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Re: It reminds me of Sex and The City. =| by fabio 08/23/2011, 6:20am PDT
Fullofkittens wrote:

A bunch of hot people saying and doing things that seem naughty to its target market (spinsters) but which are actually a neverending full-throated endorsement of mainstream cultural values.


I thought it was more an appeal to cultural cowards (hipsters, spinsters) who like to safely mock mainstream culture with 20/20 hindsight and 50 years separation.

I like how The Tudors is a show set in a time where people drank powdered gold and pearls as a remedy to plague, yet it isn't a fraction as heavy handed when it comes to anachronisms as Mad Men, a show set in a time that the largest age demograph in the U.S. still remembers.


Tudors seasons 3 & 4 reviews:

I totally gave up trying to keep track of the new characters. Who is the pirate cowboy and where did he come from? Is he the musician who lost an eye to torture the previous season? Did he go from gay minstrel to medieval James Bond?

The writers are completely bi polar in who they decide to frame as good guys. Cromwell never did anything worse than shut down carney shows and confiscate chickens, yet he's Satan incarnate they don't allow any Protestants to deliver a single line without scowling. Meanwhile Catholics are all angelic beings of light despite being total cunts and burning people at the stake. This is all completely reversed in season 4 for no reason.

There's actually some siege warfare scenes in the last season, which I guess sucked up the budget of other departments, with makeup being the worse hit. They don't even try to make Meyers look older, just a stripe in the goatee and voice lessons from Christian Bale. Henry is supposed to be 54 and 300 pounds at this point.
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I'm watching Mad Men now by Fussbett 07/19/2009, 10:58am PDT NEW
    Tried watching this by fabio 08/12/2011, 3:31pm PDT NEW
        It reminds me of Sex and The City. =| by Fullofkittens 08/22/2011, 4:33pm PDT NEW
            Re: It reminds me of Sex and The City. =| by fabio 08/23/2011, 6:20am PDT NEW
        Re: Tried watching this by Fussbett 08/23/2011, 2:28pm PDT NEW
            fixed by fabio 08/24/2011, 6:34am PDT NEW
        Re: Tried watching this by Vested Id 08/25/2011, 7:35pm PDT NEW
            Re: Tried watching this by fabio 08/25/2011, 8:34pm PDT NEW
            Hey look, it's a whole thread of no one understanding a show they don't watch by Fussbett 08/25/2011, 11:19pm PDT NEW
                So it ends up being The Help for hipsters by Fullofkittens 08/26/2011, 5:15am PDT NEW
                It's so weird that defending a boring show is what brought you back NT by fabio 08/26/2011, 7:01am PDT NEW
                    I just posted Fat Sinead O'Connor and the Itagaki/Hard Gay video two weeks ago! by Fussbett 08/26/2011, 8:06am PDT NEW
                        I say we were courteous not to post in the real Mad Men thread NT by Fullofkittens 08/26/2011, 8:26am PDT NEW
 
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