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*** ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA (Showtime Limited Series) ***

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This looks fantastic.

Directed by Ben Stiller, an eight-part limited series starring Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, and Benicio Del Toro, Escape at Dannemora is "based on the stranger-than-fiction prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015 which spawned a statewide manhunt for two convicted murderers, aided in their escape by a married female prison employee who carried on months-long affairs with both men."

Debuts November 18 on Showtime...

TCTTS
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Reminder that this starts Sunday.
Geriatric Punk
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Bad ass. Feels like this happened a lot longer than 3 years ago. Wild.
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TCTTS
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Anyone else watching this? It's three episodes in, and easily one of the best shows of the year so far. Kind of a slow burn, but Ben Stiller is directing the hell out of it, and the three leads are giving fantastic performances (especially Arquette, who I think will win the Emmy). I definitely recommend it to anyone looking to fill that Sunday night HBO gap for the time being...
maca1028
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I've really enjoyed it so far and I knew nothing of the true events.
I Like Turtles
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Surprised no one is talking about this show. Just finished it. Thought it was great.
Bunk Moreland
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Watched all but finale yesterday and finale tonight. Fantastic.

Dano, Del Toro & Arquette might have each produced 3 of the top 10 acting performances of the year regardless of medium in this thing. Holy *****
Gig-Em2003
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Awesome show. All around fantastic.

AgFB
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This was awesome. Well done by Stiller
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Excellent series. The guy who played her husband deserves all the awards in the world. That guy IRL is really that dopey. Wolf shirts and all.

Fun fact - my dad was hired as a consultant to review the circumstances at the prison that led to the escape. There were no less than a million things wrong with that facility and their staff. It's shocking something like that didn't happen sooner.
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I felt like the Mitchell family could have been in the Making A Murderer show as well.
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MookieBlaylock
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Wow episode 6
Gap
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Really outstanding series. Great storytelling. Great acting.
Big Al 1992
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Watched first 3 episodes. Remember when it happened. How much is Loosely based on true events vs this is the way it all went down I don't know. Great show.
Big Al 1992
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Lots of folks compared this to Shawshank. Yes pretty suspenseful prison escape story but big difference - especially after watching episode 6. In Shawshank you cheered for Andy Dufresne and Red, in this one these guys are just horrible people.
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How has this not gotten more attention on Texags?

Great series (though we are only half way through episode 7 since it's an hour and half long).

Episode 6 was good at showing just how horrible these people really are. Before that, they were somewhat likable characters. Not Andy Dufresne level obviously, but I didn't hate them.
cab559
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So this just popped up on Netflix for us and we are 6 episodes in. Not sure why I didn't hear about this 7 years ago! Series has been great thus far.
rhutton125
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Yeah where did this come from hahah
Ghost of Bisbee
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Showtime used to have some great programming. Feels like they've fallen apart
LMCane
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cab559 said:

So this just popped up on Netflix for us and we are 6 episodes in. Not sure why I didn't hear about this 7 years ago! Series has been great thus far.

hard to believe it's been 6 years ago

I remember watching it- and it is very good.
Ghost of Bisbee
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Just started episode 3. When does this get good?
Ghost of Bisbee
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PSA, this went from very slow/mediocre to great between epi 2 and 3. Every episode since then has been nails
Counterpoint
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Great news for me because I already loved episodes one and two and I'm about to start three!
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