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Jared from Subway: Catching a Monster (HBO)
I've watched documentaries on sex trafficking and pedo's before, but this one is the most disturbing.
What made it so disturbing was the audio messages they had of him talking about what he wanted to do with children.
I certainly remember the story as it happened, but I didn't recall that he had a guy who worked for him that was also involved. And the side story of the guy that worked for him, and that guy's wife left me shocked.

It's not a particularly well-done documentary, and I don't know that I suggest people watch it, simply because the audio recordings of his phone conversations and the display of his text messages are so appalling.
Really difficult to watch, however, it is in a long line of good reminders that parents must be vigilant at all times.
 
There should be a name for that feeling when you know you're going to be disappointed in the newest season of a beloved show, but you feel obliged to watch it anyway even though it's just going to make you mad.

It's like modern technology has led us to a dystopian society in which faceless corporations keep recycling the same ideas in progressively lazier ways. Somebody should make a show about that.
 
Finished S1 of Citadel last night. Not a fan. Too many plot twists and too many flashbacks. Surprised they didnt make Mason and Nadia brother and sister just because. I won't be watching S2.
 
Been watching The Last Ship. Very entertaining even if the main captain is a terrible at acting at times. The story moves well (only into the middle of season 2) and very interesting to watch from today's viewpoint post pandemic. I would recommend for those that haven't seen it. For those that saw it originally but haven't thought about it since it might be an interesting rewatch having gone through a pandemic in real life.
 
Don't think I can take Silo anymore. So dumb.

I felt that way about Crowded Room. Made it through maybe 1.5 episodes, had already figured out the plot twist and had no had any interest in the main character.

Sort of like A Beautiful Mind only with terrible writing and four times as long.
 
If you haven't seen "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about his Father" yet, it's pretty phenomenal. Easily the most powerful documentary that I've ever seen and it's got a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, if you care about that sort of thing. It will stay with you for a long time; it's not a feel-good story. I recommend you don't do any research before you watch it because, like the Sixth Sense, if you know how it ends, you might as well not watch it. If anyone has seen it, I'm curious what you thought. I think it's on Amazon Prime right now, but it's been out for a long time, so it's probably easy to find.
 
I’ve been enjoying the ESPN+ 30 for 30 series Bill Walton - The Luckiest Guy.
Good interviews with Bill plus a lot of good (well maybe “bad”) US history and footage of the NBA era of my youth.
 
Just finished season four (and finale) of Never Have I Ever,and now I'm depressed it's over. That was a nice feel good show. I didn't even realize that was it until the finale. I would recommend it.

I need a similar show to move on to now. I'm always a sucker for coming of age schtick.
 
Finished a couple of series recently.

Jury Duty - 7/10. Obviously living in this world and oftentimes living it in a very real, serious way this show was fun for me with the levity it brought. They couldn't have chosen a better main character (or, shall we say, "mark"). What I didn't really like is how the show really cut out a lot of the trial itself and made it seem like jury duty was some big party when it's really not. I would have liked more of the trial and deliberations and less of the hijinks that seemed force. That said, the main guy is very endearing and the other actors did a really nice job. I'd recommend.
I watched a few episodes of this, and while I like the concept, I don't think this show really clicks quite right. I feels like they're going for something like American Vandal but the dials are just set a little bit off. I agree with 7/10.
 
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re: The Wire, I missed the boat when it originally aired. Have always heard rave reviews about it, so about 10 years ago, the wife and I set out to watch it. We were incredibly bored through the first two episodes and ended up watching something else. I'm guessing I need to revisit since it is widely known as an all-time great. But for fans of the show, do you agree that the first couple episodes were very slow?
I kind of slogged through the first season and a half before it clicked for me, but I now consider it the GOAT show. I think part of it is that it's so damn hard to follow and keep track of all the characters. One thing that helped is that I started reading Alan Sepinwall's recaps of every episode right after watching it, which made it much easier. Also, it's one of those shows where you can't be fiddling with your phone or doing dishes or anything else while you're watching. It demands your full attention. But it's absolutely worth it, IMO
It's always nice when you can find recaps of a complex show - there's a crew from the UK called Mild Fuzz that had podcast episodes after each episode of many shows, I really liked listening to their stuff when watching something alone. It seems like they stopped a while back and dumped their archives, though - a shame. Their episodes on Dark were great.
 
