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Postby MR25 » Fri May 14, 2021 4:30 pm

What the **** is Law and Order The Defense?


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Postby nocera » Fri May 14, 2021 4:33 pm

Dick Wolf is the RL Stine of hour long drama.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Fri May 14, 2021 4:40 pm

I just want new Law and Order episodes. Everything else is trash.

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Postby dodint » Fri May 14, 2021 4:53 pm

It sounds like a warming over of The Practice.

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Postby skullman80 » Mon May 17, 2021 11:37 am

The Wire has so many great scenes, but I think this is one of the top 5 for sure. My wife knows her boy Stringer ain't long for this world now.


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Postby eddy » Mon May 17, 2021 2:53 pm

Anyone watch any of the underground railroad on Amazon?

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Postby NTP66 » Mon May 17, 2021 2:54 pm

Nope.

We started watching The Upshaws on Netflix. Mike Epps and Wanda Sykes are funny, but the rest of the cast is very meh.

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Postby nocera » Mon May 17, 2021 2:56 pm

Started a rewatch of Stranger Things after the talk here a few weeks ago. Say what you want about the later seasons (I honestly don't remember much from them) but the first season is insanely good. They earned the hype.

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Postby NTP66 » Mon May 17, 2021 2:59 pm

I don't think anyone will disagree with you. Even season 2 was really strong. Season 3, however...

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Postby nocera » Mon May 17, 2021 3:02 pm

I don't think anyone will disagree with you. Even season 2 was really strong. Season 3, however...
I remember being frustrated with the end of season 3, but like I said I honestly don't remember much. I'll check back in after season 2.

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Postby shmenguin » Mon May 17, 2021 3:14 pm

Season 1 was sorta perfect. Wish it was more of an anthology show rather than continuing the same story. Aside from the diminishing returns from the actors and show runners and the story just going nowhere interesting, it’s tough to bring the same villain back for 3 seasons and not establish a clear motive or mythology. Just a generically evil monster. Ok.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Mon May 17, 2021 3:25 pm

Finally got around to finishing Tehran (Apple TV+). It was good, and glad to see a second season coming eventually. It had a big budget Fauda (Netflix) feel to it, and that's because the shows have the same writers.

It really got me wondering about Iran and so I went back to Bourdain's Parts Unknown episode from 2014, where he was able to visit there. Interestingly enough, they added a mid-show update on the Iran nuclear deal which hadn't been finalized yet when he filmed in June 2014. The producers added that Trump pulled out of the deal etc., so it's good that these things are getting updated. Also, the postscript mentioned the WashPo reporter Bourdain talked to - and was arrested six weeks after filming - was eventually released after 500+ days in jail, used as a bargaining chip to get concessions for the nuclear deal.

So eventually, all of Bourdain's shows will become out of date, sadly. It was still really well done...and oy, the biryani and lamb kebabs...droool.

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Postby Pavel Bure » Mon May 17, 2021 3:57 pm

Castlevania season 4.

I really like the visuals and how everything was wrapped but it did seem a bit rushed to tie up all the ends. It went from slow burn in S2 and S3 to warp speed.

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Postby Gaucho » Mon May 17, 2021 5:36 pm

Anyone watch any of the underground railroad on Amazon?
I watched the first episode last night and thought it was terrific.

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Postby Gaucho » Mon May 17, 2021 7:19 pm

Anyone watch any of the underground railroad on Amazon?
I watched the first episode last night and thought it was terrific.
and terrifying.

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Postby nocera » Tue May 18, 2021 12:34 pm



I wish this was set in a different era, maybe early-mid 90s. Setting it in the 70s, similar to the original series, just makes you question even more the point of rebooting this.

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Postby dodint » Tue May 18, 2021 6:39 pm

Oh.

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Postby NTP66 » Tue May 18, 2021 6:54 pm

SEAL Team was moved to Paramount+. Guess I’ll have to grab torrents of it next year, but I now expect it to be cancelled at the end of the season.

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Postby nocera » Wed May 19, 2021 1:45 pm

We're finally getting an official Mouse Rat album.

Pre-orders here: https://www.dualtonestore.com/collections/parksandrec


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Postby NTP66 » Thu May 20, 2021 6:41 am

Jon Bernthal, Josh Charles, Jamie Hector To Star In ‘We Own This City’ HBO Limited Series From ‘The Wire’ Team
Jon Bernthal, Josh Charles and Jamie Hector have been tapped as the leads of HBO’s We Own This City limited series, from The Wire’s EP David Simon and producer George Pelecanos. Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men) is set to direct and executive produce the series, based on Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton’s book We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption. Production is set to begin in July.

The six-hour limited series chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.

Bernthal plays Sgt. Wayne Jenkins of the Baltimore Police Department, perhaps the central figure in the sprawling federal corruption case that centered on the agency’s Gun Trace Task Force, a plainclothes unit that went completely rogue and began hunting and robbing citizens and drug dealers alike as decades of a relentless drug war and mass incarceration in Baltimore spun wildly out of control.

Charles is Daniel Hersl, who was a cocky, swaggering cop known amongst Baltimore residents for his casual brutality and was the subject of multiple citizen complaints. Hersl was effectively banned from the Eastern District before his move to the GTTF.

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Hector plays Sean M. Suiter, a Baltimore City Homicide detective who was caught up in the GTTF case and called to testify before a federal grand jury. Tragically, Suiter finds he can’t outrun his past.

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Postby NTP66 » Thu May 20, 2021 6:52 am

Man, this would be so much better without James Corden. He's basically British Jimmy Fallon.


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Postby Dickie Dunn » Thu May 20, 2021 8:45 am

Jennifer Aniston must be a vampire.

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Postby nocera » Thu May 20, 2021 12:56 pm

Stranger Things season 2: the storyline with 11 and the Pittsburgh goth gang is every bit as bad as someone said it was in this thread. It turns into a CW show whenever they're featured.

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