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I'm 2/3rds through The Punisher, enjoying it, way better than iron fist or Defenders.

And just as I say that, we have a shitty flashback episode, I hate those.

This is a fantastic documentary, but also very upsetting.

People (and especially women) knowingly maimed, for profit.

My Sunday afternoon/evening has been taken up with GLOW season 1, it's bloody great

It is good. I'm only about four episodes in though.

Started watching the thing about the L.A riots last night. Words can't convey how disturbing it is.

LA92?

I'm finding it genuinely difficult to watch works of fiction these days, there are just so many good documentaries to choose from, and I want to learn things.

I haven't seen LA92 but it looks like what you're referring to, I've added it to my Watch List.

(I would really recommend The Bleeding Edge JC, it's an upsetting watch but worthwhile IMO.)

Yeah that's the one.

I watch nothing but docus. I guess a big part of that is me being autistic. The only one of those "cool American fiction things" that I ever got into was The Walking Dead, and that was only because I used to watch it with my wife. Since she's gone? yeah, I don't watch any fiction at all. I much prefer to watch reality, and like you say learn things. The urge to learn in me has never died really.

I must say since I have gone on my quest to watch as many docus as I can I really don't like America much at all. I have watched several docus now about innocent people who have been thrown in prison, released 20 years after but only if they accept guilt so the state does not have to pay them anything. It's just mind boggling how bad it is out there, and really does remind me of all of my immigration bullshit (where no matter who makes a mistake, *cough cough them twice* it is still your fault). There just seems to be this upper echelon of severely narcissistic cunts running their country. Even if it weren't for the prison docus you then move onto Flint (IIRC it is just called that, Flint, but is about Flint in Michigan) where the U.S govt fed an entire town poisoned water because it was cheaper. Poor people, again, BTW.

Not heard of The Bleeding Edge, will have a look later. I warn you though, there is a high chance I've already watched it and just forgot the name though.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5903392/

I *think* that one is/was on there too, though it *may* have been Prime. Either way again it's just a disgusting, racist portrayal of America.

I did indeed watch LA92 last night and it's a superb documentary. It's absolutely unflinching and as such some of the material is rather difficult to watch.

I also learned quite a lot that I didn't know about the background to the riots, the policing style at the time and suchlike. So even though I knew about the Rodney King beating and the officers being acquitted, I didn't have the full story behind it all.

Obviously this isn't a feelgood piece of cinema, but it really gives a powerful sense of the anarchy and rage of the time.

RECOMMENDED/1000

Yeah I think I was a little unsympathetic back when it happened, but watching it now? pretty disgusting. I don't think we had enough info back then tbh. I hadn't gotten to the actual riots though until I watched the second half last night. Wow. Really made me find a new level of hate for humanity (if that were even possible). Was almost in tears by the end I think I am glad it ended when it did.

I started watching "The Bleeding Edge" and got a way into it before my sleep meds started kicking in. It's very good, but I am incredibly squeamish around medical stuff so have to close my eyes a bit. Oddly I am not bothered about violence etc one bit but I guess growing up where I did I just got used to that. Ex always used to ask how I could watch films like Rise Of The Footsoldlier etc with so much ease.

One thing I know already though is I don't want a chrome cobalt hip pmsl. Screw that for a game of soldiers.

Better Call Saul - Season 4 is out!

Grrrrr.

https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... =3&t=10350

Cool, thanks! Will get on it later.

Stuff I watched on Netflix recently

Altered Carbon : Proper good that, really enjoyed it. Great world building, good acting, looked spiffy. Ortega had cracking norks. 780 bananas . (Incidentally, I wondered if the books was where Kov got his user name from, so googled it, and it led me to this page https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kovacs , which I found amusing )

Black Mirror Season 4 : Some great episodes, I really liked the dating app one, and the star trek one. Not so keen on the archangel one, was a bit drawn out and predictable. Watched all 6 episodes in one sitting, so can't have been too bad. 812 bananas

Making A Murderer : Missed out on this when it was a "thing". As with Staircase, what is presented in the documentary is very one sided. I finished the show thinking he was stitched up, I read more about it afterwards and am certain he did it. His nephew less certain on how much he was involved and what actually happened in what sequence though. 692 bananas

Evil Genius : Crazy heist. Crazy people. Interesting story. 708 bananas

Final Space : Watched the first 4 episodes. s'alright. I struggle to get into animated series these days for some reason. Even Rick & Morty season 1 was a treck to get through for me. 512 bananas

The only thing that really concerned me over Making A Murderer was that he was clearly innocent of the original crime he went to prison for. He then gets released, and I would imagine receives a very fat cheque from the govt. Then shortly after he commits a murder that he is seemingly guilty of, and goes back to jail.

The thing is, having watched many things like this even when people are proven innocent they sometimes have to admit guilt. No doubt so that they don't get a payout. And this is what concerns me about Making A Murderer..

If he was fitted up? then they did a bloody good job of it. If not? then he is probably the dumbest person in history.

He got $400k as a settlement, then spent all that on lawyers defending himself from the murder charge.
By all accounts he wasn't a very nice person before going to prison for the original crime (that he didn't do), and I suspect that spending 18 years in prison for a crime you didn't do, doesn't help make you a better person when you get released...

