TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[go birds]

zack is definietely a capitalist though....maybe a radical moderate.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Max: Has a facebook feed full of Infowars links

[Jocephus]

zack is definietely a capitalist though....maybe a radical moderate.

could see that. he's got the brick cell phone and i think his dad was gordon gekko

[Jocephus]

[BottenFieldofDreams]

Wild Wild County is a well put together doc on a fascinating Oregon story. Maybe goes easy on the guru himself, but I think that was a deliberate choice in using him only as a frame. If that lawyer/mayor was at Jonestown, he would have drunk up all the Kool Aid before anyone else had a chance at the punch bowl.

[haltz]

Atlanta is back and it's great. It has some of that same weird surrealism of Louie that I miss.

[Freed Roger]

History channel has America Frontiersman. The one on Daniel Boone was informative/entertaining-though i sense a bit light on the history. Native Americans? Show does include their struggle. Token treatment though in a series called American Frontiersman.

The reenactments are lazy at times -when discussing settlers moving over the Appalachians they show wagon trains moving in the plains /far West. I will keep watching though. But f no on the Andrew Jackson one.

[Michael]

Wild Wild County is a well put together doc on a fascinating Oregon story. Maybe goes easy on the guru himself, but I think that was a deliberate choice in using him only as a frame. If that lawyer/mayor was at Jonestown, he would have drunk up all the Kool Aid before anyone else had a chance at the punch bowl.

I'm watching this right now and it's pretty amazing. I think you can argue the tone of the doc is too sympathetic to the cult, but I think that's mostly a byproduct of them using more interview footage from the members. That's an understandable choice given the cult members are way more interesting than the small town folks and law enforcement.

[BottenFieldofDreams]

Wild Wild County is a well put together doc on a fascinating Oregon story. Maybe goes easy on the guru himself, but I think that was a deliberate choice in using him only as a frame. If that lawyer/mayor was at Jonestown, he would have drunk up all the Kool Aid before anyone else had a chance at the punch bowl.

I'm watching this right now and it's pretty amazing. I think you can argue the tone of the doc is too sympathetic to the cult, but I think that's mostly a byproduct of them using more interview footage from the members. That's an understandable choice given the cult members are way more interesting than the small town folks and law enforcement.

I thought so too. Overly sympathetic to the cult and even moreso to Baghwan. But I had some pre-developed opinions of the cult, so I wasn't sure how objective I was being. The Oregonian writer interviewed-- his pieces are really good and far more damning. I really wanted to see the lawyer/mayor get roasted or at least a little itchy.

It was interesting to talk to my parents about it.

It's also wild that our one successful, king-making company here in Oregon was organically a significant player.

I don't know how hard they tried but another interview with a disaffected jilted cult member would have been really valuable and balancing, IMO.

[Michael]

I thought so too. Overly sympathetic to the cult and even moreso to Baghwan. But I had some pre-developed opinions of the cult, so I wasn't sure how objective I was being. The Oregonian writer interviewed-- his pieces are really good and far more damning. I really wanted to see the lawyer/mayor get roasted or at least a little itchy.

It was interesting to talk to my parents about it.

It's also wild that our one successful, king-making company here in Oregon was organically a significant player.

I don't know how hard they tried but another interview with a disaffected jilted cult member would have been really valuable and balancing, IMO.

I finished the doc last night. I really enjoyed it, but I think the series being overly sympathetic to the cult is a legit criticism. They had some sympathetic music cues for the cult that I thought were inappropriate.

Regardless, the doc is a lot of fun. What an amazing story.