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"Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War"
Interesting look at the nuclear age framed against Ukraine and starting with WW2 and Manhattan Project.
Some good historical stuff in there, as well as weird little links.
e.g. Joe McCarthy (Communist Hunter) had a lawyer on his side by the name of Roy Cohn. When Frederick Trump wanted to give Donald Trump a little bit of help in his real estate negotiating style, he called in Cohn to bring some Hardass to the boy. Ain't history funny?
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@NTA said in TV Serieseseses:
"Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War"
Interesting look at the nuclear age framed against Ukraine and starting with WW2 and Manhattan Project.
Some good historical stuff in there, as well as weird little links.
e.g. Joe McCarthy (Communist Hunter) had a lawyer on his side by the name of Roy Cohn. When Frederick Trump wanted to give Donald Trump a little bit of help in his real estate negotiating style, he called in Cohn to bring some Hardass to the boy. Ain't history funny?
Doco or drama?
Cohn was a piece of work, a gay man who went after the gay community during the Lavender Scare (part of the communist hunt). Died of AIDs.
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
Mayor of Kingstown
Almost finished the first season and really enjoying it. Do recommend if people are wondering whether it's worth the effort.
Billions
Just couldn't get into it.
Same. Looked so promising but couldn’t even get through S1E1
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Just finished “for those about to die”
Set in the Roman Empire probably riding on gladiator coattails, series about ego, deceit, fighting and fucking and struggle for power with gladiators, chariots and gambling.
Not the best series I’ve seen, but enough to keep me watching until the end. Plenty of nudity for those interested as well.
3 tridents out of 5 wooden swords
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Under the Banner of Heaven
7 parter on Disney.
Based on an actual murder by a couple of "Fundamentalist" Mormon religious nutter brothers of their sister in law and baby niece in 1984.
Was interested as I read the true-crime/history book by Jon Krakauer (wrote Into Thin Air, and Into the Wild) a few years ago.
May be prompted to re-read it and re-educate myself in the actual back story as the writers of the series seemed to overdo the drama of their descent into madness, and am not sure the clashes between the cops with the "main stream" Church were really necessary.
Themes around the investigating cop's struggle with his loyalties to the law and his faith.
However, many of the facts of the case did get represented. And they did build in some of the Mormon's history explaining some of the beliefs that contributed to their decision to murder like Krakauer did in the book.
Plenty of improbables, like the brother/murder victim's hubby hanging around in jail acting as history lecturer, and the "rescue" of brothers wives.
And very few likeable characters, with the exception of the Injun detective, whose presence seemed more about illustrating the LDS's inherent racism built into the Book of Mormon.
Timeline was a bit hard to follow as it kept jumping back from the present investigation, to the family history to the plotting of the murders, to the history of the Mormons (Joseph Smith and Brigham Young), interspersed with random flashbacks of memories.
A hard watch, and some of it I've yet to work out the relevance of, but worth it I thought.
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Thought it was excellent. Best thing I've seen from Andrew Garfield since 99 Homes
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Morning all
Late to this but bingeing ahead of Season 3’s imminent arrival
Don’t know how accurate the work and social life is but the missus & I are really enjoying it
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Arnold
Limited edition series about the Bodybuilder turned Actor turned Politician ( and conveniently spilt into three parts about each phase )
I’m not sure I know any bloke alive of my generation who doesn’t love Arnie in some way. The guy fucken OOZES charisma and it’s a pretty inspirational story of what he has done ( Born in Austria, made in America )
Loads of topics covered, weird relationships with his Dad and brother, coming to America not knowing English, marrying into the Kennedy family, rivalry with Stallone, friendship with Franco Colombo……
……and he obviously hit the genetic jackpot in terms of building muscle ( helped by incredibly hard work and…..er….other supplements )
The guy has nailed life but as the other half mentioned he is one of those guys just never satisfied, always some new challenge to take on.
He also came across a bit lonely in some ways too ? Not sure how often he sees his kids etc.
Definitely recommend this one.
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Accidentally recorded an episode of Batman from the '60's with Bruce Ward.
You have to wonder if the makers were on acid.
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High Country. Superior Oz cop drama with Leah Purcell.
Really gripping series - highly recommended.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
High Country. Superior Oz cop drama with Leah Purcell.
Really gripping series - highly recommended.
Loved it
Scenery spectacular too
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Watching Brassic, which is probably similar to Shameless, has the super hot MIchelle Keegan.
Also onto S2 of watching Seinfeld, been so long no eps so far have been familiar.
Not a fan of the stand-up clips in the episodes, just not that funny.
Kramer is always good value in his scenes, last ep I watched was excellent as he was trying to put concrete mix into a washing machine.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
Watching Brassic, which is probably similar to Shameless, has the super hot MIchelle Keegan.
Also onto S2 of watching Seinfeld, been so long no eps so far have been familiar.
Not a fan of the stand-up clips in the episodes, just not that funny.
Kramer is always good value in his scenes, last ep I watched was excellent as he was trying to put concrete mix into a washing machine.
Fun fact.
Michael Richards auditioned for the role of Al Bundy and obviously lost out to Ed O’Neil. Talk about win/win cos those two are responsible for two of the funniest TV characters of all time.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
Accidentally recorded an episode of Batman from the '60's with Bruce Ward.
You have to wonder if the makers were on acid.
Weirdly, and this is going to sound wanky, I was at an art display for a mate (it's part of his PhD) and this brought up in a discussion with one of the other dudes who was there.
I watched an episode of the original Star Wars the other night (the one where the historian models his society on Nazi Germany) and I think Shatner was on acid too.
On Kramer, I found him much funnier when watching the serious originally week to week, when I did a once a night rewatch it started tipping into annoyance much quicker.
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@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
@Victor-Meldrew said in TV Serieseseses:
Accidentally recorded an episode of Batman from the '60's with Bruce Ward.
You have to wonder if the makers were on acid.
Weirdly, and this is going to sound wanky, I was at an art display for a mate (it's part of his PhD) and this brought up in a discussion with one of the other dudes who was there.
I watched an episode of the original Star Wars the other night (the one where the historian models his society on Nazi Germany) and I think Shatner was on acid too.
On Kramer, I found him much funnier when watching the serious originally week to week, when I did a once a night rewatch it started tipping into annoyance much quicker.
I’d think about proof reading your posts more before accusing people of being on drugs
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