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it's entirely possible to now spend over three hundred bucks a month for cable without getting cable. progress!

I wanted to rewatch Breaking Bad but I guess it's only on AMC+... time to re-learn how to pirate effetively.

pretty sure it's on Netflix?

breaking bad is on netflix. justwatch.com is a great resource if you want to know where stuff is streaming

Listen it’s never a bad time to relearn how to pirate effectively.

Huh, AppleTV’s search engine didn’t flag it on Netflix.

netflix doesn’t integrate with apple’s search, irritatingly

AppleTV search finds a bunch of stuff, but misses out on Netflix, Criterion and TCM, to name three. I started using JustWatch based on a certain ILX0r's recommendation and that seems to have every streaming service possible. Just be wary of the double counting wrt MUBI and Amazon Prime! And possible other related Amazon subscriptions.

always ilplex

yeah netflix doesn't have an open movie catalogue AFAICT. I'm not sure what their reasoning is on this.

Our Fire Stick search finds Netflix content (if that’s what we’re talking about). Maybe Apple doesn’t have the same deal in place?

it's opt-in on the part of Netflix and their app, although I'm sure the reasons for not doing so are more political than practical

The Oscar nominated doc "All That Breathes" is on HBO. Highly recommended, I thought it was remarkable.

For some reason the incredible French gangster movie The Crew, directed by Julien Leclercq and starring Sami Bouajila, is no longer on Netflix (imagine Heat but compressed down to 81 minutes), but Leclercq and Bouajila have turned the core concept into a TV series, Ganglands, and the second season just arrived. Each season is six one-hour episodes, hard as fuck and beautifully filmed. (They also made one other movie together, Earth & Blood, that's almost as good as The Crew.)

Not surprising but the adaptation of Elena Ferrante's The Lying Life of Adults on Prime is very good.

The first episode of Poker Face was darker and less funny than I expected. Is the rest of the season like that? Trying to decide if I should reup my Peacock subscription.

First episode is pretty much an outlier (and setting up the premise). Subsequent episodes definitely have comic moments.

There's a dedicated thread:

Truth, Truth, Bullshit...

Finally finished Bad Sisters. Great cast esp Duff, but it went on far too long for my liking - the prick scenes twisted the knife too many times, the murder attempts got repetitive, and the resolution was as predictable as a 1980s BBC sitcom. Some weirdly dated archetypes throughout, felt like they were lampshaded because “it’s Ireland”

Having said that I’m looking forward to a season without the prick, might even be an improvement.

Which archetypes

If you ever wanted to watch a bunch of self-absorbed idiots stumbling through a social deduction game, then Peacock's Traitors is the show for you.

Yeah the British one was great but I have zero interest in watching the American one.

Have finally got around to watching Mozart in the Jungle on Amazon Prime. There are surprisingly few takes on it on here, especially for a show about music. What do people think?

I am finding it very watchable and well-written so far (halfway through season 2), but the likeable characters aren't at all who the writers think they are.

Ah I liked s1 then kinda lost interest. Respect for making a tvshow about classical music though

True, though at times it feels an odd mix of niche in-jokes and guest appearances that only dimly register with me (a non-musician) and things that are so pitched at a mainstream audience as to feel caricatured. Maybe that is exactly the difficulty in trying to make a show on this subject.

Watched Lockwood & Co. It was fine. If you into the genre of telly that's essentially young people running while explaining the plot, you're in for a treat.

Excellent & thorough Folk Horror documentary “Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched” is streaming on Freevee currently if anyone’s into that sort of thing

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13938338/

It's pretty funny how Lockwood & Co posits that as soon as the ghosts appeared all technological development went into fighting them, so they don't have to deal with mobiles and internet and such. And that it apparently extends even to pop culture, thus the 80's goth needledrops and the 2000AD t-shirt.

I bought an Eros Now subscription a couple of months ago, watched two films on it in the first week, and then it stopped working. Does anyone else use it? Does it work for anyone else? I can't even get it to work enough for me to cancel my subscription. Very annoying.

