Movie & TV Show Recommendations

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Finished Cyberfarm/village, that Ruskie show that's sci-fi goodness. I recall someone posted the link with the entire first season with subtitles in English, but sadly the special doesn't have them. I hope S2 is subtitled at some point, because that show isn't going to come out of Russia, ever.
Still, it was refreshing to see a white hetero male that's not a laughing stock 24/7*, an healthy and loving white family to boot, no girlbosses** and no nigs.
*Except for the literal beta male cuck who grows a spine, sort of.
**Except for the blatantly manipulative AI bitch who's written that way, and even then she's not a Mary Sue.
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I'm looking forward to season 2 also, but the team that subbed season 1 seems to have gone radio silent which isn't reassuring. I wonder if anyone has created an AI subtitling service?
 
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Watched this for the first time recently and I cannot recommend it enough. I always enjoyed Silence of the Lambs and Anthony Hopkins is goated but this show does a fantastic job at portraying Hannibal Lector. I believe any show or movie that can make you root for a Villian is worthy of praise and this has all of those hallmarks whilst still making the good guys just as likable. I would love to see this show get a 4th season and based on Actor/Producer comments its still a possibility. Check it out if you have Prime right now.
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Fuller has been teasing a potential fourth season for almost a decade, practically as soon as the show was canceled.

The rights issues seem messy, Amazon currently has ownership for Silence of the Lambs specifically, which is the storyline Fuller wants to adapt, but he seems reluctant to work with them.

Also, I guess they tried to adapt Silence of the Lambs at some point as a TV show, but couldn't have Hannibal as a character because of the aforementioned rights issues. Alex Kurtzman was the showrunner, so of course it sucked.
 
Fuller in some interview said he tried compromising with the rights holders for Silence of the Lambs at the time. The idea was that they'd be able to have Clarice correspond with Hannibal via letters (and maybe phone calls, I can't remember exactly) and in return he'd get to use Buffalo Bill in his series, but they never went for it.
 
Tor Lugosi said:
Fuller in some interview said he tried compromising with the rights holders for Silence of the Lambs at the time. The idea was that they'd be able to have Clarice correspond with Hannibal via letters (and maybe phone calls, I can't remember exactly) and in return he'd get to use Buffalo Bill in his series, but they never went for it.
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That’s a shame, I would have been interested to see Fuller’s take on it. Parts of the third season got worryingly close to disappearing up its own ass but never quite crossed the line.

Perhaps a somewhat controversial opinion but I like Mads’ portrayal of Lecter more than Hopkins. Hopkins is still great though, but Mikkelson just nailed it for me.
 
On TubiTV, Max Headroom, a series ahead of its time but also very much of its time, our hero slings around a boxy shoulder-borne video camera in his role as a reporter. It's a frenetic analog-cyberpunk world where the systems still function, but very poorly. One moment that stuck with me was the bit in one episode where Matt Frewer's Edison Carter is framed for a crime that ensures the police will hunt him down ruthlessly, one that shocks even the boss of his TV network: "Credit fraud? That's worse than murder!"
 
Betonhaus said:
I'm looking forward to season 2 also, but the team that subbed season 1 seems to have gone radio silent which isn't reassuring. I wonder if anyone has created an AI subtitling service?
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Welp, I hope they haven't been sent to lolKraine. Was the Christmas Season 1 especial ever subtituled?
 
Here's a list of of some of my own personal favorites.

1. Breaking Bad - most people have probably already watched this and know about it but this is really a peak TV show.

2. The Office (U.S. version) - same thing as the last one but it gets pretty shitty once Steve Carell leaves the show.

3. Trailer Park Boys - This is a really stupid show and the story beats are ridiculous I still find it funny. Normally have it on in the background if working.

4. American Horror Story Cult - This is probably the worst season of anything I have ever watched, this came out after the 2016 election and is fucking batshit insane. It falls into the so bad its funny category.

5. The Twilight Zone - This is a case where I would suggest watching certain episodes. The show itself is good and has some intriguing plot lines not every episode lands as much as other episodes though.

6. Cowboy Bebop - obligatory anime here. This is probably the best one I have seen and has a good story. It runs about 24 episodes and I appreciate that it knows when it ends.

7. Venture Brothers - obligatory adult cartoon. This show is probably one of the funniest most consistently good adult cartoons. It was very close between this and King of the Hill.

I listed these in no particular order.
 
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Onepumpplumpchump said:
The Office (U.S. version)
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I'm watching the Superfan episodes (read: extended cuts) right now. They're pretty good. A lot of what was cut is minor lore additions and side character building. For example, when Angela tells Dwight "don't expect any 'cookie'" in S2 it later shows a deleted scene of Dwight eating a literal cookie. It's a fun rewatch.
 
The trailer didn't sell me on but word of mouth did.

Project Hail Mary is one of the best things I have seen in a long time. I just got back and I am still on a high from seeing it, a movie hasn't left me with this much to think about while making me feel good in a long time. You don't even have to be into sci-fi to enjoy this one. This is one of the best films of the past two decades, see it.
 
