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@Tim the first season is some of the funniest television i have ever seen
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@mariner4life It's so fucking good. 1st season is the funniest shit I've ever seen.
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I've been rewatching the Sopranos and last night I noticed that there's a scene where Tony is talking to Silvio (Steve van Zandt from Bruce's E-Street Band) when his nephew Chris comes in. Tony asks him where the fuck he's been and Chris answers that "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive". What an awesome series.
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@booboo said in TV Serieseseses:
Started watching 'The Vietnam War' on History Channel. 2017 doco on eponymous war.
Fascinating stuff for someone whose understanding was as a child of the 70s watching the news (and not understanding), 'Apocalypse Now', 'Platoon' and 'Tour of Duty'.
Watching it seemed a bit Ken Burns-ish... And guess what? It is.
Goes back into the origins of the conflict, being French colonialism, expanding to resistance against the rise of communism post WWII, to the US kind of getting involved by accident and supporting the despotic South Vietnamese regime because they were not Goddam Commies.
Paints Ho Chi Minh almost as the hero (and he seems to have been sidelined as the conflict develops).
Had never previously worked out the difference between the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong (the latter were the South Vietnamese revolutionaries), so that in itself was justification for watching.
According to the doco essentially it seems most of the Vietnamese (North and South) wanted rid of the colonial power (France for a start, then the Yanks), except for those who found power in the South.
Five episodes in of 10.
Am comparing the the civil unrest of the 60s (not just the anti war sentiment but the civil rights movement) with the current unrest and am thinking the US needs go get a grip and understand what is actually important.
Eventually finished this.
Am left with a deep feeling of absolute pointlessness.
I have no explanation as to how this became a thing.
Both sides seemed to be fighting for the same thing: the reunification of Vietnam.
Just they used different allies/patrons to try and achieve it.
Really can't think what America thought they might achieve by getting involved. I blame the French.
Really think they blundered into this conflict by mistake then couldn't find a way to get out.
Enjoyable is the wrong word but very much worth a watch.
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It’s A Sin
AIDS in 80s UK
3 episodes in
Very good
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
It’s A Sin
AIDS in 80s UK
3 episodes in
Very good
C4 UKFor Oz based, it's on Stan.
I haven't watched it yet but will add it to my list.
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
It’s A Sin
AIDS in 80s UK
3 episodes in
Very good
C4 UKHard to watch at times. A good reminder of how far we've come though. It's hard to comprehend that legal discrimination only ended in 2003.
Olly Alexander is a very talented man.
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I teed up Stan again, to get the rugby when it kicks off in a couple of weeks. I'd had it previously for Preacher (great series) and so a couple of things in My List were still there.
Electric Dreams
A series of 10 episodes based on Philip K Dick's SciFi short stories - no links between each ep so can be consumed in bite sized chunks.
Some really good stuff in there and varied cast of high quality IMHO (Steve Buscemi, Bryan Cranston, Anna Paquin, Essie Davis etc).
A bit of nudity (including sideboob from Paquin as she's grinding one out with a hot redhead) but mostly it is about the interesting storylines.
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i never watched True Blood
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@mariner4life ….ive watched snippets ….
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@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@mariner4life ….ive watched snippets ….
I believe those are called fappets
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