I just started watching the Netflix series Life and Death Row by BBC this weekend. It's amazing, I'd really recommend it to people who love true crime. It's really well done and shows the reality of death row in the US, and how sometimes the punishment seems appropriate, and other times it's done almost gratuitously. Highly recommend it, although it's a pretty heavy watch.
It's a little hokey but I've started to watch and enjoy Forged in Fire.
It's not hokey, it's fantastic. It's like a cooking show, but with weapons, and fire, and keeling. I'm pretty much a master blacksmith now, though I've never touched a forge.
For a similar show, see The Butcher. I've actually learned a bit about cuts of meat from it. Another season or 2 and I'll be a master butcher as well.
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It's not hokey, it's fantastic. It's like a cooking show, but with weapons, and fire, and keeling. I'm pretty much a master blacksmith now, though I've never touched a forge.
For a similar show, see The Butcher. I've actually learned a bit about cuts of meat from it. Another season or 2 and I'll be a master butcher as well.
It reminds me a lot of watching chopped.
The Forged in Fire equivalent of firing up the ice cream maker is deciding to do a ladder damascus when it isn't part of the requirements.
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My brother recommended Forged In Fire to me and I’ve watched a few episodes. I don’t like most reality shows but this has very few of the bad tropes and it’s great that there’s very little drama and it’s all about their blacksmithing skill. I know some guys who make knives and I’d be tempted to give it a try myself if I had space for a shop.
What just happened with Fred Savage is so well done.
Basically its a fake after talk show covering a fake show called the Flare. So at the start you'll get the last couple of minutes of this mysterious show on Shaw. Then Fred Savage plays himself as the host of the aftershow and he's a mega fan boy of the show and he's like the worst host ever.
It makes me laugh
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In the end of the fake episode of The Flare. The main character is packing and a guy with a scarred face and sealed mouth attacks her and puts a ring in her hand that matches her wedding ring. They capture this monster that's called the voice less man who I guess is a major character in the show. and drag him out and the woman says we can't keep prisoners and hands her friend a gun and he goes outside and we hear a shot ring out.
Then we go to the after show and Fred Savage is going to interview the actor who played the voiceless man and he comes out and he looks devastated because his scene wasn't shot that way and he didn't know he was written off the show. then they bring his wife on via video and she tells her husband that she's pregnant and she didn't know that he was written off of the show.
Then they do a masked assistant competition for Fred which is a rip off of the masked singer and there is an interview with Ken Jeong who hates Fred Savage
I was laughing through the whole episode.
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Just finished watching Justified (2010-2015) for the first time.
Starred Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins, among others. Some parts dragged a bit but overall a pretty good show. About a US Marshal who is involved in a shooting and get sent to his old hometown where he once worked in a coal mine with Goggins, the crime kingpin in the area.
Just finished watching Justified (2010-2015) for the first time.
Starred Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins, among others. Some parts dragged a bit but overall a pretty good show. About a US Marshal who is involved in a shooting and get sent to his old hometown where he once worked in a coal mine with Goggins, the crime kingpin in the area.
Sam Elliott also had a role in the final season.
Absolutely tremendous series. All the core characters are excellent, and Olyphant and Goggins are brilliant throughout. Each season has a different rendition of You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive, so that's a bonus.
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What we do in the Shadows is f'ing hilarious, especially if you liked the film. I wasn't expecting much when I started it. But holy crap, a ton of LOL moment. Pretty much every character is awesome and funny.
My only regret is starting the show while it was still in S1, so I have to wait as the series goes on.
Definitely a sleeper show that deserves more attention.
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What we do in the Shadows is f'ing hilarious, especially if you liked the film. I wasn't expecting much when I started it. But holy crap, a ton of LOL moment. Pretty much every character is awesome and funny.
My only regret is starting the show while it was still in S1, so I have to wait as the series goes on.
Definitely a sleeper show that deserves more attention.
A lot of people give Jemaine Clement credit for WWDITS (cripes) being hilarious, but to me it's all Taika Waititi. Thor: Ragnarok is actually funny because of him (writing, directing and acting).
He has a TV show based on Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits coming out later this year, so that's one to keep an eye out for.
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The new season of Veronica Mars was supposed to come out next week on Hulu in the States and Crave in Canada. Instead, they made a surprise announcement at Comic Con and dropped it today.