I am currently watching television programmes

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Postby elfismiles » Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:40 pm

I think I'll go rewatch all of the new SABRINA series. Here... TAKE MY MONEY!

GO CANNIBALS!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imwAdN53H40

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Postby brainpanhandler » Wed Oct 09, 2019 12:07 pm

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Re: I am currently watching television programmes

Postby thrulookingglass » Fri Nov 29, 2019 11:19 am



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Postby chump » Sun Jan 05, 2020 3:20 pm


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Re: I am currently watching television programmes

Postby Cordelia » Sat Feb 22, 2020 5:14 pm

Recently watched 2010 mini-series Any Human Heart after reading that it featured Gillian Anderson. I didn’t know what role she played but thought I’d give it a try. Really glad I did; it stars Jim Broadbent portraying the series protagonist, 'failed' writer Logan Mountstuart, as an old man who is reflecting back on his life as he sorts through treasures, detritus, mementos; vestiges of a lifetime spent reinventing himself throughout the 20th Century, beginning w/his student days at Oxford in the 1920’s, followed by marriages, careers, love affairs, tragedies, death, and finally, recognition (postmortem). Except for a sequence where he naïvely acts as courier between a London-based anarchist group and the Baader-Meinhof gang, I didn’t find much too far-fetched.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_7Ml9HAFXU

Tobias Menzies is memorably droll as Ian Fleming, who recruits Mountstuart into British Naval Intelligence and Tom Hollander is a hoot as abdicated king, the Duke of Windsor, as is Gillian Anderson as the Duchess (my biggest complaint about the series is that there wasn't enough of her-- she steals every scene she's in).

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Re: I am currently watching television programmes

Postby Handsome B. Wonderful » Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:15 pm

Been watching Star Trek Picard. Don't like it. Don't like it one bit. The last episode with Riker and Troi was nice but overall the series has been boring and goes against everything Star Trek is supposed to be about. It's like it's being written by people who don't understand Star Trek for people who don't understand Star Trek or don't like it. Oh well, I'm in this far, might as well ride out the last 3 episodes.
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Re: I am currently watching television programmes

Postby Handsome B. Wonderful » Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:03 am

Decided to watch my blu-ray collection of Gatchaman during this covid-19 psyop--oops, I mean pandemic. Gatchaman is a Japanese anime from 1972, repackaged and re-edited for North America as Battle of the Planets. I find the Japanese version to be more full in terms of story. The watered-down version eliminated some minor profanity and scenes of more violent content. I used to love watching BOTP as a youngster, along with Spectreman, Ultra-man, Space Giants. Spectreman came on here at 3:30, so I would race back home on my bike as quickly as I could, meanwhile the theme song is going through my head. "Spectreman!"
Still I miss the great theme from BOTP.
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Re: I am currently watching television programmes

Postby elfismiles » Fri Oct 14, 2022 3:52 pm

FUCKING THANK THE GODDESS!! I knew I'd eventually find it again ... have been racking my brain trying to remember / search for this series:

Granite Flats
2013-2015
3 Seasons
BYUTV
Drama, Family, Science Fiction
TVG
Watchlist
A group of young kids set out to unravel the mysteries surrounding their small town in this family-friendly drama, which starts out in 1962 with the arrival of a boy and his recently widowed mother at an army base in Colorado.
https://www.byutv.org/granite-flats

elfismiles » 07 Nov 2015 15:04 wrote:Recently finished bingestreamwatching all netflix available episodes of...

* Haven
* The 100

And now am watching:

* Granite Flats

... and I was just waiting for it and sure enough they finally actually say MK-ULTRA in the first ep of season 2.
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Re: I am currently watching television programmes

Postby drstrangelove » Fri Mar 24, 2023 7:06 am

DrEvil » Tue Aug 06, 2019 1:18 pm wrote:I would highly recommend 'Years and Years' from BBC/HBO. It follows a family through ten years as the UK (and the world) goes to shit around them and the government goes full fascist.

Just watched. Really enjoyed it but it's the closest thing I've actually seen to real predictive programming.

The ideological shading you'd expect from a HBO/BBC combo makes the synopsis a little hilarious though: Donald Trump drops a nuclear bomb on China then Russia invades Ukraine and a British demagogue cast to look like Marine Le Penn takes advantage of the situation and takes over during a period of severe austerity due to a banking and energy crisis leading to neoliberal governments being over thrown by their only alternative, hardcore fascists on the extreme right or left. Spoiler:the protags then use the power of, what for it, surveillance technology to defeat fascism!

It's like one big vaccination against populism. Fucking loved it!
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Re: I am currently watching television programmes

Postby DrEvil » Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:42 am

They even predicted Liz Truss' dress (or Liz Truss thought the PM on the show was a role model), and if you ask her she was overthrown by far left activists.

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The ending was the only thing I really didn't like about the show. Felt like some studio mandated happy ending.
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Re: I am currently watching television programmes

Postby drstrangelove » Tue Mar 28, 2023 8:58 am

my contribution to this thread will be two shows hopefully you, dear reader, have never seen.

the first is the best high brow television has to offer. do not let the low budget sets fool you, all the money went into writing and acting out the most fucked up and lively account of the rise and fall of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to ever leave the pages of a book.

I, Claudius



the second is the best low brow television has to offer. softcore pornography and hardcore violence in its natural environment, small town America, and there's a new sheriff in town. real turn your brain off shit.

Banshee!

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Re: I am currently watching television programmes

Postby DrEvil » Tue Mar 28, 2023 5:41 pm

My God! You can't just openly admit to liking stuff like.. like Banshee! You won't be able to show your face at the Rigint Social for months. How embarrassing.

* I may or may not have watched it and enjoyed it.

Speaking of low brow: I finally watched Avatar 2 yesterday, and holy fuck it looks spectacular. I don't think there was a single point throughout where my brain went "hang on, that's obviously CGI", even though it's basically an animated movie. The illusion was nearly perfect.
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Re: I am currently watching television programmes

Postby drstrangelove » Tue Apr 04, 2023 7:57 am

love the american small town crime genre. justified is another great one. also the jack reacher series. then you got twin peaks as well. my favorite episodes of the x-files are also the monster of the week ones where mulder and scully investigate strange things in small town america(even though it's propaganda to get urbanites to fear rural communities).

if i was a billionaire i'd construct a great library of first editions and commission the greatest small town american crime thriller tv series the world has ever seen.
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