I wondered about the mobile phone thing in Lockwood & Co. I'm guessing the explanation is more cogent in the books, rather than the utter silence about it in the series? I'm being mean about it but I liked it well enough.

i'm sure Eros Now has wholesome content but it sure sounds like porn

It is for Indian films and TV, but yes, it does seem v porny.

Did I miss any discussion about the various Sarah Lawrence sex cult shows, as mentioned here: Sarah Lawrence sex-trafficking case

We watched the Hulu 3 part series and it was incredible. Just an insane story and amazing how much footage there is. I've seen other recent stories and thought about that, about we're in this new age where everything is recorded, so you can actually see a lot of what went down. Larry Ray videotaped and audio recorded everything and the footage is shocking.

The whole story is amazing, and it's not just a sordid crime story, you really have to think of the psychology involved, brainwashing, cults etc, it's almost unbelievable.

We finished the hulu one last night and today I discovered there was a movie on Peacock so we had to watch that as well. As well done as the Hulu one was, this one comes across as a budget dateline, with considerably less first-hand accounts, where the talking heads are other journalists and "cult experts" instead of the actual people involved. I'd say skip it BUT it does fill in a few holes...and even includes an entire narrative about somebody else who was under his spell, that for some reason wasn't even mentioned in the Hulu series.

i hated the Daisy Jones book & quit after three chapters but the Amazon Prime show is pretty good? or at least i don’t hate it

Watched the first one last night and thought it was alright. Loving Timothy Olyphant's wardrobe and nice to see him not being Raylan for a change

his “now” silver fox look with the scarf was v funny

I loved the book and thought the first two episodes were fine. My gripes were the same as for Minx and other period shows: everyone’s clothes looked brand new rather than lived in, and not enough people had unflattering 70s hair—it should all be bigger. Though maybe that would look too distracting, like the show was trying to goof on the 70s with bad wigs. Everything in general seemed too clean and curated.

I didn’t think the fictional singing/music sounded that much like 1970s music, though I couldn’t articulate why.

I tried watching it and lasted maybe 10 minutes. As soon as they wanted me to believe the Doors were still playing small clubs in 1968 (they were not — they had graduated to arenas) I was out. I'm not some insane pop-culture trivia pedant most of the time, but it's a "brown M&Ms" sort of thing — if a show purportedly about rock history gets something that basic wrong, they're gonna shit the bed in a hundred other ways before the end of Episode 1.

I don't think it's exactly about rock history. It's about rock mythos. I don't know how successful it is, just watched the first one and thought it was entertaining enough. I'll watch another.

had low expectations since reviews were middling but I really like Shrinking- Harrison Ford and Jessica Williams are both great and hilarious on it.

in terms of bill lawrence shows, it's kinda feels like the midpoint between Scrubs and Ted Lasso - neither as wacky/sentimental as the former nor as earnest or sweet as the latter.

As soon as they wanted me to believe the Doors were still playing small clubs in 1968 (they were not — they had graduated to arenas) I was out.

Ha, I thought the same thing, and noticed the Byrds were still styled in short hair and suits as though it were 1965. I felt like the title card should have read 1966 rather than 1968.

Seems like S2 of Russian Doll got a colder reception than S1 but after the first episode I am psyched for Natasha Lyonne spending more time in Ed Koch's New York.

is the netflix app super fucking janky on anyone else's smart/roku TV or just mine? takes forever to do anything, like even move around the app or pause a show, crashes very easily, etc

we have an older tv but none of the other apps seem to have significant issues

Yes our old and cheap TV can't even run Netflix sometimes, but has no prob with the other streamers.

I don't know if you have a stand-alone roku device but when we had trouble like you're describing we replaced the roku device. doesn't make logical sense for it to be an issue with only one streaming service but that's what happened with ours.

netflix’s app is kind of resource intensive on the platforms I’ve used

Netflix is the only service where I get degraded resolution often

Was there any discussion of 'The Dropout' anywhere? just finished it, thought it was well done except for the usual thing of glossing over details that I would've found interesting (e.g. what they were actually doing/working on for all those years, what tests they were faking, what specific lies they were telling - a few examples were given then never gone back to. I have read the book which is why I remember the list being endless).

i was surprised by how much I liked it!

Yes! It was exciting! I have adopted <that voice> permanently now btw