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I'm in a similar boat- I haven't watched season 4 or 5 either. Not sure when I'll go back to it, to be honest. It's a pity since I heard season 4 is the best.

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It’s thought provoking...I watched it about 5 years ago – I constantly return to 2 or three characters, leaving the obvious aside, the polish brother who is slightly more intelligent but just enough to get out (sorry that may be 4) and the aspirant reading Adam’s “The Wealth of Nations” – I am curious if people think he was always going to fail, too naive, always destined for the gun - or was his failure contingent - a trick misplay of circumstance and sundry politicks, was there an innate flaw or if he learnt just a little more, at the right time, would he have flourished? I would


watch this again with the cards shuffled slightly in an instant.

Last TV show I watched was Marvel Agents of Shield

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The Terror...pure dread, and the acting was superb.

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I've been watching the dvds of The Terror which came out recently, and I must say it's an enjoyment to be able to absorb the episodes without the commercial interruption of the AMC channel. The dread is like a pure espresso. And what stands out is not so much the dread of the creature that stalks the crews of the Franklin expedition, but the dread and danger of the raw elements of the arctic winter. It is an ominous presence that stalks even more dangerously the protagonists. Watching the episodes, you can almost feel it's presence. This reminds me more of Melville's masterpiece where Nature embodied in a whale takes out a crew. In The Terror, although you have the embodiment of the creature, Nature embodied in the Arctic is Nemesis. The key is when one of the protagonists says, "This place wants us dead." Is there any more pure dread than that?

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Has anybody watched American Horror Story: Cult? I wasn't taken with what I saw of previous seasons of this show, but this one seems a little more clever and more solidly put together, and I might try to stick it out. It takes the Trump election as the basis for an amusing blend of paranoid horror and sharp-eyed social satire, but what I'm most interested in is the emerging "trypophobia" angle. Is there such a thing as trypophilia? I think I may have it.

https://goo.gl/images/JxEKSa

Trypophobes have a visceral aversion to such images, but they just make me hungry.

In any case, if you have a bad reaction to that, I would not recommend you watch maybe my favorite show of recent years, Monsters Inside Me. It will only assure you that the worms, mites, parasites, microbes and sundry other malevolent organisms you suspect are roosting in your flesh and worming under your skin and making nests in your brain Really exist and are worse than you ever imagined.

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I'm a few episodes into The End of the F***ing World on Netflix and am enjoying it. I just finished episode 3. The atmosphere and soundtrack was very Lynchian.

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I am watching Avatar: The Last Airbender; what a fantastic show.

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Just finished watching Pennies from Heaven (the original 1978 BBC version). Very enjoyable.

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I agree. I also have a great fondness for the film starring Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Jessica Harper. Dennis Potter novelized his script Pennies from Heaven. I enjoyed it. The HC has an elegant dust jacket. Potter also wrote the wonderful series The Singing Detective. One of my all time favorites. The movie version for this one is terrible and should be avoided. Potter's work is bleak.