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storrsroars said:
I like Moneyball and have probably watched it a dozen times. It's a great story and well acted.

That said, a whole lot of it was wrong or entirely made up.

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And who cares. This isn’t like U-571.
 
billythekid said:
I have been re-watching Season 1 of Russian Doll with Natasha Lyonne. I'm always a sucker for time loop stories and this one is interesting as well as funny. Season 2 drops tomorrow.
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Binged S2... was entertained. Given that Nadia and Alan are time travelling through at least four different eras, it wasn't all that difficult to follow, although when they broke time, that was truly weird. I wish Lyonne would do more stuff. She may specialize in the tough wisecracking NYer character, but she does it really well. If not for all her personal traumas and addictions, she likely would've been a much bigger star and even a comic romantic lead like a Mae West or similar. She is always watchable and Russian Doll lets her go wild. Don't think there's a S3 coming as the end looked more like resolution of all story arcs than anything leading to another season.
 
Has anybody seen DARK on Netflix? I started it and made about 4 minutes before I decided I just wasn't in the mood. But if it's good, I'll give it a shot.

I decided to resume Daredevil, which moved from Netflix to Disney+. As a kid my two favorite comic books were Iron Man and Daredevil. Charlie Cox is a very good Matt Murdock. Deborah Ann Woll is always a welcome addition. Vincent D'Onofrio plays Kingpin/Wilson Fisk like he was born to the role. It's a good show (since others brought it up 8.6/10 on IMDB). Looking back, I wonder if my own hearing issues made me more interested in a blind character with amazing other senses.
 
Sometimes you blunder into something. Needed a show saw Tokyo Vice on HBOMax. Turns out it just came out. First two episodes are superb. This is gripping and compelling. It’s based on a true story of an American who went to work for the top paper in Tokyo in the 1990s. Michael Mann directs the first episode and it has that gritty feel that Miami Vice did at the time. There is a lot of casual racism directed at the gaijin, but he’s smart and is coloring outside the lines. Something foreign to the Japanese. The intro gives you a sense of where that leads, then it’s a flashback from there. Ken Wattanabe is the actor you’d know and evidently checked all the dialogue.
 
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Season 3 of Barry premiers Sunday on HBO. From the premise "a hitman decides to become an actor" emerged one of the smartest, weirdest, most entertaining shows I've seen in years, with some terrific acting. Reviews of the new season are fairly glowing. It's half hour episodes so it's an easy catch-up on the first two seasons.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
Season 3 of Barry premiers Sunday on HBO. From the premise "a hitman decides to become an actor" emerged one of the smartest, weirdest, most entertaining shows I've seen in years, with some terrific acting. Reviews of the new season are fairly glowing. It's half hour episodes so it's an easy catch-up on the first two seasons.
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Happy Bill Hader GIF by Barry


I'm excited. Can't wait for some more NoHo Hank, it's been too long
 
While bingeing Yakamoz S-245, I learned it was a companion piece in the same timeline as the earlier Into the Night series. Both deal with a solar flare that has turned the Sun into a death ray - exposure to sunlight kills anything and everything. Yakamoz mostly takes place on a submarine, while Into the Night follows a plane trying to outrun sunrise and an underground bunker in Bulgaria. Yakamoz was a 7-episode Turkish production while ITN was Belgian and lasted 2 seasons of 6 episodes each.

I thought the Turkish series had better acting, particularly the three leads, while Into the Night featured some cardboard characters and obvious stereotypes, but both series were easy to follow, plot lines moved quickly, and for the most part, was an enjoyable ride.

Taken as a whole, you've basically got Tommyknockers meets The Day the Earth Caught Fire meets Das Boot meets The Lost Ship wrapped up in a Rashomon package. I imagine there's room for other series based on the same premise.
 

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Apparently Jerry West thinks that screaming at HBO through the press will prove that their characterization of Jerry West was wrong? If anything, it appears that the Jerry West character in Winning Time is less of a jerk than he is in real life.
 
