I've watched a couple episodes. Yes, pretty interesting.

Saw Coming to America 2. Good to see Eddie and Arsenio again. The costumes are fantastic.

Finishing up Working Moms (at least the 4 seasons on Netflix now). Crazy funny. The creator and star of the show is the daughter of comedy director Ivan Rietman who directed Ghostbuster, Stripes, Meatballs, Twins, and Kindergarden Cop to name a few. She definitely has her father's sense of humor.

Anybody else watch Tribes of Europa?

Finished it last night. Kind of wish it was more than six episodes.

Amazing show. So good.

Honestly that sort of statement is the equivalent of being like "the car the main character drove wasn't actually released until a year after where the film takes place - its do distracting i can't enjoy the movie."

I think it would have almost zero impact on your experience, and if anything i think a familiarity with sports betting probably adds a fair amount to some scenes.

Holy Shit! Did I miss CT coming back into our lives?

Welcome back, dude!

I've heard a lot of people claim otherwise. Model of a car is a minor detail. When the premise of the movie is sports betting and the actual betting someone is doing couldn't happen it seems like more than a minor detail.

The Sinner has some genuinely shocking moments, especially in season 1.

We watched "Comming To America" 1&2 last night. It was fun. The second movie was very much a more family friendly version. I forgot how much they got away with in the first movie and kept a pg-13 rating.

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We did the same thing. Shipped the kids to my parents for the night, ordered thai food and did a double feature.

I agree we were surprised by the first one. I have seen it several times, but usually on TBS or somewhere. The second one wasn't very good, but it was nice to have a night without the kids around.

I wanna tear you apart...and your friend too...

He clay...he clay he clay...

mmmmm thai....

Green curry and phud thai are my goto yo

Netflix now airing a documentary called "The Last Blockbuster".

Must be one satisfying victory lap.

Paid $5 to watch "The Swordsman", a Korean movie based on the period when China was exerting rule over Joseon/Korea.

Actually better than I expected. Watch it for the action. The storyline is as expected for the genre. The non-action acting wasn't that great.

I've never thought much about this period, I'll have to read up on it.

Watched it last night. It was "ok". Just a lot of people waxing poetic on the store itself - the colors, the smells, etc. Frankly, while we used to go to Blockbuster for rentals a lot when younger, it was never more than that, just a store.

The last statement of the film talked about the ability to physically pick up a movie, take it home, watch it. Because we don't do that anymore, we're somehow losing the essence of who we are. Yes, I'm paraphrasing, but yes, I'm rolling my eyes just the same.

LOL. And Blockbuster was the end of theaters and our parents should have remembered the thrill of going to the movie theater.

Every generation has to wax romantically.

As they should.

We turned off Coming 2 America after about 20 minutes. Terrible.

Actually, the more accurate recounting is we started it, both fell asleep within 15 minutes, and turned it off when we woke up.

Yeah. There are things for which I feel nostalgia. But having to go to a store to pick up and drop off a movie from a limited selection instead of having to push a few buttons to have almost every movie ever made instantly streamed is not one of them.

I could see nostalgia for a local indie video store that had a lot of local flavor. But the Blockbuster experience seems almost antiseptic by design.

That is an interesting way to describe that mysterious room with the curtains that Blockbuster never had.;)

Drive to Survive (Season Three) debuted on the weekend.

Like the first two seasons, it's phenomenal, even if you aren't a fan of F1 racing. Lots of behind the scenes politics and so much drama.

Drive to Survive is straight up amazing with all the access and interviews. If you followed the season it's double that.

Kodachrome - enjoyed it. I thought the ending was fantastic.

Sound of Metal - couldn't get through it. The first part was annoying. I appreciated trying to tell the story of someone adjusting to severe hearing loss but I couldn't feel empathy for someone that put himself in that position.

My wife and I have been binge watching Impractical Jokers, good lord that show is a riot.

I second this opinion. Last season was so full of drama. This series captures that and more. I have been getting into F1 over the last 4-5 years and this series just ups my enthusiasm for the sport. On the surface it seems the domination of Mercedes makes the sport bland but when you start to understand the amount of work and fighting that goes on to move up a spot or two in the mid-field this opens up a whole world of things to follow in the sport.

I liken my journey in learning and following F1 to my journey in learning and follow soccer clubs in Europe. You go in feeling let down by a game that finishes with only a couple of goals between the clubs only to learn to appreciate the battles on the pitch between the goals which leads to a whole new love for the sport. Same thing with being bored with Mercedes dominance only to learn to appreciate all that goes into the lesser teams battling to finish in the points and inch ahead of their rivals for a spot or two in the constructors championship.

Philomena stars "M" Judi Dench as a woman that gave up child for adoption to a US couple, and how she gets help from ex-BBC reporter to find her child.

A nice, sometimes funny, sometimes sad story. Worth watching at least once.

Operation Varsity Blues - 6/10

About the college admissions scandal. It was well done, but it didn't tell me much that I didn't already know, and I barely paid attention to the scandal when it happened.

What interested me about the show was how the guy exploited the side door to get kids n college. Who would have thought coaches would vouch for a kid as an athlete and admissions let them in. Then the kid never shows up to practice. I thought that was an incredibly brilliant idea.

