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Everyone should give United States of Tara a try. I just watched two episodes and was REALLY surprised.
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Parking Wars Basically, cameras follow the Philadelphia Parking Authority employees while on the beat. It's quite amusing.
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Feb 13, 2012 17:28
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Bela fleck throw down your heart. If you like banjo
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Feb 13, 2012 18:04
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RudyBrah posted:The first season of "Louie" has been up on instant watch for a while.
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Feb 13, 2012 18:19
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jeffreyheart posted:Bela fleck throw down your heart. Ok let me handle this one champ. Throw Down Your Heart is about a banjo player named Bela Fleck who goes to Africa to record music with native musicians and learn something about the origins of the banjo. The interaction he has with these musicians is really cool, and the instruments they play are really interesting. All the music is great and the musicians are all really talented. Here's a sample http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jl4IOSLX-o GNU Order has a new favorite as of 23:21 on Feb 13, 2012 |
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Feb 13, 2012 23:17
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I've been catching up on tv shows I missed over the years. Prison Break starts off fairly well. The first season was actually pretty excellent. The second season was ok, not great. The third season starts off interesting, then quickly gets bad. The fourth season starts of pretty badly. Halfway through the fourth (and final) season, it turns into a bubbling pot of bullshit. In conclusion: Watch the first season, it's pretty good.
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Feb 14, 2012 01:17
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bonds0097 posted:Check out Better Off Ted, a hilarious but short-lived workplace comedy about Veridian Dynamics (which is basically every evil mega-corp you've ever heard of), complete with ridiculous commercials for their products. It features Portia de Rossi in a great role as the 'boss-lady'. I really enjoyed it, though clearly not enough people did since it was cancelled after one season. I believe this show actually made it through a second season as well. Although 2 seasons were still not nearly enough.
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Feb 14, 2012 02:49
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I thoroughly enjoyed The Charge of the Light Brigade because I am a huge sucker for cavalry, but I thought it did a nice job portraying post-Congress Britain, in a very poorly known but quite bloody peripheral engagement. I also liked its use of period-looking animated political cartoons. Check it out if you like history and military poo poo and upper class British people being horrible to each other while making lower class British people die.
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Feb 14, 2012 03:20
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ZombieSnot posted:I believe this show actually made it through a second season as well. Although 2 seasons were still not nearly enough. You're absolutely right. I get confused because they were 13-episode seasons rather than the usual 22-24 for most American shows, so there's unfortunately only 26 total episodes. Two of which were never even aired. Between this and Arrested Development, it is obvious that the average TV watcher is clearly unable to recognize quality comedies.
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Feb 14, 2012 10:01
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The Invention of Dr. NakaMats is a documentary about a Japanese inventor. He claims to have invented the floppy disk, but mostly he lives in a shrine to himself and "invents" things like the self-defense wig and an engine that runs on water and a magical bra. He does this by sitting at the bottom of a pool waiting until he is 0.5 seconds from death and smudging ideas on a vaguely waterproof notepad he invented. It is amazing, and you should watch it. edit: also he is going to live to be 144 and sometimes his dead mother gives him ideas.
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Feb 14, 2012 15:17
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If you've never seen it (and you call yourself a Goon?) the entire first series of Monty Pythons Flying Circus is up.
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Feb 14, 2012 15:52
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Actually, I believe that's the whole run of Python, they neglected to break it down into series/seasons for some reason. Also I wish the descriptions were better, the only way they differentiate them is by title. Unless you've got every episode memorized it's virtually impossible to find specific sketches without going online. I know this show has been on there a while, but if you haven't seen The League check it out, even if you hate fantasy football. It's hilarious. Edit - It's not actually the whole run, it looks like they're missing 14 episodes, not sure what that's about. Vulgar has a new favorite as of 08:38 on Feb 15, 2012 |
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Feb 15, 2012 07:40
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So, I went in search of some good documentaries and stumbled upon A Complete History of My Sexual Failures, which is about a guy who tries to interview all his ex-girlfriends about why they dumped him. They pretty much all just poo poo on his personality, and it really shows why in a lot of his talking heads. It has a lot of really uncomfortable scenes though, including a scene where he visits a sex dungeon and gets whipped a bunch, and worse: a scene where he takes "six or seven" viagra with a whole lot of alcohol and wanders the streets begging random women to have sex with him until he gets arrested. Worth seeing? Maybe. It's only like an hour and a half long though, so might as well.
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Feb 16, 2012 00:38
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It's an interesting sounding concept, but that guy is just too awful.
