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    Originally posted by gjw100 View Post
    We've just finished 'Becoming A God In Central Florida' (80's pyramid scam comedy-drama) on Netflix. Great fun with excellent performances from Kirsten Dunst, Theodore Pellerin and Ted Levine. Slightly spoiled by a bit of a cop out ending, but that's a minor quibble. Sadly it seems that it's not being picked up for a second season - more due to the logistics of making it happen than any lack of desire to go again.
    Absolutely agree. We loved it. It's really too bad there doesn't seem to be another season (or maybe it isn't. Some shows decline rapidly after a good start.)

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      A third vote for Becoming A God.. etc.

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        Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
        I just felt like the doc tried to make it all about "this generation" or about how the conditions led to Lord of the Flies. And there's some implication that the kind of people that liked Limp Bizkit - white male assholes from 'Jersey - are more likely to cause trouble.

        Both the '69 event and the '94 event were pretty dicey in a lot of areas.... .
        Yeah reading the Wiki entries for 94 and 99, I found that several of the things I associated with 99 actually happened in 94, so it can't all have been the fault of Limp Bizkit's fans (not that I've got any stake in defending them).

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          That's right. '94 sounds like a bit of a nightmare too, except it wasn't quite so destructive and, arguably, the line-up was better.

          This is a good piece connected to that podcast The Ringer did.
          https://www.theringer.com/2019/8/27/...ival-aftermath

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            Originally posted by matt j View Post
            Basically went through McCartney 3,2,1 on hulu in the course of a day or so. The episodes just fly by, and it's really fascinating hearing the two of them break down songs into their components. Paul also describes a few musical experiences from other artists, which is really great.

            Don't think you even need to be a 'huge' fan to enjoy it.
            I'd like to watch this but am wondering if it's easy to sign up to Hulu's month trial and then cancel.

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              Gah! Why the fuck aren't they just showing the lost Morecambe And Wise episode on its own rather than infesting it with random slebs?

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                Watched the film Beast on All4, Jessie Buckley is a hell of an actor.

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                  Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View Post
                  Gah! Why the fuck aren't they just showing the lost Morecambe And Wise episode on its own rather than infesting it with random slebs?
                  Australian TV is rife with this sort of cheap product; archive clips interspersed with one of a small posse of minor celebs to be wheeled in and give insights no deeper than one could do for oneself.

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                    Just watched the series finale of Good Girls. A fun show that should have lasted no more than 3 seasons, the ending should go directly to the Shit Endings Hall of Shame. I can't even begin....

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                      Originally posted by WOM View Post
                      the Shit Endings Hall of Shame
                      Thread title.

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                        Belgian series Professor T (criminology professor helps cops solve cases) has a brilliant set of characters and weaves their relationships very well. Richly enjoyable.

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                          Summer of Soul is on Disney + now if you can't make it to the cinema to see it. Wonderful restored footage of the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969.

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                            Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post
                            Belgian series Professor T (criminology professor helps cops solve cases) has a brilliant set of characters and weaves their relationships very well. Richly enjoyable.
                            Yeah it's very good. Been running for a couple seasons on PBS here. Avoid the UK remake however, (also on PBS... very weird) it's vastly inferior and uses some of the same plot-lines.

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                              Two things recently, probably warranting separate posts:

                              First up, we've finally got Apple TV, which means we finally binged S1 of Ted Lasso (and S2 is going to be hard to resist bingeing too). I saw a headline somewhere that said that Ted Lasso is "sincerity comedy" for the current era after all the cringe comedy of recent decades. This is probably the main reason I love it so much. I was never, er, comfortable with comedy that made me uncomfortable. Putting people in uncomfortable situations was just horrible, for me, never funny. It's why I always struggled with things like Partridge or British Office, even when there were very funny things in those shows.

                              The other thing, of course, is that it's about football, and is full of the difference between UK and the US which resonates a whole lot with the missus (who spent 7 years having gone the Ted Lasso direction) and me (who's now spent a decade having gone the other way).

