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13Pandora13 posted:Breaking Bad took like two seasons to be engaging instead of just curious. It was good, but kind of dull. I watched the first season and enjoyed it because it was set in my home town. Then a few years later, a bunch of people were talking about it on Twitter. I had honestly thought it was cancelled after the first season. Love is on Netflix. I really like Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust from other stuff so I want to like the series but I haven't gotten to sit down and watch it yet.
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jodai posted:Love is on Netflix. I really like Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust from other stuff so I want to like the series but I haven't gotten to sit down and watch it yet. I'm really digging it. I like those actors, plus there are a ton of other great comedians in there. Kyle Kinane, Milana Vayntrub, Claudia O'Doherty, Brett Gelman, etc, etc. With the cast, I have pretty high expectations, but I'm really enjoying it. Also Breaking Bad was a super slow burn - save the pilot and some moments with Tuco - the first 2 seasons. Not that that's a terrible thing. Netflix's Bloodline is nothing but a slow burn, but I liked it fine. It's a good, get-ready-for-bed show.
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jodai posted:Love is on Netflix. I really like Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust from other stuff so I want to like the series but I haven't gotten to sit down and watch it yet. I'm like SUPER madly in love with Gillian Jacobs, and this show has managed to supersede my disgusting celebrity crush and be genuinely entertaining. Watch it if you like awkward comedy - super-watch it if you like awkward comedy and like Gillian Jacobs in a shameful way. Plus also I like Charlyne Yi and she's in this too. I am sad and lonely. 
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Turtlicious posted:Uhm, yeah no Breaking Bad was boring af until Season 3. This reminds me, I haven't been on IMDB for awhile.
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Feb 20, 2016 20:30
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We get it, you're much smarter than us and have clearly superior taste in television and film.
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Feb 21, 2016 02:45
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13Pandora13 posted:We get it, you're much smarter than us and have clearly superior taste in television and film. I thought we were just playing, sorry if things got too rough.
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coyo7e posted:After Netflix recommending it to me for well over a year, I got bored and checked out Longmire since I'd run out of british crime drams and korean horror action flicks and all the other poo poo I'm usually into... And it's really good. Just wanted to say Longmire is really good. My dad was the first to recommend it so I just ignored it like a lot of stuff he suggests but finally got into it. He also turned me onto Justified which I couldn't get past the guy from European Vacation being the sniper in to loving the show.
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Any recommendations for good comedy albums through Amazon Prime?
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Fumaofthelake posted:Any recommendations for good comedy albums through Amazon Prime? Like, comedy music or spoken word? What are some comedians you like? Mitch All Together and Strategic Grill Location are on Prime, but most people are already familiar with Mitch Hedberg. If you're not definitely check those out. (edit) I'm not sure what's on there but George Carlin is another one to add. Daniel Tosh's standup is pretty funny too, and if you like him Anthony Jeselnik is the same kind of "funny and also horrible" style. 13Pandora13 has a new favorite as of 22:43 on Feb 21, 2016 |
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Feb 21, 2016 22:25
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I was thinking stand-up. I've already added what they have of Hannibal Buress, Mitch Hedberg, Jim Gaffigan and a few others. I'll try pretty much anything so I guess what I'm really looking for is some names I may not have heard before.
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I don't know if they're on Amazon Prime or not, but I'm a huge fan of the stand-up of Louis C.K., John Mulaney, Moshe Kasher, Aziz Ansari, Donald Glover, Kyle Kinane, Tig Notaro, Jessi Klein, Nikki Glaser, Amy Schumer, Zach Galifianakis, plus the aforementioned Jim Gaffigan and Hannibal Burress. Most of them are big names, but one or two of them might be pleasant new surprises for you. What about Stephen Wright?
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In addition to those, I like Myq Kaplain.
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Both of Pete Holmes' specials are pretty great. Video Game Doctor is one of my favorite bits of his.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Season 4 is by far the best season. Being made to be on Netflix instead of cable means each episode can be longer, and they aren't beholden to a case-of-the-week format. I think there's all of three investigations for the whole season. It's a show that likes to take its time and Netflix let them do that.  Also after seeing some chatter on TV gossip sites etc, it actually exactly sounds like The Red Road really was aping Longmire, while aiming at a younger, edgier audience.. Apparently when Netflix picked up Longmire they got a HUGE bump in middle-aged and older subscribers, and are going to try to keep them by making the last season finally. It woulda been a pretty crushing thing to see that episode, get left on that cliffhanger, and then just assume the show was never coming back. But the sheriff in The Red Road is basically Branch Connelly, with less access to huge amounts of money. wormil posted:The problem with MoaM is the "victim" is a scumbag and I give no shits that law enforcement hates him. The interesting story is if they frame him but I don't know if I can get that far.
