Q: What are you watching (TV/Streaming/Movies) and want to recommend?

White Lincoln said:
Oh no, this is a series show. It's called Three-Body. You can read more about it here:

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Finished watching 3 Body Problem on Netflix? Watch the Chinese adaptation Three-Body next

After watching 3 Body Problem on Netflix, be sure to check out the 30-episode Chinese adaptation.
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They thanks for pointing out this series to me -- until your post, I wasn't aware of its existance.

* While I've watched plenty of movies from HK cinema since the 90s, the recent movies I've seen from China had hollywood blockbuster visual effects but just felt kind of hollow in terms of characters. This series felt a little different and I like it.

* I'm just a few episodes in and I'm surprised at how more technical the show feels; its almost like they expect their viewers to have a more technical background. Here's an example: in the netflix series, the shadowy org convinces a character that some force will cause the sky to blink. IIRC, in the Netflix series all the stars start blinking. In comparison, in the chinese series the shadow org tells the main character that the universe will blink. What he sees is a fluctuation in the cosmic microwave background radiation levels. Kind of interesting.

It has some k-drama or j-dorama elements.
You can watch it on Amazon Prime or on Viki (whatever this is)
www.viki.com

Three-Body | Watch with English Subtitles, Reviews & Cast Info | Viki

El nanocientífico Zhang Lu Yi y el jefe de contraterrorismo Yu He Wei son la última esperanza de la humanidad contra una invasión alienígena.
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gunn said:
* I'm just a few episodes in and I'm surprised at how more technical the show feels; its almost like they expect their viewers to have a more technical background.
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Wow... that is EXACTLY what we thought too! I know I got lost several times, but I am no scientist either. My wife watched it to the end. I thought it was too "talk, talk, talk... action.... talk, talk, talk..." That's me, I'm a guy. I want to see someone getting shot, at least every 15 minutes! LOL
 
Today I watched Derek put a hemi engine in a Chevy C10. All that work and I keep asking myself "why"? He said he got the engine from a buddy for a song so, why not?! The remake of the driveshaft was almost the most expensive part the rebuild.

Still shaking my head....
 
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White Lincoln said:
Today I wanted Derek put a hemi engine in a Chevy C10. All that work and I keep asking myself "why"? He said he got the engine from a buddy for a song so, why not?! The remake of the driveshaft was almost the most expensive part the rebuild.

Still shaking my head....
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I’m still shaking my head over his LS rockers in place of LA mopar shaft rockers. Yeah you’re the first and nobody does it because it’s stupid lol.
 
He did it because it has not been done that much, if at all. And he has the money and resources to get it done right (at least it seems right). But at the same time, after the show, I did learn a lot about newer engines and computer controlled engines / transmissions, much as new cars are controlled. But to see it done with 3rd party equipment and make it work? Frack... "priceless".
 
White Lincoln said:
Wow... that is EXACTLY what we thought too! I know I got lost several times, but I am no scientist either. My wife watched it to the end. I thought it was too "talk, talk, talk... action.... talk, talk, talk..." That's me, I'm a guy. I want to see someone getting shot, at least every 15 minutes! LOL
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I finished this series and I'm trying to recall if I've ever watched a series that was almost exclusively driven by scene after scene of dialogue between two characters. The West Wing comes to mind -- but (despite multiple friends raving about it), I don't think I've watched an entire episode yet. Its like my neverending Netflix or Steam backlog.

Here's another series that I'd recommend: Netflix's new Terminator Zero 8-episode Anime series.
- The anime studio Production IG was famous for Ghost in the Shell and has a similar feel
- Unlike the prior Terminator movies/series in which changes in the past would effect events in the future, this series firmly establishes that by going back into the past, a character is starting a new branch of time vs affecting their own prior timeline. Its similar to how time travel is supposed to work in The Peripheral.
- By starting new branches, this story also establishes that this basic time war is almost a never-ending cycle: as long as the losing side retains the ability to send combatants back in time, noone side will ever win.
- Set in Japan, so no Arnold.
 
Wife is watching Suits all the way through for the first time. I watched it when it was new and liked it then. Can't get back into it now though. I forgot how much I hated Mike Ross' character. 99% of the nonsense in the plot is because of him.

Also annoying to see Meghan Markle in any sort of acting role now that all of her other nonsense has happened.
 
The first terminator was the only one in the franchise that handled the time travel explanation well;

Kyle Reese: “I didn’t build the fucking thing!”

The whole time travel aspect was always very unimportant fridge logic in the first two movies, it was just a convenient way to explain how a robot that looks human can exist and payoff to a twist ending.

