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FavreFan

Post subject: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 5:51 pm

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Anyone watching this? Sounds kind of weird and dumb.

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Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 6:39 pm

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Watched 15 minutes then deleted. Fucking terrible.

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Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:01 pm

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You guys are bigots.

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Terry's Peeps

Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:07 pm

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The Young Pope is a Shit Lord

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rogers park bryan

Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:25 pm

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Seems Sharknado-ish

Hoping internet reaction is funny.

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SpiralStairs

Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:26 pm

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It's good ish.

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rogers park bryan

Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:31 pm

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SpiralStairs wrote:

It's good ish.

I keep thinking of the Robeet Downey jr trailer in Tropic Thunder

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Minooka Meatball

Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:20 pm

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Unlike conns, I made it to the 46-minute mark, but remarked to the wife that it was just...fucking terrible.

First off, I despise Jude fucking Law. Despise him. Second, the Pope/Lenny character is basically Dr. Gregory House as Pope (even down to the Brit playing an American...) - completely petulant, childish, and rude to everyone around him for no apparent reason, except that House was actually witty and good at his job; they made TYP look like he had absolutely no clue. Third, if this is supposed to be satire or farce, well, it's not funny - and, if it supposed to be taken seriously, the plot is so ridiculous that it is one huge failure - example: (SPOILER ALERT!!!) those around him decide that it may be a good idea to investigate him - of course, AFTER they elected him Pope... :roll:

If there is some kind of reveal/peeling back layers of the onion for this to make any sense, I'm not the least bit interested.

This is perhaps the worst series/miniseries opener that HBO has hyped since "John From Cincinnati".

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ToxicMasculinity

Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:25 pm

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I made it to episode 2. The show makes True Detective season 2 look like season 1. It's terrible, over acted and relies on surrealism like a crutch.

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Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 12:37 am

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Terry's Peeps wrote:

The Young Pope is a Shit Lord

...so that means there's technically a decent little %-chance that he's a proper discordian pope?

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GoldenJet

Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 2:14 am

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....or did you mean

Sith Lord ?

'cause then it could get good!

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IMU

Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 8:57 am

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I was criticizing Popes before it was cool.

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Terry's Peeps

Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 9:01 am

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GoldenJet wrote:

....or did you mean

Sith Lord ?

'cause then it could get good!

It was a play on an old thread created by IMU. The Pope is a Sith Lord.

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GoldenJet

Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 9:28 am

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Then...nevermind

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Douchebag

Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 9:36 am

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This show was very disappointing. It looked promising from the previews, but the opener was just a snooze-fest. I know Pilots usually suck, but the show doesn't have any time to waste with this just being a mini-series. I don't think I'll stick around for episode 2.

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rogers park bryan

Post subject: Re: HBO - The Young Pope

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:02 pm

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Douchebag wrote:

This show was very disappointing. It looked promising from the previews,

It did?

I thoight it looked like a parody of the moderm anti hero tv shows. Like HBOs version of Yo Teach!

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