Help me pick a couple of shows to binge this summer, what 1-2 should I watch first?

Chernobyl
Game of Thrones
Fargo (watched season 1-2 years ago)
Narcos (watched season 1 years ago)
Peaky Blinders
The Last of Us
Stranger Things (watched season 1 years ago)
Friday Night Lights
Vikings
Ozark (watched season 1-2 years ago)
Psych
Leftovers (watched season 1 years ago)
The Righteous Gemstones

They are listed in order of IMDB ranking. Off the top of my head I am thinking Last of Us, Psych, maybe FNL. If you could rewatch one for the first time which would you pick? TIA
Fargo rules.

I think IMDB ratings of movies are great, but of TV shows I think they stink - everything's too high, since people who don't like it drop out. When every show is between 8.0 and 9.0, it's pretty useless.
 
This is the best Black Mirror season yet. Absolutely no duds. One left to go for me.
Well this is reassuring. I've only watched the first episode -- our son is visiting for a couple of weeks, and we're watching them one at a time -- but it was pretty solid. Glad to hear the others are good.
 
I’ve watched the first three episodes of Black Mirror and have enjoyed all three. That said, I don’t think they’ve been as thought-provoking for me as episodes in prior seasons, though the third episode got close.

Had a question re episode 3 for those who have watched:

Did they explain why, if they had that technology, they wouldn’t just have the replicants on the ship? Maybe I just missed it. At first, I thought maybe it was because the replicants didn’t have the same degree of dexterity (the cutting wood scene at the beginning) but what takes more dexterity than painting?
 
I’ve watched the first three episodes of Black Mirror and have enjoyed all three. That said, I don’t think they’ve been as thought-provoking for me as episodes in prior seasons, though the third episode got close.

Had a question re episode 3 for those who have watched:

Did they explain why, if they had that technology, they wouldn’t just have the replicants on the ship? Maybe I just missed it. At first, I thought maybe it was because the replicants didn’t have the same degree of dexterity (the cutting wood scene at the beginning) but what takes more dexterity than painting?


 
Don't think I can take Silo anymore. So dumb.
I'm going to hang on and finish the season. The first episode was perhaps the best first episode I can recall for a show since like Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, or GoT. Definitely has fallen off significantly since that episode, and the main characters now aren't nearly as interesting, but I'm hanging on because I'd like to at least find out why they're in the damn Silo and what happened to the couple that went outside.
 
Don't think I can take Silo anymore. So dumb.
I'm going to hang on and finish the season. The first episode was perhaps the best first episode I can recall for a show since like Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, or GoT. Definitely has fallen off significantly since that episode, and the main characters now aren't nearly as interesting, but I'm hanging on because I'd like to at least find out why they're in the damn Silo and what happened to the couple that went outside.
I'm in the same boat - at this point going to see if we get any sort of payoff at the end of the season.
 
Don't think I can take Silo anymore. So dumb.
I'm going to hang on and finish the season. The first episode was perhaps the best first episode I can recall for a show since like Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, or GoT. Definitely has fallen off significantly since that episode, and the main characters now aren't nearly as interesting, but I'm hanging on because I'd like to at least find out why they're in the damn Silo and what happened to the couple that went outside.
You really think we'll find out anything substantive by end of season 1? I don't. That's why I'm bailing. The Juliette character is one of the dumbest, most annoying I've ever seen. Can't take her for another second.
 
I could see a dub working for a documentary so long as the translation was good. But for anything else it's just terrible. Never an option for me.

IDK - I tried to watch one episode of Tour De France Unchained dubbed and had to switch to French with subtitles. Just ruined it.