8893 said:
Reflecting some more on your comments here, it's interesting that the absurdity of the whole situation is another thing that it shares with "Ted Lasso," as well as the "lovable misfits" cast. The situation is a little more absurd, and the misfits less attractive and less lovable, but the similarities still hold nonetheless imo.

Whereas the obvious theme of "Ted Lasso" is "believe," I would say that the theme of "After Life" is two-fold: "Life goes on...and love is what makes it worth living."

When I first started watching "After Life," my wife kept commenting on the rest of the cast and how much she loved them, e.g., "Don't you just love the postman?" For most of the first season I grunted and said they were fine, but I wasn't sure what there was to "love" about them. I will say that the show has since succeeded in showing me that there is something to love about at least most of them; still working on the hoarder and the fat kid. But I sense that that overall message--i.e., that there is something to love about everyone, even the misfits among us--is one that is central to the show.
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I have just started this. It's my new watch during my morning rowing session. Interfered with that briefly today due to laughter.

It's funny, but I sure hope he snaps out of it a bit, because it could get old quickly if he stays this way. Progress at least, would be good. Recognizing the house needed to be cleaned, even if not by him...baby steps.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I have just started this. It's my new watch during my morning rowing session. Interfered with that briefly today due to laughter.

It's funny, but I sure hope he snaps out of it a bit, because it could get old quickly if he stays this way. Progress at least, would be good. Recognizing the house needed to be cleaned, even if not by him...baby steps.
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There is progress, although perhaps not as much as one might hope for Gervais himself. I thought it was worth the watch.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
Three episodes in on both Winning Time (HBO) and Dropout (Hulu). Winning Time is very entertaining and I strongly recommend it. Late 70's LA looks like a lot of fun. Dropout is a bit more cerebral, but also a good show. Amanda Seyfriend is one of the best actresses of her generation.
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I've been tempted to watch Dropout, but I've already seen the Investor, so I'm not sure what the series will bring to the party. Have you seen the Investor documentary?
 
87Xfer said:
I've been tempted to watch Dropout, but I've already seen the Investor, so I'm not sure what the series will bring to the party. Have you seen the Investor documentary?
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I like The Dropout. I’m not sure it’s Amanda Seyfried‘s best work, but it is interesting.
 
The Offer…through two episodes and it is excellent. Be sure to watch the behind the scenes stuff after each episode. Miles Teller and Juno Temple are just two of the more excellent performances. It’s on Paramount Plus.
 
Bomber36 said:
The Offer…through two episodes and it is excellent. Be sure to watch the behind the scenes stuff after each episode. Miles Teller and Juno Temple are just two of the more excellent performances. It’s on Paramount Plus.
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Of course Rotten Tomatoes and Meta Critic hated it, but I rarely agree with them. Just finished the 3rd episode of 10. After this they will come out once a week. Giovani Ribisi is also excellent as Joe Columbo. One part funny and one part menacing.
 
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Bomber36 said:
The Offer…through two episodes and it is excellent. Be sure to watch the behind the scenes stuff after each episode. Miles Teller and Juno Temple are just two of the more excellent performances. It’s on Paramount Plus.
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I didn't like the first episode. I thought the dialogue was lazy and cliched, but episode 2 was much better and episode 3 was excellent.

Matthew Goode is excellent playing a complicated character, Bob Evans. Evans is a legend in the movie industry, and Goode plays it very well. If Goode was even a little off, the character would come off as a parody.

Ribisi is very good as is Juno Temple. Not crazy about Miles Teller, but he is good enough.
 
87Xfer said:
I've been tempted to watch Dropout, but I've already seen the Investor, so I'm not sure what the series will bring to the party. Have you seen the Investor documentary?
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I have not. I have taken a breather on financial documentaries because too many of them have an agenda. I will check it out at some point.
 
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I finished the Last Kingdom. Has anyone else watched this? It was a decent swords and sandles show on Netflix, more historically accurate in the beginning than Vikings, although it veered off a bit the last season or so, in a large part because while most of the main characters are real-life, the main character Uitrid is not, and the show had to wrap up his character, which I don't have a problem with.

