Television Anyone recommend me any TV Shows?

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That was part of the problem - all a bit too neat and tidy. Very disappointing.
When I first watched it I agreed, on repeated viewing however I like that it didn't try and do anything epic or abstract. The dysfunctional and corrupt system wins out but sprouts of hope remain.
 

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A documentary - MH370 The flight that disappeared

Someone at work told me about it today and just going to spend this evening binge watching the 3 episodes, having watched one so far

It's on netflix
 

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A documentary - MH370 The flight that disappeared

Someone at work told me about it today and just going to spend this evening binge watching the 3 episodes, having watched one so far

It's on netflix
Thanks for the reminder. How was the first episode?
 

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Currently watching Black Bird and honestly this guy Paul Walter Hauser he’s incredible in everything I’ve seen him in. Even Cobra Kai as Stingray.
 

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Currently watching Black Bird and honestly this guy Paul Walter Hauser he’s incredible in everything I’ve seen him in. Even Cobra Kai as Stingray.
If you haven’t seen it, check out ‘Richard Jewell,’ it’s about the security guard who found the bomb in Centennial Park during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta & averted a disaster. He captures the essence of the real Richard Jewell so perfectly, it’s spooky.
 

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Just watched Unlimited with Chris Hemsworth. I thought it was really good. Really thought provoking. The last episode is quite powerful.
 

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Just binge watched all 3, I found them all utterly compelling! Usually play with my phone when watching stuff, not this as I was so interested in it
The first episode was quite compelling, looking forward to watching the last two this afternoon.
 

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The first episode was quite compelling, looking forward to watching the last two this afternoon.
Let us know what you think! Seen a couple of people absolutely slating it but I really enjoyed it and didn't fall asleep so it must have been compelling!
 

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Let us know what you think! Seen a couple of people absolutely slating it but I really enjoyed it and didn't fall asleep so it must have been compelling!
I was really looking forward to it but had to give up 30mins in. Not because it wasn't good, quite compelling actually but the scenes with the family members was so difficult to watch, especially the French guy who lost his wife and kids. Incredibly sad
 

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Just finished bingeing Fauda, quite liked it. To me it was a mashup of 24, Homeland, & The Shield. Fully expected it to be slanted a certain way & it was, but more in the background. At least it was to me.

Don’t think it deserved the lofty RT & Metacritic reviews, but it is a pretty good show. The episodes are short enough to be able to binge it. It is dubbed & subtitled in the States.

They have completed four seasons. If Netflix et al decides not to renew, the show ended with major arcs sewn up nicely, but there’s also definite room for another season or two.
 
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The New Party Down has picked up where it left off ten years ago. Ron is ridiculous.
 

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About 6 episodes into The Glory. Really good so far but the bullying flashback scenes are horrible
 

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Swarm is probably the least I’ve enjoyed a Donald Glover related property going all the way back to Mystery Team! Which isn’t to say it’s bad, or that I didn’t think parts of it were good, but moreover that it wasn’t very involving or as original as it thought it was.

Co-written with one of his Atlanta alum it’s about a thinly veiled Beyoncé-Stan who snaps and goes around the US killing people who are rude about her, in an almost quasi-anthology format.
The whole thing is a bit like an extended Atlanta riff, only one without any enjoyable or interesting characters.

The 6th ep was the most interesting, where it goes meta and tries to comment on the show like it’s a fictionalised account of a real event, but likewise suffered from me just not caring about these people enough.

Still it’s a quirky, diverting bit of media that’s got a lot of quite interesting things in it, even it’s it’s a chore in parts.

Sprung on the other hand I really enjoyed oddly. It’s basically a stand alone 9 episode sitcom season, from the guy behind My Name Is Earl. So it’s got the same kind of easy going charm as that (or at least that I remember that having, without having watched it for 15 or so years!) but telling a serialised heist story about a bunch of loveable ex-cons who’re let out of prison early due to Covid. Martha Plimpton is the best thing in it by a mile.
 
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Sprung on the other hand I really enjoyed oddly. It’s basically a stand alone 9 episode sitcom season, from the guy behind My Name Is Earl. So it’s got the same kind of easy going charm as that (or at least that I remember that having, without having watched it for 15 or so years!) but telling a serialised heist story about a bunch of loveable ex-cons who’re let out of prison early due to Covid. Martha Plimpton is the best thing in it by a mile.
Thanks for this, will definitely start watching it tonight. I absolutely loved My Name Is Earl.
 

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Halfway through the first episode of the miniseries ‘Waco - American Apocalypse‘ on Netflix. A bunch of new footage is shown in the first episode. Pretty engrossing. A complete cockup on both sides.
 
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