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I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore is like a quirky, tense AMC crime drama condensed into a film, and is a blast. Casting is all good, even with Frodo - I especially loved Melanie Lynskey in the lead.

really really enjoyed that film.

i finished up GOMORRA and season 2 got better as it went along. Boy, that sure took a dark turn in the last couple episodes! I guess I'm a little weirded out by the fact that Don Pietro is portrayed by an actor only a couple years older than i am. i also was a little weirded out by his relationship w/Patrizia, since i didn't believe she'd go for him for one second.

SUBURRA: BLOOD ON ROME is thus far a lot better than the film. the latter felt like a watered-down version of a very dense novel, the show feels more like the novel. odd to see some of the same characters from the film pop up here, knowing how some of them wind up.

The Invisible Guest is a fun one.

Icarus is a pretty amazing story, I finally watched it last night. As with ARD drama on this issue, all I can think now is- "there are people and families still in real danger RIGHT NOW and I hope they get through," regardless of flaws or culpability.

To Walk Invisible: Bronte Sisters is on Amazon Prime & guys it’s so good I bawled my eyes out
Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley) wrote & directed it and god bless her for giving the sisters such a worthy telling of their story
It’s really great
*blows nose loudly into another kleenex*

Man I would watch that
I hate being too poor to afford multiple streaming services

Discovery's back, the same old combination of immense watchability and poor storytelling

i don't feel at home in the world anymore is really cool, thanks for the recommendation

mentioned this on the rolling comic thread but the well received series adaptation of the Fantagraphics comic book 'The End of the F***ing World' by Charles Forsman (which i liked pretty well as the comic book 'TEOTFW' tho it is unsurprisingly hella nihilist) is now on US netflix. Have not yet watched, would love a push if anybody wants to try and reply?
https://www.netflix.com/title/80175722
http://www.tcj.com/reviews/the-end-of-the-fucking-world/
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-end-of-the-fing-world-review-netflix/549656/

fantagraphics fucking rule

I watched The End of the F... this weekend. I didn't know anything about it but enjoyed it. I thought the two leads did very well. Where is it supposed to be set? I was trying to look up filming locations but couldn't find anything.

The Voyeur was pretty interesting but had so many gaps. Like what was the deal with the murder he supposedly witnessed? The only thing the fact checkers could find was a similar murder around the same time - but occurred at a different motel?? And there was a v brief mention of Gerald’s drug addict son but what did his kids - and Anita’s kids - think about all this shit?

The dude claimed to be a researcher (lol) and kept all these notes, but he had 3 yrs of notes regarding the spying before he even bought the motel - his claim that he simply inverted the 9 when referring to when he purchased the place makes no sense.

Anyone watched Dark?

I've heard a few people say it's very good.

some discussion over on the non-English Netflix thread iirc

Enjoyed the hell out of The Bar, a ridiculously entertaining Spanish horror/thriller set in a Madrid pub. It does a great job making some wild twists and reveals feel organic.

Oh, I watched that too. I kind of was disappointed though that they weren't stuck in the bar for the entire duration of the movie.

The Seinfeld show, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, is on Netflix now. Started watching a couple episodes. Julia Louis-Dreyfus was unsurprisingly very funny.

I watched The End of the F... this weekend. I didn't know anything about it but enjoyed it. I thought the two leads did very well. Where is it supposed to be set? I was trying to look up filming locations but couldn't find anything.

― Yerac, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 12:46 AM (nine hours ago)

I likes this too primarily because of the performance by the kids

jim carrey a mess on seinfeld's new netflix show

carrey's *

Yeah he’s gone deep into New Age-y shit in a way that signals “looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets”. That creepy shroud surrounding his young ex-gf killing herself a few years ago certainly feeding that impression.

cleanse definitely not helping his psychosis

Macon Blair (director of I Don't Feel at Home in this World Anymore) plays the lead dude in Mustang Island. I thought it was excellent, reminded me of Stranger Than Paradise. Between these two and Blue Ruin, which was also great, I'm thinking this Macon Blair dude is not a bad dude.

the end of the f***ing world is great, thanks for the rec

Polka King is pretty great

watched the documentary last night, there wasn't enough polka

lol

i should watch the doc, i never knew any of the story.

tbh the movie makes it a bit more lighthearted than i think it should have been.

xp yeah, i'm liking TEOTFW too.

the "toys that made us" doc series is kinda too perfect for me unfortunately

"Toys..." is actually pretty interesting once you successfully hold your nose through the opening credit sequence.

