The Television Streaming Thread: Part II - Hot Takes, Jags Fans, and Bert

In Australian TV that is a must watch.

Mystery Road. Origins.

This is the latest installment in a series that has two movies and now three seasons.

This latest goes back to the late nighties and is the origin story of the main character Jay Sean.

One of the best characters you will ever see, completely original yet completely recognisable at the same time. Archetype mysterious strong silent detective rolls into small town to solve crimes, yet completely situated as a first nations person with a messy web of ties to family and culture.

Great place to jump in if you haven’t seen the others.

Also. The filmography in this show is absurd. Staggeringly beautiful shot after staggeringly beautiful shot of Australian desert and country.

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This was a good read.

It’s also on archive already if you’re like me and don’t have a nyt subscription.

https://archive.is/aJCxI

All of these archive links you all post no longer work for me and I need to find other less convenient workarounds. Anyone know why I might be experiencing this. When I click on something like above, it opens a browser tab that is blank and never ultimately loads anything.

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Yes. Just go to archive.ph and input the original article URL into their search bar for already saved articles.

That doesn’t work either. When I type archive.ph (or archive.is) into a browser tab, nothing happens. It doesn’t load anything and just stays on whatever page it was already on. After about a minute, I will get this error.

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That’s bizarre. Sorry, I have no insight. Works fine on my end.

Are you using it somewhere that blocks it on their wifi? My local casino blocks it.

At home. I have a VPN running, but I can’t even get it to work when disabling the VPN.

Just finished binging The Bear. Thought it was pretty good, but not top tier. Many questions. Here’s one to start:

What was the point of the scene where Marcus helps the injured cyclist in Denmark? If there was one it went way over my head.

Tubi rules. Criterion + Tubi are all the streaming services you really need.

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4 episodes into House of Ninjas and I am still intrigued.

I have to believe this is a reality show where a bunch of ninjas live together in a house.

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Thought EP2 of Curb was much better than EP1. Final scene was a classic Curb moment.

Having said that…jeez is the cast getting old. As much as I’ll miss it, it’s probably for the best that they’re wrapping the show up after this season.

It is actually a family who has given up being Ninjas after the eldest son got killed. But only the father was taking that vow seriously the others more or less still used their skills.

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Escaping Twin Flames on Netflix is fucking bonkers. How any of this is legal is beyond me, and the leader will eventually kill people if he isnt stopped

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Agreed!! There is also a good documentary about them on Prime/FreeVee. This stuff is like crack for me.

Yeah Im gonna check out the prime one next.

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Season 2 was universally panned. I just saw season 4 and it sucked too.

https://twitter.com/OnCinemaOnAnger/status/1759628415026516140?t=U-CHtxNX0oXtOEcUCMJSjg&s=19

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