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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.
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@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
@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.
Prime? yeah not alot of decent stuff on there. Least its cheap, though now with the odd ad its annoying.
I had it back on for my oldest to watch a couple of shows . Thats when i discovered they had Robin of Sherwood.
Ill get it back on for the final season of The Boys, nothing really else there has appealed to me.
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I'm going to have to pull the plug on a couple of platforms - maybe three as the recent price hikes are ridiculous. Will need to keep Stan for the rugby - and now it's showing the UCI but apart from that there's not much appealing. Thankfully SBS On Demand here (Oz) has all the grand tours and one-off races free to air. I'll keep AppleTV as I'm hooked on Slow Horses, Silo, Invasion and Foundation. Plus, Chief of War has been pretty good and I have a healthy movie library saved there. I re-subscribed to Disney+ a few weeks ago so I could watch Alien Earth and catch up on Only Murders in the Building ... but once those two are done I'm cancelling.
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@Virgil said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
@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.
Prime? yeah not alot of decent stuff on there. Least its cheap, though now with the odd ad its annoying.
I had it back on for my oldest to watch a couple of shows . Thats when i discovered they had Robin of Sherwood.
Ill get it back on for the final season of The Boys, nothing really else there has appealed to me.
Didnt even bother watching Season 2 of Rings of Power.I have Paramount via Prime which has more watchable shows. I don't have to worry about Rings of Power as I'm not a LOTR fan, confirmed by my attendance at a Fellowship watch party on Saturday which allowed me to try out my new whiskeys.
@allblackfan2 said in TV Serieseseses:
Only Murders in the Building
I liked the first two seasons but didn't finish the third. I've watched a few dramas on SBS, including the Irish show Kin and the NZ comedy where only women are left called Creamarie. I got used to the short ad breaks when watching, but they were a shock initially, especially because they appear to be broadcast in a much lower resolution than the shows.
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Only murders in the building is a guilty pleasure, long time fan of Steve Martin and Martin Short.
It’s a comfort watch, great acting and music.
After 5 seasons maybe it’s getting a tad far fetched given how many people keep getting knocked off there. You’d imagine no one would be wanting to live there.. -
@Virgil said in TV Serieseseses:
...long time fan of Steve Martin and Martin Short.
New mortal enemy. Absolutely detest both those loud braying pricks.
That said - I've heard good things about that show. I might consider giving it a shot after I've hunted you down and cut you a bit.
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@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
@Virgil said in TV Serieseseses:
...long time fan of Steve Martin and Martin Short.
New mortal enemy. Absolutely detest both those loud braying pricks.
That said - I've heard good things about that show. I might consider giving it a shot after I've hunted you down and cut you a bit.
Er ok?
