What have you been watching lately

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 2:33 am

Pyrrho wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 12:31 am Ozark became tedious--kept hoping for everyone to get whacked. So we're now watching The Witcher. Seems worthy. Figured out the various out-of-order chronology at least.

"Fuck."

I watched the first season of Ozark. Too dark for my taste. I realized I wasn't enjoying it. Didn't have enough of an emotional connection to any of the characters to care.

Breaking Bad was better. Better Call Saul, too.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 4:07 am

Almost done with The Witcher.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:34 am

Good?

– J.D.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 9:25 am

It is indeed.

ed · Post by ed » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:13 pm

Didn't know you were gay.

Not that etc etc.

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 6:11 pm

The Witcher is fun.

Fwiw, it doesn’t evoke medieval times. It is like modern California in a Wiccan mud pit.

robinson2 · Post by **robinson2** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:53 pm

Walking Dead final season

ed · Post by ed » Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:58 pm

Gilded Age

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:00 am

ed wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:58 pmGilded Age

Jesus, I try to avoid watching the news.

robinson2 · Post by **robinson2** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:07 am

The statistics

https://twitter.com/fynn_fan/status/150 ... 03784?s=21

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:43 am

Against the Ice. Very good. Tywin Lannister is in it.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 12:33 pm

Watched ARCTIC . Good actor.

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 6:29 pm

Wayne.

No, not Wayne's World.

No, not John Wayne, or Bruce Wayne, or John Wayne Gace. Not even Wayne Wayne from that shitty TV show my kids used to watch....nevermind.

Wayne.

Just........Wayne.

It's on Amazon Prime. Watch.

ed · Post by ed » Mon Apr 04, 2022 2:55 pm

Few things, lately.

Inspector Lewis: Plocie procedural, takes place in Oxford. Pretty well acted. Occasional Deus ex machina. Has enough episodes to binge. Sequel to Inspector Morse.

Killing Eve: pretty fun. I really have a soft spot for psychotic, murderous chicks. Think Alice Morgan.

Gadget Man with Steven Fry and later Richard Ayode. Lighter than air.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Mon Apr 04, 2022 3:38 pm

Now watching "Sinner". Not bad.

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:44 am

Pyrrho wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 3:38 pm Now watching "Sinner". Not bad.

Gets pretty fucked up sometimes, but Bill Pullman makes up for it.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Tue Apr 05, 2022 3:55 pm

Anaxagoras wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:00 pm Started watching the new season of Better Call Saul. Still good.

Rewatching last season, getting ready for the final season

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Tue Apr 05, 2022 3:56 pm

sparks wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2017 12:59 pm Watched "Cloud Atlas".

(Where is my Kindle?)

One of the worst movies I ever watched

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 6:41 am

Also watching 3 Stooges videos on YouTube. Seeing Shemp in drag is not in my bucket list but there it was.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 8:49 am

You have already seen asthmatic is drag, how bad can it be?

– J.D.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:11 am

Doctor X wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 8:49 am You have already seen asthmatic is drag, how bad can it be?

– J.D.

At least that bad. :couchpotato:

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:13 am

Bruce wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:44 am
Pyrrho wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 3:38 pm Now watching "Sinner". Not bad.
Gets pretty fucked up sometimes, but Bill Pullman makes up for it.

I'm about 1/3rd through season 2. It's about a 13 year old boy who was raised in a cult, and he doesn't understand social norms outside of his cult. He also has no concept of what is moral/ethical/legal
in the outside world.

We've already been through 2 rounds of "she's not the real mother" and we don't know who the real father is, but the boy looks Jewish, and they love to zoom in on his frightened and bewildered face. Every time they do, I can't help thinking....

https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/this ... 323575.jpg
They took it...........the tip of penis.........tore it right off with................teeth.

It's ok, Julian. It's called a Brisk, and it's part of your culture. A Rabbi removes the foreskin from your penis when you're a baby. It's normal.

https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/this ... 323575.jpg
.......but..........this was yesterday........and it was my mother.

Jack, put out and APB. We're gonna find this sick psychotic bitch.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Apr 08, 2022 4:37 pm

It tends to be a bit repetitive and contrived, IMHO.

