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  • I assume there's some sort of pin system here too but the default here must be to allow adult content because I've never had to enter anything to access it for any of the profiles I've set up.
    "Never let the fact that they are doing it wrong stop you from doing it right." Hyman Mandell.

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    • Originally posted by Dom D View Post
      I assume there's some sort of pin system here too but the default here must be to allow adult content because I've never had to enter anything to access it for any of the profiles I've set up.
      When I setup my Disney+ profile I think this was something you could enable from the get-go so I haven't had to do it either and was amused to find Pam + Tommy so prominently displayed, but their adult stream in Canada also includes the gory and sex filled American Horror Story, a bunch of Spike Lee and 90s softcore erotic thrillers (although from 'respectable' directors like Lumet), etc.

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      • Originally posted by Randy G View Post

        When I setup my Disney+ profile I think this was something you could enable from the get-go so I haven't had to do it either and was amused to find Pam + Tommy so prominently displayed, but their adult stream in Canada also includes the gory and sex filled American Horror Story, a bunch of Spike Lee and 90s softcore erotic thrillers (although from 'respectable' directors like Lumet), etc.
        I can't wait for them to get Archer on there.

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        • Finished up ANIMAL KINGDOM on the recommendation of folks here.

          I loved this show. Truth be told, kinda lost me with the season 4 Smurf back story; but fantastic overall. Barkin got tired with her fish-lipping "Baby" non-stop, but it was awesome. Almost want to go back and watch The Faculty just to see Pope again. That guy is badass.

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          • Check out the original Australian movie (CTV streaming with ads in Canada): pretty much the core text for the series, but with a lighter, more literate hand. Two hours covers pretty much the entire first season arc without the (necessary) TV exposition, teasing and filler thriller slickness. Guy Pearce plays the cop looking to turn J, and Ben Mendelsohn is Pope. Hawtosy was brilliant casting. (Hawtosy's good in Southland too.)

            What We Do in the Shadows is great family viewing.

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            • Halo: I played the shit out of the original game when it was released. Never played any of the games since. Still enough nostalgia there to get me to put this on. You kind of know going in that this is going to be terrible and yet I don't see why it should be. From memory the game established that you're a big, green, supertough Marine who likes to kill aliens and not much else. You could do anything with that.

              I hear the makers have proudly proclaimed that they haven't played the game so it's interesting that Master Chief operates the same way he does in the game. ie break cover, blaze away like a badass for a minute or two as your shields get whittled down and then hide behind a pole till they come back up. Works great as a game mechanic, it's a bit odd in a show.

              Anyway... opens with some very ropey 3d effects of a colony on a alien world which is not indicative of what's to come at all. Effects are excellent. Very strange the first thing you see is the worst thing in the show. Then big action, lots of explosions, Master Chief kills a lot of stuff and then the rest of the episode gets into the plotting and the dialogue. Not the shows strong suit. Every line and motivation is a cliche.

              Bugger it... I'll stick with for a few weeks anyway, even though I'm pretty sure I'm going to think less of myself for having done so.
              "Never let the fact that they are doing it wrong stop you from doing it right." Hyman Mandell.

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              • Ray Donovan just sang karaoke. May have to bail.

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                • Oh come on! Who doesn't want to watch Liev Schrieber do Karaoke? I have no memory of where that scene sits but while the quality of that show dipped a bit in the middle I thought the last 2 seasons- with the New York, no wife reset- were some of the best. Damned if I could get through the movie though...
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                  • Well, okay, but if he does Mandy, that's it.

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                    • Outlaws: I believe this played on British TV a little while back but it just dropped this month for the rest of us on Prime. We knocked it over in a few nights and its great fun. Don't really expect to see Merchant comedy mixing with gangsters and Christopher Walken but it turns out to be be a good mix.



                      Minx: by god there's a lot of cock in this. With the Deuce, The Naked Director and now this it seems I'm a sucker for anything about the early days of porn. In the first few episodes this bears a lot of the worst traits of entertainment aimed at women but it gets better as it goes. By the end of episode 8 I'm prepared to say that it is actually good.

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                      • Maybe all these years of lockdown has permanently damaged my taste but I'm loving Shining Vale at the moment. A while back there was that very strange The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window that was seemingly a send-up of a particular brand of chick lit but was so dry it could forget that it was a comedy for half an hour at a time. This is in the same vein. It's a homage/sendup of The Shining that wants to be a horror movie as well as be funny. Courtney Cox has moved into a big scary house with her family after she boned the handyman which necessitates the move. She's blocked on a book and lets herself be possessed by the bored housewife demon that lives in the house in order to get some pages written.

                        It's my favourite comedy at the moment. It will play entire scenes from The Shining verbatim for minutes at a time which seems cheeky as fuck but having Cox running Nicholson dialogue at Greg Kinnear is just funny. I think so anyway. You mileage may vary.

