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>> No. 23181 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 6:43 pm
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What's worth watching on the telly these days?
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>> No. 23182 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 7:06 pm
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I don't know if it's just me getting older or what, but it seems like a lot of telly is just fucking shit these days. I genuinely barely watch anything, which may undermine my opinion a bit. The odd series online but that's about it. People always recommend stuff to me and occasionally I'll give stuff a go but I almost always just get bored after a few episodes and fuck it off. Last series I genuinely really enjoyed was the new Twin Peaks, so maybe I'm just a fussy hipster twat.

Find the majority of new films barely hold my attention either tbh. I mean maybe my attention span is just shot to shit, but then I'll spend hours watching some random fuckers youtube channel coz they're doing something odd or interesting or really really dull even but for some reason it's nice to watch. Been watching a lot of twitch streams as well recently, quite nice to have on in the background and you can generally dip in and out of streams and that.

So in answer to your question, fuck knows.
>> No. 23183 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 7:19 pm
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Year of the Rabbit with Matt Berry looks pretty funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-uXk1N3yeI
>> No. 23184 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 7:37 pm
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I started watching Nathan For You recently and I'm really enjoying it. If you're not into cringe comedy you'll hate it, but the eponymous Nathan does have some very entertaining turns of phrase, and the premise is enjoyable.
>> No. 23204 Anonymous
14th August 2020
Friday 2:27 pm
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>>23181

I watched 'The Plot Against America' recently. An alternate history set in the early 1940's. A bit of a slow burner, but I think that is intentional.

It's pretty good if you have a passing interest in history.

Both of the main writers from 'The Wire' were involved in this as well.
>> No. 23205 Anonymous
14th August 2020
Friday 3:34 pm
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Might be a shot in the dark but can anybody recommend anything light/easy going? Have watched a bit of Year of the Rabbit and will probably continue with that, Toast of London too. I'm just having a lot of mental health struggles at the moment and find I can't watch anything dark or unpleasant as it sets me off down a spiral, and weirdly it's been hard to find things that don't dip into darker subjects and depressing realities.
>> No. 23206 Anonymous
14th August 2020
Friday 4:15 pm
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>>23205
Spaced?
It might be ancient now but it's always a feel good watch, for me anyway.
>> No. 23207 Anonymous
14th August 2020
Friday 5:02 pm
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>>23206
Yeah it's still good, problem is I've watched it through hundreds of times now. Probably should've said, all that stuff like Black Books, Father Ted, etc, I've seen to death. It'd have to be something recent I suppose.
>> No. 23208 Anonymous
14th August 2020
Friday 5:48 pm
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I fairly enjoyed Gangs of London. They're not really gangs though they're oligarchs. The cinematography and fight choreography is all good.
>> No. 23209 Anonymous
14th August 2020
Friday 6:16 pm
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>>23205
Father Brown.
>> No. 23210 Anonymous
14th August 2020
Friday 7:37 pm
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>>23205
I bought Year of the Rabbit after this post >>23183. It's good but not Matt Berries best work in my opinion - probably because it's a comedy crime drama with an actual story arc, but some of the characters are a little grating too. At points Matt Berries telltale style doesn't fit well with the setting, but it's still worth a watch and i'll keep an eye out for series 2.
>> No. 23212 Anonymous
25th August 2020
Tuesday 8:19 pm
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Inside the Bruderhof was alright. It felt like it only scratched the surface but I suppose that's all they were allowed to do.
>> No. 23213 Anonymous
25th August 2020
Tuesday 10:20 pm
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>>23212
It was a mostly typical documentary with some text on slides at the end that sort of undermined the rest of it.
>> No. 23226 Anonymous
3rd October 2020
Saturday 8:12 pm
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Not telly per se, but I've been thoroughly enjoying this YouTube series on building a budget racing car.


>> No. 23227 Anonymous
3rd October 2020
Saturday 9:40 pm
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>>23226
Thanks. I do enjoy these sorts of series.
>> No. 23228 Anonymous
3rd October 2020
Saturday 11:29 pm
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BBCC BRADFORD CREW

>> No. 23229 Anonymous
3rd October 2020
Saturday 11:33 pm
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>>23228

Yes mate.
>> No. 23231 Anonymous
4th October 2020
Sunday 12:20 am
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>>23228
A Lancashire flag? I'm confused. Shouldn't these Bradford lads fly the Yorkshire flag?
>> No. 23232 Anonymous
4th October 2020
Sunday 12:53 am
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>>23228
Is that one of the Blackout Krew? It got more catchy as it went on.
>> No. 23239 Anonymous
16th October 2020
Friday 1:38 am
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Taskmaster is back with an excellent lineup: Johnny Vegas, Daisy May Cooper, Katherine Parkinson, Richard Herring and some other bloke. Daisy May's big pregnant belly is giving me the horn.


