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I swear to god, all season one when they were like "the dicks" and all season 2 when they were like "the shit" or "the poop" or whatever, I was like "OMFG this is so fucking stupid I can't even deal with it."
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So, finished Queen's Gambit or as we call it here, "Queen Gabby".
I really enjoyed it for a lot of reasons, but it was the first show I watched during COVID that actually made me miss traveling. Of course, what I miss is traveling when I was a fashionable young lady with the means to travel in style and stay in luxury hotels. Not road tripping as a middle aged man with his family in an overstuffed SUV.
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Not obscure at all, but due to our terrible parenting, the Li'l Puppet binged the entire 15 seasons of Shameless (US/Showtime version), then got us watching it. We've only just got to S2.
But holy shit. William H. Macy's Frank Gallagher is a magnificent train wreck. I never want to meet anybody like him IRL, but he's compelling to watch from a safe distance. I also love Joan Cusack (Sheila) more every time she appears.
I really enjoyed the first 5-6 seasons of shameless. No particular reason, but I fell off at some point.
The show strongly reminds me of my childhood except I grew up in rural georgia, but the endless parade of fuckups and poverty and drugs and genius and mental illness resonates with me.
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Has Big Mouth been mentioned on here? I couldn't find it, but my search skills are documented as being poor.
Anyhoo, I like Big Mouth. I'm not sure why it took me so long to get around to watching it, but it's worth it. It's about a group of teens growing up in New York and it's pretty damn funny. Raunchy and a little disgusting at times, but frank and endearing as well.
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Also apparently I am cool with derailing this thread, now that GKT is mostly behind us.
Okay, cool.
Have you watched Counterpart? It is the best, you get two JK Simmonses for the price of one!
It really is a great show and has an awesome Cold War vibe to it. The aesthetics are great and, of course, the acting superb. I can't help to think the series ending was a bit rushed, but honestly couldn't see them doing more than three seasons anyway.
Shit. I should watch it again.
This is an oddly named Counterpart appreciation thread, but man are we enjoying Counterpart. Schillinger acts up a storm in this, so fucking good.
The "prescient" pandemic backstory and how it effects society is something I really like. 7 percent of the population.
I guess this goes here.
I almost started a new thrad, despite that would break all FF conventions. But, I actually remembered that we have a thrad about streaming. Despite having been away for as long as I have, some thrads just stick in my head. I'm very glad we don't do anything new around here. In ever-changing world, this place is fucking solid.
With regards to "Counterpart". AINORITE!?!
It's such a good show and if COVID was as deadly as the Counterpart flu strain, I'm not sure Trump still wouldn't have denied it as a hoax.
(see what I did there with the whole thread jumping thing?)
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Space Sweepers (2021)
A Korean science fiction film. (We watched the dubbed version.) Set in the near future, the UTS corporation is moving humanity into space because Earth is dying due to global warming. The corporation is planning to move its citizens to a terraformed Mars.
A crew of space junkers living on the edge of failure collect a runaway ship and discover a girl named Dorothy, proclaimed to be android equipped with a weapon of mass destruction and wanted by the UTS corporation. The junkers plan to sell her to the Black Foxes, an environmental terrorist organization, but the UTS owned space force is tracking the junkers, too.
Of course, the girl is not an android, but she was injected with nanobots to cure a congenital illness, and now she is the key to restoring Earth. The UTS corporation isn't entirely concerned with profits, it's run by a genocidal eugenicist. Now that he's got enough of the "right" people in space to populate Mars, he plans to destroy the remaining Earthlings and Dorothy, too.
Mostly entertaining with lots of space battles, but almost entirely unrealistic science fiction. I'll give it a pass because this is pretty much a YA movie.
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Final Space is really good. It's funny and sweet and absurd.
It definitely grows on you and Mooncake is super cute *chookity*
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Final Space is an American animated space opera comedy-drama television series
Gary Goodspeed is a boisterous yet inept astronaut who, in the midst of working off the last few days of his five-year sentence aboard the prison spacecraft Galaxy One, encounters a mysterious planet-destroying alien. He befriends the alien, naming him Mooncake, and then discovers that Mooncake is wanted by the forces of a powerful telekinetic creature known as the Lord Commander.
It's worth a watch and I'm eagerly awaiting the next season
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I watched the pilot of the new Sherlock Holmes spinoff The Irregulars.
Reasonably good acting, though the actors seem to have been chosen with diversity box ticking in mind, rather than believability. The supernatural stuff was rather stupid and childish.
I don't know whether I'll watch any more episodes. Maybe.
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Final Space airs on TBS in the US, so depending on your TV provider, you might could get it on demand. Also season 1 is available to stream on HBO max.
I love this show. I think the animation style manages to be beautiful and cute at the same time. Also "Mooncake" sounds a lot like "Mookie". Chookity pop!
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I watched the pilot of the new Sherlock Holmes spinoff The Irregulars.
Reasonably good acting, though the actors seem to have been chosen with diversity box ticking in mind, rather than believability. The supernatural stuff was rather stupid and childish.
I don't know whether I'll watch any more episodes. Maybe.
I saw it last night and I'm ambivalent, too. Just when you think they can't find another way to wring profit out of the Holmes-verse ... here's this.
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I've been watching Midnight Diner on Netflix. The audio is Japanese, but I just switch on the English subtitles.
Each episode is a self-contained short story about one or more of the customers of a small Japanese diner (12 seats) that only opens from midnight to 7am.
At the end of each episode there is a very brief cookery demonstration by the 'Master' (chef) of the diner, narrated by the featuring actor for that episode. The actor's character will have asked for and eaten that dish at some point during the show.
It's something different, and easy viewing despite the foreign language. I like to watch an episode occasionally, rather than watching a whole stream of them one after the other.
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I just finished watching Shadow and Bone, which I really enjoyed. The costumes are sumptuous, I love the parallels to pre revolution Russia, and Kaz reminds me of The Thin White Duke and makes me want to swoon.
I was late to the party with The Expanse - oops, that's Amazon Prime. It's fun, I hope they continue it.
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I have been watching The Sinner, as I caught an episode of season 3 on TV which sparked my interest and then discovered Netflix had season 1-3 (here anyway). It is a US show, I suspect, but has a very Nordic Noir feel to it. Crime drama where you get it from the perspective of both the killer and the detective and it tries to analyze why someone might kill.
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I've been watching The Crown, but now that it's gotten up to people I heartily dislike, I'm done with it. They all sound like they have bad adenoids or are horribly congested. It's very distracting.
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Difficult to recommend anything as it is hard to say what is on which streaming service in another country. As per the rules of this thread (so, on Netflix, although not obscure),I just finished watching Lucifer, which I adore. Both supernatural stuff and police procedural, so all wheelhouse for me. I feel unreasonably sad it is over.
If cross-platform recommendations are OK, anyone who can watch Fleabag but hasn't yet should do so. Probably on Amazon video in most places, but who knows. Get thee to justwatch.com to find out.