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kunst nugget · 25-04-2019 08:18AM

inforfun wrote: »

peteeeed wrote: »

BONDING season 1
A New York City grad student moonlighting as a dominatrix enlists her gay BFF from high school to be her assistant.

added today

Started this yesterday. Weird but entertaining.

Dont blink though cause you'll mis an episode. They are only 17 mins or so.

That is some long ass blinking...

inforfun · 25-04-2019 08:25AM

I usually have to think between closing my eyes and opening again whether it is worth the effort to finish the blink.

Mickeroo · 25-04-2019 08:51AM

Was it a web series originally or something?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 25-04-2019 09:48AM

inforfun wrote: »

Started this yesterday. Weird but entertaining.

Dont blink though cause you'll mis an episode. They are only 17 mins or so.

I like that with Netflix. Episodes often have different run times throughout a series. Most sitcoms are only about 22 minutes with the ads taken out, so 17 minutes isn't that short. If you only need 17 minutes to tell the story, why take more?

Sad Professor · 25-04-2019 10:07AM

The mini episodes is so people can watch it on their phone while travelling to work etc. It's an experiment aimed at young people and fairly cheaply produced as it's not clear if there's an audience for it.

Dades · 25-04-2019 10:33AM

I really like the idea of mini episodes. It's the reason I watched the first Bonding last night.
Enjoyed it as a short bit of entertainment, when so many series are clearly being drawn out to fill runtime.

I also watched the first episode of The Umbrella Academy. I'm a bit jaded of superhero/comic book stuff but I'll keep going for another episode or two.

Sad Professor wrote: »

The mini episodes is so people can watch it on their phone while travelling to work etc.

Not one for a crowded train, maybe. :P

Whatsisname · 25-04-2019 10:36AM

Dades wrote: »

I really like the idea of mini episodes. It's the reason I watched the first Bonding last night.
Enjoyed it as a short bit of entertainment, when so many series are clearly being drawn out to fill runtime.

I also watched the first episode of The Umbrella Academy. I'm a bit jaded of superhero/comic book stuff but I'll keep going for another episode or two.

Not one for a crowded train, maybe. :P

Its very different from anything Marvel/DC are doing tbh, felt like a breath of fresh air to the genre. Really really enjoyed it myself.

neris · 25-04-2019 10:40AM

Watch a series a while back called QB1. It follows 4 school kids and their "football" teams. An eye opener into how the yanks rank school sports and winning above a real education and giving kids a future that might not revolve around sports. Theres professional rugby and soccer teams with not even half the facilities some of these schools and kids have

RayCun · 25-04-2019 10:41AM

Whatsisname wrote: »

Its very different from anything Marvel/DC are doing tbh, felt like a breath of fresh air to the genre. Really really enjoyed it myself.

watched the whole thing myself (daughter likes it) and tbh it seems like a generic indie superhero comic

sideswipe · 25-04-2019 10:43AM

neris wrote: »

Watch a series a while back called QB1. It follows 4 school kids and their "football" teams. An eye opener into how the yanks rank school sports and winning above a real education and giving kids a future that might not revolve around sports. Theres professional rugby and soccer teams with not even half the facilities some of these schools and kids have

If you enjoyed that you might enjoy Last Chance U, first couple of seasons were enjoyable.

inforfun · 25-04-2019 10:50AM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I like that with Netflix. Episodes often have different run times throughout a series. Most sitcoms are only about 22 minutes with the ads taken out, so 17 minutes isn't that short. If you only need 17 minutes to tell the story, why take more?

Was just a bit of extra info.
Totally agree, if you can do it in 17 mins, do it in 17 minutes.

it is the main reason i got rid of a tv subscription and went a "different" way watching series.
On tv an episode takes 1 full hour while there is only 42 minutes of real playing time. I am getting too old to waste 33% of my time on Always and Daz adds.

neris · 25-04-2019 10:53AM

sideswipe wrote: »

If you enjoyed that you might enjoy Last Chance U, first couple of seasons were enjoyable.

cheers i,ll give it a look. Not that interested in american football but just thought it was a totally different way of living and expectation then kids get over here

somesoldiers · 25-04-2019 11:36AM

neris wrote: »

cheers i,ll give it a look. Not that interested in american football but just thought it was a totally different way of living and expectation then kids get over here

check out Friday Night Lights if you haven't already, 5 series drama about high school football in US.
I have zero interest in sports but it is my favourite series. Is not on netflix anymore though (and might have been only on US version at one stage), you will need to head over to amazon or elsewhere.
TG4 are also repeating for the nth time mid week, they are up to s2

hefferboi · 25-04-2019 11:55AM

Friday Night Lights is in my top 3 series along with The Wire and GOT. Got my father, who knows nothing about sports, to watch all 5 seasons in 2 weeks. Wish it was on Netflix

Dades · 25-04-2019 12:09PM

Whatsisname wrote: »

Its very different from anything Marvel/DC are doing tbh, felt like a breath of fresh air to the genre. Really really enjoyed it myself.

