TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

The Purge: Anarchy. Once again it's time to hunker down and weather purge night. The movie is OK. Though I feel that for a change of pace they should do at least one movie in the series that focuses on all the white collar crime taking place on purge night.

[Josephus]

The Queen's gambit is a weird limited series in the parlance of Netflix. They seems to have changed what they meant.

Before QG, a limited series on Netflix meant a regular series that was cancelled after either a couple of episodes or one full run. Around here, it's the international series bought from european services.

No. A limited series always meant one that was only intended to run for one season

[Eddie Teach]

Fantastic Planet(1973).  This is a pretty groovy way to spend 70 minutes even if you haven't dropped as much acid as the creators. Animated in the cutout style familiar to Monty Python fans, this tells of a world where giant blue fishmen keep humans as pets. Funky score.

[viper37]

- it's been fully adopted into British (and Irish) names.

Yeah, you guys keep stealing the best of France.  Never stopped since Guillaume went over there to impose order on the Saxon rabble  

I've never heard of a real person called Gil/Gilles/Giles - just poshos on TV

Ah, here, it's quite common for men of my dad's age (70s), much less common for those in my generation, practically non existent for the generation after.

[viper37]

The Crown isn't a miniseries. It's a series.

A series is planned ahead for the future.  It may not happen if ratings are poor, but it's planned in the beginning for multiple episodes.  A mini-series would tell a story contained in itself, in a short run, longer than a movie, less than half a season (13hrs with ads, give or take).

North & South book 1 is 6 episodes and it's a mini-series.  North & South book 2 is another mini-series even if it's mostly the same characters, like the Crown.

Cardinal is 6 episodes, and each seasons are semi independant from one another, but it's still a series.

Vikings season 1 was 9 episodes, not much more than N&S, but it's a series, it was planned ahead for multiple seasons to begin with.


That's my understanding of things.

Since I have no interest in watching The Crown ( ), I can't tell you what it is.  I'm leaning toward a series since it seems obvious they wanted to tell the whole story of the current British royal family from Elizabeth's beginnings to the current events.

[Valmy]

Since I have no interest in watching The Crown ( ), I can't tell you what it is.  I'm leaning toward a series since it seems obvious they wanted to tell the whole story of the current British royal family from Elizabeth's beginnings to the current events.

Don't you mean the Canadian royal family?

[The Brain]

Final Girl. Bjorn Ironside leads a group of psychos who hunt women for sport, but one night the hunter becomes the huntee. Not great, but I've seen worse.

[Eddie Teach]

I saw that one.

[Admiral Yi]

It's Prince Charles who is getting the hatchet, not Diana.  What a jug eared mook.

[Eddie Teach]

Desperately Seeking Susan. One of those wacky 80s movies about a case of mistaken identity. Pretty fun.

[Tonitrus]

Lost in Space: Season 2

The writers managed to go from having all the kids as mostly good characters and not annoying, to now all being stupid and super annoying.

[Syt]

On season 2 of Brooklyn 99. Really enjoying the show and the characters (it's a rare comedy show that has no characters I dislike). It's easy to binge. Terry Crews is a treasure. And Diaz is hot. 

[crazy canuck]

Lost in Space: Season 2

The writers managed to go from having all the kids as mostly good characters and not annoying, to now all being stupid and super annoying.

yeah, I didn't get past episode 2 of season 2.

[Grey Fox]

On season 2 of Brooklyn 99. Really enjoying the show and the characters (it's a rare comedy show that has no characters I dislike). It's easy to binge. Terry Crews is a treasure. And Diaz is hot. 

It's really a great show. I love the Halloween episodes.

[Barrister]

On season 2 of Brooklyn 99. Really enjoying the show and the characters (it's a rare comedy show that has no characters I dislike). It's easy to binge. Terry Crews is a treasure. And Diaz is hot. 

Brooklyn 99 is great.  I rather disliked the Gina Linetti character, but that's a minor complaint (and she eventually leaves the show).

What I find interesting about the show is it is extremely "woke" but doesn't come across as preachy and annoying because of it.

And if you like Brooklyn 99 let me again recommend The Good Place, which was also written and developed by Michael Schur.  Several of the actors for secondary characters also show up in TGP (the guy who plays Kevin, and the guy who plays Pimento).

And this also reminds me I really should watch Parks and Rec, which Schur also wrote for.