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[Gambit]

5 hours ago, Gotters said:

 

we managed 1 episode and thought it was dire.

 

Zac had clearly pulled rank and told whoever was funding the thing that if they wanted him then his boorish wooden dull health guru mate had to be allowed to come along. 

 

Sure the scenery was pretty, and I can't help but think I'd like the locations and themes a lot more if they weren't presented by idiot Zac and his dull mate.

 

I was going to watch it, but I since heard that Zac's mate in this is a big pusher of "alternative medicines" when it comes to fighting cancer and stuff along those lines. So fuck it.

[BongoInferno]

Oh my word what have they done to the Netflix UI? Unfathomably they have managed to make it even more shit!

[Steve McQueef]

On 11/07/2020 at 19:51, cassidy said:

I go further and say its actually a great little movie. One of the best Netflix has made Imo. 

Fuck me, if it's one of their best, I suggest they stop right now. 

[chris on the moon]

I was excited last night that there was a new series of Midnight Diner on netflix. But then I looked through the episode list and I didn't recognise any of the episodes. Turns out what they had on before was seasons 4 and 5. Those are gone now and what they have on now are seasons 1-3 ! So I'm getting a lot more context as to who the characters in the diner actually are! And it's good!

[cassidy]

On 26/07/2020 at 04:02, John Edward Gammell said:

Fuck me, if it's one of their best, I suggest they stop right now. 

It's a low bar 

[ukdazs]

On 14/07/2020 at 17:56, Bazjam said:

My wife decided that she now likes sporting documentaries, which is great as I’ve been rewatching some of my faves with her. I’ve never seen Last Chance U, but thought it would be good for us to watch together as we both loved Friday Night Lights, but Netflix only seem to have a couple of the later seasons on there. Are these still good, and worth checking out? Or can anyone recommend something similar?

Last Chance U is back with a new series today. 

I'd also recommend Cheer (made by the same production company) which I suspect your wife would love, as my girlfriend was hooked. QB1 Beyond the Lights is very similar to LCU but based on High School football rather than Junior College.

Also, don't forget Sunderland til I Die, which is like watching a car crash unfold over two series.

[ZOK]

Cheer is fantastic.

[Bazjam]

35 minutes ago, EUkdazs said:

Last Chance U is back with a new series today. 

I'd also recommend Cheer (made by the same production company) which I suspect your wife would love, as my girlfriend was hooked. QB1 Beyond the Lights is very similar to LCU but based on High School football rather than Junior College.

Also, don't forget Sunderland til I Die, which is like watching a car crash unfold over two series.

Cheers for that. We’re half way through EMCC and both enjoying it very much so will go onto the other 2 seasons after. We both loved Sunderland Till I Die as well.

 

Going to show her Hoop Dreams this weekend, which for me is the pinnacle of sporting docs.

[Chindie]

I don't really care about American sports, but over the past couple of years have become completely enthralled by Last Chance U, All or Nothing, Last Dance...

 

The latest series of Last Chance U I've got through 3 episodes already. It's much more... depressing this series. There's just this grim futility to it all. There's much more of a look at the world outside of the game, most likely because there actually is a world worth looking at this time with the move to a college in an urban sprawl. But with that it's multitudes more depressing - young guys whose lives are already looking down the barrel.

 

On the other hand there's some levity to it. The coach seems like a genuinely good guy whose approach is much more father figure than disciplinarian. And it's hard not to laugh at an English teacher that is teaching her own book. Even if you're a well respected figure, which I believe she is... don't teach your own book. At uni we had a lecturer who built his course around his book which lead to much rolling of eyes whenever a lecture had the words 'As I say in the book...'.

[El Geet]

2 hours ago, Chindie said:

I don't really care about American sports, but over the past couple of years have become completely enthralled by Last Chance U, All or Nothing, Last Dance...

 

The latest series of Last Chance U I've got through 3 episodes already. It's much more... depressing this series. There's just this grim futility to it all. There's much more of a look at the world outside of the game, most likely because there actually is a world worth looking at this time with the move to a college in an urban sprawl. But with that it's multitudes more depressing - young guys whose lives are already looking down the barrel.

