> Also, Miss Haversham is apparently into BDSM in this version

What? The rotten cake lady? The lady who was stood up at the alter and just sort of...stopped living? How does that make sense?

Well this version has more shooting and stabbing and all around violent acts (like trying to imitate Peaky Blinders)

Also, Miss Haversham is apparently into BDSM in this version

The only violence I remember in the book is when Pip punched that kid got thrashed by that kid and the fire at the end. Dickens does not have a lot of violence* in his books.

EDIT: Granted its been a century since I read the book so

*You could argue all the injustice and economic fuckery is violence but that is a different sort of violence. Also I never read Tale of Two Cities so yeah.

But with more sex and gratuitous violence added

The book?

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How much is the license fee?

It seems like the fee would be an incentive to switch to streaming, with a VPN if necessary.

I think it's solid throughout but the second season was always my favorite season as a whole (thanks to esteemed character actress and fugitive from the law, Margo Martindale) and one of my favorite eps was a season 4 ep (Decoy).

What was this a "remake" of?

I do enjoy Extrapolations because it's a great cast with outlandish writing. Somebody should have pushed back on some of their choices. There are just so many questions.

Like, why are whales endangered in the future? Did we run out of oil or chemistry and need to hunt them again?

The whale/oceanographer scene was over the top. Both the whale and the woman are mothers with no spouse. The whale talks like a Na'vi with that noble savage wisdom. And the oceanographer chose her own mother's voice for the whale. It's supposed to be poignant, but it's ridiculous.

Some kids are afflicted with "summer heart" because the average global temperature is 2 degrees higher. This is the future, and we see that they have great VR and air conditioning. Kids don't play outside now, why would that change?

The last scene with Matthew Rhys was a karma fantasy written by an Eco-numb skull. Way too perfect.

The third episode's focus on Jewish people in Miami was baffling. I hope this isn't a hot button, but historically, Jewish people tend to be intelligent and to know when it's time to leave. Not the Miami branch. The synagogue has a few inches of water, so they come sloshing in wearing boots. They didn't see this coming yeas ago, and move away?

Extrapolations is fun because the writers are earnest and committed, but had no idea how normal people would view the show.

You're rapping like my 5th grade music teacher!

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There's something funny about the BBC reporting on themselves being weird

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on a mission tryna find mister Warren G

I took it that the resolution >!wasn’t reality. That his son didn’t really do that investigating. That the protagonist’s trauma from the case combined with his degenerative mental state built that narrative as a shield and comfort. It was presented as reality, but I took it as the reality the protagonist experienced, not real reality.!<

I'm down for interesting adaptations of books I read as a child, but the thought of making Great Expectations gritty is so fucking dumb. I'd rather watch a Moby Dick musical.

Lewis was great and understated in season one. I thought she was the standout even if she got way less promo. I haven't caught season two yet though.

I literally watched it this month. It was so good. Mahershala and Stephen were legendary playing the same roles in three different decades.

Another one?

I have a TCL Roku TV and it does the same thing with English subtitles on Apple TV. It's like the subtitles are being loaded separately and after a few minutes of dialogue, it starts lagging and going out of sync.

I agree with op.

My vote is that 1 is still best. But 3 is leap and bounds beyond 2.

He was even writing season one as it was being made, which is why I’ve always thought the end feels kind of disconnected from the setup. But at least he had the main idea to go from.

What i gathered from all the responses is that Dallas probably was the first show for cliff hangers to make a major impact on the majority of tv show watchers.

Then I’m pretty sure the show Lost is was plunged it into absolutely everything afterwords. Someone mentioned how much people would talk about the Lost cliffhangers while it was airing and with how popular it was I can see it being what made in so mainstream

Not saying it pioneered the cliff hanger, but Dallas “Who Shot JR” was likely the most well known and quintessential.