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@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
@antipodean are there dudes who need subtitles for their English?
Oh shit yes. At one point I decided that Netflix wasn't doing a good enough job discerning what was intelligible English, so just went with blanket subtitles like I was watching SBS.
When Clarkson said there are people in America who are now breeding with vegetables, he had to be referring to this area.
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@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
@NTA i watched the one with the "four times i met OJ Simpson"
It wasn't Chappell's Show standard, but still pretty funny
I found the second one (Heart of Texas) to be funnier.
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Finished season 2 last night. I think if they do a season 3 they should go to that school that sucked they touched on mid series. Like their coach said EMCC is not last chance U its second chance U. They have scholarships and win nearly all their games with the majority of their players getting recruited. His school has walk ons and no money its the last place you can play, and no one gets picked up from there.
The kids at that school did seem to actually enjoy it though.
Thought the academic counselors little speech at the end was pretty poignent as well. She had some real empathy for those kids but not a lot for the coaches.
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Binge watched both series of 'No Activity'. Loved it.
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Ozark Episode 1 done.
I'm all in
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@MiketheSnow I saw Ozark pop up the other day and thought it sounded good, so added to my watch list.
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@taniwharugby I added it to mine simply because it has Jason Bateman. After Arrested Development, Couples Retreat and Bad Words, I'll try anything he's in.
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
Binge watched both series of 'No Activity'. Loved it.
Cheers. Good heads up. This one would have gone completely unnoticed by me otherwise.
Also realised that since leaving Godzone I missed an entire season of Westside (with a third already underway). Hardly must watch TV, but the kiwiana aspect to someone on the other side of the world is gold. Love the effort put in to the props. Must have taken a bit of doing to track down all the cars and make them look 10 years old rather than 40 (when they had probably been restored to new). Ted West drives a red Sandman! Classic.
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@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
Binge watched both series of 'No Activity'. Loved it.
Cheers. Good heads up. This one would have gone completely unnoticed by me otherwise.
Also realised that since leaving Godzone I missed an entire season of Westside (with a third already underway). Hardly must watch TV, but the kiwiana aspect to someone on the other side of the world is gold. Love the effort put in to the props. Must have taken a bit of doing to track down all the cars and make them look 10 years old rather than 40 (when they had probably been restored to new). Ted West drives a red Sandman! Classic.
Also love how they tied in the Springboks tour.
And some of the very deft touches in linking to Outrageous Fortune. (Rewatching OF after Westside, noticed that Cheryl makes a snide comment about her sausage rolls being store-bought, coz she wouldn't waste time making them from scratch. And so, Rita's party-specialty is home-made sausage rolls.)
And linking into the theme songs, with Rita becoming the muse.
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@taniwharugby had asked me about the final series of Orphan Black and whether it was worth watching.
If you have watched the previous ones then certainly it is worth finishing the story if only to see what happens to Keira. The story has got quite twisted around and the earlier series were better from being less complicated. -
Started watching something called "Taboo" last night on BBC First. Stars Tom Hardy and it appears to be twisted as fuck.
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@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
Started watching something called "Taboo" last night on BBC First. Stars Tom Hardy and it appears to be twisted as fuck.
Great series. Stick with it
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:
Started watching something called "Taboo" last night on BBC First. Stars Tom Hardy and it appears to be twisted as fuck.
Great series. Stick with it
great will do. Watched first episode last night, and will watch 2nd tonight. That's as far as Foxtel has got.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@MiketheSnow I saw Ozark pop up the other day and thought it sounded good, so added to my watch list.
Update: Watched first episode and this looks like it could be excellent.
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When is the second season of Stranger things out?
FTWD just gets crapper and crapper with each passing episode which is really shit as it actually started better than TWD. The decline is startling. Anyone else agree?
I'm also enjoying Orange is the New Black. Surprisingly good entertainment.
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@MN5 Stranger Things about sept/Oct I think.
Yea I'll see FTWD through to end of this season (as I think it's on a break for a month or so?) and if no improvement or sign of originality I'll be bailing.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@MN5 Stranger Things about sept/Oct I think.
Yea I'll see FTWD through to end of this season (as I think it's on a break for a month or so?) and if no improvement or sign of originality I'll be bailing.
It'll be worth the wait.
First season of FTWD was superb but pretty much anyone vaguely interesting was killed off. The Mexican setting sounded cool in theory but the last couple of episodes have put me and the Mrs to sleep, literally!
TWD on the other hand is teeming with interesting/quirky/terrifying characters.
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@MiketheSnow I saw Ozark pop up the other day and thought it sounded good, so added to my watch list.
Update: Watched first episode and this looks like it could be excellent.
Up to Episode 7
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Top of the Lake 2 - Have only watched the first ep (although the whole series was made available immediately on BBC iPlayer)
Story looks to be good but fuck the accents are all over the place. I thought Elisabeth Moss did quite well in the first series disguising her US accent with a mid- Ta$man one but this time she sounds completely mangled and drifts between an American twang and something non-committal. Considering that it is fairly easy to sound slightly NZ/Oz for a female by putting an inflection at the end of a sentence it is sloppy.
Jane Campion's own daughter has a part and sounds even more American at times than Moss.
Nicole Kidman even seems to have trouble at times going back to her native nasal twang and I wonder if the problem is that they are all parroting each other. It just sounds really weird to the antipodean ear. -
@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
Top of the Lake 2 - Have only watched the first ep (although the whole series was made available immediately on BBC iPlayer)
Story looks to be good but fuck the accents are all over the place. I thought Elisabeth Moss did quite well in the first series disguising her US accent with a mid- Ta$man one but this time she sounds completely mangled and drifts between an American twang and something non-committal. Considering that it is fairly easy to sound slightly NZ/Oz for a female by putting an inflection at the end of a sentence it is sloppy.
Jane Campion's own daughter has a part and sounds even more American at times than Moss.
Nicole Kidman even seems to have trouble at times going back to her native nasal twang and I wonder if the problem is that they are all parroting each other. It just sounds really weird to the antipodean ear.Great start. Weird as.
Feels very dated too, like the UK of my youth - late 70s through to mid eighties. Might just be the hairdos
No Activity (TV Series 2015–2018) ⭐ 7.7 | Comedy, Crime
