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Just finished watching The Endless. Thank you for the recommendation!

I keep thinking of when I went to California when I was four, and all the stories friends and relatives have had since, both visitors and people who happily live there.

There’s… stuff out there, to be sure.

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The Good Place and How to Get Away With Murder are back!

I am a pleased viewer this evening…

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You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

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With the barrage of negativity out there, I recommend watching Kedi. A Turkish documentary about the semi-feral cats of Istanbul and the people they choose.

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Thank you. Good show. Pacing seemed just right.

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Season 3 of The Man in the High Castle just dropped 1/2 an hour ago. 10 episodes on Amazon Prime (and likely your favorite pirate streaming service, too).

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BBC .com says there’s going to be a 5th season of Luther.

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My favorite “streaming” service has been redirecting to a Cloudflare error page for the last month. :frowning: Fortunately my local lib has a pretty deep DVD catalog and I’m into that. I rewatched Fargo last night and now all my self-talk is in North Dakotin, dontchya know. Yer darn tootin. I’m also trying to get through Bridge of Spies for the third time and not succeeding. It keeps looking like it should be a good movie from the packaging but it just hasn’t grabbed me.

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Yeah, I see Bridge of Spies much the same way I saw The Catcher was a Spy. Low on a visceral sense of danger. I read that even the overcoat scene in BoS was way over-dramatized compared to the real life situation.

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The world is pretty shit right now, but at least 2019 has a bright spot waiting for us…

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I just finished the movie Black '47, a revenge fantasy movie about the potato blight and tenant evictions of the 1840s in Ireland.

Kind of chilling how so much of the material is mirrored in today’s society, all the way down to the story thread of “speak English”. There’s a pretty good scene between Stephen Rea and Jim Broadbent in there where Jim’s character is presented with a universal lesson.

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just finished it

It’s one of those things where you don’t know what genre it is until the end. Is this a murder mystery? A cop show? A melodrama where rich ladies get drunk and yell at each other and nothing else happens? No, no, it’s a horror show where you think the monster is dead but there are still more killings to do right until the last second :confounded:

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what am i watching? the new Doctor Who, of course. as a veteran of all 12 previous doctors, i’m loving the new Doctor already.

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Is there any site that hosts the original Doctor Whos? I got into it during the Baker years, but would love to go back and start at the very beginning.

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The Gifted. Finally, a Marvel property has made a direct reference to the Morlocks.

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I don’t even think all of the original Doctor Who episodes are intact :frowning:

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Maybe Britbox.

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i THINK you can get them through BBC America, but i’m not 100% certain. i know there are some that are missing, but they relatively recently FOUND a couple at a station in africa, of all places.

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The very very very beginning would be George Pal’s adaptations of H. G. Wells

Influences on the early episodes are pretty obvious, with Morlocks → “Cave of Skulls” and Martians → Daleks

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Anybody still watching The Walking Dead ?

Really there are three different “walking dead” TV shows

FtWDs4 is probably my favorite so far, but of course it’s had the benefit of learning from the others’ mistakes

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