TV Serieseseses
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@RLx31 said in TV Serieseseses:
MK Rules (Australia)
It's the 10th series apparently that's airing in UK at mo, never watched it before but I am hooooked!!! And thanks to this lovely chunks of cheffy-judgey goodness.
Particularly the French guy....
I think they’re both fluffybunnies and they look gay as fuck in that pic too
I hated Pete’s gleeful grin even when he was annoyed and Manu always asking about the sauce.
Food piston wristed gibbons are the worst kind of piston wristed gibbons....
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@Mokey said in TV Serieseseses:
I just watched the first episode of The Last Czars on Netflix. About Nicholas and Alexandra. Really enjoyed the combination of drama, nudity (tits aplenty, a naked orgy), and historians explaining the context of events and people.
Saw the ad on Netflix. Looks quite decent. Might give it a hoon now Stranger Things is getting boring. Maybe they shoulda stayed with one season
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
watched an Aussie 80s mini-series on Nancy Wake.
Was an ok watch, although the little I have read/heard about her, I think the series probably understated what she did, and seemed more a 'remarkable' story cos she was a woman, whereas I believe what she did was amazing full stop.
Born in Wellington NZ, another great Kiwi claimed by the Aussies
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@Nevorian said in TV Serieseseses:
@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
watched an Aussie 80s mini-series on Nancy Wake.
Was an ok watch, although the little I have read/heard about her, I think the series probably understated what she did, and seemed more a 'remarkable' story cos she was a woman, whereas I believe what she did was amazing full stop.
Born in Wellington NZ, another great Kiwi claimed by the Aussies
I think the most remarkable thing about Nancy Wake is how after the war she managed to live out her life all expenses covered in a top hotel in London. Propped up the bar for decades drinking on the tab. Legend.
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@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nevorian said in TV Serieseseses:
@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
watched an Aussie 80s mini-series on Nancy Wake.
Was an ok watch, although the little I have read/heard about her, I think the series probably understated what she did, and seemed more a 'remarkable' story cos she was a woman, whereas I believe what she did was amazing full stop.
Born in Wellington NZ, another great Kiwi claimed by the Aussies
I think the most remarkable thing about Nancy Wake is how after the war she managed to live out her life all expenses covered in a top hotel in London. Propped up the bar for decades drinking on the tab. Legend.
Didn't see her on wall a fornight ago when I visited the Stafford.
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@pakman said in TV Serieseseses:
@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
@Nevorian said in TV Serieseseses:
@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
watched an Aussie 80s mini-series on Nancy Wake.
Was an ok watch, although the little I have read/heard about her, I think the series probably understated what she did, and seemed more a 'remarkable' story cos she was a woman, whereas I believe what she did was amazing full stop.
Born in Wellington NZ, another great Kiwi claimed by the Aussies
I think the most remarkable thing about Nancy Wake is how after the war she managed to live out her life all expenses covered in a top hotel in London. Propped up the bar for decades drinking on the tab. Legend.
Didn't see her on wall a fornight ago when I visited the Stafford.
They have renovated the bar and removed a fair bit of the memorabilia sadly. NW is still there though. There is a photo and plaque at the end of the bar. The bust is still there as well.
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series. Absolutely superb.
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series. Absolutely superb.
The scene where the vets were throwing their medals over the fence outside the whitehouse really stayed with me. Excellent doco though, highly recommend it .
Also the one about the battle of the Chosin reservoir is well worth watching.
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Finished latest season of Into The Badlands.
Was ok, not as good as others, but still enjoyable if you like the genre.
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@taniwharugby Hopefully Netflix, Amazon etc pick it up because the final episode didn't feel like a series finale.
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Watched the final episode of the Last Czars (6 all up) man, I kind of went up and down of hating Nicholas and Alexandra and feeling sorry for them. They were supremely stupid, incompetent, and oblivious to the world and could have stopped the trainwreck at so many points before it got out of control. Hard to keep a secret like Alexei though. And a seriously horrific way to die (cos they thought they were getting out, the girls had all sewn their jewel collection into their corsets etc. The world's most expensive bullet proof vest, so they saw their parents and brother die, then it took ages for them to get shot in the right place to die also.) Russia was a pretty fucked place in terms of severe inequality, totally unsurprising they lurched hard into full blown revolution, especially combined with the disaster of WW1.
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@Mokey Off topic somewhat, but Russian history from 1894 to 1953 is just mind-blowing.
There were people in 60 years who would have experienced and lived through:
Vile Nicholas: the Krodynka tragedy, huge anti-Semitic pogroms, Bloody Sunday, humiliation of the annihilation of the Russian Baltic fleet by the Japanese at the Battle of Tsushima , losing Korea, Manchuria and Sakharlin Island, Stolypin's neckties, a smelly rapist called Rasputin acting as Prime Minister because the Tsar and his wife thought he could ease their son's hemophilia, Rasputin's bloody murder by Yusupov and his mates, the outbreak of World War One which was fueled by Russia going to war with Austro-Hungarian to help Serbia when Serbia intelligence had aided and abetted the murder of Franz Ferdinand and his wife ( surely it didn't take a genius to realise Germany would get involved big time after that), losing three million men in World War One, mass starvation, the collapse of a 400 year Monarchy, abdication, the murder of the Royal Family by the Bolsheviks.
The Provisional Government: the continuation of the war and the loss of another half a million men, the drug-fuelled incompetence of Kerensky, the July Days, the Kornilov Plot, Red October and the Ten Days that Shook the World.
Lenin: the imposition of a one-party state, the Decree on the Press, the suspension of the Orthodox church, the nationalisation of land, the cult of personality, losing 1/4 of their population to the Germans in the Treaty of Brest-Litovosk, the Russian Civil War, the Polish Civil War, invasion by war-weary French, British and American troops War Communism, Mass Starvation and the NEP, the formation of the Cheka, the Red Terror, the establishment of 300 concentration camps.
Stalin: the power struggle with Trotsky, the left turn, the Ukraine famine, the order to liquidate Kulaks as a class, more cult of personality, Stalin beig always right, the building of the Gulag Archipelago, the murder of Kirov, the Great Terror and the murder of at least two million people, show trials, the purge of 90% of senior army officers, the removal of the "Old Bolsheviks", using slave labour to build the Moscow underground and the Baltic-White Sea canal, the criminalisation of homosexuality, the League of the Militant Godless, the NKVD, more famine, order 00047, ethnic cleansing, the Nazi-Soviet pact, the invasion of Poland and the Katyn Massacre, war with Finland, the murder of Trotsky with an ice-axe invasion by Nazi Germany and losing over 20 million people, occupation of Ukraine and Belarus, siege of Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk, Yalta conference, more ethnic cleansing and massacres, mass rapes and pilage in Berlin and Budapest, Generalissimus, Potsdam Conference, the start of the Cold War, annexation of Central Europe, using spies to build an atomic bomb, the Berlin Blockade, Slansky trial, the elimination of Beria and the Mingrelian incident.
Every day, I give thanks I wasn't born anywhere near the Russian Empire, anytime near 1890.....
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@sparky Fake news, this is the Socialist Utopia don't you know?
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@Catogrande Only if you listen to Jeremy Corbyn or Jon McDonnell.
