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You know you're in trouble when you watch Queer Eye and keep catching yourself saying things like "His clothes aren't that bad." or "His beard doesn't look THAT wild." or "What's wrong with keeping a chair for that long?".YellowKing wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 8:34 am On the other hand, the Queer Eye reboot is fantastic. Watched the first episode and was surprised at how emotional it was. It also helps you realize that you're a slob that needs to get your shit together.
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DARK TOURIST is pretty great. It's a documentary series about a New Zealand journalist going around the world to various "dark tourist" locales - radiation hotspots, Japan's suicide forest, war zones. Really fascinating.
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There are tourist groups that go to radiation spots or war zones? What in the hell???
That tourist agency must hire some seriously good salespeople.
"No, no, no. You do NOT want to go to Belize. What you want, ma'am, is a romp through lovely Syria."
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I put Dark Tourist in my queue Saturday after seeing the synopsis for it. It looks interesting to me.
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Yep, and it can in fact be a fun history lesson if done well. My favourite is a blog run by a Polish guy who's ventured out to Chernobyl several times as well as Fukushima, and written a book about it. His blog is a fascinating read.
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Disenchantment
Matt Groening does medieval fantasy. Burned through the ten episodes pretty quickly and I was sufficiently entertained.
Matt Groening does medieval fantasy. Burned through the ten episodes pretty quickly and I was sufficiently entertained.
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Consider me disenchanted with your ambivalent, faint praise.Isgrimnur wrote:Disenchantment
Matt Groening does medieval fantasy. Burned through the ten episodes pretty quickly and I was sufficiently entertained.
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It's okay. I'm 3 episodes in and while I enjoy it, it hasn't really struck a chord with me yet. But Futurama took a while for the cast to really gel.
I will say it's a little jarring when I hear things like, "How do you feel knowing your fiance screwed 30 mermaids?" in a show from Groening. I'm not used to even that rather low level of raunchy in his shows.
I will say it's a little jarring when I hear things like, "How do you feel knowing your fiance screwed 30 mermaids?" in a show from Groening. I'm not used to even that rather low level of raunchy in his shows.
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Season 2 of American Vandal. The first season was great. Not sure the premise can work again.
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Jimmy Tatro's Dylan was the secret ingredient for season 1. Everyone else was great, don't get me wrong. But Tatro took a character who should have been just a two dimensional, one joke caricature and made him sympathetically hilarious.
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That is not Sabrina from the 90s.
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It's a spinoff of their Riverdale.
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It looks like one of the most controversial live-action adaptations is getting another go. According to a brand-new report from Netflix, Avatar: The Last Airbender will be getting a live-action adaptation.
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Diablo
Activision and Netflix look to be pulling together a team to develop an animated series based on Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo series, at least according to a now-deleted tweet from a possible writer on the project.
If everything falls into place, this would see Diablo join the animated Castlevania series in Netflix’s library of game-inspired content and adds another notable franchise to the growing list of games being picked up for TV and film adaptations.
Andrew Cosby, Hellboy writer and founder of the comic publisher Boom! Studios, tweeted yesterday that he is in final talks to sign on as the showrunner and writer for an otherwise unannounced Diablo animated series on Netflix. The tweet has since been deleted, but the folks at BloodyDisgusting were able to grab the text before Cosby removed the tweet.
“I guess I can confirm I am indeed in final talks to write and show-run the new Diablo animated series for Activision and Netflix,” read Cosby’s now-deleted Tweet. “It’s very exciting and I hope to the High Heavens it all works out.”
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The Chronicles of Narnia
It looks like the world is about to meet a brand-new version of Aslan. After all, The Chronicles of Narnia has teamed up with Netflix for a new adaptation deal. According to reports, the beloved C.S. Lewis series will be getting adapted by Netflix through both film and television.
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According to the report, the multi-year deal has been made between Netflix and The C.S. Lewis Company. The studio will develop Lewis’ iconic story into a full-on Narnia universe comprised of both films and TV series. All of the titles made will be Netfix productions made with Mark Gordon of Entertainment One alongside Douglas Gresham and Vincent Sieber. The trio of producers will oversee the universe’s development, and the report confirms Netflix has acquired all seven Narnia book penned by Lewis.
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Disenchantment has been renewed for a second season.
I know opinions are mixed, but I enjoyed it.The rest of Season 1 will debut in 2019, with 20 new episodes rolling out over the course of 2020 and 2021.
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Why the hell am I putting myself through Hill House?
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Because it's freaking terrifying.
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I’m making my way through the “Bent Neck Lady” episode which is as dreadful as it sounds.
(Dreadful as in filled with foreboding, impending doom, a bad moon rising, etc)
(Dreadful as in filled with foreboding, impending doom, a bad moon rising, etc)
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Got an email from Netflix titled "Why to watch The Haunting of Hill House" with numbered reasons:
1. Seriously spooky: Haunting imagery and sudden scares might make it hard to sleep. (We're still thinking about the Bent-Neck Lady, actually.)
2. A spellbinding narrative: Each episode focuses on a different character, weaving together two separate timelines that ultimately intersect.
3. A classic, reimagined: Shirley Jackson's novel came first, followed by film adaptations. But this modern retelling is frightfully effective.
4. The pivotal episode: Rotten Tomatoes recently named episode six of the series “arguably…the best horror entertainment to hit any screen in 2018."
Firmly in the Nope! category for me.
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Me too. It's more traditional humor than say Bojack Horseman but I was laughing throughout.Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:47 pm Disenchantment has been renewed for a second season.
I know opinions are mixed, but I enjoyed it.The rest of Season 1 will debut in 2019, with 20 new episodes rolling out over the course of 2020 and 2021.
