Watched the first couple of episodes of Pam & Tommy last night (Disney+) which we really enjoyed! Something a bit different from CGI-laden nonsense
So you thought it was a real talking penis then? 😉
lol. Stunt dick. That's a thing, right?
Takes years of training, tbh I've got bored of listening to mine.
Ignored >> Pam & Tommy << on Disney and went straight to...
The French Dispatch ,(IMO) utter brilliance. 🙂 🙃👍
Started off promisingly didn’t it. Gave up after E04/05. Just got really boring.
Exactly so, forced myself to finish it, needn't have bothered really.
I agree with Butcher.
Jason Bateman is an actor.... the character he's playing in Ozark is like he is for a reason. He's not trying to pull off a ridiculous accent or anything, that's just the way they've decided the character should be, and I think he's actually quite good. He's basically a normal bloke caught up in a world that he doesn't belong in. He's normal, while everyone around him is a little bit crazy.
No love here for station eleven?
It's amazing, almost perfect television.
The theme is the power of art in the post apocalypse.
Like the book? Of the same name? about Shakespeare?
[wanders away muttering about nothing sacred or original]
That's right, based on the book of the same name.
I've not read the book 🙂
Keeersten! Thought it was great too, also have to take this opportunity to recommend The Leftovers to anyone that enjoyed Station Eleven, best series ever!
Archive 81 was a let down in the end. I really enjoyed the first few episodes though.
Hellbound was actually a lot better than I expected, once you get past the naffness of the monsters
ugarizza
Free Member
No love here for station eleven?
It’s amazing, almost perfect television.The theme is the power of art in the post apocalypse.
That looks interesting. Only on Starzplay? I have subscription fatigue I'm afraid.
Station 11 was ace. Best thing on the box for quite a while. It's got Lori Petty (point break) in and the lad from EastEnders who's shaping up to be a great actor.
I mentioned this before but it's worth a bump...1883 a wetsern by Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone) which is pretty bloody excellent.
We watched the latest Texas chainsaw Massacre
Last night, compared to the original and 2nd film it's almost a comedy, a very bloody gory comedy .
I’ve just finished the documentary about the 737 MAX aircraft: Downfall - The Case Against Boeing.
Wow. Absolutely horrific, sad, fascinating, mind boggling all at the same time. I remember seeing it on the news when the crashes happened and some of the fallout but I had no idea beyond a very high level understanding at the time. I’m absolutely stunned. Staggering documentary
@nickewen - I watched that last night. Absolutely terrifying!
A truly scary example of how corporate cost-cutting has fatal consequences and then there’s a complicit cover up to keep dividends high. How the hell they got away with so many deaths is a damning indictment of Boing and of corporate culture generally
I know we’re all suspicious but it’s mind-blowing seeing it laid out how a huge multinational corporation prioritises its profits above the deaths of hundreds of people, then plots and schemes to cover their arse and get away with it
Next time I fly I’ll be making sure it’s on an Airbus
example of how corporate cost-cutting has fatal consequences and then there’s a complicit cover up
They probably forgot about the exploding Ford Pintos and the cost to Ford.
and get away with it
Apart from the $2.5billion compo pay-out. Watched it last night, compelling documentary.
Finished Inventing Anna. The dramatised version of the Anna Sorokin/Delvey story. Great performance by Julia Garner, takes some liberties with realities I understand, and is too long, but it's great fun watching horrible people get screwed over by each other.
Great performance by Julia Garner, takes some liberties with realities I understand,
Aye,she's very good.
I have only watched the first two episodes but this BBC Story has had me thinking about how slick and easy some digital scams can be.
Apart from the $2.5billion compo pay-out.
I meant that I can't believe that none of them are behind bars! Do they not have corporate manslaughter charges in the US? Surely this is the most obvious case of that that you'll ever see? Certainly the second crash, when they were fully aware of the issue, but were publicly still saying it was pilot error?
Finished Inventing Anna. The dramatised version of the Anna Sorokin/Delvey story. Great performance by Julia Garner, takes some liberties with realities I understand, and is too long, but it’s great fun watching horrible people get screwed over by each other.
Sorry to disagree with you fella, but I thought it was absolutely bloody awful! It's just so slow and boring. I was staggered that they could take such an interesting story and make it so spirit-crushingly tedious. We got to episode 5, I think, started to lose the will to live, then concluded that we couldn't give a toss what happened to any of them short of all being eaten by crocodiles, so just gave up on it. I believe there was another 5 hours of it left at that point. No chance was I enduring that!
It's been out for ages but I can highly recommend 'Fyre.. The Greatest Party That never Happened'
An amazing story of a totally deluded shyster who just wouldn't admit that he didn't have a clue about organising a luxury music festival in the Bahamas.
I spotted that Boeing docu last night but fancied something rather more lighthearted, so we watched the first 2 episodes of Ted Lasso. Absolutely brilliant. Sure, some of the players have some pretty wooden lines, but the manager and his coach are endearing enough to get you on their side.
Also tried E1 of Severance on Apple over the weekend. There might be a cool premise in there somewhere but both of us were probably too tired to handle its mindbending nature. Might go back to it when we’re more switched on.
Just watched the Boeing documentary.
Staggering. Can't believe the CEO was forced to step down with 'only' a $62m pay out! Prison sentences should have been dished out to all involved in the cover up.
