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Tuomas should do finnish->english subtitles and workshop it on ilx

Years ago, we literally stumbled into an open house at the EU in Belgium, and they tossed us in an English tour group that was just us and a bunch of Hungarians, because apparently it's really, really hard to find Hungarian translators.

found this in the back room. just need to get the victrola working and i'll be speaking Finnish like a turn of the century pro!

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And yeah, in the 20th century there were some theories about Finnish and/or Hungarian being related to Japanese (and a bunch of other isolates) but the linguistic evidence is not there. Crackpot theory is an unkind term, but, well... language origins are a very fertile field for crackpot theories. Japanese used to be considered an isolate, but nowadays it is part of the Japonic family along with a dozen or so related Ryukyuan languages (all spoken in Japan, most of them moribund).

Pumping Iron is weird and fascinating - I didn't expect it to be so placidly verité, I do wish they'd gone into the audience a bit more because it didn't look like many aspiring bodybuilders were cheering them on. What drives you to become a fan of bodybuilding if you don't participate in it at all?

I have some theories

Deborah Winger and Sam Elliot are so wasted on The Ranch

I mean their talents are wasted, although I guess they are in a bar a lot

i would never watch that but i'm glad they are getting a paycheck.

i wish one of you guys would watch Easy Living. i don't know anyone who watches it. doesn't anyone need a new t.v. show to watch?

i love the incremental one-step-forward-one-step-back movement of the bad things that happen to this family. it's very life-like. i like the 2nd season even better than the first too. which is always a good sign.

who's airing?

Color of noise amrep doc, damned doc, and wfmu doc now all up on Amazon prime.

"who's airing?"

easy living? well, three seasons are on netflix. it's on some cable channel in the states, i think. but i don't know about cable.

i will look into it.

watched the first season on your rec, Scott. really like it, though I was concerned that it lost a little momentum towards the end (while agreeing with you on the non-linear path being a strength). glad to hear season 2 is good.

oh good someone watched it!

the 2nd season is cool because both mom and dad have jobs and watching them interact with normal people is almost always awkward and entertaining.

Not Netflix, but Mr Robot will be available to stream on Amazon Prime June 13th. I've been wanting to check that show out.

OOooooohhh thank you!! That is a great tip

I just started season 2 of Gommorah, it is nothing spesh just more violent Naples mafia soap opera, but shot in magnificently real urban desolation locations and wonderfully bloody.

Ok Lady Dynamite is starting to win me over

not til month's end, but that fgti-scored semi-James Dean film Life is coming to N'flix

the kids and i really enjoyed watching angie tribeca on hulu last night. love rashida so much. a sledge hammer! for a new generation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKivuQ4HpF4

i tried it but the jokes didn't really bite for me somehow? i dunno i usually love this sort of thing. maybe i just wasn't in the right mood.

scott if you liked that you should really try to, uh, obtain A Touch Of Cloth. unfortunately they only made two of them (or was it three?) but each one is as long as a movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0FDAqS0Wy4

i would watch that. i kinda liked that angie tribeca wasn't non-stop sex jokes and was just silly. though i haven't watched them all yet. i don't want everything to be Airplane humor, but i thought it was a nice homage.

touch of cloth does occasionally veer too far into gross-out sex jokes. but the first one is near-perfect imo.

Touch Of Cloth is the best of its kind since Police Squad

I can't believe none of you folks aren't raving about the stylish Italian organised crime series Gomorra.
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did anyone recommend the Ali Wong special yet? it is funny as fuck

so the italian show is based on the movie? i still haven't watched the movie yet. which is on netflix.

This kicks off in July. The only reason I've known about it for so long is that it filmed in my little Atlanta 'burb (and further out in the boonies). But even if that hadn't been the case, I'd watch the hell out of it. Spooky mystery show starring Winona Ryder!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxyRG_tckY

xp

it is a spinoff from the movie, but the only thing it shares with the movie is the theme of organised crime and the criminal hierarchy on the mean streets of Naples. I didn't think the movie was any great shakes tbh, the series however - I'm finding quite addictive.

Stumbled onto Hinterlands - I'm only one ep in but it's good & bleak & basically all i want in a murder mystery detective show

Trophy Kids. Brutal. Parents are assholes.

ok hinterlands took a left turn into pointlesstown, it's not as great as first thought

so i tried Happy Valley instead
YES

Love happy valley

the end of episode 4 / start of episode 5 of the first series of happy valley has stuck with me, the brutality and the way they handled it.

haven't watched season 2 yet but season 1 of happy valley is amazing

yeah it's great

I've watched a few episodes of the new Voltron series:

a) I did not expect to laugh so much at it. Hunk especially is genuinely funny to me.
b) I did not expect Hunk, Pidge and Lance to actually have personalities or to be anything more than background wallpaper, as that's how I remember them from the original show
c) I'm enjoying the hell out of it

Lady Dynamite is something special imo. Not a show you'd binge-watch tho

Comet w/ Justin Long & Emmy Rossum by the guy who created Mr. Robot. Got terrible reviews and I see why (very Eternal Sunshine+500 Days of Summer+mumblecore) but it was strangely compelling.

i keep getting stuck on happy valley. i've started it twice. get a little further each time though. i'll go back to it. kinda reminds me of a laughless fargo.

i still haven't finished lady dynamite either.

i started watching southland on hulu...

i was impressed with the episodes of southland i watched because i actually got nervous/scared watching a stupid california cop show. there is that jittery random violence energy to it.

also they opened the first episode of the first season of Southland with just the intro of "School" by Supertramp and that is something i totally would have done. if i had been in the position to do it.

the morton downey jr. doc is worth a watch. never heard of the guy before, a total piece of shit but fascinating all the same

well consider yrself lucky

you might be lucky to have missed his reign of terror. certainly the genesis of a lot of american t.v. ugliness. i never missed his show.

lucky x-post

Never heard of Morton Downey Jr. before (we never got those kinda shows in Finland), but reading at the Wikipedia description of his show, I was wondering, is that what Weird Al Yankovic was parodying in UHF?

Was it an episode of Morton where racist pos Th0m M3tzger got enjoyably strangled on set?