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    NeuroticmooseAndrea Reiher
    12/06/17 10:15pm

    So I’ll admit to being intrigued, if only because an adaptation of the comic could really only go up. I picked up the first issue back when it was coming out and immediately understood what Morrison was going for, an over the top parody/satire of dark and gritty tough guy crime comics, but a lot of the colorful phrases and aphorisms just came across as bad writing. I dropped the book after suffering through the first issue. That being said I felt like the premise had legs, and if told with a defter hand, with a more subtle, tongue in cheek, playful execution the material could sing. I love the idea of juxtaposing a kidnapped child’s imaginary friend with the dark, grimy, filthy world of a Broken ex-cop who’s run out of reasons to go on living, set during Christmas time. I guess what I’m asking is, does the show improve on the source material? Is it fun?

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      returning the screwNeuroticmoose
      12/07/17 12:19am

      I liked it. It wasn’t great but I thought it was good. But I bought it digitally as a whole. But Morrison is writing the teleplay so I don’t know if you’ll like the writing better.

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      Hoover the Talking SealNeuroticmoose
      12/07/17 6:48am

      I really disliked the comic, but Morrison is one of my favorite writers and I think he deserves some Hollywood money, so I tuned in last night. I would definitely say that the show is more promising than the book. I laughed out loud three or four times during the pilot, while I found the first issue of the comic to be pretty grim. I did find the pilot to be a little hectic and dominated by blood rather than a compelling script, but I’m optimistic for future episodes.

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    Troubled by NounsAndrea Reiher
    12/06/17 11:21pm

    You mean to tell me this perv gets off on hallucinating a purple winged donkey?

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      Surprise PumaTroubled by Nouns
      12/07/17 9:20am

      If Ice doesn’t show up in a cameo at some point I’ll be sorely disappointed in the level of fan-wankery. Belzer should pop in too, but primarily because he’s in everything.

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      The Bourne ValedictorianTroubled by Nouns
      12/07/17 1:33pm

      Yeah---you got it, Ice.

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    Bird MILFAndrea Reiher
    12/06/17 10:46pm

    Loved the comic. So there for this, one of the last comics I ever to see adapted to screen.

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      The Bourne ValedictorianBird MILF
      12/07/17 1:27pm

      Right?  I thought it was insane they were even attempting to do this--but it’s actually better than the comic (which didn’t entirely work for me, though I’m a big fan of Morrison).

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      Bird MILFThe Bourne Valedictorian
      12/07/17 2:44pm

      I liked Happy! quite a bit as I saw it as Morrison thumbing his nose at the grim nihilism of mature-audience comics of the past decade or so. In fact, there’s some review I read of Happy! out there in Internet Land that basically posits it as a response to Mark Millar, a talented guy who has become just a friggin’ bore with his contempt for the audience and need to write fucked-up for the sake of fucked-up.

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    madam-oAndrea Reiher
    12/07/17 11:16pm

    I watched all of “Legion” and thought it was brilliant, but this show may be too weird and crazy for me. It was like what happens after you smoke too much pot laced with coke.

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      Bird MILFmadam-o
      12/09/17 11:12am

      It was like what happens after you smoke too much pot laced with coke.

      You say that as though it were a bad thing.

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    NatalieSharkAndrea Reiher
    12/07/17 8:56am

    I absolutely adored this show. It was so gross, but not in a way that felt inappropriate to the subject matter. Also, Happy was so cute. Such a weird juxtaposition!

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    Da TrumpsterAndrea Reiher
    12/06/17 10:30pm

    The two characters are “actually on screen with each other”. I see them together in those two screenshots you posted right here. Maybe you meant to say the two actors aren’t on screen together.

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      Too Much CowbellDa Trumpster
      12/07/17 9:43am

      I was an English major and remain a Grammar Nazi and this is too nitpicky even for me.

      I’d have been more inclined to knock the young lady for typing “the reason is...because.” “Because” goes with “why.” The reason is always that; the reason is never “because.”

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      Da TrumpsterToo Much Cowbell
      12/08/17 6:56pm

      I don’t care about grammar nearly as much as I care about correctness. How can someone post a screenshot of two characters on the screen together, and then say they’re never on the screen together?

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    merp (né pickmeohnevermind)Andrea Reiher
    12/08/17 7:09pm

    I got the feeling that we’re supposed to suspect that the term password is both literal (what Ritchie Coster’s gangster is looking for) and figurative (whatever vision of a hellscape the 4th cousin flashed back to when discussing his “inheritance”).

    (I’m unfamiliar with the comic.)

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    Denny CraneAndrea Reiher
    12/06/17 11:00pm

    Yeah, Meloni’s delivery of that, “I don’t know what that means” was so great.

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    Lfsnz67Andrea Reiher
    12/06/17 11:55pm

    This is one of the few pilots that I said to myself ‘nooo’ when it ended. Chris Meloni was born for this role. Not sure this show would work without him.

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    berty2001Andrea Reiher
    4/27/18 2:59am

    Just caught first episode, and loved it. Pretty much just Crank the TV show, right? The hospital setting, hero in a hospital gown, crazy plot device driving him forward, and anyone else note the Crank ring tone the mobster had? (I know, it’s from the director of Crank so there’s that).

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