firehawk12
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I wonder if there will be fake nazi drama and lesbians this season. lol
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Manhattan - The story of the first atomic bomb - Tuesdays on WGN America
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RatskyWatsky
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Grizzlyjin
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Season two starts in 8 days. Oh man, way too many good shows on right now. But I'll make time...somehow.
RatskyWatsky
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A couple reviews of the new season:
The Hollywood Reporter said:
Mo Ryan said:
RatskyWatsky
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Season premiere tonight!
Grizzlyjin
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I'm so ready. I binge watched Season 1, so it'll feel different going week to week. But this is such an underrated show, I have to show my support.
I wonder if WGN is putting the episode on Hulu next day. Seems like they have the exclusive rights to it in the US, so I'd imagine so. Plus Hulu pushed the show really really hard in their ad campaigns for months. So it better be there haha
RatskyWatsky
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Napoleonthechimp
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I'm looking forward to this one.
firehawk12
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This show is still as trashy as before, but at least they got rid of the teenaged daughter.
These people act about as smart as people on The Walking Dead. lol
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Good premiere. The daughter's exit was a bit awkward, but nothing drastically large is lost without her there.
Huge fan of how they gave us some glimpses of the future. And Meeks' storyline is heating up really quickly. I wonder how they're even going to get Frank back into the show
Col. Darrows already seems like a good addition to the cast. He already left an impression during his first scene.
Huge fan of how they gave us some glimpses of the future. And Meeks' storyline is heating up really quickly. I wonder how they're even going to get Frank back into the show
Col. Darrows already seems like a good addition to the cast. He already left an impression during his first scene.
dead souls
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Damn that was a good premiere. William Petersen fit in perfectly.
RatskyWatsky
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The premiere was solid - about on par with the first season, but with the added hook of the flashforward, which was great because it revealed that the team will complete the atomic bomb by the end of the season. I wonder though - if the bomb gets completed this season, is there still a compelling premise left for season 3?
Grizzlyjin
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I was thinking about the same thing last night. So we know we'll probably get within 21 days of the bomb being dropped by the end of this season. I guess that gives them a little to work with next season, and maybe the fallout (pun intended) of what happens with these scientists after? Maybe post war? I'm interested to see where they go with it.
RatskyWatsky
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I looked online (spoilers!
) and it seems as though the Manhattan Project didn't immediately disband as soon as the bomb was completed. The project ended in
August of 1947, so two years + one month after the events of the flashforward. I have no idea what took place in that space, or what a TV season depicting those events would look like, but I have a hard time imagining it being anywhere near as compelling as the race to complete the bomb, with all the added paranoia and secrecy that that entailed.
RatskyWatsky
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New episode tonight:
RatskyWatsky
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I thought that was a strong episode, despite seeing Justin Kirk's doublecross coming from a mile away.
dead souls
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Agreed and agreed. I always enjoy seeing Justin Kirk in something.
SchrodingerC
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Damn you Hulu for failing to stream the second season. WGN got William Petersen for this season and it's killing me I can't watch it.
Grizzlyjin
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Same here. Things just got a little too grim, there had to be light at the end of the tunnel for Frank. At least now I can see a circumstance where he returns to The Hill. It was great to have a Frank focused episode since he was completely missing from the season premiere.
RatskyWatsky
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New episode tonight:
dead souls
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Great episode.
It's unreal how good this show is right now.
It's unreal how good this show is right now.
firehawk12
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Einstein as a deus ex machina is funny. I wonder if he'll just be there as a cameo, or if they'll Oppenheimer him.
RatskyWatsky
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It's a little hokey but also kind of neat.
RatskyWatsky
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New episode tonight:
Grizzlyjin
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Just caught last week's episode. The blowjob scene with Meeks was funny, but I knew when that woman focused in on him that she was a spy. Although I was betting she worked for the US government not Communists. I was almost starting to feel some sympathy for him since we got his motivation for selling info, but then he went and used Fritz to get closer to the project. Scummy.
Glad Helen was able to get herself on the project, but I wonder what Oppenheimer is getting at. Did he respect her calling out Charlie or was it playing into his fetish with domineering women?
And fuck Abby, telling Kitty Oppenheimer she was listening to her husband's phone call was soooooo foolish. It was dumb because you're breaking the law, it's dumb because you barely know his wife, and it's dumb because you literally just had a dramatic domestic issue with your own husband happen outside. Usually Charlie is a dick, but he's right here. Stay out of other people's marriages. I hope Neve Campbell is sticking around. She's a great addition to the cast.
I miss Frank still. This show can have some solid episodes without him, but he's the most fleshed out character, even moreso than Charlie, I'd argue. Plus he's the wildcard. Everything is peaceful until Frank starts fucking with it.
Glad Helen was able to get herself on the project, but I wonder what Oppenheimer is getting at. Did he respect her calling out Charlie or was it playing into his fetish with domineering women?
