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Sweetness. The award season movies that I have been waiting for are starting to show up en masse at the d/l sites.

:megaman:
 
HUGH Tron recommendation:

Longshot on Netflix

35 min documentary on how a guy almost got the death penalty but didnt because he was seen on raw Curb Your Enthusiasm footage at a Dodger game.
 
nice that the Dodgers admin and Larry David people helped out, could have easily just said fuck off don't waste my day
 
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Season 2 of The Crown is out.

I am always complaining how it seems like all my shows are always between seasons - and that even though I have a good number of series I follow, I often don't have anything to watch ---> well The Crown is here.
 
Ive never done a complete re-watch of an entire series. Ive always felt way to busy with raising children, working and watching NEW things on TV.

But I just watched S1 E1 and 2 of Mad Men and damn, I could see myself doing a full re-watch. Amazing show.

I havent touched a cigarette in 9 years but that show makes me want a cig!
 
I do wanna rewatch Mad Men from start to finish. It's an all-time Top 5 series for me.
 
I guess I like Three Billboards to win Best Picture. It is currently slightly behind in the betting odds to The Shape of Water.

Three Billboards is about something - which the Oscars like. It's about anger. That's a real thing in American society. Worth taking a look at.

The Shape of Water is a nice, throwback, plot-based tale. No particular message (except that humans get stupid about stuff).

Three Billboards wins IMO.

Having said that they are both flawed. Three Billboards feels way too written with a bunch of hicks suddenly breaking into these eloquent speeches. Some of the plot-turns are pretty implausible. Forced.

The Shape of Water also has implausible turns. It uses an eye-rollable 2-dimensional character played by Michael Shannon to move things along.



They're both good and flawed. I say Three Billboards.
 
I thought the series premier of Here and Now was pretty damn good. Pretty damn promising.

I think we got something there.
 
Need some new shows.

All we have to look forward to these days is:

Divorce and High Maintenance on HBO
 
I thought episode 1 of The Chi was good. I'll be going with that for at least a bit.
 
Three Billboards, had to turn it off. Faked up stories of misery, brutally murdered people and cancer victims... haven't we seen enough of all that?
 
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Isn't that from Tonya Harding movie? ...See that was pretty good, based on an actual story. It stayed pretty true to the Olympic timeline/history that I remember. Was kinda depressing. But when you realize the reason for that is the overly sympathetic portrayal of Tonya (she was a bit of a cunt), you kinda get less sad for her. And the ending was good, made you feel like everything turned out ok, even as she's spitting blood in the boxing ring
 
I always find it interesting when there is a big discrepancy between the critic score and the audience score at Rotten Tomatoes. Such is the case with the TV show Here and Now.

Audiences - 76%
Critics - 26%

I think, when these discrepancies come up, I am usually more on the side of the critics but in this case I am with the unwashed hordes. Well, so far. I haven't even watched episode 2 yet.
 
Gonna start watching this French-Swedish prod, based on the Lapps of Sweden


 
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