As of Episode 3043, Castle Rock has been the slow burn to end all slow burns.
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Despite having arguably the biggest pro wrestlers on the planet, both promotions started them off with slow burns.
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The reactions are like jolts to me (compared with long form, where my reactions feel like slow burns).
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Both "Clemency" and "Diane" are slow burns that culminate in a kind of unraveling, but these older women are not tragic.
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But whereas Will's disappearance was an immediately inciting incident last year, this time Will's gradual upward descent slow-burns for a long time.
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Nominated for: Foreign Language Film (Germany) The German comedy Toni Erdmann slow-burns its humor, winding up to the punch with care and pathos.
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Ti West's superb 2009 film is a love song to the excruciating slow-burns of early '80s horror, with a perfect '80s aesthetic to match.
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Granted, these Marvel series for Netflix are known for their slow burns, offering a grittier, darker, more realistic take on the company's sprawling cinematic universe.
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Glissando slides butt up against precise runs and throbbing bass lines, leading to an outburst from the drums that may surprise people used to Ms. Thorvaldsdottir's quiet, slow burns.
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In truth, the slow burns of The Sopranos, Sons of Anarchy, The Wire, Game of Thrones, Deadwood, and The Shield, were impactful in death because the setups were deeply honest.
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Rather than taking the joke-a-minute slapstick approach, Toni Erdmann slow-burns its humor, winding up to the punch with care and pathos that renders the punchline all the more poignant.
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Bloodline, the slowest burn on Netflix — a streaming network known for slow burns — has ended its run after three seasons, when its creators originally planned to end it after five or six.
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Rating Rather than taking the joke-a-minute slapstick approach, Toni Erdmann slow-burns its humor, winding up to the punch with care and pathos that renders the punchline all the more poignant.
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Digging into the relationships of Arya, Jaime, and the like were incredibly slow burns, where moments of foreshadowing played off to the moments we've witnessed several years later—like Brienne's undying relationship to the concepts of knighthood.
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The look on Lauren Cohan's face when Maggie first realizes that Glenn is the one drawing attention away from her was the show at its very best: a series of painfully slow burns culminating in moments of emotional catharsis.
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But he's basically stuck performing second-banana duties for Mr. Del Toro, who dominates the movie with his innate je ne sais quoi-ness, a loose gestural performance and nice slow burns that never quite ignite a much-needed fire.
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Through the first four (or so) seasons, the series' refusal to sort its characters into simple archetypes, its insistence on drilling into their thorny psychologies, its prioritization of slow burns and long games over quick and easy payoffs, yielded some of the most thrillingly complicated female characters on television.
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Alan Sepinwall, Uproxx: I had an enormous smile on my face for a lot of the new episodes, and particularly the last two, which turn out to be a tighter and more exciting climax than we got last time around...even the various slow burns converge into a huge, thrilling flame for the season's climactic hours.
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Carolyn Droke of Uproxx described the electro-pop song as an "anthem for the actualization of [Clairo's] sexuality", saying that the lyrics and rhythm "encapsulate feelings of exhilaration and trepidation at the threshold of a new relationship". Harry Todd of Paste compared the production of the song to that of The Strokes and Sleigh Bells, with its "heavily processed guitars and crunchy drums". He continued to praise producer Batmanglij for "peppering [the song] with arpeggiated synths and vocoder melodies that recall Daft Punk's lovelorn slow-burns", and Clairo for "selling" the song with her vocal performance. Katherine St. Asaph of Pitchfork compared the synths in "Sofia" to that of "Dancing On My Own" by Robyn.
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" At USA Today, Brian Mansfield affirmed that "a bittersweet edge makes even the liveliest songs more poignant." However, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic criticized the release as being "so cheerful" that it makes the album seem "a little churlish", and he felt the need "to complain that the songs here aren't grabbers: they're slow burns, designed to sink into the subconscious through repeated plays on radio, in- store sound systems, waiting rooms, and bumper music." Yet, Erlewine noted "that's fine", and called the album a "professional product at its finest, meticulously assembled, polished until it gleams, designed to be nothing more than thoroughly agreeable." At Daily News, Jim Farber highlighted that the album contains songs that are "sun-kissed, expensively constructed, and bound to reap a mint", but that is not necessarily a good thing because "like all Lady A ditties, they’re also lacking in little things like personality, detail and need.
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