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"the cops in medellin have an old saying 'be careful when you work here because lots of people get shot in drug-related crimes'"

this show sounds kind of offensive

lol are these real voiceovers.

ffs no of course not!

apart from this one which is almost verbatim: "one thing you learn in columbia is that good and bad are just... relative concepts"

there wasn't anything else that awful in the rest of the show.

oh apart from: "the columbians have a word for pablo escobar. 'loco'. i believe it means 'mountain goat'."

good and bad are always relative concepts
this sounds like a really cartoonish version of colombia

the cockroaches one (which is said twice) is p.bad

good and bad are always relative concepts

yeah that was why i said this was awful upthread...

it actually isn't really that cartoonish to be fair to it, it's quite respectful to a really violent time - i mean i'm basing that on having seen documentaries of the same story, i dunno if there are stereotypical myths or slants about pablo escobar and his story.

I think this should have been a mini-series tbh, some more talented writers could have wrapped this whole story in 8 eps without dragging it on for S2.

Why does the series start with wiki about magical realism? Does Escobar turn into a swarm of flies at the end?

i am definitely watching if that's the case

Yeah I can't believe they're doing a second season, I assumed it was a mini-series.

lol the "Narcos" narration is like some hardboiled gibberish generated by a screenwriting app: "Scientists say that after a nuclear holocaust the only living things that will survive are the cockroaches. Well, I guess they were wrong." O? So when the DEA dropped an atomic bomb on Columbia Pablo Escobar crawled out from under a pile of bodies? That's weird because I thought he was dead by gunshot.

Loved This Ain't California a part? half? totally? fake doc(mock)umentary about skateboarding the East Germany in the 80s. Great footage, fake footage, editing, and hilarity.

the cockroaches one (which is said twice) is p.bad

This is relevant though b/c it refers to a guy known as La Cucaracha, whose survival of an attempted execution sets events in motion.

Hadn't seen any Joe Swanberg movies in a while (I think the last one I saw had Greta Gerwig in it), but "Happy Christmas" was a pleasant surprise.

agreed

yes

"Drinking Buddies" is even better than "Happy Christmas," IMO.

Finally finished How To Survive A Plague. was in bits, it is great

HATED Drinking Buddies

Tdno more pingu???? :(

Tdno more pingu???? :(

Aw damn, that's a bummer. Pingu was a favorite of ours for a while. We had a similar thing happen a few months ago when they reduced their Dinosaur Train offerings to just one season.

Danger Mouse, guys. Give it a try.

It's a bit anglo but

they added Walerian Borowczyk's The Beast (1975) & Immoral Women (1979)

The Beast is a movie that you won't forget in a hurry

They're both extraordinary films.

Though possibly not a suitable alternative to Pingu.

watched that wes anderson movie with rufus this morning. the moon one. we enjoyed it. in a low-key way. i did love the look of the whole thing.

it doesn't really require much in the way of an emotional response from the viewer. which i appreciated because it was early and i was groggy.

it's great! it was the best Anderson movie in a long time by my count. the kids in it gave good fun performances

Wait does that mean you didn't like Fantastic Mr Fox?!?!

That's his best movie imo and the run after it is all pretty good. Before FMF I only really like Royal Tennenbaums.

I didn't like FMF except the actual animation & modelling. moonrise is my favorite of recent years

i admire how much effort he puts into things. i get all the twee salinger criticisms of his stuff, and he has probably inspired a lot of bad ukulele covers of french ye-ye songs but that's not his fault. i didn't like the one on the train. but i remember liking bottle rocket and rushmore and tennenbaums when they were out. i never saw the aquatic one or the hotel one. but i would totally watch them if they were on netflix. they work better if you just look at them as an art project. instead of great drama/storytelling/acting/etc. it is weird how the moonrise movie was so often on the VERGE of being funny, but then pulled back at the last second. very measured. seems like it should have been more madcap than it was. it did remind me of a weird old kid's book sorta. those kid's book covers in the movie were inspired.

the 4 yr old is obsessed with Puffin Rock, an Irish animated show. Puffins with Irish accents hanging out on an island having various chill adventures. thumbs up!

What seems bizarre is that Netflix's predictions of what star ratings I'd give things are usually very accurate, to within half a star, and yet its recommendation engine just keep shovelling up crap to me that it fully expects me to give 2 stars to, and that I'd only watch with a gun to my head.

There's another Irish animated show your kid might like then, nomar: http://www.jakers.co.uk/parentsteachers/program/images/slide_1.jpg

That Puffin Rock thing is made by the same animation studio that made Song of the Sea and Secret of the Kells! Neat.

"Piggly winks" just seems to be the cutest possible combination of syllables.

Watched 'The One I Love' tonight, really liked it. Mark Duplass was just okay but Elisabeth Moss was outstanding. Did a great job of ratcheting up the tension.

started watching Person Of Interest. so far so ridiculous. but i dig it. in a comic book way. whatshisface really does sound like he's auditioning for Batman.

― scott seward, Friday, September 4, 2015 5:32 AM (1 month ago)

haha i've been watching this now ... he totally does this Clint Eastwood as Batman thing with his voice ... otm.

thanks for that recommendation, James!

Beasts Of No Nation is alright, quite moving at times and some brilliant young actors in it. I felt like it could have been more powerful if it was a bit more historically specific. Elba's performance was charismatic enough but I didn't find his character one iota convincing. Abraham Attah on the other hand, this kid was brilliant.

Watched Your Sister's Sister last night - Mark Duplass is just meh everyman as usual but Rosemarie DeWitt and Emily Blunt are quite good.

I still don't understand Mark Duplass is.. a thing

I want to like him, he used to be funny on The League and his WTF/Maron interview pointed to him having good intentions as a writer/director/performer, but he's terribly limited.

For sure, just goes as a sort of wide-eyed dude. Gotta imagine he's different in "Creep," though.

Love him on Mindy and that movie e Elizabeth Moss.

pretty much the same guy in that movie and Your Sister's Sister (and from what I gather most of his own films)

turns out that mumblecore-y (Joe Swanberg, Lynn Shelton, etc.) stuff is right up my alley when it looks half decent.