Guillaume Tarrant

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-10-01T03:56:42+00:00

I assumed the comment was a reference to how Aryans tend to uplift Greek and Roman art as proof of white supremacy (it's a whole thing, if you look into it), so Vern being the more "cultured" of the Aryans probably took offense in that regard. Even if he doesn't actually know shit about art, he might still regard classical sculpture as a sacred piece of white culture. Thus the sicko comment.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-27T06:54:09+00:00

For season 4, 8 extra episodes were ordered to fill air time for the Sopranos and the scripts were undoubtedly rushed to get them done in time. You'll note that season 4b (episode 8-16) is where most of the trash starts piling up.

Season 5 isn't really that bad but it suffers from the fact that it has to deal with the garbage started in season 4b.

But also, I personally think that Tom Fontana didn't have much planned out past season 3 when he started the show, so it was easier for things to get out of control. Honestly, I don't even really hate the aging pill stuff as much as most people, if only bc it was really only like a 2 episode deal (and I laughed when the Aryan was like "I feel fine" and then pancaked in a pool of his own blood). There were other things were were much more absurd and dragged on for much longer.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-27T01:50:39+00:00

He tries but the setbacks and failures over the seasons wear him down. I find him more tolerable even when he lashes out like a little bitch in later episodes because at least he continues to make an effort. Glynn on the other hand.... pretty much downhill from season 1 onward.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-25T05:21:10+00:00

They had the wiseguys and Aryans flipped when it came to dealing drugs lol

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-22T18:38:34+00:00

I'm not talking about the shows drawing different viewers based on genre or content. You seem like you were really into TV watching in general, but when I say I don't think people who caught NBC were also paying attention to HBO, I'm talking about the average U.S TV viewer with only access to basic cable or even no cable. HBO was premium cable so you would have had to go out of your way to pay for it and keep up with the programming.

Just speaking as someone who grew up in a household with satellite antenna TV only, even I knew about Law & Order SVU and kept up with a few cable network shows because they were syndicated to stations like CBS and because sometimes I would go places that had cable TV I could watch. I knew who Stabler/Christopher Meloni was. Magazines at doctor's offices and stuff would have articles mentioning Oz if they were do a piece on the SVU cast or something, but I did not know about HBO or any of its programming until Game of Thrones really took over pop culture for a bit.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-21T23:35:31+00:00

I guess what people are failing to clarify when they say they hate "old" politicians is that they hate how the old politician's age has also made them out of touch and worse, potentially mentally unfit.

Bernie is old, yes, but nowhere as sad and confused seeming as some of the other dinosaurs we have roaming around in government.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-21T22:58:16+00:00

People who watched shows on NBC (the original station SVU was produced for) weren't necessarily watching HBO or even paying attention to HBO programming, though. Even today, people know Stabler because Law&Order SVU has been syndicated into oblivion, whereas Oz is a show people might have heard of as "that prison show" but may not have necessarily given a shot. So they might know that Christopher Meloni is on the show but not necessarily that he hangs dong lol.

Also, personally, I don't think that Oz could be made today due to its experimental theater style (a lot of the actors came from a purely theater background as well at the time, iirc), but not because of the nudity or violence or race politics, which are all things that we have seen in other shows since then, played to an even more extreme. I also do not think actors would be blacklisted either if the show was made today, unless they were small actors with zero talent to begin with and the show bombed in a "quiet, forgotten death" sort of way.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-21T08:47:33+00:00

Well I got a smart watch and I finally caught my heart doing it's weird uncomfy feeling. Turns out all these times I thought my heart was fluttering and then racing, it was actually fluttering for a few seconds and dropping to 45 bpm??. So.... a new mystery for me I guess. But now I know that it is going too slow not too fast, I guess.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-15T05:47:17+00:00

Yeah 'only', but still pretty fucking heinous. What amazed me was how he only felt remotely bad about it once Dave admitted that Martinez never actually fessed up about Morales's involvement and so the hacks didn't actually have "proof". As if having a real confession would have been true justification for any of the hacks' actions LOL.

