It’s good to know there are people who’d get the reference if I say “Big BooTAY”. That was a great flick.
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Is that the guy who played Max Headroom? I’ll have to look it up. (ETA: yes, Matt Frewer.)
Yeah, I watched Altered Carbon. Like @kxkvi said about the book, I found a lot of moments where I was like “wait, what’s this and what’s the connection?” so I’ll need to watch again. I probably rushed through it. I also thought there were too many moments of something happening in slow mo for no reason. If they were aping a style it was the style of a cheap movie, and felt like padding. I would have been happier with it at seven or eight episodes. Still, a lot of interesting ideas. The scenes with Takeshi and the revolutionary leader were some of the truest to me.
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The Onion’s 50 Shades Freed review is funnier, scarier, and better acted than the film it’s reviewing.
Warning: use of strobe lights and quick cuts.
@TheOnion: The Onion Reviews ‘Fifty Shades Freed’ https://t.co/QawqLw0M4K
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Oh yes, I loved that one. It might be time for a rewatch soon!
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Is anyone watching Babylon Berlin on Netflix? From the first two episodes, it looks promising. The usual “troubled cop faces corruption and conspiracy”, but set in Weimar Berlin in 1929. Some gorgeous sets.
Warning: there is violence, and probably will be more as the series progresses.
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I’ve been watching it but it’s too heavy to be bingeable. Great visuals and sets, interesting performances.
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Finally wrapped up season 1 of American Gods. I liked it, even the changes from the books. I can’t wait to see the House on the Rock next season.
I really love Pablo Schreiber as Mad Sweeney. He’s excellent!
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O_O
Holy fucksocks; Aldous Leekie and Max Headrome spawned, and made that; Kill it with fire, quickly!
(Yes, I know it’s the same actor.)
The Uncanny Valley, though…
*shudderz
The Good Place is the shit; lurve me some Kristen Bell.
That cameo-like shout out to Cheers in the finale was EVERYTHING.
Also, I’ve been waiting to post this somewhere that people will get it:
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I was treated to Pirates of Somalia today, starring Evan Peters. What a great story.
Coincidentally, I had almost the same third act phone conversation with my dad the week the real estate bubble burst in 2007, urging me to come home from Moldova. Worst advice he ever gave me.
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Turns out it’s … mostly just your standard British police procedural, actually. The cops are a little grittier and more hard-boiled than usual. Both “odd couple” partners literally have scars on their faces. Detective Inspector Elaine Renko is a great character but she deserves to be in a better show than this 
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I started rewatching Battlestar Galactica (2003) a couple weeks ago. I’ve never seen it all the way through before, and never the finale, just a few episodes here and there. I think it holds up pretty well (up to S01E08). The 9/11 influence seems clear. And Adama had some pretty frakking great ideas about network security.
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Interesting. We just started watching it for the first time a few nights ago – almost finished with the first season miniseries. Very well done but . . . grim, with a capital G.
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Cool, I hope you all enjoy it as much as I am. I wasn’t sure how it would be – you know how old favorites can disappoint – but it’s no work at all to see it favorably, it’s just good. And Grim. In a good way.
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It really was that long ago. Whoa.
I remember …finding… The first season online from Sky since SyFy (?) hadn’t started showing it yet and bingeing it over a weekend. And then sharing it with my then boss who thought it was going to be terrible…until he binged it.
Second and third seasons I watched weekly as they came out, but the last two seasons didnt hold me as.well.
Great show. SO SAY WE ALL.
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This doesn’t really count as “watching,” but…
Brilliant, biting, British satire. With approximately one public individual being skewered per minute.
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Fans of
- Battlestar Galactica (especially the newer one)
- Cosmos (especially the old one)
- Egyptian and Roman history
- paganism and polytheism
might like
The ending is very dark but it’s a historical event, whatcha gonna do 
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So say we all.
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I just find it amusing that Corner Gas predicted the ending.
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(Just a little thing, please, don’t spoiler me. I have a guess but I don’t actually know.)
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