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post #151 of 359
John Dahl directed this week's episode.
post #152 of 359
"It's 'You've been served.' it's a restraining order, not an urban dance competition."

"Tomato, Tomato."

I think people were expecting Shane Black type dialogue and instead got Elmore Leonard, where the dialogue is funny, but never feels like it's trying to be funny or clever, which Leonard excels at. It really is a hybrid of Leonard and Don Winslow with a little Ross McDonald thrown in. What I really want now is for Ted Griffin to try his hand at novels like David Levien has.
post #153 of 359
This was probably the best episode yet. And Hank's fantastic.

"Never said he'd have his moments"
post #154 of 359
This show's like heroine.

Looking forward to them getting back to the case that started all this - at least I'm assuming they will.
post #155 of 359
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"It's 'You've been served.' it's a restraining order, not an urban dance competition."

"Tomato, Tomato."
Made even better by Hank saying, "You got served!" to the guy afterwards.
post #156 of 359
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Originally Posted by Cameron Hughes View Post
"It's 'You've been served.' it's a restraining order, not an urban dance competition."

"Tomato, Tomato."

I think people were expecting Shane Black type dialogue and instead got Elmore Leonard, where the dialogue is funny, but never feels like it's trying to be funny or clever, which Leonard excels at. It really is a hybrid of Leonard and Don Winslow with a little Ross McDonald thrown in. What I really want now is for Ted Griffin to try his hand at novels like David Levien has.
I don't know what people were expecting going into this show. It's just too bad that there aren't more people actually watching. I wonder what the renewal campaign will entail. Sending dog biscuits to FX?
post #157 of 359
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Originally Posted by Subotai View Post
John Dahl directed this week's episode.
Looks like he's been busy on the TV front, directing episodes of Caprica, Californication, Dexter, True Blood and Justified.
post #158 of 359
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Originally Posted by BorisTheCheese View Post
I don't know what people were expecting going into this show. It's just too bad that there aren't more people actually watching. I wonder what the renewal campaign will entail. Sending dog biscuits to FX?
The tails of Jack Russell terriers. That's what I'll be sending at least.
post #159 of 359
"The life of a tranny ho ain't all private jets and gallery openings".

She was actually kinda hot.

I guessed Jason had told Hank's ex-wife but it still hit home. As for the proposal...Ryan sure likes putting these guys through hell.

I love this show.
post #160 of 359
"Ya know, it's really not my place to say, but maybe you should think about quitting your day job."

"What, and give up show business?"

I love it when that line is used well.
post #161 of 359
"You're the live grenade in my life."

This show loves to lull you into a sense everything might be okay for once. And then they throw in that last thing at the end. Wow, the whole argument with his wife and the stuff about him being more destructive sober was great acting and some tough writing.

I really want a TERRIERS t-shirt and a Gomez Bros Pool Service t-shirt.
post #162 of 359
Did they ever talk about being unable to have kids before? Because that explains a lot about their relationship and Hank state of mind.
post #163 of 359
Nope. It was just a bomb he dropped there at the end.

That whole bit about Hank being worse sober, reminded me of Leverage. Only at least on there, Nate Ford has a villain to go after. Hank just has those around him to scar. I wonder if his former partner is more scared of drunk Hank or sober Hank scarring Brit.
post #164 of 359
And how charming was Britt last night? As Hank keeps spiraling lower and Britt's life keeps getting better (as far as he knows, at least), I'm dreading some clash of massive proportions.
post #165 of 359
Oh, the shit just keeps piling on. How the fuck is there a chance any of this will end well? I'm so damn sad for everyone.

And Jason played Hank like a fiddle.
post #166 of 359
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
Oh, the shit just keeps piling on. How the fuck is there a chance any of this will end well? I'm so damn sad for everyone.

And Jason played Hank like a fiddle.
I think that might be a big point of the show: tings don't end well. You just have to enjoy the small bits of happiness you get.