>> No. 23240 Anonymous
16th October 2020
Friday 9:22 am
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>>23239
They are really promoting this show heavily - doesn't seem funny enough to justify it though. It's just watchable Dave, like Scrapheap Challenge.
>> No. 23241 Anonymous
16th October 2020
Friday 9:34 am
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>>23240
Taskmaster depends heavily on the line-up. I thought last night was quite poor and that fat lass was painfully unfunny. I LOVE DRINKING WINE! ISN'T ALCOHOL GREAT? ALCOHOL, YEAH!
>> No. 23242 Anonymous
16th October 2020
Friday 11:03 am
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>>23241
It wasn't the best, but a big improvement over last series. I thought Baddiel and Brand sucked the energy out.
>> No. 23582 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 1:24 am
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If you want 10 minute segments of an autistic man talking to you about obscure subjects and getting interrupted by mundane events and misunderstandings (calmly) then I have just the show for you:


Really nice to watch before bed.
>> No. 23583 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 9:45 am
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>>23582
It's incredibly difficult to tell if he's playing a character. I'm sure he accentuates it for his show and his stand-up, but I cannot find a single video online where he's not speaking in that slow, calm monotone.
>> No. 23584 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 9:48 am
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>>23583
Isn't that what most comedians do? Just play an exaggerated version of themselves?
>> No. 23585 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 10:04 am
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>>23584
I can find hardly any videos of Gilbert Gottfried speaking normally, doesn't mean his voice is 'an exaggerated version' of his normal voice, does it? It's just a funny voice.
>> No. 23586 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 10:29 am
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>>23585
I've no idea, I'm not eighty.
>> No. 23587 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 10:31 am
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>>23586
If you don't know who Gilbert Gottfried is you're not under eighty, you're just ignorant.
>> No. 23588 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 10:33 am
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>>23587
Ok boomer.
>> No. 23589 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 1:25 pm
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>>23587
Never heard of 'im.
>> No. 23590 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 2:01 pm
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I don't think it's especially ignorant to not know who Gilbert Gottfried is. I only found out last year by chance, before that I just I had vague knowledge of an alliterative name.
>> No. 23591 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 2:01 pm
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I can't work out if I actually like The Mandalorian or not.
>> No. 23592 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 8:44 pm
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>>23590
I, for one, don't even own a Gilbert Gottfried.
>> No. 23593 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 8:55 pm
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>>23582

If you like Joe Pera, you might also like Brendan and Cory.


>> No. 23594 Anonymous
16th February 2021
Tuesday 7:11 pm
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You might want to check out this hot new comedian called Gilbert Gottfried.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zest0dXmsDc
>> No. 23598 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 3:52 pm
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I've watched a couple of episodes of Solar Opposites but I can't get into it. It feels too much like a bit from Rick and Morty, like at some point it'll just cut to Ants in my Eyes Johnson or Jan-Michael Vincents.
>> No. 23600 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 3:58 pm
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>>23598
Try watching some footage of someone playing that game he voiced, Trover Saves the Universe. Roiland's entire schtick is starting to feel very forced, very lazy and very thin.
>> No. 23601 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 9:04 am
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>>23600

It was feeling that way four episodes into the first season of R&M for me, but everyone just told me I was just being a contrarian cunt when I said that three or four years ago.
>> No. 23602 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 9:13 am
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>>23601
That sounds like something Rick would say.
>> No. 23603 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 9:43 am
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Rick and Morty has a bit of philosophical depth and mystery to it and occasionally some very clever writing. Solar opposites doesn't have that. It makes up for it with a faster pace and more focused story. The result is something you can watch while you eat your sad bachelor meal when you've nothing else to watch.
>> No. 23604 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 10:10 am
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>>23603
>Rick and Morty has a bit of philosophical depth and mystery to it and occasionally some very clever writing.

I don't see it. It reminds me of the observation that Stephen Fry is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person is.
>> No. 23605 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 11:08 am
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>>23604
It's just a TV show, it's allowed to have those elements without being the second coming.

Thinking that Rick and Morty can't have *any* depth is like, the inverse of all the 'high IQ writing' folk.
>> No. 23606 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 11:31 am
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>>23605
This.
Personally I like it because despite some asinine parts and jokes that they've pushed way to far to stay funny, for the most part it's been a welcome change from all the tired old sci-fi tropes and mary-sue characters in absolutely everything else.

If you take the professor from back to the future as a typical caricature of an eccentric genius, R&M turns that on it's head where the genius has became an alcoholic as a coping mechanism for being unable to relate with anyone else at their level. Again where Marty Mcfly is a "normal" person saving the professor from his absent-mindedness, Morty is an abusee who is enabling Ricks destructive behaviours.
>> No. 23607 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 12:00 pm
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>>23604

I like the show and I don't disagree with you. Dan Harmon tends to bring a level of Nihilism and deconstruction of storytelling to the writing which I think is why people think it is clever, that and it is about science and everyone knows having science (even if it used and justified like magic) as a topic makes things by default for clever people, and you are clever for liking it.

