I am currently watching television programmes

[elfismiles]

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

[brainpanhandler]

[thrulookingglass]

Enjoy your relationship with God.

[chump]

https://youtu.be/4IGynnluDKo
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Tot I taw a puddy tat…

Sufferin’ a-succatash-a! A tweety bird-a! A pizza pie-a! A leettle feathered paisano will make a de-lee-cious-a-sanda-wee-ch-a!

[coffin_dodger]

[chump]

https://youtu.be/WiFwJavEDaM
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[Cordelia]

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).



(Maybe if I was male and into rugby I’d have gotten more into William Boyd’s novel by the same name.)

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

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.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

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.

[elfismiles]

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

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.

[drstrangelove]

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!

[DrEvil]

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.



The ending was the only thing I really didn't like about the show. Felt like some studio mandated happy ending.

[drstrangelove]

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!

[DrEvil]

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.

[drstrangelove]

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.