Franchises are stupid. Star Wars is no better taking throwaway lines/cannon fodder characters and spawning terrible miniseries after miniseries over. I prefer to just treat everything after a second or third sequel as fan fiction. But that’s me, my imagination is a better writer than what I’ve seen
 
I've watched a good amount of crap recently on Netflix (Hit Man, American Assasin, Atlas, Land of Bad) -- all of which aren't memorable at all.... but I did come across this one gem from 2017 I hadn't heard of before

Logan Lucky is a "hillbilly heist" movie with some quirky characters starring a star wars guy (Adam Driver), a stripper (Channing Tatum), and James Bond (Daniel Craig). The casting is definitely over the top.
While it doesn't break any new ground for plot or cinematography, it did make me chortle several times (this long cut trailer has a lot of the quirkiness on display)

My kid is working his way through the Avatar animated series. I haven't watched it for years but I'm still impressed at how well this american-made anime was made.
 
I just finished Furies, a french short series about a woman who keeps the peace amongst the rival criminal orgs in Paris.
- Series in pretty, action is decent, but the story gets quite contrived as the episodes go on.
- What starts like a straightforward story becomes even more contrived... but not in a humourous way. The twists and turns reminded me of that old TV series Alias, or maybe 24.
- I liked the cinematography (Paris really us a beautiful city), but the story felt quite incredulous. Something decent to watch if you've already depleted your movie queue.

I'm now watching a different crime based series, The Gentleman, which turns out to be a reboot into a series of a movie also made by Guy Ritchie.
- I've only watched one episode so far and it's got all the hallmarks of a good Guy Ritchie film: a bit of violence, interesting characters, and some darkly humorous twists.
- I'm not sure if it will jump the shark into becoming a caricature of a show about the criminal underworld (like Furies), but its definitely worth watching.
 
Here's another random recommendation. This anime series is about a bunch of stereo typical dungeon crawlers (knight, thief, dwarf, and magic wielding elf woman) who realize that the only way to affordably get through a dungeon under their village... is to start eating monsters.

Its part D&D dungeon crawl and part cooking show (like Oishinbo). 24 eps @ 25-30min/ea
 
I've watched a bunch of crap recently (although I wouldn't called Delicious in Dungeon crap, it's surprisingly deep for such a silly premise -- unlike say Solar Opposites S05), but I decided to watch something a good deal more serious that I'd like to recommend



Beyond Utopia is a documentary about defectors from North Korea and the network of folks to helped them escape. Its clear that some of these "brokers" view these people as "product" to be paid for by South Korean donors but the documentation of their struggle and their reactions to seeing the outside world are pretty eyeopening.

Two things I'd like to highlight: its not just the kids reactions to having some snacks in a vietnamese safehouse that is surprising -- the reaction of the 80yr old grandma when she realizes that (what we from the US would call a little backwater) house in Vietnam far exceeds what they had in the DPRK, her plausable explanation as to why DPRK is so far behind developmentally is absolutely stunning.

In a related note, the story of one of the helpers and her defection as a child is also pretty incredible. She recounts it in this Ted Talk (and in a book I plan to read soon). Hyeonseo Lee recounts her journey from DPRK to S. Korea in this TED talk from 2013.


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The stuff these folk go through really make my life's little inconveniences absolutely pale in comparison (broke a bolt attaching my rotor hat to my rotor in my Wilwood Big Brake kit I'm putting together.)
 
Re-watching the Chernobyl docudrama on HBO Max. If you've never seen it, I highly recommend it. I did a thesis on the disaster in undergrad. This series does the disaster justice. Very well done and accurate enough to the facts.

www.hbo.com

Chernobyl | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com

The official website for Chernobyl on HBO, featuring interviews, schedule information, behind the scenes exclusives, and more.
www.hbo.com www.hbo.com
 
Drew Carey show is streamed on amazon now. Ridiculous show but I think the last time I've watched it was on a cable-free antenna tv. Never realized Craig Ferguson was on that show

Another forgotten network sitcom was Becker, but I liked that show enough to get dvds a couple years ago. Never seen it streamed
 
Currently I'm rewatching The Boondocks. Probably one of the most underrated shows ever made. You can stream it on most of the streaming sites or at Adult Swim.

 
Derphound01 said:
Currently I'm rewatching The Boondocks. Probably one of the most underrated shows ever made. You can stream it on most of the streaming sites or at Adult Swim.

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I loved that show, Adult Swim at its peak!




Yeah I don’t think it would be airable today 😆
 
XR7-4.6 said:
I loved that show, Adult Swim at its peak!


Yeah I don’t think it would be airable today 😆
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The first time I heard MLK shout, "This is what I got all those ass whoopins for?!", I shot coffee out of my nose laughing so hard.
 
Watched two more episodes of Masters of the Air tonight before I had to throw the emotionally exhausted towel in.

Such a great series. God bless the men who gave so much in the air war over Europe🙏 your sacrifices are not forgotten. 🫡

It makes me sick that the very fascism that they fought against and died to stop permeates our own country today.


 
My MIL was watching The Six Triple Eight on Netflix so I joined her. Its the story of the only black women's WAC battalion deployed overseas to sort the 3yr backlog of mail. The story is exactly as you can imagine: there were racist people who wanted to see them fail and they succeeded. Fin.

