Goggle box- anything worth watching on TV?
Feb 9th 2021, 6:52 pm
#2015
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Re: Goggle box- anything worth watching on TV?
Beforeigners.
Present day Norway after many migrants from the past have mysteriously arrived. Great idea and so far (2 episodes) it's working. From the past...before...geddit?
It's still basically a cop show with some amusing observations. "We don't say Vikings now, we say Norse Descendants."
The female character is uncannily like Saga from The Bridge.
Present day Norway after many migrants from the past have mysteriously arrived. Great idea and so far (2 episodes) it's working. From the past...before...geddit?
It's still basically a cop show with some amusing observations. "We don't say Vikings now, we say Norse Descendants."
The female character is uncannily like Saga from The Bridge.
Originally Posted by Alfhildr
Norse people always make food for someone we've just shot.
Feb 12th 2021, 8:13 am
#2016
Lowering the tone
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Re: Goggle box- anything worth watching on TV?
Last night we watched the first of a six-part documentary series by Adam Curtis on the BBC called "Can't Get You Out of My Head".
Wow.
It was mind-blowingly good, an incredible journey through modern history and the power of controlling the narrative on the way, exploring how we ended up "here". Can't wait to watch the rest of them, and for anyone who is even remotely interested in modern socio-political history it is an absolute must-see.
Wow.
It was mind-blowingly good, an incredible journey through modern history and the power of controlling the narrative on the way, exploring how we ended up "here". Can't wait to watch the rest of them, and for anyone who is even remotely interested in modern socio-political history it is an absolute must-see.
Feb 12th 2021, 5:23 pm
#2017
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Re: Goggle box- anything worth watching on TV?
Last night we watched the first of a six-part documentary series by Adam Curtis on the BBC called "Can't Get You Out of My Head".
Wow.
It was mind-blowingly good, an incredible journey through modern history and the power of controlling the narrative on the way, exploring how we ended up "here". Can't wait to watch the rest of them, and for anyone who is even remotely interested in modern socio-political history it is an absolute must-see.
Wow.
It was mind-blowingly good, an incredible journey through modern history and the power of controlling the narrative on the way, exploring how we ended up "here". Can't wait to watch the rest of them, and for anyone who is even remotely interested in modern socio-political history it is an absolute must-see.
This one from 2016 blew my mind as well.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6156350/
PS- all of the docs that Jings mentioned are here if anyone wants to see them. I just downloaded them all to watch on my TV.
Last edited by Danny B; Feb 12th 2021 at 5:41 pm.
Feb 12th 2021, 5:56 pm
#2018
Resident Maple Leaf Lush
Joined: Oct 2008
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Re: Goggle box- anything worth watching on TV?
Binged both seasons of "Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous" with my son this week. It wasn't too terrible.
Bar that, have been starting a run through of Taskmaster via it's / their Youtube channel. Finished off the first and second seasons, started on the third last night. Very enjoyable indeed, right at my sense of humour level.
Bar that, have been starting a run through of Taskmaster via it's / their Youtube channel. Finished off the first and second seasons, started on the third last night. Very enjoyable indeed, right at my sense of humour level.
Feb 13th 2021, 4:25 am
#2019
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Feb 13th 2021, 4:54 am
#2020
Dive Bar Drunk
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Location: Toronto
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The director is a genius.
He produced this in 2013:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2358891/ which is arguably the best film I've ever seen and won the some what racist "Best Foreign Movie" at the Oscars that year.
Feb 14th 2021, 1:59 pm
#2022
Tea Drinker
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Location: Kamloops, BC
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Re: Goggle box- anything worth watching on TV?
Last night we watched the first of a six-part documentary series by Adam Curtis on the BBC called "Can't Get You Out of My Head".
Wow.
It was mind-blowingly good, an incredible journey through modern history and the power of controlling the narrative on the way, exploring how we ended up "here". Can't wait to watch the rest of them, and for anyone who is even remotely interested in modern socio-political history it is an absolute must-see.
Wow.
It was mind-blowingly good, an incredible journey through modern history and the power of controlling the narrative on the way, exploring how we ended up "here". Can't wait to watch the rest of them, and for anyone who is even remotely interested in modern socio-political history it is an absolute must-see.
Apparently us Brits were evil bastards and we screwed up Iraq.
Episode 6 was totally spot on, we rely far too much on computer algorithms making decisions for us. We are all facked.
Feb 15th 2021, 12:54 pm
#2023
Slightly Canadian
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Re: Goggle box- anything worth watching on TV?
I must say I'm enjoying Wandavision. (Disney+). You need to have seen & enjoyed pretty much all the Marvel movies to understand what the clucking bell is going on & I'm just enough of a nerd to have seen enough to do that. It is an intriguing and well presented story thus far.
Feb 16th 2021, 9:13 am
#2024
Lowering the tone
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Re: Goggle box- anything worth watching on TV?
I must say I'm enjoying Wandavision. (Disney+). You need to have seen & enjoyed pretty much all the Marvel movies to understand what the clucking bell is going on & I'm just enough of a nerd to have seen enough to do that. It is an intriguing and well presented story thus far.
Last year he made us watch The Boys which I concede was quite entertaining.
Feb 16th 2021, 2:00 pm
#2025
Slightly Canadian
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+1 on The Boys. It had me at the Dolphin-through-the-windscreen-of-a-van-scene. Although the whale scene in season 2 outdid that in spades!