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@Catogrande said in TV Serieseseses:
@Virgil said in TV Serieseseses:
@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
Might get round to it but the hypocrisy and virtue signalling soured it for me
that wasnt anything i was aware of or picked up on
Very much worth a watch, the technical side of its making and the acting are incredible.As the Snowman alluded to, it was not the programme itself or the makers etc that were doing the virtue signalling but the pile on from the press and some pollies was sickening. However that should not detract from the quality of the series nor from the powerful imagery and explanations.
I have to say I found it compelling viewing although was less enamoured by the last episode. I don't think that Stephen Graham does vulnerable melt down that well and it felt a bit hammy to me.
It actually was the makers who were doing the virtue signalling
Both the main writer and Graham were spinning the fiction that young white boys are 'the' menace to society
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@MiketheSnow yeah he very rarely pulls the mixed race card, but notably got it right in there when he won the award.
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I have to admit that all that stuff passed me by. Mind you I don't really get too interested what the makers, actors etc do in terms of hyping their product, so not surprised to have missed some stuff. You couldn't really avoid the press and political attention though.
I do think though, that the message that young white males are feeling more and more disenfranchised, with the consequent problems arising with females and in some instances boys form other backgrounds, both cultural and socio-economic is becoming more and more prevalent. I also feel that this is part of a wider problem in that there are great swathes of people but young men in particular who feel that their voices are considered irrelevant. It certainly informs some peoples views on subjects like immigration. Such social disaffection is meat and drink to the political extremes.
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@Catogrande said in TV Serieseseses:
I have to admit that all that stuff passed me by. Mind you I don't really get too interested what the makers, actors etc do in terms of hyping their product, so not surprised to have missed some stuff. You couldn't really avoid the press and political attention though.
I do think though, that the message that young white males are feeling more and more disenfranchised, with the consequent problems arising with females and in some instances boys form other backgrounds, both cultural and socio-economic is becoming more and more prevalent. I also feel that this is part of a wider problem in that there are great swathes of people but young men in particular who feel that their voices are considered irrelevant. It certainly informs some peoples views on subjects like immigration. Such social disaffection is meat and drink to the political extremes.
Truth in all you wrote
Unlike the inspiration and overall message of the show IMHO
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@Catogrande said in TV Serieseseses:
I have to admit that all that stuff passed me by. Mind you I don't really get too interested what the makers, actors etc do in terms of hyping their product, so not surprised to have missed some stuff. You couldn't really avoid the press and political attention though.
I do think though, that the message that young white males are feeling more and more disenfranchised, with the consequent problems arising with females and in some instances boys form other backgrounds, both cultural and socio-economic is becoming more and more prevalent. I also feel that this is part of a wider problem in that there are great swathes of people but young men in particular who feel that their voices are considered irrelevant. It certainly informs some peoples views on subjects like immigration. Such social disaffection is meat and drink to the political extremes.
May be wrong, but I think Thorne or one of the writers/producers said pretty much the same thing - it was all about incel culture and white kids being disenfranchised. The comments made sense to me and were very different from the usual luvvie fear of portraying ethnic minorities in any bad way whatsoever.
One of the most powerful things I've seen.
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Both sides of the political world
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@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:
@MN5 said in TV Serieseseses:
Black Rabbit
Really good.
Great summary, will def check this out now - thanks!
A bit of a long winded ramble but I made my point eventually
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3 Eps into Alien Earth.
Quite liking it! Olyphant is giving me Fred from Scooby Doo vibes!!
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You started just in time to binge it right through, the finale is out tomorrow night.
I feel ill need to re watch it, it definitely has a very different feel and vibe to previous Alien(s) movies
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Also finished Waterfront on Netflix last night.
Hard to fathom how this is apparently based on a true story, seems made for Hollywood!
Decent enough watch to switch your brain off to.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
Also finished Waterfront on Netflix last night.
Hard to fathom how this is apparently based on a true story
Having watched a few Netflix shows I feel very confident that the "based on a true story" component extends to there once being a waterfront...
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
Also finished Waterfront on Netflix last night.
Hard to fathom how this is apparently based on a true story, seems made for Hollywood!
Decent enough watch to switch your brain off to.
I just looked it up and it's been cancelled - is it worth watching the one season?
My Disney and Apple subscriptions run out at the end of the month (or rather I've canned them) so I've been burning through as many shows on there as possible.
I'm in the middle of The Killing which was a show that was rated decently in the peak TV era of Sopranos, Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad etc, but I can see why it wasn't rated as high as those ones. A decent watch, but not peak.
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@Nepia it was a decent enough watch, some extreme shit if it has any truth to it, but finishes at a point with stuff still going on, so theres that.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nepia it was a decent enough watch, some extreme shit if it has any truth to it, but finishes at a point with stuff still going on, so theres that.
Hmmm, I might give it a miss then.
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@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
My Disney and Apple subscriptions run out at the end of the month (or rather I've canned them) so I've been burning through as many shows on there as possible.
I'm in a similar situation in that I am working through some recent Apple TV+ shows while I have a subscription. It's harder to watch in real-time if they drop each week. Currently that is Dark Matter but there are a few others I will watch as Slow Horses is released. First world problems.
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@Bovidae said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
My Disney and Apple subscriptions run out at the end of the month (or rather I've canned them) so I've been burning through as many shows on there as possible.
I'm in a similar situation in that I am working through some recent Apple TV+ shows while I have a subscription. It's harder to watch in real-time if they drop each week. Currently that is Dark Matter but there are a few others I will watch as Slow Horses is released. First world problems.
Yeah, I'm annoyed that Slow Horses starts the week I cancel it. But I'll get it back on for a month when the new For All Mankind finally gets released. The $3 price increase has just pissed me off too much. I'm catching up on Severance S2 and have the finale of Chief of War to watch.
The enshitification of streaming world is likely going to send me back to the methods I used 15 years ago to watch stuff. I think they'e shooting themselves in the foot with removal of password sharing and constant price hikes.
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Yeah, they are all putting their prices up, and don't seemed too bothered with the churn. I re-subscribed to Apple TV+ on a $3.99 per month deal for 3 months before it went to normal price for a few months, and now the $3 increase. I had plenty of series to catch up on in that period.
Only one streaming platform at a time for me now until I've watched the shows I am interested in. Then move to another - rinse and repeat. Netflix got canned because of their price increase.
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@Bovidae said in TV Serieseseses:
Yeah, they are all putting their prices up, and don't seemed too bothered with the churn. I re-subscribed to Apple TV+ on a $3.99 per month deal for 3 months before it went to normal price for a few months, and now the $3 increase. I had plenty of series to catch up on in that period.
Only one streaming platform at a time for me now until I've watched the shows I am interested in. Then move to another - rinse and repeat. Netflix got canned because of their price increase.
Yeah, I'll keep Stan for the rugby for the majority of the year, but I'll turn it off the two months over summer due to the fact they just raised their prices to pay for the Premier League.
For some reason my Netflix sharing hasn't been cancelled so I'm good with at the moment. Same with Amazon which I get from my niece who works for AWS, but that place is a shit show these days, almost impossible to find decent stuff on there.
