TV Serieseseses
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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.
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@sparky said in TV Serieseseses:
@Catogrande Only if you listen to Jeremy Corbyn or Jon McDonnell.
Or Jacinda Ardern
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Doom Patrol surprisingly confirmed for a second season after Swamp Thing got cancelled after 1 episode.
Also Watchman tv series trailer dropped
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finished a series called London Kills, is not bad, although camera work in ep 1 was a bit average and almost put me off.
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@Stockcar86 doom patrol didnt float my boat, think I watched 3, havent bothered with Swamp Thing.
Still havent watched Umbrella Academy, which I hear is good
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Getting back into The Man in the High Castle. Don't know why I stopped watching it.
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
Getting back into The Man in the High Castle. Don't know why I stopped watching it.
I've got all 3 seasons ready to watch. Just need to find time.
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
Getting back into The Man in the High Castle. Don't know why I stopped watching it.
I stopped because there was so long between S2 and S3 that I forgot what happened - every time I go to watch it I remember I need to watch a 30 minute reminder video and watch something else. I'll get there though!
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@antipodean I struggled to get into the latest season, in fact like Ozark, I stopped and started something else....will likely start over at some point, but just not currently.
Had a look at a series called Blood and Treasure...basically a National Treasure type series...
it is worth watching cos Sofia
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Umbrella Academy is very good. Well developed characters and a plot that gradually reveals more about them all and the world they live in. It has been renewed for a second season.
I thought Titans was better than Doom Patrol, which tried a bit too hard to be dark and edgy. Looking forward to another season of Titans, and willing to give Doom Patrol another chance.