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coyo7e posted:So what you're saying is that you really hate poor, uneducated people? I really ended up having a pretty big soft spot for the poor guy. He and his family are obviously not going to ever improve their lot, but the guy really never got into any major trouble that most ignorant redneck guys in podunk towns would get into... Minor burglary and drunk and disordlies, setting his cat on fire, running his cousin off the road, pointing a gun at her, while naked -- maybe you need to watch the first episode again. Also, it is ironic that you accuse me of hating poor people but then say most of them get into worse trouble than Avery -- you have it backwards which of us is the bigot. That behavior isn't acceptable regardless of income status; and most poor people do not act that way.
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coyo7e posted:
So what you're saying is that you've completely bought into whatever agenda the documentary producers had?
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coyo7e posted:
Basically none of this is true and 5 seconds of googling would tell you as much.
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wormil posted:setting his cat on fire, running his cousin off the road, pointing a gun at her, while naked -- maybe you need to watch the first episode again. Also, it is ironic that you accuse me of hating poor people but then say most of them get into worse trouble than Avery -- you have it backwards which of us is the bigot. That behavior isn't acceptable regardless of income status; and most poor people do not act that way. You watched ten hours documenting how corrupt and untrustworthy the cops in that town were and the degrees they were willing to go to frame someone and the thing you took away from it was "the cops said he did a bunch of bad things in the past so he deserved it" 1redflag posted:So what you're saying is that you've completely bought into whatever agenda the documentary producers had? I don't know where you get the idea that every investigative piece of media needs to pretend like its completely neutral or give equal time to the opposing view in the name of some Fox New-esque pretense of being Fair and Balanced but it's objectively wrong and also the cancer that is killing journalism. And everybody trying to refute the doc is even worse about bringing an agenda, like how a pair of fuzzy BDSM handcuffs with a quick-release button built into them that makes them impossible to use as a legitimate restraint is presented as manacles and leg irons which could only be used to restrain an unwilling victim.
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The doucumentarians literally edited the conversation between Massey and his mother to remove the part about him being molested by Steven because they found it "too inflammatory" i.e. didn't fit their victim narrative.
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It was pretty obvious that most of the footage was edited to provide a better plot, but I flat-out grew up around people who run over cats for kicks and point guns at each other when they get drunk in the hills partying. It's why I moved to the city and advocate stronger gun control. The small-town cops there were also well-known for being nasty, spiteful POSes who'd cite you for bullshit or follow you around town each day hoping to catch you doing something they could gently caress with you over, small town cops are mean motherfuckers you don't wanna cross. The incest/abuse stuff was made clear several times, I have absolutely no doubt that many of the branches of that family tree loop back into the trunk, but again, I grew up going to school with kids like that - they were born into it and mainly do not have the facilities to ever get out of it - even if they were aware of just how awful their circumstances are. I'm probably soft though because my parents are both teachers and they'd regularly pick up filthy, smelly children to bring them to school when they drove me to school. I loving despised those kids when I was young, they would get in fights with me at school, leave my family's vehicles covered in mud, but it really wasn't the fault of those kids, and once they grow up, they're never going to go anywhere - I've literally driven down the highway past someone I went to middle school with, we're both in our mid 30s now, but I'm driving and they're walking a couple bags of empties 10 miles toward town from the trailer park they grew up in (which has been repeatedly fined for having sewage leaking into the water supply which those people use). They're the kind of people who can literally spend their entire life without going more than 40 miles from their hometown... Ever. I mean it used to blow my mind that someone could live and die without even going to the beach once, but they're there, and they're not hateful people, and they're not deserving of hate and disdain. They need help, and nobody gives a poo poo because they're too busy judging how they killed animals for sport as kids, and got abused while a child then repeated the cycle as an adult. It doesn't excuse terrible behavior however, you can't judge someone from a high horse without seeing how hard their existence actually is. When a kid with IQ of 68 who's growing up in a junkyard/quarry points a gun at someone or lights a cat on fire in his adolescence/teens, he simply doesn't understand that it's wrong. I lost a few cats growing up in the country - you just get used to the fact that you either have an indoor pet, or it'll come home with .177 caliber pellets buried in its neck once in a while. edit: it's kind of funny how people have no problem dumping on the poor and ignorant, while judges let rich people walk away from killing multiple people while drunk-driving, on the literal excuse that "they were too rich to know right from wrong." Why is "dumber than a bag of rocks and sexually/physically abused their whole life," a weaker defense, and more prone to having one thrown in jail nor prison? I grew up with my uncles and grandfathers all bragging about their drunk-driving exploits, for instance, and when I grew up I realized how dangerous and wrong it was. I have relatives who still live in the hills, and they do it all the time and would be pissed off if you tried to explain how wrong their weekend ritual is. coyo7e has a new favorite as of 21:03 on Feb 26, 2016 |
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coyo7e posted:It was pretty obvious that most of the footage was edited to provide a better plot, but I flat-out grew up around people who run over cats for kicks and point guns at each other when they get drunk in the hills partying. It's why I moved to the city and advocate stronger gun control. The small-town cops there were also well-known for being nasty, spiteful POSes who'd cite you for bullshit or follow you around town each day hoping to catch you doing something they could gently caress with you over, small town cops are mean motherfuckers you don't wanna cross. Oh, okay.