Yeah, definitely going to have to rewatch this weekend just for the final argument between Hank and his ex.
post #167 of 359
Ryan, Minear, and Co. are knocking this show out of the park. I guess we're in the final stretch now with 4 episodes left to go. So unfair.
post #168 of 359
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
Oh, the shit just keeps piling on. How the fuck is there a chance any of this will end well? I'm so damn sad for everyone.

And Jason played Hank like a fiddle.
No joke. As if I needed another reason to hate Loren Dean, the way they set up that trap was painful.

I've loved Donal Logue's work for a long time. Grounded for Life was a really underrated piece of entertainment, so funny and creative. Really hope FX picks Terriers up.

This show is quality.
post #169 of 359
"You guys are private investigators, right?"
"Says so on our underwear."

Damn, this show has the best dialogue on TV.
post #170 of 359
"I hit you harder."

I love Hank.
post #171 of 359
Jesus. Broke my heart tonight.

"How long you been here?"
"Since this place opened about 1974."
post #172 of 359
I would say this show should rack up at the Emmy's, but damn they overlooked Treme and The Wire, so I am sadly expecting no love from the Emmy's.
post #173 of 359
That was excellent hour of television. Very, very tense. I love that this show can go from light to pitch black in a single scene.


"I hit you harder." Heh. Love that Donal Logue is an actual badass in this. Love the tech nerds. Every P.I. should have a weird tech guy.


Also, my mom once said that if my dad ever cheated on her, he's too good of a guy to make a career out of it and it'd probably be a one time mistake and telling her would only hurt her. Telling your significant other just to assuage your own guilt is utterly selfish, and the fallout at the wedding showed that. Is she alone in this kind of thinking? I know a few others that think the same.
post #174 of 359
Yeah this show just swings between the two constantly. And sometimes even when it is being light, such as at the diner, its only cause a character is in a lot of pain.

I was so worried she was going to tell Britt that Hank knew.
post #175 of 359
Everyone just gets pummeled in this show and I love it. A great and unique blend of drama.
post #176 of 359
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A great and unique blend of drama.
I have such a hard time explaining this to friends, the things I love about the show are hard to explicate. And yeah, another great episode last night. Even if it only gets this one season, I'm gonna buy it on disk and show it to anyone who'll watch.
post #177 of 359
The end of Alan Sepinwall's review this week:

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I've seen two of the final three episodes of the season - which are great (particularly next week's Tim Minear-scripted outing) - and it's taken a lot of willpower to keep from watching the finale - fueled mainly by my concern that it'll be the last episode of this great show that I'll ever get to see. The ratings actually ticked up last week, and while the overall numbers are still situated firmly in cancellation territory, maybe if the upward trend continues over this final month, FX will decide there's potential for growth with a different marketing strategy.

I understand all the commercial rationalizations for why a second season isn't likely. But I look at Hank trembling at the hotel bar, or Britt pulling his coat up over his head, or even the Squatters arguing about the Panopticon, and I am not remotely ready to let go of this show yet. It is Too. Damn. Good. to quit on. Like Hank rising from his self-pity to try to help the reporter, I want to see the show keep fighting until it gets out of this ratings hole and finds a way to keep going.
Talking to someone in the office, there is a definite rhythm to each episode, and I should be prepared for what is coming; but it always comes as a brutal punch. It is as thought sometimes they are asking: Head or Gut? Other times it feels like they are saying: Yeah, we're just gonna kick you in the balls this time.
post #178 of 359
I'm with you, Jacob. I have so many orphan TV shows on my shelves that I pass out all the time just because they're great TV.

I heard that the numbers have been getting somewhat better. Or at least not as dismal as they were initially. FX has always been a badass network, maybe all the rave reviews and the (slight) uptick could coax out a second season.

