3>2>1

2 > 1 > 3

this

2 > 1 > 3
season three felt like it was written purely for mike white to jerk off to

2 >3 >1

Well, they're not people you would want to have close to you in real life. It's fiction, you know.

I think it was kind of a missed opportunity with Thailand. They definitely could have incorporated more stuff about the country

bunch of bossy bottoms in this thread

3 was the most complete season, every story was fleshed out and the characters were written more human and less caricature than other seasons.

every story was fleshed out

alright now you must be trolling

This scene really made me wanna go to Thailand :(.

Star Wars level "I am your father" twist

Weird insest plotline that doesn't go anywhere

5 minute speech from Sam Rockwell about how he wants to be fucked by dudes as a asian girl

Greg cuck fetish

Lock just gets over being poisoned

not really sure what Mike White was thinking

how good is season 2 truly? I watched season one but I didn't love it or anything and Armond specifically is all that kept me in it but I never checked out any of S2 or 3.

Season 2 is the gayest. Definitely the worst unless you're one of those in love with Italy. Season 3 is kino

Smarmy ass prick

yeah, go with that cute coworker you don't tell your wife about.

who cares?

Me. It’s why I said it.

1=2>3
the milf's and russians story were lame. they barely intersected with the rest of the cast. same with the security guard's story.

What's the appeal? People would just watch fictional rich wypipo being assholes to complain?

I was sure 3 would be my favorite based on the first episodes, but man did it lose itself in a bad script towards the end. Still really enjoyable. 2 > 1 > 3 for me but I love them all.

You think you do but you don't

5 minute speech from Sam Rockwell about how he wants to be fucked by dudes as a asian girl

To be fair this shit was just pure shitposting from Mike, and Goggin's appalled face the entire time was kino. Funniest scene from the season.

Security guard story existed to juxtapose how gross the rest of the guests were with their purity

2 is the best. Good characters, solid humor, Goku vs Vegeta over Bulma pussy levels of hype. Enjoy.

You don’t know anything

I still haven't watched S3 but 2 > 1 for sure

need mia gf

3 had both the best male character (goggins) and female character (teethgirl). The family storyline was the best of any season as well

Season 2 is the gayest.

Season 3 is kino.

season 3 is the only season with no attractive women in the cast and the only season with a guy jerking off his big brother and the only season with a monologue about pretending to be a girl and getting fucked in the ass by anonymous men every night, bro
think your idea of what's gay and what isn't gay is thrown off by your love of cock

It's funny how you're able to have so much compassion for all these groups of oppressed peoples you don't even know, and yet not for your family. Who actually know you and love you. Your generation's only sacred value. Biting the hand that feeds you.

Total young white leftoid destruction

I'm going to believe you brother. please dont fuck this last scrap of anonymous trust.

It's very ok. No idea what is talking about

Best characters by season

1

Gooner son

2

Gooner asian husband

3

Guy who jerked off his brother

1 > 2 > 3

Season 3 was atrocious, like embarrassing stuff.

The Ratliffs have maybe 2 episodes worth of story (and only certain members of the family: Victoria is fun but she does zero; the daughter does even LESS because she isn't even entertaining) stretched across 8 episodes

The hags have 1, maybe 2 episodes worth of story stretched across 8 episodes

Gaitok and Mook have 0.5 episodes worth of story stretched across 8 episodes

Belinda, Zion and Gary have 2 episodes worth of story stretched across 8 episodes

The only character who felt complete was Rick (Walton Goggins). His girlfriend is about half of a character. Even with Rick, he's got maybe 5 episodes worth of story stretched across 8 with a horrid, clunky ending. At least Sam Rockwell's character was fun?

Season 3 was junk. I have very little hope for season 4.

