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Lonewolves wrote:

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.

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

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

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

Really smart of the writers on how they put the Trump election conspiracy into the story but with chinese instead. Very eager to watch the rest.

That's not Episode 3!

It might be episode 3 of series 3!

Jesus, I strongly suspect your local multiplex has some very significant latency concerns.

Does the internet slow down over a distance then?

Well that's just weird then as online gaming is largely fine, as is Netflix or whatever, but plex is just unusable

We don't have a Canadian TV thread so this will do. Letterkenny is a sitcom set in the titular town which is populated with idiots and weirdos. The dialogue is the star, being so dense and quickfire that it's possible to miss half the jokes on first watching. Also: the lead female character is stupidly cute, especially from the second season onwards.

Anyway, there you go: a recommendation from Bamba and Hearthly surely can't be ignored?

Bamba wrote:

Anyway, there you go: a recommendation from Bamba and Hearthly surely can't be ignored?

That's like Barry Norman and Roger Ebert really going for something, except a Norman+Ebert combo who like videogames as well, which gives their opinions extra street cred with the cool kids.

The U.S. attorney's wife is only marginally less awful than captain winter's wife.

Mr. Robot S3 was so much better than S2. Good thing i haven't given up on it.

Author:	myp [ Wed Dec 13, 2017 19:28 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Lonewolves wrote: 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.

Author:	LewieP [ Wed Dec 13, 2017 19:58 ]
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Die Hard is my favourite american TV show.

Author:	LewieP [ Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:58 ]
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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.

Author:	RuySan [ Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:14 ]
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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 ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 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

Author:	Satsuma [ Thu Dec 14, 2017 14:17 ]
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LewieP wrote: 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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Author:	LewieP [ Thu Dec 14, 2017 16:19 ]
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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.

Author:	markg [ Thu Dec 14, 2017 16:26 ]
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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.

Author:	Cras [ Thu Dec 14, 2017 17:00 ]
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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.

Author:	Zardoz [ Thu Dec 14, 2017 17:37 ]
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That explains the long faces.

Author:	markg [ Thu Dec 14, 2017 19:00 ]
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Cras wrote: 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.

Author:	LewieP [ Fri Dec 15, 2017 13:38 ]
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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.

Author:	RuySan [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 16:14 ]
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Saw the premiere of the new season of vikings and ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 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 ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! Really smart of the writers on how they put the Trump election conspiracy into the story but with chinese instead. Very eager to watch the rest.

Author:	Grim... [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 16:19 ]
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That's not Episode 3!

Author:	RuySan [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 16:44 ]
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Grim... wrote: That's not Episode 3! That's your opinion man But seriously, maybe it's not. I've been very sleepy.

Author:	Mimi [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 22:36 ]
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Cuba And The Cameraman: https://www.netflix.com/title/80126449? ... d=14170032 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.

Author:	LewieP [ Fri Dec 22, 2017 4:28 ]
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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.

Author:	MrChris [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 15:16 ]
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No just the last couple of days. Laggy as fuck, even at the lowest res.

Author:	MrChris [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 15:18 ]
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Not that it has any bearing but Jesus Christ Singapore's stupid. Basically no online trade and dvds are about 15 quida go from the few remaining shops. I'm setting up a Google video thingy account

Author:	Grim... [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 16:52 ]
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It might be episode 3 of series 3!

Author:	RuySan [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 17:17 ]
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Grim... wrote: It might be episode 3 of series 3! I thought that was a given. Yes, series 3.

Author:	myp [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:01 ]
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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.

Author:	LewieP [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 4:17 ]
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No.

Author:	myp [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 13:45 ]
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LewieP wrote: No. What would you have preferred then?

Author:	Grim... [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 13:50 ]
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Another series?

Author:	LewieP [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 14:08 ]
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Another ending.

Author:	myp [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 14:22 ]
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LewieP wrote: Another ending. Glad I asked. Most enlightening.

Author:	MrChris [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 15:07 ]
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Started watching the Flash tonight with the kids, as for some reason our "local multiplex" is buffering like a cunt and we couldn't watch Lego Batman. Its really quite good, especially considering it's DC.

Author:	Cras [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 15:09 ]
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Jesus, I strongly suspect your local multiplex has some very significant latency concerns.

Author:	MrChris [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 15:12 ]
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Cras wrote: Jesus, I strongly suspect your local multiplex has some very significant latency concerns. Odd, as I was watching atomic blonde day before yesterday and it was fine.... Does the internet slow down over a distance then?

Author:	Grim... [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 15:15 ]
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Your multiplex updated yesterday. Is this a regular thing since you got to Singapore?

Author:	Cras [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 15:58 ]
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MrChris wrote: Does the internet slow down over a distance then? Sure. The data still has to travel over (mostly) physical wires. Something like streaming video which is mostly one-way transfer of data would be less noticeably affected than something interactive like gaming, but the latency still has an impact.

Author:	MrChris [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 17:23 ]
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Well that's just weird then as online gaming is largely fine, as is Netflix or whatever, but plex is just unusable

Author:	Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 17:59 ]
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MrChris wrote: Well that's just weird then as online gaming is largely fine, as is Netflix or whatever, but plex is just unusable Two of those things will be coming from world-wide CDNs with nodes near Singapore. They don’t have to cross the planet. The other one is someone’s broadband in Bedford.

Author:	Grim... [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 20:56 ]
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Hypothetically.

Author:	Bamba [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 22:07 ]
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We don't have a Canadian TV thread so this will do. Letterkenny is a sitcom set in the titular town which is populated with idiots and weirdos. The dialogue is the star, being so dense and quickfire that it's possible to miss half the jokes on first watching. Also: the lead female character is stupidly cute, especially from the second season onwards. These two short clips are pretty representative.

Author:	Hearthly [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 23:24 ]
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Bamba wrote: We don't have a Canadian TV thread so this will do. Letterkenny is a sitcom set in the titular town which is populated with idiots and weirdos. The dialogue is the star, being so dense and quickfire that it's possible to miss half the jokes on first watching. Also: the lead female character is stupidly cute, especially from the second season onwards. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11040 EDIT - Added in the lion roaring, for extra GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. EDIT - I mean, I even linked the exact same clip. MORE ROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Attachment: roar.JPG

Author:	myp [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 23:37 ]
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Looks good, Bamba. I'll be sure to check it oot

Author:	Bamba [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 23:39 ]
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Lol, apologies. I obviously didn't notice your post at the time and I assumed it was so obscure that no one else would ever have posted about it so I didn't bothered doing a search; which I'm usually very good about. Anyway, there you go: a recommendation from Bamba and Hearthly surely can't be ignored?