yeah "Toys" somehow smuggles a pretty damning exposé of toy companies' sleazy corporate practices and gross channelling of children's imaginations into irrational consumerism under chipper "I <3 the 80s" breezily glib narration. The obligatory final minutes of hagiography read as deeply ironic in each case, though I have genuinely no clue what the creators were actually trying to achieve. A friend got me to watch it by describing the He-Man episode as "chilling." Recommended if you are 39 years old.

the sexism and xenophobia of the guys who started the lines is blatant as hell too

a fact i did not know until last night: the star wars toys have made more money than the movies and lucas approached the creation of the films with primary interest as a toy line. i had NO idea he got a direct cut of sales off the toys; that's got to be unprecedented.

lucas approached the creation of the films with primary interest as a toy line. i had NO idea he got a direct cut of sales off the toys; that's got to be unprecdented

I don't think the first part is true but yes, the merchandising deal was unusual

The Barbie one has a lot of sleaze too! One of the creators was fired from her own company for fraud; the other got a Star Wars-size royalty agreement, married Zsa Zsa Gabor and built a castle with 150 telephones and a railway and orgies.

life aspirations

Started watching Lovesick this morning
already blown through 1st season
it’s very good - reminds me a lot of late 90’s shows like Cold Feet or This Life. Def resembles This Life the most tho - Dylan definitely has Egg qualities ie terminally cute. It’s very well written. Lots of layers

I've been watching SUBURRA: BLOOD ON ROME, and it's a lot better than the film. I'm still a little weirded out how they turned the novel's primary antagonist "Samurai" from a guy who--as written in the book--seems more like a slightly effete version of David Carradine in Kill Bill than he did this sort of professorial sociopath. The recast of the role works wonders though; in the film the character seemed a bit more worried all the time rather than a guy people should worry about, whereas here he seems as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Nothing in the series quite jibes with the simplistic and easy manner in which the characters shared with the film come to their fates, which makes me wish they'd never made the damn movie in the first place because everyone in the series is more interesting, even the same characters played by the same actors.

Claudia Gerini is exceptionally good, probably the best out of a great cast overall (aside from the guy who plays Spadino maybe.)

yeah i liked him

just getting started with the gomorrah series

alyssa bringing to mind sheryl lee when she changes her hair in the show

I'm enjoying Voltron: Legendary Defender way too much, on the basis of 1. Rhys Darby, 2. Chunk's dialogue and 3. I kinda married Pidge IRL

"I'M A LEG!"

Somehow I really enjoyed The Indian Detective despite being lukewarm on Russell Peters's standup act and recognizing the predictability of the storylines. The shots of Mumbai are great and it does a good job of representing a lot of nuances about India that tend to not get represented in most Western media ime. I like the subtle running joke that people keep staring at Peters's character like he is a moron every time he emphasizes that he is from Toronto "in Canada" ("all this time I thought it was in Finland") or compliments them on speaking English well.

Agreed, I had pretty low expectations but it was an enjoyable show.

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Is it just me, or is this season of Grace and Frankie not very good?

i have been enjoying Episodes. i'm kind of afraid to know what people here think of it. you guys can be weird. but i have laughed out loud more than once watching it. i don't know the british stars of it at all. all the hollywood people are really funny to me. and i will always be fond of Joey. that show is definitely a harbinger of weinsteins to come.

i don't know the british stars of it at all

I guess you haven't seen Green Wing or Black Books then, two great British comedy shows (although both may appear somewhat dated now).

I think I watched the first season or two of Episodes and really enjoyed it but then it jumped all over the schedules over here and I kind of lost track of it. Not even sure if the latest seasons have even aired on British TV.

For those who like/can stand anime, Devilman Crybaby is *incredibly* highly recommended. It's created by Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, Ping Pong, Kaiba, a solo Adventure Time episode, etc), and while in the early going it feels like it's just doing the standard shonen anime wish-fulfillment thing (with an extra helping of sex and violence that wouldn't pass muster for broadcast TV), it goes to some truly unexpected places as it goes on. It helped that I wasn't familiar with the Devilman Family of Products and tried this out solely because of Yuasa's involvement, because jesus, the ending is a punch in the guts.

Episodes is a low-key joy, and it stays pretty funny for most of its run. Really a testament to LeBlanc's chops and range that his character never gets old

Also enjoyed The Vault, a B-movie about a bank robbery gone wrong... because the vault they're robbing is haunted. It lives down to its premise