Such a wonderfully tense episode. I like that, 2 weeks in a row?, they've split the guys up and it still works marvelously. Britt's little tantrum, pulling his jacket up on his back was so sad and childish and so in character. He's such a kid, it was really cool.
post #179 of 359
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This show isn't 1/10th the series JUSTIFIED is.
Incorrect math. I'd say Terriers is about 8.5-9/10ths of what Justified is (sorry, couldn't help the bump). Fucking loving this show, the confrontation between Britt and Katie was a gut punch, and extremely hard to watch as both characters are extremely likeable.
post #180 of 359
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I have such a hard time explaining this to friends, the things I love about the show are hard to explicate. And yeah, another great episode last night. Even if it only gets this one season, I'm gonna buy it on disk and show it to anyone who'll watch.
Closest I've come is that Veronica Mars was a minor key version of Terriers, if that makes sense. At least if you're a fan of the one, you should be in love with the other.
post #181 of 359
Damn, I love this show so much. So, so much. There are all these high profile things this year that get all the people and all the praise, but this is such a gem. I'm so worried about everyone and at the same time excited about what's happening. I wish I'd have picked it up at the end of the season so I could view this in one go.
post #182 of 359
The one good thing is Donal Logue should get some much better acting roles offered to him after this. Really, all three of the main characters have shown how great they can be.
post #183 of 359
Just gonna echo the love for this show. I really hope & pray that we get another season because it is my favorite show on TV. Going into the Fall, I thought I would be head over heels for "Boardwalk Empire". That's a great show but this has knocked my socks off. I've told everyone I know that they need to give it a chance.

No matter what happens with this show, Donal Logue is on my "must watch everything he does" list.
post #184 of 359
I'm already paying for FX in my satellite package but I'll pay twice if they actually renew this. Seriously, I'll find a way to send them some money.

The detective stuff was tense this episode, but in an awesome "Hank is actually quite badass" kind of way. But the personal stuff had my stomach tied in knots. I like these people and I'll be seriously pissed if the season ends in some horrific downer of a cliffhanger and it doesn't get renewed. I want Hank and Britt and Katie to somehow end up well by the end of the season. It's a fool's hope, but it's a hope.
post #185 of 359
Huh. Odd that FX Greece would get TERRIERS and not FX UK. (Or any other channel for that matter). I suppose despite being both owned by FOX they are individual business entities.

Anyway, this might have been my favourite episode since the Olivia Williams one. And they've all been good.

I hope the Lone Gunmen guys show up again this season, (they and their tech) work really well with Hank and the show in general.

I'll also be picking this up on DVD, even if it's cancelled, as the chemistry and banter between the leads (and everyone else) will make it rewatchable.
post #186 of 359
God this show is just too good. Second to Breaking Bad as my favourite thing on TV. Watching Britt and Hank once again switch places was heartbreaking.
post #187 of 359
It's quite a feat that in a year with Treme, Louie, Boardwalk Empire and The Walking Dead premiering, this is hands down my favorite new show. Treme and Boardwalk Empire are great and Louie is going to be a classic for the ages, but there's just something about Terriers that hits all the right notes. It's as if The Long Goodbye and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang* had a kid that grew up watching The Rockford Files.

It's such a shame the ratings aren't there to keep this show going. Logue has always been great, but he is doing career-best work here, Raymond-James is a revelation and their chemistry is ridiculous. Whatever happens I hope these guys work together again in the future.


* There's an alternate reality where Terriers is really a TV remake of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with Raymond-James as Harry and Loque as Gay Perry.
post #188 of 359
Yeah. Treme hits so close to home for me and gets so many things right about New Orleans; but Terriers is just insanely fantastic.

Love you description alobek. Putting that one out there to the world.
post #189 of 359
I'm not shocked that it hasn't been a blowup hit for the network. It doesn't have the "men want to be him, women want to do him" cachet that successful shows do. Hank is just too real, you know? Tubby, unkempt, genuinely sad (In a real life way where there's no real, easy solution) and struggling to hang on and do right, even while loving how the annihilation of doing wrong. He doesn't get enough gash with women who are out of his league, he gets made a fool of and watches the richer, shallower, better looking guy ride off with the damsel. None of these things make him escapist hero fodder.

