New series from HBO about a pandemic.

Anyone familiar with the book?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LPm52rq8CZA

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Anyone watching this? Watched the first episode last night. It was intriguing enough to keep watching later tonight.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Debating getting into it

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sounds like some great escapism.

Through 4 episodes. Its weird and frustrating at times, but I've liked it overall.

Never read the book.

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Just finished episode 4. I like it a lot. What parts do you find frustrating?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

The back and forth between timelines was annoying at first. The quirky for quirky sake Traveling Symphony annoyed me too.

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Thats fair.

Yeah I noticed this is not really a show you can watch while scrolling on your phone. It’s way too easy to miss key scenes with all the time jumping.

Episode 5 was a cool villian origin story.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Finished episode 5 and it did come around nicely.

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They might’ve tipped their hand a little too much. Im terrible at picking up on clues on my own when watching shows and early in the episode even I was like oh shit thats who the son is.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

wasn't the old pandemic movie good enough? i sampled it for a mix of mine last year but i cant be arsed to remember the name. i think it came out around 2000/ish? idk/idc/die in a fire

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This show really couldnt be more different from Contagion

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

so was it like married with children vs grounded for life or was it like when they took star trek enterprise and dumped poor archer in NCIS?

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I've seen comparisons to The Leftovers, but other than a significant portion of the world dying I don't really see it.

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The other similarities are that each show has episodes that are essentially spotlight POV episodes for different characters.

Episode 1 is Jeevan
2 is Kirsten
3 is Miranda
5 is Clark

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Caught up now. Episode 7 is great, and has one truly awesome, kinda hilarious scene that I definitely did not see coming

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Midway through episode 6 and it's definitely getting good.

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Episode 8 was really good and tied back into episode 5 nicely.

Episode 9 I'll reserve judgement on until after the finale, but on it's own it was strange. The episode wasn't bad, but the timing seemed odf unless it directly ties into the finale.

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I think its gonna tie into the finale, pretty sure jeevan and kirsten are gonna reunite, but agreed on both counts. I didnt love it

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Kinda waiting to hear about whether you guys enjoy the finale to see if I go in this direction. I haven't found a good series I really like in a while.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Was going to watch until I saw it compared to The Leftovers.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Finale felt kind of rushed and pointless.

Some good moments, and the Miranda stuff was cool.

Not sure it would get a second season.

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Saw this over the last 5 days. It was interesting.

I don't think a second second was ever planned.

But yeah I didn't love the finale. It was fine. Got the Kirsten/Jeevan reunion. I just didn't care about Elizabeth/Tyler at all.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Was there something we were supposed to be seeing near the end when Clark says "What the fuck"? Or was it just the sight of all the kids in Tyler's cult?

I also thought Clark and Elizabeth knew who Kirsten was 2 episodes ago.

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was the spaceman that Miranda saw as a kid real then? That part confused me.

Fantastic show. Heavy, weird, brilliantly acted and directed.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.