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Endemol Shine brings back Big Brother in Sweden – the fourth European territory to revive the flagship reality format after a hiatus
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Crime and Punishment is an interesting, hard to watch, docu about the UK prison system
Channel 4 describe the programme "Series that captures the work of police, probation, prison, prosecution and parole". Here's a link to the first episode:...
Channel 4 describe the programme "Series that captures the work of police, probation, prison, prosecution and parole".
Here's a link to the first episode: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/crime-and-punishment/on-demand/64655-001
Crime and punishment is a documentary series that looks inside prison to tell the stories of the criminal justice system from the viewpoint of those involved.
The first episode spends some time talking about the unjust "Imprisonment for Public Protection"[1] sentences (these are no longer given by the courts but there are thousands of prisoners still imprisoned on them), how they went wrong, and the awful effect they have upon prisoners. It's a difficult watch. It shows how severely the mental health of prisoners is when they're on this type of sentence, including their serious self harm.
Episode two talks about pressure inside prisons and how that results in "riots", about how prisoners use the only power they have available to them.
I like the programme because it avoids judgmentalism. The prisoners are not reduced to the bad guys; the officers are not simplified to the good guys. You hear a little bit about some of the offences committed by the prisoners
Here's a Twitter thread from someone working in the English NHS. She works in forensic services as a psychologist. https://twitter.com/SarahE_Davidson/status/1173707912981700608
I guess Channel 4 On Demand have geo-blocking. I don't know if it's available on other services, or on torrent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisonment_for_public_protection
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Streaming services and the endangered magic of the long-form series
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Experts say the enormous amounts spent on old shows like Seinfeld and The Big Bang Theory ignore a key point: we have no way of knowing how much shows are worth
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‘Battlestar Galactica’ reboot from Sam Esmail in the works for NBCU's Peacock streaming service
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Netflix acquires global streaming rights to Seinfeld for five years, starting in 2021
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NBCUniversal announces "Peacock" as the name of its streaming service and unveils initial content lineup for April 2020 launch
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Disney+ reportedly will carry all that 90s Marvel animated goodness including ‘X-Men,’ ‘Spider-Man’ and more
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Undone - Season Discussion Thread
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The Chefs' Brigade
This is a British cookery show. They take a bunch of people who cook for a living but who have basic skills. These people are paired with a chef who has four Michelin stars and eighteen...
This is a British cookery show. They take a bunch of people who cook for a living but who have basic skills. These people are paired with a chef who has four Michelin stars and eighteen restaurants. They visit different restaurants around Europe to have competitions to cook that restaurant's own food.
Things I enjoy about it: it does a good job of showing that people who have somewhat fucked up lives will always find a place in cheffing. They could have stayed in the UK but they decided to go around Europe.[1] There's a couple of incidents of poor behaviour being corrected (some of the women chefs are ignored and spoken over by some men, the women stand up for themselves and get an apology).
Things I don't like: there's some cheffy bollocks around the pressure and discipline of a brigade; it's still a reality-show competition and that introduces some artificiallity; they send people home each week and I always hate that aspect of programmes.
It's available on Pirate Bay.
Here are some reviews which I think are fair.
https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/the-chefs-brigade-bbc2-episode-1-review-jason-atherton/
[1] I can't describe how pathologically awful Brexit has been for the UK. :-(
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Netflix subscriptions in Finland among least cost-effective in the world, according to a recent study carried out by comparitech.com
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Is binge watching bad for us?
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Here's why adult cartoons are a huge mood right now
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Kenny Burrell On Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
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‘Lord of the Rings’ series at Amazon casts Will Poulter in lead role
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The Booth at the End
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An hour with Rebecca Sugar - The Steven Universe creator on her biggest cartoon influences
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Mr. Robot | Season 4 trailer (starts October 6)
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The Mandalorian | Official trailer
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Miso Film Norge has partly lifted the curtain on its latest scripted venture, the teen revenge-thriller 'Tainted'
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Mythbuster Jr is pretty entertaining
Mythbusters is back, but in a tweaked format. Adam Savage fronts with a team of six young people. Jamie, Kari, Tory, and Grant are absent, only appearing in video flashbacks to the previous show....
