Subject: Stay At Home Viewing
Posted by: Godwit
Date: Apr 25 20
Curious, what are you watching while the world spins around us?
What's your favorite thing about it? Does it help you get through?
Posted by: Godwit
Date: Apr 25 20
Curious, what are you watching while the world spins around us?
What's your favorite thing about it? Does it help you get through?
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Godwit 
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I found 191 Best Netflix Series and thought you all might like ten of them (some of you could use 191, I realize, so go to editorial.rottentomatoes and check it out). Anyone who knows anything about any of these, please jump in. Keeping in mind this is one rotten tomatoes perspective: 1. The Babysitters Club (girls babysitting, I surmise) 2. Dash & Lily (romance) 3. Ugly Delicious (food) 4. Girl/Haji (2019) Tokyo and London detective work 5. Blood of Zeus (yep, son of Zeus, regular guy) 6. Lenox Hill (docuseries on doctor work) 7. Middleditch & Schwartz (comedians) 8. Crazyhead (2016) demon hunters 9. Bigmouth 10. Alias Grace (Canadian maid convicted of murder. I've always wondered about those CN maids....) oh heck why not eleven 11. Wild Wild Country (world's most controversial guru, in Oregon, at odds with ranchers) Oh oh this one looks fun 12. Lupin (gentleman thief) 13. Sweet Tooth (post-disaster human hybrids. They look to be nice people?) Reply #881. Jun 11 21, 1:17 PM |
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For all of us still primarily on the couch, I came across a movie called "Storm" (1999) starring Martin Sheen which sounds good. Got a Best Film in the UK. It's about black-ops secret manipulation of the weather. Also "Last Breath" (1997) "particularly impressive" about a man who decides to type and then murder a woman, so he can get her "donated" lungs to save his dying wife. Starring Luke Perry from "90210" TV. Reply #882. Jun 11 21, 4:09 PM |
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I am busy enjoying Sweet Tooth. If you're into fantasy and are sick of cop/lawyers/hospital series, I recommend it. I also think it's inspired by Covid....known as "The Sick". Reply #883. Jun 13 21, 2:13 AM |
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Rockstar: Re Sweet Tooth, are the hybrids nice people? The trailer I saw implies it. I think hybrids who aren't monsters would be refreshing. Though the only hybrids I know are on "The Originals" and "Vampire Diaries". I donno if I'm ready for pandemic "fantasy" since it's still all-too-real. But others seem to be, as this show is doing very well. Sounds like you like it . Reply #884. Jun 13 21, 10:29 AM |
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Did I mention "Hustle"? It's a British light drama from at least a decade ago (when Robert Vaughn was still alive) about grifters who... well, grift a lot, especially in long cons. Elements of fantasy in it, too. Reply #885. Jun 15 21, 7:21 AM |
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I can't say I was ever addicted to Hustle but if the tv was on and that programme popped up I would watch it rather than turn it off. Robert Vaughn did quite a lot of work in the UK and that was one of his longest-running shows over here. The main leading British actors in it are Adrian Lester and Robert Glenister. Reply #886. Jun 15 21, 7:48 AM |
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The season of The Handmaid's Tale ended today. One more season, maybe due to covid delays not out until next year. Now I have to buy the book. I have to know what happens. A benefit to a binge is it hasn't been months or a year since you saw the last season. Reply #887. Jun 16 21, 8:01 PM |
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If by "buy the book", you mean "The Handmaid's Tail", you should be aware that all of that material was covered in the very first season of "The Handmaid's Tail" series on Hulu, which has now completed its fourth season. The last three seasons have not been based on events in the book at all. Margaret Atwood, the writer of "The Handmaid's Tail" book, did write a sequel book which came out in 2019 called "The Testaments" (which I will admit I have not read), but the events of the last three seasons of "The Handmaid's Tail" series have not really followed that book either (so I've read), and it is not clear that the fifth season (which has been approved for production but probably won't debut for another year) will necessarily follow "The Testaments" either. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_TestamentsReply #888. Jun 16 21, 9:24 PM |
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Good gracious! Of course I meant "The Handmaid's Tale", not Tail. I do try to proofread my posts before I hit submit but I must have totally spaced out this time. My apologies for the gross misspelling. Reply #889. Jun 16 21, 9:28 PM |
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Godwit, I 'm with you. I'm completely done with dystopian, post-disaster settings. I did make myself watch "Soylent Green" because I had never seen the whole thing (just knew the spoiler and a few scenes), but that's it. Period pieces, light dramas, mysteries, that's more my taste. Happy endings, or at least "it's all for the best" endings. Reply #890. Jun 17 21, 12:16 AM |
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"Rockstar: Re Sweet Tooth, are the hybrids nice people? The trailer I saw implies it. I think hybrids who aren't monsters would be refreshing. Though the only hybrids I know are on "The Originals" and "Vampire Diaries". " Yes they are, they are all children, and they are hunted. Reply #891. Jun 17 21, 3:46 AM |
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I watched a delightful Netflix movie the other night, called Ladies in Black. It's an Australian flick and Julia Ormond is in it. Anyone seen Benchley Circle, San Francisco? I have just watched the first 2 episodes, and since that story was wrapped by the end of episode 2, I gather every story will span 1-2 episodes. It's nice clean viewing and takes place in the 1950's. Reply #892. Jun 17 21, 3:58 AM |
