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I recently started watching Torchwood. If you're unfamiliar with it, it's basically Warehouse 13 in the Dr Whoniverse, with Captain Jack Harkness standing in for the Doctor. Somehow I never got around to seeing it before. Pretty good so far, but not great yet.
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Children of Earth, the third season, is where it gets amazingly good.
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hepcat wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:21 pm Children of Earth, the third season, is where it gets amazingly good.
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Hulu has a British series called Extraordinary that is friggin’ hilarious. I watched an episode as I was dozing off on the couch the other night and ended up bingeing a few episodes.

Set in a world where everyone develops super powers, it follows a young woman who still hasn’t gotten hers yet. The premise sounds awful, but they really mine it for some great comedy.
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For example, her roommate can channel the dead. So to cheer themselves up when they’re feeling down, she calls up Hitler and they taunt him by telling him what a great idea it was to invade Russia during the winter, amongst other things.

And don’t get me started on the character who has the ability to cause orgasms in anyone that touches him, I spit my drink up during a scene with him and a house pet.
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Isgrimnur wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 4:19 pm
Isgrimnur wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:05 pm The Menu

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Up on HBO Max. Watched it today and enjoyed it. Ralph Fiennes is excellent and really makes the film what it is.
I watched this over the weekend and really enjoyed it. Funny, dark, and clever. The cast is very good overall, but Ralph Fiennes and Hong Chau really stand out.
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Isgrimnur wrote: Sat Jul 23, 2022 11:55 pm The Woman King

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I watched this recently on a cross-country flight. Definitely not the best setting for a movie with this much action, but it still hit hard. Great acting across the board: the Oscar buzz for Viola Davis was justified (even if she didn't get nominated), and Lashana Lynch is super-charismatic.

Definitely a movie to check out if you like a good blend of action and drama.
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Kraken wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 10:44 pm Y'all were right about "The Watcher," btw. The first few episodes set up a decent, Agatha Christie-style whodunnit where everybody's a suspect. But halfway through it veers into absurdity and goes completely off the rails by the end. Not worth watching.
Some coworkers swore I had to watch this, so I binged the first few episodes.

It’s awful. I mean awful with a capital A. The writing is horrid. They practically end each episode by having someone new walk up to the camera while someone strikes a harpsichord. I mean, it’s so ridiculously, over the top awful that I can’t stop watching. I laugh out loud at least once each episode.

The thing is, years ago I read the article that covered the story this is based on. It was creepy. But not 8 hours of televised creepy, so they throw in every single imaginable side story they can to pad it out. :lol:

It has to be a parody. That’s all I can assume now.
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Defiant wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 12:25 am I've also been using Movies Anywhere to swap movies with friends, using their new screen pass feature
Don't know if anyone else uses the screen pass feature of Movies Anywhere (or anyone else uses Movies Anywhere) but the screen pass feature (that allows you to watch a movie from a friends library and vice versa) is going away in a couple of months. It's a shame that it is going away (I got to watch close to 100 movies over the last three years that way)
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Well, shit, that would have been useful to have remembered with this group.
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I'm watching Minority Report for the first time in ages. It's so interesting to watch scifi that's fairly recent, but still far enough in the past that its vision of the future is... off. For example, Minority Report completely overlooks wireless data transfer, so every piece of digital information has to be transferred via a fancy thumb drive.

That aside, it holds up very well. I really like the washed-out visual look and the vision of precrime is really arresting (no pun intended). Samantha Morton has the hardest role as the precog, and she absolutely kills it.

And it's so Spielbergian. The camera movement is amazing, so many scenes are visceral and tense, and every once in a while there's a stupid crowd-pleaser moment, like when Tom Cruise drops his eyeballs and has to chase them down a hallway.
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AWS260 wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:49 pm I'm watching Minority Report for the first time in ages. It's so interesting to watch scifi that's fairly recent, but still far enough in the past that its vision of the future is... off. For example, Minority Report completely overlooks wireless data transfer, so every piece of digital information has to be transferred via a fancy thumb drive.

That aside, it holds up very well. I really like the washed-out visual look and the vision of precrime is really arresting (no pun intended). Samantha Morton has the hardest role as the precog, and she absolutely kills it.

And it's so Spielbergian. The camera movement is amazing, so many scenes are visceral and tense, and every once in a while there's a stupid crowd-pleaser moment, like when Tom Cruise drops his eyeballs and has to chase them down a hallway.
Or when he eats the rotten sandwich and washes his mouth out with the rotten milk.

