The Tube.

[Circlepit]

Spartacus: House of Ashur

Once you get past the initial alternate timeline silliness, it's basically back to extremely watchable, violent entertainment. And tits.

Are the tits historically accurate?

[Sworntothecans]

Spartacus: House of Ashur

Once you get past the initial alternate timeline silliness, it's basically back to extremely watchable, violent entertainment. And tits.

The producers of Spartacus really should have licensed Sex & Violence by Carnivore for the ad campaign. (In fairness they could have done it for the Starz network as they have the 20 minute nude scene rule).

[Emphyrio]

Spartacus: House of Ashur

Once you get past the initial alternate timeline silliness, it's basically back to extremely watchable, violent entertainment. And tits.

Are the tits historically accurate?

I'm going to assume the Romans invented cosmetic surgery.

[Eoin McLove]

Watching Deadwind, a Finnish noire mystery thriller whatevery yoke. Grand stuff. I'm on season 2 so it must be alright. Eminently watchable if not exactly life changing.

[Snare]

We finished Better Call Saul during the week. Some jaw dropping stuff in the final season, but the last few episodes were a bit of a chore. We really enjoyed it though all told. I need to re-watch Breaking Bad at some stage to see the overlap properly.

The family and I are about to finish S5 of Cobra Kai. Roll on S6, but we'll be depressed when we finish that final season.

I got around to catching up with The Wheel of Time, and just a things are getting interesting with the timeline I read up to see when the next season will be released, I discover the show is cancelled, d'oh!

[John Kimble]

Just watching the Lucy Letby doc on Netflix. Nothing remarkable about it, usual true-crime fare.
But (and this may have been done before, if it has i haven't seen it) the use of AI is a bit jarring. There are real life persons who have been 'digitally anonymized', which i didn't initially pick up on. The article below explains it a bit better, and it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but there was just something about it that rang a bit weird.

Why The Investigation of Lucy Letby's 'Digitally Anonymised' Documentary is Causing Controversy https://share.google/YBJVcyVLptADwWbyk

[Maggot Colony]

Just watching the Lucy Letby doc on Netflix. Nothing remarkable about it, usual true-crime fare.
But (and this may have been done before, if it has i haven't seen it) the use of AI is a bit jarring. There are real life persons who have been 'digitally anonymized', which i didn't initially pick up on. The article below explains it a bit better, and it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but there was just something about it that rang a bit weird.

Why The Investigation of Lucy Letby's 'Digitally Anonymised' Documentary is Causing Controversy https://share.google/YBJVcyVLptADwWbyk

There was a recent episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody where the accused lad had a digitally altered face throughout. It looked very strange. Why not just blur the face?!

[John Kimble]

That's what I was thinking, pretty much the standard method of preserving anonymity which has been used for years. As stated, it wasn't that blindingly obvious that I immediately picked up on it, but then again I just had it on in the background for the sake of passing a few minutes. When I did notice, it became fairly distracting. One of the anonymous persons was a friend and colleague of Lucy Letby, so not only did they have to digitally represent the person during the interviews, they also had to digitally alter photographs from the past depicting the two of them together. Look, it's all fairly low stakes stuff but I wouldn't like it to become a thing either. We can't be too far off entire movies or series created entirely with AI.

[Mooncat]

We can't be too far off entire movies or series created entirely with AI.

There's already been a few films. Plus Darren Aronofsky has been catching a lot of flack lately for making an AI-generated war series.

[John Kimble]

Yeah, I had a suspicion that may have been the case but I'm so far out of the loop when it comes to that stuff. Are any of these big releases though? I'd imagine it's just youtube shorts etc. Either way, I'd have no inclination to watch.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Even the Aronofsky abomination is only a set of ~3-4 minute shorts, being released on the 250th anniversary of each subsequent war of independence event.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched Pluribus. It was... ok. Good enough that I'll check out S2 as soon as it airs, but not amazing by any stretch.

[The Heretic]

I have to say I'm warming up to "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" after my initial dismissal, its a slow burner but does need to pick up the pace a bit.

[Carnage]

There're only two episodes left for it to pick up so I'd hope it happens soon. Awful so far.

[Emphyrio]

Haven't watched it yet but is it like The Hobbit being a lesser story to LotR as this compared to GoT?