Just finished ItalianAmerican on YouTube, glorious, even the obtrusive French subtitles couldn't spoil it. Scorsese's Ma is amazing.
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We watched the whole series of Ratched, and decided very early on that the best way to approach it is not to see it as the back story of the character from OFOTCN at all. The Mildred Ratched in this series is an entirely different beast to the the one in the film. I agree with slackster that the characters are mostly exaggerated stereotypes, though Cynthia Nixon stands out as a far more believable character and is by far the best performance.
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Originally posted by Tony C View PostWe're well into series 1 of the Danish political thriller 'Borgen' on Netflix and really enjoying it. It's a few years old now so I'm sure many of you have seen it.
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Watched the first 3 eps of Brave New World yesterday.
It's always a little odd in these joint US/UK productions when you see Han Solo and Demi Moore acting alongside a couple of people from Downton Abbey and Casualty. Colliding realities and all that.
That said, so far it's relatively painless. It's been so long since I read the book I can't tell how faithful it is.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View Post
Unlike most Netflix stuff it's got its own thread https://www.onetouchfootball.com/for...en#post2351865
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Watched the second season of Dead To Me on Netflix. Season One was harmless and entertaining enough, but also very predictable. I think season two was better, more subtle and a bit more unexpected. Christina Applegate and particularly Linda Cartellini are both great fun.
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And I'm finally watching The Last Dance. I am someone who (as I've often said) finds basketball pretty much the dullest of all mainstream sports. So I come in with incredibly low expectations.
It is just a spectacularly good documentary, and actually has me enjoying the footage of the sport. Perhaps it even helps that I haven't the faintest idea who won which games, or who was traded when and where.
If I am loving it, I imagine anyone with the faintest interest in any sport would enjoy it.
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Modern Family is, I realise, a huge show but one that has completely passed me by. This is a bit like admitting that I'd never seen The Simpsons. Anyway seen about six Modern Family episodes from Series 1 earlier and haven't laughed so much in ages. Terrifically well written gags and great characters. Little Manny is an absolute gem.
Only twelve years too late.
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Modern Family is good for a while. I don't know how many seasons, but a decent chunk. But there comes a point where you realise the writers are beginning to phone it in. Where the gag set-ups get increasingly predictable. Bail out at that point. Every few episodes there's still a great joke or two, but the wheat-to-chaff ratio gets pretty high in the last X (X = perhaps 5?) seasons.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostModern Family is good for a while. I don't know how many seasons, but a decent chunk. But there comes a point where you realise the writers are beginning to phone it in. Where the gag set-ups get increasingly predictable. Bail out at that point. Every few episodes there's still a great joke or two, but the wheat-to-chaff ratio gets pretty high in the last X (X = perhaps 5?) seasons.
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Originally posted by pebblethefish View Post
But I've got Amazon instead, and I'm not paying for two. I recognise that makes me the modern equivalent of the bloke who bought a Betamax and stuck with it, but that's me.
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Just watched the first season of Succession. I wished I hadn’t. The background storyline had great potential and still made for a great drama. However, some of the characters were quite completely unbelievable and frankly pathetic and basically spoiled the series for me. I won’t be watching series 2.
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Originally posted by DPDPDPDP View PostJust watched the first season of Succession. I wished I hadn’t. The background storyline had great potential and still made for a great drama. However, some of the characters were quite completely unbelievable and frankly pathetic and basically spoiled the series for me. I won’t be watching series 2.
I've given up on The Boys. Just too violent and cynical. Fuck that. Same with Utopia. We don't need a violent paranoid show about pandemics right now.
I'm also not sure I'll stick with The Third Day or Raised By Wolves and I'm probably going to bail on the second season of The Terror even though I've watched eight of 12 episodes. As I've said, I'm really sick of shows that make me work so hard to figure out what the hell is going on, especially the ones that don't provide a sufficiently good reason why I should care.
I did like the first two episodes of the new season of Fargo. It is a little hard to figure out what is going on, but I'm still interested in the general milieu enough to try to stay with it. I certainly loved the previous seasons.
But mostly, I"m just rewatching Scrubs.
I also finished The Good Place. It can be a bit tiresome at times, but I really like how it ended.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostI've given up on The Boys. Just too violent and cynical. Fuck that. Same with Utopia. We don't need a violent paranoid show about pandemics right now.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostModern Family is good for a while. I don't know how many seasons, but a decent chunk. But there comes a point where you realise the writers are beginning to phone it in. Where the gag set-ups get increasingly predictable. Bail out at that point. Every few episodes there's still a great joke or two, but the wheat-to-chaff ratio gets pretty high in the last X (X = perhaps 5?) seasons.
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