The best new and returning TV series thread
Watching Making a Murderer... I have to keep telling myself this is real life... in particular the deliberate manipulation of a child with learning difficulties... it's like something you thought might happen in a bad movie from the 1950s... but everything about it is disturbing...
That was insane, they appealed it a few years ago and the judge rejected it, so interview and statement still stands.Grandpa wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:22 am Watching Making a Murderer... I have to keep telling myself this is real life... in particular the deliberate manipulation of a child with learning difficulties... it's like something you thought might happen in a bad movie from the 1950s... but everything about it is disturbing...
Unless they get solid evidence proving someone else did it (Brendan's brother?) then it's all uphill... but it's comical the way the evidence was presented.BnM wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:22 amThat was insane, they appealed it a few years ago and the judge rejected it, so interview and statement still stands.Grandpa wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:22 am Watching Making a Murderer... I have to keep telling myself this is real life... in particular the deliberate manipulation of a child with learning difficulties... it's like something you thought might happen in a bad movie from the 1950s... but everything about it is disturbing...
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Black Flavor Cherry, 8 episode limited series. Popped up out of nowhere on Netflix and I'm really enjoying it. Wannabe director comes to Hollywood, gets screwed out of making her own film and vows revenge on the sleazy film producer responsible. It's a surprisingly bright and breezy horror with a refreshingly casual take on the little bits of witchery that pop up. I hesitate to say magic as that conjures up some really negative connotations of people waving their hands, shitty special effects and characters being incredibly portentous. Where it occurs here it's a lot more tangible and scrungy - mixing things in grubby jars, having to eat and drink questionable looking concoctions. It's exactly the sort of thing I look for and all too infrequently find in an occult film or show.
Finding Ted Lasso series 2 less enjoyable than the first, it's still good, but it's not quite as funny and everyone is so nice all the time it's beginning to feel a bit like an alt- universe of Stepford people.
Finding Ted Lasso series 2 less enjoyable than the first, it's still good, but it's not quite as funny and everyone is so nice all the time it's beginning to feel a bit like an alt- universe of Stepford people.
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Reading through the book series and that's pretty good as well. Different but each excellent in their own medium.
Yes I’ve heard the book series is good. And it suggests there’s plenty more to go, fingers crossed. Although a few tweaks given the Alex situationUncle fester wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 5:16 pmReading through the book series and that's pretty good as well. Different but each excellent in their own medium.
It’s Sci Fi. But based on our solar system.
People have either remained on Earth, migrated to either Mars, or the Asteroid Belt. Asteroid belt providing much mined materials. There’s conflict between them.
A new material arrives in the solar system (protomolecule) and has very strange properties and becomes the central theme to it.
It’s really good. Worth investing time in if you like Sci Fi.
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It's a slow starter though, I tried it once or twice and stopped, once I stuck with it for a few episodes I was completely sucked in. Now rewatched it twice (there's some great foreboding moments!), generally re-watch at least the previous season before a new one is actually released.Ymx wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:13 amIt’s Sci Fi. But based on our solar system.
People have either remained on Earth, migrated to either Mars, or the Asteroid Belt. Asteroid belt providing much mined materials. There’s conflict between them.
A new material arrives in the solar system (protomolecule) and has very strange properties and becomes the central theme to it.
It’s really good. Worth investing time in if you like Sci Fi.
Spoiler
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In the first season Krisjen (the woman politician) is lying on her roof on earth, looking up at the sky saying she doesn't like boys throwing rocks (or something along those lines), several seasons later we've got a boy throwing rocks...
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Plus Saul collapsed and ended up in hospital with a minor heart attack (I think it was).
I hate Sci-fiYmx wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:13 amIt’s Sci Fi. But based on our solar system.
People have either remained on Earth, migrated to either Mars, or the Asteroid Belt. Asteroid belt providing much mined materials. There’s conflict between them.
A new material arrives in the solar system (protomolecule) and has very strange properties and becomes the central theme to it.
It’s really good. Worth investing time in if you like Sci Fi.
Yes but you not only need to suspend your disbelief as much as throw it out of the window…
Well, I just wasted a lot of typing on you then didn’t I ?!!Openside wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 3:07 pmI hate Sci-fiYmx wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:13 amIt’s Sci Fi. But based on our solar system.
People have either remained on Earth, migrated to either Mars, or the Asteroid Belt. Asteroid belt providing much mined materials. There’s conflict between them.
A new material arrives in the solar system (protomolecule) and has very strange properties and becomes the central theme to it.
It’s really good. Worth investing time in if you like Sci Fi.
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Too bad because the story is good, sub taking down trawlers happened a dozen times
Few things that bother me beside having a civilian cop in a sub is the MOD Police wearing baseball caps not berets. The Navy don't have dogs so all the scenes of people walking about with dogs is a joke, also why put a Black Boss on a Trident Submarine, it is none
The only true part is they correctly highlight the fact that the Navy hierarchy actually think they are beyond the law and some type of royalty.
It’s a bit nerdy of my but they referred to diesel back-up propulsion when the reactor crashed. Don’t think they have that - or do they?Marylandolorian wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 3:39 pmToo bad because the story is good, sub taking down trawlers happened a dozen times
Few things that bother me beside having a civilian cop in a sub is the MOD Police wearing baseball caps not berets. The Navy don't have dogs so all the scenes of people walking about with dogs is a joke, also why put a Black Boss on a Trident Submarine, it is none
The only true part is they correctly highlight the fact that the Navy hierarchy actually think they are beyond the law and some type of royalty.
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Ok, ta.Marylandolorian wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:19 pmYep they do, it’s an inline 12 cylinders generator .
You might have wasted your time but it saved me wasting mine!!Ymx wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 3:22 pmWell, I just wasted a lot of typing on you then didn’t I ?!!Openside wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 3:07 pmI hate Sci-fiYmx wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:13 am
It’s Sci Fi. But based on our solar system.
People have either remained on Earth, migrated to either Mars, or the Asteroid Belt. Asteroid belt providing much mined materials. There’s conflict between them.
A new material arrives in the solar system (protomolecule) and has very strange properties and becomes the central theme to it.
It’s really good. Worth investing time in if you like Sci Fi.
ASMO you prick, im halfway and the "twists" are shite
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Wait until the end, it gets so much worse
“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
Yeah finished itInsane_Homer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 7:59 amWait until the end, it gets so much worse
WTF
Mehflix strikes again
I've quite enjoyed it but even with my complete lack of military background or knowledge I was a bit 'hmmmm, really?' about a number of things. But a bit of suspension of disbelief is always necessary.Marylandolorian wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 3:39 pmToo bad because the story is good, sub taking down trawlers happened a dozen times
Few things that bother me beside having a civilian cop in a sub is the MOD Police wearing baseball caps not berets. The Navy don't have dogs so all the scenes of people walking about with dogs is a joke, also why put a Black Boss on a Trident Submarine, it is none
The only true part is they correctly highlight the fact that the Navy hierarchy actually think they are beyond the law and some type of royalty.
And are there two g’s in Bugger Off?