What are you watching now?
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We're watching 'Three Pines' on Amazon Prime. Decent detective show, set in Quebec, starring Alfred Molina - who's even less Canadian than I am. It's fun, probably not particularly realistic. The last episode was set in a country hotel, and not one of the suspects asked for his lawyer to be present. But who cares?
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you watching now?:
We're watching 'Three Pines' on Amazon Prime. Decent detective show, set in Quebec, starring Alfred Molina - who's even less Canadian than I am. It's fun, probably not particularly realistic. The last episode was set in a country hotel, and not one of the suspects asked for his lawyer to be present. But who cares?
That's not true, the douche brother demanded it but then forgot about it after he tried to, y'know...
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you watching now?:
That's not true, the douche brother demanded it but then forgot about it after he tried to, y'know...
Yes, you're right. He asked for a lawyer, but then just carried on talking to the police for about 5 minutes.
I thought it was quite funny how closely he resembled Donald Trump Jnr.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you watching now?:
@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you watching now?:
That's not true, the douche brother demanded it but then forgot about it after he tried to, y'know...
Yes, you're right. He asked for a lawyer, but then just carried on talking to the police for about 5 minutes.
I thought it was quite funny how closely he resembled Donald Trump Jnr.
Probably not a coincidence.
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I finally got around to watching The Wire. Just finished the first season.
Does start out a bit slow and you need to actively watch and listen to get the most out of it. I'm digging it so far.
Also - very 3 dimensional characters of all races on both the "good" and "bad" side. Very refreshing.
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@xenon said in What are you watching now?:
I finally got around to watching The Wire. Just finished the first season.
I found the Wire incomprehensible the first 2 times I tried to watch it.
"FIVE-OH!"
What?
But, you persist and push through it, and you realize what a fantastic piece of drama it is. Vast in scope, great characters, and gritty as hell.
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Just finished Wednesday. It was fun. A decent little show.
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There’s a 4 episode documentary about Madoff on Netflix. Worth the time. Lots of details I had forgotten and/or didn’t know.
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Bryan Cranston is a judge in New Orleans. His son is involved in a hit and run in which he kills the son of the most powerful mobster in NOLA.
He wants his son to confess, until he learns who the victim of the hit and run is.
Sounds intriguing...
After three episodes....meh. Too much convoluted stuff trying to shoehorn the basic narrative into the Breaking Bad mold of "good guy goes evil."
I'll watch one more.
It was supposed to be a 1-season thing, but it was renewed for a second season. And that, really, trust me, is going to be the last.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Fauda. On Netflix. It means chaos in Arabic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauda
I’m now on season four.
Not for everyone. A very gritty but accurate look of undercover special forces in the Israel Palestinian saga.
It’s not called chaos for nothing.
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@bachophile I think I watched season 1. The protagonist's name, Doron, rings a bell.
I'll have to check it out.
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@George-K said in What are you watching now?:
Bryan Cranston is a judge in New Orleans. His son is involved in a hit and run in which he kills the son of the most powerful mobster in NOLA.
Not bad, but not great either. Too many distracting side-plots that seemed like filler to flesh out 10 episodes.
Think "Bryan Cranston plays a good guy who, because of circumstances beyond his control, is forced to make very dark choices that involve the deaths and corruption of innocent people."
Hmmm....
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We decided to have a movie night a few days ago. Getting Finley to sit through an entire movie is VERY difficult. We were going through the Netflix animated listings and he announced that he wanted something with robots. I landed on something called The Mitchells vs The Machines. It was hilarious. I had tears in my eyes I was laughing so hard...
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Black Bird on Apple TV+
"Inspired by" the story of a convicted drug dealer sentenced to 10 years who is given the opportunity to reduce his sentence by getting a suspected serial killer to confess to his crimes.
I put "Inspired by" in scare quotes because this usually means a lot of liberties were taken with the facts for the sake of Hollywood. From what I've read, this is a remarkably accurate telling of the story with the exceptions of two minor details: 1) Role of the female FBI agent is amplified and 2) The corrupt prison guard is fictional. Otherwise, it looks like a really faithful telling of the story.
Very tense, well acted, and Ray Liotta's last role (as father of the protagonist). The serial killer is beyond creepy. Greg Kinnear is, as always, great. Worth a watch to learn about a story I was unaware of.
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@bachophile said in What are you watching now?:
Fauda. On Netflix. It means chaos in Arabic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauda
I’m now on season four.
Not for everyone. A very gritty but accurate look of undercover special forces in the Israel Palestinian saga.
It’s not called chaos for nothing.
Halfway through season 2. Hope to finish that season today.
Well done, and not too-badly dubbed (but keep the subtitles on). Somewhere I read a review that said the production doesn't have the big budget of other stories, so they focus on the intimate relationships among the protagonists.
"Gritty" is an understatement.
How accurate is it, @bachophile ?