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Feb 16, 2012 01:15
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Xandu posted:It's an interesting sounding concept, but that guy is just too awful. The movie doesn't really hide how awful he is. His exes don't really hold back either. One broke up with him by publishing a novel directed to him in which the main character stabs her annoying boyfriend to death and watches him bleed out.
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Feb 16, 2012 02:03
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bonds0097 posted:You're absolutely right. I get confused because they were 13-episode seasons rather than the usual 22-24 for most American shows, so there's unfortunately only 26 total episodes. Truth
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Feb 16, 2012 03:25
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User-Friendly posted:So, I went in search of some good documentaries and stumbled upon A Complete History of My Sexual Failures, which is about a guy who tries to interview all his ex-girlfriends about why they dumped him. They pretty much all just poo poo on his personality, and it really shows why in a lot of his talking heads. So this is Goon: The Movie?
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Feb 16, 2012 19:39
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Liku posted:So this is Goon: The Movie? Yeah, there's no way...it's got to be staged, right? 
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Feb 16, 2012 20:03
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well I'm running out of poo poo to watch on netflix instant.... so I ended up catching an episode of Cake Boss For a show about a family business in Hoboken NJ who bakes cakes in the family owned business... its actually very entertaining.
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Feb 16, 2012 20:58
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Slumber Party Massacre just turned up on instant. This was intended as a parody of slasher films. Lots of nudity and a killer who penetrates his victims with a long, thick http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084695/ http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Slumber_Party_Massacre/60002020?trkid=2361637
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Feb 17, 2012 00:38
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Totally loving The Ernie Kovacs Collection, an overview of one of the first comedians that actually "got" television as something distinctly different from radio, film, or stage, but if you're not familiar with Ernie's works at all, I'm going to suggest you watch it out of order. Start with the ABC specials (eps. 17-21), which is the material video snobs fell in love with when the repeats finally started in the 1970s. Then go to #s 12-16, which is Ernie's big budget variety show on NBC, and only after that go to the beginning for the early stuff. Of course, there's nothing stopping you from watching it straight through in order, because the early stuff still has a wonderfully loose charm that TV isn't exactly comfortable with anymore, and watching a first-generation TV performer figure out what it means to be funny on TV is loads of fun to some of us. But a couple of people on Amazon tried it that way and shook their tiny fists in impotent rage, so an explanation is obviously in order. (more info on DVD Talk, and sorry, the Dutch Masters ads he's talking about are DVD only)
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Feb 17, 2012 01:33
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Finished season 1 of Workaholics, now on to season 2. Pretty good show, glad it was mentioned here.
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Feb 17, 2012 01:41
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I don't know how long it's been out there, but I just found Father Ted on instant. It's made by the same guy that did IT Crowd and is well worth a watch if you like British humor.
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Feb 18, 2012 06:04
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I've been catching up on tv shows that I missed over the years. I did Heroes and Prison Break so far. I just watched the first episode of Lost. Does anything ever get explained? I don't need spoilers, but is it ever explained what the giant monster that kills the pilot in the first episode is? I don't want to bother watching the entire series if nothing is explained.
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Feb 18, 2012 22:07
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particle409 posted:I've been catching up on tv shows that I missed over the years. I did Heroes and Prison Break so far. I just watched the first episode of Lost. Does anything ever get explained? I don't need spoilers, but is it ever explained what the giant monster that kills the pilot in the first episode is? I don't want to bother watching the entire series if nothing is explained. It does. The first season is by far the most mysterious and character-centered, as the show goes along it becomes more and more about the mythology of the show and island.
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Feb 18, 2012 22:33
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particle409 posted:I've been catching up on tv shows that I missed over the years. I did Heroes and Prison Break so far. I just watched the first episode of Lost. Does anything ever get explained? I don't need spoilers, but is it ever explained what the giant monster that kills the pilot in the first episode is? I don't want to bother watching the entire series if nothing is explained. You will probably have questions you wish were answered, and you might not like the way the last episode wraps things up, but all in all I think watching the show will be worth your while.
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Feb 19, 2012 00:33
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particle409 posted:I've been catching up on tv shows that I missed over the years. I did Heroes and Prison Break so far. I just watched the first episode of Lost. Does anything ever get explained? I don't need spoilers, but is it ever explained what the giant monster that kills the pilot in the first episode is? I don't want to bother watching the entire series if nothing is explained. Lost is the first show I recommend to people when they ask me what some of my must see TV shows are. I've introduced Lost to a few friends, they both ended up falling in love with it and marathoning the entire show.