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                        • started watching Anna yesterday. watched two episodes and enjoying it so far.



                          not a funny show but had a nice funny moment in the first episode immediately after thinking "no way that short kid made it up the stairs first!"

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                          • Originally posted by Dom D View Post
                            Outlaws: I believe this played on British TV a little while back but it just dropped this month for the rest of us on Prime. We knocked it over in a few nights and its great fun. Don't really expect to see Merchant comedy mixing with gangsters and Christopher Walken but it turns out to be be a good mix.


                            Saw this over the weekend. It was all right. A bit overlong and very predictable, but as usual the presense of Christopher Walken makes it totally worth it. One of the few actors I can watch in just about anything, along with another one of my favourites Richard E Grant, who does a guest starrer in this.
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                            Last edited by The Silly Swede; 05-01-2022, 11:26 AM.
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                            • After years of being the streaming service you went to when you wanted to watch old episodes of Melrose Place, Paramount had suddenly decided that they want to be a player. They've pumped out least 4 big series very quickly. They are kind of late to the game however and I'm not sure anyone is signed up to watch them. First they had their Halo series about which the less said the better. Then there's a new Star Trek.

                              The new Star Trek is for everyone who's watched Picard and Discovery and said "can't you just do more Next Generation?" The first episode could not have been more Next Generation if they tried (well I guess they did try). Like next generation it's all very cozy, with characterisation not needing to go any further than job titles on the ship and playing out a simple morality tale that ties up very easily. There's some sex stuff with Spock at the start that's out of character but I i can't imagine the show will circle back that way any time soon. It seems to be making people happy.

                              Then there's The Offer. A 10 part series about the making of The Godfather with Miles Teller as Al Ruddy. I've only watched the first episode. Going in I was thinking, how are they going to stretch this out for ten episodes? I was then surprised that it starts before the books even written. Ah okay, I figure, so we have some ground to cover. Not so. By the end of the episode the books a smash hit, there's a picture deal signed, Ruddy is producing, Coppola is on board to direct and the mafia is planning protests in the background. Well fuck me. If they're moving at that sort of pace episode two should finish with Coppola receiving the Oscar for the Godfather Part 2. Everything is very easy in this show so far. Got me thinking they would have been better off making a Bob Evans tv show. Each week Bob Evans wheels and deals and shags. I'd watch that. I'm not sure I'll watch this.

                              Lastly there's Super Pumped. Fuck there's a lot of these shows at the moment about companies that are still operating. Tried to watch We Crash recently and couldn't do it. This show though is made by the Billions guys so you go in expecting it to be smarter and better written than the rest of the pack. It is, but... I'm not sure I can get passionate about a show about Uber. We already know the outcome. They overturn the taxi industry worldwide and then go nuts exploiting pretty much everyone with Uber Eats. Anyway, the guys making it were obviously huge fans of The Wolf Of Wall Sreet. Lots of scenes of Joseph Gordon Levitt shouting inspiration at his staff like Leo. He never goes full nuts like Leo but he gets right to the brink. WOWS had amazing energy. Not sure you can sustain that for a tv series. Oddly Tarantino pops up every 10 minutes or so for a bit of voice over narration that plays out like the STIGLITZ bit in Inglorious Basterds. Large, comicy text included. It's an odd creative choice but apparently QT is a big Billions fan. Aren't we all?
                              "Never let the fact that they are doing it wrong stop you from doing it right." Hyman Mandell.

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                              • Originally posted by Dom D View Post
                                Lastly there's Super Pumped. Fuck there's a lot of these shows at the moment about companies that are still operating. Tried to watch We Crash recently and couldn't do it. This show though is made by the Billions guys so you go in expecting it to be smarter and better written than the rest of the pack. It is, but... I'm not sure I can get passionate about a show about Uber. We already know the outcome. They overturn the taxi industry worldwide and then go nuts exploiting pretty much everyone with Uber Eats. Anyway, the guys making it were obviously huge fans of The Wolf Of Wall Sreet. Lots of scenes of Joseph Gordon Levitt shouting inspiration at his staff like Leo. He never goes full nuts like Leo but he gets right to the brink. WOWS had amazing energy. Not sure you can sustain that for a tv series. Oddly Tarantino pops up every 10 minutes or so for a bit of voice over narration that plays out like the STIGLITZ bit in Inglorious Basterds. Large, comicy text included. It's an odd creative choice but apparently QT is a big Billions fan. Aren't we all?
                                Actually after a ropey first episode this gets really good. Stands out from the We Crashed pack by feeling very heavily researched. I'm kind of stunned the lawsuits aren't flying over this show. It portrays a lot of very powerful people in a very poor light. Some of those individuals have a net worth higher than all of Paramounts if they wanted to go them in court. Highly recommended.


                                Last edited by Dom D; 05-17-2022, 06:23 PM.
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