Not feeling it
I watched all of the first season. It was ok but not great. I started the second season and just can't get into it so I'm done. Anyone else feel this way?
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No, I still like it
shareStill watching but I cringe at the historical inaccuracies. They use slang that didn't exist then. Cops with long hair. And on one episode they said "Rowen and Martin's Laugh-In" was on Tuesday night! What night was it really on?
shareUndercover cops would have had long hair; the others in this show have the typical buzz cuts of the time.
I agree with you about the slang, that's true of most shows/movies set in the past. But the night that Rowan & Martin was on? Now you're just quibbling!
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Rowen and Martin's Laugh-In was Monday night.
shareStill watching but I cringe at the historical inaccuracies. They use slang that didn't exist then. Cops with long hair. And on one episode they said "Rowen and Martin's Laugh-In" was on Tuesday night! What night was it really on?
Do you remember which episode ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH IN is on the tv? Or what slang they didn't exist?
EDIT TO ADD: I just watched the episode where Shafe and Kristin are watching television, and he mentions ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH IN is on next. Didn't see where it mentioned anywhere that it was a Tuesday night though.
"I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse." share
I don't remember the reference to Laugh-In, but that is hardly a shocking inaccuracy. Who remembers what night a TV show was on 40 years ago? However, there are other inaccuracies that stand out.
shareDon't just say there are inaccuracies that stand out. Give us some examples of anachronisms you spotted.
shareI like the show but I agree about the anachronistic language. An example, I think, is in Episode 5 of Season 2, when Brian says, "Your husband didn't go with?" (rather than "Your husband didn't go with you?"). I grew up in Los Angeles in the late '60s and '70s, and never heard anyone employ that shortened "go with" (or "come with") usage. In fact, I think it was sometime in the '90s when I first heard it.
shareI like the show but I agree about the anachronistic language. An example, I think, is in Episode 5 of Season 2, when Brian says, "Your husband didn't go with?" (rather than "Your husband didn't go with you?"). I grew up in Los Angeles in the late '60s and '70s, and never heard anyone employ that shortened "go with" (or "come with") usage. In fact, I think it was sometime in the '90s when I first heard it.
I asked some literary friends about this because I wasn't sure. I thought I'd heard it before though. They all agreed that this usage dates back probably before the 1950s. Looks like it started a lot earlier than that:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-tribu-words-work-midwest-20101208-story.html
The article seems to mark it as from the Midwest. That's where I'm from so that's probably why it didn't sound jarring to me at all.
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I too grew up in LA in the 60s and 70s, and I had a friend who said "You want to go with?" That was the first time I'd heard it. She and her family were from the midwest, I believe Illinois.
It sounded weird to me at the time, but not now.
yep, got about 15 minutes in to the 1st episode of season 2.
shareThey have used slang and expressions made popular on "Seinfeld". The late 60's was such a strange era it would be hard to recreate it accurately. But they could do better than this.
shareNot me. Maybe it's because I was alive during that time period so the production has verisimilitude for me. I also remember the real history and find the mix of fiction and fact interesting.
I enjoy seeing the attitudes and social mores of that time period depicted in the show, which it does fairly accurately.
Duchovny is good as a detective in this show. The whole cast is good. The subplots are weaved together well.
Unlike Californication, with Aquarius I am hooked and want to see what happens next.
What would help a lot would be more authentic music from 1969. Not just "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies.
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