When we watch K-Dramas, it's always in Korean with subtitles. Absolutely terrible when the only thing offered is dubbed English.
 
I'm halfway through The Days on Netflix about Fukushima. It's not bad but it's no Chernobyl. Kinda cheesy at times.
Someone earlier mentioned watching the dubbed version because it wasn't bad but I disagree. If you're ok with subtitles, I would probably do that.
I started with the dubbed version and will stay with it because the wife prefers it to subtitles but the dubs sound too American. Some of the voices used for the younger guys sound like California surfers. And I'm not sure how accurate the translations are with some clearly American terminology like "Yo, what's up?" Most of the older guys are ok though.
It doesn't help that I finished four episodes and the main disaster hasn't even happened yet. The initial earthquake and tsunami are in the first episode but since then, it's all about plans to prevent the disaster with a lot of long lingering looks while various people contemplate what to do. Not a lot of sense of urgency in many scenes and a surprising lack of tension. This easily could have been 6 episodes instead of 8.
I thought we had seen 4 episodes but it turns out that it was only 3. We tried watching the 4th last night and wound up fast forwarding through much of it. Not sure if I'll finish now.
 
I could see a dub working for a documentary so long as the translation was good. But for anything else it's just terrible. Never an option for me.

IDK - I tried to watch one episode of Tour De France Unchained dubbed and had to switch to French with subtitles. Just ruined it.

When we watch K-Dramas, it's always in Korean with subtitles. Absolutely terrible when the only thing offered is dubbed English.
I figured a documentary is just people talking/being interviewed so probably no big deal if it's dubbed.

I will never watch a drama or anything with acting that only has a dub. Actors are hired in their profession for a reason and I want to hear their performances, not the performance of whoever was hired to do the dub.
 
Anyone else have CuriosityStream and/or Nebula?

For the curious....CS has a massive library of documentaries, and Nebula has a lot of crossover from YouTube (+ some original content.) Edit - one of them also has movies, but I login so seldom I can't remember which without looking.

So I've had them a few months and find I'm not using either very much. I think it was pretty inexpensive with a promo code I had (maybe $59 annual) so NBD, but still kind of struggling to justify it. Am I missing out on anything really good?

(I think I also got One Day University thrown in for free...and have never once used it.)
 
Don't think I can take Silo anymore. So dumb.
I'm going to hang on and finish the season. The first episode was perhaps the best first episode I can recall for a show since like Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, or GoT. Definitely has fallen off significantly since that episode, and the main characters now aren't nearly as interesting, but I'm hanging on because I'd like to at least find out why they're in the damn Silo and what happened to the couple that went outside.
You really think we'll find out anything substantive by end of season 1? I don't. That's why I'm bailing. The Juliette character is one of the dumbest, most annoying I've ever seen. Can't take her for another second.
I hope. I'll be very annoyed if we don't.
 
Just finished season four (and finale) of Never Have I Ever,and now I'm depressed it's over. That was a nice feel good show. I didn't even realize that was it until the finale. I would recommend it.

I need a similar show to move on to now. I'm always a sucker for coming of age schtick.
Sex Education
Ginny and Georgia
Sex Lives of College Girls
Atypical
 
Just finished season four (and finale) of Never Have I Ever,and now I'm depressed it's over. That was a nice feel good show. I didn't even realize that was it until the finale. I would recommend it.

I need a similar show to move on to now. I'm always a sucker for coming of age schtick.
Sex Education
Ginny and Georgia
Sex Lives of College Girls
Atypical
We watched Atypical, it was decent.
 
Just finished season four (and finale) of Never Have I Ever,and now I'm depressed it's over. That was a nice feel good show. I didn't even realize that was it until the finale. I would recommend it.

I need a similar show to move on to now. I'm always a sucker for coming of age schtick.
Sex Education
Ginny and Georgia
Sex Lives of College Girls
Atypical
Sex Education is fantastic.
 
