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Has anyone watched Black Mirror on Netflix?
Each show has a different setting, different cast and even a different reality. Different story every episode.
 
Waterfall said:
Has anyone watched Black Mirror on Netflix?
Each show has a different setting, different cast and even a different reality. Different story every episode.
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It's on my list but haven't watched any yet. Very highly regarded as a modern take on classic anthology shows (e.g. Twilight Zone).
 
Waterfall said:
Has anyone watched Black Mirror on Netflix?
Each show has a different setting, different cast and even a different reality. Different story every episode.
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I watched a few episodes and really didn't like where I could imagine it going. I've heard I probably left at one of the worst ones though, so it's back on my list although I haven't watched any more.
 
I haven't watched it either but it's on my list now. Thanks.

Has anyone watched "Hell on Wheels"?
 
The 3% was one I enjoyed. It's a Brazilian (I think I have that right) series. Basically once people reach a certain age they are able to compete to go to the offshore - an area with abundance. Only 3% are chosen.
 
ChemGal said:
I watched a few episodes and really didn't like where I could imagine it going. I've heard I probably left at one of the worst ones though, so it's back on my list although I haven't watched any more.
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Watched episode 1 last night. Well made even if the premise is off the wall (UK Royal family member is abducted resulting in a seriously screwed up ransom demand). The handling of how the story would play out in our social media heavy world was spot on (loved the reporter who sexted her source to keep him talking). Rory Kinnear is great as the PM.
 
We just got reconnected with Netflex after having dropped it for a few yearss. On Seeelergirl's advice I've been watching 'Crown'. I'm on episode 7 or season 1. I quite like it except for the sound.
I have a bbit of age-related hearing loss and havee to keep the sound up higher than normal to hear the dialogue, especcially with the British accents. But when the background noise comes on it drowns out the conversation and I feel I'm missing something. And the sound effects when the crowds are cheering, or a plane takes off --- boom. I'm scrambling to turn it down. Then up- again as I'm missing conversation as the scene switches to the drawing room. It's really quite annoying. Does anybody else have this problem?
 
Seeler said:
We just got reconnected with Netflex after having dropped it for a few yearss. On Seeelergirl's advice I've been watching 'Crown'. I'm on episode 7 or season 1. I quite like it except for the sound.
I have a bbit of age-related hearing loss and havee to keep the sound up higher than normal to hear the dialogue, especcially with the British accents. But when the background noise comes on it drowns out the conversation and I feel I'm missing something. And the sound effects when the crowds are cheering, or a plane takes off --- boom. I'm scrambling to turn it down. Then up- again as I'm missing conversation as the scene switches to the drawing room. It's really quite annoying. Does anybody else have this problem?
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Yes. I had my hearing tested a few years ago and it came back as better than expected for my age too. This issue hasn't gotten any worse since that test was done. I don't find Netflix to be worse than tv, movie theatres, etc. though. At least with netflix it's easy enough to put it back a bit to try and catch more. I especially have issues with the whispering conversations with music. Just keep the music out of it when people are speaking quietly.
 
Seeler said:
I quite like it except for the sound.
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I grew up with a sister who is hard of hearing and a brother with autism. They both needed subtitles (or closed captions) to watch anything. So that is my norm. I find subtitles especially useful when, like in The Crown, many of the actors speak with accents. That might be worth a try for you, too.
 
Hilary said:
I grew up with a sister who is hard of hearing and a brother with autism. They both needed subtitles (or closed captions) to watch anything. So that is my norm. I find subtitles especially useful when, like in The Crown, many of the actors speak with accents. That might be worth a try for you, too.
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I watched so much UK TV in my younger days (Dr. Who, All Creatures Great & Small, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder) that UK accents generally aren't a problem for me but I can see how they would be for some. Subtitles sounds like a good solution even if it seems weird to be using subtitles for what is technically your own language.
 
I've thought about turning the subtitles on but usually it's just short segments where it's an issue. Probably a smart thing to do though - less of a nuisance than having to go back multiple times trying to guess what they said.

Usually the UK accents aren't an issue, although it does depend on the specific one. I have been watching a UK cop show - Line of Duty. Ar one point I was like why did she just call her mom? When it happened again I could tell it wasn't mom but couldn't figure it out. Odd title or something so shrugged it off. Finally figured out it was ma'am (hey it was late) and it sounds nothing like an 'a' sound.
 
Seeler said:
We just got reconnected with Netflex after having dropped it for a few yearss. On Seeelergirl's advice I've been watching 'Crown'. I'm on episode 7 or season 1. I quite like it except for the sound.
I have a bbit of age-related hearing loss and havee to keep the sound up higher than normal to hear the dialogue, especcially with the British accents. But when the background noise comes on it drowns out the conversation and I feel I'm missing something. And the sound effects when the crowds are cheering, or a plane takes off --- boom. I'm scrambling to turn it down. Then up- again as I'm missing conversation as the scene switches to the drawing room. It's really quite annoying. Does anybody else have this problem?
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Do you use a Roku for Netflix? It has a headphone jack on the remote you can use. That helps some people.
 
Seeler said:
We just got reconnected with Netflex after having dropped it for a few yearss. On Seeelergirl's advice I've been watching 'Crown'. I'm on episode 7 or season 1. I quite like it except for the sound.
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My wife and I really enjoyed Season 1 of The Crown.
 
Anyone watched the OA?
I was drawn into the story, still not sure about the ending though. I felt like it would have been better without any type of finale that soon.
 
I have been watching the Australian story "OffSpring". It has had me in stitches. Doubt it is everyone's cup of tea, but works well for me.
 
ChemGal said:
Anyone watched the OA?
I was drawn into the story, still not sure about the ending though. I felt like it would have been better without any type of finale that soon.
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Seelerman and I started watching OA the otheer night. I stuck with it for over 1/2 hour and never could figure it out - picked up my Sudoku book and only glanced up once in awhile. Seelerman stuck with it 'til the end. I ask, 'Did it ever make any sense? Did you find out what it was all about?' His answer, a bewwildered 'No'.
 
From the "weird but funny and entertaining" category, I give you Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, an 8 parter shared between NF and BBC America.

If the title sounds familiar, it's because it is lifted from a novel by the late, great Douglas Adams which, along with the sequel The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, inspired the series. And "inspired" is key here. This is quite explicitly not an adaptation of either novel. It takes the basic character and premise behind Gently, here played by English actor Samuel Barnett, with whom I am otherwise unfamiliar(a detective who uses intuition and following trails of coincidences and weird events to solve cases rather than using traditional methods like collecting clues) and spins a completely new story set in modern day Seattle (the original was set in the eighties when it was written). Along for the ride is hapless former mental patient Todd, played by Elijah Wood, who gets sucked into Gently's latest case and becomes the audience's surrogate as he deals with the serious weirdness (and rather scary violence) erupting around him. He also, reluctantly, becomes "Watson" to Gently's "Holmes". First episode is quite entertaining if a bit disjointed (which is, I think, deliberate given how Gently operates). I shall continue and see where it goes. Not for the squeamish, BTW. Death happens several times in swift and bloody ways.
 
I love Douglas Adams. Saw the series but haven't had the time to give it a proper try.


Edit: Here's an interview Douglas did with American Atheists:

https://www.atheists.org/community/douglas-adams-interview

Something from the interview that always struck a chord with me:
AMERICAN ATHEISTS: There are quite a few lighthearted references to god and religion in your books ("…two thousand years after some guy got nailed to a tree"). How has your Atheism influenced your writing? Where (in which characters or situations) are your personal religious thoughts most accurately reflected?
I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.
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