Not sure whether this is streamable (yet) as it just premiered on PBS this weekend but it did appear that was an option when I pulled up the program profile page

Twyla Moves | American Masters | PBS

I'll just repurpose my FB post about it (and let's face it, the odds of me posting about Twyla Tharp would seem pretty damned small)

Watched the first episode of Tales From The Loop on Amazon Prime. It's about a town where everyone works at an underground facility where top-secret experiments are done. My understanding is that each episode has a separate storyline dealing with a different set of people. First episode was quite good. If you were a fan of Black Mirror/Twilight Zone you'd like it.

3 days until Godzilla vs. King Kong comes out.

Been waiting for this one. On HBOMax

The rollout of what seems like dozens of content owner streaming services is beyond annoying. It doesn't matter whether you've cut the cord or are still with cable/satellite, who is piling multiple $5/month charges on top of what you are paying for TV? Are that many people really paying for ESPN/Disney, HBOMax, Peacock, Paramount, Discovery, etc., on top of the basic channels they are paying for?

Whether I stay with DirecTV or tried to cobble together 2-3 streaming services to get the kind of coverage I get through DTV with multiple streaming services, there's no way I would then add another $30-50/month for these other "exclusive" services. I got ESPN+ and that's it, mainly to watch my daughter.

Aare they counting on this growing like cell phone service - no one ever imagined spending $300-400 for phone service, but here we are. I just don't get it.

The only thing it's creating in me is an active hatred for TV brands that appear to be funneling exclusive content away from their bread and butter stations.

For us, I find that it means we subscribe to a service for like a month or two a year, like renting a movie. But damned if I'm staying with one for a long period of time unless it's replacing something else. For instance, we started Disney+ last week, watched Wandavision and Soul, will be watching Mandalorian Season 2, probably Falcon and Winter Soldier, and then we'll drop it again- just like we did last year with Mandalorian Season 1 and a couple of other movies. We did the same with the free previews last year for CBS (Picard) and HBO (Watchmen).

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I pay way too much for TV. We still pay for cable. Plus I subscribe to: Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Max (though I don't have to pay extra because I have cable) and Disney+. I, also, have Apple TV (or whatever it's called), but I currently get that for free. I'll likely cancel before I need to pay for it.

Speaking of, I watched all three available episodes of Invincible on Amazon Prime. I quite like it so far.

Same here. But there's always something that keeps us from cutting the cord. DVR space, certain channels one of us has to have, not to mention general technology learning curve issues that I know my wife would struggle with.

YouTube TV looks like it comes the closest, but they don't have everything we need. There's not one streaming service that can do everything we need that would cut our bill so drastically that I could make the switch without causing problems (or to offset the problems I would be creating by switching).

Outside of DirecTV, I pay for ESPN+ and Netflix. That's it. I don't count Amazon Prime because that's more of a side benefit we barely use for the primary shipping benefit.

For me, the accessibility has made movie watching far less of an "event" and more of a ho-hum, everyday thing. So when I say I'm nostalgic for something like Blockbuster, it's really the idea of a planned group movie night/event that I miss.

Enjoyed the Helen Reddy story on Netflix "I am Woman". She was somewhat before my time but remember some of her hits in the 80's.

Just seen that The Serpent started on Netflix on Friday in the US.

It was a joint Netflix/BBC project, so was on over here last winter - I highly recommend this

An awesome series set in SE Asia in the 1970s. Very stylish, very well acted, and based on a very dark true story

We gut the cord years ago and have an antenna. We get about 45 channels. And there is everything. From movie channels to a home improvement channel to a channel that shows marathons of crime dramas. I do use my brothers Dish account to get fox sports and espn

Anyone want to win a legit $10,000,000 reward?

Then you need to solve the biggest robbery in history. Happened in 1990 in Boston. $500,000,000 worth of paintings. Still unsolved.

This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist | Documentary Trailer | Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH18cKTmwZ8

I put that on my "remind me" list.

Invincible on Prime is something I can't recommend enough. If you like comics, give this a try.

Agreed! Really enjoyed the first 4 episodes!

This looks interesting, but as a documentary. I don't need acting.

A reasonable point, but you are missing out on a really good show

The two main protagonists are brilliant, their accomplice is one of the most unsettling characters I’ve seen for a while, and the supporting cast is brilliant (the actor who plays Knippenberg deserves whatever award is given for supporting actor in a TV show). It doesn’t hurt that Jenna Louise Coleman is the co-star.

I’ve been to a lot of the places where the events took place as a solo traveller, so maybe it resonates a little more, but my recommendation stands :)

FWIW, there is a dearth of stuff I want to watch on Netflix, Prime and Hulu.

Sling TV is also sucking.

Yep. And if, like me, you've never read this particular comic, at least make it through the credits of episode 1. Trust me. I was very much "ehh this is OK, kinda of like an updated X-Men animated series I guess?" up until that point.

Re-watched Waterworld on Netflix. Watched it when it first came out in the 90's. It wasn't all that great but still entertaining. Think it got a bad rap back when. I like Kevin Costner.

Agree on Waterworld. It's a decent couch potato flick. It was just over-hyped because of how hot Costner's career was when it came out. I think people were hoping for the aquatic version of Star Wars.