Very late to the party but a couple of people said The Mentalist was good, better than Bosch. We've watched the first two episodes is season 1. It's a massive cheese fest, laughable acting, no plot. Prefer something a bit grittier.
Watched The Responder on iPlayer, very good but last episode wasn't satisfying, wrapped up far too quickly.
@binners Aye, it certainly was a terrifying case of money over safety/quality (well money over absolutely everything TBH!).
The bit about how long the pilots had to react to the system before it went into runaway was extremely scary, especially given there was a very very high chance they didn’t even know the system was on the aircraft never mind how to deal with it.. then compounding that with the single point of failure stuff was really shocking stuff.
On these recommendations I'm gonna give that Boeing doc a bash.
nickc
Full Member
and get away with itApart from the $2.5billion compo pay-out. Watched it last night, compelling documentary.
$500 million compensation, $2 billion fine!
346 lives equal $500 million, imagine what the compensation claim would have been if that had been an Airbus crash in the US!
This is going to hurt on iPlayer. Excellent and quite emotional
I don’t normally get feelings of violence provoked by TV shows, but that bloke really needs a good shoeing.
Tinder Swindler was nuts. You are correct, he need a good shoeing. I also think though that he is very talented at what he does, its just a shame his choice of career resulted in so much hurt for others. He must have some serious powers of organisation / confidence / logistics / planning and sales to get away with what he did for so long. Not defending him at all, just think the guy has got some very misguided skills.
Watched that last night and sort of have a begrudging admiration for someone who has the confidence and kahunas to pull off a stunt like that AND continues to....
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...do so even after getting caught, AND prosecuted TWICE! Though why he isn't serving time somewhere is beyond me...
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This Is Going To Hurt was good. Shruti was the star character in that I think.
Started watching Kevin Can F. Himself on Amazon Prime. I like the concept of the sitcom wife having a breakdown in the background, and find the way that it is shot when you’re “off set” intriguing, just not sure if it’s worth persevering with. Annie Murphy is good though.
This Is Going To Hurt was good. Shruti was the star character in that I think.
Just watched ep1 last night.
Ben Wishaw is incredible so far, and it took me from thinking "well he's a **** and I'm not going to like this" to just being stunned by the end.
Shruti was also good, obvs, and the neonatal incubators caused me to well up a bit - taking me back to my daughter's first weeks.
Not Netflix, but Sky documentaries: Devil's Advocate: The Mostly True Story of Giovanni Di Stefano
For sheer bonkersness this really takes some beating. His clients were a roll call of global tyrants, but that's only the start of it. It gets increasingly bizarre
Halfway through the new series of Young Wallender Quite enjoying it so far, and I enjoyed the first series too - although the dubbing grates a bit occasionally. Disclaimer...I've never seen any of the original Wallender series
No love here for station eleven?
It’s amazing, almost perfect television.The theme is the power of art in the post apocalypse.
No love at all, I've just wasted 10 hours of my life on this load of old bow locks!
Just a self indulgent actors project, it's a shame as it could've been really good but it just seemed to be rambling nonsense.
Maybe be I'm just too much of an uneducated peasant to understand it?
Nearly time for me to quit Netflix for 6 months.
Looks like there will be some good stuff to watch when I rejoin in 6 months.
In the meantime I'll revisit the 7 seasons of Buffy the vampire slayer, Farscape on dvd and other free stuff on crunchyroll.
I think I been tricked! I'm sure it was on here I saw Yellowstone with Kevin Costner recommended.. gave it a go, expecting good things... it's just a Dallas for the 21st Century isn't it?!
I think I been tricked! I’m sure it was on here I saw Yellowstone with Kevin Costner recommended.. gave it a go, expecting good things… it’s just a Dallas for the 21st Century isn’t it?!
Yes, pretty much. As long as you can find it in yourself to root for a bunch of oddly self-pitying arseholes who've somehow got their hands on an obscene amount of land and are determined to hang on to it using a combination of political corruption and murder you'll be fine.
As far as I could tell their business is raising cattle but they only seem to have about seventeen which is probably because the staff spend most of their time leaning on fences watching each other take turns riding annoyed horses round a small ring. That's when they're not getting all homo erotic and branding each other in some weird bunkhouse cult.
Ooh yes must watch Yellowstone, nothing to do with Kelly Reilly being in it, oh no
You're not really selling it Johnners 😀
I've only watched one. I don't really like soap operas. Or "self-pitying arseholes", for that matter 🙂
You’re not really selling it Johnners
I thought I sold the shit out of it to be honest! I watched a couple but found it just too irritating, the family have all the assumed privilege of the Roys but without the wit, and there's a queasy sort of libertarian numbskull undercurrent running through the writing. If you think it's OK to shoot people because they look funny at your cows or want to build a house within 10 miles of your ranch house you'll love it.
Sky Documentaries have recently shown
Man on Wire, a 2008 documentary about Philipe Petit who wired walked between the World Trade Centre towers.
It’s available for download and well worth a watch.
I think I been tricked! I’m sure it was on here I saw Yellowstone with Kevin Costner recommended.. gave it a go, expecting good things… it’s just a Dallas for the 21st Century isn’t it?!
sure you didn't get confused with 'Yellowjackets'?
