TV

[JDelage]

Always like the Clancy novels. The Jack Ryan tv show is OK-ish. It's much less realistic than Clancy's books and you get none of the weapon & tech geekery.

[Matty123]

^ agreed. It’s ok. I’m a little disappointed with it. But I’ll watch it.

[Matty123]

@mikebarhoot:

Read all the Clancy books. You liking the Jack Ryan series Matty?

Yeah I enjoy them. Some of the authors are better than others. They aren’t nearly as good as the original Clancy books. He was special. But I do like that the series lives on.

[mikebarhoot]

@JDelage:

… you get none of the weapon & tech geekery.

Thats a hard pass then.

[Matty123]

It’s worth a watch. Hard to get into detail of gadgetry on TV. That’s the beauty of books and the written word

[Seul]

[Seul]

[Seul]

LA CASA DE PAPEL (Money Heist)…

A student robbed a classroom of fellow students wearing a Dali mask earlier today here in good ole Belgium... I read that in the news, and they said the mask was "as seen in the La Casa series"... Rates 8.7 on IMDB?.. That's a rather fantastic score... The same as DEADWOOD, actually, my personal favourite show ever...

Currently watching the second episode... I always find it slightly harder to connect with a show if I don't know what's being said, and have to rely on (English) subs... But I'm sensing that I'll be addicted to this filo de puta in no time...

[neph93]

@Seul You know Darlene’s back [emoji7]

[Seul]

DEAR MULE FUCKING BUDDHA - TO THE OLE ILLEGAL DOWNLOAD SITES POST HASTE!..

[neph93]

Don’t forget the Kleenex…

[Matty123]

Ok so Jack Ryan was a Hot terd. So dissapointed.

Ozark season 2 is great. Great

[Chris]

@Seul:

LA CASA DE PAPEL (Money Heist)…

Currently watching the second episode... I always find it slightly harder to connect with a show if I don't know what's being said, and have to rely on (English) subs... But I'm sensing that I'll be addicted to this filo de puta in no time...

Netflix has it with the dialog dubbed in English, if you're crafty…

[Seul]

That's even worse than subs… Basically that's what the French always do... I remember as a kid watching The Simpsons on some French TV station and it was dubbed...

[Alex]

Agreed, dubbing is fucking hopeless - particularly French dubbing.

@Matty123 - Ozark season 2 got me through typhoon Jebi!

[Chris]

I won't claim it's good- they're both imperfect solutions.  Dubs seem to work better when there's a lot of dialog, I think.

Oh, and I'm only about 20-30 minutes in, but Casa de Papel is solid.  Good call.

[Seul]

Coolest thing is at the end… Theme song of UTOPIA!!!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2384811/

Still gutted that was cancelled btw... And the planned US remake doesn't interest me at all...

[Matty123]

@Alex:

@Matty123 - Ozark season 2 got me through typhoon Jebi!

Glad to hear it and glad ur back. Some very solid writing this year. I’m only 3.5 episodes in.

[Giles]

@Seul:

^Yeah that was some good stuff…

THE VIETNAM WAR and THE CIVIL WAR - both multi-ep documentaries by KEN BURNS... Titles might clue you in as to what they're about... The first one aired in 2017-2018, the latter's from 1990... World class material...

Downloaded The Vietnam War yesterday…..

[Seul]

Turn up the volume, grab a box of wine and a box of Kleenex, and strap in…