I can't figure out if the last four episodes were a brilliant fake by the writers, or idiotic with half a dozen plot holes.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I have not. I have taken a breather on financial documentaries because too many of them have an agenda. I will check it out at some point.
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The Dropout was good. Pretty much written to make her look nuttier than a fruitcake however. Nuttier than she was in real life most likely. The thing with how she changed her voice was addressed, which I found to be pretty funny. I find it to be really crazy that anyone thought this tech could actually do what she said it could do. Of course, we have the real goods now. Her paranoia is well documented here as well.
87Xfer said:
I've been tempted to watch Dropout, but I've already seen the Investor, so I'm not sure what the series will bring to the party. Have you seen the Investor documentary?
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I think you mean:

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. ​

 
Bomber36 said:
The Dropout was good. Pretty much written to make her look nuttier than a fruitcake however. Nuttier than she was in real life most likely. The thing with how she changed her voice was addressed, which I found to be pretty funny. I find it to be really crazy that anyone thought this tech could actually do what she said it could do. Of course, we have the real goods now. Her paranoia is well documented here as well.

I think you mean:

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. ​

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It is not paranoia when she is afraid of getting caught for a fraud that she is actually committing. It is just her taking steps to hide the fraud.

The fact that so many well-respected people (Avie Tevanian, former CTO of Apple) thought she was full of it from the start and others, like George Schultz, simply ignored the warnings is the most amazing thing of the whole story. It wasn't that good a fraud, it just turned out that a lot of otherwise smart and respected people believed what they wanted to believe.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
It is not paranoia when she is afraid of getting caught for a fraud that she is actually committing. It is just her taking steps to hide the fraud.

The fact that so many well-respected people (Avie Tevanian, former CTO of Apple) thought she was full of it from the start and others, like George Schultz, simply ignored the warnings is the most amazing thing of the whole story. It wasn't that good a fraud, it just turned out that a lot of otherwise smart and respected people believed what they wanted to believe.
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Well, ok. She had good reasons to be paranoid though. Hiding such a huge fraud will do that to someone. She was a huckster and at the end was just stealing the investors money. I think early on they truly believed they were on to something. Science didn’t agree.
 
Just blew through the final episodes of Ozark. Was fun and ended as it should have.
 
Slowly working my way thru Community (again). I know it really goes downhill as they start losing cast members in later seasons, so I might not finish the series. Anyway the first season is a lot of fun, I enjoy almost all of the characters. The Dean is too over the top for me, and Senor Chang is just a terrible character IMO.
 
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Follow up on After Life. End of season 1 provided the story arc I needed. Quite nice. And yes, Shaun's mum from Shaun of the Dead is just lovely as the woman on the park bench. Sandy is a sweetheart, Lenny is a good guy and Kath is...possibly attractive if a bit sad? Is she supposed to be? Daphne is another gem of a character.
 
Go watch Tokyo Vice please. I just finished season 1 and would be crushed if there is no season 2. It seems likely given the strong reviews, but a few more people watching would help. Really an impressive look at something most of us know little about. And I’m slowly learning Japanese. Well, maybe 4 words.
 
Catching up on the Witcher, just marking time until the next Mandalorian season drops. Boba Fett, meh.

Season 4 of Stranger Things starts May 27. Those kids are going to be married and have their own kids in real life before they turn 16 in the show.
 
HuskyNan said:
Catching up on the Witcher, just marking time until the next Mandalorian season drops. Boba Fett, meh.

Season 4 of Stranger Things starts May 27. Those kids are going to be married and have their own kids in real life before they turn 16 in the show.
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Boba Fett is basically just an offshoot of Mandalorian. There are whole episodes without much Boba. But what we are all waiting for is Obi Wan Kenobi, also out May 27th.

 
HuskyHawk said:
Boba Fett is basically just an offshoot of Mandalorian. There are whole episodes without much Boba. But what we are all waiting for is Obi Wan Kenobi, also out May 27th.

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Yeah, I remember the character on the Mandalorian. I just don’t care for the Boba Fett series. I dont’ think it’s bad but I found it somewhat boring
 
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