@gadgetgirl and any other interested Canadians
Just got an email that Archer S10 has hit Netflix.
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I saw that, thank you!
It will be good brain bleach after that⌠well, it was marketed as a rom com, but it wasnât.
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@knoxblox
Not to say there isnât sexism in Morse. In the early episodes, for example, the policewomen are never given anything substantive to do. They just appear in the background of scenes to assist when a female character is being arrested. I assume this must reflect actual police procedures at the time.
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Ignoring two hours of US military propaganda with bad dialogue.
BiL and dad decided to watch Maverick.
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Damn. This American tried searching for Archer on Netflix and instead got Pacific Heat.
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And The Dark Crystal has dropped. Decisions, decisions.
(I did all of She-Ra Season 3 in one evening).
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Went with The Dark Crystal. I have many feelings and it is late, but I am glad that for one character, they went with a voice actor who understands that certain things must be done right instead of putting their own spin on things.
Simon Pegg and his âHmmmmâŚâ bring my childhood right back.
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Finished The Boys.
Thought it was decent.
Good casting. Erin Moriarty really sold the bright-eyed, do-gooder to me.
Looking forward to S2.
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I will recommend Double Wedding and I Love You Again
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Iâve only just realised that Officer Dwayne is played by Danny John-Jules.
The Cat has changed a lot since his days on Red DwarfâŚ
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Black Earth Rising is well worth the time, if you have not seen it yet.
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Weâve been watching Serengeti lately. The reviews have been mixed-- apparently some people donât like dramatized nature shows-- but we are highly enjoying it. The cinematography is amazing, and I want to but donât want to know how they filmed some of the point-of-view and closeup shots.
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Anthony Starr as a blond sociopath parody of Captain America is hands down the creepiest portrayal that Iâve seen in quite some time.
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The new Dark Crystal series.
omg.
i wasnât a big fan of the original movie, but this has now made me understand.
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The Boys is brilliant but I am completely not onboard with the way that they took an obviously Japanese actress and had her firing an AK-74 into the jungle like she was in the Vietcong.
Just completely not okay.
Itâs otherwise one of the best ever things I have seen on TV but Jesus, there is a whole bunch of completely unquestioned stupid, racist bullshit in it and it is irritating me incredibly.
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I really, really like the show but I wish there were some way that Hollywood/Amazon/Netflix could stop using being from âAsiaâ or âthe Middle Eastâ as the default âincomprehensibleâ motivation for its protagonists.
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Not to be contrary; it wasnât obvious to me.
And no, none of the bullshit racist tropes that are baked in are âokay.â
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The Lives of Others. A really good film.
On headphones, naturlich.
I wish I could say that the SDH nature of the subtitles enriched the experience by getting everything down in writing. But no. Netflix should procure real subtitles. Or maybe I should brush up on my German.
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No, and thatâs kind of the point, I think. Her captors were speaking Tagalog but the pop video she loves is in Japanese, the graffiti in the Chinatown scenes is a mix of Mandarin and Taiwanese, and the nail shop owner was speaking Malay, iirc. The actress who plays her is Japanese-American. Itâs okay though, because she is Mute Asian Girl/Ninja, who never speaks to anyone.
Given how the show keeps calling Karl Urban a Brit, despite the fact that heâs got the most Kiwi accent I have ever heard, and given how smart the rest of the show is, Iâm inclined to think itâs not accidental.
Iâm still not okay with âJapanese American establishes her Asian-ness by firing a submachine gun into the jungleâ though.
ETA: thereâs a short clip where her brother speaks to her in Japanese, and her name is Kimiko, which is a Japanese name. Iâm not really sure who the âtheyâ are who kidnapped her and turned her into a child soldier but the short clip of her childhood shows a beach that seems to be further south in Asia than Japan. It could be Okinawa at a stretch but my guess is Thailand or Malaysia. So yeah, Asian othering in full effect.
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