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Gomorra! is good. Just sayin', in case you're in a mood for gangsters shooting each other all the time. I'm enjoying it anyway. Reply #893. Jun 17 21, 8:12 AM |
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brm50diboll: THANK YOU! I'd have rushed to the store, put out $25.00 and then been crushed when I get no answers on the Handmaid's Tale. No worries about the auto correct I do that a lot. And...it's an excellent Freudian slip, too. I dreamed about the episode from yesterday all night. So powerful and disturbing and...now I have to wait a year. :( "Lucifer" is wonderful fun! If you feel like absurdity and laughing. He's a devilishly charming, flawed, clever fellow you have to fall in love with. Tons of witty quips and silly references. He's got issues with his dad. lol! Leans toward the Adults Only side once in a while (he's the devil after all) but mostly, great fun. Lucifer has a different take on the whole "dad" thing. That of a son longing for his father's approval. Reply #894. Jun 17 21, 9:39 AM |
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rockstar: Absolutely, Benchley Circle is among the best shows ever. Though short lived, like some of the best. I still miss "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" from decades ago. Cancelled. And "Dead Like Me". So funny! Cancelled. Reply #895. Jun 17 21, 9:42 AM |
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Is Gomorra anything like Deadwood? Deadwood was set in the 1800s in South Dakota, all about rough and corrupt folks settling the area. Reply #896. Jun 19 21, 11:11 PM |
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It's about the Camorra, the mafiosi of Naples - Gommora is a clever play on words. It's about a world of corruption, yes, bit of a cliché possibly but as the series was made for the Italian market at least it's their cliché. I always felt that my favourite French cops show, Spiral (Les Engrenages), might have appealed to my English view of the sleazy side of Paris but it was a French series so they presumably knew what they were talking about therefore I felt less guilty about watching something which lived up, or down, to my preconceived ideas. I hope that makes sense! Gomorra is set in drug-ridden Napoli, with endless housing estates populated by the poor who spend all their money on a twist of cocaine which they buy from the Camorra. The Camorra themselves don't necessarily live all that well but some have glitzy nightclubs, sparkling bling, and a taste in haircuts which, frankly, leaves much to be desired. It's a society mostly run by men but the occasional woman makes her mark and is just as bad as the rest. They all kill, usually without compunction, and when there is compunction it doesn't necessarily stand in the way of the next child getting killed or the innocent "normal" getting mowed down. Drug-trafficking, people-trafficking, violence, murder, dirty money, corrupt authorities, territories, turf wars, Naples v Rome. I would say it's like bits of Deadwood (one of my favourite tv shows ever) but it's also different. In Deadwood there were at least a few "good guys" - the sheriff, some of the townsfolk... But in Gomorra, the only good guys are some of the bad guys. It starts with a Camorra family which consists of an actual family (who rule everyone on their patch) which has a father, mother, and son. The son is a young adult, irresponsible, spendthrift, pampered, spoilt... he has a best friend who's in the Camorra and is regarded almost as an adopted son by the Don. Almost. Then he finds out that actually he's just another worker ant who will never be proper family. And so the fun begins. This guy, Ciro, is a bad guy, really bad... but the son, Gennaro, who wants to rival his father is also bad. And the father, Don Pietro, is ruthless, you just know he's the one to be feared. He looks at people with cold dead eyes and you know that in a minute or so they'll be dead and getting cold. And the mother... The problem with likening it to Deadwood is that Deadwood's characters were usually true to form. The sheriff was a good guy throughout, Al Swearengen's a villain with a heart of gold, and the rest are usually on one side or the other. Gomorra's full of bad guys. Sometimes a bad guy becomes a more sympathetic character and you want him to win over the other bad guy but that's about it. Is it wrong to want a drug-dealing murderer to defeat a white-slave-trading murderer who brings girls in from Eastern Europe? That's the sort of moral dilemma Gomorra offers but it doesn't really matter - it's tv and in the next episode they may all be dead anyway! Reply #897. Jun 20 21, 9:28 AM |
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Sounds like a quiz in the making, perhaps? In "The Originals", about the most ancient and first vampires to exist, the family of Originals are fiercely loyal to one another, can love, sometimes take action to save an innocent. But they admit they are essentially "monsters". Your discussion reminds me of them because sometimes I want the egomaniac brutal killing machine to win over his enemies...to be safe. It's just crazy. France? You're saying depiction of the underbelly of France was cool because you knew it was there...? Not entirely sure. Deadwood sure is an ugly, hostile, gross, shocking and somehow "Oh that makes sense it would be just like that" depiction of the old (mid) west. How about Dexter? The super nice, hard working, loves his sister, only brutally murders bad guys serial killer? Reply #898. Jun 20 21, 9:27 PM |
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Meerkat Manor is back on BBC America. Shark Week begins June 11th. No word on a new Sharknado movie. Reply #899. Jun 21 21, 12:01 AM |
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Er .... Make that July 11th. Reply #900. Jun 21 21, 2:25 AM |
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