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Speaking of Netflix.
Treason
Starring Charlie Cox (minus the cane and glasses) and Olga Kurylenko. An enjoyable 5-part spy thriller that doesn't tread any new ground but has enough twists and tension to be a good watch.The Witcher: Blood Origin
A big turd. Only 4 episodes so I didn't waste too much of my life. The Witcher is dead anyway now that Henry Cavill has walked away. Netflix can cancel that shit! -
Just watched "troubled blood" latest release here anyway for C.B Strike.
Great P.I series, even the side characters add value.
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@scribe said in TV Serieseseses:
SAS Rogue Heroes. BBC 6 episodes. The story of how David Stirling formed the SAS during the Nth Africa Campaign in WW2.
Made by the guys who did Peaky Blinders.
Very entertaining. Good soundtrack. Well cast. 4.5 tonnes of sand in my orifice out of 5 don’t fuck with me’s
Finally got to see this. It's well cast, beautifully shot and as you say; very entertaining.
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@antipodean who is showing it in Aus?
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
@Crazy-Horse said in TV Serieseseses:
@antipodean who is showing it in Aus?
A gushing deluge...
Golden Showers TV? I must look out for that one.
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@Catogrande said in TV Serieseseses:
@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
@Crazy-Horse said in TV Serieseseses:
@antipodean who is showing it in Aus?
A gushing deluge...
Golden Showers TV? I must look out for that one.
I'm sure you could find that on the same channel.
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
@Crazy-Horse said in TV Serieseseses:
@antipodean who is showing it in Aus?
A gushing deluge...
Bugger. That counts me out then. Me not clever enough.
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Jack Ryan - Season 2
Having recently discovered that S3 was about to come out, or already come out - I quickly worked my way through this.
- Once again - really doing well at nailing the "feel" of the source material
- ie: jingoistic as fuck.
- America, US, USA, just the fucking best
- "you cost three American lives". (Also, by the way, dozens of non-american useless lives)
- US choppers flying around Caracas, armed to the teeth, for transport - apparently "sweet as".
- And yes. I know. It's fucking Tom Clancy. We go into this expecting it. America rocks. US is all. USA, USA. But... fuck. You're a dick, Clancy.
- Tit-watch: zero. Very disappointing, considering it's mostly set in Venezuela. Venezuelan tit-watch is my sort of tit-watch.
- Oh, and ridiculousness. A lot of incredulous ridiculousness. But - you can get away with a lot of shit if you state "we're staying true to the heart/soul of the source material".
- Oh, and the subsidiary protagonist - caused a whole lot of strife. You had one job. ONE. Stay in the boat. Keep it running. YOU are to blame. You. Should've stayed home, if only for the sake of everybody else. One job. Fucking one.
13 Stripes out of 50 Stars.
No... 3 Stripes out of 8 Stars. -
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@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse is Clancy a dick? If so, was he always?
Serious question as I have Red Storm Rising in my top 3 books of all time - I’d hate to have to revisit it because of my oblivion/prejudice!
Oh - I loved his books, as a teenager. But they were all jingo-istic as all shit. Even as a naive teenager, I realised that.
So yeah - I think he's a bit of a "dick". But not a fluffybunny-dick. Just, a ... dick-dick.
I don't want to go into my own personal lexicography of "dick vs fluffybunny vs pussy vs asshole vs ...". But... you know what I mean? -
@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse is Clancy a dick? If so, was he always?
Serious question as I have Red Storm Rising in my top 3 books of all time - I’d hate to have to revisit it because of my oblivion/prejudice!
Oh - I loved his books, as a teenager. But they were all jingo-istic as all shit. Even as a naive teenager, I realised that.
So yeah - I think he's a bit of a "dick". But not a fluffybunny-dick. Just, a ... dick-dick.
I don't want to go into my own personal lexicography of "dick vs fluffybunny vs pussy vs asshole vs ...". But... you know what I mean?Clear as mate, clear as
Red Storm Rising still rocks, you just have to accept that the good guys are always going to win.
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@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse is Clancy a dick? If so, was he always?
Serious question as I have Red Storm Rising in my top 3 books of all time - I’d hate to have to revisit it because of my oblivion/prejudice!
Oh - I loved his books, as a teenager. But they were all jingo-istic as all shit. Even as a naive teenager, I realised that.
So yeah - I think he's a bit of a "dick". But not a fluffybunny-dick. Just, a ... dick-dick.