Or when the old lady slips him the tongue.
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ImLawBoy wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2020 12:13 pm Wife and I have watched the first couple of episodes of "Perry Mason" on HBO (well, we've been watching on HBOMax). Matthew Rhys is the titular iconic lawyer, except that this is set prior to him becoming a lawyer. He's more like a sleazy private investigator for John Lithgow's lawyer character. The central mystery is around the kidnapping and eventual murder of a young child. Just two episodes in and there are already lots of twists and turns. The cast is really strong and the production values are solid (probably helps that they can keep the fx to a minimum, unless it takes a really weird turn and they go off into outer space like Life of Brian or something). My wife isn't completely sold on the show yet because she's having a hard time seeing Perry Mason like this, but I've never seen the original show (or read any of the books), so none of those issues on my end.
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Based on a random recommendation from a friend, I'm watching The Leftovers on HBOMax like it's my job. I haven't been this engrossed in a TV show in a long time and it's blowing my mind that it first aired 9 years ago and I have no recollection of it at all.



I guess there's some NSFW flashes in that trailer, so if that's an issue for you, consider yourself warned
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I tried to tell you all!!

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I sat through the first 2 episodes, but it never really clicked with me. I'll have to give it another go someday.
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I can't say it's at nonstop level 10 Raised by Wolves weirdness (is anything?), but it's definitely hitting the same notes for me - where I'm constantly wondering just what the hell is going to happen next. Is this show supernatural? Is it sci-fi? I have absolutely no idea and I'm halfway through S2.

It really feels like a show that was influenced by the good parts of LOST, which makes sense given the co-creator is behind this show. There was a scene in S1 that had me up and staring at my ceiling at 3am last week - completely freaked me the hell out. That's some good TV, imho.
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Smoove_B wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 4:39 pm I can't say it's at nonstop level 10 Raised by Wolves weirdness (is anything?), but it's definitely hitting the same notes for me - where I'm constantly wondering just what the hell is going to happen next. Is this show supernatural? Is it sci-fi? I have absolutely no idea and I'm halfway through S2.

It really feels like a show that was influenced by the good parts of LOST, which makes sense given the co-creator is behind this show. There was a scene in S1 that had me up and staring at my ceiling at 3am last week - completely freaked me the hell out. That's some good TV, imho.
This is one of the shows I still think about every so often. It's just that interesting and compelling for me.
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Added "The Leftovers" to my list, which is long and varied. IDK if/when I'll get to it.

We just started the last season of Farscape last night. When that's done, I want to see "The Last of Us" (which I hope will be complete by then). After that, Babylon 5 is beckoning.
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Smoove_B wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 4:39 pm I can't say it's at nonstop level 10 Raised by Wolves weirdness (is anything?),
So what you’re asking me to do is watch something that probably won’t include giant talking muskrats, sentient tupperware or the inclusion of weaponized vanilla pudding?

It’s like I don’t even know you, man.
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Have no idea how I could have missed this.

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A classic. I remember seeing it in the theater years and years ago.
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Just finished Night Agent on Netflix. Awesome conspiracy/espionage thriller, felt like an updated season of 24. I loved it. And it was just renewed for a second season.
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Grifman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:26 pm Just finished Night Agent on Netflix. Awesome conspiracy/espionage thriller, felt like an updated season of 24. I loved it. And it was just renewed for a second season.
Have you looked at Rabbit Hole on Paramount?
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Kraken wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:18 pm I recently started watching Torchwood. If you're unfamiliar with it, it's basically Warehouse 13 in the Dr Whoniverse, with Captain Jack Harkness standing in for the Doctor. Somehow I never got around to seeing it before. Pretty good so far, but not great yet.
As noted by others, the third series "Children of Earth" is the best one. (Though, I really didn't care for the ending.)

I strongly recommend against the 4th series. (Miracle Day). It has a few nice moments, but it's really bad.
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AWS260 wrote: Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:52 pm
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I watched this recently on a cross-country flight. Definitely not the best setting for a movie with this much action, but it still hit hard. Great acting across the board: the Oscar buzz for Viola Davis was justified (even if she didn't get nominated), and Lashana Lynch is super-charismatic.