Edgy Nihilist jokes were very vogue online when Rick and Morty came out so that immediately won over the reddit crowd.
The deconstruction would be clever except he is a writer there is nothing clever about a writer knowing how to write, the same way there would be if he say deconstructed shadow banking or critiqued the inherent bias created by funding grants in academic research, or talked about musical harmony. It might be fresh information to an audience but anyone who has ever taken any sort of creative study course or works in the industry already knows that. It appeals to people who think they are terribly clever when they point out a TV show isn’t realistic or has contrivances (as if the people who made the TV shows didn’t know) so a TV show that does that about it self must also be clever like them for not insulting their intelligence by inviting them to just enjoy the moment without over analysis.

It might be a crude and reductive way of putting it, but I have never learned anything new from watching the show.
>> No. 23608 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 5:10 pm
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On the subject of (potentially overblown but also quite good) animated TV shows: I enjoyed Bojack Horseman. The worst I can say about it is that occasionally it had moments where it got far too self-indulgent, and others where it was far too "right on", but overall it was a really ambitious series with a great portrayal of a genuine fuck-up trying to be better.

Weirdly, I'm not sure I really liked the whole L.A./Hollywood/entertainment industry parody aspect, even though that forms a big chunk of the premise of the show. I think it's just a bit too easy for pop culture to write about itself, and those sort of satires have already been done a lot. It honestly might have worked just as well for me if the characters were transposed into another setting.
>> No. 23609 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 5:39 pm
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I'm watching "Justified". It's ten years old but I don't think I can tell the difference any more. Tim Olyphant going around shooting rednecks. It's not the most mindblowing viewing but it's definitely above average. Everything about it is competent at the very least, if the alternative is clicking on random shows to see what they're like then this is a better choice.
Lots of good roles in it for ugly actors who usually just get bit parts in seppo films, if the choice of leading man didn't make that obvious.
>> No. 23610 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 5:44 pm
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I didn't mean to say Tim Olyphant was ugly, that would be stupid, but the rest about bit parts.
>> No. 23611 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 5:47 pm
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>>23609
Having good source material helps. Elmore Leonard was a very good storyteller, I'm about a quarter of the way through Tishomingo Blues at the moment, and Justified is based on some of his Western novels.
>> No. 23612 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 6:00 pm
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>>23608

I found Bojack Horseman to be rarely if ever funny, it felt far more like an examination of depression than anything.
>> No. 23613 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 6:56 pm
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>>23608

It made me blub a couple of times, which is quite impressive for a cartoon about an anthropomorphic horse.


>> No. 23614 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 10:20 pm
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>>23612

It had its moments, but unless you're the kind of person who has spent entire nights reading TVTropes most of it will probably miss the mark, I reckon.
>> No. 23615 Anonymous
8th March 2021
Monday 2:32 am
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>>23614
I don't read TVTropes and still really quite enjoyed the show. It's hardly unique in this aspect, but the way it's presented that shows none of the characters as "the good guys" and instead giving each one their own hang ups and flaws kept me coming back. Who your favourite character is, which ones you find annoying and which ones you reflexively hate can tell you at least a little bit about your outlook on life.
>> No. 23616 Anonymous
8th March 2021
Monday 11:43 am
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>>23612
I found I enjoyed the wordplay and a lot of incidents with Mr Peanutbutter. The forced wackiness of Todd wore a bit thin after a while. It's a good show and commendably ambitious for a cartoon but really did reinforce my view that America is a truly horrible country to live in.
>> No. 23617 Anonymous
8th March 2021
Monday 4:14 pm
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>>23204

Thanks for reminding me of this. I've followed nearly everything that David Simon and Ed Burns have done since The Wire.

On that note:
- I can highly recommend Generation Kill, the title is totally misleading, and it's a good examination of the futility and fuck-ups of the Iraq war.
- Treme was a great little musical/culture worship series, with some similarly sharp political observations. You don't need to like Nee Orleans jazz, even just a passing interest in music and a tolerance for slow-burning character drama will make it worth seeing.
-Show Me a Hero is probably his best short series, and I binged it once on a long flight (back in the distant past when that was possible). Feel like I actually learned about something about the history of New York and American cities generally.
- The Deuce was a bit shite. I get why it interested Simon and his usual co-writers, but James Franco was pretty unbearable and it felt a lot more "fictional" and speculative than his other works.

I guess I might not like The Plot Against America so much, because it's counterfactual history if I remember right?

Fuck it, will give it a go anway.
>> No. 23618 Anonymous
8th March 2021
Monday 4:48 pm
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>>23612
> I found Bojack Horseman to be rarely if ever funny, it felt far more like an examination of depression than anything.

