What are you watching now?
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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.
wrote on 30 Jan 2023, 19:34 last edited by@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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@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.
wrote on 30 Jan 2023, 19:40 last edited by@George-K Definitely a 'subtitles-on' type of show for me.
Even for someone like me that grew up listening to a bunch of gangster rap in the 90's - there's still lots of regional gangsta slang that I didn't know (e.g., cops as 'knockos')
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wrote on 11 Feb 2023, 05:41 last edited by
Just finished Wednesday. It was fun. A decent little show.
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wrote on 11 Feb 2023, 10:38 last edited by jon-nyc
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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wrote on 13 Feb 2023, 02:40 last edited by George K 3 Oct 2023, 23:50
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.
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wrote on 13 Feb 2023, 03:00 last edited by
Shrinking. 1923. Also going to watch The Peanut Butter Falcon movie. Netflix.
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wrote on 13 Feb 2023, 03:16 last edited by
@Milk said in What are you watching now?:
Shrinking
Whaddya think, so far?
3/5 for me. Just a bit better than average because of Harrison Ford
And, I find him kind of disturbing.
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wrote on 13 Feb 2023, 03:16 last edited by
I find them all disturbing but very human. Like it.
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wrote on 18 Feb 2023, 10:50 last edited by
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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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.
wrote on 18 Feb 2023, 12:26 last edited by@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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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.
wrote on 18 Feb 2023, 12:28 last edited by@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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wrote on 18 Feb 2023, 17:55 last edited by
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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wrote on 19 Feb 2023, 02:43 last edited by
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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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.
wrote on 2 Mar 2023, 14:52 last edited by@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 ?
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wrote on 6 Mar 2023, 17:35 last edited by Aqua Letifer 3 Jun 2023, 17:37
Just watched this last night. It was pretty damn good.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3127902/"Sixty-two year old Richard Turner is renowned as one of the world's greatest card magicians, yet he is completely blind."
Two interesting elements to the story:
First of all, I already heard about Turner before and knew he was awesome at cards. So you're like, "oh wow, yeah, amazing he can do what he does despite being blind."
Yeah, that's not it. I didn't even know the shit he does with cards was even possible. It shouldn't be. He can take a new deck of cards and very quickly learn what each one is, immediately by touch, which is fucking amazing by itself. But the shit he can do with that knowledge...
He was on Penn & Teller's "Fool Us," and they didn't even walk back to their chairs to try to discuss how he did what he did. According to him, in about a minute, minute and a half, he conducted about 13 sleights to pull off his trick. They just immediately gave up.
Secondly, his eye condition is genetic: his sister got it, too. And they're close but for a long while, they had very different perspectives on their condition. It's interesting to see the reason why he started to come around. His sister got a wake-up call when her husband was hospitalized after a car accident. Richard's came later.
He's a crazy bastard, but an all-around good guy. He seemed far more proud of sending his son off to college than he was getting inducted into Magic Castle's Hall of Fame.
Here's the Penn & Teller segment:
Link to video
Please love yourself.
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wrote on 6 Mar 2023, 19:37 last edited by
Lucas and I finally finished Season 5 of The Expanse last night and will try to binge Season 6 this week.
Really disappointed with the Alex resolution considering it’s been 3 years, and there still has been no conviction or even lawsuits…
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Just watched this last night. It was pretty damn good.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3127902/"Sixty-two year old Richard Turner is renowned as one of the world's greatest card magicians, yet he is completely blind."
Two interesting elements to the story:
First of all, I already heard about Turner before and knew he was awesome at cards. So you're like, "oh wow, yeah, amazing he can do what he does despite being blind."
Yeah, that's not it. I didn't even know the shit he does with cards was even possible. It shouldn't be. He can take a new deck of cards and very quickly learn what each one is, immediately by touch, which is fucking amazing by itself. But the shit he can do with that knowledge...
He was on Penn & Teller's "Fool Us," and they didn't even walk back to their chairs to try to discuss how he did what he did. According to him, in about a minute, minute and a half, he conducted about 13 sleights to pull off his trick. They just immediately gave up.
Secondly, his eye condition is genetic: his sister got it, too. And they're close but for a long while, they had very different perspectives on their condition. It's interesting to see the reason why he started to come around. His sister got a wake-up call when her husband was hospitalized after a car accident. Richard's came later.
He's a crazy bastard, but an all-around good guy. He seemed far more proud of sending his son off to college than he was getting inducted into Magic Castle's Hall of Fame.
Here's the Penn & Teller segment:
Link to video
wrote on 7 Mar 2023, 02:43 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer That was quite cool. I wonder if he uses decks that have slightly raised ink. Probably a seeing person would not notice, but his sense of touch is probably very very good and could tell slight differences in the feel, which would help him tell what care is what.
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@Aqua-Letifer That was quite cool. I wonder if he uses decks that have slightly raised ink. Probably a seeing person would not notice, but his sense of touch is probably very very good and could tell slight differences in the feel, which would help him tell what care is what.
wrote on 7 Mar 2023, 02:45 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in What are you watching now?:
@Aqua-Letifer That was quite cool. I wonder if he uses decks that have slightly raised ink. Probably a seeing person would not notice, but his sense of touch is probably very very good and could tell slight differences in the feel, which would help him tell what care is what.
In fairness, he uses braille cards.
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@taiwan_girl said in What are you watching now?:
@Aqua-Letifer That was quite cool. I wonder if he uses decks that have slightly raised ink. Probably a seeing person would not notice, but his sense of touch is probably very very good and could tell slight differences in the feel, which would help him tell what care is what.
In fairness, he uses braille cards.
wrote on 7 Mar 2023, 03:02 last edited by Aqua Letifer 3 Jul 2023, 03:03@Horace said in What are you watching now?:
@taiwan_girl said in What are you watching now?:
@Aqua-Letifer That was quite cool. I wonder if he uses decks that have slightly raised ink. Probably a seeing person would not notice, but his sense of touch is probably very very good and could tell slight differences in the feel, which would help him tell what care is what.
In fairness, he uses braille cards.
He does not. He can't even read braille.
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@Aqua-Letifer That was quite cool. I wonder if he uses decks that have slightly raised ink. Probably a seeing person would not notice, but his sense of touch is probably very very good and could tell slight differences in the feel, which would help him tell what care is what.
wrote on 7 Mar 2023, 03:23 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in What are you watching now?:
@Aqua-Letifer That was quite cool. I wonder if he uses decks that have slightly raised ink. Probably a seeing person would not notice, but his sense of touch is probably very very good and could tell slight differences in the feel, which would help him tell what care is what.
He uses a standard Bee pack.
