Some serious T&A in that thing. Awesome lesbian sex scene. Plus, some great plot lines. The sniper dude from WWI with the mask was an awesome touch.
Just watched a show on PTSD on HBO, where they talked about the prevalence of shell shock among WWI veterans. Brings the story home for the Jimmy character.
Yeah, I've been enjoying this too. Lots of characters and stories to follow. I like the mix of real and fictional characters.
"All you have to do is decide that wherever you are is the best place there is. Once you start comparing one place to another, there's no end to it."- Sodo Yokoyama
Can't express adequately just how much I like this series. I've been fascinated lately with WW1 and I've been to the WW1 museum in Kansas City. Unbelievable what those men went through.
nafod wrote:
Some serious T&A in that thing. Awesome lesbian sex scene. Plus, some great plot lines. The sniper dude from WWI with the mask was an awesome touch.
Paz de la Huerta is Nucky's former girlfriend that is now knocked up and living with the Treasury agent in the second season. Google this chick...she is smokin' fuckin' hot but batshit crazy...that act on screen is no act.
Oh, she most definitely is...but the other chick is super hot like she came from Clark Kent's home planet. I do have a man crush on Jimmy and the Sniper though. Christ he's making me want to get a trench knife and carry it in my boot/flipflops.
Shapecharge wrote:Oh, she most definitely is...but the other chick is super hot like she came from Clark Kent's home planet. I do have a man crush on Jimmy and the Sniper though. Christ he's making me want to get a trench knife and carry it in my boot/flipflops.
I was so close to posting a pic of Paz de la Huerta, but people got pissed about my previously awesome sig turning this place NSFW.
I honestly had my laptop out while I watched the last episode and was looking for a trench knife w/ an ankle holster after that.
Decided it's not a good idea for me.
"Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it"
- Buck Brannaman
They're all gone now but I propose that of men who have engaged in mortal combat on behalf of god and country and survived at least physically, the veterans of the Great War were perhaps the most brutalized. Jimmy's character demonstrates this. I realize it's a show made for tv but I ask you, if a man has engaged in almost routine killing of other men at the risk of his own life, how can anything of less risk even cause him to raise an eyebrow? When Jimmy dispatched those two gentlemen in the park at night that caused him now more concern than ordering a sandwich. And if it didn't go the way he planned, it wouldn't have mattered that much either. I bet there were a lot of very damaged and dangerous fellows walking around in the 20's and 30's.
I think you make a good point, Shape. I have no experience in the military, but understand that each generation has had their warriors who have come home with quite a bit of psychological trauma. Yet, it would seem to me that the magnitude of WWI and WWII had some serious heaviness for those young men.
I mean, didn't WWI wipe out almost an entire generation of young men in Europe? Imagining the memories and the burden you would feel by being one of the survivors. I think they probably do pretty good with Jimmy and his buddy. Hell, think about if that was real instead of a fictional TV show. You make it out relatively unscathed with a bum leg and a roughed up psyche, but you're okay. You befriend a fellow vet who's missing half his face. The world may look a little different after that.
I love this show.
"Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it"
- Buck Brannaman
Just finished watching tonight's episode and that was some of the best television I've ever seen. That last piece of dialogue between the sniper and the hunter in the woods was pure fucking magic. I played it over just to make sure I heard it right. My new all-time favorite show.
The whole episode if full of great stuff. Jimmy and the sniper have an exchange near the end of the episode that is just as meaningful as the previous one I mentioned. The writing on the show is tremendous. Obviously Timmah is not involved.
Shapecharge wrote: Obviously Timmah is not involved.
Could you tell because you managed to stay awake all the way through?
I thought this episode was awesome as well, but did anyone think that there is no way those hunters would have treated the sniper like that? I was afraid we were headed to a Deliverance moment.
"Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it"
- Buck Brannaman
baffled wrote:I thought this episode was awesome as well, but did anyone think that there is no way those hunters would have treated the sniper like that? I was afraid we were headed to a Deliverance moment.
I think the guy living out in the woods has seen more than a few choose to off themselves there.
Two thumbs up