IMO, its a story that should be told about yet another group of Americans stepping up to do what was necessary but I couldn't help feel that:
1) While I hadn't heard about this story, how far did movie producers have to dig to find this new tale to share as a feature length film?
2) I'm not sure thre was enought story to base make a feature length movie - perhaps a 1hr documentary/episode in yet another WW2 History series would have been sufficient.


On a more lighthearted note, I just finished watching the available seasons of two Netflix series that are worth mentioning.
KLEO
Kleo is the story of a stassi agent who was betrayed by her bosses just before the fall of the GDR (East Germany); she gets out during the fall and starts exacting mayhem to learn WHY she was betrayed. Its not believable, its bloody, but the most fascinating thing for me was how authentic early 90s Germany felt: the emergence of Techno and the culinary oddities that emerge were particularly interesting. Examples include schmalzbrot aka lard/apple/cracklings/onion sandwich https://alltastesgerman.com/apple-crackling-fat/ or Toast Hawaii https://www.food.com/recipe/toast-hawaii-open-faced-sandwich-for-a-snack-or-dinner-423394
I'm visiting Zurich which is apparently a more german area of Switzerland in a few months so Im curious if much of the german cuisine carriesover or if its all just raclette and fondue :)

DayndadanClub

Cute story about the friendship/romance that develops between a HS nerd who believes in aliens and a more popular mainstream girl who believes in spirits daring each other to prove that the other doesnt exist.
- The story goes off the rails quickly but is pretty entertaining/refreshing despite some of the tropes being used. Nuts are lost
- avail on netflix and crunchyroll.
- Warning: Season 1 ends pretty abruptly (mid story arc) which I find annoying but S02 will be released in Summer 2025
- If you want to know what happens, you gotta go full nerd and read the source manga which will provide YEARS of material just to get to where they are "now" https://www.dandamomo.com/
 
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Derphound01 said:
Re-watching the Chernobyl docudrama on HBO Max. If you've never seen it, I highly recommend it. I did a thesis on the disaster in undergrad. This series does the disaster justice. Very well done and accurate enough to the facts.

www.hbo.com

Chernobyl | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com

The official website for Chernobyl on HBO, featuring interviews, schedule information, behind the scenes exclusives, and more.
www.hbo.com www.hbo.com
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If you liked the docudrama about Chernobyl, read the report, it's interesting, lol:
There's also a report on criticality accidents that is pretty cool.
The books by Richard Rhodes about the making of the bombs that ended ww2 ,and the hydrogen bomb are great backinfo on the Oppenheimer movie.
I was amazed by the revelation that you can squeeze a solid ball of metal from 4" in diameter down to about1", with explosives, without complicated molds. One of my buddies in the neighborhood was the guy that figured out how to make a vacuum tube to supply the squirt of neutrons to kick off the h-bomb, and was on that tiny island watching castle bravo run away from 5Mt to 15Mt. They missed a trick, and lid7 works almost as good as lid6.
So they really didn't need to lose millions of pounds of mercury in the creek I played in as a kid. They used mercury in the separation process of 6 and 7...

I remember seeing "air bubbles" under rocks, looking for crawdads, which would slip between your fingers if you tried to pick them up.It was mercury,pooled under the rocks, and none of my neighbors would discuss it, so I knew it had to do with the plants. I picked up measurable amounts of radioactives in my bones; I went thru a whole body scan in the late 80's,as a favor to a hot secretary I wanted to impress, and dude running the machine said I gave an amazing scan. Highest readings he'd ever seen. (A full body scan is a thick lead coffin they put you in and measure your overall body burden of radioactives.)
When we did the initial pet/mr work, we took turns spending hours being scanned, and bits of me showed up, where our f18 doesn't go,lol.
 
I'll pick that up.
"Positive void coefficient "and "prompt critical," are things that are very bad in a reactor. "spontaneous disassembly" and steam explosion" are the results. The amount of fissions/sec necessary to turn tons of water to steam instantly,is phenomenal.
Chernobyl was as close as you can get to a nuclear explosion,in a reactor with a moderator,like water,or graphite.
I just finished rereading a disaster novel from the 70's, "the "Prometheus Crisis",the scenario is unlikely,but plausible. Would have been a good b movie. I first read it in my neighbor's fallout shelter, in the 70's, which was about as big as my house. It was a good quiet place to read,lol.

Here's the chernobyl report, if it will let me post it: Nope, too big. It's "pub913e_web.pdf" on the iaea website.
 
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I watched Black Christmas (74). I thought it was going to be a brainless horror movie. Nope, it's a classic I hadn't heard of.
 
I just finished up binging S02 of the Squid Game. While isn't not bad, without going into spoilers, its not very satisfying. Like The Empire Strikes Back but with more build-up and less relief. The third and final season is already in production (likely filmed back-to-back) so it wouldn't surprise me if it came out in Dec 2025 like S02 came out on 12/26. Recommendation: you won't miss anything if you just wait until 2025 and binge them both.
 
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