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Quite enjoying season 3 of Rita. Warning: Enter at own risk. Though the script is intelligent, the language and topics are not suitable for all.
 
Pinga said:
Quite enjoying season 3 of Rita. Warning: Enter at own risk. Though the script is intelligent, the language and topics are not suitable for all.
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Haven't seen that one in any of the lists. Must look it up.

Tried watching episode 1 of Sense8, the new NF original from Andy and Lana Wachowski (co-writers and directors) and J. Michael Straczynski (co-writer). Interesting but too long (episodes are a full hour) and intense for a 45 minute spin on a stationary bike so I'll see if I can watch it another time. Basically, 8 people scattered around the world start having connections to each other (e.g. a US cop hears music and goes to a neighbouring apartment thinking it's a party and it's empty. The scene then cuts to another character who's a DJ in London, UK and is playing the music he heard.). It all seems to revolve around a mysterious woman played by Daryl Hannah who commits suicide in a pre-title sequence, an event witnessed in dreams and visions by the other characters.
 
The smattering of classic Dr. Who videos that the BBC has bothered to put out over the years (not many of them, unfortunately) are on Netflix and I recently watched (or, more properly since I saw it a few decades back, rewatched) "The Robots of Death" starring Tom Baker as The Doctor's fourth regeneration with Louise Jameson as his companion Leela. It's a four part story arc that is basically a locked room murder mystery on a huge, mobile mining machine combined with a somewhat Asimovian robot story. Oddly, I think I liked it better now than I did when I saw the first North American broadcast of it back in the eighties. Well-written episode with a neat twist on the robot revolution meme.
 
I've seen all of the Between episodes that are out. I had no idea it was Canadian until just now when I was looking for when there will be more. Apparently there's some mini webisodes - Between the Lines as well. I'll have to check those out.

I've finished the 3 seasons of Wentworth. Heard some complaints about the latest season of OITNB and that Wenworth was better. I disagree, but still was an ok show.

I've tried to get into Sense8. 3rd time trying to start it, but by the end of the first episode I was more interested. I have trouble with books, movies and shows that start off with too many characters. Probably why I like shows like OITNB grey's anatomy (before they brought in a bunch of new people), etc. They start off with a few main characters and slowly add in others' stories lines instead of starting off that way.
 
I've been sucked into the Neflix world........ I've now watched the first seven episodes of the last season of Mad Men and now eagerly await the final seven episodes....... I also watched Wolf of Wall St. I have a life, or something like a life, so have to limit myself.......
 
This upcoming Netflix Original looks it could be brilliantly whacked out or just plain weird. It's ... Bill Murray's Christmas special, entitled A Very Murray Christmas!

http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/631179-a-very-murray-christmas-gets-a-very-merry-poster#/

What worries me about it is Sofia Coppola. She's a great indie film director but strikes me as the sort who will overthink this thing. It really just needs someone who will let Murray loose and then sit back and film the resulting pandemonium.
 
Just found, the detectorists. Very funny, in a sort of quirky way. Two loser guys who like to hang out and find stuff with their metal detectors. One of them reminds me a bit of my ex-husband.
 
What heh stele'n away ... or being driven into the trees and mysts of thyme? STS ... that quick flight of vapour's memories of hosts gone bi ... that's "M" ... up Eire!
 
Wow, I had a hard time finding this thread.

*WARNING: Major geek out coming*

For those who care (like me) Netflix has apparently decided to give us a present in honour of the upcoming 50th anniversary of Star Trek (which launched on Sept. 8, 1966): all of the Trek TV shows from the original through to Star Trek: Enterprise including the rather rare animated series from 1973-4.

I really don't have time for binge watching but if I did, I would happily binge the entire original series (which I have not watched in years if not decades, and never in sequence) and the animated series (the first Trek series that I saw on its first run, since I was a toddler when the original debuted). Once that was done, if time allowed, I'd finally see all of Deep Space Nine which apparently got very good in its middle and later years. Next Generation I saw pretty much all of during its run so I'd probably only bother with the middle period (seasons 3-5 or maybe 6) when it was at its peak.

So, time and family permitting, I'll hopefully be doing some "boldly going where no man has gone before" in the next while.
 
My husband was excited to see Voyager when we were browsing 'flix last night. I'm guessing that we'll be doing a lot of trekking with our evenings for a while!

I was also very happy to see that Netflix has rebooted Veggie Tales in a new format. I'm so excited to get into that!
 
Hilary said:
My husband was excited to see Voyager
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Voyager? Really? I thought was the second only to Enterprise on the "hate" list for Trek fans. :D I watched it a little and found it kind of "meh". Liked Robert Picardo as the holo-doc and Jeri Ryan as Seven (the reformed Borg) but didn't really warm up to any other characters.
 
I haven't seen enough of it to form an opinion. But I don't consider him to be as Trek-savvy as me. ;)
 
Is trekking like a haji ... cosmological pilgrimage out of here?

Some would equate this with heavenly ... others would say it is too sacral, or part of the head space!

Is that not po' ET hick ... the place of paganism ... even the pro pagan duh ... we po' pagans know little due to overriding religious naïveté ... ?

As a plus .. and we follow this chitty blindly ...
 
"haven't quite lived up to that."?

Well wouldn't that be the death of me's try! Akin to trying to read simple meaning into a sophisticated god's tory ... no end to it!

This happens because gods tend to lie ... an emotional attribute affecting both sides of the strange thing! Accomodates 2 halves of a soul ... like in din Eire treasures ... indeterminate abstracts?

Let the wondering continue of where heis go'n with this ...
 
A bump for this thread and a couple recommendations.

Into the Inferno is the latest documentary from the great German director Werner Herzog (who did some highly regarded features in the seventies and eighties but has been doing mostly docs in recent years). The subject is volcanoes but not the geological story, rather the human story of how they have impacted cultures of the people who live around them. Accompanied by a volcanologist that he befriended while shooting a previous documentary in Antarctica, Herzog visits Indonesia, East Africa, North Korea, Iceland, and other volcanic hotspots to tell the story of how local myths and rituals incorporate volcanoes and volcanism. It's a wonderful look at the human side of a major science story.

And Live at the Alhambra is a fairly recent (2012 I think) concert film by the Canadian musician/singer Loreena McKennitt. Ground in Celtic music but incorporating Middle Eastern and Mediterranean elements as well, her music is perfectly suited to the setting and she sounds as good in her fifties as she did in her late twenties when she started out. If you like "New Age", "World Music" or just damn fine music, it's a good view.
 
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