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100% belongs in its own thread, easily the best of the Netflix Marvels, and indeed one of the finest seasons of telly I've seen for a while. I wrote most of a long post about it the other day (it had character motivation in it and everything) but then couldn't be arsed finishing it since all this chat just gets lost in a morass of random comments about whatever anyone's watched that evening and makes coherent conversations essentially impossible so I just deleted it.

Pete dared to start a thread about 'The Death Of Stalin' and was immediately BANISHED to NO REPLYVILLE (except by me), THE RULES HAVE BEEN BROKEN SHUN THE INTRUDER.

As such my thoughts about The Punisher remain my own and I'm just going to wank myself silly over multiple print outs of them and when the pages get all crispy like a teenager's copy of Escort I'll print off more copies in bigger colours and different fonts and crack one out again and AGAIN FAP FAP FAP FAP.

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Nobody replied to the Death of Stalin thread because no fucker saw it. I wanted to and will do when it’s on [normall telly] but it’s just because of that, not because it had its own thread.

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We are 6.5 seasons through Dexter on Netflix and I've found out it's being removed on 21st Dec. Going to have to binge the rest it seems.

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We are 6.5 seasons through Dexter on Netflix and I've found out it's being removed on 21st Dec. Going to have to binge the rest it seems.

It's all downhill from there.


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We are 6.5 seasons through Dexter on Netflix and I've found out it's being removed on 21st Dec. Going to have to binge the rest it seems.


Yeah, it’s probably not as bad as everyone says, but it definitely kind of falls to pieces towards the end. I still kind of enjoyed it, but it was hard work and I was glad it was over!

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We are 6.5 seasons through Dexter on Netflix and I've found out it's being removed on 21st Dec. Going to have to binge the rest it seems.


Yeah, it’s probably not as bad as everyone says, but it definitely kind of falls to pieces towards the end. I still kind of enjoyed it, but it was hard work and I was glad it was over!


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We are 6.5 seasons through Dexter on Netflix and I've found out it's being removed on 21st Dec. Going to have to binge the rest it seems.

Netflix is doing you a favour.


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We are 6.5 seasons through Dexter on Netflix and I've found out it's being removed on 21st Dec. Going to have to binge the rest it seems.

Netflix is doing you a favour.


I had a quick look at the synopses as I couldn’t remember how many series there were. I think the 6th was the last decent one.

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Sorry, I meant 5.5. We are roughly halfway through 6. Mos Def has just bit the bullet.

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Hmm, Amazon Prime have added twelve seasons of Criminal Minds. That might be my background TV sorted for a bit.

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The Punisher was fucking excellent.

I bet Jon Bernthal's pleased as punch that he got out of the Walking Dead when he did...

Man it would be great if he went back and shot them all to fuck.

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Yeah, Dexter... I stuck with it as a few seasons were really good, especially the Harry and the Hendersons one. But it slid down the pan towards the end.

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Curiosity wrote:
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We are 6.5 seasons through Dexter on Netflix and I've found out it's being removed on 21st Dec. Going to have to binge the rest it seems.

Netflix is doing you a favour.


I had a quick look at the synopses as I couldn’t remember how many series there were. I think the 6th was the last decent one.


4th was the last decent one. 2nd was the only one that was truly good. 5th was the one with trainspotting's Sick Boy, and it was quite stupid. 6th was terrible and i left the boat. Didn't really care about what came after.


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Blurble wibble tonight I watched 'DougDeMuro' on YouTube, he's from the US and as a general sort of US based car review site with interesting insights I'd definitely recommend him.

It's no Punisher though. Or Dexter. Both of which are also, generally speaking, US based TV.

Stop watching Dexter after Season 4.

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The John Lithgow and Colin hanks seasons are decent, whichever those two are.


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The John Lithgow and Colin hanks seasons are decent, whichever those two are.


John Lithgow is Season 4. That's the season to stop at.

Colin Hanks is Season 6. I never watched that, so I can say with some authority that it's not worth watching.


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Hearthly wrote:
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The John Lithgow and Colin hanks seasons are decent, whichever those two are.