Mythbusters is back, but in a tweaked format.
Adam Savage fronts with a team of six young people. Jamie, Kari, Tory, and Grant are absent, only appearing in video flashbacks to the previous show.
Mythbusters with kids could have been horrific, but they've managed to make this entertaining and informative. They've increased the amount of STEM stuff. We see people doing a bit of math while planning something out. The kids are smart, and the show allows them to be smart while also being children. Adam is a great fit, being a big kid himself but also filling the role of a pseudo parent and giving friendly advice (often around safety, such as the tag strap used to manoeuvre huge steel plates).
The old show had a some problems. They'd have too many pre-break "what's coming next" and post-break "here's what happened before", and they'd chop up the myths being tested into tiny little bits. They still do that, but not nearly as much.
It's a fun, entertaining watch, and it's safe for families to watch together.
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The bizarre modern reality of The Simpsons
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Black Mirror S04E02 “Arkangel” discussion thread
Previous episode | Index thread | Next episode Black Mirror Season 4 Episode 2 - Arkangel Worried about her daughter’s safety, single mom Marie signs up for a cutting-edge device that monitors the...
Previous episode | Index thread | Next episode
Black Mirror Season 4 Episode 2 - Arkangel
Worried about her daughter’s safety, single mom Marie signs up for a cutting-edge device that monitors the girl’s whereabouts -- and much more.
Warning: this thread contains spoilers about this episode! If you haven't seen it yet, please watch it and come back to this thread later.
You can talk about past episodes, but please don't discuss future episodes in this thread!
If you don't know what to say, here are some questions to get the discussion started:
- How does the title relate to the episode itself?
- Are there any similarities between real life events and the episode?
- Are there any references or easter eggs in the episode, such as references to past episodes?
Please rate the episode here!
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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance | Trailer
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The young man and the sea sponge: How a marine biology teacher gave life to Spongebob Squarepants, who turns twenty this year
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You can't ask that: a documentary series inspired by reddit's AMAs
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Casting reveal for Wheel of Time: The Two Rivers Folk
Josha Stradowski is Rand al'Thor Barney Harris is Mat Cauthon Marcus Rutherford is Perrin Aybara Zoë Robins is Nynaeve al'Meara Madeleine Madden is Egwene al'Vere There's a fair amount of...
Josha Stradowski is Rand al'Thor
Marcus Rutherford is Perrin Aybara
Zoë Robins is Nynaeve al'Meara
Madeleine Madden is Egwene al'Vere
There's a fair amount of excitement and discussion around the choices on Reddit.
Previously, Rosamund Pike was announced as Moiraine Damodred.
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The golden age of cord-cutting is over. Now what?
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Netflix has signed a multimillion-dollar, multi-year exclusive agreement with Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss
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Disney announces $12.99 bundle for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+
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Carnival Row | Season 1 official trailer
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy TV series in the works at Hulu from Carlton Cuse & Jason Fuchs
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HBO Max acquires exclusive streaming rights to Doctor Who, and has licensed 700 episodes of other BBC series
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Mindhunter | Season 2 teaser
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The superheroes are the villains in Amazon's dark comedy 'The Boys' — Is it any good?
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‘The Expanse’ renewed for season five at Amazon
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Amazon's new Lord Of The Rings showrunners have never made a TV show before
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Star Trek: Picard | San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) trailer
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The Witcher | Official teaser
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Behind the scenes of Netflix’s decision to remove the controversial suicide scene in "13 Reasons Why"
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Emmy award nominations announced for 2019
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The Office: How nonsense conquered the workplace
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Swedish sect murder case set to feature in HBO documentary
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You should watch Years and Years
Years and Years is a British political near-future soft SF programme. Being British it's one short series - 6 episodes, 1 hour per episode. Mainstream broadcast SF isn't going to push all the...
