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I've been watching an Australian series on Netflix called Wentworth.
It's about a women's prison in Australia...fairly hardcore and graphic. Reminds me of Orange is the New Black, only this one I'm finding far more interesting.
Some of the happenings are quite shocking and unexpected and the characters become well developed over time.
 
I'm watching a British limited series on Netflix called "The Stranger". This stranger comes to people to reveal they know intimate details about the person's life. Sometimes blackmail is involved. It's quite the web.
 
Waterfall said:
I've been watching an Australian series on Netflix called Wentworth.
It's about a women's prison in Australia...fairly hardcore and graphic. Reminds me of Orange is the New Black, only this one I'm finding far more interesting.
Some of the happenings are quite shocking and unexpected and the characters become well developed over time.
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I'm not sure if I caught all the seasons, started watching that years ago. I actually preferred OITNB as I felt like the background stories were better. Maybe Wentworth got better with it over time and I just needed to watch more? Either way, both were good!
 
For very easy viewing - Old Enough.
A 'reality' show from Japan. Following toddlers doing their first errands. Each episode is about 10 minutes. Cute, easy viewing, although it's subtitled.
 
Well I just hooked up again with Netflix for the coming winter and the colder nights.
Recently watched a ,"Jazzmans Blues", and if you liked the Notebook, you're more than likely going to love this movie. It's a real tearjerker and I needed a couple Kleenex at the end.
Cuddle up on the couch with your favourite guy/gal or yourself, with a glass of wine and enjoy.
 
I looked for Jazzman Blues tonight and didn't see it. We'll try again another day. We're watching Young Sheldon right now.
 
Northwind said:
I looked for Jazzman Blues tonight and didn't see it. We'll try again another day. We're watching Young Sheldon right now.
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Release date was Sept. 23, maybe it is different for Britsh Columbia? Or maybe you forgot the "A" in the title, as in A Jazzmans Blues?

By the way A Jazzmans Blues is over 2 hrs long.
 
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Release date was Sept. 23, maybe it is different for Britsh Columbia? Or maybe you forgot the "A" in the title, as in A Jazzmans Blues?

By the way A Jazzmans Blues is over 2 hrs long.
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I think I expected to see it in new releases. I'll look again
 
Waterfall said:
Well I just hooked up again with Netflix for the coming winter and the colder nights.
Recently watched a ,"Jazzmans Blues", and if you liked the Notebook, you're more than likely going to love this movie. It's a real tearjerker and I needed a couple Kleenex at the end.
Cuddle up on the couch with your favourite guy/gal or yourself, with a glass of wine and enjoy.
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Added to my list.
 
I keep starting movies on Netflix and losing interest. I just started watching “Don’t Look Up”. There’s a good cast with some A-list actors, it won awards, but the acting seems terrible. It would’ve been better - especially with these actors - as a drama/ thriller than what they did, which is take a serious (fictional but not impossible) impending extinction event and try to make it a comedy, yet suspenseful at the same time. It’s pretty bad, imo, awkward, not funny. The “jokes” don’t land. I don’t know what the award adjudicators were thinking.

It might’ve been better as either a totally serious movie, or perhaps with different actors who do mainly comedy.
 
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I've started sewing again, and moved sewing machines into living room as I like to watch tv whilst I sew. I'm a chronic multi-tasker.

I have BritBox which I love, and so, The Great British Baking Show has been on my catchup list.

Some shows I can't watch and sew to as they require concentration.
I never watched The Handmaids Tale so have started to watch it on Prime.
 
JayneWonders said:
I've started sewing again, and moved sewing machines into living room as I like to watch tv whilst I sew. I'm a chronic multi-tasker.

I have BritBox which I love, and so, The Great British Baking Show has been on my catchup list.

Some shows I can't watch and sew to as they require concentration.
I never watched The Handmaids Tale so have started to watch it on Prime.
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When you watch Handmaid's Tale be prepared to have a "palate cleanser" such as Schitt's Creek as a follow-up. You will recognize many of the filming locations.
 