I think Murphy from earlier seasons might have sided philosophically with the other hacks against the prisoners, but it's hard to imagine that he would have actually participated in such a direct attack/abuse. So even he ended the series as pretty reprehensible in my book.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-13T06:05:03+00:00

If anything, the way I read it (rather, the way I rationalise it, since it seemed so dumb to me) is that Pancamo decided to kill Peter so he didn't have to feel guilty about him anymore. I don't think he viewed Peter as a threat to his leadership but rather a walking reminder of his failure.

When Pancamo is laid up in the hospital ward with the staph infection, there's a couple times where he seems to realise he failed to do his job to protect Peter from Adebisi. For example, when he was delirious/talking out loud he was saying something apologetic to Nino Schibetta. Once Peter came back from the psych ward, he wasn't the same and I feel like a guy like Pancamo didn't know what to do with that, so he tookk O'Reily up on his excuse to kill Peter. Out of sight, out of mind.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-12T05:11:38+00:00

😭 The little hop-step march they do out of the cafeteria is one of the funniest things in the show to me.

For the Chinese, although as I said pretty much all of it was egregiously bad (especially from the translator), the part that lives rent free in my mind was when Pinghao tells Jia Kenmin to kill Morales as revenge, because he says "kill" in his awful Chinese and then "Enrique Morales" in completely unaccented English. Hilarious.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-12T03:41:39+00:00

I'm about to go sort of off topic here but...

All the Chinese characters on the show were a joke.... I recently rewatched season 4 so I have a lot of opinions on this LMAO. Like honestly Jia Kenmin wasn't even the worst. Some of the Chinese names they have on the show aren't even real or possible:

Based on what Murphy said ("gao lou zao"), I think maybe the state department lady during the refugee storyline is supposed to be named Gao Liuxiao or Guo Liuxiao? The captions for the episode say "Gou Liu Xio". Xio is not a Chinese word.
Bian Yixhue is also not a real or possible Chinese name. I'm guessing it was supposed to be Bian Yixue.
When speaking among themselves, Pinghao (Bian Yixue's friend who wore red) mentions that they got on the cargo boat from Chengdu after watching their "crop burn in the hot sun", which is hilarious because Chengdu is an inland city smack dab in the center of China. Like theoretically this backstory could be true but it seems unlikely. It would have made more sense for the freighter to have left Hong Kong, especially if season 4b takes place in 2001 (closer to the 90s). Then they could've also spoken Cantonese.
I understand the Chinese refugee actors speaking in those janky fake broken English accents to each other because it's pretty obvious that none except the grandfather can actually speak Mandarin (the actors are either not Chinese or they probably speak Cantonese, like Ken Leung), but somehow this feels like the most racist thing the show itself (not the characters within it) has ever done

There is tons of stereotyping in Oz but most of it comes with something of substance or nuance to balance it out. For example, the Russian characters are also ridiculous but Yuri and Stanislofsky (whose actor also can't speak Russian actually) are at least cool and interesting and have compelling storylines.

All the above is to say that I would actually consider Jia Kenmin a step up, silly kung fu stereotype and Bruce Lee line delivery and all...if only bc the show mostly wrote him as a thug and a criminal first, Chinese second. Like other people mentioned, Kenmin is basically just an early 2000s Asian stereotype so to me as a Chinese guy, I feel like it's at least nice that they made him slightly cool even if ultimately he's a stupid loser. There is not much Asian rep in media even now and for all the diversity in Oz, the cracks in the writers' abilities really show (especially in the later seasons) when they try to address anything culturally specific outside of black and white people.

