Would highly recommend BBC Select through Amazon Prime if you're into nature series, history documentaries and especially if you dig the work of Louis Theroux.
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That latest season of Slow Horses though. Lower your expectations significantly and maybe it won’t be so bad.
Yeah, the 3rd season was easily the weakest. I think a part of it is that Gary Oldman said he was going to retire from acting but agreed to do a 3rd season so...it has a very different tone than the first two.
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The new season of Extraordinary on Disney+ was pretty good. The brilliance of naming a character “Jizz Lord” makes for fun conversations about the show.
I'm enjoying this way more than I ever did of GoT.
Yes, I put a pretty small reply in this thread after catching it last week:
"Shogun fourth episode, this show is not missing a beat. It just gets better and better. I really hope they can keep this up and knock it out of the park."
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How does one watch "Resident Alien" in Canada without having to illegally acquire it? It doesn't seem to be on Crave or Amazon or Netflix or Prime or Disney+ or Paramount+ (yes, we have all of them).
How does one watch "Resident Alien" in Canada without having to illegally acquire it? It doesn't seem to be on Crave or Amazon or Netflix or Prime or Disney+ or Paramount+ (yes, we have all of them).
Would you accept slmost legal?
It's on Netflix in US and not in Canada. Something to do with SYFY channel rights or something.
A VPN to US location should work, I think.
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Yes, I put a pretty small reply in this thread after catching it last week:
"Shogun fourth episode, this show is not missing a beat. It just gets better and better. I really hope they can keep this up and knock it out of the park."
I read the book many moons ago, so don't really remember the story, but my jaw hit the floor at the end of episode 4. The pacing has been absolutely perfect. As I said earlier, I love Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada too. The casting is just perfect imo.
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Would you accept slmost legal?
It's on Netflix in US and not in Canada. Something to do with SYFY channel rights or something.
A VPN to US location should work, I think.
Oh cool. Thank you. I'll give that a shot. I'll have to look up if PIA VPN has an app available for a HiSense TV. Otherwise I think iPads are straightforward when it comes to VPN setup from what I can remember.
How does one watch "Resident Alien" in Canada without having to illegally acquire it? It doesn't seem to be on Crave or Amazon or Netflix or Prime or Disney+ or Paramount+ (yes, we have all of them).
It's on CTV Sci-Fi Wednesdays at 8:00pm MT.
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I'm the reverse. I thought the first season set up something interesting and supernatural to be explored, and the second and third seasons pissed it away.
There really wasn't anything ambiguous about the ending...
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The Departure was an unexplained splitting of Universes/realities, and Nora discovered that what she (they) lost was parallel to what they (she) lost. Nobody here belongs there any longer, and nobody there belongs here. The general theme is loss and how we manage it. Whoop de doo, Basil.
Oh, and Laurie didn't commit suicide scuba-diving.
To the foundational content of the series:
Spoiler!
So why the need for the afterlife/purgatory scenes? What about Kevin's constant resurrections? Why is Jarden important? Are people lenses? Why could Mary suddenly conceive, and why did she permanently wake up? Why didn't that change after she left Miracle Park? So Kevin Sr. was delusional? Just with the flood, or during the whole series? What's the deal with David Burton, and why did he kill that passenger? If he's God, why didn't he save Matt? Why did John's skepticism lead him to a life of grifting? Ultimately, what was the purpose of the Guilty Remnant? Or Wayne? Or anything remotely flirting with the supernatural in any sense of the concept?
Why didn't any of these broad religious themes and allegories mean anything? Is it because it's unfulfilling to hear all these stories and parables contrasted against our current existence? Isn't all that just as redundant and purposeless in the end, and wouldn't that negate a point to the whole ####ing thing?
That's not interesting or enlightening. It's just fluff we already know attached to a narrative context that doesn't deliver. Great, good, we have that in real life.
Tell me something interesting. Sufficiently explain at least a layer or two of the damn trifle you baked over the course of 3 seasons. It feels like the writers hoped you would forget all the little things they setup throughout the series when they had to bring the story to land.
I feel the same way I did after Lost accomplished absolutely nothing by erasing 5 seasons of intrigue with an artsy-fartsy final season that only left you with more questions. The Leftovers is Lost, but on HBO.
I guess I just don't understand the perspective of people not looking for answers in a series saturated with teasing a mysterious phenomenon. It ended more satisfyingly than Lost, but that was such a low bar for this genre.
To say something positive: the characters and their stories were amazing. Lindelof knows what he wants to achieve in that regard, and he delivers.
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You believe Nora?
To me the beauty of the ending is that it’s just as likely that the entire machine is made up and Nora’s story of what happened is made up. Nora has rationalized accepting her loss. Kevin accepts that her faith is okay and he doesn’t need to question it.
You can also logically infer that if Nora came back from the 2% it would become common that 2%era would also comeback as well and in the absense of this happening that Nora’s story is entirely made up.
That doesn’t matter though because the story is about accepting a loss of control in a world and accepting the nicer story (the nuns and the bird scene nails this)
There was no supernatural activity beyond the rapture at the start.
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That show starts so strongly, but what the #### happened with the last season.
A complete and utter cluster phuck of a season.
So so bad when compared to the first season.
I think I mentioned it before, the first two seasons were Gold and then the tone of the 3rd season was just so wildly different and off.
I dont know anything for sure, but I suspect it has something to do with Oldman. I read that he had said that Season 2 of Slow Horses was it for him. He'd do that season and then he was retiring.
But they begged and begged him to do another season, he acquiesced but with some conditions and then it seemed like his heart just wasnt in it.
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To me the beauty of the ending is that it’s just as likely that the entire machine is made up and Nora’s story of what happened is made up. Nora has rationalized accepting her loss. Kevin accepts that her faith is okay and he doesn’t need to question it.
You can also logically infer that if Nora came back from the 2% it would become common that 2%era would also comeback as well and in the absense of this happening that Nora’s story is entirely made up.
That doesn’t matter though because the story is about accepting a loss of control in a world and accepting the nicer story (the nuns and the bird scene nails this)
There was no supernatural activity beyond the rapture at the start.
I hear all that, but...
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Kevin was resurrected multiple times, Kevin Sr. communicating Kevin Jr. in the "afterlife", Mary waking up and conceiving, the animals went crazy, etc.
And sure, some of it can be chalked up to coincidence and unreliable charlatans and narrators, but Michael was a reliable witness, so it's hard to explain away...
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Kevin being dead and buried for 8 hours.
There were definitely supernatural elements sprinkled throughout the course of the series. It was the hook. They could have told the same story and landed the same ending excluding all the red herrings.
I'm glad I watched it, but I didn't appreciate the feeling I was taken for a ride for a story or lesson that was viable without all the superfluous nonsense.
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