I’m starting my winter vacation tonight, and need something to watch while I power through the last of the handmade Yule gifts. I’ll take a look.
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it’s in german with voiceover, which takes a bit of getting used to, but the story is complicated and there are so many characters to puzzle out that it made for an enjoyable enough first season. i’m interested to see how season 2 (if it gets one) explains oh so very many things.
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Sounds great! I can knit without looking (mostly), and German is one of the languages I grew up listening to, so at least I’ll know the swear words 
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One of my favorite German curses is Fick dich ins Knie (fuck you in the knee).
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I don’t know how to spell my fav, but for years I thought it was a common word like an article or preposition, because my grandparents used it so often (same word in Dutch as German).
Then I found out from some film subtitles it means “fart”.
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This is the only thing holding me back. Technology exists that they should give us a choice of dubbed soundtrack or subtitles. Give me subtitles every time.
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yeah, but it isn’t as hard to get used to as i thought it would be.
the interesting thing to me (and i realize this travels in stereotypes) is how so emotionally closed off all the characters are – even within families, they are so emotionless. it made me realize two things: (1), if this is the norm in germany or europe in general, no wonder they characterize americans as basically golden retrievers, too sharing and overly expressive; and (2) i think a LOT of problems in this show would have been avoided if the characters just TALKED to each other, haha.
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I’m up to ep 4 of Godless, but I’m still not sure.
I like a good western, but not sure if this is there yet.
I learned something! I started watching Dark tonight, and I was only getting German audio with no subtitles (meaning I could only understand about every fifteenth word 
). So I Googled and learned you can choose both audio and subtitle options right in Netflix, per show. It’s the voice balloon icon over the progress bar when you play a show. Click that and you can choose whatever audio/subtitle caption you want. CC adds in audio descriptors beyond dialogue translations.
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Netflix subtitles can be a blast. I watch most shows with it on .
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Did you like Stranger Things but wish it were darker, less twee, set in present day, involved possible time-travel and was in German with English subtitles?
Then you should be watching DARK!
https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80100172
Its so scary that MrPants won’t watch it with me. 
(He’s a baby tho, its not scary, creepy yes, but not “scary”)
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the thing is, like Stranger Things, part of it also takes place in the 1980s – there’s PLENTY of 80s german hits (and others) in it.
i definitely find it dark, but not scary. there’s a lot to keep track of, for sure.
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For some definitions of scary.
I watched the first episode and want to watch more – bits reminded me of both the original Twin Peaks and Donnie Darko. But if there’s an extended scene like that quick one at the very end of the episode, both my empathy and my claustrophobia are going to kick in and I’ll have to stop. (I walked out of The Empire Strikes Back over the carbonite scene for the same reasons.)
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Its not like jump cut or horror movie gory scary!
But it is creepy, and people die, so yes, like medium scary? Medium-light scary!
I’m hooked! I need to know whats going on!
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if you figure it out after watching all of it, keep me posted, haha. i’m still trying to sort it all out. i THINK i understand it all, but with so many characters reocurring at different times, combined with the german names, i just get lost.
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I’m just starting ep 5, and wondering if one of the two men I think might be Mikkel is Mikkel.
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keep watching. that makes all the sense later. it’s other people i’m not sure about.
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When I realized there were only 7 episodes to Godless, I finished it up.
Not bad. Feels like there was more that was edited out (probably for pacing as it is a might slow in parts) but overall i thought it worked.
Some great visual shots and decent acting with a fairly predictable plot.
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I’m at the point where the Mikkel thing has been cleared up (and Mads 
) – I just started the first episode to show scenes from 1953.
Re: Mads – I keep yelling at my TV, heloooooo, DNA test? ??? A swab from Mads and either of his parents or Ullrich would help a lot.
Given the conversation Jonas and the stranger had, the whole damn town should have DNA tests.
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I feel like it was supposed to be longer. Like they got green lit for a full series length show, and then it got cut back to 7. Cuz there was some long slow panning shots of western scenery porn that were lovely, but then the plot seemed jammed in there the last two episodes.
I liked it! I wish there was more of it.
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