I agree with this 100% and I watched it from release all the way through to the last episode. It's not a show that I ever go back and re-watch though, something about it is just too raw for me. I don't think I ever found it laugh out loud funny, I just idenitified with it. Which is a depressing thing to say about a cartoon about an alcoholic horse. It's like that shitty Facebook meme "I'm in this and I don't like it"
>> No. 23619 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 2:11 am
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If I like the Expanse books quite a lot, is the TV series worth watching? I'm not one of those people that moans they did things differently to the books (though I'd be very impressed if they managed to make the Hub Station stuff look not terrible), but I'd like it to at least have the same general feel as the novels, if it's all american explosions and gunfights and they cut the character stuff down, I'd rather not.
>> No. 23620 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 3:07 am
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>>23619

The Expanse tv show is fantastic. It's hard sci-fi at its best.
>> No. 23621 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 11:33 am
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>>23619
One of the best I have watched in its genre. It made me pick up the books.
>> No. 23622 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 1:26 pm
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>>23619

I didn't like it, it seemed like a weird mishmash of genres. Yes, you might have people who, in the future, fulfil roles like that of a PI, on a mining colony, but they'd have to be complete bellends to wear fedoras. Hard sci-fi with zombies. Yeah, right.
>> No. 23623 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 1:33 pm
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>>23622

Miller is a complete bellend, that's the point. And the zombies are from a bioengineered alien replicating parasite, which is at least not impossible in real life, though I get why you don't like it, plus what happens after that is self described as 'breaking physics', though at least they leave room for it being wormhole stuff. The most unrealistic thing in the books is that they 'spun up' ceres to 0.3G and it didn't just tear itself apart.
>> No. 23624 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 1:37 pm
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>>23623

He's not a fedora-type bellend though. He's a bellend in the way that a hard boiled PI would be a bellend. It's stupid.
>which is at least not impossible in real life
That makes it no more hard sf than Warhammer 40k, just hand waving it away by saying it's something we don't understand how it works yet.
>> No. 23625 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 2:11 pm
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>>23624

>He's not a fedora-type bellend though.

He falls in love with a girl he's never met and becomes obsessed with her. If that's not fedoraesque I don't know what is.

I don't know about in the show, but the books go to great lengths to explain the viability of it. The overarching plot of the entire series is humanity trying to understand the protomolecule and the people who created it, so saying "we don't understand this yet" in series one is just exactly that.

To me the biggest example of what you're talking about is the propulsion system that makes the travel times in the books viable. They say "yeah this one guy made engines perfectly efficient and it takes about 3 hours to get to the moon now, bye"
>> No. 23626 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 2:53 pm
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>>23625
>The overarching plot of the entire series is humanity trying to understand the protomolecule and the people who created it, so saying "we don't understand this yet" in series one is just exactly that.
Cool, so LoTR is hard science fiction because we don't understand magic yet. They walk instead of using spaceships, very hard SF. They even go out of their way to avoid getting to Mordor quickly on the eagles or whatever. If you believe that I've got an Event Horizon to sell you.
>> No. 23627 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 4:31 pm
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>>23626
Oh sod off you tedious git.
>> No. 23628 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 5:52 pm
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>>23626

You clearly haven't watched much of the show or read the books, it's apparent you're basing your opinion on not very much. I don't really feel the need to defend a piece of media in any case, but to someone this dismissive it seems a waste of time regardless. I mean you no ill will, I'm just being honest.

Remember the cant
>> No. 23629 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 6:27 pm
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>>23623
>The most unrealistic thing in the books is that they 'spun up' ceres to 0.3G and it didn't just tear itself apart.
I never thought about this, but how and why?
>> No. 23630 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 6:36 pm
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>>23628

I definitely watched as far as the first glimpses of the zombies, whether that's the end of season one or two I don't remember. Either way, someone not liking a piece of media that you like, doesn't mean they've not seen it.
>> No. 23631 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 7:37 pm
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>>23630

My point is that your argument wouldn't make sense unless you hadn't seen much past the end third of the first series, which you have confirmed you have not.
>> No. 23632 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 7:39 pm
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>>23631
Your logic is as bad as your taste in TV.
>> No. 23633 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 7:52 pm
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>>23629

Are Scott can likely explain the issues better than I can :



But among other things, you'd have to spin Ceres about 13 times faster to get 0.3G on the surface, and that'd be so fast the forces exerted on the rock would just tear itself apart.
>> No. 23634 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 7:55 pm
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>>23632

Your point was it's not hard scifi because "we just don't understand the science yet" is a cop out. My point is that as the series progresses, the people in the show learn more and more about the science, to the point that the story shifts from "how" to "why" to "who" - this is the backbone of the entire saga, and has not even begun by the time in the series you made it to. My logic is flawless. The show isn't telling you "this is hard scifi because nobody understands how it works" it's telling you "this is new science that humanity hasn't encountered before, and our story is them learning about it".

