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What are you watching now?

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  • MikM Offline
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    I find them all disturbing but very human. Like it.

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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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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      • bachophileB bachophile

        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.

        "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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        • George KG George K

          "Your Honor"

          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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          @George-K said in What are you watching now?:

          "Your Honor"

          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....

          "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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            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...

            The Brad

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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.

              Link to video

              "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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              • bachophileB bachophile

                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.

                George KG Offline
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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 ?

                "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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                  #373

                  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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                    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…

                    The Brad

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                    • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                      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

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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.

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                      • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                        @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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                        @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.

                        Education is extremely important.

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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.

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                          @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.

                          Please love yourself.

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                          • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                            @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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                            @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.

                            Please love yourself.

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                            • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                              @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.

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                              @Aqua-Letifer Wow! Well, they do say that when you lose one sense, your others gain.

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                              • MikM Mik

                                Shrinking. 1923. Also going to watch The Peanut Butter Falcon movie. Netflix.

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                                @Mik said in What are you watching now?:

                                1 episode in.

                                Epic and very, very good. Loving it. Nice set up for conflicts that will haunt the next 15 episodes.

                                Harrison Ford is great (of course) and Mirren is charming.

                                And then, there's Big Sky @jodi.

                                "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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                                • George KG George K

                                  @Mik said in What are you watching now?:

                                  1 episode in.

                                  Epic and very, very good. Loving it. Nice set up for conflicts that will haunt the next 15 episodes.

                                  Harrison Ford is great (of course) and Mirren is charming.

                                  And then, there's Big Sky @jodi.

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                                  @George-K 😄

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                                  • George KG George K

                                    @Mik said in What are you watching now?:

                                    1 episode in.

                                    Epic and very, very good. Loving it. Nice set up for conflicts that will haunt the next 15 episodes.

                                    Harrison Ford is great (of course) and Mirren is charming.

                                    And then, there's Big Sky @jodi.

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                                    My enthusiasm for 1923 is waning. The stuff about the range wars is absolutely fascinating. Mirren and Ford are spectacular, and they carry the show. The supporting cast is strong, with a couple of weak links.

                                    But...

                                    At times, it's getting a bit too soapy and unbelievable for me. The whole "Africa" subplot is unnecessary, other than to serve as a vehicle for more pretty big sky shots. The Spencer character is more than a bit of a caricature of the "big-game hunter" and his exploits with the runaway bride are contrived - c'mon the captain of the tug dies in his sleep, and THEN the tug gets rammed?

                                    I'll plow through the rest because I'm retired and have the time. Hope the season ends on a good note to see more @jodi.

                                    "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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                                    • George KG George K

                                      My enthusiasm for 1923 is waning. The stuff about the range wars is absolutely fascinating. Mirren and Ford are spectacular, and they carry the show. The supporting cast is strong, with a couple of weak links.

                                      But...

                                      At times, it's getting a bit too soapy and unbelievable for me. The whole "Africa" subplot is unnecessary, other than to serve as a vehicle for more pretty big sky shots. The Spencer character is more than a bit of a caricature of the "big-game hunter" and his exploits with the runaway bride are contrived - c'mon the captain of the tug dies in his sleep, and THEN the tug gets rammed?

                                      I'll plow through the rest because I'm retired and have the time. Hope the season ends on a good note to see more @jodi.

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                                      @George-K said in What are you watching now?:

                                      My enthusiasm for 1923 is waning. The stuff about the range wars is absolutely fascinating. Mirren and Ford are spectacular, and they carry the show. The supporting cast is strong, with a couple of weak links.

                                      But...

                                      At times, it's getting a bit too soapy and unbelievable for me. The whole "Africa" subplot is unnecessary, other than to serve as a vehicle for more pretty big sky shots. The Spencer character is more than a bit of a caricature of the "big-game hunter" and his exploits with the runaway bride are contrived - c'mon the captain of the tug dies in his sleep, and THEN the tug gets rammed?

                                      I'll plow through the rest because I'm retired and have the time. Hope the season ends on a good note to see more @jodi.

                                      Yeah…

                                      I’m not sure if I liked or disliked the whole scene where the rich guy showed the running water and electric lights to the Irish guy.

                                      The Brad

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                                        Lucas and I finished The Expanse last night. Frankly, it wasn’t a great season. The cast chemistry felt off and it wasn’t the best storyline of the novels, IMO. It would be a shame if that’s really how it all ends.

                                        I do respect them for deciding to not try and shoehorn some completely different ending…

                                        The Brad

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                                        • MikM Mik

                                          I find them all disturbing but very human. Like it.

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                                          @Mik said in What are you watching now?:

                                          I find them all disturbing but very human. Like it.

                                          +1

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