                              You'd be hard pressed to pitch a comedy more precisely into the sweet spot for me to watch.

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                                On a different note, we came across a film called Destination Wedding. To say that it "stars" Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves understates the point. They are literally the only two people who talk in the entire film. I found it clever and very, very funny. Fairly low key. Sort of romantic comedy. They are both basically fucked up people who don't want relationships and hate everyone and are going to a wedding they don't want to go to in Paso Robles. Their misanthropy is what is most funny. Keanu's non-acting deadpan works really well for it. It won't be for everyone, mind you.

                                There's a lot of similarities with Sideways, which is of course one of my favourite films. You can definitely see the influence.

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                                  With building work currently in abeyance chez NS and the weather in SE England abysmal, I've been gorging on televisual entertainment. Relatively.

                                  Saturday was a two-film day, as I enjoyed Casino Royale in its entirety for the first time and then watched BlacKkKlansman, which I found rather slight.

                                  On Sunday I delved into Travel Man, specifically the Marrakech, Hamburg and Venice episodes. I want to be ironic on a weekend break with Richard Ayoade more than virtually anything else now.

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                                    Just finished S2 of Outer Banks on Netflix. Nothing deeper than teen angst mystery fun. Very much a Scooby Doo mystery in an oceanside setting. Despite it not actually being filmed in obx, we dug it.

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                                      We're watching a Galician detective thing called Bitter Daisies (in the Netflix listings) or The Taste of Daisies (when they subtitle the actual title during the credits). Episodes are a bit long for my taste (at around 70 minutes plus) and they have this rather odd device where they begin each episode with a short scene from near the end of the episode. I haven't yet worked out whether this is an intriguing innovation or somewhat annoying.

                                      The series is pretty good, if a little clichéd. Slightly odd and very obsessive detective from the big city (in this case A Coruna) comes to closed, suspicious village to investigate crime. But the lead character, Rosa, is well done and well acted and I'm enjoying it. Though to be honest one of the things I like most is noticing the oddities of Galician Spanish. Some Portuguese words (eg falar rather than hablar) some dropped letters (graças rather than gracias) some new-to-me slang (mozo/moza for boyfriend and girlfriend)
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                                        Originally posted by WOM View Post
                                        Just finished S2 of Outer Banks on Netflix. Nothing deeper than teen angst mystery fun. Very much a Scooby Doo mystery in an oceanside setting. Despite it not actually being filmed in obx, we dug it.
                                        Saw an ad for this and thought of you.

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                                          I've started watching Parks and Recreation. One of those programmes I've heard so much about but never considered watching before. I'm currently halfway through S2 and so far so good.

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                                            It only gets better (well, the very end is a bit self-indulgent).

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                                              Originally posted by WOM View Post
                                              Just finished S2 of Outer Banks on Netflix. Nothing deeper than teen angst mystery fun. Very much a Scooby Doo mystery in an oceanside setting. Despite it not actually being filmed in obx, we dug it.
                                              The missus was bingeing this all yesterday. It looked fun and trashy and thoroughly implausible every time I stopped for a couple of minutes to watch some of it. Loads of the stuff in the town/island the kids are meant to live appears to have been filmed just around the corner from the new house we have.

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                                                I believe the 'Parks and Recreation' writers gave Lesley Knope something of a reboot after Season 1, making her more likeable and less of a loser. As GY says, the show certainly improved tremendously from Season 2 onwards and it's noticeable too how some of the other characters - Ron, April and Andy in particular - came more to the fore as if the writers and actors realised what they had and how that could be developed.

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                                                  Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post
                                                  Loads of the stuff in the town/island the kids are meant to live appears to have been filmed just around the corner from the new house we have.
                                                  Yeah, that's exactly where it's filmed. It vaguely looks like obx, but not really. We hoped to see places we knew, but now we're just in it for the predictable teen drama and implausible situations.

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                                                    I’m watching The Split, about a family of family lawyers in London.

                                                    I’m not sure why it’s compelling.

                                                    It’s good London real estate and clothes porn.

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