OK, I thought you were joking on that one. Seriously, some of these new "series" are simply a sub-plot given room to move for a few shows.
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I've got an idea for a show! The search in a grocery store for healthy peanut butter!
Well, to be fair, the Maple Syrup heist show is based on an actual heist that did happen, and it's been said to be the most valuable heist in Canadian history valued at $18.7 million. Maple Syrup is highly controlled in Canada, overseen by a large association that does yearly inspections, and syrup can only be sold by producers through the association, which sets the prices and quotas. The thieves managed to syphon off syrup between an inspection year and the association did not find anything missing until the following year.
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Fair, but, again, that's a sub-plot or a mini-series. There's really noplace to go for Season 2.Well, to be fair, the Maple Syrup heist show is based on an actual heist that did happen, and it's been said to be the most valuable heist in Canadian history valued at $18.7 million. Maple Syrup is highly controlled in Canada, overseen by a large association that does yearly inspections, and syrup can only be sold by producers through the association, which sets the prices and quotas. The thieves managed to syphon off syrup between an inspection year and the association did not find anything missing until the following year.
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From the sounds of it, it should have strictly been a miniseries. Sometimes producers get a little too wide-eyed with a potential success. But maybe the decision was out of their control too. Maybe was a decision from higher-up. I've seen many things first announced as a miniseries event become expanded to a series.
There are some one-season miniseries that have gotten a second season where they turned it into an anthology but kept the name of the first season which made zero sense. Dirty John comes to mind, which would've been like season 2 of Dahmer being about Richard Ramirez, or season 2 of Star Trek: Picard being about Sulu.
Too bad about "The Sticky." We started watching it on a whim--was pretty funny, and Margo Martindale was awesome in it. But it definitely would have been better if they shortened it and made it into a mini-series.
The one that comes to mind most recently is The Terror. First season was meant to be a miniseries based on Dan Simmon's novel. It was successful enough to be expanded into a full series, and in so doing became an anthology series.
My wife and I have Prime, but somehow we never remember to watch any of the shows or movies on Prime Video. We have the app installed on our TV and everything, it kind of just never occurs to us to check it.
We even watched and enjoyed the first two seasons of Upload, but Prime Video is such a nonentity in our household that we forget to check on it.
We even watched and enjoyed the first two seasons of Upload, but Prime Video is such a nonentity in our household that we forget to check on it.
Prime has some good stuff. 5 Prime shows to watch
1 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2 The Expanse
3 Invincible
4 The Boys
5 Fallout.
That doesn't count older stuff like Psych, Dick Van Dyke Show etc.
As for the commercials I upgraded to commercial free. It is annoying though how streaming services are doing that now.
1 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2 The Expanse
3 Invincible
4 The Boys
5 Fallout.
That doesn't count older stuff like Psych, Dick Van Dyke Show etc.
As for the commercials I upgraded to commercial free. It is annoying though how streaming services are doing that now.
I'll agree with this list. I've seen all but The Expanse. Now I might look into it from that list.
I'm starting to think that if The Boys is anywhere near as good as The Expanse, Invincible and Fallout then I need to check that out.
THE EXPANSE is superb. I would definitely recommend watching it.
TBH, Amazon has good shows, true. But, it has dogs, too. Wheel Of Time is a prime example. Such a waste of an opportunity.
I thought it’s a pretty good show. Never read the books, though. If I had, I’d probably feel the same way, but I’m okay with it.
I highly, highly recommend the books. 15 books is a lot, especially when a few are 1000+ pages. But it is a very good story.
The problem with changing things from the book is that it, eventually leads to a tangent from the original story. And the WoT show goes on a tangent from day one.
Harry Potter is true to the story. And the books and movies work well together. They don't have to change things. The studio chooses to, and usually ruins it.
The problem with changing things from the book is that it, eventually leads to a tangent from the original story. And the WoT show goes on a tangent from day one.
Harry Potter is true to the story. And the books and movies work well together. They don't have to change things. The studio chooses to, and usually ruins it.
I found a similar thing happened with Game of Thrones. Season 1 was dead-on in many spots. Then, as the seasons progressed, many things deviated, mostly out of the need to make things expedient for television production - understandably so. I would have liked to see Lady Stoneheart and a number of other side-plots emerge in the production, but sadly the source material itself from the later books became rambling travelogues rather than a cohesive plot-driven narrative and I think the show suffered from trying to fill in the blanks. It didn't help that Martin never finished the final 2 novels either, but that's all water under the burning embers of the Twins. 
Lester Holt is stepping down as NBC News nightly anchor.
No replacement has been named.
No replacement has been named.
Adapting a 3 book trilogy into a series of blockbuster films is hard enough. If you look into it, there are a ton of changes PJ and his team had to make just to get LOTR made.
WOT getting any adaptation at all is going to be monumental. 8 1 hour episodes of - hopefully - 8 seasons is going to mandate changes in order to make a compelling series.
Personally, I think they've done rather well all things considered.
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