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the trailer looked pretty good

i hate the royals as a phenomenon but anachronistically I find the history interesting somehow idk i can't explain it

i liked the Queen movie w helen mirren so will watch this

the trailer was very long. i don't doubt that its good. or at least entertaining. i might try it. i mean i read lots of fiction about snooty rich people. same kinda deal just with fancier capes. QEII always seemed a little boring to me though.

On the outside seemingly, but queening through wartime always interested me. Plus the transition from Lizzy to Queen Lizzy is a pretty big leap i would imagine

Plus being married to a man whose mum literally thought she had fucked jesus

i don't know if i need to see The Crown. i'm not much of a royal watcher. plus, i know how it ends.

― scott seward, Saturday, 5 November 2016 05:03 (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

neither am i, but the story of this particular person being told as a biography of an incredibly powerful and driven woman (i.e. not told by creepy "royal watchers" with 600 union flags and floppy hair) could be thoroughly fascinating, and the planned 60-hour running time might make a lot of sense given her activities and influence over the best part of a century

btw i hope they eventually cover prince phillip being named Sir Prince Phillip of Australia

i started watching this. the nyt review that mentioned the DEADLY FOG OF LONDON was the clincher. i'm a sucker for mostly forgotten historical DEADLY FOGS.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160611125604-queen-in-green-super-169.jpg

Not getting lost in a deadly fog in that get up

plus i quite like the casting of matt smith as phillip, seems a good call

also AA otm: that's what i think i was trying and failing to articulate. the story of queen lizzy the woman is a historical/dramatic sense is way more interesting to me than fawning bullshitty Queen Elizabeth In a Silk Twinset & Fabulous Hat With Nine Corgis In Tow Oh So Fascinating blehhhhhh

otm, also afaict they'll replace claire foy with someone older as they get to her later years, indicating just how enormous an undertaking this is. (nb: i know bugger-all else about the modern monarchy apart from one of them apparently having a popular arse)

i actually wiki-ed the whole family while i was watching this. i want the epic movie about phil's mom who james mentioned above!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg

Both he and Simmel consulted Sigmund Freud who believed that the princess's delusions were the result of sexual frustration. He recommended "X-raying her ovaries in order to kill off her libido." Princess Andrew protested her sanity and repeatedly tried to leave the asylum.

Alice was born in the Tapestry Room at Windsor Castle in Berkshire in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.

just read the world war II part of her wiki thing. wooo! now there's a movie. your four daughters marry nazi royalty and your son marries the queen of england.

also, she was deaf. she was pretty amazing.

also: king george's brother Edward WAS king but stepped down bc he was more into hooking up with married wallis wotsername

it's all peyton place x 100

In the royal archives at Windsor castle there is no access to any political material post 1918, great bunch of people these nazi loving Saxe Coburgs.

Only watching The Crown if it ends with an extraordinarily graphic guillotining of all the royals.

Having watched the first two episodes, I think it's really good (and god knows I hate the concept of royal families as much as anyone). Well written, well acted, and a good deal more sumptuous than the usual Netflix two-people-talking-in-a-dark-room setup. I like the use of smoking and cancer, not just as a foreshadowing device, but as a mark of character: Elizabeth doesn't smoke, and the first thing Phillip does when they get married is to give it up. It's a nice bit of shorthand for their relationship. I also liked the fact that when they were on their way back from Kenya, nobody said, "while we're in the air, everything is still the way it was," even though that's obviously what they're thinking. It makes a nice change from the heavy handed DO YOU SEE writing on things like Downton Abbey and Poldark, where no scene ever carries on longer than is necessary to convey a key plot point, and nothing goes unspoken.

Also John Lithgow is an amazing Winston Churchill.

I'm not sure republicanism/pro-monarchy matters much here. I've read biographies of every monarch over the past few centuries - multiple of some - and I'm nostalgic for guillotines. They're useful for understanding history. Plus, most lives are interesting.

might wanna start a Crown thread? i dunno, it's no luke cage i guess.

liked the part with phillip being a dick in africa. it's a crown, asshole. but then he faced down a wild elephant so he's a dick and kinda foolhardy. two sides to every person.

