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TV Shows I am enjoying …and Movies

Watched Hillbilly Elegy. Had no idea who it was until it got to the end. Pretty darn good movie too!
 
Devil’s Hour. I had said we were watching The Tower, which we finished a week ago, but I meant Devil’s Hour. It;s mind-bending.

I have an archaeologist friend who loathes Graham Handcock but I just had to tune into latest installlments of Ancient Apocalypse. Mostly because it’s really good footage of all the bucket list cool things on the planet made way long ago. Handcock is pretty absurd and they do way too many shots of him talking. And he got Keanu Reeves on there to make minimally understandable points. But I watch.
 
Escape at Dannemora has just come to Netflix. This eight-episode character study examines the two prisoners' escape attempt from a upstate New York correctional facility and any help they may have had from prison staff. The first episode is a bit slow but when the story really gets going, its fascinating. Not a thriller but its very compelling.

Sorry if this is a repost. This series first streamed on Showtime six or seven years ago.
 
So while I'm doing work stuff, usually I have a TV show or movie on my TV I'm familiar with to passively watch or just listen to. Often, that show is Frasier.

I just got into watching the new show from last year. I like it. It's too bad David Hyde Pierce didn't come back as Niles.

But at least we have Lilith and Roz. :laughing
 
Thought Tom did good with the flak vest to portray Reacher but definitely on board with Alan Ritchson. If there’s another season I may have to do free prime for a week, again!
For edgy anal comedy I like Greg Gutfeld.
 
Kurosaki said:
So while I'm doing work stuff, usually I have a TV show or movie on my TV I'm familiar with to passively watch or just listen to. Often, that show is Frasier.
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We watch a lot of Frasier.

The 2 new seasons are not bad. I particularly like the professor character. It's not the original, but its watchable and has some good moments.
 
Bringing this thread back to life! I heard of a show on Prime that is written, produced, and directed by, and stars, Alan Tudyck - it's called Con Man and It stars Alan as a TV star who got stereotyped after playing a character in a sci-fi show along with Nathan Fillion. Sound familiar? The show within the show is a thinly disguised "Firefly" and pretty much every actor from the Firefly crew shows up in vaious episodes. I binged the first season and a few episodes into the second season yesterday and I enjoyed it - some good laughs.
 
Alan_Hepburn said:
Bringing this thread back to life! I heard of a show on Prime that is written, produced, and directed by, and stars, Alan Tudyck - it's called Con Man
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Funny, I'll have to check that out.

Prime has a new show "Cross" that I want to look at.
 
I have gone back to season one of NCIS. Enjoying it and amazed how much I forgot. It is like a whole new show in most ways. Ducky was so much younger. :rose
 
Alan_Hepburn said:
Bringing this thread back to life! I heard of a show on Prime that is written, produced, and directed by, and stars, Alan Tudyck - it's called Con Man and It stars Alan as a TV star who got stereotyped after playing a character in a sci-fi show along with Nathan Fillion. Sound familiar? The show within the show is a thinly disguised "Firefly" and pretty much every actor from the Firefly crew shows up in vaious episodes. I binged the first season and a few episodes into the second season yesterday and I enjoyed it - some good laughs.
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If you like Alan Tudyk, also check out Resident Alien. He plays an alien who crash landed on earth and took over the persona of a human doctor he killed. He tries to blend in and learn human customs. Highly entertaining!
 
budman said:
I have gone back to season one of NCIS. Enjoying it and amazed how much I forgot. It is like a whole new show in most ways. Ducky was so much younger. :rose
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I only know it’s a rerun by the original air date.
 
This is in spanish?

My one nit about, perhaps about Netflix specifically, when it comes to dubs and subtitles is that they don't match.

I routinely watch with the closed caption on, and the show it dubbed. And they're not even close. Basically two completely different translators did the work. It's annoying to watch (so I don't), and seems sloppy to me.
 
berth said:
This is in spanish?

My one nit about, perhaps about Netflix specifically, when it comes to dubs and subtitles is that they don't match.

I routinely watch with the closed caption on, and the show it dubbed. And they're not even close. Basically two completely different translators did the work. It's annoying to watch (so I don't), and seems sloppy to me.
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not what I watched
 
Finally watching Senna.

Feeling it.
 
Finished Black Doves last night. Great action series for the holidays!

Also watched The Madness recently. Really good but painfully topical to our times.
 
I've started Madness. First episode was good.

Working through Diplomat as well.

Enjoying Cross on Prime. Really like the lead actor.

And keeping my tin hat shiny with Alien Investigations and Ancient Apocalypse.
 
Very different from what y'all seem to like here, but we binged the first season of Sherwood last week. We both really enjoyed it. I found myself thinking about it rather often in the days that followed.
 
berth said:
This is in spanish?

My one nit about, perhaps about Netflix specifically, when it comes to dubs and subtitles is that they don't match.

I routinely watch with the closed caption on, and the show it dubbed. And they're not even close. Basically two completely different translators did the work. It's annoying to watch (so I don't), and seems sloppy to me.
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Netflix is very hit or miss with subtitles. Most the shows/movies I watch are pretty good but some are really bad. Seems to correlate with higher budget limits. Not really high budgets but some of the hidden gems on Netflix that are lower budgets, usually forum shows that need the dubs or subtitles can be hard to watch because aren't talking with the audio, no pun intended.
 
The amount of paraphrasing I've seen in subtitles lately is too damn high
 
_Time Team_ with Tony Robinson - that Baldrick guy from Black Adder.
They go all around the UK doing archeological digs in peoples back yard.
Zillions of episodes.
Also Tony did _Britain's Ancient Tracks_ - a walking the old roads thing.
 
Gangs of London is INSANE!!!!!!! I'm also watching, with my Wife, The Lioness. It is a bad ass military series with very strong female characters. Oh, and I'm also watching Cross.
 
MISSING YOU on Netflix, 5 part series. Very good, it will keep you guessing! Binge worthy, although I did watch it over two night 'cause I didn't start it until 9PM last night.
 
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