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  1. JohnLocke

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    Chuck Rhoades Sr and Wags are in an eternal battle for who my favorite character is
     
  2. Joe_Pesci

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    Lmfao Axe's smugness at the end
     
  3. RJF-GUMP

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    show is one of the best on tv
     
  4. RJF-GUMP

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    axlerod and rhodes are such good characters and the actors nail those roles
     
  5. Mission From God

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    Really enjoyed the finale, I think the obvious is that Axe is going to start nailing Wendy and I like that Chuck has Axe back in his sights again.
     
  6. Ty Webb

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    Loved Connerty finding out he was the idiot. Can't wait to see how Chuck handles the Axe and Wendy news.
     
  7. RalfBully

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    Agree that they can’t continue this storyline of Axe and Chuck going back and forth. Either end the show with the next season or kill one of them off (and hopefully Taylor)
     
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  8. poor paul

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    doing my every year re-watch before the new season and finally got my wife to join and she's now become a big fan so that's cool.
     
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  9. southlick

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  10. southlick

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  11. JohnLocke

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    It's a good day
     
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  12. Paddy Murphy

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    Glad they got the triple cross all on the table episode one.

    Continue to think they need to knock off one of the big three if they want the show to have legs beyond this season but Axe and Chuck are the show. They are indispensable, so it’s damned if you do damned if you don’t.
     
  13. Gunners

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    Decent start
     
  14. beist

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    If I had to guess before this episode I would have guessed Axe was already worth over $10 billion.
     
  15. Gambler

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    I really want Chuck to suffer. Fuck him.
     
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  16. identikit

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    The whole Dexter guidance therapy thing is insanely dumb.
     
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  17. Ty Webb

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    Took me a minute, but failing the Chris Rock test had me in tears
     
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  18. Gunners

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    10-15 is what I've been going on the whole time. Whatever, I like this show but only spend a few minutes of brain power a week thinking that deeply about it.
     
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  19. Gunners

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    That Bobby speech was....not good

    My sister, your aunt is pretty damn funny
     
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  20. Paddy Murphy

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    Yeah not sure what the point of his speech was.

    Kate Sackler is up to something.
     
  21. Gunners

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    Just wanna reinforce for the 800th time what Axe is and it’s annoying

    The other characters make the show
     
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  22. identikit

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    Axe just isn't as cool as he thinks is.
     
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  23. identikit

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    Chuck's dumb 'Dexter' angle, the non-motivational 'wrestling' schtick, Axe getting a standing ovation from a bunch of kids for a speech that was horrid.

    Jumping the shark, I think.
     
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  24. beist

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    yeah, ready for this to end.
     
  25. CUgator

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    This season has sucked so far. Hopefully when they film the last 5 episodes, they’ll get it right.
     
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  26. double RL

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    I started this show about a month ago and caught up this weekend. The greatest line of the entire show has to be the AG asking Chuck if he knows what prison smells like and Chuck saying "is it dick? I'm guessing dick."

    The show would have been better if they would have killed Lara off by having someone accidentally shoot her while trying to kill Axe.
     
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  27. RalfBully

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    Just catching up on the last three eps. About to start last Sunday’s. This season is sooooo bad.

    1. Taylor and this new fund no one cares about
    2. Some random ass painter
    3. Chuck being a professor
    4. Wages and fatherhood
      I mean what in the flying fuck on these story lines
     
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  28. CUgator

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    Just watched episode 7. Season is complete trash
     
  29. beist

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    What the fuck did I just watch.
     
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  30. Gunners

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    Suits guy fucking sucks
     
  31. Handcuffed

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    i started watching this yesterday and I'm about halfway through the first season. it's pretty fun.

    the therapist wife is my fav character
     
  32. CUgator

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    great show until this season. Shit went off the rails.
     
  33. Butthead

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    working my way through the season

    damn it i wanted to see wags at church so bad
     
  34. Handcuffed

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    i finished season 1 but don't think i'm continuing. the "showdown" between the hedge fund guy and the attorney at his office at the end just felt pretty corny. and the wife (who was my fav character) either has no future purpose on the show (separated from attorney, quit the fund) or there'll be some non-sensical reason for her undoing that.
     
  35. Paddy Murphy

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    FWIW, she does. She might be the most complex and deep character in the show. Seasons 2-3 the show hits its stride and is great (for what it is), 4 is good, 5 has been a disaster.
     
  36. Virgil Caine

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    You're probably wise to bail now. The entire plot of the show is how can Chuck and Ax one-up each other. There’s literally nothing more to it than that.

    Well, except seeing how many pop culture references Brian Koppelman can shoehorn into a script.
     
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  37. CUgator

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    disaster is putting it nicely.
     
  38. Butthead

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    just finished the season. the whole thing was incoherent as hell
     
  39. RJF-GUMP

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    I still like the show. It is entertaining.
     
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  40. teel

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    Started the show recently and am in the middle of season 2, thinking to myself hey this is entertaining let me go read the thread. Get through the first few pages and everybody apparently thinks they’re ebert & fucking roeper. Can’t imagine taking things that seriously. Team wes tegg IrishLAX2
     
  41. racer

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    Haven’t read the thread for spoiler reasons. Just here to brain dump a little. About half way through season 3. I like this show a lot. I hated Brody in homeland, so I wanted to hate Axe to start. Fuck Chuck. Wags is the best character by a large margin. Taylor and Birbiglia hooking up is sure something. Orin with a beard >>> Orin without. Team Connerty.
     
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  42. Paddy Murphy

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    LOL. Connerty.

    Wags is the best character, you atleast have that right. Dollar Bill is close.
     
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  43. TLAU

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    Early on in season 4. Just watched the Chicken Bill episode last night. Not reading the thread for spoilers and apparently bad opinions but:

    Wags is the best
    Chuck Sr. is a perfect senile douche old man (love the scene when he's on the phone and they casually throw in a semi-blurred dime piece in lingerie in the background)
    Axe's team of specialized people are awesome. Everyone from the lawyer to nova scotia, the 2 ex-mil guys when he was under investigation, etc
    Ben Kim, Dollar Bill, and Mafee are all fantastic characters and acted really well

    Kinda meh on John Malkovich + Taylor at the moment. I liked Taylor's character a lot early on and I think their personality has gotten a little annoying at this point
     
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  44. Paddy Murphy

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    Of the big three, Wendy is the most interesting/best to me. Chuck is beyond redeeming and they’ve kind of lost their edge with Axe. There’s only so many engaging story lines you can write about a guys who plays the “I’m worth 10 billion” card, successfully, every time.
     
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  45. southlick

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  46. CUgator

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    hopefully they spent covid trying to figure out how to recover from the first half of the season.
     
  47. racer

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    Dan Soder standup came on an XM channel the other day and I was like this sounds like Mafee. It certainly was and it seems like a lot of that character comes from Soder. Top tier character IMO.
     
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  48. Ty Webb

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    Enjoyed the start to the second half of season 5.
     
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  49. CUgator

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    there was nowhere to go but up.
     
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  50. racer

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    Not a fan of clean shaven Paul G