rekil
to menny cranks
I recommend pretty much all the fillums that the guy who plays the shaman has been in. Jung-min Hwang - IMDb
Netflix recommendations
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dervish
if you flibble when you wibble, don't wobble
I didn't know that (spoiler) to be honest I don't think it made that much of a difference to my opinion of the film, I thought it did have a great twist which I genuinely didn't see coming till really late. Came to it with very little expectations and wasn't disappointed.
Well yeh but the twist is, to my mind, linked to the spoiler. It hugely increased my enjoyment of the film, thinking about it.
Threshers_Flail
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MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I'm currently watching, Sense8 (into season 2 now), it starts off very slow there isn't' a lot in the first couple of episodes and that might put people off but once it gets going tis a cracking tale.
Also 2 episodes into the Dragon Prince which is an animated series with promise even if the elves have Scottish accents.
Along with Mrs MickiQ, I am currently watching the Good Place (near end of season 2) which has some very funny moments, Schitt's Creek (2 episodes in) which hasn't been bad but don't know if we'll stick with it.
We're watching Victoria (which we didn't follow on the Beeb) near end of season 1 which is fairly accurate historically but is well worth a watch.
We watched one episode of the Crown and decided that it was boring and won't bother with it any more, it occurred to me other than the being Queen thing, Brenda hasn't actually had that exciting a life to make a TV show out of.
Also 2 episodes into the Dragon Prince which is an animated series with promise even if the elves have Scottish accents.
Along with Mrs MickiQ, I am currently watching the Good Place (near end of season 2) which has some very funny moments, Schitt's Creek (2 episodes in) which hasn't been bad but don't know if we'll stick with it.
We're watching Victoria (which we didn't follow on the Beeb) near end of season 1 which is fairly accurate historically but is well worth a watch.
We watched one episode of the Crown and decided that it was boring and won't bother with it any more, it occurred to me other than the being Queen thing, Brenda hasn't actually had that exciting a life to make a TV show out of.
Reno
The In Kraut
I nearly stopped watching The Crown after the first couple of episodes but as it gets into mixing the personal with the political, it becomes far more involving. The show is aware how frequently absurd and anachronistic the idea of a monarchy in 20th Century Britain is. I think it’s a better and more thoughtful show about the royals than Victoria. There is a scene where she admonishes her mother for receiving a poor education, more concerned with etiquette than with knowledge, which makes her feel constantly inept when it comes to the people she has to entertain, where this show got its hooks into me. The fact that with The Crown fairly recent history gets the treatment of a historical epic, makes it more original than the many dramas of kings and queens of the more distant past.
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T & P
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No, quite the opposite! Everything starts to make sense as the series progresses, and by the last episode everything has been explained, and the story concludes (beautifully IMO) with no open endings and no nagging mysteries unexplained.
PS I guess that might be why this series (and a few others) call/ market themselves as a "limited series". To let viewers know it the script is a full story and written as if it were a book, rather than something purposedly written to entice sequels or subsequent seasons.
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HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
Good documentary - Sridhar Rangayan’s “Breaking Free” about the LGBT movement in India.
Offers evidence of police misuse of section 377 to criminalise LGBT people in India, filmed over seven years. Pretty harrowing stuff though.
Offers evidence of police misuse of section 377 to criminalise LGBT people in India, filmed over seven years. Pretty harrowing stuff though.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
One of the three lead characters is an Elven assassin voiced by a Scottish actress, using her own accent. The leader of her six person (six elven?) team also has a Scottish accent, I don't know whether this was a deliberate choice to cast only Scots as elves or since she was Scottish to use other Scots so their accents matched.
We used to watch the Three Musketeers on the Beeb, big fans actually but 17th century France was apparently inhabited by folks with Scots, Irish, and even Australian ones, just no-one with a French one.
Reign was another Netflix series supposedly set in Scotland but filmed in Vancouver, the one episode they had a Scottish actor (John Barrowman) who could do a pukka Glasgow accent he stood out like a sore thumb.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
He’s the first Scottish person I’ve ever witnessed doing the changing your accent thing when at home with parents, only it sounds like an impersonation he did it in a documentary about being gay and that. It probably sounds as bad as I do trying to speak Gaelic again after losing fluency years ago.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Me personally, I can't hear it but I was born and raised in Crewe so I guess I must have a Crewe one. It's rare people don't understand me but it does occasionally happen especially with Indian call centres
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
I used to be a BT operator, I had to frequently put on an English accent when telling ENGLISH PEOPLE what my name was. Sayrah. Sayrah. SEHHH-RAH! “Oooooh Sarah!” YAH!
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HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
Them, English people.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
What’s going on in the space between yer ears, that’s what you need to ask. But don’t expect the rest of us to wear whatever conclusions you’ve erroneously jumped to, aaaaagain.
Threshers_Flail
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Big Mouth is back for season 2, not seen any of it yet but season 1 was brilliant.
Reno
The In Kraut
You are supposed to be confused when Maniac place. A lot of dystopian fiction does the retro futuristic thing.
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I can only manage to watch films or series when truly desperate...and hardy even make it to the end...but I found Maniac highly amusing - I think it might be around episode 6 when it really kicked up a gear into the sublimely ludicrous (involves elves). A terrific mixture of surreal silliness and genuinely freakish imagery which kept this insomniac entertained during the grimly awful 4am timeslot (eyes too knackered for reading or knitting).
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