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The Sandbaggers - Wikipedia

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Black Mirror Season 4. I watched the first two episodes. The first one doesn't have good plot. It's a mix of silly space game+good vs evil + a bit of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Acting is strange. I root for the bad guy but the way it plays out is absurd.

The second episode is alright but it's the same technology from White Christmas and The Entire History of You. We've mother with control issue and rebellious teen. It's easy to see what gonna happen.

Another person's review of the entire season:

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I've almost finished season 4 of Black Mirror (just need to watch the 6th episode). I really like it so far. I thought the episodes were stronger than those of season 3.

Hang the DJ > San Junipero

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I thought it was a mostly okay series, though nothing hit the heights of 15 Million Merits, White Bear and White Christmas.

Anthony Fantano's channel is a good one, even if I often disagree with him. I like his takedowns of dumb YouTube right-wingers:



I just watched an excellent episode of television: the Series 4 opener of Inside No. 9.

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I just watched the last episode of Black Mirror season 4 - The Black Museum and thought it was outstanding - very horrific.

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I make no apologies for having loved S1 of Star Trek Discovery. Best first season to a Trek show since TOS.

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I was blown away by the first season of Mindhunter; it is like watching a ten-hour version of Zodiac.

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I'm watching Britannia – new Sky drama about the Roman conquest of Britain. Daft shlock with cardboard characters and an acid folk element. Would be a guilty pleasure if I had any shame left.

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Manhunt: Unabomber. It was pretty good, but apparently not entirely accurate. I was surprised with the episode that was sympathetic to Kaczynski’s background and reasons for his crimes. That one was particularly well done. Now, I’m rewatching Mindhunter, which is much better.

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I saw the first two episodes of The Terror. So far it seems fairly interesting, the Franklin expedition meets Alien.

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Not normally recommending comedy but...

James Acaster's 4 part Netflix standup series is very good. I think he's one of the best standup guys of this era.

Limmy's new show (one episode only, unfortunately) is fantastic, one of the best things he's done. Also watched his short episode of Funny Valentines (found on BBC iplayer)

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I have reached mid-1999 in my WWE Attitude era rewatch on the WWE Network, which is pretty great value for fans. 1997 was maybe the best year for the company ever, 1998 was good, but aside from a few highlights (debut of Y2J!) WWE programming was in a horrendous state in 1999. Obviously Austin and Rock are more charismatic and interesting frontmen than Roman and Brock, but the product was a ####ing disaster for much of that year and is, on the whole, so much better now. I hate how tacky and exploitative Vince Russo made the show. Where I am at now the Rock and Sock Connection are the only thing keeping this #### show together.

Looking forward to NXT Takeover tonight and Wrestlemania tomorrow.

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I watched a fair amount of wrestling in the Rock/Austin/Mankind/Kane/Triple H era because my friends watched it and I just couldn't wrap my head around the appeal of it. The action and humor was rarely good enough to justify watching it, everything seems so slow and cumbersome and all the bragging and hype made it all the more underwhelming.

I feel kind of bad about this because lots of wrestlers seem very nice and put themselves through hell to do these shows.

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The actual wrestling was often poor in that era. It was more about the crash TV 'event' and ratings chasing. Most of the stuff with the top stars is still entertaining, but there's a lot of coarse, ugly material which doesn't stand up to the harsh light of day.

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My wife and I just finished watching season 1 of Taboo, and I can heartily recommend it! Outstanding storytelling set in London during the early 1800s with occultism, bizarre violence, and conspiracies. Tom Hardy is excellent in the main role as the mystical anti-hero here, and I can’t wait to see what season two has in store. Check it out.

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I was entranced by this series at 8 or 9 (not particularly recent...all relative though)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da...un_(TV_serial)




but if it happened to appear on youtube/other it would become the last TV show I watched (probably briefly but always possibly forever)

the theme
lived above a Greek restaurant in Leeds for a while...oh well...still keen to rewatch though

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I've been watching lots of comedy lately:

Detectorists - Amazing! The banter is so tight.

The Good Place - Pleasantly distracting. One of the leads is in They Remain.

Santa Clarita Diet - has puke scenes that would make John Waters proud.

People Like Us - BBC mockumentary series about various occupations in the 1990s - it's fun to see a lot of contemporary actors when they were younger - e.g. David Tennant, Olivia Coleman, John Oliver

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - Also lots of fun - like Madmen with empowered women? I'm not crazy about Madmen.

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Sort of television, since youtube is the new television. Perhaps this is too long for the comedy thread.
Amazing interview. Herring was trying to get Blessed for a couple of years. Funny stories about actors, climbers and his involvement with NASA.

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I am rewatching the first three seasons of The Wire and then I will watch the rest of it for the first time.

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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.

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I haven't decided yet what to watch next: Singing Detective or Twin Peaks season 3. A friend of mine told me that Detective is not as bleak as Pennies. I hope he's right!

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coincidentally considering watching/reading blackeyes


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Bodyguard on BBC 1. Not as good as it's hyped up to be but still fun in a "Let's use loads of jargon-filled depictions of police procedures to ground the story in reality and stop viewers realising how implausible all the preposterous plot-twists are" kind of way.

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I watched Quatermass (1979) for the first time in forever. It's rougher than the previous Quatermass serials, but even Kneale on an off day is somewhat amazing. I love how the satellites in the fields seem similar to the inscrutable ancient standing stones central to the story. A looming mystery for future survivors akin to Walter de la Mare's vats or Lovecraft's alien monoliths.

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I finished Avatar: The Last Airbender and Tron: Uprising; both were fantastic, but I am still unsure about watching The Legend of Korra. I definitely need to finish The Corner and The Wire first.

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I'm about half way through "The Terror" and, so far, it's a very good series. There is a palpable feeling of dread throughout and the acting, set/costume design, and photography are phenomenal. I'm hoping the strong first half continues, as sometimes TV series kind of peter out as they progress (although this being a limited event, I kind of doubt that happens).

Anyway, I'd recommend "The Terror" to horror/thriller fans.

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I finally watched The Corner years after deciding not to, due to the bleakness of the first episode. It is without a doubt the most depressing TV show ever.

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Catching up with Line of Duty. I'd only seen series 1 and 4 but have just finished series 2. And series 3 starts a repeat run this week.

Twisty-turny plotting, unexpected character deaths, and a ton of moral murkiness. Although the best bit in any given episode is the way the theme music gradually builds in intensity and volume during the final scenes before exploding all over the end credits. It's a simple trick but it transforms even the most mundane of events into the world's most nailbiting cliffhanger. Seriously, they could end an episode with a bloke picking his nose and I'd spend the entire week thinking "Oh my God, when he withdraws his finger will there be a bogey? If so, will it be hard and crusty? Or soft and gooey? And, most importantly of all: Will. He. Eat it?"

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I watched The Haunting of Hill House. It was great for the most part, but the last two episodes were kind of a let down and it barely managed to stick the landing

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The Rosa Parks episode of Doctor Who was surprisingly great. Exactly what we need right now.