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    SaintMark wrote: »
    I have all three ST Discovery seasons on bluray, bought them secondhand for around 25 euro's together, will watch them since those basterds took season 4 down days before it was supposed to air on Netflix.
    I guess the next series will do very well being downloaded illegally since it cannot be seen legally anytime soon in my neck of the woods.

    That show is trash.An embarrassment to the Star Trek franchise.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Highlights from the Ali G show. I much prefer his tv show to the film (In Da House)
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  • QsAssistantQsAssistant All those moments lost in time... like tears in rain
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    Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett


    I just watched the first episode for the second time and I can’t decide how to feel about it. I started out enjoying myself but it ended with me wanting more and not in a good way. Seeing how Boba escaped the Sarlacc pit was awesome and seeing him sitting on the crime lord throne in his new armor was badass. The flash back scenes with the Tusken Raiders was mostly meh and the fight outside the casino wasn’t exciting until Fennec did the parkour chase with the two assassins on the rooftops. The new Tatooine alien was pretty cool too. It felt mostly like a filler episode which was weird since it was the premiere of a new show. I kind of wish they would’ve released the first two episodes at the same time. Then maybe I’d have a different opinion on the show. Oh well, still looking forward to the next episode.
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    I'm not one for following the crowd but I've just finished watching Squid Game and I've got to say I agree with the general opinion that's it absolutely brilliant. Not often you see anything so unique these days so it was a great thrill ride.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    In the middle of Station Eleven at the moment, heard brilliant things about it, sort of still waiting for it to click with me. Now that the finale is out, though, I'm excited to see it out.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    I caught a random episode of season 9 of this show on TV and thought it was good. I later discovered that all seasons are on Britbox so started binge watching season 1. I love whodunnits and this is very enjoyable with great locations.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    WHO IS AMERICA
    Sasha Baron Cohen stops at nothing here, playing various hilarious characters. Hysterically funny.
  • QsAssistantQsAssistant All those moments lost in time... like tears in rain
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    Jack Ryan - season 2
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    Can’t believe the second season came out in 2019 and I’m just now getting around to watching it. I have three episodes left and I’m enjoying it so far. This show put me back in a Tom Clancy and espionage mood that I haven’t had in a while. I may finish the last three episodes before the end of the day.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Wonders of the Solar System (2010)
    Watched this BBC series when it came out. Got the dvds included with a scientific magazine some years ago, and have given it another go. Much interesting stuff, and Brian Cox is a great presenter. Holds up well.
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Vikings: Valhalla
    Great follow-up to the original series. Takes place a century or so later, and features another interesting set of characters and intrigues.
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  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
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    The X-Files.

    Started watching it on paternity leave and just started the second season. I can see why it was so popular back in the 90s. It didn't appeal to me as a kid, but as an adult, it's definitely something that I am highly enjoying
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
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    The Ice House (1997)
    If Knives out was funny, then this one is the opposite.
    Daniel Craig played the detective, before Benoit Blanc, there's D.S Andy McLoughlin.
    I liked it, before Bond, he's already a conflicted character here that sometimes he's rebelling against his superior, his loyalty to his job and how did he get things done.
    He was so young here, at the cherubic age of 29!
    I can't help but to imagine a conflicted, serious character like D.S McLoughlin in Knives out 😂.
    Will he fall in love with Martha Cabrera, like the one he did with Anne Cattrell (A lesbian)?
    How will he handle Ransom?
    How will he act to Trooper and Wagner?
    How will he get on with the Thrombeys?
    Also the same for Benoit Blanc, how will he fare in this one?
    One thing is for sure about Benoit Blanc, he would not have any issue regarding Anne Cattrell's sexuality 😄.



  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Just binge watched the entire seriies over last few days, this multi faceted comedy murder mystery was brilliant. Steve Martin is a genius, all the cast were great.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Better Call Saul
    Season six started up now.
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Disenchanted
    season 4 is out. This isn t as good as it used to.
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  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Better Call Saul
    Season six started up now.
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    I still need to see this in full, barely made it into season one before I moved onto other stuff. It's not as gripping and engaging early on, I've heard, which makes it tough to binge. I've been almost solely focused on film lately, I have an insanely large backlog of TV shows I need to check out.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Better Call Saul
    Season six started up now.
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    I still need to see this in full, barely made it into season one before I moved onto other stuff. It's not as gripping and engaging early on, I've heard, which makes it tough to binge. I've been almost solely focused on film lately, I have an insanely large backlog of TV shows I need to check out.