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We just watched the first episode last night and my wife said we can't watch an episode every night as we have been doing for every other Netflix show ever. Apparently she found it tense. I mostly found the first episode confusing.
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Ditto. I thought the cast came together pretty well towards the end.Malificent wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 6:43 amMe too. It's more traditional humor than say Bojack Horseman but I was laughing throughout.Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:47 pm Disenchantment has been renewed for a second season.
I know opinions are mixed, but I enjoyed it.The rest of Season 1 will debut in 2019, with 20 new episodes rolling out over the course of 2020 and 2021.
Start a free trial of the Shudder channel and watch the Argentinian horror film Terrified. Then wet yourself and cry like a little baby man.
But yeah, Haunting of Hill House is way better than I expected. And since I'm a huge freakin' fan of the 1963 film version, that's saying something.
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In other news, Norsemen is fantastic.
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I'm up to Ep 8 but it all starts to become clearer after a few episodes as a sense of doom settles upon you after each episode. Happy watching!coopasonic wrote:We just watched the first episode last night and my wife said we can't watch an episode every night as we have been doing for every other Netflix show ever. Apparently she found it tense. I mostly found the first episode confusing.
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Episode 6 of Hill House is one of the best episodes of TV I think I have ever seen.
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Episodes 4 and 6 both massively impressed me. I'm up through ep 8, and this whole show is a freaking masterpiece.
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I feel like I'm the only one not watching Stranger Things at this point.
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I've heard stranger things.
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I’ve seen more episodes of Sabrina than Stranger Things.
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I've watched both seasons.
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It's really good and there aren't that many epidsodes so it's not a massive commitment. You should give it a try.
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I watched Bird Box last night. Not a series, but a pretty good Netflix Original horror movie. I've heard there's some hype/controversy around the number of accounts that have watched it, but don't care. It wouldn't have been anywhere near as tense if there weren't kids involved. As a parent, putting kids into the mix along with adults made a lot of scenes more disturbing. I liked that it wasn't completely linear and went back and forth on the story to help keep you wondering what happened to who until the last 10 minutes.
So - Hill House will be next on my list after finishing Breaking Bad (currently at the beginning of Season 4).
I have to say, too, that using an Occulus Go as my NetFlix platform has been nice. My wife got it for me last September as a birthday present. After trying out a few meh games and "experiences" I wasn't sure what to do with it. I'm not a console gamer, and it can't be connected to my computer as a 3D platform; it's a console unto itself. For me, that means it would be an expensive paper weight. Then I noticed the Netflix app on it and fired it up, watching Agents of SHIELD night after night.
It's really nice to have a very portable big-screen TV that can be sized up or down, and even set up so you can lay down on the sofa and watch your shows in comfort. Battery life is about ~150 minutes - or three 45 minute episodes with "low battery" warnings at the end of the last episode.
The only things I wouldn't recommend so far are first-person movies. Hardcore Henry gave me motion sickness like I'd get with a FOV setting that was wrong on a first-person shooter. Other than that, though, it's been nice to be "immersed" in movies - and I think it helps make creepy movies creepier by cutting out any visual distractions from reality.
So - Hill House will be next on my list after finishing Breaking Bad (currently at the beginning of Season 4).
I have to say, too, that using an Occulus Go as my NetFlix platform has been nice. My wife got it for me last September as a birthday present. After trying out a few meh games and "experiences" I wasn't sure what to do with it. I'm not a console gamer, and it can't be connected to my computer as a 3D platform; it's a console unto itself. For me, that means it would be an expensive paper weight. Then I noticed the Netflix app on it and fired it up, watching Agents of SHIELD night after night.
It's really nice to have a very portable big-screen TV that can be sized up or down, and even set up so you can lay down on the sofa and watch your shows in comfort. Battery life is about ~150 minutes - or three 45 minute episodes with "low battery" warnings at the end of the last episode.
The only things I wouldn't recommend so far are first-person movies. Hardcore Henry gave me motion sickness like I'd get with a FOV setting that was wrong on a first-person shooter. Other than that, though, it's been nice to be "immersed" in movies - and I think it helps make creepy movies creepier by cutting out any visual distractions from reality.
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Anyone else watch the third season of Travelers?
I just finished it and found it most enjoyable. I was disappointed
I just finished it and found it most enjoyable. I was disappointed
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and you can watch boobies without your wife getting upsetPaingod wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:37 am I watched Bird Box last night. Not a series, but a pretty good Netflix Original horror movie. I've heard there's some hype/controversy around the number of accounts that have watched it, but don't care. It wouldn't have been anywhere near as tense if there weren't kids involved. As a parent, putting kids into the mix along with adults made a lot of scenes more disturbing. I liked that it wasn't completely linear and went back and forth on the story to help keep you wondering what happened to who until the last 10 minutes.
So - Hill House will be next on my list after finishing Breaking Bad (currently at the beginning of Season 4).
I have to say, too, that using an Occulus Go as my NetFlix platform has been nice. My wife got it for me last September as a birthday present. After trying out a few meh games and "experiences" I wasn't sure what to do with it. I'm not a console gamer, and it can't be connected to my computer as a 3D platform; it's a console unto itself. For me, that means it would be an expensive paper weight. Then I noticed the Netflix app on it and fired it up, watching Agents of SHIELD night after night.
It's really nice to have a very portable big-screen TV that can be sized up or down, and even set up so you can lay down on the sofa and watch your shows in comfort. Battery life is about ~150 minutes - or three 45 minute episodes with "low battery" warnings at the end of the last episode.
The only things I wouldn't recommend so far are first-person movies. Hardcore Henry gave me motion sickness like I'd get with a FOV setting that was wrong on a first-person shooter. Other than that, though, it's been nice to be "immersed" in movies - and I think it helps make creepy movies creepier by cutting out any visual distractions from reality.
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