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BTW, Parker Posey, posing as Dr. Z. Smith is the best character in the series.
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And... I can't get past the face-changing North Korean villain in a James Bond movie as John Robinson.
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Old 04-22-2018, 12:08 AM
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Orange is the New Black is a show you should be watching if you're not.
Several different people recommended it to me so I watched the whole first season over the past few days. Love it.
I put this on the TV yesterday and all I can say is, "How come nobody told me I should be watching Orange is the New Black?" Come on, guys!

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It is amazing. I watched the first 11 episodes and stayed up way past my bedtime.
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it's a fun series for sure, I'm a fan. :chain:
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Default Re: It's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it. Also it's on Netflix Inst

We were very late getting around to watching Orange is the New Black as well.

Our oldest kept saying it was really good and I'm not sure why we waited so long, but it's pretty great.

I recently watched Happy. It's kinda fucked up, Sou kept saying "this is really weird" :lol:

It's very strange, very violent at times and also pretty great. It stars Christopher Meloni (of Law and Order Special Victims Unit) as an ex-homicide detective who is seemingly unkillable* and Patton Oswalt as the voice of the tiny cartoon unicorn he sees :giggle:

*I don't think it's like a super power or anything, he's just amazing at not getting killed.
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Old 06-12-2018, 04:42 PM
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I watched I don't feel at home in this world anymore which is a Netflix original movie. It was pretty good.
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Default Re: It's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it. Also it's on Netflix Inst

The Sinner is now available (originally a USA series, apparently), and I watched the first 3.5-ish episodes last night. I can dig it. :thumbup:

Jessica Biel is relatable enough to me as a mostly okay woman who every once in a while gets an overwhelming urge to stab a guy. :stab:

Hell of a lot more interesting than Girl Interrupted, anyway. Look, Winona. If you want somebody to take your whiny ass seriously, you gotta step up.
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Old 07-18-2018, 06:45 AM
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Default Re: It's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it. Also it's on Netflix Inst

I'm only a couple of episodes in and as much as I like it, it will probably take me a while to get through it. It's p intense and I have to pay attention (as opposed to just having something to look at for 45 minutes at a time).

Also. Nanette. It's funny where it needs to be and emotional and just very real. I don't watch a lot of comedian stuff on the netflix, but this was getting a lot of attention and I don't have a regret in watching it.

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Default Re: It's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it. Also it's on Netflix Inst

"The Last Laugh," about what it is, or is not, appropriate to joke about, using the Holocaust as the base case. For the parallel between 1933 and today, watch the segment beginning at 25:23.
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Default Re: It's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it. Also it's on Netflix Inst

I watched a noirish British crime show in which a murder in a small town unearths a dark secret from these childhood friends' past.

Oh, now, what was it called?

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Old 07-27-2018, 02:38 PM
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Was one of the friends a cop, and he was played by that guy from The Handmaid’s Tale, except suddenly he’s British? Cuz we started watching that one, too.

Also, Orange is the New Black season 6 dropped last night. :popcorn:
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I dunno, but probably. Usually at least one of them is a cop, but I think the last few I saw, the cop friends were ladies.

I hope I didn't ruin it if that's what it is. Usually they put that in the description so I figured it would be OK to point that out. Like it's not so much a plot spoiler as it is just a really specific genre.

The dark secrets and the friends' roles in them vary.
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Old 08-18-2018, 10:42 PM
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Default Re: It's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it. Also it's on Netflix Inst

"Video promos that play between episodes" sounds pretty obscure.

Netflix is testing video promos that play in between episodes - The Verge

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Default Re: It's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it. Also it's on Netflix Inst

Netflix has had ads forever. Those gigantic promo cards that take up 2/3 of the screen on the TV apps? Ads. Those autoplaying 'previews' when you scroll through? Ads. The constant relocating of your queue, so you have to scroll through rows and rows of suggested content before you can even find the stuff you want to watch? Ads. The fucking SLIDESHOW they run as a screensaver instead of backing out of the app after inactivity? Ads.

Netflix is lousy with ads and has been for a while.

Also, I think only a couple of weeks ago, explaining why they had all that autoplaying shit, some Netflix representative said that they were trying to recreate the way people used to watch TV, where you'd turn it on and stuff would just start playing instead of waiting for you to tell it to.

They are 100% trying to recreate the traditional TV experience, where you just fucking turn on your TV and watch whatever's on, use it as background noise, whatever. Ads are a part of that.
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Also. Nanette. It's funny where it needs to be and emotional and just very real. I don't watch a lot of comedian stuff on the netflix, but this was getting a lot of attention and I don't have a regret in watching it.

I loved, loved, loved Nannette.

It’s difficult to watch for a comedy show while also being hilarious and smart.
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We are watching Disenchantment- is funny
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A big :glare: at netflix for canning The Break with Michelle Wolf.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. A Coen Bros. Joint.

I don't know what to say about it to entice or warn you other than it's a Coen Bros. joint. It's both pulpy and dark. It's not just one story but an not necessarily linked anthology work, serving up a few different stories from the Olde Weste.
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Much as I miss this show, I think I’m now willing to overlook it because of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, which might be the best show of its kind to launch since Full Frontal. It’s basically Last Week Tonight as if it were hosted by an Indian-American Muslim with a really, really amazing graphics department to back him up. They’ve put several of his long-form pieces up, and each is quite a watch. Here are three of them.




This show will go places. It’s already had an impact, too; that Saudi Arabia piece resulted in an apology from the U.S. government over some offensive racial language used in one of its documents. On page six.*

I also find it intriguing that Netflix has hosted shows from the two most recent performers at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

(*I think. Might’ve been five or seven or something like that. Something in mid-single digits, though.)
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I watched the first Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. It didn't grab me - for whatever reason. But, I'll give it another shot. I do so miss The Break with Michelle Wolf.
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The Christmas Chronicles, with Kurt Russell (!) playing Santa. I really didn't mean to watch this, I wanted something running in the background that I could snooze to. So much for my Sunday nap!

It starts predictably enough with sadness and teh bittersweet. But that little girl is so precious with her Santa belief that I couldn't stop watching her. And then when Russell showed up it got fun! Sure, it has the hokey stuff you've come to expect from xmas movies but somehow I had a rollicking good time, anyway.

Curmudgeonly old me, with no young children giving me an excuse to watch this, sat riveted in front of the TV smiling like a doofus and clapping along to the music. It's the end times, I tell you what.
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I was totes sold with Kurt Russell as Santer Claus. That's why I watched. I was not disappointed. I had an additional :secretlaugh: because I imagined the Santa from the Dresden Files as the protagonist. (Mostly only because a large part of the show takes place in Chicago, the main city in which the Dresden Files takes place.)
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Just finished watching Maniac on Netflix. I really enjoyed it. There were some stylistic clashes that grated a little, but weren't big enough to take away from the great performances of Jonah Hill and Emma Stone. The general plot line of two people trying to work through their mental health problems was pretty powerful and really interestingly done in my opinion.

Highly recommend.
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We binged all of The Good Place in the last 3 days.

If you've heard great things about this show, but haven't got around to watching it yet, do it. It really is great.

Ted Danson is fantastic. Kristen Bell is fantastic. Everyone else is fantastic and so is the writing. The less you know going in the better in my opinion.

Just watch it.
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