John Lithgow is Season 4. That's the season to stop at.

Colin Hanks is Season 6. I never watched that, so I can say with some authority that it's not worth watching.

Oh nooooo... Season 5 is the Julia Stiles season! Julia Stiles is wonderful and lovely.

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Mimi wrote:
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The John Lithgow and Colin hanks seasons are decent, whichever those two are.


John Lithgow is Season 4. That's the season to stop at.

Colin Hanks is Season 6. I never watched that, so I can say with some authority that it's not worth watching.

Oh nooooo... Season 5 is the Julia Stiles season! Julia Stiles is wonderful and lovely.


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Mesa, apparently.

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They just confirmed The Punisher is getting a second season.


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Too right.

I just finished the first season and Bernthal is up there with D'Onofrio as a seething ball of rage that is barely held back. Maybe he can shoot Iron Fist many many many many times?

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It was funnier when it was originally posted without explaining the joke after.

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It was funnier when it was originally posted without explaining the joke after.

I actually thought the Ch4 remix of the meme, leading to an actual showing of the film, was quite clever.


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It was funnier when it was originally posted without explaining the joke after.

I actually thought the Ch4 remix of the meme, leading to an actual showing of the film, was quite clever.

If they hadn't mentioned the actual name of the film and kept it alluding to a documentary then fair enough. But naming it just took all the humour out for me. I understand why they did it though.

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Final episode of the season of Mr Robot was a little underwhelming, but I think only because the rest of the season set the bar so high.

They have already confirmed they're doing a season 4.


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Started Mr.Robot S03 two days ago, and despite not enjoying S02 (it was too convulted), S03 seems to be on the right track. Only saw the first two episodes

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it was a shame the swedish lady got killed because she was so pretty, but it was a good thing because her story took too much time on S02


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Final episode of the season of Mr Robot was a little underwhelming, but I think only because the rest of the season set the bar so high.

They have already confirmed they're doing a season 4.


I really enjoyed it but then the entire season has been great stuff in the main. I especially enjoyed the post-credits scene because that guy was responsible for my favourite moment in s01 and probably a top 10 scene in any TV.


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Yeah I didn't mean to say it was a bad ending, but the best episodes of the season were the ones in the middle.


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We watched "Godless" on Netflix. It's a western thing, it's sort of ok but fuck me whoever made it must really love horses. So many tedious, lingering shots of them and scenes where people are fucking around with them or gazing longingly into their eyes. Anyway 6/10 probably rising to 9/10 if you want to fuck horses.


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I watched an episode and a half and gave up. Rave reviews out there for it but I just found it tedious.

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I watched an episode and a half and gave up. Rave reviews out there for it but I just found it tedious.

Don't blame you but I think it was just about worth sticking with for the pay off. Certainly a better investment of time than The Walking Dead.


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There's a new Jean Claude Van Damme series on Amazon Prime and the first episode is pretty great. Kinda self aware, and a nice blend of comedy and action.


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Saw the premiere of the new season of vikings and

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The highlight were the scenes of floki in Iceland. His story is probably over, but what a way to finish it. Great moment


Mr. Robot EP3

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That's not Episode 3!


That's your opinion man

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It might be episode 3 of series 3!


I thought that was a given. Yes, series 3.


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Cuba And The Cameraman:


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A freelance cameraman and documentary maker’s work following the lives of various people he’s met over 40+ years, including Fidel himself. I challenge anyone to get through this without crying, especially over his friendship with the three most beautiful of brothers and their sister. :luv:

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Since the season has ended, now is a good time to recommend the movie Comet, by the creator of Mr Robot. You can see an early form of the style he eventually developed into Mr Robot, and I guess it's more of a romantic comedy, with a slight sci-fi backdrop. It's got lots of snappy dialogue, and it's a bit magical.

I gather in his head he was going to make a loose trilogy of movies, but in the end what was going to be the second one developed into Mr Robot as a TV series. There's no shared characters or anything, and even though the themes are pretty different, his approach to dealing with those themes is fairly similar.


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Finished Dexter with two days to spare!

It definitely did drag on a bit towards the end but I quite like how it ended in the final episode.

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