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Post by imayne on Jun 26, 2017 19:46:51 GMT -5
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Post by imayne on Jul 23, 2017 2:10:01 GMT -5
Season 2's trailer is out, and it looks set to be another doozy 80s mixtape. Of course, the scariest thing in it is that Reagan/Bush '84 signboard.
And great timing and choice for the soundtrack too. This is the year "Thriller" turns 35.
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Post by phil on Aug 20, 2017 10:12:42 GMT -5
Excellent interview with creators & cast this morning on CBS....
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Post by Charles on Aug 20, 2017 14:51:27 GMT -5
Excellent! Thanks so much . . .
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Post by hugobolso on Aug 25, 2017 1:56:38 GMT -5
What's her salary 4 season 2. For season one, according to some internet friends was almost 100.000 per episode. But I think 4 season 2. She will receive between 250.000 to 500.000 per episode. 500.000 per episode is Kevin Spacey sallary per episode.
My question is because there are some estimates from tv star checks. Naomi Watts 4 her netflix cancelled show received around 275.000 per episode. Jason Bateman 4 a new show around 300.000. Ryder as the most succesful Netflix actress should receive more. Maybe 400.000
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 21:02:51 GMT -5
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Post by hugobolso on Sept 17, 2017 10:34:55 GMT -5
Do u think she will attend to the Emmys?
I hope not.-
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Post by phil on Sept 19, 2017 20:40:33 GMT -5
Do u think she will attend to the Emmys? Nah...but the kids were there alright..
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Post by phil on Sept 19, 2017 20:41:21 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 0:46:53 GMT -5
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Post by imayne on Oct 27, 2017 23:02:34 GMT -5
Okay, new season's up on Netflix...so let's get crackin'! Start putting up your reviews here!
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Post by phil on Nov 3, 2017 23:57:36 GMT -5
ST2 is awesome(Me talking in '84 lingo there). It stands out fine on its own. You need not even to know much from Season 1, with just the right batch of flashbacks, although they do pound lab flashbacks a bit too strong in The Lost Sister episode. But that's minor.
Favorite acting honors go to MBB and Noah Schnapp (Will). 2 extraordinary kids. Loved the addition of Max, the way she dished it out, as well as taking it. Thought she might be Reese Witherspoon's daughter, but no relation.
A great heart-pounding, hold-your-breath storyline. Found myself fist-clinched in the final episode.
Winona is...so so so good. I love her so much.
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Post by phil on Nov 4, 2017 21:44:00 GMT -5
Actually, it's a show about a boy and his dog
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Post by imayne on Nov 4, 2017 22:41:19 GMT -5
Actually, it's a show about a boy and his dog More like The Yearling as written by HP Lovecraft.
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Post by imayne on Nov 7, 2017 19:52:00 GMT -5
Okay, been done with the series for a few days now, and indeed I preferred this season. Season 1 was setting up the formula: how many 80s science fiction and horror tropes can we smoosh into one series? So eventually we got a chimera of Spielberg and Carpenter sucking at the teats of Stephen King (how's that for a monster-related simile?) With that established, this season really built on the human drama.
DEFINITELY SPOILERS AHEAD
The themes were so were better tied into the supernatural elements, resulting in deeper and richer subtext to be about that most terrifying aspect of life...growing up. It's about how you will be made to change in ways beyond your control, for better and for worse and how even people you love and trust will let you down. How the codes you lay down to keep everything in order and to enforce trust between you and those you care about will eventually have to be broken. How you can't win all the time. How the adults around you have not figured it out any better than you have.
Though often the power of friendship and community will help, but there will still be things you have to face for yourself. How well is this articulated throughout the arc of every kid! The Dungeons and Dragons gang find Will becoming essentially an absentee member and alienated, Dusty being torn between his "scientific find of the century" and his friends and his crush on Max (note that he names the little monster D'Artagnan and feeds him 3 Musketeers candy bars, symbolically making him the "fourth musketeer" of their group, big mistake), Maxine's desire for acceptance to join the Boys' Club, Jonathan having to become the man he wants to be, Nancy wracked by the guilt that her friend could have died because of her, Steve facing off an A__hole with a muscle car while his own girlfriend runs off with another. Eleven having to experience every single pang of early adolescence in a swift concentrated rush, a prospect amplified only by her powers and her social isolation. It helps that unlike the first season no government official is actually portrayed as evil this time round. Paul Reiser's Dr Owens is a nice change of pace after Matthew Modine's coldly sinister Dr Brenner. Warm and understanding, he continues to cover up the shenanigans at Hawkins lab not out of malice or ambition but simply as a guy doing his job cleaning up after his predecessor.
Winona again, is fantastic. Is there an actress better at doing brittle anger these days? The raw anger she exudes at Will's exorcism is amazing, like she knows she could kill her son but is on the border of not caring because she'd at least avenge Bob's death (RIP Bob)).
While Millie Bobby Brown (again), Gaten Matarazzo (again) and Noah Schnapp were indeed great, breakout character for me has to be Daddy Steve. The great thing about the show was that it turned a character who didn't start off easy to like and over time made him intensely sympathetic. Yeah his girl ran off with the soulful brooding outcast and never came back by season's end, and his relationship advice may suck, but rising to occasion taking care of a bunch of kids, facing off a small army of demo-dogs and the new A-hole in school is a pretty tall order for any teenager. And despite all his imperfections, you can't blame him for not fighting for people and things he cares about.
As for the adult characters this season, my favorite performance belongs to Brett Gelman as investigative journalist Murray Bauman. Seeing him teach the finer points of journalism to two wannabe social activist teens using alcohol is a hoot.
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