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>> No.7755797

There were so many literary allusions in Lost it was nuts. I miss the days of scouring the internet for clues about what it all meant.

>> No.7755800

>>7755797
But then it meant nothing.
Or, I guess, 'your past haunts you ........ but u can move on ....'

>> No.7755808
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>>7755797

>> No.7755812

>>7755778
Six Feet Under

>> No.7755818

>Anthony Junior: Death just shows you the ultimate absurdity of life.
>Tony Soprano: What is this?? Are you trying to get me to lose my temper because I'm about to put you through that goddamn window!!
>Anthony Junior: See? That's what I mean. Life is absurd.
>Carmela Soprano: Don't say that! God forgive you!
>Anthony Junior: There is no God.
>Carmela Soprano: Ey!!
>Tony Soprano: Ey!!
>Carmela Soprano: Where is this coming from?
>Tony Soprano: Do they teach you this crap in school??
>Carmela Soprano: Is this that new English teacher Mr. Clark...emm... Where is he from? Answer me!
>Meadow Soprano: Overland.
>Meadow Soprano: You want him to read anything other than Hustler? Hello. He got assigned ˝The Stranger˝ You want him to be an educated person? What do you think education is? You just make more money? This IS education.
>Anthony Junior: Do you ever think like: Why were we born?
>Meadow Soprano: Madame de Stael said: In life one must choose between boredom and suffering.
>Tony Soprano: Go to your room! (Meadow leaves)
>Anthony Junior: No, I'm serious. Why were we born?
>Carmela Soprano: We were born because of Adam and Eve, that's why. Now go upstairs and do your math.
>Anthony Junior: Algebra?? That's the most boring.
>Tony Soprano: Well, your other choice is sufferin'. You wanna start now?!?

>> No.7755824

pleb book for a pleb show

>> No.7755830

>>7755800
There was so much development and meaning along the way, I don't think the ending invalidates it all. I really liked the finale btw

>> No.7755831
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>> No.7755844

>>7755830
>>7755800
desu the aesthetic of LOST was pretty profound
i think the show peaked when they found the crashed plane at the end of a question mark and they were just like whats goin on with the hatches

it was a really good mix of imagery and themes

then it went on too long and fizzled out

>> No.7755849

>>7755831
Yeah.

>> No.7755865

Skins (3rd generation): Liv's young sister reading Infinite Jest
Fresh Meat S04E01: Kigsley reading Infinite Jest

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>>7755849

>> No.7755871

>>7755865
>Fresh Meat S04E01: Kigsley reading Infinite Jest

Why were they calling IJ a 'serial'?

>> No.7755877

>>7755865
>writer puts in the book they know they should've read but haven't in their script to make themselves seem smart.

>> No.7755887

>>7755818
Fucking brilliant show.

>> No.7755915

The peep show desu
Super Hans likes the beats, what a surprise

>> No.7756037

>>7755865
howard also is reading the crying of lot 49 in an episode earlier on i believe.
both are hilarious in their own way. kingsley is obviously reading it to impress people (which is his character) and howard is just a rat goof so of course he's reading something like that

>> No.7756142

>>7755797
>>7755800
>>7755808
>>7755830
>>7755844
that show was dumb from start to finish actually, but i still watched the whole thing over the course of a week

>>7755818
>>7755887
that episode sucked

>> No.7756165

>>7755778
>literary

Which means what exactly in terms of television? Surely you don't just mean namedropping books, yeah?

>> No.7756169
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Mad Men

>> No.7756257

>>7756169
he's so unimpressive unclothed

>> No.7756323

>>7755818
awful

>> No.7756325

>>7756257
what were you expecting

>> No.7756344
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7756344

>tfw you accidentally click on /tv/

>> No.7756351

lol tv

>> No.7756370

can we please stop slapping the "literary" and "/lit" labels on everything

>> No.7756376

>>7755818
Best tv show I watched thb

>> No.7756424

H A N N I B A L

How they managed to turn that trite source material into the best show on television I have no idea, especially the 3rd season in florence. They somehow made a polymath genius somehow not seem like an insufferable autist, blending the literary/musical/artistic allusions into not only the plot and characters but the way scenes were shot and composed was A1.

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>>7756424
Reminder

>> No.7756569

>>7756370

They're just tourists from /tv/ and other media boards. They barely read.

>> No.7756572

>>7755778
is that Mad Men?

>> No.7756677

>>7756572
Yes. Also the best character on the show: Peter "Christ on a cracker" Campbell

>> No.7756711

>>7756677
Pete goes from the biggest ass to the most lovable fool. He really just makes me smile in the later seasons.

>> No.7756716

>>7755778
true detective

>> No.7756720

>>7755831
Waifu

>> No.7756724
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The Knick is the only show that gave me Mad Men esque literary feelings through visual language.

>> No.7756745

>>7755778
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPPhd4elT5o

>> No.7756795

>>7755915
Super Hans is living the literary lifestyle to the fullest t b h

>> No.7756802

>>7756442
This had to have been done as a joke

>> No.7756808

californication

greatest show ever

>> No.7756809

>>7756442
haven't seen the show, is this what one episode is like?

>> No.7756810

>>7756809
look carefully at the picture in the middle

>> No.7756813

>>7755831
Isn't she too young to be able to understand Joyce?

>> No.7756814

>>7756813
Joyce can and should be read at all ages. Understanding him is a lifetime's work.

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>>7755831
was there ever a more self-insert perfect girl in a tv show ever? She is literally heaven in an A cup.