Literally every season is filled with characters with very little story, stretched out over the episodes. Then it culminates in the last ep. S1: male newlywed mad at hotel manager for the whole season, female upset about her career future. Businesswoman and her family, a few things happen, the main thing being the daughter’s friend setting up the burglary in the last eps. Hotel manager dissolves into drugs throughout the season, with pretty much no backstory or story of his own. Black lady and old rich lady had the most boring story. S2: ultimate slow burn of aubrey plaza and her husband in a shitty relationship, ultimately culminating in them cheating on each other in the last eps which fixes the marriage. The whole gay guys trying to kill rich lady plot which was shitty. Only redeemable story was the hookers.

You plebs shouldn’t be allowed to watch anything other than capeshit

muh plotplotplot

muh pacing

It’s a satirical show, the dialogue and characterizations are what fuel it. Not muh story

The first season was a comedy with little to say, the lack of story was fine. I know you can say there's a message that's most obvious with the son: learning to let go and just enjoy the moment. There's still not denying it's primarily a comedy, Steven Zahn's entire character and Armond solidify this.
The second season was about sex and relationships and how it affects them and their dynamics. It was interesting; very different in tone and message (as in there's a blatant one, now). Things escalate and get worse for every character steadily with the insane ramp-up at the end. The pacing was slow but appropriate.
The third season is about breaking cycles and yet nobody does jack shit about their cycles until the last episode.

satirical

I like that you think this makes the show magically infallible. A satire of what, exactly?

dialogue

characterizations

No standouts during the entire show, outside the finale, of these two concepts. The brothers have "characterization" and VERY little comes out of it. A bad dialogue with the gals at the pool, a couple awkward moments afterwards. That's the payoff. It gets Saxon reading, maybe? Or maybe he's just doing that for pussy? Does it even matter? I don't see why you'd care as a viewer.

A satire of what, exactly?

Rich white liberals. Are you retarded

2>3>1

Why do you think the show mocking rich white liberals means it doesn't need a story? Is characters sitting around a pool for 7 episodes only to shoot someone in the 8th a biting criticism of rich white liberals?

Season 4 needs to go back to the comedy of season 1 and maybe have it at a place not right next to the ocean

And more: you talk of dialogue and characterization - can you recall any dialogue of any character (outside of Rockwell's monologue that, while kinda good, is just a ham-fisted, rushed explanation of the 'point' of the season for idiots) that you enjoyed? And which character had characterization outside of Rick's bad story? What did his girlfriend do the entire season, for instance; what did she learn, how did she change?

Season 3 was ass. It's okay to admit it.

what did she learn

She learned she could not in fact "fix him"

how did she change?

She went from being alive to being dead

can you recall any dialogue of any character that you enjoyed?

Yes

And which character had characterization outside of Rick's bad story?

All of the older women and every member of the family had fully formed characters, each satirizing a different thing.

What did his girlfriend do the entire season, for instance; what did she learn, how did she change?

Acted as an anchor for Rick, a sense of comfort. She’s the personification of the “i can save them” meme, to her own detriment

Damn, Mike White rulez. Never mind, the season was very good, I concede. I gotta buy Loch's expensive shirt now.

All of the older women

Each of the women can be fully described in one brief sentence. Their "journey" is embarrassingly shallow and they all learn zero. They are barely in the show.

every member of the family had fully formed characters

Now I know you're bullshitting.

each satirizing a different thing

Yes, each began as a kind of archetype (and I bet you'll have a tough time calling any Ratliff "liberal", by the way). They never went anywhere. Saxon got dabbed on by his little brother who has bad posture. This embarrassment culminates in: absolutely nothing for these two. They have a swell boat ride home. Awesome.

Acted as an anchor for Rick, a sense of comfort.

So she herself is not a character, then? She does not exist outside of Rick?
Also there's exactly one scene where she does this and that's when they have sex. Otherwise he's blatantly ignoring that comfort.

teethgirl

Kek

What is the point? hedonism is meaningless?

