret this as like, wanting monsters and a robed cult thrusting wavy daggers at you, but as it stands I think it really compliments these themes to have the actual cult be this unreachable force of unknown size and irreparably damage those who happen upon it, some even to the point of catatonia. And the horror was that Childress was the only one within their reach through semi-legal means, who was not able to hide through wealth and privilege.
Totally agree! I really like season one, and I really don't mind the way it ended. I'm sure a good series could be made about the rest of the 'sprawl' during or before S1, but it doesn't need it.
No, they had one mad hillbilly as a villain already, and then the ultimate cult leader was another mad hillbilly - like this guy is running a secret society for elite rich aholes? I don't buy it, but i might accept it if not from a narrative point this repeat is just dumb, apparently originally they planned the case will never be solved -that would frankly have been better but someone got cold feet and thought the audience had to be pandered to.
am i wrong about season 1? wasnt these some supernatural shit to it? what Rust sees in the last episode in the context of all the King in Yellow stuff had me believing that a worm hole leading to Carcosa had appeared before him, meaning the bad guy wasnt some nutjob, all that crap he believed was true
As someone who lived and worked in Alaska (Fairbanks) and northern Canada (Uranium City/Athabasca and, Yellowknife/GSL) as a field biologist, I gotta say that Night Country totally lacks a sense of place. Season 1 did a great job with it's setting: it was unambiguously back- ountry Louisiana. Night country doesn't even feel cold. And the indigenous angle is handled so poorly... I can see a really great series set around the drug trade/human trafficking/mining/colonialism/Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/Metropolitan indifference/rich assholes... You make your true detectives interesting characters: a school teacher who saw something and can't let it go, an RCMP officer who gets transferred to Newfoundland for asking questions... an FBI agent who doesn't see the point in any of it but can't get off the case... whatever... give me a week and five grand and i'll write you a pilot. I forget what my point was... oh yeah... what a stupid show.. and the dialogue: "If they drill too fast it will destabilize the immortality microorganism's genome"... wtf? That is Star Trek level meaningless techno-gobbledygook. And Rust's dad.... and the Tuttle Corporation.... Discount Log Lady... it's laughable. The worst thing though was being told how good it was and how you were sexist if you didn't like it... I tell ya, if people were sent to jail or maimed (or something) for failing to adequately entertain me, we'd have a lot less shit TV. You know what show knew its place? The Nanny... and who knew Fran Drescher would turn out to be such a god damn firebrand... there is a feminist icon for you. ... and what a waste of Christopher Eccleston. Watching him fumble around with his pants and belt for $10,000 an hour is just embarrassing. If I was showrunning this thing and was told to cast some famous asshole for a stupid amount of money, you know who I'd choose? Yep: Werner Herzog... tell me you don't want to see him frozen in ice, waxing lyrical about the silence and what it takes from you while you sleep. anyway, I need to get to work. Thanks for reading this far, you fkn weirdo.
51:00 I worked at a Union Meijer. I got the same general lack of respect or decency that was common to all of my early, low paying, jobs. But nothing like what you experienced!
There's loads of S1 shows where the idea is fantastic, really well executed, but also essentially is done and wrapped up (even with ambiguous endings or hints at a bigger world) and it's so hard to carry on the level to another series where you don't have the advantage of the world building as people have already experienced it - Twin Peaks, Westword, True Detective etc. Severance was great and the writers won't suddenly turn bad, but I don't see how it can deliver more than S1 in the 2nd series.
That is scary hearing your reminiscing about the Royal Mail I'm wondering if we did it was the same time, circa 1998/1999. I was a postman in the summer as my summer job between terms at university and remember there being a strike on at the one time. It worked out really well for me as there was no post coming down from the depots so ended up 'Walk-Sorting' only a handful of letters which took an hour to deliver and still got paid but clocked off early. Then when it all came through the system for the overtime for the tonnes of extra hours it took to catch up. The depot I was at were great because they didn't have a problem with me working while they were on strike. I really had a problem with the idea of crossing a picket line given my background and principles but they were absolutely cool about it as I was only a summer temp. I definitely remember the same training that you refer to. Think I got three days of going out and being taught how to walk-sort and peck your bags before deliver at like half five in the morning. Was still in the pub by the time they were opening at midday. 😊
If you put a few of those descriptors in the title, I bet these would do better. Not because of the evil algo, but that I'm usually reading the titles and not reading the thumbnail. Love you guys, don't ever quit
Hi Georg, I think I've mentioned this to you before. But, I feel you, in profile, look just a little too much like that Lenin bloke (not the one from the Beatles) to be talking about Russian politics.