RayCun wrote: »

watched the whole thing myself (daughter likes it) and tbh it seems like a generic indie superhero comic

Yeah, I'm not sure anything superhero/comic can be fresh any more.

DC stuff, Marvel stuff, Suicide Squad, X-Men, Chris Nolan's Batman, Kick Ass, Scott Pilgrim, M Knight trilogy... every flavour of comic storytelling has been licked... and still they make more!

gmisk · 25-04-2019 07:48PM

Bonding is fun.
Nice easy watch, I also enjoyed special, nice short episodes and something a bit different.

taytobreath · 25-04-2019 10:32PM

A Fortunate Man
A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen’s elite, but the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin.

This is a very good movie, but its in danish but has english subs. Its a fairly long film (162 mins), but it kept my usually poor attention span for the whole movie.

joe40 · 25-04-2019 11:43PM

Just watched "Silence" to be honest I wasn't expecting much, but it was truly awful.
How can respected actors like Stanley Tucci be involved with this type of nonsense.

Mellor · 26-04-2019 02:33AM

joe40 wrote: »

How can respected actors like Stanley Tucci be involved with this type of nonsense.

peteeeed · 26-04-2019 07:35AM

Yankee (its on my feed but not available to watch yet)
The story of Edgar Valdez, a young man from Texas who, instead of heading off to University with his friends, decided to cross the Rio Grande to become one of the most bloodthirsty assassins in the history of Mexican drug trafficking.

Brawl in Cell Block 99
A former boxer runs drugs for a living, but when a botched deal gets him jailed, he must take violent measures to protect his wife and unborn child

Chambers season 1
Haunted by eerie visions and sinister impulses after a heart transplant, a teenager tries to unmask the truth behind her donor's mysterious death

Loving is Losing
When a newly single photographer is forced to work with a longtime rival, the battle of their egos turns into a chance for love.

ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads
Cloaked in mystery, bluesman Robert Johnson left his mark on American music. Now family, critics and famous fans look for the real man behind the music.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power season 2

Street Food season 1
Embark on a global cultural journey into street food and discover the stories of the people who create the flavorful dishes

The Protector season 2 (turkish)
Discovering his ties to a secret ancient order, a young man living in modern Istanbul embarks on a quest to save the city from an immortal enemy

added today

gmisk · 26-04-2019 07:46AM

Mellor wrote: »

I love the hunger games and he is great fun in them....real scenery chewing..literally with those big fake white teeth

Man Vs ManUre · 26-04-2019 08:20AM

joe40 wrote: »

Just watched "Silence" to be honest I wasn't expecting much, but it was truly awful.
How can respected actors like Stanley Tucci be involved with this type of nonsense.

I didn’t think it was too bad to be honest.
It was difficult to watch in a lot of parts, but I believe it is historically accurate as to what happened in the Far East back then, and they didn’t exaggerate the torture scenes.
I think given time people will think more of the film, in similar way to the Terence Malick film ‘The New World’ which I think is a classic. How the lead actress who played Pocahontas didn’t get nominated for as Oscar let alone win it I will never know. And it is one of the few films that Colin Farrell is good in.

ixoy · 26-04-2019 08:35AM

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

I didn’t think it was too bad to be honest.
It was difficult to watch in a lot of parts, but I believe it is historically accurate as to what happened in the Far East back then, and they didn’t exaggerate the torture scenes..

You're talking about Silence from 2016. OP is talking about The Silence released this year directly to Netflix.

joe40 · 26-04-2019 09:01AM

Yes sorry for the confusion, it was my mistake. I was talking about "the silence", the recent netflix movie.

ShadyAcres · 26-04-2019 09:22AM

I've been watching 'line of duty'..Very addictive UK cop series.

Man Vs ManUre · 26-04-2019 11:15AM

ixoy wrote: »

You're talking about Silence from 2016. OP is talking about The Silence released this year directly to Netflix.

Lol. Thanks!!

neris · 26-04-2019 03:27PM

watched some tripe with keanu reeves in it last night called Siberia. Well watched about 30 minutes of it and left

TomasMacR · 26-04-2019 04:05PM

neris wrote: »

watched some tripe with keanu reeves in it last night called Siberia. Well watched about 30 minutes of it and left

I don't know if I got further than you, left it after he got the sh*te knocked out of him outside of a bar by two lads.

pheasant tail · 26-04-2019 05:31PM

Watched La Mante during the week, a 6 episode French crime drama. Very good. Also really recommend Quicksand

26-04-2019 06:03PM

pheasant tail wrote: »

Watched La Mante during the week, a 6 episode French crime drama. Very good. Also really recommend Quicksand

Yeah Quicksand is top notch stuff. The Scandi's know how to do drama

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