Watched Life, Animated last night.  It's a documentary about an autistic man who is able to relate to the world thanks to a childhood diet of Disney movies.  It's an interesting film, but whilst the documentary does avoid giving you a rose-tinted Disney like view of everything, it also quite clearly turns its gaze away at a few crucial moments - partly out of respect for its subject and his family, but also it seemed through a desire to maintain a particular narrative.

None the less, it's equal parts tragic and heart warming, and certainly worth a watch if you have any interest in autism, or indeed Disney.  It's on iPlayer (one of the Storyville series.)

Watched Crashing about a comedian which wasn't bad. Mildly annoying in places but it has huge potential if they get it right. 

Fortitude is still ticking ever box. I think we're upto ep 7. Really is a bit lord of the flies!

Episode 7 blew my socks off, you'll know what bit. Didn't get on with series 2, which is probably just as well as I can't find anything past episode 4.

Legion is still confusing me. It's a gorgeous looking thing but I can't make head nor tail of it, far too much cutting between present, past, memories, hallucinations etc.

Taboo is great. Top notch cast doing a bang up job. Can't decide who my favourite is, maybe Sir Strange as that ''I'll pop the bastard!" rant was amazing. Great to see him on form as his turn as the High Sparrow in GoT was crap.

Still trying to erase the awfulness of TWD from my memory though. So shit.

Finally finished going through Black Mirror.  Somehow missed it when it was on originally, so I've watched all three series in the last couple of months.

Some good, depressing stuff in there.  Felt like they had some money left in the budget for that last episode.

Got up to speed with Taboo last night, previous week's episode gave the wife nightmares so was on hiatus until someone at her work had pre-warned her which bits to ignore (FFS)!  I'm loving it, especially now it's actually going somewhere.

GooberTheHat wrote:

Sneaky Pete finished. It's like a decent version of the hustle. Nothing earth shatteringely brilliant but it was entertaining enough.

I think I got as far as episode three... worth continuing?

Roots continues to be good watching. Predictably hard going though.

If I recall, the most entertaining way of checking if you're on US Netflix is to look at how they categorise stuff. If it says something like 'Camp Slasher & Serial Killer Movies from the 1970s for Kids 5-7' then you're there.

It should automatically change when it sees your IP address is stateside.

Nina wrote:

Finished the second season of House of Cards a while ago, not really felt the need to jump into the third one yet, so started Stranger Things last night. Good stuff so far. Best thing was B going "ooh that's from Lord of the Rings" same time as the kid.

Need to double check if my Netflix has automatically switched over to the American one, is there a way to find out what's exclusive to each region?

Netflix is based on local internet. If you took an iPad wit a subscription, even if you paid in euros, across to America the Netflix automatically becomes local Netflix.

Finally finished The Crown on Netflix. Absolutely superb series - everything about it is top drawer TV. Great stories, characters, photography, performances, writing, the lot.

Episode 9 stands out though, as one of the best single episodes of television I've seen in a long, long time. John Lithgow has never been better. That this life long republican (small R) feels this way about a TV programme about the parasites that live at Buck palace is a miracle and an indication of just how good it is.

It's better than it has any right to be.

poprock wrote:

@Aaroncupboard Re: Fortitude S2

Spoiler:

I loved the way they ramped up the crazy! Felt like an honest approach … you, the viewer, knows how mental things got in season one. We need to pick up again. We can’t ignore the crazy. We have to embrace the crazy.

Felt like season one was the X-Files and season two is The Thing.

Looks like Netflix is going to make a Castlevania original series...

http://io9.gizmodo.com/netflix-has-announced-a-castlevania-tv-show-for-2017-1792131221

Sorry if old news.

Yeah Calvin.
He got shot on his wedding day by his bride's cousin because he had been sleeping with the cousin and got her pregnant but the cousin was jealous that he still got married.

Just finished season 1 of Preacher really enjoyed it. Won't spoil it for anyone else. The show surprised me with its shades of grey. Defo will be watching season 2 when it airs.

I stuck it out with Marcella and my initial impression that it was total shite might have been an overstatement..Plus finally got round to watching last season of my guilty pleasure series, Banshee. Wtf happened, way too violent for me. Lost the series b softcore porn comic book charm it had...