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Post by Ladybug on Jul 22, 2019 9:39:17 GMT -4
I didn't even watch the finale. I'll probably catch up at a later point. I hope they don't do a season 3.
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Post by Ginger on Jul 22, 2019 9:43:20 GMT -4
I'm glad I bailed when I did. It was such a train wreck! I've been reading various recaps that have all said there will not be another season. Which basically confirms that they knew it was a total shit show that should have never happened or as it was said, maybe make it into some sort of TV movie or whatever to give some "what happened after" or whatever. But not whatever this shit was. HBO said there would be no third season. But they also said last time that there would be no second season. And just like last time, Nicole Kidman is now out there hinting that she wants to do another season and that "there are ideas". Somebody needs to shove a big wad of tissues down her throat to shut her up. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 11:10:18 GMT -4
If someone makes an all Renata cut, and uploads it somewhere, watch that. Otherwise, you can watch all seven episodes with your finger on the fast forward button. It's going to get a lot of use. kostgard wasn't kidding. Nothing happens.  OMG, that would be GREAT. I was shouting at her last night, "MORE, HIT MORE THINGS!" I'm astonished that Kidman thinks they should film more of this crap. |
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Post by scarlet on Jul 22, 2019 11:38:07 GMT -4
Laura Dern was the high point of the season--the only real reason to watch. "I can not not be rich" is probably my favorite line of hers.
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Post by laurenj on Jul 22, 2019 15:35:43 GMT -4
Laura Dern was the high point of the season--the only real reason to watch. "I can not not be rich" is probably my favorite line of hers. Aside from a clunky line here or there, Laura Dern had hands down the best writing of any character in season 2. It's a low bar, but since her dialogue was pretty much the only time I wasn't thinking "what the hell?", whoever wrote her stuff gets the prize. The conversation between Ziggy and Jane had me banging my head against the wall, "I want you to be with him and I think you want to be with him too." Um, okay. Totally believable conversation between mother and 8 year old boy... The Bonnie/Nathan stuff would have been so, so, so much more interesting than 4 weeks of Bonnie staring at her mom in a hospital bed. It also would have been much more interesting if there was still a lot of visible tension between Bonnie and Madeline, but since the Monterey Five became BFFs, it lost all chance of dramatic tension (speaking of which, didn't any of them think it would look weird that ALL of them were sitting in a row at Celeste's custody hearing? Like, what does Bonnie have to do with any of that, except for the secret fact that she was the reason those kids didn't have a dad anymore. And Renata was not friends with Celeste before that night, so if they were trying not to look suspicious, that seems like a giant fail). They also completely dropped any interaction between Madeline and Nathan in favor of Nathan creepily tailing Ed all over town for absolutely no reason. In a way, I sort of enjoyed this last episode, perhaps because something HAD to happen. There was no more room for moody premonitions and harbingers, they had to actually show something that was currently happening. But it was not worth the wait of 7 episodes of beating around random bushes that no one was actually interested in. I thought Reese's scene in the car with Nicole after they showed the video was her best work of the season and one of the few moments that really reminded me of season 1. |
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Post by scarlet on Jul 22, 2019 16:26:20 GMT -4
I thought Reese's scene in the car with Nicole after they showed the video was her best work of the season and one of the few moments that really reminded me of season 1. Yeah, that was a good scene. But, hell, I'm still salty that they wrote in an affair for Madeline, which strayed from the source material. I'm positive that was only to give Reese something more meaty to do, given Madeline is more just the town crier/buttinsky/ringleader in the book and I guess that wouldn't be very challenging. |
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Post by kostgard on Jul 22, 2019 16:28:51 GMT -4
The Bonnie/Nathan stuff would have been so, so, so much more interesting than 4 weeks of Bonnie staring at her mom in a hospital bed. It also would have been much more interesting if there was still a lot of visible tension between Bonnie and Madeline, but since the Monterey Five became BFFs, it lost all chance of dramatic tension (speaking of which, didn't any of them think it would look weird that ALL of them were sitting in a row at Celeste's custody hearing? Like, what does Bonnie have to do with any of that, except for the secret fact that she was the reason those kids didn't have a dad anymore. And Renata was not friends with Celeste before that night, so if they were trying not to look suspicious, that seems like a giant fail). They also completely dropped any interaction between Madeline and Nathan in favor of Nathan creepily tailing Ed all over town for absolutely no reason. I also wish they had explored Bonnie and her relationship to the other women a bit more. At one point, Celeste pointed out that they aren't really all friends, they just have this lie that bonds them together, and that was really apparent with Bonnie. She never fit in with the rest. She's the only woman of color. She's the only second wife and all that entails (she's total "first wife" nightmare material - younger, beautiful, "exotic" and into stuff the first wives consider crunchy, granola, hippy-dippy nonsense, and worst of all she's basically a nice person). She saved Celeste. The lie was presumably to protect her. But, aside from what seemed like some true friendship moments with Jane (who is also different from the rest in that she's younger and a single mom), they mostly seemed to act like Bonnie was an inconvenience. I wish they had explored that more. Then everything else with Bonnie just sort of got rushed in the end none of it had time to develop - confessed all this stuff about her mother, then mom was okay, but nope, she's going to die again. She told Nathan she doesn't love him and...nothing really comes of that because we're at the end. Okay. You'd think we'd at least get some scene where Nathan decides to take that out on Ed for no reason. Just like they really didn't explore the deal with Maddie and Ed. Yes, Ed got to be mad at her and try to decide if he wanted to trust her again and had weird drama teacher wife throwing herself at him and so on. But we didn't really explore why Maddie did it. She said something about seeing her dad cheat on her mom and maybe that's why, but...that's it. They did not address what was missing in their marriage or in Maddie that made Maddie look elsewhere. |
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Post by narm on Aug 19, 2019 2:00:33 GMT -4
I still haven’t watched the finale. I don’t even know if I will bother at this point? The season was so meh. They really should have left it at one season.
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Post by mrspickles on May 7, 2020 22:45:38 GMT -4
There is a story about Reese and Laura discussing who they would like to see in season 3 and I can't tell if they're serious about there even being a season 3 or not. If there is I hope they go back to the season 1 crew instead of the patchwork they made of season 2. That was messed up and if I remember correctly, there was a crew that did the filming, then it went back to the season 1 production people, who chopped it all up and redid everything which was why it made so little sense, right? If they did a season 3 I would watch the first episode to see if it looked like it would be worth watching. But I wouldn't set my DVR until I was sure it was worth it.
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