And fuck Abby, telling Kitty Oppenheimer she was listening to her husband's phone call was soooooo foolish. It was dumb because you're breaking the law, it's dumb because you barely know his wife, and it's dumb because you literally just had a dramatic domestic issue with your own husband happen outside. Usually Charlie is a dick, but he's right here. Stay out of other people's marriages. I hope Neve Campbell is sticking around. She's a great addition to the cast.
I miss Frank still. This show can have some solid episodes without him, but he's the most fleshed out character, even moreso than Charlie, I'd argue. Plus he's the wildcard. Everything is peaceful until Frank starts fucking with it.
I was kinda hoping Frank's response at the end would be "I got better".
I think it's become a little too easy for Abby to do anything and everything with the phones. No one in that room noticed she was making a weird telemarketing call? Of course, every member of the cast is breaking rules left and right, so I suppose that's fair.
I think it's become a little too easy for Abby to do anything and everything with the phones. No one in that room noticed she was making a weird telemarketing call? Of course, every member of the cast is breaking rules left and right, so I suppose that's fair.
firehawk12
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I think the best part of this show is that it's so insane that the thing with Oppenheimer poisoning an apple is actually based on a real event but is so unbelievable because of everything else going on in the show.
dead souls
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Another brilliant episode.
Goddamn Abby is amazingly devious. I wish she was my wife.
Goddamn Abby is amazingly devious. I wish she was my wife.
RatskyWatsky
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firehawk12
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It seems relatively normal considering all the spies and affairs and random stuff that seems to happen on the show, doesn't it? lol
Grizzlyjin
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Holy cow. I need to actually read American Prometheus, I wonder if they talk about that at all in there.
Great episode, so glad to see Frank back on The Hill. And Abby was on some Breaking Bad level shit. She didn't intend to kill Oppenheimer's mistress, but she definitely wanted to get her out of the picture.
RatskyWatsky
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New episode tonight:
"The Nazis have no bomb."
I knew this historical fact from the very start of the series. When they initially talked about how the Germans were in a close race with the Americans for inventing the nuke, I chalked that up to the writers trying to create drama by creating a reality where the Germans had a competent nuclear program.
Now this season they reveal that the military is lying to their scientists to motivate them to pursue the bomb faster, and like in real history, there is no nuclear arms race with the Germans.
Nicely played!
I knew this historical fact from the very start of the series. When they initially talked about how the Germans were in a close race with the Americans for inventing the nuke, I chalked that up to the writers trying to create drama by creating a reality where the Germans had a competent nuclear program.
Now this season they reveal that the military is lying to their scientists to motivate them to pursue the bomb faster, and like in real history, there is no nuclear arms race with the Germans.
Nicely played!
firehawk12
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I'm still not sure what Gil Grissom's end game is. Just fucking with Winter because he resents the fact that Winter is the only one who can make this thing work, even if Winter knows it's all a sham. lol
Grizzlyjin
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I liked how they jumped ahead in time 6 months in Episode 5. Very unexpected, I thought they'd be stretching out the coming year for the entire season.
RatskyWatsky
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New episode tonight:
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Manhattan trying to outdo Mad Men with that vagueness. 😂
Yeah. Initially I expected the writers to attempt to stretch out the discovery and construction of the A-bomb for as long as possible, but it seems like they're going full speed ahead. What would season 3 have?
Tickling the dragon's tail.
Based on an actual incident where a researcher at Los Alamos died due to exposure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin
The idea of radiation poisoning makes me feel ill just thinking about it. The idea of an invisible silent killer is just terrifying.
Jesus christ, this contraption was real too:
That ending was very powerful. "Ignorance is forgivable but what comes next is not."
Based on an actual incident where a researcher at Los Alamos died due to exposure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin
The idea of radiation poisoning makes me feel ill just thinking about it. The idea of an invisible silent killer is just terrifying.
Jesus christ, this contraption was real too:
That ending was very powerful. "Ignorance is forgivable but what comes next is not."
RatskyWatsky
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After I finished the episode, I looked up that experiment and read about what happened - there were even before and after pictures of the dude who was exposed. Scary shit.
RatskyWatsky
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New episode tonight!
Meeks, you son of a bitch.
I thought they probably showed too much before with the flashforward, but I think that's even more true now that we've seen what Meeks has implicitly allowed to happen. It was one thing when he was just leaking some info, now he's threatening kids and letting his lover kill people. Knowing that he makes it to the test takes away a lot of suspense about him being caught.
I thought they probably showed too much before with the flashforward, but I think that's even more true now that we've seen what Meeks has implicitly allowed to happen. It was one thing when he was just leaking some info, now he's threatening kids and letting his lover kill people. Knowing that he makes it to the test takes away a lot of suspense about him being caught.
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