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Wife and I watched Yellowjackets on showtime this weekend. Basically a darker version of Lost meets Lord Of The Flies. A high school girls soccer team's plane crashes in the mountains and they have to survive for 19 months. The show jumps back and forth between 1996 and modern day.

Some freaky shit in the show. Kind of horror-esque at times. Enough mystery to keep you guessing at things.

Coincidentally, I had just started rewatching the first couple of episodes of Lost (one of my all time favorites, though I've never re-watched it), when my wife asked if I wanted to watch this. So I may not be flying for a while (not that I was planning to).

MiamiSpartan wrote:Wife and I watched Yellowjackets on showtime this weekend. Basically a darker version of Lost meets Lord Of The Flies. A high school girls soccer team's plane crashes in the mountains and they have to survive for 19 months. The show jumps back and forth between 1996 and modern day.

Some freaky shit in the show. Kind of horror-esque at times. Enough mystery to keep you guessing at things.

Coincidentally, I had just started rewatching the first couple of episodes of Lost (one of my all time favorites, though I've never re-watched it), when my wife asked if I wanted to watch this. So I may not be flying for a while (not that I was planning to).

We watched the first episode. Can’t say it had me wanting more. Maybe I’ll give it a shot in the dog days of winter.

Seaspiracy

I mentioned in the oceans thread I started. Depressing doc on the oceans and who really promotes and funds “dolphin free” tuna, the plastics in the ocean crowd, etc

Watched the first episode of Ricky Gervais’ dark comedy After Life (Netflix). Looks like there’s 18 episodes over three seasons.
Storyline as follows: Nice man’s wife dies of cancer. In his grief, he first tries to kill himself. Having failed that, he now treats everybody with an abusive tongue. His friends know he’s not really that mean person and it’s only a stage of his grief. They tolerate it and him and try to bring him out of his sorrow.

This is one of the trailers my wife saw that sold her on watching the series:

kingstonlake wrote:

MiamiSpartan wrote:Wife and I watched Yellowjackets on showtime this weekend. Basically a darker version of Lost meets Lord Of The Flies. A high school girls soccer team's plane crashes in the mountains and they have to survive for 19 months. The show jumps back and forth between 1996 and modern day.

Some freaky shit in the show. Kind of horror-esque at times. Enough mystery to keep you guessing at things.

Coincidentally, I had just started rewatching the first couple of episodes of Lost (one of my all time favorites, though I've never re-watched it), when my wife asked if I wanted to watch this. So I may not be flying for a while (not that I was planning to).

We watched the first episode. Can’t say it had me wanting more. Maybe I’ll give it a shot in the dog days of winter.

I hear ya, it was probably around episode 4 or 5 that I started to feel invested. I'm not saying its great, but I started to be more interested in the storylines by that point.

Any Ray Donovan fans? One of my all time favorites. Just watched Ray Donovan The Movie. Awesome. Basically a series ender w/flashbacks.

Jimmy Carr: His Dark Material on Netflix.

New Reacher series starts tonight on Prime. Sounds like they nailed the character

Reacher review – the house-sized action hero Tom Cruise will never be

Boba Fett is pretty solid

kingstonlake wrote:Boba Fett is pretty solid

Yep. E5 was kinda of a buzzkiller for me, but guessing it will make sense once I watch E6. My fav character is the giant wookie obv.

Nordic wrote:

kingstonlake wrote:Boba Fett is pretty solid

Yep. E5 was kinda of a buzzkiller for me, but guessing it will make sense once I watch E6. My fav character is the giant wookie obv.

It will. Good episode.

I give a thumbs up on Boba Fett.

Also, Peacemaker is pretty good on HBOMax.

Final season of ozark. Two episodes in. It’s way beyond believable long ago, which is fine I guess. Bateman is a damn good actor. For all the gratuitous stuff it’s still pretty good.

Nordic wrote:New Reacher series starts tonight on Prime. Sounds like they nailed the character

Reacher review – the house-sized action hero Tom Cruise will never be

I get the hate from fans for the Reacher movie with TC, but as someone who never knew the character existed, I liked it.

Plus that little red headed yinzer was hot.

Nordic wrote:New Reacher series starts tonight on Prime. Sounds like they nailed the character

Reacher review – the house-sized action hero Tom Cruise will never be

I've watched three episodes and this Reacher is more like it. Size does matter.

Agreed with Nordy and Floyd on Reacher’s size. He’s much more like the imposing hobo in the novels. Couple of things: While the actor in this new series is way more of a physical match to Reacher than Tom Cruise could ever hope to be, he’s still three inches shorter than the character written by Lee Child. Jack Reacher is 6’5” in the novels. Even if you could find someone that size, there’s probably a very small pool of those in that group who are also good-enough actors, too. It must also be rough shooting a lot of the scenes, too, when one actor is conceivably a foot taller than the rest.

The other thing I noticed is how dainty the actor playing Reacher walks. Quick, tiny steps, body straight, not shrugging. He’s also skipped leg day a lot.

