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Offline MH

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Re: Netflix Recommendations
« Reply #405 on: January 17, 2023, 06:58:04 pm »
I’m sorry this is happening to you.  I hope you get through this difficult time.  There’s always the option of, checks notes, not watching it.

Once again, you are unable to separate my making a comment from my personal feelings about this.

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« Reply #406 on: January 26, 2023, 05:07:05 am »
I really enjoyed the Glass Onion ("A Knives Out Mystery") movie.

I also really liked "The Pale Blue Eye", starring Christian Bale. Bale is a retired detective named Augustus Landor who is called in to solve a murder-mystery at the West Point military academy in 1830. One of the cadets Landor encounters is a young Edgar Allen Poe (Harry Melling).  I had to look it up... Poe really did attend West Point and serve in the US army. And Melling in this show bears an uncanny resemblance to the portraits of Poe I saw. Anyway, it was pretty good. I especially enjoyed the cinematography. It's a beautiful film to look at.

I watched an episode of Kaleidoscope, and it didn't really grab me.  It's a heist series, with the gimmick that you can apparently watch the episodes in any order. I think the episode I saw is called "yellow". Anyway, it stars Giancarlo Esposito as a man putting together a team for a huge heist.  Based on Esposito's reputation I had high hopes for this, but so far it just isn't very good.

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Re: Netflix Recommendations
« Reply #407 on: January 26, 2023, 08:37:24 am »
I watched an episode of Kaleidoscope, and it didn't really grab me.  It's a heist series, with the gimmick that you can apparently watch the episodes in any order. I think the episode I saw is called "yellow". Anyway, it stars Giancarlo Esposito as a man putting together a team for a huge heist.  Based on Esposito's reputation I had high hopes for this, but so far it just isn't very good.


I started watching that as well, and felt similar.  It felt like the gimmick was too much the focus, and that you were watching some weird hybrid of drama/documentary that just felt awkward.   

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Re: Netflix Recommendations
« Reply #408 on: February 04, 2023, 12:13:57 pm »
Cunk on Earth

Philomena Cunk, a character dreamed up by British comedian Diane Morgan. A bit like watching Ali G. Funny, excruciating and often insightful in a backhanded way.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/cunk-on-earth-review-netflix-black-mirror-charlie-brooker-diane-morgan-mockumentary-1234671454/

I see that is behind a paywall. If you erase cookies you can see the whole article.

Otherwise

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/1153800012/cunk-on-earth-review-diane-morgan-black-mirror-charlie-brooker
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