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Tall Midget
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Are any of you watching Tokyo Vice on Max?

It's a cheesy name, but a fantastic show that charts the professional advancement of the first American reporter, Jake Adelstein, to work at Tokyo's most prestigious newspaper. Adelstein works the crime beat and seeks to report "what's really happening" in contrast to the fictitious accounts of criminal activity fed to the newspaper by Tokyo police. Adelstein is consumed with the machinations of the Yakuza, and his work brings him into contact with the full spectrum of Japanese society. In this respect, Tokyo Vice resembles The Wire in its rendering of a society where "everything is connected", a world that irretrievably blurs the lines separating criminal and legal activity, the acceptable and unacceptable, legitimate and illegitimate enterprise, professional and personal identity, and social conventions and sociopathic behavior. Michael Mann's involvement with the series ensures that it conducts its social meditation in the context of a pervasive sense of alienation, disconnection and obsession that is heightened by Adelstein's status as an outsider within Japanese society.

Don't sleep on this one. It's good stuff.

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Gayest shit I ever read. What the fuck is wrong with you

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IkeSouth wrote:
Gayest shit I ever read. What the fuck is wrong with you


Watch the show, Ike. You will like it.

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I will give it a gander. Maybe even tonight.

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I will give it a gander. Maybe even tonight.

Probably a good night to stay in...why is it still snowing??

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denisdman wrote:
I will give it a gander. Maybe even tonight.

Probably a good night to stay in...why is it still snowing??


Lol, wish there was enough for sledding!

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I will give it a gander. Maybe even tonight.


I think you will enjoy it, Dennis. Lots of interesting things to think about--and the performances are generally very good.

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I think you will enjoy it, Dennis. Lots of interesting things to think about--and the performances are generally very good.


Just added it to my list. We will watch an episode or two tonight. And heck yeah the snow is really coming down. We each just cracked a bottle of wine.

Thanks for the recommendation. I love the Wire.

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Through episode three. I like it.

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The show is great. It hits so many of my interests.

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Casting ruins it for me. The male lead looks like he should be in a high school movie.
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denisdman wrote:
The show is great. It hits so many of my interests.


Yeah, I just finished the second season last week. It is fantastic and also intersects with many of my interests.

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Phil Leotardo wrote:
Casting ruins it for me. The male lead looks like he should be in a high school movie.


Yeah, he's an odd-looking guy, but he's a good actor.

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Phil Leotardo wrote:
Casting ruins it for me. The male lead looks like he should be in a high school movie.


Yeah, he's an odd-looking guy, but he's a good actor.


Agree, Jake was an odd choice for the role, but he did it proud. And Tozawa is amazing, i was scared of him. Katagiri is a great cop.

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