1=3>2

Essentially yes, for Rockwell. The monk says almost the same thing, I believe. The true point is understanding the damage a perpetuating cycle can do to a person.
Pleasure can be found in the right or wrong places, and Rockwell's character had been going down the wrong path: drugs and empty sex. These are both fleeting: the high and sex have an end. If it's happiness you didn't 'earn' or sex without any passion or purpose, you're falling for a lie and the lie will weaken over time, causing you (now an addict) to search for better highs.
Rockwell's bender had him losing his identity and eventually unsure of what the hell he was even doing anymore.

Rick's character was letting the idea of his dad being murdered before he was born ruin his entire life into his fifties. The anger stayed on a loop and when he had a lovely woman right in front of him, eager to please, he still chose to stay in the cycle of anger.
He could have, at any time, let go and enjoyed a beautiful vacation with a beautiful woman. Instead he went on a pursuit that got his friend relapsing (but back on the path, eventually), and then him and his girlfriend shot.

Rick's story was the best one and had the reveal in the finale not happened, it would have been the only redeeming thing. Instead they toss a line in there that is absolutely retarded and tank it. It doesn't even remotely make sense from a writing perspective.

Each of the women can be fully described in one brief sentence. Their "journey" is embarrassingly shallow and they all learn zero. They are barely in the show.

Their subplot is a commentary on aging wealthy women, the shallowness in which they exist, the unnecessary competitiveness, and culminates in the one seen as the “loser” (unmarried/less successful) giving her monologue in a moment of honesty and brings them all together.

Yes, each began as a kind of archetype (and I bet you'll have a tough time calling any Ratliff "liberal", by the way). They never went anywhere. Saxon got dabbed on by his little brother who has bad posture. This embarrassment culminates in: absolutely nothing for these two. They have a swell boat ride home. Awesome.

They all had a realized story. The father came to grips with the fact that he’d rather face the reality of his crimes, the daughter realized she wasn’t the third worldist libtard she larped as, the older son came to realize he wasn’t a senseless coomer by denying the cucking, the younger son realized he lived in a family of narcissists but decided to love them anyway after the near death experience.

So she herself is not a character, then? She does not exist outside of Rick?

Also there's exactly one scene where she does this and that's when they have sex. Otherwise he's blatantly ignoring that comfort.
That’s her character. A girl who hopelessly tries to help a man who doesn’t want it, until the very end when he realizes he does. In the many scenes with her model friend, she tells her she sees something in to that needs to be saved and she was right. Until it was too late. A tragic character but a a good one

Their subplot is a commentary on aging wealthy women

etc

Yes, man, I know that. I didn't fail to understand the show nor message, it's that the message was weak and that there was no entertainment value there. It was 6-7 episodes of showing how hollow their friendship had become and that, given the right circumstance, they will gladly shit on each other no problem, and 4 minutes of "I'm happy you're my friends" to wrap it up. I know. It was wildly repetitive.

They all had a realized story

All of these "stories" you mention are a few minutes of content dragged across 8 episodes, similar to the ladies. I also disagree with you on Loch; yes, he does know his family are narcissists, but he clearly is ready to leave them like his sis. He "loves" them, but he knows he has to go. She doesn't have this same realization. Loch has brief moments of almost characterization, but ultimately nothing of substance. This is recurring in Mike White's work (his cycle, perhaps?).
And the daughter was lying about the room's conditions. She would have been fine and she knew it, it wasn't third world at all; it's that she's lying about the conditions because, personality-wise, she's as much of a void as her mother. There's nothing for her to find there.
But "I'm not interesting" doesn't make for an interesting character if you ask me. She stood around quietly for most of the season.

That’s her character.

That's very shallow.

A tragic character but a a good one

Why do you say "good"? Again, we established that she's barely a person and doesn't exist outside Rick. When Rick isn't there she literally has nothing to do except give Saxon a book (which that alone is his turning point. THAT guy changes because she gave him a book. Insanity).

Season 3 has lots of interesting concepts and then close to zero follow-through. The only exception is Rick and it still nose-dives at the last second. The sole highlight is performances, GREAT job from Posey, Goggins, and Rockwell.