You fucking cunt.
>> No. 23635 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 8:37 pm
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>>23634
The magic in Lord of the Rings is new science that modern humanity hasn't encountered before.
>> No. 23636 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 8:43 pm
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>>23635

Okay?

I think you stopped watching about three episodes before they confront the scientists who re-engineered the biophage we're talking about here in the Expanse. But it's fine, I get it. You've made up your mind. With incomplete information. Like a good scientist does.
>> No. 23637 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 8:52 pm
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>>23636

Because watching tv shows about zombies is science.
I'm sorry it's just really silly how sensitive you are about this show, I don't mean you any ill will.
>> No. 23638 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 9:02 pm
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>>23637

I still don't care if you like it or not, your point just doesn't make sense.
>> No. 23639 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 9:03 pm
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>>23637

Zombies exist in real life in nature right now, why is it so magical to you?
>> No. 23640 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 9:08 pm
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>>23639

Nobody ever called The Walking Dead Hard SF just because they heard of cordyceps.
>> No. 23641 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 9:43 pm
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>>23640

You're focusing a lot on the 'zombies' (actually just people compelled by a parasite to vomit a lot) that are a tiny, tiny part of the story and are not seen or talked about again in the books at all, apart from in the last book briefly. It's really, really not about zombies.
>> No. 23642 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 9:47 pm
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>>23641
So? I never said it was about zombies, I said it was a confused mishmash of things.
>> No. 23643 Anonymous
10th March 2021
Wednesday 9:51 pm
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>>23642

I give in. It's a good show, you should keep watching it.
>> No. 23644 Anonymous
11th March 2021
Thursday 8:37 am
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This documentary about John DeLorean is superb. If you don't know the story, you will likely be very surprised.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rqw8/delorean-back-from-the-future
>> No. 23645 Anonymous
15th March 2021
Monday 12:00 am
23645 Anyone watch Dark?
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It's one of the most impressive series I've ever seen. And I say that as a person on the internet.

3 seasons carefully planned and tied up with no stretch, writing with a concerted effort to make things as tight as possible, a novel view of time travel which I've not seen in anything else (future dictates past), and some incredibly immersive casting alongside a wonderful soundtrack.

The story starts with children going missing within a small yet large town, and the suicide of the father of the protagonist. These events drive the mystery, and it's quite meaty. More importantly, it's very satisfying. It is very prone to spoilers, but mainly due to perspective - it is very interesting to watch it again with full knowledge, and quite rewarding. And for that reason I'm really looking forward to ignoring it for 10+ years and going again. I'm watching it for a second time in a few months, and it's nice to have forgotten some details but still know what to look for.

The official website is great, though I didn't find it until I'd finished. It will ask you what episode you are on, and only provide you with information you've already viewed (and forgotten).

The flaws you may notice are the moody tone of dialogue with oddly long pauses, and also a few contrivances to drive the plot, such as miscommunications. It is not perfect, but it is quite unique.
>> No. 23646 Anonymous
15th March 2021
Monday 3:10 am
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>>23645

My only problem with this show is that I picked it up a few episodes in with the missus, and without even knowing fully what went on, I already sussed out exactly where the plot was going. Quite predictable use of that sort of time travel plot device, but they pulled it off perfectly, I'll give them that.

It's basically just Terminator innit.
>> No. 23647 Anonymous
15th March 2021
Monday 10:22 am
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>>23646
No, I think they ripped off Donnie Darko, personally.

My missus got into this and watched it all the way through, but I got frustrated after a few episodes. It's slow as molasses and I didn't have the patience.
>> No. 23749 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 11:37 pm
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I've been watching 'FASTER!' a documentary series about the time-saving inventions that underpin modern society.

That might sound quite benign but it's actually about time and how we've ended up with less of it and how really it's time at the heart of capitalism - which we seem to remain perpetually poor in despite having grown materially richer. The twist is that the inventions we have aren't actually time efficient. In the aggregate lifts are slower than stairs and 40% of the products people order online to save time are returned (which is never an easy thing). Then there's the subjective nature of time in itself and how that bombards us with waiting and stress or is exploited to keep us in a zombie-state.
>> No. 23750 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 1:27 am
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>>23626
LOTR is science fiction because 3 foot tall halflings being called hobbits is fictitious as well as giant flaming eyes on towers.
>> No. 23751 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 7:23 pm
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That circle the streaming sites put over the show's thumbnail with a number in to indicate how many episodes there are is unfortunate here.
>> No. 23752 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 7:51 pm
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>>23751
That's a corporate apology in the making there.
>> No. 23755 Anonymous
5th June 2021
Saturday 3:55 am
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My lass got me into it too. Lasses like it, so I think maybe there's an emotional appeal here.

