On March 1, Netflix will fall under a series of new obligations in Russia after it was added to a register of “audiovisual services” overseen by the country’s communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, last year.
... Channel One, NTV and a channel run by the Russian Orthodox Church, Spas, according to the Moscow Times.
Russia’s Channel One in particular is closely linked to the Kremlin, with a miscellany of some of Putin’s most intimate political allies on the board of the station set to be broadcast across Netflix screens.
In November last year, the Russian interior ministry confirmed that it would examine a complaint leveled by Olga Baranets, the public commissioner for protecting families, regarding the dissemination of “gay propaganda” on Netflix.
If found to be in breach of Russia’s draconian laws against the dissemination of “non-traditional sexual relations,” the company may face fines or a possible suspension of its service.
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All of Us Are Dead
It's K-drama plus zombies. I don't know from K-dramas but for a zombie show it's exactly what you want. The effects and the zombie movements and sounds are soooooo squicky.
I’ve long loved zombie movies and tv.
Good zombie media is imo never really about the zombies, it’s about what it means to be human when everything breaks down and facing that fundamental existential angst that is fundamental for living things.
All of Us Are Dead does a great job of exploring those things imo.
It has 28 days later style zombies.
As a bonus the subtitles actually match the dubbing which has almost never been the case for Netflix shows.
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I legitimately toyed with the idea of writing 28 Months Later my damn self since a couple weeks ago because it doesn't look like anyone will ever make it.
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Also, if you watch All Of Us Are Dead with captioning (as you should, keep the soundtrack in Korean for fuck's sake), it will helpfully tell you when [squelching] is going on.
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We binged our way through Russian Doll the last 2 days. It stars Natasha Lyonne (of Orange is the New Black fame) as a hard partying video game programmer. She's got some issues to work through and is having a very, very strange night.
Probably the less you know going in the better. It's damn good and really gets going by the 3rd episode or so. Both Sou and I really liked it.
Watch it.
We were browsing Netflix last night and there is a second season of Russian Doll now available.
We watched 2 episodes last night and I'm sufficiently hooked. I wouldn't say it's grabbed me as hard as season 1, but I think I could watch Natasha Lyonne in just about anything and be hooked.
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I noticed that too and I'm excited about it. I loved season 1. I've been re-watching Stranger Things even though I didn't love seasons 2-3 because I do plan to watch season 4 and I didn't remember much from the earlier seasons. Except that I didn't love them. I remembered that apparently.
I completely forgot about the previous posts re: All Of Us Are Dead and 'found' it entirely on my own, watched it, and loved it. Looking forward to a season 2 if there is one.
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I enjoyed Stranger Things season 4a. Not without some flaws, but enjoyable. Really leaning into the horror stuff. And I quite like the extended format, although I expect not everyone is keen on each episode being practically feature length.
We'd better get some sort of plot/development for Robin in 4b. She was the best thing in season 3 and now mostly she's just sort of there. Oh apparently she runs weird.
Nice to have so much focus on PTSD Max though. Sadie Sink turning out one of the best performances. And Erica is fantastic.
Am I biased or did the girls turn out to be way more interesting than the original boys?
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Oh and
If they're not just queerbaiting with Will then it seems he's crushing on Mike, which is barely better given that Mike won't reciprocate and we'll just have some sort of lonely gays trope. Actually being set in the goddamn 80s this series has to do better with the queer stuff if they're going to make storylines about it. See above with Robin and her one plot point seeming to disappear. I'm guessing that will come back but after bringing it up early there's been just about zero development.
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Has anyone else watched Uncoupled with Neil Patrick Harris?
We flew through the 8 half hour episodes in a day. It's good, it's funny, I'd recommend it. Especially if you like NPH (doesn't every one?). Tisha Campbell is really good in it too. Pretty much everyone is good actually.
It's not going to blow your socks off, but it was easy to watch 8 in row, so we were obviously enjoying it.
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I'm back again already.
I've watched the first 4 episodes of The Sandman and I'm well and truly hooked. I was not familiar with the comics, but I'll be reading them for sure after I finish watching the show.
Tom Sturridge plays the lead and it took me a couple episodes to warm to his delivery, but I love it now. It was a mild shock to see Constantine as a woman, but Jenna Coleman does a good job of it.
Anyway, I went in knowing nothing about the comics or anything more than the most basic synopsis of the show and I'm loving it.
I'm usually up for anything Patton Oswalt is in and this doesn't disappoint.
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I just have 2 episodes to go, and wow - It doesn't follow the books slavishly, although pretty closely, and the look is much more faithful to the source material than any other based-on-a-graphic-novel film I've seen. I knew Gaiman was directly involved, but it becomes apparent from the start that he had full creative control, and damned well used it.
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Yeah, I've largely enjoyed the Sandman series. The things that don't work so well for me were present in the comic too. Both hit their stride at the same point (24) by really spending time with characters.
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In the true spirit of the thread title, we watched RRR several weeks ago, before anybody was talking about it (2 billion people on the subcontinent notwithstanding), when it was #2 on Netflix.
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My sister watched it the other night and really enjoyed it. I haven't seen it, but I saw a thread on Twitter in which the OP claimed it was essentially a whitewashing of a revolutionary character but then a bunch of the respondents on the thread dismissed the accusation, so as happens too often these days I was left knowing as little as I knew from the start.
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So there's a new Flanagan show called The Midnight Club and I'm really enjoying it.
Mild spoilers for the premise I guess
It's a twist on the trope that there's a bunch of teens in a creepy place where they're going to die, one by one. But in this case, everybody knows it, because they have terminal diagnoses. Of course it seems like some other creepy stuff might be going on, too...
It's also a bunch of teens telling scary stories to each other, and references a bunch of other stuff, with some mild 90s nostalgia. I can't say whether it's handling the themes appropriately or sensitively, but as a piece of art I find it pretty compelling.
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I really liked The Midnight Club, too.
I've been obsessed with Mike Flannigan since The Haunting of Hill House, so I could not wait to binge the new show this weekend. (We also watched Hush after we finished, because we hadn't seen it before.)
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I've learned since finishing that it's based on the works of Christopher Pike (no relation to the captain), who I've never heard of before. Apparently he writes YA horror/spooky stuff.
the show closely resembles the sort of half-baked filler documentary that one of the lesser Discovery channels would slap up at 3am between shows about plane crashes and fascist architecture. Ancient Apocalypse obviously has an audience, but who on Earth is it?
Fortunately, you don’t have to watch for long to find out. In quick succession, during the pre-show sizzle reel, we are treated to clips of the show’s host Graham Hancock being interviewed by Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan. Finally, we have an answer: Ancient Apocalypse must be a TV programme made exclusively for people who like to shout at you on Twitter.
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I once got trapped at a party with a Flat Earther. It was a very similar experience to watching this.
... We should get him onto to "interview" disobey and FX and GCB. (j/k not)
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But, hey, not all conspiracy theories are bad. If you don’t like Hancock’s story about the super-intelligent advanced civilisation being wiped off the face of the planet, here’s another that might explain how Netflix gave the greenlight to Ancient Apocalypse: the platform’s senior manager of unscripted originals happens to be Hancock’s son. Honestly, what are the chances?
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I’ll give everyone one guess and one guess only as to the color or origin of the ancient civilization this white man alleges all brown people freeloaded from.