    I think I actually prefer it to Breaking Bad, but yes you have to stay with it a little before it gets exciting.
  • CharmianBondCharmianBond Pett Bottom, Kent
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    Season 1 is very drawn out, and it can be a slog, but it really does pick up like a snowball to where now having watched the start of Season 6 it is full of action but still with the methodical pace that makes it one of the best shows ever made. Definitely worth sticking with it.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    That's exciting. I think that's the universal assessment I've gotten from everybody I've talked to about the show. I'll need to prioritize it soon, blow through the first season and be thankful for having done so finally.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Been watching some of the later episodes. Still some comedy gold to be had, but it is nowhere near as great as the older seasons.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I'm shocked the show hasn't run its course and run out of ideas yet. I tried to watch it when I was younger but could never get into it.
  • ImpertinentGoonImpertinentGoon Everybody needs a hobby.
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    I've watched all of Slow Horses and Apple TV+. Very, very good show. The big draw are fantastic performances by pretty much everyone in a major role, but the set-up and characters as written are also very good.
    If you don't know, it's based on Mick Herron's "Slough House" series of spy thrillers and more specifically the first book "Slow Horses" of which it is a very close adaptation. Slough House is a kind of purgatory for MI5 spies who screwed up and are kept in a seperate unit to the rest of the service where they usually do mindnumbing tasks that are too menial for the "real" agents of MI5. Of course, somehow our "heroes" are sucked into a real plot and have to work their way through internal MI5 politics, a kidnapping plot, workplace dynamics and their own general incompetence.
    As mentioned, the performances are great across the board - you might think Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb is a bit too gross, but the performance really is of one piece and he perfectly shows why Lamb used to be a service legend and why he very much isn't anymore - the plot is twisty enough to keep you engaged for 6 episodes and what I like the most about it is that these "lovable misfits" aren't superheroes wrongfully thrown down the ladder who will now heroicly work their way back up and show everyone they actually are the best and the smartest. No, these are pretty normal people, who sometimes make boneheaded mistakes, but in a way that a normal person would make mistakes, and sometimes have really good ideas and manage to pull a trick or two. It's a really fun mix to watch and follow, because not everything is later revealed to be a cunning masterplan that our protagonists hatched five moves in advance. Sometimes the thing you thought was dumb, really was just pretty dumb and they then have to figure out the consequences.
    I am now reading the books..
  • edited May 2022 Posts: 3,273
    Just finished Ozark. After a great series, it's been completely ruined by yet another pathetic, Hollywood/Netflix dumbass ending to rival NTTD.

    This trend is definitely stuck with us for the moment. Horrible. Uplifting endings aren't allowed anymore. It's trash shock these days.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Just finished Ozark. After a great series, it's been completely ruined by yet another pathetic, Hollywood/Netflix dumbass ending to rival NTTD.

    This trend is definitely stuck with us for the moment. Horrible. Uplifting endings aren't allowed anymore. It's trash shock these days.

    What didn't you like about it? I personally didn't mind it, as sad as the final few minutes are. I thought the final minute was a really nice touch. It's certainly nowhere near the joke of an ending that is the final season of Game of Thrones or even the new limited series of Dexter: New Blood. Those were hot trash.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    I personally don't get why an ending is bad just because it doesn't tie off into a beautiful knot, and shoot butterflies at viewers. With just how much is made to please audiences these days, to an obnoxious degree, I personally respect and appreciate films and shows that dare to have more gravitas and punch to them. It's refreshing to be offended, shocked or bothered these days, as long as those emotions are brought on by something truly well delivered, presented and executed, because so much of what is shoveled at us as been tested to death with audiences to be as pleasing and dull as can be.