Definitely a movie to check out if you like a good blend of action and drama.
This is a good movie but it totally ignores/contradicts history. The kingdom portrayed in the movie was historically one of the leading enslavers in Africa.
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Alefroth wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:50 pm
Grifman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:26 pm Just finished Night Agent on Netflix. Awesome conspiracy/espionage thriller, felt like an updated season of 24. I loved it. And it was just renewed for a second season.
Have you looked at Rabbit Hole on Paramount?
Gift me a Paramount subscription and I will :)
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Grifman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 4:04 pm
Alefroth wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:50 pm
Grifman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:26 pm Just finished Night Agent on Netflix. Awesome conspiracy/espionage thriller, felt like an updated season of 24. I loved it. And it was just renewed for a second season.
Have you looked at Rabbit Hole on Paramount?
Gift me a Paramount subscription and I will :)
I sprung for $4.99 for a month and there's still commercials. Ripoff.
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Grifman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 4:04 pm
Alefroth wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:50 pm
Grifman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:26 pm Just finished Night Agent on Netflix. Awesome conspiracy/espionage thriller, felt like an updated season of 24. I loved it. And it was just renewed for a second season.
Have you looked at Rabbit Hole on Paramount?
Gift me a Paramount subscription and I will :)
Free trial maybe? =)
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Jaymann wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 4:10 pm
Grifman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 4:04 pm
Alefroth wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:50 pm
Grifman wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:26 pm Just finished Night Agent on Netflix. Awesome conspiracy/espionage thriller, felt like an updated season of 24. I loved it. And it was just renewed for a second season.
Have you looked at Rabbit Hole on Paramount?
Gift me a Paramount subscription and I will :)
I sprung for $4.99 for a month and there's still commercials. Ripoff.
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Succession is pretty painful to watch this year. I can't believe they spent most of the episode about whether a certain character had died.

The whole season so far has just been word salad, without any point.
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Beef is good.
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Hipolito wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 10:52 pm Beef is good.
Wife likes it better than I do, but I'm in since the episodes and season are both short. I'm just getting burned out on shows about assholes being mean, and there is much assholiness in Beef.
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naednek wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 4:42 pm Succession is pretty painful to watch this year. I can't believe they spent most of the episode about whether a certain character had died.

The whole season so far has just been word salad, without any point.
I disagree. Although I didn't like the first two, the third episode was masterfully done and I'm looking forward to its conclusion. But we probably have a Succession thread for this one.
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Hipolito wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 10:52 pm Beef is good.
Yes. Not just good but brilliant.
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I'm midway through War Sailor on Netflix, it is damn epic.
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Z-Corn wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2023 6:14 pm
Hipolito wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 10:52 pm Beef is good.
Yes. Not just good but brilliant.
The ending didn't go in either direction that I thought it would. I wasn't sure how it would end until it ended. That's good writing. Although...
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About halfway through I said "They're going to wind up married to each other," more making a joke about my BIL's marriage than actually believing it.
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Kraken wrote: Tue Apr 18, 2023 10:58 pm
Z-Corn wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2023 6:14 pm
Hipolito wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 10:52 pm Beef is good.
Yes. Not just good but brilliant.
The ending didn't go in either direction that I thought it would. I wasn't sure how it would end until it ended. That's good writing. Although...
Spoiler:
About halfway through I said "They're going to wind up married to each other," more making a joke about my BIL's marriage than actually believing it.
I initially didn't like the final episode. It was so weird and philosophical, like how Neon Genesis Evangelion ended. But on reflection I like it.

And can we all appreciate how lovely Ali Wong is?
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Mrs. Davis on Peacock is (so far) original, fun and incredibly quirky. A badass nun fights against an all powerful AI that has taken over the world through apparent benevolence.

It’s…hard to describe beyond that. Betty Gelpin is just such a great comic actress.
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I'm enjoying All Creatures Great and Small on PBS. It's like a palate cleanser - no action, dystopia, crime, hateful people, or any of the other tropes that dominate entertainment. Just mostly likeable people trying to do their best in a world where integrity, honesty, and compassion still matter. It would probably bore y'all to tears. :P
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Kraken wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:34 pm I'm enjoying All Creatures Great and Small on PBS. It's like a palate cleanser - no action, dystopia, crime, hateful people, or any of the other tropes that dominate entertainment. Just mostly likeable people trying to do their best in a world where integrity, honesty, and compassion still matter. It would probably bore y'all to tears. :P
I watched that many years ago. I even picked up a couple of the books. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn't realize it was still on the air.

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