I didn't watch much of the Handmaid's Tale. It was fairly faithful to the book, which I have read a couple of times.
 
Watched "American Pastoral" on Netflix last night. It's based on the book, American Pastoral" which won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Reviews say the movie's not as good as the book, but I quite enjoyed it. (possibly because I hadn't read the book)
 
There are great leaders that say not to read as they don't wish you looking further into it ... so we don't and thus it goes as naught! Similar to the definition of manifestation or incarnation ... when what isn't appears ... perhaps a vision? Got to be an abstract ... things beyond absolute ... all things break down and thus some dissolve in laughter ... odd right? Nothings left ... perhaps solutions ...

It is a mental thing .... sort of fluid and viscous like a plastic brain theory ... those beyond cannot accept such things and thus mindlessness goes on ... the thing that drives ... you see them in road rage as if they never learned ... maybe not familiar with what they assimilated? Familiarity is said to be the root of contempt ... a vast chasm or great abyss. Alas we knew it not even after claiming to know everything ... and so it goes ... all that you didn't grasp in pass over ... lost oversight?

Assume the out there ... it needs to be contained ... and so it goes down ... hysterically as metaphor ... and the bread just beckoned for me to eat it ... thus the following whine ... "its gone!" Sadist? Recall you can not eat it and have it too ... it is just the way the cake is cut ... pat heh? Heh is a Hebrew letter that is also a difficult domain ...

Canadians sometimes use it leaving others kind of spaced ... always have room for the unknowing, squeeze them in ... they must learn! Especially about the over avid and avarice ... alas such does not sink in well!
 
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I just watched " The Reader" on netflix. Kate Winslot won an Oscar for this movie and it's well deserved.
Basically a story about a young 15 year old boy striking up a passionate sexual relationship with an older woman (full frontal nudity from both FYI) throughout one summer in their lives during th 40s. She is fascinated by the books he reads and she insists that he also reads them to her. He slowly discovers she is illiterate.
Fast forward and the young man has become a lawyer and finds himself in a courtroom observing this same woman who has been accused of a horrendous crime that took place within the Auschwitz concentration camp during WW2.
The movie has many layers which prompted me to examine and question how I may have handled the situation.
Highly recommend.
 
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Waterfall said:
I just watched " The Reader" on netflix. Kate Winslot won an Oscar for this movie and it's well deserved.
Basically a story about a young 15 year old boy striking up a passionate sexual relationship with an older woman (full frontal nudity from both FYI) throughout one summer in their lives during th 40s. She is fascinated by the books he reads and she insists that he also reads them to her. He slowly discovers she is illiterate.
Fast forward and the young man has become a lawyer and finds himself in a courtroom observing this same woman who has been accused of a horrendous crime that took place within the Auschwitz concentration camp during WW2.
The movie has many layers which prompted me to examine and question how I may have handled the situation.
Highly recommend.
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Reminds me of The Summer of 42 and who was really shafting hoom? The vernacular is directed away from such curios and thus ineffable or unspoken! Humans are complex about how they say things should be simple ... and we head in that direction despite gifts ... AD onus ...
 
Luce NDs said:
Reminds me of The Summer of 42 and who was really shafting hoom? The vernacular is directed away from such curios and thus ineffable or unspoken! Humans are complex about how they say things should be simple ... and we head in that direction despite gifts ... AD onus ...
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I would say the Summer of 42, is a pale comparison.
This film touches on many issues...one of the main ones is the shame of illiteracy, amongst other moral questions.
 
Waterfall said:
I would say the Summer of 42, is a pale comparison.
This film touches on many issues...one of the main ones is the shame of illiteracy, amongst other moral questions.
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The young lady as screwed out of her senses would probably have lost many of those thoughts through fear and anger about how she was abused ... thus much was lost in the record!
 
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