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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on August 09, 2025, 06:41:13 AM »
Back to Severance.  As I watch this improbable series of plots, a few things occur to me.  The idea of a complete severance between work life and home life has certain shortcomings.  What happens when a woman is pregnant?  How to explain that to her work buddies?  It implies something going on outside that isn't explicable within the work life context.  The same thing applies to injuries and diseases.  Does the 1984 level of corporate control step in to engage in gymnastics that explain these obvious changes away?  How to explain stuff that goes on at work?  You get sick of the work environment and when they won't let you leave, you hang yourself.  If you succeed, how is the suicide explained outside?  The one constant that can't be explained away is the body of the worker bee.

There's some oddball stuff going on among the workers that doesn't make much sense either.  But it's interesting at least.  Beats "How I Met Your Mother" a show I couldn't watch for more than 30 seconds before lunging for the remote.
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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on August 08, 2025, 08:31:17 AM »
That sounds interesting.  What's it on?
I am rewatching Babylon Berlin, which holds up to multiple viewings.
And The Way We Live Now, a 2001 BBC production that some kind souls on youtube have uploaded into 15 min. segments.  It's pretty fun although it varies from the book somewhat at times.  The actors are great.
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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by goldshirt*9 on August 07, 2025, 09:05:57 AM »
Watching Tokyo vice S01,  unsure how old it is though
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General Discussion / Re: Local News
« Last post by goldshirt*9 on August 07, 2025, 09:04:59 AM »
have given up on any local new/world news, so many experts who tell you what to believe in. Few pwople actually try to find out the truth
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General Discussion / Re: Local News
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on August 06, 2025, 02:33:48 PM »
It's because they're stupid.

There, I said it.

Inexperienced?  Filled with youthful vigor and a refusal to believe anything anyone older has to say about stuff?  Unless they're Donald Trump and they live in America.
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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on August 06, 2025, 02:31:17 PM »
American Airlines has some free inflight entertainment which is basically samples of shows on subscription services:  I watched 2 that I thought were decent enough to want to watch more.  1) on Apple TV, Severance.  Brain implants to create an impermeable barrier between one's work life and one's home life.  Work involves a corporation that is undoubtedly evil, a fact that becomes revealed only slowly.  The question is, what will the dedicated worker bees do about this?  After 3 episodes, who can say?  Better sign up for their streaming services to find out.
2) HBO:  Get Millie Black.  This beats the pants off of Death in Paradise.  This is a woman who was born in Jamaica, sent to London as a child, thereby separating her from her brother by an abusive mother.  The mother dies, and the woman, now a sharp detective, returns to Kingston where she deals with local crime and reunites with her brother.  I saw one episode but it was enough to pique my interest.  If anyone on here has seen either one and can weigh in on them, I'm all ears.
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General Discussion / Re: Local News
« Last post by smokester on August 06, 2025, 01:25:39 PM »
Young people think they are immortal.  It's hard to convince them otherwise.

It's because they're stupid.

There, I said it.
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TV / Movies / Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Last post by goldshirt*9 on August 05, 2025, 09:26:04 AM »
yes
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TV / Movies / Re: Latest Movie You Watched
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on August 03, 2025, 05:24:06 PM »
Were zombies involved?
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