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Post by roverpup on May 8, 2018 20:23:11 GMT
Actually I have seen a few people on Twitter comparing Patrick Melrose POS with an old Mad Men ad. That's all! Yesterday someone actually asked if it was a reference and one of the producers said that the clothes and the bathtub were actually relevant to the plot and definitely not a reference to Mad Men. I don't understand why a reviewer would take something like that seriously and think it's indeed related to something like Mad Men. Even after watching the thing! Very weird! THR critic said it's very obvious what's wrong with Patrick even when they don't openly disclosed it in the first two episodes (I'm guessing Patrick himself will finally "expressed" it until his confession to Johnny in the third episode). I can't imagine this guy guessing it! It seems he didn't based in that post. He was waiting something completely different and it doesn't seems he has an enough open mind to understand it's not what he thought it would be. Maybe it was also the "Playboy" description. Anyway, it's a very perplexing review. Umm, sgev, what do you mean with the initials “POS”?? Where I come from it usually stands for Piece Of Shit or Point Of Sale, but I am curious as to what it is in this context. Obviously it definitely doesn’t stand for what I know it as!! LOL! As for the review... I really can’t take it seriously at all. The site seems to be fairly new and this “reviewer” seems to be someone who just “posts” opinions on the site. I took a look at some of his other “posts” and wasn’t impressed. I guess I am just too “old school” and kind of would like my reviewers to at least have credentials of some sort! :-))
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May 8, 2018 20:39:59 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on May 8, 2018 20:39:59 GMT
LOL. I don't know! I guess it was some trick by the autocorrect (although it doesn't mean anything in Spanish neither!). I was talking about the posters. A few people said PM's poster was similar to one of the multiple Mad Men had during its run. It was one of a particular season! I think you need to be a super fan of Mad Men to remember those things! EDITED: Apparently this is the poster: He is not in a bathtub!
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May 8, 2018 21:21:47 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on May 8, 2018 21:21:47 GMT
Radio Times:
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Post by queenzod on May 8, 2018 21:32:40 GMT
“Not once did we watch any conflict.” That summed it up for me. When the conflict is internal it may appear to some folks that nothing is happening and there’s no plot. People like that reviewer have no ability to project themselves into the inside of a character and muddle around in there. My best friend is like that. We can both watch some lyrical character piece and she’s bored beyond belief and I’m just as happy as a pig in slop. She’s all about the plot and what happens next, when I’m thrilled to have nothing “happen” and just watch the character relationships. And the opposite is also true. She thought the recent Godzilla was exciting; I was squirming with boredom. Haha!
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May 8, 2018 21:57:10 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on May 8, 2018 21:57:10 GMT
I have a friend who was perplexed with Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers ending. She was perplexed with the whole movie but especially the ending. I tried to explained it to her but she just wanted a clear resolution.
I feel bad criticizing comments by someone who have actually watched the thing but yes, he doesn't seem very professional or at least knowledgeable. There are some really crazy stuff there (why they would aspire to do a Patrick Melrose adaptation similar to Mad Men??!!!) but there are also some contradictions (characters aren't developed but they are very well played;the settings aren't realistically timed but also great, etc.)
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Post by mllemass on May 8, 2018 22:39:10 GMT
I think that the Sherlock S4 ad looked much more like the Mad Men poster than this ad with Patrick Melrose in the bathtub. And John and Sherlock were even sitting in chairs, like Don Draper, surrounded by water.
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May 9, 2018 0:04:18 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on May 9, 2018 0:04:18 GMT
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Post by queenzod on May 9, 2018 3:12:53 GMT
I’m suspicious of anything that begins with “gay math whiz Alan Turing,” like he was some celebrity contestant on a British quiz show. As to the rest, I think it’s supposed to be wildly over the top, isn’t it? Isn’t that part of the point?
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Post by onebluestocking on May 9, 2018 5:30:13 GMT
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Post by onebluestocking on May 9, 2018 5:45:14 GMT
What kind of awful comment is that?! He makes it sound like a joke!
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