The Television Streaming Thread: Now With Felonies

RiskyFlush · December 3, 2020, 2:34am

16 posts were split to a new topic: The Mandalorian

Trolly · December 30, 2019, 5:32am

I’ve been re-reading The Last Wish, and man, the Netflix Witcher series totally scrubbed some of the demented fairytale retellings that I loved from the books.

In the book, the girl Geralt fights in episode 1 was a reimagined version of the Snow White fairytale, but you’d never know it from watching the TV version.

RiskyFlush · December 30, 2019, 6:00am

sriracha · December 31, 2019, 2:21pm

I don’t think I’ve seen this come up yet itt…

Has anyone watched Don’t Fuck w Cats? It’s a 4 or 5 episode docuseries about internetters hunting a guy who was kind of ‘becoming’ a serial killer in real time.

I’m 2 episodes in, it’s so good! The person they’re hunting is an absolute maniac.

CanadaMatt3004 · December 31, 2019, 2:30pm

I wont watch it. I’ve heard the killer’s story before on Sword and Scale, and his main goal was to become famous. The monster shouldn’t have any more screen time than he already has previously and now they made a fucking documentary about him. Its gross

Huehuecoyotl · December 31, 2019, 4:11pm

The ironic thing I took away from it was the dangers of internet sleuthing. They had a bunch of guys show up, finger a random guy to be the killer and the guy killed himself. They only got further along because the killer literally told them his name, and even then the killer forgot receipts with his name on them at the crime scene so he would have been identified right away even if the whole internet sleuthing club never existed.

It was an interesting look at the early days of geo tracking and things you’d later see websites like Bellingcat do really well though

RiskyFlush · December 31, 2019, 4:21pm

If it’s any comfort, I assumed this was a documentary about fucking with cats. Perhaps many others also said lol and didn’t even look at the description.

superuberbob · December 31, 2019, 8:07pm

Man, that Kevin Hart thing was shit.

Seemed like he was just using it to advertise himself and smooth over cheating on his pregnant wife. Even more ridiculous was that he produced the damn thing.

kerowo · December 31, 2019, 8:15pm

Started watching it and lost interest, didn’t resonate at all with where I am which is too bad, I really like Mulaney.

RiskyFlush · December 31, 2019, 8:26pm

That.

And the topic he uses to open the first episode: why he wants people to stfu about his homophobic comments. I turned it off here. Terry Crews put it well. No one is asking for him to apologize again, just to acknowledge the harm others experience and how his actions contributed to that.

anon92450360 · January 1, 2020, 4:55pm

Last night after NYE festivities died down I wasn’t tired so I flipped through Netflix til I landed on The Pelican Brief. I had not seen it in over 20 years and enjoyed the book so I decided to watch. I paused about halfway through to use the can. This was around 3 am EST. When I came back, it wouldn’t let me resume watching! It kept telling me “this title is not available for streaming.” Now I can’t find it listed anywhere on the app. I guess when it’s time for movies to leave Netflix it is by God time to leave Netflix.

anon92450360 · January 2, 2020, 5:33am

More Jinx news

superuberbob · January 5, 2020, 3:56pm

Frontline did a documentary on the exact topic as The Report years ago called Secrets, Politics and Torture.

RiskyFlush · January 5, 2020, 4:25pm

goofyballer:

REVIEWS

Unbelievable (Netflix 8-episode series): really good. While you can get the same info from reading the long-form article the show is based on, and the show is overly dramatic in some parts (it’s very loyal to the facts, but takes small liberties with developing relationships between fictionalized versions of the subjects), the visual medium gives breathes more life into an incredible story, and it’s a pretty good police procedural in parts (particularly eps 2 and 3).

The Report (Amazon movie): pretty good movie about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the CIA torture of detainees post-9/11. For politics junkies, I’d note it does a decent job of painting the Obama administration as complicit in kinda covering up what the Bush administration did, and not a very good job of painting Dianne Feinstein as the cynical POS she is. But, probably worth watching. It does do a great job of capturing how a couple grifters who had no fucking clue what they were doing took the CIA for tens of millions of dollars by promising these “enhanced interrogation techniques” would work (spoiler: they did not).

I loved Unbelievable. Kaitlyn Denver is one hell of an actor. Only 23 and her resume includes:

Short Term 12
Men, Women and Children
Booksmart
Party Down
Unbelievable

Haven’t been sure about The Report, but I will put it on the list after your review

RiskyFlush · January 6, 2020, 2:56am

Two excellent Netflix movies. Trailers give a very good feel for what you’ll experience.

The Babysitter
Saw this one three times now. It is an excellent black comedy disguised as a horror movie. Starring Samara Weaving, who killed it Ready or Not last year.

What Happened to Monday?
Goddamn this one is good. Insane sci-fi thriller. Starring the warrior Noomi Rapace.

6ix · January 6, 2020, 4:50pm

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1213976506956800000

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1213978480813043712

6ix · January 6, 2020, 4:53pm

Still I have almost no idea what The Witcher is. From skimming this thread it seems like Game Of Thrones with less politics and even more Ass And Titties.

anon92450360 · January 6, 2020, 5:14pm

RiskyFlush:

goofyballer:

REVIEWS

Unbelievable (Netflix 8-episode series): really good. While you can get the same info from reading the long-form article the show is based on, and the show is overly dramatic in some parts (it’s very loyal to the facts, but takes small liberties with developing relationships between fictionalized versions of the subjects), the visual medium gives breathes more life into an incredible story, and it’s a pretty good police procedural in parts (particularly eps 2 and 3).

The Report (Amazon movie): pretty good movie about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the CIA torture of detainees post-9/11. For politics junkies, I’d note it does a decent job of painting the Obama administration as complicit in kinda covering up what the Bush administration did, and not a very good job of painting Dianne Feinstein as the cynical POS she is. But, probably worth watching. It does do a great job of capturing how a couple grifters who had no fucking clue what they were doing took the CIA for tens of millions of dollars by promising these “enhanced interrogation techniques” would work (spoiler: they did not).

I loved Unbelievable. Kaitlyn Denver is one hell of an actor. Only 23 and her resume includes:

Short Term 12
Men, Women and Children
Booksmart
Party Down
Unbelievable

Haven’t been sure about The Report, but I will put it on the list after your review

Dever was also on Justified

It got a bunch of Globe noms but no wins which surprised me. Same for Irishman

RiskyFlush · January 6, 2020, 5:28pm

Oh? I saw season one a long time ago but never finished it despite critical acclaim for later seasons. Big Denver fan, though. Was she a recurring character?

I suspect I will never finish Irishman. Watched about an hour and thought it was awful. Like in a way I’m struggling to see what anyone likes about it, whereas I can usually easily distinguish what is good but not good for me.

grue · January 6, 2020, 6:08pm

The Witcher is a higher budget Hercules/Xena with a slightly more thought out arc.