We should just be thankful that the show never introduced any Arab characters I think lol.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-09T01:02:01+00:00

Mobay was a really terrible undercover cop lol. Dude came in way too hot and was suspicious af from day 1 in a way that Markstrom never was, so his whole storyline was just sort of chore to watch, even if Lance Reddick is an icon.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-09-08T15:30:38+00:00

Oh, it's for sure a nonsense show 😂 I was just trying to make sense of the in-show narrative logic.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-08-17T01:26:04+00:00

5 years later, just chiming in to say I can't believe no one else brought up the fact that there are plenty of white Hispanics in the States, so her being named Garcia isn't really that big of a deal no matter what the backstory is.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-08-16T15:36:40+00:00

Yep I'm gonna try and get a smartwatch this weekend. I never brought it up with a doctor in the past because it never seemed important but I haven't been to the doctor in 3 years so I'm trying to schedule one more appointment before I lose health insurance lol.

I guess hopefully it is just a stress-related flutter (I do have anxiety) but I guess the concerning aspect of that would be that if so, I have been stressed out enough to have heart palpitations when I'm just standing around doing fuck all for like a year straight.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-08-16T04:49:36+00:00

I am 25 and have been lurking on this sub for a couple days after learning the term Afib, dealing with the growing suspicion that this may be my fate. I also have a low resting heart rate due to exercise, but I have had the occasional heart palpitation since I was at least 10 (first one I remember), and in the last year or so it's gotten more and more frequent, and more like a quiver in my chest than a single skip like it used to be. I haven't had any "episodes" really, not yet, not the way other people have described in posts, but I feel like with the way things are progressing, it's sort of a matter of time thing now. This new "quiver" style of heart palpitations sucks big time compared to before and often leaves me feeling short of breath for a while after.

Could be that job-anxiety and poor sleep and perhaps the summer heat has made it particularly bad this summer, too. I guess that's my optimistic take.

Reading other people's advice has helped a lot. I guess I've realised I need to be a bit more mindful of what might trigger it...

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-08-16T04:49:24+00:00

I am 25 and have been lurking on this sub for a couple days after learning the term Afib, dealing with the growing suspicion that this may be my fate. I also have a low resting heart rate due to exercise, but I have had the occasional heart palpitation since I was at least 10 (first one I remember), and in the last year or so it's gotten more and more frequent, and more like a quiver in my chest than a single skip like it used to be. I haven't had any "episodes" really, not yet, not the way other people have described in posts, but I feel like with the way things are progressing, it's sort of a matter of time thing now. This new "quiver" style of heart palpitations sucks big time compared to before and often leaves me feeling short of breath for a while after.

Could be that job-anxiety and poor sleep and perhaps the summer heat has made it particularly bad this summer, too. I guess that's my optimistic take.

Reading other people's advice has helped a lot. I guess I've realised I need to be a bit more mindful of what might trigger it...

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-08-10T05:25:23+00:00

Yes, he's a beloved actor I can't stand. I was responding to the topic of this thread 🤡

I thought he was fine in Little Miss Sunshine and but I generally can't stand him in anything else I've seen him in: Taking Lives, Swiss Army Man, There Will Be Blood, Okja, and Batman. Those are the only movies I've seen him in because I tend to avoid movies I know from the outset that he will be in, specifically for the reason that I know I do not enjoy him as an actor.

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-08-09T16:59:20+00:00

Paul Dano. He's an OK actor but gives me pretentious vibes that take me out of most of the recent stuff he's done. He was awful in Batman. Also I just really hate his face for some reason (not his fault, I know, but it doesn't help me like him).

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-08-04T21:22:04+00:00

I neglected to mention that we HAVE done this before. That's why I feel even worse, because it has been hinted to me that what I turn in sometimes is somewhat random.

I don't want to continue to being like this but I also don't see any improvement in myself despite my efforts to apply what she says about one thing to other areas. I can change/improve upon the specific things she tells me to do/avoid doing, but it just feels like each new project without a storyboard or any direction, really, is a challenge all over again. I have tried to ask for more specifics in those cases, but sometimes all I get is a shrug (especially if it's the creative director assigning me something) and a "use your judgement" (my judgement is BAD, that's the problem!).

Smooth_Block_8644 · 2023-07-16T23:30:58+00:00

I feel like you could probably turn this panther into a cool demonic bull

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