Years and Years is a British political near-future soft SF programme. Being British it's one short series - 6 episodes, 1 hour per episode. Mainstream broadcast SF isn't going to push all the boundaries, but this has some neat ideas. The political stuff feels realistic enough to work.
Emma Thompson is always impressive and she does excellent work here as a populist, fascist, politician. Jessica Hynes plays Edith with suitable intensity.
Here are a bunch of links:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8694364/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
[spoilers] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/years-and-years-1220415
[spoilers] https://variety.com/2019/tv/reviews/years-and-years-review-emma-thompson-hbo-1203243714/
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Star Trek: Picard first poster
@sirpatstew: Picard. #StarTrekPicard #StarTrek
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Streaming TV is about to get very expensive as Disney, NBC and more companies start launching their own services and pulling their content from others
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WarnerMedia names upcoming direct-to-consumer service HBO Max
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Breaking Bad on rewatch (Heavy spoilers)
I just finished Breaking Bad, second run-through. I had first started watching it when Season 4 had just started; binging seasons 1-3 and followed it episode-by-episode after. I was surprised to...
I just finished Breaking Bad, second run-through. I had first started watching it when Season 4 had just started; binging seasons 1-3 and followed it episode-by-episode after.
I was surprised to notice that the content I binged stayed with me much better than the seasons I watched one-episode-at-a-time.
Also… Holy shit. Breaking Bad gets dark towards the end (Jesse getting imprisoned and forced to cook for months; his ex-girlfriend getting shot). I had forgotten all about that. I had forgotten almost everything about the last … 4-5 episodes.The scenes that had stayed with me the most from my first watch: Box Cutter's throat-slicing scene, the Prison Shankings, Hank vs. the Cousins, Hank's death scene, Gus's death scene.
But, seriously, rewatching it reminded me how good of a series Breaking Bad is. I couldn't help but binge the entire rewatch marathon. It's an incredibly intense experience.
In the context of what happened to Game of Thrones I'm also very happy to see the consistent quality and execution in Breaking Bad's storytelling. It's a series that set out to tell a story. The story makes sense from beginning to end, and gets resolved nice and tidy.
I'm a little disappointed we don't get to see more of what happens to the family while Walt is gone. The trial etc, that all seems like potentially interesting stuff.
On rewatch, I noticed my sympathies changing. I have a lot less sympathy towards Walt, even very early on. Knowing some things in advanced completely changed my view on him; whereas on first watch I rooted for him quite a bit.
My sympathy towards Skyler also flipped. On my first watch, I disliked her a lot at first, but grew to like her when she "went dark". On this rewatch, I disliked her less and sympathized more with her, though her behaviour beyond season 4 became incomprehensible to me.
I like Marie a lot more this time around as well. She's still pretty unbearable when it comes to shoplifting and generally the way she talks to people; but I hadn't realized just how much she loves Hank. How much she supports him through his PT (despite how atrocious Hank is specifically to her). Knowing Hank's death was coming, my heart broke into pieces when I heard their last phone call end in "I love you. // I love you too.". Hearing her say "He isn't picking up, probably because he's in the thick of it".I don't think I even noticed anyone's grief the first time around, most likely because I was dealing with my own. Hank's death was a shock then. This time, I knew it was coming, and I had a lot more time to process how people felt about Hank before and their reactions to the news.
Just a bunch of random thoughts about that series. I usually only rewatch "comfort series" such as comedies, animated series, etc; I very rarely rewatch epics (except that I used to re-marathon GoT before a new season). But I don't regret giving Breaking Bad a full rerun. It is such an intense experience; during Seasons 3&4 I yelled in my pillows a few times on credit roll, just from the adrenaline.
You too should give it a shot.
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Fox News didn't "steal" your parents
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