 

On the other hand there's some levity to it. The coach seems like a genuinely good guy whose approach is much more father figure than disciplinarian. And it's hard not to laugh at an English teacher that is teaching her own book. Even if you're a well respected figure, which I believe she is... don't teach your own book. At uni we had a lecturer who built his course around his book which lead to much rolling of eyes whenever a lecture had the words 'As I say in the book...'.

Same. American sports got its hooks into me now though with a slight obsession for College Football. I blame it on Friday Night Lights (the series) which I watched years ago. That was the gateway drug although Rudy was also lying there dormant. 

[El Geet]

4 hours ago, Bazjam said:

Cheers for that. We’re half way through EMCC and both enjoying it very much so will go onto the other 2 seasons after. We both loved Sunderland Till I Die as well.

 

Going to show her Hoop Dreams this weekend, which for me is the pinnacle of sporting docs.

Some of the  All or Nothing docs are good too...although they’re on Prime. The first one about the Arizona Cardinals was great. 

[christaylor]

Started watching the latest series of Last Chance U last night, not really feeling it, feels almost like a parody of the previous seasons. The coach seems like a much nicer guy than previous ones though, although you could see him starting to crack in the second game where he starts blaming things on the assistant coaches. 

 

Obviously I'll watch the whole thing.

[grounded_dreams]

The short documentary called The Speed Cubers is now out, looking forward to watching this later. The synopsis:

Discover the special bond -- and uncommon competitive spirit -- shared by the world's Rubik's Cube-solving record breakers

 

 

[kensei]

 Cursed is kind of terrible? It looks worse than Merlin and that's how old, surely Netflix gave it a decent budget? It's tonally all over the place too and some of the acting is fairly terrible. 

 

Merlin is very watchable though and I'm still watching it. But mostly it's highlighted how good the Witcher is. 

[thesnwmn]

13 hours ago, christaylor said:

Started watching the latest series of Last Chance U last night, not really feeling it, feels almost like a parody of the previous seasons. The coach seems like a much nicer guy than previous ones though, although you could see him starting to crack in the second game where he starts blaming things on the assistant coaches. 

 

Obviously I'll watch the whole thing.

About 4 episodes in and I’m much preferring it to the 3rd and 4th seasons. Those in the end seemed to have fallen for the show itself being part of the attraction. The coach believing his own hype (whilst clearly being an utterly despicable human being). It shone a light on the kids being used to an extent and the strains on the community spending the money but it was so fractured. It lost some of the core for me.

 

I feel like we’re back to some level of care existing in the football programme. The change of setting to something more urban also helps it feel new.

 

Im not sure they can ever recapture the original seasons greatness but this is closer in spirit. It’s a story of the players hopes and dreams (and unbelievable stupidity/naivety at times for all their big talk). Their adversities. The completely fucked education system. The hard work and drive of some of the teachers/coaches.

[Gotters]

10 hours ago, kensei said:

 Cursed is kind of terrible? It looks worse than Merlin and that's how old, surely Netflix gave it a decent budget? It's tonally all over the place too and some of the acting is fairly terrible. 

 

Merlin is very watchable though and I'm still watching it. But mostly it's highlighted how good the Witcher is. 

Cursed is quite poor, but this late in lockdown its one of the few new and shiny shows to watch and we’ve made it to 9th episode quite breezily.

[Sidewaysbob]

The only reason I got all the way through to the end was that the scene with the badly burning CGI windmill was filmed on my local mountain bike area. 

8 episodes I sat through before i could say "Hey, I've ridden through that scene". 

 

It was kind of hokey fun, but the fae were all kinds of lame and the Red Nazis were comedy bad guys and the "Oh! your one of us" moment was telegraphed a mile off. the fact tehy keep showing the sword being put down and then people start talking really annoyed me for some reason. "hey look everyone, here's the sword we're going to discuss now .. isn't it pretty"

 

It was better than stupid warrior Nuns on the run, but nowhere near as good as the Witcher

[GwiDan]

On 28/07/2020 at 17:37, EUkdazs said:

Last Chance U is back with a new series today. 

I'd also recommend Cheer (made by the same production company) which I suspect your wife would love, as my girlfriend was hooked. QB1 Beyond the Lights is very similar to LCU but based on High School football rather than Junior College.

