The Tube.

[son of the Morrigan]

  
Surely you aren't suggesting I should have undertaken some type of research myself!
What are you, a conspiracy theorist?

[jobrok1]

Just watched a series called Extrapolations. Dystopian future predictions based on our current environmental crisis, from the late 2030's up to 2070.

It starts quite well, but the further it moves towards 2070, the more the show really pushes the environmental and social predictions.

The cast is pretty impressive... Jon Snow fella, Edward Norton, even Meryl Street and a whole heap of familiar faces.

[blessed1]

Watched all the new Black Mirror episodes. Thought they were very good especially the 2nd and 3rd ones.

[Trev]

Haven't checked out Black Mirror in good while, think the last one I saw was the guy putting clones of his work colleagues into a Star Trek sim, or something along those lines. Thought that and the couple before were a bit weak and never went back to it

[open face surgery]

I enjoyed all the new ones although the first was the only one in the older, prophetic, dystopian style. He seems to be leaning more into the straight up horror genre for the latest ones.

[Carnage]

I gave up on it halfway through the first Netflix season. The bigger budget and assorted 'stars' diluted the impact of the stories IMO. Channel 4 suited it better.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

agree with the above. can't remember when I stopped watching, but it was more or less for the same reasons. herself has never seen any of it, so might put together a "best of" playlist of episodes, which will be all of the Channel 4 ones plus a few here and there from the US version.

[ldj]

It has gone down a bit since it moved to Netflix, but I did enjoy the two British ones in the new series.

The one about the papparazi was shite though.

[Born of Fire]

agree with the above. can't remember when I stopped watching, but it was more or less for the same reasons. herself has never seen any of it, so might put together a "best of" playlist of episodes, which will be all of the Channel 4 ones plus a few here and there from the US version.

Stick it on here if you do! I've only ever seen 1 episode and have been meaning to give it a proper go some day so be handy to be able to skip over the shite stuff.

[nukeabuse]

Been watching band of brothers for the first time only two episodes left, brutal stuff but extremely well done. Not usual a big war movie fan but there's certainly no glorification of war in it. Nearly wept at basically every episode so far.

Can watch any fkd up horror/ torture/depraved shit no bother but the knowing it's real people and the interviews with them before hand really hits. Kinda glad I didn't watch it when I was younger as I doubt I woulda appreciated the emotional heft of watching those lads watch all their mates die as much then

[Carnage]

It's a phenomenal series, probably the best war series/film to come out of Amerikay. Read the book (by Stephen Ambrose), it obviously provides more detail but it gives major insight into the characters and how well or poorly they were portrayed. Schwimmer's version of Sobel is spot on, for instance. The big take is that the series was spot in in terms of accuracy, even allowing for dramatic licence.

[Ollkiller]

Ya the book is brilliant and the adaptation is spot on. Band of Brothers is my favourite mini series of all time. The way its shot is stunning and the acting is perfect. I watch it about every 2 years and it never gets old.

[Eoin McLove]

Band of Brothers was great, yeah. I haven't seen it in many years. One day I'll have time to revisit all this fucking stuff...

[nukeabuse]

Ah Jesus Christ just watched episode 9 where they found the camps while I'm deathly hungover.

Was a bad move, properly fucked me up

[jobrok1]

whipped through season 2 of The Bear over the last few days.
Such a great show.
Mush like the first season, there are a couple of really good episodes that stand out.