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Fri Apr 08, 2022 8:24 pm

New show on HBO-Max Tokyo Vice, based on a book by the same name. Based on true story of the author (Jake Adelstein) moving from America to Japan and working for a Tokyo newspaper as a crime reporter. Very interesting look into life in Japan in the 1990's but particularly focused on the "underworld", Yakuza, and such. I understand it deviated a little from the book but seems realistic enough and well done so far.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 6:09 am

It is a very interesting book. He makes some 面白い claims that I will not spoil. The claims against a particular yakuza boss are true.

It is a very [Interesting. – Ed.] good book.

雨に.

– J.D.

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 7:40 am

Yes I am intrigued enough to pick up the book as well.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 8:06 am

It is very interesting very good.

– J.D.

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 4:25 am

I tried to watch Death on the Nile but it was a play masquerading as movie determined to make you sad, for no particular reason.

There was also no sense of historical detail. While the below scene is pliable in the 1937 (the year this movie is set in) it would be unlikely in a London club/restaurant.

Spoiler:

The scenes that are set on the steamer are better set, and perhaps Covid played a role, but no one forced them to release this movie. It's just meh.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 5:20 am

The book was really meh as well.

– J.D.

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 2:23 pm

Agatha Christie is a miss for me in general.

Though I did quite like the Asimov detective stories he tried to write in Christie style.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 12:01 am

Grammatron wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 4:25 am
There was also no sense of historical detail. While the below scene is pliable in the 1937 (the year this movie is set in) it would be unlikely in a London club/restaurant.

Spoiler:
https://i.imgur.com/VgZ7wJQ.jpg

Absolutely. There's a fuzzy-wuzzy amongst middle class white people and he is smiling.

Never happened.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 2:53 am

Well, we had one during the signing of the Declaration of Independence which explained why you lot are all a bunch of sodomites.

You can see the photograph evidence on the back of the $2 bill!

https://theweeklychallenger.com/wp-cont ... ahbzb8.png

Interesting article on it: The Weekly Challenger

– J.D.

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:25 am

I was referring to the: electric guitars, stage flood lights, and the 'EXIT' sign.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:52 am

Grammatron wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:25 am I was referring to the: electric guitars, stage flood lights, and the 'EXIT' sign.

Gibson were selling electric guitars in 1937 in the UK.

Electric exit signs were common in pre-war UK cinemas and clubs.

Stage lighting? Your google-fu is weak.

Sidney Poitier still winning and you missed the most obvious.

Woman with electric guitar? 1937. Does not know her limits.

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:21 pm

Yes I agreed that all those things existed in 1937 London, I just doubt it was all in one club, like that, in London. It felt inauthentic.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Apr 20, 2022 1:16 pm

Tabula Rasa is so far very good.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:44 pm

Better Call Saul

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Apr 23, 2022 2:01 am

Pyrrho wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 1:16 pm Tabula Rasa is so far very good.

Ended pretty well. I recommend.

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Sun Apr 24, 2022 12:49 pm

Bruce wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:07 pm What have I been watching lately? A tone of shitty movies and TV shows.

"Netflix Original" meant something until 2018.

This 12 billion dollar investment ruined Netflix. :(

Called it.

Netflix is collapsing as subscriptions are being canceled in record numbers.

Netflix is still the best streaming service, but they have followed the path of cable. They invested billions, focused on quantity over quality, and started cranking out garbage.

The moment their subscriptions and stock took a nose dive, they blamed their customers for sharing passwords, and reacted by announcing they would be adding advertisements to their services, which is the last remaining redeeming feature of their service.

There are more streaming services now, but none of them have any competitive advantages over Netflix. The streaming platform is less than a year away from replicating all the evils of the cable platform.

In all likelihood, I will be canceling all my streaming subscriptions within a year, but I have nothing else to fill the void. Guess I'll have to try heroine. I hear its more entertaining and less expensive than Netflix. Less addictive too.

Yes. A year from now, I'll be blaming Netflix for my heroine habit. Thanks, Netflix.

ed · Post by ed » Sun Apr 24, 2022 12:57 pm

Arrrrrrrrrr

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