I don't want to go into my own personal lexicography of "dick vs fluffybunny vs pussy vs asshole vs ...". But... you know what I mean?Clear as mate, clear as
Red Storm Rising still rocks, you just have to accept that the good guys are always going to win.
Yep. And "the good guys" are always going to be wearing american flags on their chests/arms.
One thing I forgot to include in this... I kept expecting a twist. Cause that's what you do nowadays... there's going to be a twist. But, slowly came aroung to reminding myself... "Tom Clancy. The foreigners are the bad guys. No twist. DOn't worry your pretty little head about it...". But then tiny token ineffectual twist at the end.
Not even going to get started on the parallels of (potentially) fake news, and the storming of an official government building.
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@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:
Red Storm Rising still rocks, you just have to accept that the good guys are always going to win.
I think I need to re-read it... I only remember the Jack Ryan books.
But... recently read Red Metal by Mark Greaney of Gray Man fame... and I rather suspect it was not much more than fan-service to Red-Storm-Rising.
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@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
Jack Ryan - Season 2
Having recently discovered that S3 was about to come out, or already come out - I quickly worked my way through this.
- Once again - really doing well at nailing the "feel" of the source material
- ie: jingoistic as fuck.
- America, US, USA, just the fucking best
- "you cost three American lives". (Also, by the way, dozens of non-american useless lives)
- US choppers flying around Caracas, armed to the teeth, for transport - apparently "sweet as".
- And yes. I know. It's fucking Tom Clancy. We go into this expecting it. America rocks. US is all. USA, USA. But... fuck. You're a dick, Clancy.
- Tit-watch: zero. Very disappointing, considering it's mostly set in Venezuela. Venezuelan tit-watch is my sort of tit-watch.
- Oh, and ridiculousness. A lot of incredulous ridiculousness. But - you can get away with a lot of shit if you state "we're staying true to the heart/soul of the source material".
- Oh, and the subsidiary protagonist - caused a whole lot of strife. You had one job. ONE. Stay in the boat. Keep it running. YOU are to blame. You. Should've stayed home, if only for the sake of everybody else. One job. Fucking one.
13 Stripes out of 50 Stars.
No... 3 Stripes out of 8 Stars.Don't bother with season three IMO. Absolutely terrible writing. Like High school level bad.
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Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
4-parter on Bernie Madoff, the level of corruption on Wall St and the incompetence of the regulators. At the end, you keep asking the question of ow he was able to get away with the fraud for so long.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
4-parter on Bernie Madoff, the level of corruption on Wall St and the incompetence of the regulators. At the end, you keep asking the question of ow he was able to get away with the fraud for so long•
Because the regulators were very busy making all the honest guys tick boxes and issuing fines if they ticked the wrong box by mistake.
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I was reading this on another forum. The last paragraph explains why Netflix does what they do.
To solve the puzzle of 1899’s cancellation it is necessary to look beyond aesthetics and dig into the numbers. Because while subscribers watched a pretty whopping 257 million hours of 1899, a mere 32 per cent made it through the entire eight-episode season (according to figures by UK data analytics company Digital i). Compare that with the 80 per cent who completed the mega-hit Squid Game, the 73 per cent who got through Heartstopper or the 60 per cent who binged steampunk animation Arcane, and it’s no mystery that 1899 found itself in the danger zone.
That completion rates matter to Netflix more than top-of-the-line viewing figures was recently confirmed by Sandman author Neil Gaiman. He urged devotees of the Netflix adaptation of the series to make sure they watched all the way through. Sandman was expensive to make, he said. The more people binged to the end, the better the odds of a Netflix renewal.
“They are looking at completion rates,” he said. “So people watching it at their own pace [i.e. not bingeing immediately] don’t show up.”
The biggest mystery of all is why Netflix is so obsessed with completion rates. One theory is that viewers who watch a series all the way through are more likely to renew their subscription – which is all Netflix ultimately cares about. Critical buzz and a place in the water-cooler conversation are fine. Yet the bottom line is that it’s all about a) audiences continuing to pay for their Netflix fix every month and b) attracting new subscribers.
The real reason why Netflix keeps cancelling your favourite shows
It was supposed to be Netflix’s big pre-Christmas smash but, weeks after setting sail, 1899’s number is up. The mind-bending multidimensional thriller has been cancelled with just one season under its belt – provoking predictable protests from its small, albeit vocal, fanbase and the inevitable...
