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Post by alece10 on Feb 2, 2020 11:06:08 GMT
|Is Sex Education meant to be set in a specific time period? Don't know if I am over thinking it but it seems to be a real mix of time periods. For example they are all using smart phones which indicates now(ish), some of the clothes are modern but some are very retro (70's/80's), Sam Spiro was using a camera which was 50's/60's and some of the house interior are modern and some quite retro. The cars also seem to be quite old (not that I know anything about cars). Is it done on purpose?
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Feb 2, 2020 12:19:53 GMT
|Is Sex Education meant to be set in a specific time period? Don't know if I am over thinking it but it seems to be a real mix of time periods. For example they are all using smart phones which indicates now(ish), some of the clothes are modern but some are very retro (70's/80's), Sam Spiro was using a camera which was 50's/60's and some of the house interior are modern and some quite retro. The cars also seem to be quite old (not that I know anything about cars). Is it done on purpose? It's supposed to be a weird mix of anachronistic stuff so that it has the vibe of an 80s John Hughes type of American high school movie but set in modern day England.
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Post by intoanewlife on Feb 2, 2020 12:21:20 GMT
Only John Hughes movies were funny x
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Feb 2, 2020 14:18:06 GMT
Only John Hughes movies were funny x How much of it have you actually watched to be able to say it is legitimately unfunny. Also I don't really come to the show for the humour but for its intelligent and mature way of handling sexual health and positivity issues that society still regards as taboo, as well as the drama and character interactions (they all have such wonderful chemistry and I think these things are the real draw for most people).
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Post by intoanewlife on Feb 2, 2020 14:28:25 GMT
Only John Hughes movies were funny x How much of it have you actually watched to be able to say it is legitimately unfunny. Also I don't really come to the show for the humour but for its intelligent and mature way of handling sexual health and positivity issues that society still regards as taboo, as well as the drama and character interactions (they all have such wonderful chemistry and I think these things are the real draw for most people). I gave up after the first Ep. I found them all annoying, even Gillian who I usually love.
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Post by intoanewlife on Feb 10, 2020 21:58:10 GMT
Dragula Season 3 on Prime. Forget Seasons 1 and 2. This is where to start. Crazy and a complete antithesis to RPDR which, as much as I love it, is starting to suck all the subversion out of drag (Sasha Velour was on Lorraine this morning just as one example), Dragula is dark, trashy, horror glam and very clever. (Their version of the Pit Crew are super hot too 😜) Just finished this. Great drag and thankfully the show is a lot more professionally made than the first 2 seasons. But Holy Hell what and unlikable bunch of contestants lol They're all complete nut jobs!
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Post by daisy24601 on Feb 14, 2020 9:44:40 GMT
I just finished The Stranger, really enjoyed it. Siobhan Finneran is fantastic.
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Post by intoanewlife on Mar 29, 2020 3:26:45 GMT
I strongly recommend this!
IT IS CRAAAAAAZY!!!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 29, 2020 17:19:43 GMT
I strongly recommend this! IT IS CRAAAAAAZY!!! Seeing lots of comments about Tiger King on Facebook, usually accompanied by a “WTF” or 😮. It’s getting huge ratings on the review sites too. I’ve read a blurb but I’m struggling to understand why it’s getting this reaction. Can anyone explain?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 29, 2020 17:21:32 GMT
Steel Magnolias is on Netflix. 😍
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Post by intoanewlife on Mar 29, 2020 20:02:59 GMT
I strongly recommend this! IT IS CRAAAAAAZY!!! Seeing lots of comments about Tiger King on Facebook, usually accompanied by a “WTF” or 😮. It’s getting huge ratings on the review sites too. I’ve read a blurb but I’m struggling to understand why it’s getting this reaction. Can anyone explain? To say anything would ruin it, it's got lots of twists and turns. The people in it have to be seen to be believed. They are probably the most vile feral bunch of turdburgers ever assembled in one television series. You're best going in pretty blind as all the promos give too much away. Although it is of coursed ruined from the start as it has like a 2 minute intro which gives the main story away. So fast forward it if you watch it.
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Post by viserys on Mar 30, 2020 6:13:53 GMT
Seeing lots of comments about Tiger King on Facebook, usually accompanied by a “WTF” or 😮. It’s getting huge ratings on the review sites too. I’ve read a blurb but I’m struggling to understand why it’s getting this reaction. Can anyone explain? To say anything would ruin it, it's got lots of twists and turns. The people in it have to be seen to be believed. They are probably the most vile feral bunch of turdburgers ever assembled in one television series. You're best going in pretty blind as all the promos give too much away. Although it is of coursed ruined from the start as it has like a 2 minute intro which gives the main story away. So fast forward it if you watch it. I didn't mind the intro... the characters alone are too mind-boggling to believe even without the actual (true) story. Turdburgers is an apt description My jaw kept dropping throughout the whole first episode. Can't wait to watch more!