    NTTD was definitely an example of an ending done the right way, for a captivating reason that left me with an assortment of emotions and will always stick with me. Bond dying doesn't automatically make it a bad ending, and I find it disingenuous and immature to think that way. Can't speak on Ozark, as I haven't watched it and the internet won't allow me to enjoy it unspoiled, so I just haven't bothered getting into it.
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Just finished Ozark. After a great series, it's been completely ruined by yet another pathetic, Hollywood/Netflix dumbass ending to rival NTTD.

    This trend is definitely stuck with us for the moment. Horrible. Uplifting endings aren't allowed anymore. It's trash shock these days.

    What didn't you like about it? I personally didn't mind it, as sad as the final few minutes are. I thought the final minute was a really nice touch. It's certainly nowhere near the joke of an ending that is the final season of Game of Thrones or even the new limited series of Dexter: New Blood. Those were hot trash.

    The one decent likeable character had to be killed off for the shock value ( I won't mention who), whereas the nasty villains all manage to live and fight another day.

    Call me old fashioned, but I still prefer stories to have some kind of moral compass, that being decent wins in the end, and being outright evil doesn't. Yet this current trend flies in the face of all that to gives us these shock endings.

    Gutter trash! Despicable!
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    NTTD was definitely an example of an ending done the right way, for a captivating reason that left me with an assortment of emotions and will always stick with me. Bond dying doesn't automatically make it a bad ending, and I find it disingenuous and immature to think that way.

    I don't appreciate being labelled immature because I (like many others) didn't agree with killing off Bond.

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    Just finished Ozark. After a great series, it's been completely ruined by yet another pathetic, Hollywood/Netflix dumbass ending to rival NTTD.

    This trend is definitely stuck with us for the moment. Horrible. Uplifting endings aren't allowed anymore. It's trash shock these days.

    I didn't like the Ozark finale either but if you expected ANY ending for that show to be "uplifting" then I don't know what show you had on for 43 episodes prior.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    NTTD was definitely an example of an ending done the right way, for a captivating reason that left me with an assortment of emotions and will always stick with me. Bond dying doesn't automatically make it a bad ending, and I find it disingenuous and immature to think that way.

    I don't appreciate being labelled immature because I (like many others) didn't agree with killing off Bond.

    I can't think of another adjective other than that to describe people that throw toys out the pram over Bond dying, or call it a "dumbass ending" especially since it was done with such beauty, respect and power in my opinion.
    Just finished Ozark. After a great series, it's been completely ruined by yet another pathetic, Hollywood/Netflix dumbass ending to rival NTTD.

    This trend is definitely stuck with us for the moment. Horrible. Uplifting endings aren't allowed anymore. It's trash shock these days.

    I didn't like the Ozark finale either but if you expected ANY ending for that show to be "uplifting" then I don't know what show you had on for 43 episodes prior.

    @StirredNotShaken, a good point. I don't know much about Ozark, but the tone of it is very clear, of more of a harder hitting true crime type show. And true crime in our world can be brutal, harsh, and justice is often unattainable. It seems like the ending captures how our world is so much of the time: unfair, unbalanced, and indiscriminate about what happens to good or bad people.

    It would be like watching Breaking Bad and being upset that it didn't end with Walt and his family being given the keys to the city and Walt's cancer being cured by a miracle drug.
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    It would be like watching Breaking Bad and being upset that it didn't end with Walt and his family being given the keys to the city and Walt's cancer being cured by a miracle drug.

    Completely wrong analogy. This would be the equivalent to Breaking Bad if Walter didn't rescue Jesse at the end. That's pretty much what happens in Ozark. Marty was Walt, and Ruth was Jesse, and a big part of the show was built around those 2. It's where it's heart was at, the same with Walt and Jesse. Had Walt not rescued Jesse at the end, and allowed him to be killed off instead, no way on earth BB would be as fondly remembered as it rightly is.

    If BB was filmed today. that's exactly the kind of ending we would get now. A trash, shock gimmick, to really give a nasty, downbeat ending so the audience can't feel good about what they have seen.

    And no, NTTD was not done with beauty and respect. It was done mainly on the whim of luring an actor one more time to play Bond, regardless of what it does for the franchise. You may think I'm immature for thinking this way, and I may think you are a dumbass for falling for such an obvious trash shock gimmick they spewed out.



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