Be Excellent To Each Other

Phone + magnifying glass.

Galaxy S6/7 phone, GearVR headset and Netflix on there.

It's a massive screen with the only downsides being you can't see how far you have gone on the bike, it can be quite draining on the battery and it may get so hot it takes your whole head clean off.

Alternatively, buy a cinema. It's not that much more.

Take your actual bike to a cinema and ride up and down the aisles.

Rule 5 and go so hard your brain has to divert energy from your eyes turning them off to maintain the pace.

Nobody knows the cycling rules Mali, you'll never make that a thing.

You'll never be welcomed by the velominati with that attitude.

Oh that silly set of rules

My timing is as impressive as always. I've just set up my Roku 3 and I see that Roku earlier today announced (in the US at least) they were refreshing their product line-up.

That outdoes my buying a Moto G 3 only for the 4 to be announced a week later.

On the plus side, I like the Roku 3. Netflix is certainly painless enough and having headphones that plug into the remote might come in handy too.

One for the Yay! thread then.

Fire TV Stick.

Knowing the rules is required when you own a bike. You can't knowingly break and ignore them otherwise.

Goddamnit.

I was annoyed because I didn't want to get a camelback to ensure non compliance. Then I realised that upgrading the size of my water bottles and doubling up on them was more than sufficient to upset the pros.

Oh my goodness!

How on earth do I find the shows I have earmarked to watch on Netflix? Russell has gone out, I have the app to watch a Mimi movie alone for the first time in forever to stop me feeling lonely and they aren't there. I'm signed in... it's just all categories like 'thrillers', no 'your list'

Please help me

Search for Singham.

Watch Singham.

Do you mean the 'My List' thingy?

Is that the iOS app you're using there?

Yes, it's the 'my list' I'm looking for on iOs. It's usually there. I use the app with chromecast, to throw it up to the Telly

Today it isn't there

Oh, it's back!

Maybe it was just having a think.

The Rain is really good if you like your Scandinavian post-apocalyptica. It's a bit bleak though.

I think this is on our ‘next to watch’ list. Did you watch it dubbed or subtitled?

Subtitled. It defaults to dubbed though.

I think Russell had read that somewhere but it’s good to know you can switch that out as I’d rather watch it subtitled. There’s a new series of The Bridge due in a few days on BBC.

I watched the first episode of The Rain and thought it was a bit pap to be honest... I didn't realise you could switch out the subtitles though. That might have helped.

My wife couldn’t get through the first episode due to how annoying the child was.

Can she watch it on her phone in tbe loo?

I meant the child on the show, but a fair call!

Yeah I wouldn't ever want to watch something like that dubbed. Just go to settings while you're watching it and you can select the audio and subtitle languages.

Curio: the child literally grows up in episode 1 so you don't see him again.

He's still annoying as a teenager but it's understandable considering. I've finished the whole season now and it's definitely worth watching.

I was aware of the growing up, but my wife is stubborn

We can't stop watching the trailer for Safe - it's car crash television. Michael C Hall's British accent is just so so bad.

I don't want to actually watch the show, but we've started quoting the trailer to each other now. It's incredible.

I don't know if this is the place to mention it, but: we recently shotgunned most of the first season of The Santa Clarita Diet and it's absolutely everything you all said it was. Well done, you lovely idiots.

The acting is apparently atrocious

Yes, I thought THE RAIN's first season was pretty good. It's entirely derivative but nicely done, coherent, gives you characters you care about (giving each of the main characters a proper backstory was a lovely touch), who mainly do fairly logical things for believable reasons.

Definitely watch it in Danish with the subs.

Solid 750/1000 material I reckon, I watched the whole thing in about five evenings.

Also, Alba August is a very nice young lady.

There is some pretty dodgy acting going on, it felt a bit like some TV thing from the eighties in parts. But the plot made up for it, it was sufficiently decent that we at least bothered to stick with it. And I don't know about the bits in the trailer but I thought his accent was actually pretty good, at least I'm struggling to think of an example of an American actor (who wasn't raised in the UK or something) doing a better one. Anyway, all told it certainly wasn't anything like the worst shite we've seen on Netflix. 6/10.

My current Netflix watch is THE STAIRCASE, which is now up to Episode 13 and will presumably be finishing soon. It's a documentary mini series, a bit like Making A Murderer.

QUICK SYNOPSIS - Woman dead at bottom of stairs. Frantic 911 call by husband, he says she fell. Police arrive, they decide he killed her. INTRIGUE COMMENCES, and I mean LOTS OF INTRIGUE.

Really compulsive viewing, I only stop watching it of an evening because I need to go to bed for a 6:30am alarm.

Go into it with nothing more than that and watch it unfold in front of you.

Pretty hefty time commitment, but worth it IMO.

Will give it a mark out of 1000 when I've finished the series, which should be tonight.

Same. Although I was left feeling unimpressed with Making A Murderer. I think that the filmmakers overstepped nearly as much as the police did in the case. It was as though they felt the need to present the defendant as innocent rather than just show that there was probably reasonable doubt, highlight malpractice in the justice system and demonstrate that it was an unsafe conviction. I wonder if this is the price that these filmmakers pay for such close access to the defense lawyers etc. and if that is the case then what am I even watching?

Almost finished Wild Wild Country. After the first episode I found it hard to imagine how they could stretch it to several episodes, but obviously I didn't know the story to come. All kinds of nuts.

And bonus minced beaver.

Yeah, I thought he did well with the accent. If it wasn't for the fact I'd watched Dexter I wonder if I'd notice at all.

It must be totally different in the full show because in the trailer it's the most stilted wrong accent I've ever heard.

"Jennay it's dahd. Where are you gohing."

Racist

That's clearly Arnie.

*in Southernish*

It's a fucking atrocious accent and an unwatchable show.

That sounds like the Radio 5 podcast (Beyond Reasonable Doubt), which wanted to be Serial so hard it hurt. I stuck with it, but the presenter was not good. Have they had an episode on Owl Theory?

Stick with the TV, anyway, unless you're desperate to hear more.

Edit: Oh yeah, now the search results come up - definitely the same one. They talked about the documentary quite often in the podcast.

Finished THE STAIRCASE last night, 13 episodes at 45-55 minutes is a large time investment but one I honestly think is worth it. If you've got Netflix, I would highly recommend you check it out.

905/1000

Yeah I watched that through in a few sessions. Ace TV. That and Evil Genius are excellent.

I'd watched and read a lot about the Peterson case, but never in such detail. I'd also see plenty of stuff about Evil Genius, but never him actually exploding.

I don't think I am buying a TV license this year. All I am watching now is Master Chef, and it's cheaper to buy a second hand SD TV PVR and just set it to record at my bolt hole (mum's) and then just binge watch it there of a weekend. I really don't use my TV for anything else any more, especially since the BBC cancelled Robot Wars. Which I was absolutely furious about, given it is the best thing they had done in years.

I bought Netflix 4k quite a while ago so I could share it with my family, but it wasn't until I got the XB1X that I could actually watch it in 4k. I love Netflix, best thing to ever happen to TV.

Making a Murderer (not once but twice, I added that btw) is good too if you are in for the long haul.

I named first born after one of the house robots.

Cute little Sir Killalot