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The In Kraut
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
Thanks for that. For some reason, I cannot change it from Bahasa Melayu on my TV, it doesn't give me that option. I need it in English as my hearing isn't good. Will have another go!
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
OK, I logged into Prime on my computer, changed it to English there and now it's OK on the TV.
Mrs Miggins
There's been a slight cheese accident
I was given a recommendation of The Green Inferno. I should have known better. One of the shittest films I've ever seen. Doesn't even deliver on the torture porn/gore that it's supposed to be.
Rubbish.
Horribly racist as well. Don't bother
Rubbish.
Horribly racist as well. Don't bother
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T & P
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This might only be available if you have a Hulu add-on, so apologies if it’s not available ‘for free’ on Prime. Just discovered and started watching The Great, a genre-bending farcical comedy about Catherine the Great. I had not heard of this before but it has some well known talent and very good critic reviews. It’s by the same writer who wrote The Favourite.
www.rottentomatoes.com
Not vintage so far but certainly more than sufficiently amusing and entertaining.
The Great: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes
A genre-bending, anti-historical ride through 18th-century Russia following the wildly comedic rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great.
Not vintage so far but certainly more than sufficiently amusing and entertaining.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Was that on prime? I didn't think it was. Anyway I gave up after about three episodes so you did better than me. Can't believe it got a second series.
T & P
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It is but it might well be behind the Starzplay add-on paywall.
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
This might only be available if you have a Hulu add-on, so apologies if it’s not available ‘for free’ on Prime. Just discovered and started watching The Great, a genre-bending farcical comedy about Catherine the Great. I had not heard of this before but it has some well known talent and very good critic reviews. It’s by the same writer who wrote The Favourite.
The Great: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes
A genre-bending, anti-historical ride through 18th-century Russia following the wildly comedic rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great.
Not vintage so far but certainly more than sufficiently amusing and entertaining.
I bloody loved that. Got the free trial of Hulu and binged it. Brilliant. Historically, nonsense, but the characters are fantastic and the acting is all superb and it's funny as hell and has the right level of pathos. Recommended.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Ah right, of course. Then practically everything is on prime if you don't mind paying £3 per episode.
Orang Utan
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Mrs Miggins
There's been a slight cheese accident
I've just watched about 20 mins of this and I absolutely adore it! I love these series now where historical accuracy is thrown to the wind and we get great frock and 21st century mores on the past. But somehow it feels more accurate because I feel human nature does not change.This might only be available if you have a Hulu add-on, so apologies if it’s not available ‘for free’ on Prime. Just discovered and started watching The Great, a genre-bending farcical comedy about Catherine the Great. I had not heard of this before but it has some well known talent and very good critic reviews. It’s by the same writer who wrote The Favourite.
The Great: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes
A genre-bending, anti-historical ride through 18th-century Russia following the wildly comedic rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great.
Not vintage so far but certainly more than sufficiently amusing and entertaining.
Catherine the Great has been decried for her sexual appetite and bad things have been said about her. Maybe she just had precisely that - a sexual appetite - but at the time, this was not considered a good thing.
Mrs Miggins
There's been a slight cheese accident
I think what I like about these new things is that although 21st century language is used, the way they actually spoke to one another would have sounded the same at the time.
I just watched Knives Out and massively enjoyed it. Twists and turns and a genuine heart behind it all. The kabbess only lasted 25 minutes but this is twice as long as she normally manages with a film, so that’s maybe not as negative as it sounds.
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Mrs Miggins
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This ^^
After my slightly drunken musings on Friday evening, I've been watching this at every available moment and I absolutely love it. It's superb.
It has some of my favourite actors in it and the chap playing the emperor is fantastic. Mad, cruel, self absorbed, exciting, utterly unaware of what a massive cunt he is. Which is exactly how I imagine such people may have been.
I love the crazy aunt as well. I want her to be my friend.
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Handmaids Tale really is very good.
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
Public Service Announcement: I meant the free trial of Starzplay, which also has Counterpart and Castle Rock, both v good. Counterpart works even tho cancelled after S2 (in fact I suspect it stopped it turning into a load of old shite) and S1 of Castle Rock is excellent and worth the whole thing for the one episode that revolves around the mother; absolutely stand out beautiful film making, just amazing. You'll know it when you see it.
That episode is one of the saddest things I've ever seen
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
And beautiful though, right?
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Enjoyed this a lot and it wrapped up pretty well I thought.
You can tell the actors really enjoyed playing two versions of themselves
very, it was exceptionally well done.
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
Enjoyed this a lot and it wrapped up pretty well I thought.
You can tell the actors really enjoyed playing two versions of themselves
JK Simmons was particularly good at it I thought, both parts utterly believable.
I really loved it and was actually glad there was no more, as you say, it wrapped pretty well and saved me from losing interest halfway through S3 or 4
Mrs Miggins
There's been a slight cheese accident
Finished The Great last night. I think it's just excellent. One of the best things I've seen in a while. I'm left feeling sad it's over.Nearly half way though The Great and still enjoying it. It has the right blend of comedy and drama/ darkness, some very quotable lines
T & P
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A bit of family-friendly superhero comedy action: Stargirl. Watched the first episode last night and it was very entertaining. Massive ratings on Rotten Tomatoes as well
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DC's Stargirl | Rotten Tomatoes
High school student Courtney Whitmore inspires an unlikely group of young heroes to stop the villains of the past.
I watched Stargirl. It was okay if you’re a genre fan, but not great even then. I’ve been rewatching Buffy recently and Stargirl suffers hugely in the comparison. It feels a bit superhero-teen-by-numbers.
I’m currently on season two of Archer, which I’d never previously heard of but apparently won massive plaudits as well as a tonne of awards back in the early 2010s. It’s an animated spy agency spoof, with the main character (Sterling Archer) voiced by the same guy who does Bob in Bob’s Burgers. It’s crude, inappropriate and hugely, laugh-out-loud funny. Archer himself is a narcissistic, mumbling, misogynistic arsehole that everybody hates, just how James Bond would actually be in real life. But the rest of the characters are just as distinctively awful. Give it a watch.
I’m also half way through the second season of Hanna, which is honestly brilliant. It took a bit of time to warm up but it’s a beautifully psychological joy. Also, the music is worth a special mention. It’s done by the same people that did the music from DEVS, if you saw that, and rises to the level of being an integral feature of the experience.
I’m currently on season two of Archer, which I’d never previously heard of but apparently won massive plaudits as well as a tonne of awards back in the early 2010s. It’s an animated spy agency spoof, with the main character (Sterling Archer) voiced by the same guy who does Bob in Bob’s Burgers. It’s crude, inappropriate and hugely, laugh-out-loud funny. Archer himself is a narcissistic, mumbling, misogynistic arsehole that everybody hates, just how James Bond would actually be in real life. But the rest of the characters are just as distinctively awful. Give it a watch.
I’m also half way through the second season of Hanna, which is honestly brilliant. It took a bit of time to warm up but it’s a beautifully psychological joy. Also, the music is worth a special mention. It’s done by the same people that did the music from DEVS, if you saw that, and rises to the level of being an integral feature of the experience.
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