Watching it a third time, I think a lot of my enjoyment is in the pathos. If you're so inclined, there are many opportunities to feel the absurdity of what the characters are experiencing. All the silences and moodiness, provided you're already a bit immersed, is room to dwell on the thought of meeting your parents as children, or your future self.

I can see the similarities to Donnie Darko in the time loop and the motif of inevitability and sacrifice as such, but with more time and more characters, it offers different perspectives. For example, Jonas dedicates his life to changing his future and repeatedly becomes Adam, while Noah is already prepared to kill his father when we meet him, and he strives to step deeper into the role of the villain, but with 'reasons'. I suppose they're a bit similar there.

They packed a lot of detail in, it's not watertight but the effort is appreciable.
>> No. 23764 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 1:08 pm
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Apple and Onion
>> No. 23765 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 1:43 pm
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>>23764
Food review thread's that way, mate.
>> No. 23771 Anonymous
18th June 2021
Friday 4:31 am
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Just got done with Cruel Summer, which is one to watch with the missus. Full disclosure: it contains kidnapping, grooming and noncery, emotional and physical abuse, and almost hints at rape at one point.

It's set over three years in the early 90s, with snippets of each year before and after a major event which I won't disclose for spoiler reasons.

Disappointed to see that it's been renewed for a second series already, given the finale only aired on Tuesday night. The first season is a really neatly contained story with a blinder of an ending, it's a shame networks can't just let a nice piece of art be just that, without cashing in.
>> No. 23774 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 10:38 am
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How have you lads found the new series of Inside No. 9? Feels like more misses than hits to me.
>> No. 23775 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 12:06 pm
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>>23771
>and almost hints at rape at one point.
I'm worried this isn't satire but I've now convinced myself that it is.

>>23774
Nah, first one was fun but I think the novelty has worn off now. Might give it a shot.
>> No. 23776 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 6:06 pm
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>>23775
It shot a certain scene in such a way that leads you to speculate if there is rape going on, given the climate of the show, it's almost assumed that there is, but never outright addressed.
>> No. 23777 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 6:27 pm
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>> No. 23783 Anonymous
20th June 2021
Sunday 3:04 pm
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I find it odd how Clarkson is now the spitting image of my father. Do all old men look the same or do they get their sense of style from the same source?
>> No. 23787 Anonymous
20th June 2021
Sunday 8:50 pm
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>>23783
I've really enjoyed his Farm thing.
>> No. 23791 Anonymous
20th June 2021
Sunday 10:10 pm
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>>23787
It's the first thing I've watched in ages, saw a trailer, enjoyed it very much.
Programmes that touch on technical stuff I do and know about invariably fuck me off massively, but this (I also know a fair amount about farming) didn't so much. Although the conversion of wild area into a well manicured but joyless trout farm was a bit odd.
>> No. 23925 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 8:55 pm
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I've been listening to a lot of city pop recently. I'm looking for a film which I assume must exist.

It stars a Japanese salaryman who frequents karaoke bars and perhaps drinks heavily. There may well be a shot of his sweaty face glowing under a disco ball as he sings his heart out for reasons which will become known as he has a personal journey sparked by some fairly boring yet adversarial circumstances which somehow affect him deeply.

Does anyone know of such a film? It doesn't need to be that good, and if it has city pop then that's a win. If that's too specific then the Japanese equivalent of Saturday Night Fever would also work.
>> No. 23928 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 9:26 pm
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Well I googled for you, and found The Happiness of the Katakuris which doesn't sound like what you want, but sounds interesting nonetheless.
>> No. 23930 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 12:21 pm
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That's certainly going on the list. Each image on t'goog looks like it's from a different film, plus that little demony thing climbing inside that woman's mouth looks like a chortle.

I've also had a look and can't find much, but will persist. I suppose any film about a salaryman would do really. I can only seem to find documentaries when I search.
>> No. 23931 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 1:56 pm
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>>23930
Satoshi Kon will almost certainly have made an anime film that you'd like. I haven't seen most of his films so I can't promise it, but he's a name you might want to investigate.
>> No. 23933 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 1:10 am
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>>23181

What We Do In The Shadows is actually pretty great. I was wary of it because the film's one of my favourites, but it hits the mark for the most part.
>> No. 23934 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 2:12 pm
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>>23933
I wonder if the show is going to continue now that Matt is doing Toast again. His solo episode really blew the rest of the it out of the water.
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21st August 2021
Saturday 12:32 am
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I pay for no streaming services at all because I pay my TV licence and fuck you if you think I'm paying twice, but I'm visiting my family right now and they have all of them. There's a series on Amazon Prime called Comrade Detective which I think might appeal to some people here.