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Post by intoanewlife on Mar 30, 2020 10:00:39 GMT
To say anything would ruin it, it's got lots of twists and turns. The people in it have to be seen to be believed. They are probably the most vile feral bunch of turdburgers ever assembled in one television series. You're best going in pretty blind as all the promos give too much away. Although it is of coursed ruined from the start as it has like a 2 minute intro which gives the main story away. So fast forward it if you watch it. I didn't mind the intro... the characters alone are too mind-boggling to believe even without the actual (true) story. Turdburgers is an apt description My jaw kept dropping throughout the whole first episode. Can't wait to watch more! As an editor myself, I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to work for months on end to get the balance of drip feeding the right information at the right time to make a show like this really shine and then have some dick executive come in at the end and make you tell the whole 7 hour story in 2 minutes and slam it on the front of your hard work so that people with ADD might watch your programme.
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Post by pianowithsam on Mar 30, 2020 10:31:04 GMT
I strongly recommend this! IT IS CRAAAAAAZY!!! I've been thoroughly enjoying this and have one episode to go. It's perhaps one of the scariest things I've ever seen. Not horror scary, obviously, but scary to think that we live in a world where people like this exist. Plus, to think that this is all very real. I think Netflix is churning out some corkers in terms of documentaries. Don't F*** With Cats was brilliant and now this. Would highly recommend it to anyone.
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Post by alece10 on Mar 30, 2020 13:10:25 GMT
I'm watching Unorthodox on Netflix. Very good but you have to concentrate as its nearly all in Yiddish and so subtitled. But gives a great insight into orthodox Jews whilst also being a good drama.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 12, 2020 11:24:29 GMT
Just watched this on Prime. Documentary about the casting of the 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line featuring several of the creatives from the original production, and the tape recordings Director Michael Bennett used as his inspiration.
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Post by talkingheads on Apr 12, 2020 11:29:23 GMT
If anyone wants a film that is like watching a play, The Pyramid Texts on Amazon Prime Video really impressed me. A black and while monologue starring James Cosmo as an ageing boxer who bares his soul while sat in the ring, absolutely barnstorming performance.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Jan 15, 2021 20:39:24 GMT
Thought I'd revive this thread because I watched a wonderful film on Netflix the other night which I just have to recommend. It's called You're Name Engraved Herein and it's an gay themed film set in Taiwan, so a foreign language film, and I guess the combo of being and foreign language might not make this the most mass friendly recommendation but it's genuinely one of the best films I think I've seen. At least google it for the trailer as I really recommend it. I'm still thinking about it days later, it's really powerful.
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Post by alece10 on Jan 16, 2021 10:45:56 GMT
Has anyone watched Messiah on Netflix? I am just over half way through it and really undecided whether its good or bad. Part of me wants to give up on it but I think I will stick to the end and just hope I havent wasted my time. As there is so much choice on TV these days especially with main TV, Catch up, Netflix, Amazon etc I have a policy now that if its a film and I cant get into it within 30 mins then I stop and with a series I give it 2 episodes before giving up.
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Post by Mark on Jan 16, 2021 10:57:24 GMT
Thats generous for time. We gave up on Bridgerton after about half an hour. Really not our thing. We managed to watch The Queens Gambit in a day and a half - just incredible. We also really enjoyed Chernobyl last week.
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Post by alece10 on Jan 16, 2021 11:03:18 GMT
Thats generous for time. We gave up on Bridgerton after about half an hour. Really not our thing. We managed to watch The Queens Gambit in a day and a half - just incredible. We also really enjoyed Chernobyl last week. I really enjoyed The Queens Gambit considering it wouldnt normally be my choice of viewing but it was so well acted. I also really enjoyed a series about an orthadox Jewish woman who escaped her husband and went to Germany. I cant think of the name of the series at the moment but it was superb. Want to see Chernobyl -is it on Netflix? I can only seem to find it on Amazon and you have to pay extra for it
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Post by Mark on Jan 16, 2021 11:14:39 GMT
Thats generous for time. We gave up on Bridgerton after about half an hour. Really not our thing. We managed to watch The Queens Gambit in a day and a half - just incredible. We also really enjoyed Chernobyl last week. I really enjoyed The Queens Gambit considering it wouldnt normally be my choice of viewing but it was so well acted. I also really enjoyed a series about an orthadox Jewish woman who escaped her husband and went to Germany. I cant think of the name of the series at the moment but it was superb. Want to see Chernobyl -is it on Netflix? I can only seem to find it on Amazon and you have to pay extra for it Aah we have Sky so its included with our boxsets. And yes, I really wasn't sure going into Queens Gambit it would be out thing but within 10 mins I knew it was gonna be great.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2021 11:19:27 GMT
Green Book on Amazon Prime is well worth a watch.