Philip is the royals equivalent of children swearing - for some reason everyone goes 'aw, bless'.

Crown thread here:
But Will There Be Corgis? Thread Where We Discuss Netflix's THE CROWN

Trepalium is *great* SF - it's French though - probably only available in France. Find it if you can.

Premise: In the future there is only enough work for 20% of the population. A massive wall is built separating them from the other 80%. The latter live in rags and misery. The former live in sleek apartments and wear ridiculous outfits. A reforming politician strikes a deal with terrorists from the 80% who have been holding a government minister hostage for the last 10 years. They release the minister, and in exchange the elites agree to take 60,000 "non-workers" to live on the other side of the wall (doing what is not quite yet clear).

It's basically Hunger Games meets Donald Trump and I love it

also Black Book (Verhoeven) just got added

I really enjoyed the Herzog Into The Inferno doc. That French couple that liked to calmly wander next to swirling vortexes of lava death have already haunted my thoughts for years.

that colin quinn new york special made me laugh. "you sleep in the back of the hardware store and smell like cut keys."

Icelandic procedural "Case"
Started out good but devolved into predictable stupidity by the end. Hella grim tho

Are there any good Netflix kid shows?

Mine love some of the Amazon ones like Gortimer Gibbons and Just Add Magic so was wondering if Netflix have anything similar.

(They're looking forward to Lemony Snicket in January).

It's almost 100% garbage iirc

Octonauts is good

has anyone watched the OA

i was thinking about it. supposed to be pretty weird.

i'm more excited that horace & pete is on hulu.

i finally watched most of The Wave but after the wave hit i lost interest. i LOVED before the wave hit though. just because of the awesome mountain scenery. so beautiful.

oh and cyrus and i started watching Colony which isn't great but it's watchable. starring whatshisface from Lost. it's a carlton cuse thing.

Tv series:
Occupied is really good.
Also really liked Fauda.

Did anyone watch the Japanese reality show Terrace House? Six people living in a house, going to work, going on dates, etc. Each cast member is free to leave the show whenever they want, and someone new is brought in. It's not great - I couldn't see myself watching an equivalent American or Canadian show - but from a North American perspective I'm finding it interesting just because of its being from Japan. I like not getting the jokes and pop culture references.

xp

I liked that Okkupert series as well, if you mean the same one. Season 2 isn't coming till Fall '17 which is taking the piss a bit imo.

"the Russian ambassador to Norway, told Russian News Agency TASS that "It is certainly a shame that, in the year of the 70th anniversary of the victory in World War II, the authors have seemingly forgotten the Soviet Army's heroic contribution to the liberation of northern Norway from Nazi occupiers, decided, in the worst traditions of the Cold War, to scare Norwegian spectators with the nonexistent threat from the east."

obv the Russians are not big fans

yes, that one!

The Wailing is great!

the best horror movie of the year for me.

isn't anyone gonna watch Barry?

anyone watching or planning to watch OA?

it looks kinda interesting. I just finished Kettering Incident on Amazon Prime & the OA trailer gives me a similar vibe

Planning to watch OA here :) Anything that divides critics seems worth a shot.

it got some interesting reviews online. that made it sound interesting. and mysterious...

def planning on watching the OA

watched Spectral last night and it definitely hit a "b-list but p entertaining pulp-ish sci-fi" sweetspot for me

Has anyone been able to get through the first episode of the OA? The dialogue is particularly awful.

ok maybe i dont like the OA. dialogue is so bad... can someone else watch more eps and report back

I just noticed it's a Brit Marling joint. I really don't like the other stuff she's written that I've seen.

i liked it okay. although the most exciting part for me was when the opening credits started rolling 60 minutes into the first episode. the end of the first episode is cool. when she starts to tell her story.