I thought it started getting better around 3, when it stopped being all about kidnapped, tortured and murdered children. Now it’s only maybe 25% about that.
I’ve kinda spoiled myself a little bit, I googled to see which kidnapped kids were/weren’t about to meet a grisly end to try and get over my anxiety, and I suspect if you’re not up for gloomy high concept nonsense then it won’t be for you. Time travel is one of those genre tropes I can watch till the cows come home, so I’m easily pleased by that kind of thing.
On Mikkel and Ulrich, I dunno, the scene on his doorstep seemed like something you’d easily forget long before 33 years. Plus it does require you to think, “oh, I know what’s going on, time travel!” A big leap. What’s more implausible is why Mikkel didn’t pull a Biff from Back to the Future 2, he seems a bright kid.
The time travel is the most interesting aspect for me so far.
I haven’t seen that film. I immediately said to the wife that if I was Mikkel I’d be getting all the money I could and betting like mad on the World Cup (via an adult if necessary).
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been annoyed at realising just how few sporting results I can remember accurately enough to really cash in on in a time travel situation. Here’s hoping it never becomes an issue!
I wonder how much you could get on at each bookie before word got around and limits appeared.I guess you could try a fiver at 10 bookies but might need to syndicate it. Patrick Veitch had a bank of phones in his dorm room at university to co-ordinate his betting stings.
The UK’s state-franchised lottery was set up under government licence by the government of John Major in 1993.[7] The National Lottery is franchised to a private operator; the Camelot Group was awarded the franchise on 25 May 1994.[8]
The first draw took place on 19 November 1994 with a television programme presented by Noel Edmonds. The first numbers drawn were 30, 3, 5, 44, 14 and 22, the bonus was 10, and seven jackpot winners shared a prize of £5,874,778.[9]
Someone got £20 on it seems, won 500k. I guess target a high street with 3 or 4 different bookies close by, write out the slips first and try and get £80 down quickly. Maybe start a “I Frankie” geocities page a few months before to make it seem legit.
I think geeseewhy is probably on a better tip with stocks, though. Someone clearing several million in a dodgy manner probably wouldn’t ever raise an eyebrow considering the rest of them.
Man that graph is looking bad. They’re probably going to have to re-impose a lockdown soon or mandate that everyone wears masks at the very least. Do we know how ICU capacity is holding up?
man i would love to live the last 33 years over. best 33 years ever. i wouldn’t have any of these problems the tv show characters have. i’d just chill. use my superior poker skills to make millions online, then convert it to bitcoin the day before black friday, i’d be a fuckin trillionaire. move over bezos, it would be beetlejuice losing 40 billion in a divorce settlement all because the girl’s brother is a fuckin trump fan and passively owning the washington post as like 0.0001% of the shit i’ve got going on is the worst thing a person can do apparently
but probably i’d get bored in the middle and try coming up with hit songs before they normally would come about, because trillionaire is one thing, but rockstar is the top level. trillionaires have to buy and fabricate the life a rockstar just naturally lives.
these characters are so dumb. like, kidnap your own kid? why? the kid is already with the other you. just become a rich guy and hire private investigators to document their lives for you, that’s what all rich dads do. kill the person to try to stop the loop? how about sending them a thank you card and a million dollars for this incredible gift. you’re gonna squander it crawling back in that cave? why? mambo #5 hasn’t been created yet!!!
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i wouldn’t call the show predictable, it’s not, but every time a major revelation is coming up, i just say the most ridiculous thing i can think of at the tv and the character says it. it’s usually, “guess what? i’m you, bitch”
i’m still enjoying the show. it’s like twin peaks + travellers, both shows i love and highly recommend.
i wish someone would make my show where a semi-dumb guy finds a time machine and goofs off having misadventures. like in order to become a superstar billionaire top-of-the-world family, i try to have sex with ray-jay and tape it, but nobody’s interested, and the people who are interested are horrified and it kills celebrity sex tapes forever. and i keep fucking up obvious layups and end up altering the timeline so it’s unrecognizable and i can’t even profit off of my knowledge anymore.
and then the show ends as a tragedy i guess lol idk. i’m like jj abrams where i have a great initial idea then i stop contributing ideas but continue collecting the lion’s share of the money. dumb oldschool hollywood writers and producers used to resign when they lost creative control or felt the show moved on from them, but jj figured out that those people stopped getting paid when they did that.
Got back into watching through entire seasons of shows in one wash.
First the latest Bosch season on prime: was good as always if you like this.
Caught up on “Lucifer” as well. Finally she knows that he wasnt kidding. :D
Then 2nd season of the “The order” on netflix: not a must watch but since i watched season 1 and it didnt turn me off i went with season 2 as well.
Season 3 of “The sinner”: I liked the first two season but season 3 did nothing for me. I am just not into that stuff where the villain has somewhat of a mental breakdown and acts all weird the whole time.
And finally the last two seasons of “the blacklist”: I actually like the weekly cases more than the overall story arc behind Reddington and well yeah I think that Agent Keen is the most annoying female char ever.
I still have so many tv shows I started during my poker time but since having a full time job I just didnt kept up with a lot of them anymore.
Frankie” geocities page a few months before to make it seem legit.