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Looks like Cameron Crowe's documentary "Pearl Jam Twenty" has made it up on instant. It could have went deeper into the band members personalities, but very watchable nonetheless; if nothing except for the stage-diving footage. Trailer w/ David Lynch*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzI8OhR0IVY *I don't recall Lynch making an appearance in the documentary, just the trailer apparently.
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Feb 19, 2012 03:58
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There are lots of shows that keep you watching just by tantalizing you episode after episode without ever delivering; Heroes, after season 1, for instance. I give props to Lost. They made some crazy fuckin' storyline tangents that I was sure they were going to leave dangling. But I think they did very well wrapping up most of them. I was bored for the first half season, but was hooked afterwards. Also, I'll add another recommendation for Workaholics. I laughed often. I think it's definitely a spiritual sibling of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
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Go watch Even the Rain right loving now. Even the Rain is a Spanish language movie that follows two men and their crew as they travel to Cochabamba, Bolivia to make a film about Christopher Columbus' trespasses against the Native Americans of the New World. During the filming, the two men are inadvertently dragged into the 2000 Cochabamba protests by one of their lead actors(Daniel), and Bolivia's poor at large, who can't afford the greedy prices placed on the only sources of clean water in the country. Everything about this movie is amazing. From the parallels of the ancient exploited natives and the modern day Cochabamba locals, to the sheer realism in the locals strife, to the beautiful costume work of the Columbus film, or even the raw emotion of the final scene. Juan Carlos Aduviri delivers an amazing performance as Daniel, made even greater by the fact También la Lluvia is his first acting role. I only watched it yesterday and I already love the poo poo out of this movie.
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particle409 posted:but is it ever explained what the giant monster that kills the pilot in the first episode is? I don't want to bother watching the entire series if nothing is explained. Everything wraps up relatively well among the cast members who remain. The Lost finale was the best finale I've ever seen. Note, season two was the weakest IMO. It felt like they weren't prepared for success and had to pull storylines out of their rear end but it does all come back together and is worth it.
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Has anybody else watched this Loki/Thor Blood Brothers animated thing? So far there are only 4 episodes up but it seems like there should be more upcoming (judging by how the 4th episode ended). I kind of like it. In the last 2 episodes it really plays Loki as a more sympathetic character and despite the lack of comic book style action it really held my attention. Does anybody know if there are more episodes upcoming? I've just a quick google search and didn't come up with anything.
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Feb 21, 2012 12:56
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wormil posted:Everything wraps up relatively well among the cast members who remain. The Lost finale was the best finale I've ever seen. Yeah, you'll find a lot of polarized reactions to the finale of LOST online, but personally I loved it, and I don't know that I have ever had more fun watching a show than while Lost was on the air. EDIT: Also, this is on Hulu and not Netflix, but I am watching Misfits, and holy CRAP is it good.
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JLightning posted:Has anybody else watched this Loki/Thor Blood Brothers animated thing? So far there are only 4 episodes up but it seems like there should be more upcoming (judging by how the 4th episode ended). Everything I can find on it says that it is only a 4 episode motion comic based on a comic a few years back titled Loki by Robert Rodi and Esad Ribic. It would seem even the DVD release of it only consists of the 4 episodes, so...don't think there is any more episodes being released.
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I'm a late-comer to Downton Abbey, but it's really really excellent. There is... nothing wrong with it.
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Feb 26, 2012 07:05
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Archer season 2 is up.
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Zeriel posted:I don't know how long it's been out there, but I just found Father Ted on instant. It's made by the same guy that did IT Crowd and is well worth a watch if you like British humor. Yes, watch Father Ted. And the IT Crowd. And Spaced. I guess I've been on a British comedy kick lately. Anyway, I'm seconding the recommendation for Father Ted. I thought it was really funny and it made me laugh out loud quite a few times. I don't know whether I found it particularly funny because I was raised Catholic, but fortunately you don't have to know much about Catholicism to find it funny
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Feb 26, 2012 08:29
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FYI all the Starz movies are leaving on the 29th, so you're down to the wire to watch stuff like Toy Story and Bad Lieutenant (which was surprisingly good).
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Psychobabble posted:Archer season 2 is up. I just think this needs to be quoted in case you scrolled past it and didn't read it.
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Is it just me, or is netflix on xbox missing, like, a third of the content available? I can deal with the absolutely awful setup that means I only see 10-15 movies in a genre over and over. But I search for Father Ted or Lost and nothing shows up! I only got netflix so I could watch it on the tv, I don't want to have to go back to watching what I actually want to watch on a laptop, I can do that for free with pirating. Is there any sort of list or something that shows the difference in netflix on devices like xbox and what's available on the site through a computer? I don't really want to keep paying if half the catalog is missing for no reason.
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