Is it the real life comedian who takes the part of the man being stalked?
Posts from Splinter in thread „Currently watching on Netflix“
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I watched it short after the whole 6 seasons were available in DVD. I am re-watching it with my husband (who has never seen it). He found some of the humor quite amusing, but he mostly spend his time scrolling on Instagram, hear me laugh, asks "what dod they say?". So we pause, rewind, so he can go back and laugh. But he doesn't because he missed the forestory
The script is very sharp!
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I've known about this series for years but was never inclined to watch it, mainly because some American sitcoms don't cross over well with the British sense of humour.
However, I discovered that each episode is only 30 minutes, much like Friends is, so we gave it a whirl and I'm pleasantly surprised.
I enjoy series that were made during the 90s and early 2000s, simply to reflect on attitudes to sex, dating and how we used to communicate. Fax machines, real newspapers, CRT monitors, modems, huge cordless phones and of course the four ladies and how they handle dating and men.
There's a surprising amount of nudity in the series, swear words, including the F word are commonplace and there's very little political correctness throughout, which is a pleasant change.
Their attitudes towards men clearly differ in many respects, but they do agree on most aspects and at one moment during an episode I had to ask Adri, "Do women really think like that?" to which she replied, "You'd be surprised, especially when I get together with my girlfriends." - she has three or four very close girlfriends.
Have attitudes changed since then? Many have, but women are still trying to break that glass ceiling and climb that greasy pole, as it were.
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Watching Episode One of Fool Me Once. Not sure if we’ll go the whole 8, but it IS engaging.
We started this a few days ago and have struggled to reach episode 5. It literally puts me to sleep.
The acting is wooden, Maya (Michelle Keegan) is just too fucking perfect in her perfectly clean house and always clean Jaguar 4WD, her mother in law, played by Joanna Lumley in unbearable and badly acted and the kids' amateur sleuthing is just annoying.
Michelle Keegan, although a very attractive woman, always wears the same expression - a combination of puzzled and surprised. her acting skills leave a lot to be desired.
As other reviews have suggested, it's the kind of series you put on whilst doing the ironing or delousing the cat, so I don't think I can bear any more.
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From ‘Alive’ to ‘Society of the Snow,’ the true story behind the Andes flight disaster - Buenos Aires HeraldA 1972 plane crash forced Uruguayan teenagers to extremes to survive the mountains. The nightmarish saga behind the multiple book and film adaptationsbuenosairesherald.com -
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SOCIETY OF THE SNOW
Last night we watched the new film abou the Andes disaster when a plane carrying a Uruguayan Rugby team crashed on their way to play a friendly in Chile, back in 1972.
29 of the 45 passengers survived the crash but as the search was called off, they started eating the bodies of their friends to stay alive.
Pretty emotional at times but quite dignified as they told the story of existential anguish some went through to avoid going hungry.
I have met one of the survivors Roberto Cannessa and have heard him speak a couple of times. He is a great conference speaker if you ever get the chance sign up and listen to the guy.
It's certainly worth a watch.
Indeed, we watched it the other night and it takes you right into the tragedy which, of course, later became a miracle of human survival.
A beautifully made film.
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We're watching Captains Of the World, a behind the scenes look at the 2022 football World Cup and I have to say that it's riveting.
I'm not a huge football fan, but we lived and breathed it for weeks and I even rode around BA to see the crowds in the public parks watching on big screens.
It was a World Cup full of shocks - remember Saudi beating Argentina?
Even though we all know how it ended, the editing, the atmosphere and interviews with all the key players make this documentary one of the best football series I've ever seen.
Can't wait for the final episode!
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We are watching the very wonderful "All The Light We Cannot See," which takes place in occupied France. Its protagonist is a young blind woman who risks her life broadcasting coded messages for the Resistance. Beautifully filmed, and a heartwarming, intriguing story. On Netflix.
We watched that as well, but the girl really irritated me because most of the time she didn't give the impression of being blind, especially her eye movements.
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This is a fascinating drama/documentary about the very near Grexit and the then, new Greek government's struggle with the bureaucrats of Brussels, mainly German, who appeared content to sit back and watch Greece burn.
The new economy minister at the time was Yanis Varoufakis and the $400bn debt has shades of Argentina about it, especially since the country owed the IMF a sizeable chunk of that money.
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A real feel good film of David vs Goliath and a must see, especially since it's true!
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We've been watching Get Gotti, then switched to NYAD, the lady who swam from Cuba to Key West, Florida.
Both rivetting!
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This was really excellent and much better than I expected. Beckham comes over as a really nice bloke and Posh is more pleasant than she's painted by the media who made their lives hell.
It's remarkable how he handled the hate that followed his sending off against Argentina in the late 90s, the falling out with Alex Ferguson and more turmoil that followed.
Adri adores him.
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Why surprisingly?
Because I thought Netflix were in competition with HBO.
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Now on Netflix, surprisingly.
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Fascinating. From cold war to Afghanistan.
Spy vs Spy
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A simplistic drama/documentary view of Cleopatra and her entanglements with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony which has yet again ignited the black debate.
No one really knows if Cleopatra was African black, as it were, yet even the Egyptians are enraged that she is portrayed in this way, although the actress, Adele James is of mixed race and therefore coffee coloured.
I say simplistic because it's an accurate historical account of Cleopatra's life for anyone who wants a quick history lesson, but it's tainted by modern verbiage from the quasi academics who provide historical input.
It's odd that so many people are stuck in a never ending argument about Cleopatra's colour, yet no one, as far as I can see, has even mentioned the fact that she married two of her brothers.
We'll finish it tonight, not having watched something amazing, which it isn't because it definitely has an agenda, but because we have learned a little more about that epoch.
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Just starting The English Game on Netflix. I have a feeling you British football fans will like it.
We watched that a while ago and it was damned good.
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In reality, DB Cooper was only scratched by his parachute landing, as he was actually only a young teenager in 1971 and was both agile and resilient.
He took his bag of money and made his way first to Spain and then to Argentina, where he established in La Lucila, an alias and a pair of businesses perfect for money laundering.
Because the FBI never drops a case, DB is always looking over his shoulder. He keeps his motorbike fully loaded with essentials for a getaway, and is prepared to push off for the farthest reaches of Patagonia at any minute.
This week, even.
You don't say!
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D. B. Cooper has become a legend wrapped in many conundrums and even today, over 50 years later, it's not clear who that man was that jumped from the plane.
A superb documentary.
More info:
D.B. Cooper Hijacking | Federal Bureau of InvestigationA man who parachuted out of an airplane in 1971 with a bag full of stolen cash has never been seen again in one of the great unsolved mysteries in FBI history.www.fbi.gov -
Splinter is Waco a documentary, or drama?
I remember when it happened, but it's still very disturbing.