The basic premise is that it's a fake 1980s police series from Communist Romania, supposedly rediscovered (like Garth Marenghi's Darkplace) and dubbed into English. The sets are very convincingly communist, although the cast and other elements are obviously modern. It also inverts a lot of propaganda tropes, with devious capitalists instead of the insidious communists of things like Rocky IV and Red Dawn. I've only seen the first episode so far, but I enjoyed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comrade_Detective
>> No. 23979 Anonymous
6th September 2021
Monday 9:59 pm
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Another one in the list of "comedies that aren't particularly funny but I enjoy watching."
>> No. 23980 Anonymous
6th September 2021
Monday 11:10 pm
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>>23934
I was wrong. The first two episodes of the new series were okay.
>> No. 23981 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 6:43 pm
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I got four minutes and forty-one seconds in before turning it off to listen to the 2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack.

There's no motivation to emotionally/chronologically buy-in to watching any of this shit it's all just a bland remix of something else with nothing new to say.
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20th September 2021
Monday 6:43 pm
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>> No. 23983 Anonymous
26th September 2021
Sunday 11:03 pm
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I've got a free subscription to Apple TV so I'm trying out Mythic Quest.

It's a comedy set at a studio running an MMORPG starring Mac, Rickety Cricket and Abed from Community, written by Mac, Charlie and one of the writers from It's Always Sunny and Community. I don't know what to make of it; it's not bad but I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it.
>> No. 23984 Anonymous
27th September 2021
Monday 12:10 am
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The Thin Blue Line is on BBC iPlayer. Yes, the '90s police sitcom. It's terrible but I couldn't stop watching it. I have finished all 14 episodes, so now I might watch something I enjoy, rather than something I enjoyed being angry at. It has its moments, but I doubt it's better than just picking any sitcom at random.
>> No. 23985 Anonymous
1st October 2021
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Do they still make daytime TV murder mystery shows? I want to watch something cheesy and entertaining like Diagnosis Murder or Murder, She Wrote. The closest I can think of at the moment is Father Brown.
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2nd October 2021
Saturday 4:14 pm
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Black Mirror vibes because all anthologies with contemporary settings seem that way now. Don't start with episode 1 because it's by far the worst so far but some of these are decent. I think it's some of the characterisations (the way the characters are portrayed to show them as realistic humans) that show little flashes of brilliance. Not consistently, but it's there.
>> No. 23988 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 4:41 pm
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>>23985
Mallorca Files is quite laid back and easy going Murder mystery stuff
>> No. 23989 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 8:06 pm
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Squid Game milks it a bit but it's giving me enjoyable anxiety, though that might also be part of my massive hangover.

If you've not seen, a few hundred Korean debtors get semi-kidnapped and offered a large cash reward for competing in childish games and get boringly shot in the head if they fail.

I wouldn't have gone back if I'd survived the first game, second game justifies that decision for me. I probably would have chosen the umbrella but I don't whether it standing out as the most complex shape was a bad sign, or something I would have found relevant before the fact. I can only assume games will get increasingly arbitrary as it goes on. I just couldn't do that, the chance that you'd have to rely on a weak skill and then bam, you're done.

I suppose most of the appeal is in thinking about how yourself and others would do in these situations. I don't really feel a particular attachment to any of these people apart from the old man. In his position, not sure if I'd want to 'enjoy' my last days or give it a shot.
>> No. 23994 Anonymous
3rd October 2021
Sunday 2:30 am
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>>23989
It sounds and feels a lot like a life-action Kaiji, just amped up a bit and with the very definite antagonists replaced with pathetic "mystery" characters.

It's all right, and since it follows the Kaiji formula the success is totally understandable. It brings very little new to the table in between Kaiji and Battle Royale but it's undeniably very well executed.
>> No. 23999 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 1:36 pm
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>>23989

Check out Gantz. It's mental.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeD7EzpJMX8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPiCTBE9rRc
>> No. 24000 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 1:56 pm
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>>23989

Sounds like it's executing a similar premise to 13 Tzameti but in a more drawn out fashion.
>> No. 24001 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 2:44 pm
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>>24000


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJiGQsTTAuA

I remember thinking this was a very cool film when I watched it back in the day.
>> No. 24002 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 6:03 pm
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...is there another film like this? I'm sure I've seen one, think it's American or something, and it has a similar premise. Maybe from 2005-2015, that era...and if I just go to the bottom of the wiki page, I can see it's the remake '13' that I've watched, and it deserves the crap reviews.

>>24000
I've only watched the trailer but Gantz is more like, you just wake up after dying in a room with no information and a black ball which produces guns, and get told you gain points for aliens.