Wot Zit Too Yah0996 said:
1. Late Night With the Devil
2. Tiyanak
3. Elizabeth Harvest
4. Black Death
5. Being Human (BBC)
6. Ancient Autopsy
7. The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion
8. Jack Irish: the series and the films
9. Nil by Mouth
10. Frida (Salma Hayek)
11. Taboo
12. Smiling Friends
13. The Keith Lemon Sketch Show
14. Boardwalk Empire
15. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
16. AI Confidential with Hannah Fry
17. Belzebuth
18. Solomon Kane
19. Clown
20. From the Dark
21. Crimson Peak
22. 10 Rillington Place: the Tim Roth BBC series
23. True Fiction
24. Wild at Heart: the ITV series
25. Doctor Who: bias time, but the Pertwee and McCoy ones
26. Law & Order: Criminal Intent
27. Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids
28. Louis Theroux: Extreme Love - Autism
29. Louis Theroux: A Place for Pedophiles
30. Louis Theroux: Mothers On the Edge
31. Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: Looking for Love
32. The Tudors
33. Marie Antoinette: the series
34. The Empress
35. Corsage
36. My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To
37. I Am Not a Serial Killer
38. Turok: Son of Stone
39. Resistance (Jesse Eisenberg)
40. Walking with Monsters.
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there's a lot of horror and other fucked up stuff in this list
 
Onepumpplumpchump said:
1. Breaking Bad - most people have probably already watched this and know about it but this is really a peak TV show.
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It's a really mainstream opinion but I agree. Even its absolute dumbest arc (the teddy bear in the swimming pool thing) was saved by a masterpiece performance by John de Lancie, and it had two absolutely hilarious moments, one, when Walt gave the absolutely least inspiring inspirational speech of all time, about a plane crash he'd basically caused, and another, where he got maced after talking shit to a cop about how he had suffered. . .from a plane crash he had caused.
 
Watched Dexter for the first time.
Season 1 to 5 were great television.
Characters have depth and interesting arcs, tension is high, the humor is funny.
The final seasons go a bit downhill from there, and the last season feels rushed and underdeveloped.
Too many things want to happen at the same time and all of a sudden they need to get wrapped up and the end is rushed and disappointing.
Overall I enjoyed it.

Then I watched Dexter New Blood.
It's a teenage drama with a Dexter coat.
Clancy Brown gets totally wasted, Dexter is making stupid decisions for the most part, we have marvel quipping, we have girlbossing, we have focus on unlikable teenagers, we have cameos that are just fab service and plotlines that get introduced and lead nowhere and get dropped.
People give the ending shit, but what comes before that was pretty bad (compared to the original) already.
I wouldn't recommend it.
 
Eadred said:
Dexter is making stupid decisions for the most part
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The best is when he's at a crime scene and he keeps looking for something even though he knows for sure the cops are going to be there in about 3 minutes. Can you remind me what that was about? I saw it 4 years ago. I think he was in someone's house outside the city and there was at least one dead body there.
 
Hentai-Semitism said:
Can you remind me what that was about?
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Do you mean
when he goes back to his burned down shed, rummages around to find a titanium screw (that he got sent by serial killer Clancy Brown, that conveniently ties him to a murder), then his copper girlfriend says "btw Dex, this was arson, it is a crimescene now, piss off". And then she commences finding the screw immediately and is adamant to jail Dexter? Even though it is fucking flimsy because, as Dex explains, the item could've easily been planted by whoever did the arson? If it was something else, my mind already put it in the trash bin.
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Eadred said:
Do you mean
when he goes back to his burned down shed, rummages around to find a titanium screw (that he got sent by serial killer Clancy Brown, that conveniently ties him to a murder), then his copper girlfriend says "btw Dex, this was arson, it is a crimescene now, piss off". And then she commences finding the screw immediately and is adamant to jail Dexter? Even though it is fucking flimsy because, as Dex explains, the item could've easily been planted by whoever did the arson? If it was something else, my mind already put it in the trash bin.
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I think it was a murder scene and the cops were coming because someone tipped them off. Maybe his cop gf called him and told him she was going there without knowing he was there also. I really can't remember. I'd have to see screenshots of that episode and maybe then I'd be able to point at them and say "that's the scene".

EDIT: it was in the second half of episode 5. Dexter goes to the drug dealer's home to nab him.

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Can anyone tell me if the new version of All Creatures Great and Small is any good. My mom loves the original show and the books but she hates it when new shows draw her in and then suddenly add a bunch of sex or politics into it, so I would like to know if that happens with this remake before getting her the DvDs for Mother's day.
 
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Kung Fu Panda 1, 2 and 3.


Some might dismiss these movies as being merely "childrens movies", but dismissing them as such is a huge mistake.
It's truly an incredible trilogy that can entertain any audience of any age.
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Kung Fu panda was an amazing trilogy, it's a shame they never made a 4th movie but it was probably for the best as they would probably sideline Po being the hero for some girl power nonsense
 
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