As someone who was being asked to watch season 4... thanks for helping me dodge a bullet. Maybe one episode... sometimes I watch thrillers as unintended comedy. Occasionally it's a thing...
The technology to read heart rate from an image of a person exists. It uses very subtle differences in colour on the skin to detect the pulses of the heart.
Totally agree about True Detective. Night Country has been an utter disappointment, and doesn't deserve to bear the True Detective name. TD is not about supernatural stuff and shouldn't have some completely unrelated and irreconcilable narrative shoehorned into its canon. Personally I consider the first season to be the best 8 hours of television ever produced. I don't think we're ever going to see a dynamic like Rust and Marty ever reproduced as well as TD did it. Season 3 almost came close. You guys should definitely give it a watch. It had brilliant casting and acting, and was really freaking good for about 90 percent of it. Unfortunately the narrative falls apart in the end because the last act is handled very lazily and is very rushed. But it's still worth watching. It's miles better than seasons 2 and 4. I am more critical of season 2 than you guys though. I thought it was irredeemable and some of the most terrible writing and dialogue I've ever witnessed. I really love the parody video someone made of it though, "Ray and Frank's Bogus Journey". You guys should look that up.
Season 1 of True Detective also had an amazing soundtrack with The Handsome Family band and that incredible opening theme. Season 2 had Lera Lynn and some incredible music as well, but season 3 and 4 didn't utilize what Nick Pizzolatto did with his creation. Hope everybody has a great weekend. I'm just here to do the Superbowl Shuffle. 🏈
Yeah if only we'd had the beacons of integrity that are Anderson Cooper and Katie Couric interview Putin... And that's assuming that they'd even want to do that. You wouldn't wanna give a platform to Putin.
I guess everyone has had a shit experience of work. - either the work, the people (the group dynamics) or the policies. I once worked for a bit clothes retailer. Same thing as mentioned. Big signs saying you can't join a union. Lots of young people working shifts paid by the hour but then staying beyond their shift was they need to remove stock from a trolly, basically working for free (but you don't earn a salary?) and then to top it off they sent Christmas cards which were red versions of their green payslips, printed on a dot matrix printer. I also did some brief work for a big South Korean company who were, as part of the clothes division, buying them from a high class retailer, taking them apart and then sending them to the far east to be recreated and then badged for a UK department store.
Well, George, you explained why my feeds weren't putting up any viral clips...there were none. His views on his own channel don't make it viral. Sharing, makes it "viral".
I worked on the HoloLens and the HoloLens 2 and it was something that was almost cool like given a few more versions and time in Developers hands it'll be something.
Apparently, TC didn't really INTERVIEW him so much as provide Putin with more exposure to "western" eyes...TC has overstepped so many times in his years on Fox, I couldn't stand another minute of his on-screen time...he has moved on, and thankfully, so could we.
yall are describing an anime called psycopass in which ppls emotions are monitored and given a grade which determines what jobs they can take and where they can go. and if they become to extream they are executed on the spot
I know Ill sound like I was living under a rock, but whats the name of the lady Georg keeps bringing in and abusing her by having on his podcast? I have been following you for years and I think I have missed this arc completely ... I feel like that dude who calls everyone "buddy" cause he doesnt remember their names. I do not want to be that dude!
I'm confused about Night Country, they keep referring to characters as 'Native', but are played by Black actors...are they supposed to be Native? Am I a big racist?
I'm pretty sure the actors are legitimately indigenous, if they casted blacks as indigenous they'd be canceled. Indigenous people probably just have a greater diversity of skin tones than you'd think. You also have a ton of indigenous people who are half-white, probably half-other-things too.
@@coreyander286 The main Shefiff is definitely Black, but it's inferred she's Native as I suppose she'll have some magical powers and solve this whole thing by the end. I'm still confused, but I've given up after the first episode. So different from series one, which was just awesome.
