Totally with you on that.
However (temples fingers) they have a “try it free” option, at least for Canada right now. It’s tempting to let several episodes stack up and then watch them, then cancel the subscription.
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cough bittorrent
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Sure, if I can find one – which doesn’t happen lately. Never was very good with that.
I’d rather just wait. Like other people have said, is not going to go away
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I think the guys who do the wire are doing a new show? The Deuce, about times square in NYC in the 1970s, if I remembering correctly.
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I watched the Rourouni Kenshin musical at the anime convention we’ve been going to this weekend:
I have to say, it was pretty fucking amazing. I don’t think you can get it in the states on blue ray or DVD with subtitles, etc. The people who had it ordered it from Japan and did the subtitles themselves. Also, the theater troupe that did it were all women - so all the roles were played by women and there were 3 extra musical numbers at the end for no discernable reason.
In some ways that might be even more alien and unlike the present than Boardwalk Empire.
Especially if they want to get really weird. There was a lot of weirdness hiding in the corners of America in the '70s and '80s, before there were computers and cameras everywhere.
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Never mind.
The Good Place actually has more in common with The Truman Show, or The Prisoner.
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I’m listening to this:
The Lawfare Podcast: Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro on ‘The Internationalists’
The Kellogg-Briand Pact is often remembered as a failure. Signed in 1928 to outlaw war, it was followed in just over a decade by one of the deadliest conflicts in history. But Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro see the pact differently. In their new book, “The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World,” they argue that though it did not successfully end all war, the pact changed the way states resolve disputes, reduced the likelihood of conquest, and set of a chain of events that led to the modern world order. On September 11, they sat down with Jack Goldsmith at the Hoover Book Soiree to discuss their book and its implications.
It’s more interesting than it sounds. One thing I found interesting is that before 1928, the kind of measures that are associated today with the avoidance of open conflict (economic sanctions, for one) were illegal, and that should change my understanding of wars prior to the Kellogg-Briand pact.
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Yep, both David Simon projects. Very well-written and engaging, but just don’t get attached to any of the main characters 
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The Final Countdown. Interesting premise, but there’s no follow through whatsoever…
(USS Nimitz, with full complement of planes, transported to Pacific just days before Pearl Harbor attack… Interesting questions are raised, and promises of exciting action are made. Then before anything can happen, Nimitz is transported back to present day.)
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Obligatory…
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what do you know, it’s better than that fucking Geico ad.
When I was eight that was my favorite movie.
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The Expanse season 2. Fabulous!
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I’m home from work - hit my head on a shelf bar, and the ibuprofen a supervisor gave me is making me silly. I’m a lightweight when it comes to Rx painkillers.
Anyhow: “The Old Man”/Kolchak/The Night Stalker/Mr. Brown - Darren McGavin before all those, starring in “The Outsider” a TV show that premiered in fall of 1968. His phone is in the fridge - no pun intended, but how fucking cool is that? Because Darren McGavin, man.
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Just watched Blade Runner 2049.
Wow.
Gotta process it now, but it was gorgeous. Definitely worth the theater cost to see it all up on the big screen, IMHO.
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So good?
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Yes. I think I have a quibble with a bit of plot, but I’m still thinking it through.
Visually stunning. This is the Blade Runner universe.
The “Vangelis from a parallel universe” music (Hans ZImmer and Benjamin Wallfisch) sets the right mood\ambiance.
I need to go find the shorts that were made to bridge the two movies.
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I agree it was visually stunning… but that’s all I can say in praise of it.
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So, much like the first one, then?
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