The full manga storyline is fucking fantastic, moves at a decent pace with introducing new elements and mythology albeit stretching out the angst, and then has this bizarre but consistent culmination. It's the first time I've seen humans treated like animals/pets by aliens, so you a graphic juxtaposition of naked people being trapped in terrariums and given food and coo'd at, while others are eaten like chicken strips. The dichotomy there is really something to dwell on. I'm used to seeing humans either eaten or not eaten. I'm not used to seeing them treated like we treat animals.
>> No. 24003 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 8:55 pm
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>>24002

Yeah there was a remake with Jason Statham of all people if memory serves (or that might be a bit of Mandela Effect), but you're right. It's a contender for one of the worst remakes in film history, alongside the Oldboy remake with Josh Brolin in it.

I mean, I am sure there are remakes that are worse film, but in terms of the disparity between the brilliance of the original and the shitness of the remake, those two have by far the steepest ratio.
>> No. 24004 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 10:58 pm
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>>24002
I don't know if there's a term for the genre, but there are a few people who do the "dystopian story and paint the page mostly black" look. GANTZ, BLAME! and Biomega, and more recently Made in Abyss spring to mind. All of these, I'd argue, barely survived or were significantly transformed by an animated adaptation and none of them really benefit from a live action version unless their budget was ginormous. Not to go all Alan Moore, but some stories and themes are best told in distinct panels that let the reader's imagination fill in the blanks and not in full motion that removes all doubt.

>>24003
> Oldboy remake with Josh Brolin in it.

I thought this had to be a pisstake, but nope... it's real. I don't mind remakes, but you have to be a better author or have a new take on things otherwise it's just the "most sincere form of flattery".
>> No. 24017 Anonymous
12th October 2021
Tuesday 1:21 am
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The latest thing I've tried out on Apple TV is Ted Lasso, which is a comedy-drama about a American football school coach getting hired as the manager of fictional Premier League side AFC Richmond. The premise sounds a bit shit but it's actually really enjoyable.
>> No. 24018 Anonymous
12th October 2021
Tuesday 4:22 am
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>>24017

I keep wanting to hate it because it's often cloyingly sentimental, but the writing is irresistibly excellent. I still don't have a fucking clue what was going on with Beard After Hours though.
>> No. 24019 Anonymous
12th October 2021
Tuesday 8:38 am
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>>24018
There were a few things, particularly those actually to do with football, where it was better not to properly think about it.
>> No. 24570 Anonymous
11th November 2022
Friday 1:55 pm
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I've finally made my way through all of the American version of The Office. What should I watch now?

I tend to go for comedies I can marathon, e.g. It's Always Sunny, and I have access to Disney+ and Prime Video.
>> No. 24571 Anonymous
11th November 2022
Friday 3:07 pm
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>>24570
I've recently watched a lot of Curb Your Enthusiasm - it's very funny.
>> No. 24572 Anonymous
11th November 2022
Friday 3:37 pm
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>>24570
Parks and Recreation is the natural successor to The Office. It's extremely similar and equally good.
>> No. 24577 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 8:17 pm
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Andor was very good and I say that as someone who actively doesn't enjoy Star Wars.

The Peripheral is also very good.
>> No. 24578 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 11:17 pm
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>>24572

Did The American Office have Aubrey Plaza in it? No? then Parks and Recreation is automaically better.
>> No. 24579 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 11:47 pm
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>>24577
Literally every single person who has watched that show has said positive things about it. I dismissed it out of hand as Stars Wars crap, and it's got the boring one from that terrible Rogue One film in the lead, and yet, somehow the people behind it have turned lead into gold.
>> No. 24580 Anonymous
3rd December 2022
Saturday 7:53 am
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>>24579
Rogue One is the only decent Star Wars film outside of the OT. Plus, it has the only real scene where Vader properly fucks people up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL8bVJhXCM
>> No. 24581 Anonymous
3rd December 2022
Saturday 8:12 am
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>>24579
It's not very Star Wars. You could change a few nouns, replace a few shots of storm troopers and it could be in another fictional universe very easily.
>> No. 24582 Anonymous
3rd December 2022
Saturday 8:14 am
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>>24581
That's probably why it's alright then.
>> No. 24583 Anonymous
3rd December 2022
Saturday 9:31 am
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>>24581
Yeah I've always said Rogue One is a War Film that just happens to be set in the star wars universe
>> No. 24584 Anonymous
3rd December 2022
Saturday 5:07 pm
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>>24581
Rogue One is not a good film. Pointless, miserable, uninteresting and visually unimpressive as well. I got nothing out of watching it. I don't need to see Vader "properly fucking people up" to know what a bad guy he is, especially in a film where he appears for all of 30 seconds moments before the credits roll. There hasn't been a good Star Wars film since Return of the Jedi.
>> No. 24585 Anonymous
3rd December 2022
Saturday 5:35 pm
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>>24584
Well I liked it.
>> No. 24586 Anonymous
3rd December 2022
Saturday 7:09 pm
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>>24584
>he appears for all of 30 seconds moments before the credits roll

Blatant setup for "Rogue Two" innit.

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