Just finished season four (and finale) of Never Have I Ever,and now I'm depressed it's over. That was a nice feel good show. I didn't even realize that was it until the finale. I would recommend it.

I need a similar show to move on to now. I'm always a sucker for coming of age schtick.
Sex Education
Ginny and Georgia
Sex Lives of College Girls
Atypical
We watched Atypical, it was decent.
Sex Education is the best one in the genre
 
This is the best Black Mirror season yet. Absolutely no duds. One left to go for me.
The last episode of Black Mirror this season is by far the worst.
I thought Loch Henry was pretty weak and not on par with the Black Mirror feel, but I haven’t seen the last episode yet.

I definitely didn’t think Loch Henry felt like a Black Mirror episode, but I still enjoyed it. The actress who played the mom was absolutely fantastic. Actually, I thought all the performances were really good in that episode.
 
I’ve watched the first three episodes of Black Mirror and have enjoyed all three. That said, I don’t think they’ve been as thought-provoking for me as episodes in prior seasons, though the third episode got close.

Had a question re episode 3 for those who have watched:

Did they explain why, if they had that technology, they wouldn’t just have the replicants on the ship? Maybe I just missed it. At first, I thought maybe it was because the replicants didn’t have the same degree of dexterity (the cutting wood scene at the beginning) but what takes more dexterity than painting?
Which episode are to talking about?
 
This is the best Black Mirror season yet. Absolutely no duds. One left to go for me.
The last episode of Black Mirror this season is by far the worst.
I thought Loch Henry was pretty weak and not on par with the Black Mirror feel, but I haven’t seen the last episode yet.

I definitely didn’t think Loch Henry felt like a Black Mirror episode, but I still enjoyed it. The actress who played the mom was absolutely fantastic. Actually, I thought all the performances were really good in that episode.
Demon 79 was dumb.
Joan is Awful was decent.
Loch Henry was very good.

I guess Joan is Awful had a little of the technology angle, but really these episodes thus far are less "Black Mirrory" than previous seasons.

And yeah, the mom in Loch Henry was awesome.
 
If you haven't seen "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about his Father" yet, it's pretty phenomenal. Easily the most powerful documentary that I've ever seen and it's got a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, if you care about that sort of thing. It will stay with you for a long time; it's not a feel-good story. I recommend you don't do any research before you watch it because, like the Sixth Sense, if you know how it ends, you might as well not watch it. If anyone has seen it, I'm curious what you thought. I think it's on Amazon Prime right now, but it's been out for a long time, so it's probably easy to find.

I've never watched a documentary, before or since, that has hit me harder than this one. And it's been years ago that I saw it.
 
Finally got around to watching Tar on Amazon, and it definitely deserved the praise that it got. It wasn't the movie that I was expecting to see and I need to give it a second viewing to comment in any detail, but it's a strong thumbs up if you're looking for an artsy "idea" movie.
 
I’ve watched the first three episodes of Black Mirror and have enjoyed all three. That said, I don’t think they’ve been as thought-provoking for me as episodes in prior seasons, though the third episode got close.

Had a question re episode 3 for those who have watched:

Did they explain why, if they had that technology, they wouldn’t just have the replicants on the ship? Maybe I just missed it. At first, I thought maybe it was because the replicants didn’t have the same degree of dexterity (the cutting wood scene at the beginning) but what takes more dexterity than painting?
Which episode are to talking about?

Beyond the Sea. And I’d like to amend my prior statement - it’s actually stuck with me. Other than the plot issue mentioned in my spoiler, I really liked the episode a lot and think it raises a number of interesting psychological issues.
 
I’ve watched the first three episodes of Black Mirror and have enjoyed all three. That said, I don’t think they’ve been as thought-provoking for me as episodes in prior seasons, though the third episode got close.

Had a question re episode 3 for those who have watched:

Did they explain why, if they had that technology, they wouldn’t just have the replicants on the ship? Maybe I just missed it. At first, I thought maybe it was because the replicants didn’t have the same degree of dexterity (the cutting wood scene at the beginning) but what takes more dexterity than painting?
Which episode are to talking about?