Plus, there's no over the top, porny train wreck ala Nip/Tuck or Rescue Me or even the machismo of Justified or Sons of Anarchy. Much as I like those last two shows, Terriers is so much better.
post #190 of 359
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Originally Posted by alobek View Post
It's quite a feat that in a year with Treme, Louie, Boardwalk Empire and The Walking Dead premiering, this is hands down my favorite new show.
Quoted for truth, and also Cameron's summation above is spot-on.
post #191 of 359
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Plus, there's no over the top, porny train wreck ala Nip/Tuck or Rescue Me or even the machismo of Justified or Sons of Anarchy. Much as I like those last two shows, Terriers is so much better.
I really like Terriers, but I love Justified. I would agree that maybe in the grand "drama" sense of the word that Terriers is better. But from an entertainment aspect, I think Justified is leagues better. Terriers is just too real and heavy for me. It reminds me of some episodes of BSG (don't laugh). Sometimes the real human element is just too draining. So I look at Terriers and Justified as Apples and Oranges rather than comparing them as similar shows.

I'll miss Terriers, but I don't know if it needs a second season. These characters have been through so much already and we've seen such highs and lows I don't know how a second season would improve upon that. I hope it comes back, but if it doesn't this excellent first full season will be OK with me.
post #192 of 359
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It's quite a feat that in a year with Treme, Louie, Boardwalk Empire and The Walking Dead premiering, this is hands down my favorite new show.
So weird and yet so true. If you told me that in a year filled with shows of such pedigree, my favorite would be a low budget, sort of detective, sort of character show, starring Donal Logue and a bunch of people I didn't know, I'd have laughed in your face.
post #193 of 359
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I'll miss Terriers, but I don't know if it needs a second season.
YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!

<pauses, breathes deeply...>

Sorry, sorry. Actually you have a great point. Depending on how this season ends, it could stand as one of the best mini-series ever produced.
post #194 of 359
The problem is that it was finished before it started airing. So they might have gone for a cliffhanger instead of a resolution.
post #195 of 359
One of the things about this show is that there's probably not a single "showpiece" episode that you could show to friends to get them onboard. It's a slow-burn series that really sneaks up on you. I know I didn't expect to love it this much after the premiere, that's for sure.
post #196 of 359
I would have to show them moments. There is nothing huge and all of it builds and adds up.
post #197 of 359
Just wanted to add that I LOVE they didn't go down the "Hank ruins the wedding" route. It would've been so easy for them to do that, like every other show has done before. But Terriers always thinks outside the box and subverts the usual stories, and that's one of the main reasons it's so utterly brilliant.
post #198 of 359
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Just wanted to add that I LOVE they didn't go down the "Hank ruins the wedding" route. It would've been so easy for them to do that, like every other show has done before. But Terriers always thinks outside the box and subverts the usual stories, and that's one of the main reasons it's so utterly brilliant.
That stuff he was doing in the hotel room, causing trouble for someone he hates while helping someone else? That's his high. He's completely drunk by the end.
post #199 of 359
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That stuff he was doing in the hotel room, causing trouble for someone he hates while helping someone else? That's his high. He's completely drunk by the end.
Yeah, he is focused and has what he needs. Also goes back to what his wife was saying about him being more dangerous sober than drunk and also what I have said about Hank being a bastard (which I mean in a good way). He may not be the greatest detective, but when he is on you that's it, you are done.

This show has me wanting to go and watch Rockford Files episodes by the way.

And why isn't The Long Goodbye easily available on DVD anymore? It's a Robert Altman film.
post #200 of 359
Trust me, as someone who has seen every episode of the Rockford Files, there isn't too much tonal similarity between the two. In the Rockford Files, there is basically no relationship progression so every episode is basically 'case of the week.'

Not that it's not a good show, I'm a huge James Garner fan and really enjoyed it. But if you think it'll have the slow build and overarching story that Terriers does, you'll be disappointed. It's really the down on his luck PI solving cases premise (and that at the end of the day things don't always turn out great for Jim Rockford) that probably served as some of the inspiration.
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