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Jan 16, 2021 11:37:33 GMT
If you've got Amazon Prime you should watch One Night In Miami or pretty much any other movie about race in America instead of Green Book. God I hate that film. Oh yeah, all the guy who was literally so racist that he threw away glasses because a black man touched them needs is to go on a road trip with a black musician who he teaches how to eat fried chicken. Congrats, you solved racism! Just insulting, reductionist rubbish.
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Post by poster J on Jan 16, 2021 13:12:47 GMT
Thats generous for time. We gave up on Bridgerton after about half an hour. Really not our thing. We managed to watch The Queens Gambit in a day and a half - just incredible. We also really enjoyed Chernobyl last week. I really enjoyed The Queens Gambit considering it wouldnt normally be my choice of viewing but it was so well acted. I also really enjoyed a series about an orthadox Jewish woman who escaped her husband and went to Germany. I cant think of the name of the series at the moment but it was superb. Want to see Chernobyl -is it on Netflix? I can only seem to find it on Amazon and you have to pay extra for it Unorthodox is the series - a difficult watch at points but I thought it was brilliant. Chernobyl is exceptional. I'm binging The Queen's Gambit this weekend, and watching One Night in Miami tonight I think.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jan 16, 2021 13:50:08 GMT
I really enjoyed The Queens Gambit considering it wouldnt normally be my choice of viewing but it was so well acted. I also really enjoyed a series about an orthadox Jewish woman who escaped her husband and went to Germany. I cant think of the name of the series at the moment but it was superb. Want to see Chernobyl -is it on Netflix? I can only seem to find it on Amazon and you have to pay extra for it Unorthodox is the series - a difficult watch at points but I thought it was brilliant. Chernobyl is exceptional. I'm binging The Queen's Gambit this weekend, and watching One Night in Miami tonight I think. Yep The Queens Gambit is really good. Worthy of it's IMDB 8.7 rating
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jan 16, 2021 15:04:00 GMT
I am looking forward to the return of Blown Away next week. Glass blowing is a strange basis for a TV competition but the first season/series was addictive.
I think we watched the first run in 2 days!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2021 15:48:30 GMT
If you've got Amazon Prime you should watch One Night In Miami or pretty much any other movie about race in America instead of Green Book. God I hate that film. Oh yeah, all the guy who was literally so racist that he threw away glasses because a black man touched them needs is to go on a road trip with a black musician who he teaches how to eat fried chicken. Congrats, you solved racism! Just insulting, reductionist rubbish. Not to mansplain but you know its a biopic, written by Vallelonga's son in consultation with Don Shirely's estate, right? I was able to watch it without any sort of whiterage and enjoy it for what I felt it was, an interesting interpretation and dramatisation of events I knew nothing about, rather than any sort of journey of racial resolution. Of course people are entirely able to watch it themselves and make their own minds up though. Out of interest, did you see Blindspotting?
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Jan 16, 2021 16:57:48 GMT
If you've got Amazon Prime you should watch One Night In Miami or pretty much any other movie about race in America instead of Green Book. God I hate that film. Oh yeah, all the guy who was literally so racist that he threw away glasses because a black man touched them needs is to go on a road trip with a black musician who he teaches how to eat fried chicken. Congrats, you solved racism! Just insulting, reductionist rubbish. Not to mansplain but you know its a biopic, written by Vallelonga's son in consultation with Don Shirely's estate, right? I was able to watch it without any sort of whiterage and enjoy it for what I felt it was, an interesting interpretation and dramatisation of events I knew nothing about, rather than any sort of journey of racial resolution. Of course people are entirely able to watch it themselves and make their own minds up though. Out of interest, did you see Blindspotting? I know it's a biopic but that doesn't mean the story hasn't been dramatised/embellished or doesn't use shorthand to get points across and when the movie portrays Langella as virulently racist as it does then I don't buy his redemption and it treats the topic of racism as the problem of individuals rather than as a systemic and deeply rooted issue of American society which as I said I found reductionist. I also don't know how far I trust the film's accuracy in portraying their relationship, it seemed heavily biased towards Langella's account and Shirley's family were disapproving of the portrayal and claimed that they did not have a long-lasting friendship beyond their working relationship. To me the film just felt more like a feel good film for white people to pat themselves on the back for no longer being as racist as people were back then in a "see how far we've come" kind of way and which leant into tired white saviour tropes. I don't think I've ever seen a black person praise this film beyond its performances which were its most redeeming feature. As for Blindspotting, yes I did see and thoroughly enjoyed it though I don't think it was by any means perfect.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 17, 2021 10:19:25 GMT
Netflix. Scripted reality about the super-rich Asian community in LA. It’s absolute trash of the glossiest order but only eight episodes at about 40 minutes each. I’m ashamed to say I devoured the lot yesterday 😊. Oh, and Kevin features heavily 😍
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