Netflix recommendations
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Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
Watching the first episode of One Day has completely fucked the algorithm - Netflix recommending loads of mushy stuff instead of films with explosions, dystopian settings, crime dramas and extreme survival stuff.
I'll stick with it and watch some more but I really have to be in the right mood for anything of that nature so it might take me a while!
I'll stick with it and watch some more but I really have to be in the right mood for anything of that nature so it might take me a while!
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girasol
Addicted to handstands!
The Greatest Night in Pop was fabulously nostalgic. It took me back!!! The world was really fucked up back then but nowhere near as fucked up as it is now 
To see Michael Jackson there was fascinating, it was incredible seeing all those artists together in a room. I couldn't help but feel that if I'd been there it'd also be one of the greatest nights in my life, as a musician. Bob Dylan looked miserable throughout, like he was in pain being there, but at the end something magical happens and he comes out of his shell. Lots of magical & amusing moments. Can't recommend it enough!
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To see Michael Jackson there was fascinating, it was incredible seeing all those artists together in a room. I couldn't help but feel that if I'd been there it'd also be one of the greatest nights in my life, as a musician. Bob Dylan looked miserable throughout, like he was in pain being there, but at the end something magical happens and he comes out of his shell. Lots of magical & amusing moments. Can't recommend it enough!
‘A sense of Ocean’s 11’: the fascinating true story behind We Are the World
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May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Just finished Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields, another one of those three part miniseries that seem to be staple output for Netflix. I'm not a big true crime consumer as a lot of it is horribly prurient (or indeed just horrible), but thought this was a good watch in the sense of making absolutely clear how little of a shit the authorities gave about women's lives, safety and voices, over a very long period of time, and the impact of those failures on women and girls as well as the wider community over an unnecessarily long period of time.
I have been watching Ozark. I didn't watch it for years cause I thought it would be like Breaking Bad, which got dull pretty quickly. But my best friend persuaded me and she usually has good taste.
It was actually like Breaking Bad but better because instead of the rather unlikeable Walter White you have these great female characters like Wendy and Ruth who steal the show.
However series 4 is so bad I can't get through it. Think I'm just going to watch the the last episode for closure.
It was actually like Breaking Bad but better because instead of the rather unlikeable Walter White you have these great female characters like Wendy and Ruth who steal the show.
However series 4 is so bad I can't get through it. Think I'm just going to watch the the last episode for closure.
Netflix is sheer wank. I unsubscribed.
Silas Loom
Death to fireworks wankers
Ruth is of course lovely, but Marty is as dreadful as Walter, and Wendy is significantly more dreadful than Skylar.
A notable oddity with Ozark is the credibility-straining distances that people travel to have absurdly short conversations.
Wendy is a great character until about series 3 and especially series 4 when she goes all Lady Macbeth, guess the writers ran out of ideas.
Really I'm much more of a Saul fan than either as prefer character development over plot.
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Silas Loom
Death to fireworks wankers
Yup, BCS definitely Gilligan’s finest work, although BB is still fundamentally a character study and cinematographic jeu d’esprit that happens to be set in the methamphetamine industry.
My recollection is that Wendy was transactional and amoral from the outset, but it’s a while since I watched Ozark.
I think she was more multi dimensional with it.
And I did like BB at first too, probably for as many series as I liked Ozark. But it was so long ago I can't remember why.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Isn’t Skylar the ‘goodest’ character, exempting Walt Jr?
Silas Loom
Death to fireworks wankers
Hank is the most lawful, even if he is crass. Skylar is conflicted but likes the perks of criminality. Jesse is the moral centre.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Lawful is not necessarily good though is it.
Skylar got a lot of stick but mainly from unpleasant people with certain agendas
Silas Loom
Death to fireworks wankers
I hadn’t quite finished typing
Agree that Walt Jr is the “goodest”. Bit of a disability trope, that. Of its time.
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
We watched the first episode of that earlier and were in stitches, will definitely watch the rest.
I know the square root of fuck all about Jack Whitehall, is he horribly objectionable?
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Just very unfunny for a comedian, at least on everything I've seen him before. But somehow he doesn't ruin this.
Numbers
an ting!
Same as Fresh Meat, he didn’t ruin that either and it was/is a great show.
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AlRawabi School for Girls. A Jordanian miniseries about a group of outcast schoolgirls who team up to to take down their bullies through various stunts and schemes.
It’s been a big hit in Jordan and also rated well in many other Netflix territories. The premise is by no means a new one, but it is still pretty decent and much better than most American series of the genre.
It’s been a big hit in Jordan and also rated well in many other Netflix territories. The premise is by no means a new one, but it is still pretty decent and much better than most American series of the genre.
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I have finished this now (well, S1 as another has just been released, but S1 was conceived and written as a self contained miniseries), and it has turned out to be surprisingly good.
I thought it was going to be a Mean Girls-style show about bully vain schoolgirls but has turned out to be a very well written, multilayered complex drama about about patriarchal societies and the treatment of young women as much as is about bullying and the nature of revenge, with some pretty dark themes.
AlRawabi School For Girls: A Thrilling and Thought-Provoking Lambasting of Patriarchy
Film critic Calum Cooper writes about the power and themes of Netflix’s criminally underrated Arabic drama series, AlRawabi School For Girls.
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Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
I'm about half way through 'One Day'. Honestly, I think it's excellent. The premise is corny - it shouldn't work and I was not too hopeful after the first episode, but it is very well executed. The performances are strong, the script is sharp, the set design is brilliantly detailed and gorgeously nostalgic, its often quite funny and its just got a lot of heart to it. It also departs from many of the standard romcom cliches and often feels closer to a comedy drama than a romcom, especially as it develops. I haven't read the book its based on but get a sense of why it's so popular and critically eclaimed if its like the show.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
The film soundtrack is a good selection in terms of the eras covered, but it veers seriously saccharine.
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