Secret Obsession was very disappointing even by the trashy movie metric.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
xps It's awful but kind of watchable and makes absolutely zero sense. The crew appear to have come straight from Love Island rather than an elite NASA training programme (although Love Island contestants are more intelligent) and despite a few comments along the lines of payload weight restrictions they seem to have about 3,000 hibernating crew members in reserve.
The depressing thing will be if this gets another season when Netflix are cancelling amazing (but less mainstream) shows like Tuca & Bertie. Think someone mentioned upthread that Netflix's new MO is to churn out new content every single week and I guess this fits that model but doesn't bode well for the future.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 07:42 (four years ago) link
i'm not enjoying it less yet
https://i.imgur.com/K6yOw4r.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
"another life": is the netflix scifi series good or bad? EXPERTS DIFFER!!
― mark s, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
Just watched S2E1 of Dark - what a way to end an opening episode. Despite watching a youtube season 1 recap i couldn't remember who half the characters were, but by the end i was extremely desirous that this shit be directly injected into my veins.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
Don't ignore the dedicated thread!
Dark: the German Netflix series that's like an amalgamation of Twin Peaks, Back to the Future, and X-Files (SPOILERS!)
I'm now trying El Ministerio del Tiempo (Spanish time travel silliness) but due to life it's taken me two days to watch half an hour so nothing to report yet. I'm removing Another Life from my list!
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 1 August 2019 07:50 (four years ago) link
I actually had forgotten about that thread, because I'd been avoiding it till we finished watching the show.
― trishyb, Thursday, 1 August 2019 08:13 (four years ago) link
"Another Life" - what if we made Alien but boring
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 2 August 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
Is there not a When They See Us thread? It might be a bit too late to start one.
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Sunday, 4 August 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
They already did this, but it was just called "Life" then.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Monday, 5 August 2019 08:29 (four years ago) link
Ugh I need something to watch.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 5 August 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
I am enjoying Trinkets. I am into this PNW/K records/shoplifters unite vibe.
― Yerac, Monday, 5 August 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
erika: Good Morning Glass Blowers! - Blown Away: The Netflix Art Reality Show
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 5 August 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
New season of She-Ra, which is pretty good if that’s your thing.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 10:14 (four years ago) link
new Derry Girls season is out, first one was funny in our estimation
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
The third season of Dear White People got a little meta but is pretty good still.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
I finally started watching Ozark. Then I looked at the Ozark thread and everyone hates it there. Is that a commonly held opinion? I'm finding it diverting and amusing enough.
― akm, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
The second season is way worse. I am not bothering with the 3rd.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
And I feel bad about Jason Bateman's buttshot.
I couldnt get through 2 episodes of it. cant remember why i hated it now.
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
I thought it was ok, but can't remember much about season two
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
The Netflix corporate motto.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
there are a whole series of jokes on Dear White People about the 'third season of a Netflix show'.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
lol milo otm
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 August 2019 10:26 (four years ago) link
Frankly I watch almost every Netflix show in binges while high on the couch with my dog and therefore only see and retain one out of every four episodes
― akm, Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
Lol that was exactly what I did until I moved somewhere where I have no idea how to get weed. Anyway I will watch the recent suggestions!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 8 August 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
The Great Hackl -- about Cambridge Analytica and psychographic marketing re: 2016 US election and Brexit -- is up there with CitizenFour and Get Me Roger Stone as essential. And like CitizenFour it has the immediacy of following investigative reporters in the moment of doing their work.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 11 August 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
hell of a cast herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws1YIKsuTjQ
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 12 August 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
Greta cast, but that still looks pretty bad. And not bad meaning good.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 August 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be a thread for or any talk about Jeff Sharlett's series The Family?
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/netflix-the-family-jesse-moss-secret-christian-cult-washington-dc-869396/
Or did I just miss it?
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 12 August 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
decent stuff. been following his work for so long there aren't really any new uh revelations but it's new to my gf and she is very much like wtf!
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 18 August 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
I keep wavering on watching it (The Family). Did you enjoy it?
― Yerac, Sunday, 18 August 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
more odd new FRIENDS things:
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/236e7b22-a705-4d5c-8a65-d70a61b4dba9/comments_tab
― koogs, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link
i saw a lot of these at the jonas brothers show on saturday https://etsy.me/2xy9HwI
― maura, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:54 (four years ago) link
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 19 August 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
there's a related shirt on maura's etsy link that I cannot believe exists
― rob, Monday, 19 August 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
omg
― The Pingularity (ledge), Monday, 19 August 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
i've been watching The Family and am also on episode 3thoroughly disgusted! still watching...the real kicker was seeing Mark Sanford on Meet the Press in the morning claiming that he was going to challenge _rump in the primary and then watching ep 2 where he visits the Appalachian Booty Trail and gets counseled about sinning in his gross xtian dorm for adult men.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 19 August 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
i am having a very difficult time believing that any of them care about Jesus at all in spite of their loudly proclaimed Jesus myopia
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 19 August 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
watched two episodes of the family so far and think it's well-done — i'd forgotten about that terrible Sanford thing. Seems almost quaint now! What a bunch of assholes.
― tylerw, Monday, 19 August 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
they are disgusting! i have a hard time believing anyone actually believes they were chosen by god. i realize this is probably a shortcoming of my own imagination but the degree of removal from reality required to believe that all of these men are chosen by god leaves me speechless. they are repulsive. still watching!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 19 August 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
addendum: i have a hard time believing anyone actually believes they were chosen by god to hoard power and influence in the political sphere
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 19 August 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
I’m on ep 4 now and I’m here to say this is not “news” exactly but it’s horrifying to see the throughline of “Jesus and family and friends” spread like a virus all over the planet. The white supremacy machine never sleeps 😢 this planet is tragic and doomed as long as these people are working their “Jesus magic”the part where the guy said “all you have to do is say his name — Jesus — and the doors open” 🤮
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 19 August 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
I am pretty much atheist, is this going to be as bewildering as the Abducted in Plain Sight documentary?
― Yerac, Monday, 19 August 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
Way way worse imo — affects vastly larger swath of humanity than a tiny cult 👎
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 19 August 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
Or a single abduction
If the words “nonconsensual diplomacy” in the name of Jesus make you recoil, I think it’s important viewing
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 19 August 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
Also? The next time you hear 45 refer to Norway you’ll know why 🤮🤮🤮
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 19 August 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
basically there is a large group of people in american public life for whom "jesus" is a code word for "power at all costs and by any means" is how i break it down to an extent
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link
Jane The Virgin S5 is out and the first episode has an unbelievably great 7-minute (!) continuously shot monologue from Gina Rodriguez, A++
― sleeve, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link