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Tyrant [FX] [** Spoilers **]

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  • #102
    squonk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭squonk


    Netflix really do need to pick up this show. They'd be the perfect place for it. The show was getting darker and I think it needs to be freed from the bounds of network restrictions to really flourish. Sadly though it'll probably be yet another show gathering dust in my "Great But Cancelled" file


  • #103
    StringerBell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,206 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    Writing was on the wall with viewership, love the show and think it will get picked up by Hulu or something and get a final season in, they were going to go a different way this season but when it became clear they were going to be potentially finished for good they made an ending that serves as a full stop if necessary, but open to continue also.

    I think it does that, if it doesn't get picked up (it is expensive to make apparently) then I think that as sad as it is to see the story cut short it is a decent end. That is certainly one plausible way you could see it going.

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • #104
    Caprica
    Registered Users Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Caprica


    Just finished watching Season 3 last night. For a show that had a slightly dodgy beginning it turned into (for me) compelling tv and really mirrored the mess that is the Middle East. It's a show I would recommend watching.

    What really impressed me come the end was that Leila Al-Fayeed went from a glorified clothes horse to the self declared president of Abudeen. You go girl. You had to admire her tenacity to survive. I felt sorry for Barry/Bazam, he came to the country for a wedding, stays for his father funeral, topples his tyrant brother, tries to bring the country to peace but gets dragged into a war he will win. I though when his son hung a picture of him, he looked haunted as if he was at breaking point. I really enjoyed the character of Jamal and I definitely missed him this season. I found the death of Emma shocking and it was interesting to see how it impacted on Molly.

    While it would have been nice to have everything wrapped up neatly, I think the finish is accurate picture of how things are in the Middle East. Everyone seems to be at war, no side is winning, the ordinary people are losing out and you have the US playing all sides. I thought when Exley went to visit Daliyah in prison, it summed up the US attitude to regional conflicts.


  • #105
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Caprica wrote: »
    Just finished watching Season 3 last night. For a show that had a slightly dodgy beginning it turned into (for me) compelling tv and really mirrored the mess that is the Middle East. It's a show I would recommend watching.

    What really impressed me come the end was that Leila Al-Fayeed went from a glorified clothes horse to the self declared president of Abudeen. You go girl. You had to admire her tenacity to survive. I felt sorry for Barry/Bazam, he came to the country for a wedding, stays for his father funeral, topples his tyrant brother, tries to bring the country to peace but gets dragged into a war he will win. I though when his son hung a picture of him, he looked haunted as if he was at breaking point. I really enjoyed the character of Jamal and I definitely missed him this season. I found the death of Emma shocking and it was interesting to see how it impacted on Molly.

    While it would have been nice to have everything wrapped up neatly, I think the finish is accurate picture of how things are in the Middle East. Everyone seems to be at war, no side is winning, the ordinary people are losing out and you have the US playing all sides. I thought when Exley went to visit Daliyah in prison, it summed up the US attitude to regional conflicts.

    Thanks for the spoilers!!


  • #106
    Ludo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    Zander Little Loner wrote: »
    Thanks for the spoilers!!

    It does say spoilers in the thread title in fairness and everything said in that post has already been said earlier. Kinda your own fault really.


  • #107
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,032 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Series 3 is on RTE2 soon ... Ep.1 on at 01:20 on Tuesday 11 July. One for the DVR? :P

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #108
    Slydice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Still sucks that this show was cancelled :(


  • #109
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,032 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Well, I haven't seen S3 yet, and have avoided spoilers, so I hope they got to conclude the narrative properly. Three series isn't too shabby by modern standards.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #110
    mel.b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭mel.b


    Just finished this on netflix and throughly enjoyed. Certainly had some very shocking, unexpected moments in it. It would be great if netflix or similar picked it up.

    The posts below with i completly agree with and sums up my thoughts on the show as well.
    Ludo wrote: »
    Just watched all season 3 there...absolutely fantastic. To be honest I think it is actually an ok ending to the series. No other way to end it really. A happy american ending bow on it would be completely wrong. It just continues as is and as it always was...just like real life in the middle east really. Kind of an appropriate way to end IMHO.

    Having said that....I do hope it comes back on Netflix or somewhere like that.
    Caprica wrote: »
    Just finished watching Season 3 last night. For a show that had a slightly dodgy beginning it turned into (for me) compelling tv and really mirrored the mess that is the Middle East. It's a show I would recommend watching.

    What really impressed me come the end was that Leila Al-Fayeed went from a glorified clothes horse to the self declared president of Abudeen. You go girl. You had to admire her tenacity to survive. I felt sorry for Barry/Bazam, he came to the country for a wedding, stays for his father funeral, topples his tyrant brother, tries to bring the country to peace but gets dragged into a war he will win. I though when his son hung a picture of him, he looked haunted as if he was at breaking point. I really enjoyed the character of Jamal and I definitely missed him this season. I found the death of Emma shocking and it was interesting to see how it impacted on Molly.

    While it would have been nice to have everything wrapped up neatly, I think the finish is accurate picture of how things are in the Middle East. Everyone seems to be at war, no side is winning, the ordinary people are losing out and you have the US playing all sides. I thought when Exley went to visit Daliyah in prison, it summed up the US attitude to regional conflicts.


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