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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 16, 2019 13:34:15 GMT -5
I never go to bars. Only when I was in college and grad school(s) -- and only to be nice and social with my fellow grad classmates. I fail to see what's so great about those places.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2019 13:51:54 GMT -5
Seattle was probably a bar. I dunno. Long time ago. Otherwise I'm just going to restaurants that serve alcohol. Or bars that serve food maybe.
I dunno about that either. What IS a bar?
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Post by mln59 on Oct 16, 2019 14:15:17 GMT -5
I never go to bars. Only when I was in college and grad school(s) -- and only to be nice and social with my fellow grad classmates. I fail to see what's so great about those places. alcohol fun (fattening) food that i don't have to make trivia (sometimes) loads of sports on TVs friends
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 29, 2019 12:15:36 GMT -5
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (season 1)
Based on some Douglas Adams novels, which I've never read. Surprisingly good. After the first episode, the wife and I were about to chuck it because it seemed stupid and unnecessarily loud (esp. the Rowdy 3). But we persevered. It kind of grows on you.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2019 15:58:50 GMT -5
Never read any of the Hitchhiker novels? You should.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2019 16:07:56 GMT -5
Heard Chernobyl is good AF. It's pretty gripping if unavoidably grim and somber. It makes you want to keep watching. I appreciated they tried to stay true to the core of the real event, they don't try to "Hollywood" it with two dimensional cardboard characters. In a way, it's like a horror series, except instead of monster or serial killer like Freddy Kruger, Pinhead or Jason, the killer is invisible but lethal, the radiation. That is more scary because it was a very real horror that actually happened. It also explores the corruption of the Soviet Union and how the catastrophe exposed all the ugly crumbling system of the USSR. This post will flag some of the people who have commented about this show. I liked it and it made me want to read more about the accident (I was aware of it at the time, but not as aware as I should have been, nor aware of how serious it was to the world). After doing some reading, I have to say I wish they would just make movies and series BASED on historic events and call it fiction instead of sort of this half-baked pseudo documentary. Some of the scenes are based on Voices From Chernobyl which was entirely eye-witness accounts. Those scenes seemed pretty accurate. But reading Chernobyl (Serhii Plokhy) a LOT of it is made up while using the names of real people. Hardly seems right. The only admission of this is when they acknowledge that Emily Watson's character was a composite. More on this. www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-hbos-chernobyl-got-right-and-what-it-got-terribly-wrongMaybe I once knew this and maybe I only vaguely knew it, but what really struck me about the accident during my reading is how integral it was to the downfall of the USSR. But, sure, let's say Reagan did it. Brings 2019 Ukraine into context too.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2019 16:08:30 GMT -5
Am I the only one who watched The Deuce?
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 29, 2019 16:18:36 GMT -5
The Dirk Gently books are quite strange and memorable. I don't know how closely the TV series follows the books (there were two of them). The first one combined time travel and Coleridge (Kubla Khan and the Rime Of The Ancient Mariner).
The idea of a "Holistic Detective Agency" is that everything is interconnected, so Dirk goes around doing seemingly random stuff while actually gathering crucial information. He's also, however, something of a scammer. In college he ran a scam where he claimed to be selling the questions on the final exam of a course. In reality, all he did was the standard research anyone could do -- looked at what had been on old exams and the like. However, in a bizarre coincidence, his fake exam questions were actually 100% perfectly what the actual exam questions turned out to be, and he got into major trouble.
In the books he's clearly psychic, but claims there is no such thing and that he has no such ability.
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Post by azvb on Oct 29, 2019 16:19:04 GMT -5
Finally figured out who Moira is on Schitts Creek. Home Alone mom.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2019 16:27:21 GMT -5
Catherine O'Hara's much more than that. Did you ever watch SCTV? Or any of the mocumentaries those people made like Best in Show?
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 29, 2019 16:44:09 GMT -5
Never read any of the Hitchhiker novels? You should. I'm not much of a sci-fi/fantasy reader, which is ironic given science/technology is my field. I prefer to read the strange and fantastic in the mundane, something John Cheever did very well.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2019 17:10:22 GMT -5
Adams' strength was his humor. The sci-fi was just the framework.
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Post by ironhammer on Oct 29, 2019 21:28:27 GMT -5
It's pretty gripping if unavoidably grim and somber. It makes you want to keep watching. I appreciated they tried to stay true to the core of the real event, they don't try to "Hollywood" it with two dimensional cardboard characters. In a way, it's like a horror series, except instead of monster or serial killer like Freddy Kruger, Pinhead or Jason, the killer is invisible but lethal, the radiation. That is more scary because it was a very real horror that actually happened. It also explores the corruption of the Soviet Union and how the catastrophe exposed all the ugly crumbling system of the USSR. This post will flag some of the people who have commented about this show. I liked it and it made me want to read more about the accident (I was aware of it at the time, but not as aware as I should have been, nor aware of how serious it was to the world). After doing some reading, I have to say I wish they would just make movies and series BASED on historic events and call it fiction instead of sort of this half-baked pseudo documentary. Some of the scenes are based on Voices From Chernobyl which was entirely eye-witness accounts. Those scenes seemed pretty accurate. But reading Chernobyl (Serhii Plokhy) a LOT of it is made up while using the names of real people. Hardly seems right. The only admission of this is when they acknowledge that Emily Watson's character was a composite. More on this. www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-hbos-chernobyl-got-right-and-what-it-got-terribly-wrongMaybe I once knew this and maybe I only vaguely knew it, but what really struck me about the accident during my reading is how integral it was to the downfall of the USSR. But, sure, let's say Reagan did it. Brings 2019 Ukraine into context too. Well it said clearly it is a TV series, not a fact-based documentary, so of course there will be dramatic license done to the story. Doesn't change the fact it did capture the horror of the event and the problem with authoritarian governance.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2019 21:45:38 GMT -5
You can't make real people into villains just for dramatic effect. That's irresponsible. And it just dawned on me that they never followed up on the suicide that opened the series. What the heck? I agree there were good things about it, but they owe it to the viewers to stick a little closer to the facts.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 29, 2019 21:49:18 GMT -5
You can't make real people into villains, just for dramatic effect. That's irresponsible. And it just dawned on me SPOILER ALERT! that they never followed up on the suicide that opened the series. What the heck? I agree there were good things about it, but they owe it to the viewers to stick a little closer to the facts. Try this: Your spoiler "blah blah blah" goes here. The code is simple: (ignore all spaces inside the brackets) [spoi ler] blah blah blah [/spoi ler]
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