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Post by coachgrrl on Mar 29, 2021 21:08:12 GMT -5
I watched Antebellum. Good but predictable
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Post by Truffles on Mar 31, 2021 2:39:25 GMT -5
Just wrapped up 2 series. The Vow, which was about the NXIVM cult, and the 3rd season of Shtisel. Shtisel is an Israeli show about an ultra-orthodox family.
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Post by villanelle on Mar 31, 2021 12:00:54 GMT -5
We just started a docu-series on John Wayne Gacy. One episode in and I like it. It hints and and promises to explore a sort of seedy underbelly of Chicago politics and policing that allowed him to go on for much longer than he otherwise might have. I'm intrigued by that, but worried it is going to feel a little Grassy-knoll.
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Post by catmom on Mar 31, 2021 12:41:59 GMT -5
Every time I log into Peacock I see Gacy’s clown face for their docuseries and it creeps me the hell out. 😆
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Post by maurinsky on Apr 1, 2021 7:54:19 GMT -5
When I got home from work yesterday I watched an episode of a series called Dogs on Netflix - the first episode is about service dogs, focused on a family with a child with epilepsy and another family with a daughter who was born with a condition that meant her spine didn't fully develop.
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Post by nansel on Apr 1, 2021 12:40:31 GMT -5
I'm watching Contagion right now. Holy shit. So none of what's going on right now was unpredicted. Jeebus.
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Post by maurinsky on Apr 4, 2021 18:06:53 GMT -5
Started Call My Agent - very fun.
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Post by stellarfeller on Apr 4, 2021 18:28:42 GMT -5
Oh, it’s really good. I watched it a few weeks ago.
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Post by Inky on Apr 4, 2021 19:59:28 GMT -5
We broke down and subscribed to Acorn TV - they always have ads that make us want to get it so we did. Anyway we started Foyles War yesterday and it's really good.
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Post by Truffles on Apr 5, 2021 6:32:04 GMT -5
I’ve just finished the second season of Orange is the New Black. I have no idea why I didn’t watch this when it came out!
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Post by Inky on Apr 5, 2021 19:49:24 GMT -5
I’ve just finished the second season of Orange is the New Black. I have no idea why I didn’t watch this when it came out! OMG we loved it! And a great ending.
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Post by maurinsky on Apr 6, 2021 8:01:44 GMT -5
I checked out of Orange is the New Black during the Daya pregnancy storyline. I did not have the emotional capacity to be anything but horrified.
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Post by emmjay on Apr 6, 2021 8:34:30 GMT -5
We watched Molly’s Game last night. Pretty good. I had no idea Tobey Maguire was such a dickhead.
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Post by Inky on Apr 6, 2021 18:48:01 GMT -5
We are finally finished The Stand. Neither of us is sure whether we liked it or not LOL.
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Post by stellarfeller on Apr 8, 2021 23:04:14 GMT -5
Comet TV is showing three episodes of the X-Files every night. It’s still as creepy as ever, even after all these years 😳😳😳 But it’s also amazing to see so many Canadian actors who went on to star in other series that were produced in Vancouver, and others who went on to even bigger series!
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Post by villanelle on Apr 9, 2021 16:09:48 GMT -5
We are trying to watch more documentaries or similar. Last night we watched one on the Menendez brothers. We felt the trailers were misleading as they talked about how the brothers and their case were blowing up on Tik Tok and we wanted to hear about that but that took about 3 minutes total of the entire show and the rest was a rehashing of the case.
My take is that they were probably sexually abused (by dad, I didn't find the brief mention of abuse my mom to be credible, based on what was shown) and that should have been (and maybe was?) taken into account during the sentencing. But they also planned ahead and murdered not just the dad but also the mom. And they were grown men at that point who could have left the home. So I can't entirely excuse the murders and I do think they should have gone to jail, though perhaps not for life. It was surprising to me that the abuse allegations weren't allowed in the retrial though.
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Post by maurinsky on Apr 13, 2021 7:57:34 GMT -5
We watched This Is A Robbery, a short documentary series about the art theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston in 1990. It made me feel old, because 1990 looked ancient. It was repetitive, but it's a beautiful museum that I love, and it was not that long ago that the FBI was in my town looking into a mobster who they suspected might have the paintings (2014, I think).
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Post by emmjay on Apr 13, 2021 10:11:56 GMT -5
We watched This Is A Robbery, a short documentary series about the art theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston in 1990. It made me feel old, because 1990 looked ancient. It was repetitive, but it's a beautiful museum that I love, and it was not that long ago that the FBI was in my town looking into a mobster who they suspected might have the paintings (2014, I think). We watched that too, and I was also thinking it looked like ancient footage! And I agree it was repetitive. They could have done 3 or even 2 episodes instead of dragging it out for 4.
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Post by maurinsky on Apr 19, 2021 8:54:02 GMT -5
Watched several episodes of the Chef Show on Netflix. Easy breezy watch and some delicious looking food.
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Post by nansel on Apr 19, 2021 10:21:03 GMT -5
I'm rewatching Parks and Recreation. Man, I love Lesley Knope. I totally get her manic love of public service.
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