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Lisin

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SunnyBeBe

SunnyBeBe

I actually enjoy watching an episode more the second time or if I already know what to expect.  I hate being all antsy. But, there is no way that I can not watch when it come on at 10:00.  

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crgirl412

crgirl412

We should pick something else to watch together........sniff....... 

Pose?  Starts this Sunday at 10 pm!  It's S1. 

Snowfall?  Starts 10 PM Thursday, July 19.  We'd have to binge watch S1.

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SunnyBeBe

SunnyBeBe

16 hours ago, crgirl412 said:

We should pick something else to watch together........sniff....... 

Pose?  Starts this Sunday at 10 pm!  It's S1. 

Snowfall?  Starts 10 PM Thursday, July 19.  We'd have to binge watch S1.

I'll consider it.  I looked into POSE and I'm still not sure what it's going to be like.  I tried to watch Trust and man, that was a bear.  I struggled through parts of it and then couldn't even force myself to get through the Finale.  I just wasn't impressed.

I'll go to the Pose thread before Sunday to see if there is a Live Chat. Do you know if it's set up yet? 

Snowfall? That looks more interesting to me.  I'll look into it.  There is time to survey before it airs. 

I don't have a favorite show anymore.  Sad.....

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dr pepper

dr pepper

Name some shows with the same amount of depth. Ok, with some depth, there's nothing anywhere near out there.

My suggestions:

Colony: Explores the ethics of resistance and collaboration. If you don't resist, how can you ever be liberated? But if you don't collaborate, the invaders have no incentive to leave anyone alive. And in this case the invaders are aliens who can level cities from orbit. Oh and Peter Jacobson is there, cautiously surviving.

Vida, which could also be called Porn in East LA from the number of nude scenes: Explores the painful effects of socioeconomic upheaval. A middle aged woman named Vidalia, or Vida for short, dies suddenly. Her two grown daughters return to the old east LA neighborhood to try to sort out the failing family business. This may not be possible without some big changes. This doesn't go over with a local activist group fighting against gentrification and the dilution of chicano culture. A former classmate has already referred to the sisters as "whitinas".

 

Please add your own favorites.

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SunnyBeBe

SunnyBeBe

I don't really have any at this point. I'll have to come up with some.  

REf. Colony  I think I have watched that once or twice.  IMO, it has potential.

I don't get STARZ network, I don't think.  But, Vida sounds amazing. 

I did watch Good Behavior, with Michelle Dockery, but, it wrapped up in Dec.  Not sure if there will be another season.

Anyone watch Animal Kingdom? I did initially.  I think it's coming back with new season soon. 

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Erin9

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I finished the Charm School. Really liked it. I don’t want to spoil it, but I bought what he sold so to speak. Good story. 

 Red Sparrow is next, I think. 

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crgirl412

crgirl412

I was just looking around our forum and thought about how lucky we are to have found this site!!!  I am a refugee from TWoP (Television Without Pity) 4 years ago as I'm sure some of you are as well.  We would never had this great of a forum on there!!!  The mods here are sane and give us tons of leeway to really get to the marrow of a show.  We would never have enjoyed the Americans as much if this site wasn't here!!  We are treated like the adults we are which makes a huge difference in the quality of a forum!!   

I am talking about the mods here so much as some of the mods at TWoP were ultra controlling to say the least and seemed to show up randomly substitute mods  for a forum and do stuff like lock the forum if they felt like as a punishment for not following the "rules", delete hours of posts if they deemed them God-only-knows-what, correct spelling and grammar, gave out warning points with scathing rebukes and banned a ton of people for mild (if any) infractions.  There was no "Boards on Boards" which means to talk about what another poster has written in any way.  It isn't really much fun to have to think that hard when trying to reply!!  I LOVE PREVIOUSLY TV!!!!!

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chocolatine

chocolatine

4 hours ago, Umbelina said:

@chocolatine

I know you are watching The Handmaid's Tale, so I'm guessing you are watching on Hulu?

(for anyone else as well of course)

Rhy's The Wine Show is available on Hulu.  I'm going to check it out, just to see the show his mother liked best, and listen to his real voice, and watch him get tipsy.  https://www.hulu.com/watch/966521#i0,p0,d0

Yes, I am watching on Hulu. Food/wine shows aren't usually my thing, but if Matthew Rhys has one, I'll have to check it out. 