Also, don't forget Sunderland til I Die, which is like watching a car crash unfold over two series.

Icarus is the sporting documentary for me. 

[Pete]

Also not enjoying the newest season of last chance U, I miss small town Americana. Urban California is not a setting that holds much mystery unfortunately.

 

And the meat grinder that is American captilism, it's grim. But the coach does seem like a good person, which makes a change from the horrible cunts before. I've found that people that bang on about "family" loads are the biggest cunts and this show has confirmed it.

 

Cheer is incredible, are they doing another series?

[Chindie]

I binged series 5 of Last Chance U over the last couple of days.

 

It's definitely a different feeling series. It's intensely grim. The focus seems a lot more on the changing world than the tribulations of 'just' trying to get these struggling kids to fulfill potential with a dream of the big prize. This series doesn't really have the superstar player others have had, and the team bumbles along. But the world they find themselves in... Jesus. The episode where you see where one of the guys is living, and it's basically a shed, and he's one of the luckier guys... Just... Grim. 

 

The coach is a good guy but there's the regular hints that he's a good guy who's mindset got to 1992 and stuck there. Still fundamentally a guy who wants to see these kids succeed in life but he's not really on board with modern sensibilities and some of his frustration seems born of that. But he's not like the other coaches we've seen - he does give a fuck about the kids personally and he is very straight with them, to his credit, when it comes to what he thinks is best for them.

 

But yeah... Being a young and poor in California, especially, it's no shock kids end up following the wrong tracks.

[Eighthours]

On 29/07/2020 at 11:10, grounded_dreams said:

The short documentary called The Speed Cubers is now out, looking forward to watching this later. The synopsis:

Discover the special bond -- and uncommon competitive spirit -- shared by the world's Rubik's Cube-solving record breakers

 

 

 

I was hoping that this was a charming indie comedy. 

[ckny]

It's a lovely little film, more so about the difficulties of living with autism as it was about Rubiks Cubes.

[Thor]

Does Cursed get better? This first episode is, well, shit.

[jon_cybernet]

On 29/07/2020 at 11:10, grounded_dreams said:

The short documentary called The Speed Cubers is now out, looking forward to watching this later. The synopsis:

Discover the special bond -- and uncommon competitive spirit -- shared by the world's Rubik's Cube-solving record breakers

 

 

I never thought a documentary about Rubik’s Cubes would make me cry, and yet here we are. 

[Revival]

 

[Mike S]

On 29/07/2020 at 11:10, grounded_dreams said:

The short documentary called The Speed Cubers is now out, looking forward to watching this later. The synopsis:

Discover the special bond -- and uncommon competitive spirit -- shared by the world's Rubik's Cube-solving record breakers

 

 

Thanks for the recommendation, that was a great documentary and all the better for Netflix not doing their usual thing and stretching it out to three one hour episodes..

[Fierce Poodle]

I’m currently enjoying Love On The Spectrum, a series about people with autism looking for and having relationships. I’m sometimes a bit uncomfortable watching these sorts of programme as they can feel like they’re exploiting their subjects for entertainment, but this is genuinely very warm and touching.

[thesnwmn]

5 hours ago, jon_cybernet said:

I never thought a documentary about Rubik’s Cubes would make me cry, and yet here we are. 

Yes. Somehow this destroyed me! There’s just something so so amazing about Feliks’ caring relationship towards Max.

[spork]

10 hours ago, Fierce Poodle said:

I’m currently enjoying Love On The Spectrum, a series about people with autism looking for and having relationships. I’m sometimes a bit uncomfortable watching these sorts of programme as they can feel like they’re exploiting their subjects for entertainment, but this is genuinely very warm and touching.

 

We watched this the other night based on a couple of other posts in here. Started the first episode and ended up watching all 5 in one go. It's obviously very similar to The Undateables but it manages to be so much better, I think just seeing more of the people and their families being a bit more real rather than being stuck in interview like situations like what happens on The Undateables really takes it up a notch.

[Fierce Poodle]

Absolutely, it’s much more than just a “dating” show, you really feel like you’re getting some insight into their lives. And it’s got a much better name.