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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
Yeah, it loves that trope of some powerful guy trying to intimidate somebody by beginning a
conversation with a long-winded monologue about something unrelated like The Beatles or breeding horses. Of course, the ne plus ultra of that is in The Untouchables where Deniro/Capone talks about baseball before murdering a dude with a baseball bat.
I suspect that a lot of hedge fund people are sociopaths or, at least, not the sort of people I’d trust, but I doubt many of them do clever monologues.
It all reminds me of that Twilight Zone where the dead gangster thinks he’s in heaven because everything goes his way - like he’s playing pool and sinks every ball off the break - and then he discovers ***spoiler*** that he’s in hell.
There’s that great scene where that one guy who is closing is fund let’s Axe convince him that the $40m he’s left with isn’t going to be “enough” for him.
If I was making that kind of money those guys make, I’d have retired at 35 at the latest. But I get the impression that not many people in that line of work do that, which suggests that it’s all a very seductive golden trap and/or the kind of people who’d love to quit at 35 and do pro bono social work are not the kind of people who succeed in that line of work.
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I enjoyed ep 1 of Big Little Lies S2, mostly for the acting and characters which remain great - I even didn't despise Meryl as much as I usually do. There didn't yet feel like there was a lot of drive to the plot, but hopefully that's coming with some slow burn.
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I've dropped HBO and Netflix this month an picked up Showtime. They've got a new show called City on a Hill about Boston in the 90s. I lived in Boston for two years in the 90s, so I was intrigued. It's got Kevin Bacon. It's about racism, corruption, violence, police, the FBI, politics, southie and loyalty and all that shit. It's produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, of course.
It's this, basically, but not a parody.The trailer for the most Boston movie ever made. » Subscribe to Late Night: http://bit.ly/LateNightSeth » Get more Late Night with Seth Meyers: http://www.nb...Last edited by Hot Pepsi; 18-06-2019, 13:53.
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I watched season 2 of The Good Place last week. Season 3 just finished on network TV, but I didn't start watching when it first started, and FiOS charges to see episodes of the current season on demand. As if their customers aren't already paying through the nose. So now I'll have to wait another 8 months or so until it's on Netflix.
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FF is way into that. I found it too dark for my current taste. I did watch the whole first season.
I’m still watching Billions. It is a bit ridiculous in some ways, but it does reveal how power actually works. It’s all about favors and transactions. Money can buy freedom, because it offers options. But power like that is just a trap.
I’m hoping it ends with at least a few characters proving they are not complete sociopaths. The best candidates are USA Kate Sackler, Mafee, Lonnie Watley, the two women that work for Taylor, Ben Kim and some of the other lower-level traders. The doctor in jail, Wendy, Connerty, Shirmer, and maybe Bobby’s kids may somehow be redeemable, but it will be difficult. Everyone else deserves to burn in hell.
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I finished Fleabag season 2 this after. I thoroughly enjoyed both seasons, and I am under the impression that there won't be a third, but they ended it perfectly for that, not leaving any huge cliff-hangers, but also not eliminating the possibility of a continuation at some point in the future.
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Originally posted by Sits View PostAnyone seen The Rook? We need a new Netflix drama and I’m liking the look of the trailers I’m seeing for this.
Not seen it myself, but if you are looking for something on Netflix then I can recommend Black Spot (Zone Blanche), a French crime/mystery drama set in a small forest town.
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Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View Post
Not seen it myself, but if you are looking for something on Netflix then I can recommend Black Spot (Zone Blanche), a French crime/mystery drama set in a small forest town.
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Me and Mrs of the Shed are guilty of that as well, but we find that when we watch subtitled shows the phones tend to be left alone a lot more and also there are a lot less of the type of questions such as "who's she again?", "where did he come from?" having been distracted by Facebook, Twitter or this place.
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