Phil Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 http://www.hbo.com/luck/index.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M67XCzfr7o Looks tremendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluephoria Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 This starts tonight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 This starts tonight? January 29th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuhgeddaboudit Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 So confused as to what this is in general* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluephoria Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 :palm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluephoria Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Starts tonight. Don't forget, Phil!.. It doesn't look like anyone else is interested. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 Ha, it's already set on my DVR, but I'll be watching on time anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 My take on the first episode: The drama is there. The star power is there. The complexity, though, is almost overwhelming for a show trying to get it's wings off the ground. Anyone who knows little to nothing about racing (myself included) would have easily struggled trying to understand how it all works. Gonna need to give this a few more episodes before I can really make a decision on it, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluephoria Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Agreed. It can be a bit confusing, and at times I struggled to understand exactly what was going on. Some parts really confused me, such as the scene when Dustin Hoffman goes into that guys office where he flipped out. I got lost a bit in that conversation. Also, sometimes I couldn't understand a thing the spanish trainer was saying, even when he was speaking english. hah I will give it a few more episodes too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Escalante. Yup. Same. Guy's accent is thick. Between that and the Irish jockeys it's definitely a show you need to be completely sober and pinned to to really "get" everything. What I took from the scene where he walked into the guys office and ripped his shirt to prove he wasn't bugged was that that guy was sort of part of an insider ring of bookies that he took the 3-year pinch for. I think what's happening there is the development of a revenge plot where he's going to try selling the track in a secondary business deal to a hotel owner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoMinutesForNothing Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Only caught part of thist, but I don't get why they care so much about the 5 winning if all they picked was the 5 to win. You won't get that great of a payout unless you hit a trifecta or something like that. I saw the spanish guys ticket and it showed he had bet $1000 on the 5 horse to win and it paid him 13,200, which means the odds were only 13-1. That's not nearly as much of a long shot as they made it out to be and putting $1,000 on that to win alone is just flat stupid. You could put a couple hundred on a few different tri's and hit a much bigger payout. My only complaint, but a lot of people that go to race tracks are dumb as shit and take stupid risks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreaseCrusader91 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Only caught part of thist, but I don't get why they care so much about the 5 winning if all they picked was the 5 to win. You won't get that great of a payout unless you hit a trifecta or something like that. I saw the spanish guys ticket and it showed he had bet $1000 on the 5 horse to win and it paid him 13,200, which means the odds were only 13-1. That's not nearly as much of a long shot as they made it out to be and putting $1,000 on that to win alone is just flat stupid. You could put a couple hundred on a few different tri's and hit a much bigger payout. My only complaint, but a lot of people that go to race tracks are dumb as shit and take stupid risks. I think it had to do with the fact that they had the fix in on the six races so that horse would have only increased their score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Why the FUCK is this show on every single HBO right now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 Why the FUCK is this show on every single HBO right now? They're pushing it big-time. All the weekend Newsday press was talking about how HBO is hoping it's their next Sopranos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 They're pushing it big-time. All the weekend Newsday press was talking about how HBO is hoping it's their next Sopranos. I'm pretty mad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 Second episode was a lot better and did a much better job of establishing the characters and the depth of the story IMO. Still a few episodes out from a real critique though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluephoria Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Still into it, but fuck is it confusing. The hardest part is following Ace's business movements. I feel like I need a degree in finance to follow it all. Also, one thing that is bugging me is the dialogue. It seems too scripted and unnatural... where everyone talks fast and extremely intellectual. I mean just look at that crew of the 4 betters. Obviously they are less educated gambling addicts, yet their conversations sound as if they graduated from Ivy League schools at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 You and I both, man. I'm normally all over these dialogue-driven productions, but this one is incredibly complex, and incredibly esoteric. Feels like the entire show can't really be "gotten" by those without a history of OTB betting, horse racing or business. I definitely get the same feeling from the group of degenerate gamblers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreaseCrusader91 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Im still trying to give this show a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluephoria Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I'm liking it more and more... The drama is picking up, players characters are panning out, and the story is developing so I can now follow it much better. Can't wait for next Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 I gave up. I couldn't get past episode four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreaseCrusader91 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I'm liking it more and more... The drama is picking up, players characters are panning out, and the story is developing so I can now follow it much better. Can't wait for next Sunday. Yea it is getting easier to follow now that things are starting to take shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreaseCrusader91 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Another really good episode and the plot continues to thicken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluephoria Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Poor Israel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreaseCrusader91 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Poor Israel. Yup, Dumbledore taking no shit whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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