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Eddie: Strongman is pretty good. Following UK strongman Eddie Hall for 2 years in his quest to become the World's Strongest Man.
 
Watched " hostage to the devil " , Irish made documentary about an enigmatic / charismatic Irish former Jesuit who was going about the US performing exorcisms . Chap by the name of Malachi Martin . It gives equal weight to both sides of the coin, those who believed in what he was doing and those who saw him as a con man ...particularly the dude who's wife he was shagging behind his back . Apparently his book on the subject outsold " The exorcist " in the states. And the NYPD used to discreetly call him in from time to time when they encountered the disturbingly weird . It's just a fascinating character study whatever side of it you come down on .
The guy was definitely a very distinguished academic ...a professor whod worked on the Dead sea scrolls and stuff like that . and super intelligent . Led a fascinating life and was very much accomplished in academia and stuff like that .

Malachi Martin - Wikipedia

Have to say the last 25 minutes or so of it actually gave me the creeps . The guys driver, a former CIA operative, takes the camera crew to the spot were he performed his final exorcism on a 4 year old girl and describes what went on. Creepy as fuck . whatever your take on it the guys emotions as he describes what went on struck me as genuine . He really seemed to be choking up about it, he's in tears . And the video footage of the girl speaking fluent Latin with her face blurred out...bwwaaah..gave me the willies .

It's an interesting watch no matter what your views are . Having a duvet day today and I'm going to watch it again .
 
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The mostly true story of Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius who built an empire with his goat-testicle impotence cure and a million-watt radio station.
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Spymaster said:
Occupied is a ten part Norwegian political thriller that we're coming to the end of.

The Green Party comes into power and cuts off the oil supplies in favour of a new, climate friendly technology they've developed. The rest of the EU uses Russia as a proxy to invade Norway and restore the oil supply. The series looks at the political machinations, spies, and resistance movements, as well as running a couple of murder enquiries alongside.

Well acted and some nice photography of Norway. One for DotCommunist
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Finnished [LOL] this the other night, I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to more. Despite its limitations (some very familiar plot points, some rather implausible sequences of events), it had enough going for it - sometimes wrong footing the audience by avoiding some cliches, some interesting characters shaded grey, not black or white - that it certainly hooked me in.

Eldar Skar as the security police officer Djupvik reminds me of Martin Compston's Steve Arnott in Line Of Duty - he's not a supercop, a superagent or a superspy, he's just a slightly boring man doing his best with a not unlimited repertoire of skills, and rarely with all the facts available to him. A striver who can be a bit of a dick.
 
DaveCinzano said:
Finnished [LOL] this the other night, I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to more. Despite its limitations (some very familiar plot points, some rather implausible sequences of events), it had enough going for it - sometimes wrong footing the audience by avoiding some cliches, some interesting characters shaded grey, not black or white - that it certainly hooked me in.

Eldar Skar as the security police officer Djupvik reminds me of Martin Compston's Steve Arnott in Line Of Duty - he's not a supercop, a superagent or a superspy, he's just a slightly boring man doing his best with a not unlimited repertoire of skills, and rarely with all the facts available to him. A striver who can be a bit of a dick.
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I've just started this.

Wonder what it'll do to my current "let's move to Scandinavia" itch caused by a couple of trips hiking round Norway/Finland.
 
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I've just started The AO and am a bit annoyed by it already but will give it a couple more episodes. Just the constant "I'm the AO" enigmatic wtf is an "AO" bullshit is annoying me so much so that I want the internet to tell me but I also want the show to slowly reveal it to me. A first world problem at it's finest I feel :D
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I preserved with it and enjoyed it in the end :hmm:
 
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I preserved with it and enjoyed it in the end :hmm:
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Yes I binged it yesterday and enjoyed it although...

the end reminded me of a poor rip off of A Prayer for Owen Meany and I say poor as the 5 movements didn't really have a purpose. I would have been much more impressed if the movements somehow all came together as a sequence which allowed the 5 of them to overpower the gunman

Also....

why would a man who is violently allergic to tomatoes have a can of tomato puree in his house?
 
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I'm watching Please Like Me. Its about a young man who breaks up with his girlfriend, realises he's gay and moves back in with his depressed mum. It's slow and awkward. I like it.
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I loved this so much. I totally fell for all the characters, including the ones that I expected to hate. It's pretty much autobiographical. That's his real dog, Tom is his real best friend and his mum does have bipolar. I don't think he's making any more as it was dropped by the network.
 
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I loved this so much. I totally fell for all the characters, including the ones that I expected to hate. It's pretty much autobiographical. That's his real dog, Tom is his real best friend and his mum does have bipolar. I don't think he's making any more as it was dropped by the network.
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I really enjoyed the first series. Then i got annoyed with Josh. He was such a selfish dick at points. I'm on series three now, I think. I'm going to finish it bc I want him to redeem himself ;)
 
Vinnie jones ..Americas Toughest cops .

Exactly what you'd expect . My brain isn't up to anything more highbrow this evening . Such as cartoons even .
 
He's in Laredo Texas running about with the swat team . He's all Polaroid sun glasses , flak jacket and baseball cap . Acting ' ard .

Episode 2 and he's already grassed 2 punters up on the street while driving about with the cops . Pointed them out . :D

Eta

Now he's just grassed up 2 Mexicans trying to swim the rio grande . It's only episode 2 and he's grassed up 4 geezers already .
 
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Yes but you can watch it dubbed if you like. I've no idea why anybody would. even having the right language slightly out of sync drives me mad so the lips not matching the audio at all would be horrific.
 
chandlerp said:
Yes but you can watch it dubbed if you like. I've no idea why anybody would. even having the right language slightly out of sync drives me mad so the lips not matching the audio at all would be horrific.
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I watched it dubbed, the lip movement never really bothers me, I tend to have to programs on in the background while I'm doing other stuff so the need to read means I won't know what's going on as much
 
Hes gone and grassed up another kid in new Orleans . Pointed him out in the bushes . Then when're someone's handcuffed he goes up to them, laughs at them and takes the piss, gives them a mini life lecture . :D:D

He's totally carried away by this stuff, he's running about actually trying to catch perps .

Vinnie Jones is definitely no Louis Theroux .
 
Looby said:
I loved this so much. I totally fell for all the characters, including the ones that I expected to hate. It's pretty much autobiographical. That's his real dog, Tom is his real best friend and his mum does have bipolar. I don't think he's making any more as it was dropped by the network.
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That isn't quite true. Pivot (the US cable channel that funded the later series and also where it was screened over there) has shut down. Also, after having seen all the episodes I am fine with how it has ended.
 
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That isn't quite true. Pivot (the US cable channel that funded the later series and also where it was screened over there) has shut down. Also, after having seen all the episodes I am fine with how it has ended.
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Ah ok, cheers.

I am too actually. It would be nice to see more but yeah, it ended well. [emoji4]
 
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