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Friday Fun Thread for June 16, 2023

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HBO's Rome, chock full of absolutely stellar performances (James Purefoy's Marc Antony is perhaps my favorite performance across all of television) and while the historicity leaves quite a bit to be desired it does such a fantastic job at creating a sense of time and place.

Other favorite would definitely be The Expanse, quality is not even across the run (first 3 episodes are unfortunately among the weakest which can put people off), but it reaches some outstanding heights in seasons 2 and 3 especially. Highly recommended to anyone who likes Sci-Fi.

We just started the Expanse and finished episode 2 last night. Can't tell you how relieved I am to hear it gets better!

Yeah, I actually bounced off the series when I first discovered it, went back into it due to the recommendation of someone who I trust in such matters and almost gave up again before I got to the good stuff.

Learning that the book series it was based off was itself loosely based off someone running a RPG on a web forum made a lot of the early installment weirdness suddenly make sense to me.

I really love Rome but I think it was really hobbled by it being canceled. One more season to flesh out the pacing would have made it a masterpiece.

I'd add Deadwood to this list. It's a bit dry at times, but overall very watchable unlike almost all of television.

But overall my favorite is Rome. No contest. I'm fine with never watching TV again, but I do intend to watch Rome for a third time at some point.