Rocinante wrote:

Nordic wrote:New Reacher series starts tonight on Prime. Sounds like they nailed the character

Reacher review – the house-sized action hero Tom Cruise will never be

I get the hate from fans for the Reacher movie with TC, but as someone who never knew the character existed, I liked it.

Plus that little red headed yinzer was hot.

The Cruise movies were, imo, good enough to watch as stand-alones. Not sure who you mean by red-headed yinzer.

The Pittsburgh skank.

tGreenWay wrote:

Rocinante wrote:

I get the hate from fans for the Reacher movie with TC, but as someone who never knew the character existed, I liked it.

Plus that little red headed yinzer was hot.

The Cruise movies were, imo, good enough to watch as stand-alones. Not sure who you mean by red-headed yinzer.

I liked the Reacher movies with Cruise. It was smart to cast him He plays that type of role well. It obv doesn't get as much play if they hired someone like the current guy.

tGreenWay wrote:Agreed with Nordy and Floyd on Reacher’s size. He’s much more like the imposing hobo in the novels. Couple of things: While the actor in this new series is way more of a physical match to Reacher than Tom Cruise could ever hope to be, he’s still three inches shorter than the character written by Lee Child. Jack Reacher is 6’5” in the novels. Even if you could find someone that size, there’s probably a very small pool of those in that group who are also good-enough actors, too. It must also be rough shooting a lot of the scenes, too, when one actor is conceivably a foot taller than the rest.

The other thing I noticed is how dainty the actor playing Reacher walks. Quick, tiny steps, body straight, not shrugging. He’s also skipped leg day a lot.

On E3 and had no idea he wasn't 6-5. They've done a good job making him look 6-5. The casting on Roscoe and Oscar is great too. Been years since I've read Killing Floor, but they look/act like I imaged.

I'm not too far into it, but that dude would snap roscoe in half if they bone.

AvgMSUJoe wrote:I'm not too far into it, but that dude would snap roscoe in half if they bone.

If?

I don't remember much from the book, but one thing I do know is those two will bang.

Episode 4...

Nordic wrote:

AvgMSUJoe wrote:I'm not too far into it, but that dude would snap roscoe in half if they bone.

If?

I don't remember much from the book, but one thing I do know is those two will bang.

I don't remember a Reacher book without a babe that he banged.

So, the wife's work place talks about Shameless, we started, like 3 seasons into it...
Anyone watch it all.

InTenSity wrote:The doc about Boeing should be watched by a lot of people.  American greed happens again.

I fly maybe two three times a year. I’m flying at the end of this month. I’ll watch it after that.

DWags wrote:

InTenSity wrote:The doc about Boeing should be watched by a lot of people.  American greed happens again.

I fly maybe two three times a year. I’m flying at the end of this month. I’ll watch it after that.

The last time I flew I was in my 40s. I'm flying tomorrow. I'll watch it in about 10 days.

Netflix is raising their standard 1080P HD streaming fee to $15.49 per month. Might be time to downgrade back to Basic 480 SD my eyes are getting too old anyway lol.

Vikings: Valhalla. After 3 episodes I've concluded it's not very good.

EDIT: Episode 4 was pretty darn good. Might keep watching now.

I finally watched "Don't Look Up" over the weekend. Man, what a frustrating movie in the MAGA sense.

Mrs. Wifey added Apple TV a couple of weeks ago. Ted Lasso really is a great show. It’s both funny and charming. I’m a Jason Sudeikas (sp?) fan, but it’s the Roy Kent character that makes me laugh the most.

Meanwhile, I’m also enjoying The Morning Show, but not like the way I’m in Lasso.

For something with some interesting relevance to current events, check out Mr Jones on Hulu. True story about Welsh journalist Gareth Jones who uncovered and publicized the famine in Ukraine in 1933, and how Stalin was basically starving millions of people in Ukraine. Good movie. Some parts aren't for the faint of heart.

MiamiSpartan wrote:For something with some interesting relevance to current events, check out Mr Jones on Hulu. True story about Welsh journalist Gareth Jones who uncovered and publicized the famine in Ukraine in 1933, and how Stalin was basically starving millions of people in Ukraine. Good movie. Some parts aren't for the faint of heart.

Really good movie. My wife wasn’t fond of the middle third of the film, but I enjoyed it because it set the tone for what was to come and it helped viewers understand what Jones went through to get the story. She liked the movie but was bored in the middle.

Metal Lords on Netflix. Awesome. Though I admittedly have a huge bias as an old school metalhead (though I was never a stereotypical metalhead, but rather was always pretty clean cut, good student, etc.). So I'm speaking mostly from that perspective, but my non-metal loving wife liked it, too.

Written by DB Weiss, one of the guys behind Game Of Thrones (and I think the other guy was a producer). They did a really a good job from a metal perspective. Only a couple of references to crappy bands, but heavily Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and some old (pre-sellout) Metallica. The kid with the long hair really nailed it.

Oh, and which one of you is DB Weiss? Clearly he posts here, as the name of the band that the kids in the movie started is Skullfucker. :lol:

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The Pentaverate on Netflix. Mike Myers playing several different characters, mocking conspiracy theory nuts, and a bit of good natured making fun of Canadians. I'm here for it all day.