>> No.7757039

>>7755831
>.png
Nigger, I swear to God...

>> No.7757042

>>7757039
what's wrong with png?

>> No.7757050

>>7757042
It's bloated as fuck, compare the size of .jpg and .png images of the same dimensions.

>> No.7757101

>>7757050
ok. yeah. a hundred or so kilobytes is definitely something that matters in the 2010s

>> No.7757436

>>7755871

He said "cereal".

>>7755865

>"Infinite Jest's Notes and Errata are a greater contribution to literature than the entire oeuvre of your Joanne K Rowling"

>> No.7757443

>thread titled "literary tv shows"

At first I laughed and shot my vintage Malbec out of my nostrels, then when I realized this thread wasn't ironic I dropped my glass in horror.

>> No.7757457

let's be honest, don would've never read dante on the beach and pete reading pynchon was out of character too

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>> No.7757565

happyish

>> No.7757681

>>7757457
Don was reading dante because his italian mistress gave it to him as a gift. Pete reading TCoL49 was a bit random i'll admit

>> No.7757689

>>7755915
big beats are the best beats. get high all the time.

>> No.7757691 [DELETED] 

>>7757482
>reading a translation

>> No.7757704

>>7756813
That's why she's reading Stuart Gilbert's guide to Ulysses and not the actual book.

>> No.7757719

>>7757689
Kek
The manifesto

>> No.7757776

>>7755818
Melfi: It sounds to me like Anthony Jr. may have stumbled onto existentialism

Tony: fucking Internet

>> No.7759349

>>7756724
indeed, The Knick was great with its visual language. i think many of the posters here are confusing shows where they show actors reading books as literary in scope. shows like Mad Men, The Knick, hell, even Downton Abbey are more literary than Lost, Hannibal, and Skins. those are more sci-fi, horror/suspense, and YA, than actual literature.

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>>7755831
But that's not Ulysses. That's Stuart Gilbert's JAMES JOYCE'S ULYSSES

Why is she annotating a book of criticism?

>> No.7759411

>>7759406
>Why is she annotating a book of criticism?
Why wouldn't she? Maybe she just marks the parts where he is wrong to send him an angry letter telling him he is a pleb

>> No.7759435

>>7759349

Downton Abbey is a soap opera. The only show mentioned that is truly literary is Mad Men, of course visual media doesn't have to aspire to literariness to be good as it is working in an entirely different medium so it's not a qualitative judgement so much as a thematic style. Mad Men was a show focused on characters, themes and subtext far more than "plot" which makes it literary in comparison to a pulpy serial like Breaking Bad or Lost.

>> No.7759460

>>7759406
She's. A. Fucking. Pseud.

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>>7755797
Confirmed /lit/core

>> No.7759567

>>7759460
actually she's reading that book after she read ulysses proper. she's shown reading the latter earlier on in the show. she actually reads a couple criticisms.

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>>7759562
patrician t.bh

>> No.7759622

>>7759605
Which book is that fampai?

>> No.7759627

>>7759622
invention of moral

described as the perfect novella by borges

>> No.7759633

>>7759627
He was just sucking his bitch's clit
I have to read it one day. Thanks

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>>7759605
I've just started re watching

James and Ben both have pretty good taste.

>> No.7759891

>>7755797
I was a top contributor on the office lost forums. I even had a website set up.

I was a pretty autistic 11 year old

>> No.7759902

>>7757015
thats such a nice cover

>> No.7759920

>>7756257
>he can't into dadbod
feel bad 4u tbhfam

>> No.7759948

>http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Literary_works#Sawyer.27s_Books

Damn...

>> No.7761308

>>7759920
>doesn't like ripped dads
sorry i have standards

>> No.7761313

>>7757482

>Reading a Turdsworth

jesus and fuck look at that spine getting fucked!

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Everyone on /lit/ who hasn't should check out Deadwood. The writing, language, are all just superb

>Some goddamn point a man's due to stop arguing with his-self and feeling twice the goddamn fool he knows he is 'cause he can't be something he tries to be every goddamn day without once getting to dinnertime and fucking it up. I don't want to fight it anymore, understand me Charlie? And I don't want you pissing in my ear about it. Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?

>> No.7763059

>>7761429
Patrician TV watchers know this.

>> No.7763062

>>7761429
le pseud archaisms and profanity
so patrician so cool guys. upvote

>> No.7763064

>>7761313
It's a big book. You have to fuck the spine at some point

>> No.7763119

>>7759435
indeed. Downton Abbey is def soap opera, but so was Proust, Anna Karenina, and a lot of War and Peace. definitely not the same level as any of those or even Mad Men, though.

two more shows i think should get fair mention:

The Wire
Deadwood

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQtoYTZnycM

>> No.7763674

>>7763062

>so patrician so cool guys. upvote

You are letting the memes get to you, anon.

Dial it down a bit.

>> No.7763809

>>7755818
>>Tony Soprano: Ey!!
Classic Tony

>> No.7763822

>>7756257
That's intentional.

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>>7756257

>> No.7764446

>>7763809
lol

>> No.7764467

>>7757565
this nigga knows

>> No.7764476

>>7764431
>top right suit
absolutely amazing.
but it's clothed.
fuck life dess

>> No.7764534

>>7755818
Ey!!

>> No.7765761

>>7764431
mmmm...it seems i can behold his cock

>> No.7766597

>>7764431
Wanna ride that hog.

>> No.7767398

>>7756257
He's probably got a huge dad dick hiding under those pants of his so I'd guess that makes up for it.

>> No.7768990

>>7764431
does he just like going commando?