Beyond the Sea. And I’d like to amend my prior statement - it’s actually stuck with me. Other than the plot issue mentioned in my spoiler, I really liked the episode a lot and think it raises a number of interesting psychological issues.
Perhaps the amount of energy to power them? Nobody can maintenance them in space? Its easier to have an uninterupted space for a week straight on the ship?
 
I’ve watched the first three episodes of Black Mirror and have enjoyed all three. That said, I don’t think they’ve been as thought-provoking for me as episodes in prior seasons, though the third episode got close.

Had a question re episode 3 for those who have watched:

Did they explain why, if they had that technology, they wouldn’t just have the replicants on the ship? Maybe I just missed it. At first, I thought maybe it was because the replicants didn’t have the same degree of dexterity (the cutting wood scene at the beginning) but what takes more dexterity than painting?
Which episode are to talking about?

Beyond the Sea. And I’d like to amend my prior statement - it’s actually stuck with me. Other than the plot issue mentioned in my spoiler, I really liked the episode a lot and think it raises a number of interesting psychological issues.
Perhaps the amount of energy to power them? Nobody can maintenance them in space? Its easier to have an uninterupted space for a week straight on the ship?

Those are all possible ideas, but none of them were touched on or supported by anything in the show.

Regarding power, I don’t recall seeing anything with respect to them powering up anywhere. They slept in a bed like normal. They never had to plug into a power source that we saw. The only time they hooked into anything was through the mind portal when there was an emergency on the ship, and once a week on Friday when they handled weekly tasks on the ship. Perhaps that was also a power source but it was a simple chair in a bedroom. No explanation why that couldn’t work on the ship.

As for maintenance, we never saw anything indicating the replicants needed maintenance. Indeed, Cliff moved his family out to the middle of nowhere away from everyone and anything. It wouldn’t make sense for him to do that if the replicant needed to be maintained by a highly specialized technician.

As for the uninterrupted week in space, I think this actually argues for having the replicants on the ship. How are Cliff and David eating and staying hydrated on the ship during the long multi-day stretches when they are unconscious and back at home?

The biggest issue for me is that they apparently can’t create a new replicant for the astronauts, but anyone can port into a replicant. So if a replicant gets destroyed on Earth, the astronaut is screwed (as we saw with David). But if the astronauts were on Earth and one of the astronauts died or was hurt, another person could simply port into the replicant on the ship to maintain the mission.

I’m not one to get hung up on plot holes, but having the humans on the ship instead of on Earth is so fundamental to pretty much every aspect of the plot that I wish they had spent 60 seconds setting up why it had to be that way. Maybe they did and I missed it.
 
This is the best Black Mirror season yet. Absolutely no duds. One left to go for me.
The last episode of Black Mirror this season is by far the worst.
I thought Loch Henry was pretty weak and not on par with the Black Mirror feel, but I haven’t seen the last episode yet.

I definitely didn’t think Loch Henry felt like a Black Mirror episode, but I still enjoyed it. The actress who played the mom was absolutely fantastic. Actually, I thought all the performances were really good in that episode.
Demon 79 was dumb.
Joan is Awful was decent.
Loch Henry was very good.

I guess Joan is Awful had a little of the technology angle, but really these episodes thus far are less "Black Mirrory" than previous seasons.

And yeah, the mom in Loch Henry was awesome.

Haven’t finished watching Demon79 yet, but Beyond the Sea with its transferred consciousness angle also seems pretty in line with prior Black Mirror themes. What I find interesting is that three of the five episodes this season are set in the past (late 60s, late 70s, and early 2000s). I have to think back to prior seasons, but that does seem atypical.
 
I think the biggest reason why the replicants don't go to space is because they are mechanical and can break down with nobody to fix them if they are in space. I think it's a reasonable asusmption this can happen. It doesnt need to be shown in the episode. Also, maybe the mission was to test prolonged human travel in space.
 

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