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smartflix sounds good. much needed service, compiling all countries content. Will have to wait till I'm working before considering signing up, but I bet that adds a bunch of good shows. I had Fargo S2 on German netflix in the Hola days - only found out then that you dont need to worry about language settings when using non-English countries, but I bet you could trawl a bunch of stuff that isn't on US/UK/OZ etc doing that. Will check it out on the free trial when I can afford to continue the service if I like it.

Just started Person of Interest. JJ Abrams exec producer, Jonathon Nolan creator. Utterly preposterous and highly entertaining rogue spy nonsense, with a lot of stuff about surveillance culture. Started pre-Snowden, but captures the "post-Snowden Zeitgeist" (sorry :oops:) pretty damn well. Good reviews from respected sources. High emphasis on action.
 
Signed up to Smartflix on a 12 months for the price of 10 deal - so "around" £2.30'odd a month and it's brilliant - not only US Netflix but the entire Netflix library from around the world - wonder how long it'll be before Netflix block this one - to be honest, if I get 6 months out of this I'll consider it money well spent
 
Finally finished Community. What an excellent show. Sad it had to end, but I guess the premise meant it had to. As it was the final season felt a bit weird and contrived, but I still enjoyed it.
 
What I worry about with a paid unblocker is that since Netflix are cracking down, what happens to the money you've paid to the unblocker when they finally block them? They don't have super special tech that no one else knows about -- they're ostensibly using the same kind of solutions as free unblockers.
 
Vintage Paw said:
What I worry about with a paid unblocker is that since Netflix are cracking down, what happens to the money you've paid to the unblocker when they finally block them? They don't have super special tech that no one else knows about -- they're ostensibly using the same kind of solutions as free unblockers.
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I'm trying the free trial at the mo. Don't know anything about the tech, but if I do end up paying, which I likely will once I'm working, I'll use the monthly plan. Not worth the risk for a full years money if it stops working in 2 months, but a months money and it stops a week after payment? No great loss.
 
on topic, I watched Coherence a month or so back, and would say it's worth a go. A low budget sci-fi thingy about multiple-parallel dimensions meeting in a middle class suburb during a middle class dinner party. Wasn;t watching closely enough to actually figure out if it was entirely coherent, but it's pretty entertaining in a mind bending sort of way, and the acting and dialogue are well done.

Coherence (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Vintage Paw said:
Apparently Special Correspondents is absolute unmitigated shite.
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I started watching it, promptly fell asleep, then woke up just before the end. My subconscious informs me it was like a lesser Dudley Moore vehicle with Damien from Drop The Dead Donkey added in and filmed in their spare time by the production crew of Only Fools And Horses: Miami Twice.
 
20 feet from Stardom - the lives and times of backing singers - Chris Moyles mentioned it on his radio X programme during the week, and we gave it a go last night - Damn some of those women can sing and can still sing well into their 60s and probably 70s - if that's what getting old has in store for me then I won't be too disappointed
 
High Voltage said:
20 feet from Stardom - the lives and times of backing singers - Chris Moyles mentioned it on his radio X programme during the week, and we gave it a go last night - Damn some of those women can sing and can still sing well into their 60s and probably 70s - if that's what getting old has in store for me then I won't be too disappointed
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It's a great doc. Really enjoyed that.
 
Ms T said:
I'm quite enjoying Izombie ATM.
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I couldn't get into that although flix do have the first series of Z Nation on there which is also Zombie humour but set post apoc and like a funhouse mirror version of Walking Dead. At least three solid belly lols per episode on average
 
DotCommunist said:
I couldn't get into that although flix do have the first series of Z Nation on there which is also Zombie humour but set post apoc and like a funhouse mirror version of Walking Dead. At least three solid belly lols per episode on average
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The Liberty Bell scene had me in stitches. I need to find a good source to watch the second series.
 
BoxRoom said:
The Liberty Bell scene had me in stitches. I need to find a good source to watch the second series.
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all on torrents for me, can't seem to find a non spammy quality unpaid streamer these days and torrents are easier than dealing with fucking online casino adverts and exhortations to invest in ponzi scams

but yeah, its proper lol.
 
Continuing on with Nurse Jackie atm. I started it some time ago, thought I'd watched just the first season, but as I'm going through season 2 it's all very familiar, so maybe I watched more. In fact, I know I must have because I've seen this before :D

I love the younger female nurse. I'm a little bit in love with her, I think.
 
Originally I started watching it on BBC, but Netflix now claims ownership of the addictive Orphan Black. I binge rewatched season 1 and 2, then S3... Now caught up with S4. Sooooo good! One of the best female leads since long time!!!
 
*Miss Daisy* said:
Grieving from breaking bad then sons of anarchy
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can't get over how annoying it was that jax stacked himself under a big wheeler. Literaly summed up the sheer arrogance of them all. And I loved those characters but by god where they arseholes. I can't think of one character in it who wasn't compromised morally in some way except the compulsive masturbator they kept as a pet accountant. Even Opie, despite his good nature. Thats the ruin of it all. Take someones loyalty and twist it.
 
girasol said:
Oh, wow. I don't think they should do a second series. I think they are the same people who wrote Damages and that dragged on for too long.

Having finished it now I really recommend it, but don't see the point in making another season... Last two episodes were excellent!
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Well, they've done a second one - Starts Friday. I ended up finishing it. It either should have ended there and then, or maybe there's a great story to tell about the aftermath. It worked as a self contained story in itself. Trailer keeps you guessing as to whether Danny comes back - that would be a bit silly, imo.
 
girasol said:
So, just binge watched Lady Dynamite yesterday and today - had no idea what it was about - I prefer it that way sometimes... And I recommend it. It's about a comedian with bipolar II. Really surreal in places but touching too. I have a feeling it might be big, win awards and so on...

Your next Netflix binge: Maria Bamford's inventive and intimate 'Lady Dynamite'
Lady Dynamite: Maria Bamford's Netflix comedy should be a blast
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I've had an article about this open in a tab for a few days to remind me to give it a go. It sounds really interesting.
 
girasol said:
So, just binge watched Lady Dynamite yesterday and today - had no idea what it was about - I prefer it that way sometimes... And I recommend it. It's about a comedian with bipolar II. Really surreal in places but touching too. I have a feeling it might be big, win awards and so on...

Your next Netflix binge: Maria Bamford's inventive and intimate 'Lady Dynamite'
Lady Dynamite: Maria Bamford's Netflix comedy should be a blast
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Got just over half way through the season. The pilot left me cold, but it improved massively from there. Will watch the rest over the next couple of days. Enjoying it, in a really weird way.
 
Vintage Paw said:
Got just over half way through the season. The pilot left me cold, but it improved massively from there. Will watch the rest over the next couple of days. Enjoying it, in a really weird way.
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Yeah, the pilot isn't great but was good enough to make me go back for more. I then watched some of her YouTube show, The Maria Bamford show that she filmed when she was recovering at her parents. Can't believe I had never heard of her. :)

All her short youtube shows are here, under the videos section, you can see that A LOT of the material from Lady Dynamite comes from there.
Maria Bamford
 
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