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Umbelina

Umbelina

He's obviously tipsy in parts of it.  His interviews about the Wine show were really funny, talking about how many ways there are to say a wine is good, and being drunk before noon, and having to keep shooting.  Also, he's paired with another favorite of mine Mathew Goode, and watching them semi-drunkenly carry on is pretty cute.

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suomi

suomi

From Henry's thread

ON 6/02/2018 AT 08:25 PM, UMBELINA SAID:

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All speculation is equally valid about that. The writers chose to not tell us what happens, so we can all speculate away.

The cold war was very serious, people HATED the USSR. My speculation is that it would get a ton of press back then.

Also, the Feds are in the process of rounding up all of the secret posing as American's KGB officers, at least according to Aderholt.

 

We hated the USSR so much that it was OK to do this:

I started high school in September 1963 and graduated in January 1967 so this happened within those years. Our four-year high school in our little mountain town had 400 students. We were called to an assembly and we were like Yay because who doesn't like an assembly. The principal started off by telling us that the speaker would be visiting a small, a medium and a large high school in our state/Cali and we had been chosen in the small school category. Wow, what an honor, right? Three schools in the entire state. Yay.

The speaker was from Russia! He had a thick accent and a stern face. His hair was poorly cut and not clean, his wide tie and double-breasted suit were like what my dad wore in photos from the '40s. Mr Russky spoke in generalities at first and then he began mocking and insulting us, who we are, what we have, our way of life! If I'd known the term then I would've been like WTF? We were (white, middle class) kids and he was an adult so the behave/be nice dynamic was in play but a very unpleasant and unsettling energy was forming in the audience. He finally said too much and the speech/lecture ended abruptly because, as I remember it, the Lettermen were about to rush the stage. I went to my reunion last year and a classmate told me that as she remembered it the faculty was starting to rush the stage. As I remember it the principal calmed everyone down by explaining that the speaker was an FBI agent who came to show us how dangerous Communism is. Which made no sense because the Commie was the only one in danger. Actual, physical danger, right in front of us. Another classmate said there was a regional speaker's bureau and we had lots of talking assemblies (but not like this one, trust me); he remembers the Evil Communism angle and the stage rushing but not the mention of the FBI.

So is that odd, or what? The recollections of the three of us last year differ but also mesh. Would the principal have preserved the pretense if we were more receptive - did he reveal only because it got dangerous? Was the faculty truly not clued in? Or were they part of the act? Did they move first to incite the students, or was it the other way around and the faculty had to step in as security? There were many loud voices that drew our attention to different rows of seats in the gym so it wasn't an assembly where all eyes were on the stage. After it was over there was confusion and resentment about how heated it got, being lied to, played. Jeez, topping it off, how hammy it was, the shitty hair, the shitty suit, the insults.

Guerrilla theater is usually performed outdoors in front of an audience that chooses to observe and participate, right? During the Cold War we hated Russia so much that "they" thought hundreds of kids (and their teachers?) being freaked out and pissed off was a great idea.

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SunnyBeBe

SunnyBeBe

Have any of you watched a show on AMC called Dietland? It's a real quirky kind of show. It's rather difficult to describe. I suppose it could be described as a dark comedy, as it has quite a bit of murder. I'm not sure that I really get it.  I wish there was more discussion about it on the boards.  There are several threads on it.  If anyone is interested, please come over there.  It's nothing like The Americans, except it has a lot of murders. lol 

https://www.amc.com/shows/dietland 

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crgirl412

crgirl412

15 hours ago, SunnyBeBe said:

Have any of you watched a show on AMC called Dietland? It's a real quirky kind of show. It's rather difficult to describe. I suppose it could be described as a dark comedy, as it has quite a bit of murder. I'm not sure that I really get it.  I wish there was more discussion about it on the boards.  There are several threads on it.  If anyone is interested, please come over there.  It's nothing like The Americans, except it has a lot of murders. lol 

https://www.amc.com/shows/dietland 

I don't get AMC, unfortunately.  I would really like to see Deep State on epix, which I don't get either!! 

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