Netflix recommendations
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1%er
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Just watched it and found it enjoyable, I could only find 6 episodes on Netflix and noticed that there was a season 3, which I found here; Jack Taylor season 3 which has 3 episodes, all other episodes are also available via this link but some show the same episodes, I believe there was season 1,2 and 3 all with 3 episodes each.
You don't need to download anything, so don't and you will get pop-ups but none while watching the stream, I found Streamplay.to near the bottom of the list to work well for me but others may find a different stream better in their location
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Some episodes are a bit patchy.....
Interesting to see the fella who is his mate from ep 1 pretty much rehashed with the same actor for Taboo
1%er
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I thought The Dramatist was a little out there and a couple of others but all round I enjoyed it. I think Netflix Brazil is behind Netflix UK (copyright reasons) are all 9 episodes available on Netflix UK?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
no, only 6
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
The OA is great. What you on about?
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Watched Theo Who Lived last night.
It's a documentary about an American journalist, Peter Theo Curtis (also known as Theo Padnos), who intended to work an assignment in Syria, but was kidnapped by a local al Qaeda affiliate and then held captive for nigh on two years after trying to make contact with FSA representatives in Turkey. His story comes from his lips, as he revisits Turkey, and in scenes in which he himself recreates incidents from his ordeal.
It's very interesting, and Curtis/Padnos is a very engaging subject. He recognises his foolishness and own failures, is clearly traumatised, but tries hard not to be hateful, despite the appalling torture he endured. The section dealing with the time during his incarceration when he shared a cell with fellow American journalist Matt Schrier (who subsequently escaped) is electrifying. After seeing the film it is worth looking at Padnos and Schrier's respective wiki pages (and the edits) for more on their relationship.
Director David Schisgall is apparently a past collaborator of Errol Morris, and there are some nice Morris-esque touches which play with the form, and remind the viewer not to accept something as objectively true simply because they have ‘seen’ it.
Theo Who Lived (2016) - IMDb
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/...kidnapped-tortured-and-released-in-syria.html
‘The only Jew to have escaped from al-Qaida’
Is there an al Qaeda Syria-Montreal connection?
It's a documentary about an American journalist, Peter Theo Curtis (also known as Theo Padnos), who intended to work an assignment in Syria, but was kidnapped by a local al Qaeda affiliate and then held captive for nigh on two years after trying to make contact with FSA representatives in Turkey. His story comes from his lips, as he revisits Turkey, and in scenes in which he himself recreates incidents from his ordeal.
It's very interesting, and Curtis/Padnos is a very engaging subject. He recognises his foolishness and own failures, is clearly traumatised, but tries hard not to be hateful, despite the appalling torture he endured. The section dealing with the time during his incarceration when he shared a cell with fellow American journalist Matt Schrier (who subsequently escaped) is electrifying. After seeing the film it is worth looking at Padnos and Schrier's respective wiki pages (and the edits) for more on their relationship.
Director David Schisgall is apparently a past collaborator of Errol Morris, and there are some nice Morris-esque touches which play with the form, and remind the viewer not to accept something as objectively true simply because they have ‘seen’ it.
Theo Who Lived (2016) - IMDb
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/...kidnapped-tortured-and-released-in-syria.html
‘The only Jew to have escaped from al-Qaida’
Is there an al Qaeda Syria-Montreal connection?
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Yeah, there was nothing laughably bad about the ending at all.
I saw that and I sighed, well cant be arsed to watch cannibal stepford wives < it's so old
I started watching 'The Fear of 13' and it's pretty good, fell asleep gotta rewatch it
about a self educated inmate on death row who petitions the court to be executed
watch it, the stuff i can remember was awesome - the singing in particular
about a self educated inmate on death row who petitions the court to be executed
watch it, the stuff i can remember was awesome - the singing in particular
I watched the trailer and thought it looked like a knockoff of iZombie, also on Netflix.
Plumdaff
joy in people
I'll take the pitch black season 2 finale to once again highly recommend Crazy Ex Girlfriend. Dark musical satire, thoughtful exploration of mental illness, a skewering of romantic comedy tropes, a brilliant feminist depiction of women's lives and friendship and fucking odd and hilarious too. It's my favourite thing on TV at the moment.
T & P
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Watching it now, into ep. 2. Pretty odd but in an enjoyable way
T & P
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Update: just finished the whole thing. Funny as fuck. Perfect light entertainment. I do hope they commission a second series.Watching it now, into ep. 2. Pretty odd but in an enjoyable way
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
meh...if you watched the whole thing and it didn't get to you fair enough. I think that maybe the creators may only have one good story in them, we'll see in the next series.
wiskey
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I thoroughly enjoyed this, Theo was engaging and articulate and I liked that he has retained some humour ... but the subject matter is grim, I could not have survived that. The bit about his garden made me cry
Am off to read up on him and Schrier
Thanks for the recommendation
crossthebreeze
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Thanks. I think i flicked past this and didn't fancy it from the title and description. I watched the first 3 episodes of season 1 last night and its brilliant. Dark and sharp and feminist and funny and musical!
Plumdaff
joy in people
Glad you enjoyed it! The title is a little off putting I think - it's even addressed in the title sequence - but it's a shame if people don't watch because of that.
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
I saw that and enjoyed it, the vagaries of the American prison system are always both baffling and fascinating. You should watch it to the end
I did
lots of whaaaat the fuck this dude has the worst luck every time the dna got fucked
I started watching 'Lauder' the opther day but am saving it to watch with someone else what thinks he's a G
Mab
Kingston ON Canada
I loved it FRIT NORWAY! Watching the French: The Break --lead actor quite interesting.
Still waiting for the third season of the Danish/Swedish The Bridge and more of The Fall too.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Marvellously cheesy last few frames
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