Oh yeah for sure man. I think once you experience certain very strong emotions that you are never the same.

His expected payout was supposed to be in millions, but they settled for a smaller amount as they were desperate for funds after the murder arrest.

Oddly enough after watching MAM I was suggested quite a few docus about innocents going to jail in the USA. It usually resulted in them having to admit guilt (like The Staircase) so that they couldn't get bugger all from the govt.

Disgusting really. Ruin some one's life, make them spend time with animals in prison and they didn't do anything, then just screw them one more time when you let them out.

I know there is quite a high chance that he "did it" in The Staircase, but the fact is they just didn't have sufficient evidence to charge him and keep him in prison. At which point they offer him two choices. Get fucked or get totally fucked. Obviously he is going to choose to get fucked like.

Stopped watching that type of docu now, as well as the racist ones, as I found myself hating America more each time.

There was enough evidence to charge him and keep him in prison though, so it's not like he was being held for no reason and had to admit guilt just to get out. IIRC he had to admit guilt to get his tag removed and stop being under house arrest.

Again, reading up more on the actual case, and what they left out of the documentary, he absolutely did it. No doubt in my mind

I enjoy these types of show, but it does annoy me that even though I know how biased they are, they still get me on their side. It's only after it finishes and I go read more that I get the "FFS, they did it to me again" reaction.

Just watched “Demetri Martin - Live (at the time)” on Netflix. It’s another stand up comedy special, and if you know him it’s exactly what you’d expect.

If not, give it a try. It’s contains lots of one-liners and similar, but in a laid back fashion. It made me laugh out loud on numerous occasions, probably more in the second half, but still good. I recommend.

He’s also the voice of Ice Bear in We Bare Bears, so he’s automatically cool.

Yes it was.

Love the link.

Started watching this last night.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80158844

Not got to the end yet but wow, how amazingly sad

IDK if they said so at the start but I think he had BP disorder. He went completely nuts, then cut his own wrist and throat. Funny thing? most of his kids are autistic. 4 out of the 7, IIRC, and one is showing symptoms of BP disorder.

Watched the end last night. Was in floods of tears. Seeing the affects of bipolar (untreated) and autism made me very sad. It's bad enough going through it yourself, but to see so many affected.. Yeah made me very sad indeed.

Finished S1 of GLOW. Took a while to warm up but the second half was amazing.

S2 is better, IMO.

Agreed

Yup

Aye.

Arr.

Just started watching Cabins In The Wild, with Dick Strawbridge. A hugely warming and relaxing way to spend an evening or two. Oh and Dragon's Eye FTW.

I am now qualified to concur.

More Glow plugs than a TDi.

Netflix will be available on Sky in November, fully integrated into the EPG as per iPlayer etc... so you'll be able to avoid having to use the travesty of the Netflix clients.

Never had any beef with the Netflix players

Also: Fuck Rupert Murdoch

It's the constant moving stuff around that annoys me, and the random lists of stuff that I have to scroll past to actually find the last thing I was watching.

The fact that, on PS4 at least, you can't stop it from previewing stuff while you're just browsing is pretty fucking annoying.

Oh yeah, that too!

I watch via my Virgin box now, purely because of how annoying the auto play feature on PS4 is.

Just got the noti, Making A Murderer Part 2 launches on 19th October.

Wicked. I had a feeling there would be more to it.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to some shouting at the telly.

I still don't 100% believe he did it. *dons tinfoil hat* I think it would be easy enough for the police to get hold of a dead body with all of the overdosing going on. Dump her in a barrel on his property and set it alight. I watched the first one very closely, and I noticed how much the entire township hated him for proving them wrong. Me? I'd have moved away, so fair play for that, he deffo has balls.

As I say though, I still reckon it would be easy for police to fit him up. They do call it "making a murderer" which kinda has a point to it, but I just wonder if it is possible to convert some one incapable of murder into a full blown murderer.

We'll find out I guess

He totally did it.

He probably did. But they framed him as well. Belt and braces

I just don't think he did

IDK man. We will see I suppose..

Thing is I have been watching a lot of docus about the overdose epidemic over in the USA and I truly believe finding a corpse would be very easy, if you were that way inclined. It's this new shit they are mixing with heroin.. *Googles* Fentanyl, that's the bugger.

I don't believe that the guy in the staircase was innocent, but even when they did not have evidence they still made sure to ruin his life.

The guy in MAM? he was just an every day guy. And when he got out and got his settlement he did kinda rub it in a little.. I dunno man, I suppose it's just my intuition.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StevenAveryIsGuilty/wiki/index

Totally did it

Holy shit

I mean, the police behaved shockingly in lots of ways, but yeah, he almost certainly did it.

Thanks for posting that. I'm off to a wedding today, but will get stuck in as soon as I can. This is one of the first instances where I did not bother to scour the web looking for information on it. I just assumed the docu was being straight.

Still, it's more brain food, so again cheers.

This popped up the other night so I watched it in two sittings.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7280898/

I don't think I've ever seen a bigger fucking pig than Anders Breivik. Norway are too liberal. His head should be on a stake.