You know, after watching a dozen or so of these pods, I don't know if Christina really is as she pretends/behaves (completely disinterested into the pod AND her husband for that matter, and has a "this is bull$hit, this and YOU George, are waste of my time..." tone) or it's somekind of overcompensation/cope people sometimes do when they are on camera/in front of people speaking, a faux-semi-sophisticated "I don't care...bleh..." way of dealing with performance anxiety. I am not sure if they go to seperate rooms, counties, townships, what-have-you, after the pod is over and don't speak to each other until the next pod, or they have furious sex sessions and are deeply in love and have a functional marriage.
I don't always agree with you, but I am willing to listen to your point of view. I'm an independent voter, people say it's a waste of votes, which is not true. Love your channel! Ever thought of bringing in someone in with an opposite opinion? I tried it, but most people can talk the text, but not walk the vlog.
Has Anderson Cooper privately talked about how much he despises a candidate and thinks he's dumb while publicly telling his audience that said candidate is a great, smart, honorable guy? Because we have proof Tucker did that with Trump.
Both would ask softball questions and/or take whatever answer Putin gives without challenge because they want to leave Russia alive. The same would happen any of them ask Xi about "certain camps".
the low countries are simply low. something about the quaity of the land, climate, people, etc. scandinavia used to be a very low place but they turned things around all by themselves. i'm sure that many scandi tribes were less smart and died out in the process, leaving the clever euros in charge. all poor countries need to do their own self improvement.
They’re not losing their minds over anything, what are you talking about? Tucker isn’t a journalist, he’s a politics and culture commentator whose career has recently died, and he’s been a Putin water-carrier for a while now here. It would be like if a dumber, less respected, explicitly pro-Putin Piers Morgan went. And then Tucker didn’t even get to do what he wanted with the interview. Putin literally humiliated him and mocked him to his face.
It matters because it's giving Putin yet another avenue to spread his lies and justify his genocidal invasion of Ukraine. And we knew there would be very little pushback from Tucker.
The putin interview was great, the history of russia part was my favorite. The stark contrast between Americans who have no history and Russia who are a thousand year old civilization is worth pointing out. All your takes on the interview are bad. Putin is not a hero but as far as presidents go he's straightforward and events have placed him on the right side of history against global domination by the u.s. empire.
Putin is a psychopath at the head of a mafia-like org. That said, I find the same to be true of Biden, Trudeau and Netanyahu. I guess being a cold-hearted psychopath is a prerequisite.
The best part of Russian history was when you tried to emulate the success of Western powers and failed miserably, then drank yourselves stupid on fermented potatoes to cope with the fact that you are the trailer park of Europe.
If you're determining whether or not an invasion is justified based on some king's rules of succession in the 11th Century, you're on the wrong side of history.
I'm two minutes in. I don't expect a shred of objectivity to this at all. Conclusions, comments about taste, is there anything serious in your heads. I thought so when I subscribed. Well, I can sure undo that and will the moment I press COMMENT
@@Weird-City You mean like Tucker Carlson privately saying he hates Trump, thinks Trump is a moron, and wishes he no longer had to cover Trump, all while going on TV and glazing Trump? You mean like that lack of ruthless objectivity... Outright knowingly telling your audience to believe something you know not to be true? Also note how kob doesn't actually list anything that Georg and his wife were wrong about. He just vaguely insinuates that they lied about the interview, without making any specific claims that could be called out.
@@coreyander286 Carlson is a fool. This isn't about him - the issue is much wider than one man. If you think today's journalists are objectively reporting and investigating without bias - then you are either dull, or you were born into this madness and do not have a reference point to know any different.
regarding a class system of nations, with the poor being kept poor. in reality there have already been colonial projects, aid projects and brain-drains. now, the rich countries are stepping back to see how people cope. those countries that have fallen to the lowest tier are mostly sub 80 IQ. you really need to meet the muslims of gabon or the township people of cape town. you have to see it to believe it.
The interview was surreal and nothing like 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, unfortunately. Yeah, it's for Americans, since Twitter is blocked in Russia, which is something that an actual journalist might have mentioned. It also connects with what Lavrov has said about Tucker Carlson before and the America First isolationism, which is how Putin hopes to win in Ukraine and elsewhere eventually.