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Sleeveless posted:I don't know where you get the idea that every investigative piece of media needs to pretend like its completely neutral or give equal time to the opposing view in the name of some Fox New-esque pretense of being Fair and Balanced but it's objectively wrong and also the cancer that is killing journalism. yes, its the lack of yellow journalism that is killing journalism, Its so obvious.
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I almost missed it, but for your Blue Mountain State fans, I just saw the movie Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland is up on Netflix.
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I'm not 100% sure but either netflix figured out how to circumvent smartflix, or there's another wave of ddos attacks going on which are loving up my viewing of netflix via proxy. I've been getting "you're using a proxy" for over an hour now.
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coyo7e posted:I'm not 100% sure but either netflix figured out how to circumvent smartflix, or there's another wave of ddos attacks going on which are loving up my viewing of netflix via proxy. I've been getting "you're using a proxy" for over an hour now. Netflix announced recently that they were seriously going after viewing by proxy. The pressure from the distribution companies has become more vocal and they had to start doing something, even though proxies were actually good for their business. I know I am cancelling my sub if I can't find a working solution (watching from Finland, the selection here sucks).
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Yeah, I don't want to be a dick about it however, I've simply run out of content to stream. Maybe I'll subscribe like every third month just to see if there's new poo poo worth seeing.. I guess it's a fortunate thing that I'm going to be spending a ton of my time taking classes online in the next few months, maybe netflix can get their poo poo together
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Hit up netflix support, they confirmed they're "expanding their global catalog" at the expense of stronger security. Canceled. If they could manage to keep the US region catalog from stagnating for months at a stretch, it would be worthwhile, but I can just eyeball redbox.com and see what's new.
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Yeah, if that happens I'm canceling too, some of my favorite shows are only available in the UK and the German Netflix doesn't have English subtitles for most content for some dumb reason and my girlfriend needs those so we were watching stuff from the US, it's not appealing otherwise. All nice things get destroyed by bullshit internet regions.
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I got an email from Smartlix:quote:Netflix is currently using a new geo-restriction video stream blocking method, which will prevent the use of VPNs, proxies, and other unblocking utilities.
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I never was a comic book person, but I grew up watching the animated Batman and Superman cartoons (because they ruled) and I gotta say that The Flashpoint Paradox was a lot more hosed up than I was expecting. That poo poo is dark. I mean geez.
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Rolo posted:I never was a comic book person, but I grew up watching the animated Batman and Superman cartoons (because they ruled) and I gotta say that The Flashpoint Paradox was a lot more hosed up than I was expecting. That poo poo is dark. I mean geez. The art was awful, but yeah, it was pretty dark.
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Rolo posted:I never was a comic book person, but I grew up watching the animated Batman and Superman cartoons (because they ruled) and I gotta say that The Flashpoint Paradox was a lot more hosed up than I was expecting. That poo poo is dark. I mean geez. I just found out this was on Netflix. The original comic event was great, I can't wait to watch this.
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I'm on episode 4 of house of cards season 4 and I feel like it's better than season 3 so far. Season 1 was still the best though.
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om nom nom posted:I'm on episode 4 of house of cards season 4 and I feel like it's better than season 3 so far. Season 1 was still the best though. Good to hear. S3 was inconsistent
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om nom nom posted:I'm on episode 4 of house of cards season 4 and I feel like it's better than season 3 so far. Season 1 was still the best though. Season 4 is way better than 3
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Season 4 is good but it's an amazing series overall. The only thing that kinda peters out in S4 is Dunbar which I was kinda disappointed about as it was clear they had to make way for Conway but they could have really given the conclusion a bit more air time considering the whole build-up.
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I'm almost finished with season 1 of Fresh Meat. I've never really liked college shows, but this is pretty drat good. Likeable characters, well written, and it has a story rather than just being a comedy.
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So hard not to click that spoiler tag. My lady friend doesn't watch the HoC so I only watch it when she's out or reading. We don't watch too terribly much TV as it is so it's been slow going even though I want to take 10 hours and binge watch that poo poo in one go.
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I'm not sure if The Forbidden Room is brilliant, or if it's the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Either way, it's something, and it's on Netflix.
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