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There's a risk that this upcoming American Vandal series may turn out to be a Netflix original comedy that's actually funny.
 
The Circle, a Netflix original movie, with funding from various "national movie funding vehicles"

Pros:
  • A decent cast - Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Bill Paxton, Patton Oswalt
  • Based on a Dave Eggers story, with Eggers having a hand in the screenplay
  • It's about tech, yeah? And all the bad shit that could happen, yeah?
Cons:
  • It is fuck-awful in every conceivable way
 
TheHoodedClaw said:
The Circle, a Netflix original movie, with funding from various "national movie funding vehicles"

Pros:
  • A decent cast - Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Bill Paxton, Patton Oswalt
  • Based on a Dave Eggers story, with Eggers having a hand in the screenplay
  • It's about tech, yeah? And all the bad shit that could happen, yeah?
Cons:
  • It is fuck-awful in every conceivable way
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:D
 
I enjoyed Defenders a lot. Danny Rand is a lot easier to deal with because all the other characters obviously think he's a dick. Also half his scenes involve the inordinately charming Jessica Henwick. The writing has definitely gone downhill quite a lot since first series DD and Jessica Jones but that's partly due to the same reasons comic book stories tend to go downhill. Mysteriously powerful characters like Madame Gao eventually have to get dragged out of the shadows and turned into regular kicking and punching supervillains robbing them of their sinister qualities.

Overall good fun and an improvement on Iron Fist. Looking forward to Punisher now. They'd have to try pretty hard to make that shit after the start they gave the character in DD S2.
 
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BigTom said:
I felt the same, it's worth watching through but I didn't feel like it got better, I also really didn't like that episode, it made very little sense to me. I really like series one - I didn't realise those were his actual parents! I love the scenes where they are showing their old life and the sacrifcies they made to get to the USA and how the kids now take it all for granted, it's really nicely done.
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I enjoyed the very first episode but it was Parents that made me sit up and pay attention - it's easily one of the smartest sitcom episodes I've ever seen. I loved the episode about Indian actors and characters on TV too.

Series 2 has a couple of standout episodes but I preferred the storyline of the first series.

ION I watched the start of Girlboss and it seemed to be an excellent soundtrack (bikini kill! Melba Moore!) in an arranged marriage with a steaming turd of a show.
 
Command and Control a documentary based on Eric Schlosser's book of the same name about an accident involving a Titan II missile is worth a look.
 
TheHoodedClaw said:
The Circle, a Netflix original movie, with funding from various "national movie funding vehicles"

Pros:
  • A decent cast - Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Bill Paxton, Patton Oswalt
  • Based on a Dave Eggers story, with Eggers having a hand in the screenplay
  • It's about tech, yeah? And all the bad shit that could happen, yeah?
Cons:
  • It is fuck-awful in every conceivable way
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I loved the book.
 
Hunger: about the 1981 IRA hunger strikers. Powerful and intense, as you'd expect.

Donal Trump's the Art of the Deal: parody of his book. Very funny. Gobsmacked to discover in the credits that it was Johnny Depp playing him!
 
girasol said:
Just watched The Big Short. How long until it happens again, is the question... Hadn't even heard about this film before, but it popped up on my recommendations list recently. Yeah, I recommend it too. :)
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Just watched it, really enjoyed it. Also watched Betting on Zero about Herbalife and pyramid selling.
 
I watched the 'Banking on Bitcoin' documentary now I'm dreaming of buying a bitcoin when the price collapses again (if ever) :)

It's already dropped by £200 since I started checking (last 4 days). Everyone is selling.
 
The Expanse Series 2 is now on Netflix. Season 1 was very good, season 2 is much better. Only up to to ep 4 but it's picking up with a excellent story and some great performances. Highly recommended.
 
DotCommunist said:
series 1 of TNG is ropey. The rule is if riker doesn't have a beard, its not a good episode. See also: Wesley's screen time. Any more than a few lines and the episodes fucked.
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At the suggestion of my siblings, I watched more of TNG. I finished the first episode, which did improve a little. Then the 2nd and 3rd. Both were terrible. The 2nd was a poor retread of the classic Naked Time episode and the 3rd episode was far worse even than the Mudd episodes of TOS in terms of sexism and dreadful set up. If I didn't know it was from the 80s I'd put it in the 50s, for attitudes, storyline values, and general clunkiness. Truly stinking drivel.
 
danny la rouge said:
At the suggestion of my siblings, I watched more of TNG. I finished the first episode, which did improve a little. Then the 2nd and 3rd. Both were terrible. The 2nd was a poor retread of the classic Naked Time episode and the 3rd episode was far worse even than the Mudd episodes of TOS in terms of sexism and dreadful set up. If I didn't know it was from the 80s I'd put it in the 50s, for attitudes, storyline values, and general clunkiness. Truly stinking drivel.
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the tasha yar kidnap one? I looked it up :

'The episode was received negatively by reviewers after the series ending, including being described by one as "quite possibly the worst piece of Star Trek ever made'
 
DotCommunist said:
the tasha yar kidnap one? I looked it up :

'The episode was received negatively by reviewers after the series ending, including being described by one as "quite possibly the worst piece of Star Trek ever made'
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Mrs la Rouge is out at her singing group, so I've watched the next two.

The Ferengai one was terrible. Another retread of a TOS episode (the Gorn one, but with elements of others thrown in). The Ferengai themselves were badly pitched comedy, especially as we were supposed to see them as mysterious and ineffable adversaries. The whole thing was a mess. And a pointless mess at that, having all been done much better two decades earlier.

Then I watched Where No One Has Gone Before. Finally! Something interesting! OK, so Kirk et al went to the Galactic Barrier, but I liked the way this was treated. And I didn't mind the boy in the weird jumper being a star travel savant. So, let's see if this is a breakthrough or a blip.
 
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