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i think that's a pretty good translation tbf! "merde" not as strong as "shit", said around children with impunity

in this instance he *definitely* meant shit

they just translated something else as "blimey" -- sadly it was on a grainy and blurry bit of video the flics were watching so i couldn't make out what was being said

"oh la vache!!"

yes it might be!

if it was my father-in-law it would definitely have been "putain"

everyone should be watching this:
EASY LIVING/HELPPO ELÄMÄ: let's go do some (finnish) crimes

it's good not bad

don't normally have the patience for Korean dramas but am finding the supernatural/crime show "Black" strangely compelling - about a girl who can see death and a guy who's possessed by death. First few episodes are uneven and confusing (iirc the second episode was actively bad) but the way it juggles multiple genres at once is kinda entertaining: it's basically a supernatural thriller, crime procedural, family tragedy, conspiracy drama and rom-com all rolled into one. Also every episode has about 23402908243 subplots.

Friend of mine recommended Dark, which was discussed upthread. Will give Black a try as well, I guess.

We've been watching the french comedy 'Au Service de France' (A very secret service). On the one hand there are some great jokes about bureaucracy and the importance of rubber stamps on the other using 19060s Algeria and the things the french got up to as a situation for comedy seems to, at best, display a complete lack of sensitivity. I was trying to think of a UK analogy and it seems a bit like setting a sitcom in a Derry RUC squad in the 70s.

Where the fuck is OCCUPIED series 2?

quite tempted by CSIC, a CSI knock-off set in taiwan -- tho a few minutes acquaintance suggests it's a bit too wacky office-humour-based

(ie like o/g CSI became)

i went with WHEN A SNAIL FALLS IN LOVE aka 如果蜗牛有爱情;, which has been a huge hit in china and worldwide

DARK should have been called German Things
also it was not very good

agreed :/

i got a pleasingly tart alg-referral for DARK: "In a small town fraught with sins and secrets, history repeats itself in terrifying ways. It's happening again." Because of your interest in FRIENDS

WHEN A SNAIL FALLS IN LOVE has very watchable low-key location work in various chinese cities (also in myanmar acc. the internet) interspersed so far w/not very interesting stylised but unambitious martial arts sequences in which the main cop defeats all-comers

also a bit too much in-office comedy business, stop trying to make me laugh non-english-speaking world, that's what ilx is for

there is also a siow-burn romance promised between the main boy-cop (lean, rugged, moody, fighter) and the main girl-cop (slight, clever, warily watchful, psychological profiler)

(everything about this -- its rhythms, uits mix of elements, what it highlights as the interesting crimes* to be focused on -- is different enough from TV i routinely watch that i am already hooked) (it is not much like noir -- too silly a lot of the time -- and it seems mesmerised by fanciness)

*e.g. someone has buried a load of fine-art imitation antique papercutters in parks and playing fields, where people are cutting themselves

good long tense perp-follow where all the girlcop has to grip onto is a big wrench: she's not armed (tho the way she's filmed toting it is very gun-like)

(are chinese cops routinely armed? i have no idea -- more just turned up who do have guns)

ok lol that rescue initiative could have ended very disastrously

luxury, criminal decadence, martial-arts cops and profiling on the streets of the people's republic of china: WHEN A SNAIL FALLS IN LOVE

^^^more ppl shd be watching this!

2 episodes into Babylon Berlin -- 1929 Germany, political intrigue, Expat Trotskyists, PTSD cops, urban squalor, art deco cabaret stuff -- some odd musical choices w/Bryan Ferry involved.

I still don't understand why it defaults to playing the dubbed version rather than the German w/subtitles

a russian netflix show i for some reason cannot quite bring myself to commit to, even tho it sounds interesting = ]FARTSA: "as four Russian friends grow up in the early 60s, life, love and the curse of success threaten to derail their dreams" :(

Babylon Berlin is great, defaulting to subtitles with me.

Odd musical choices indeed. The singalong cabaret song in the second episode felt very modern and out of place.

Looks really great, though.

The singalong cabaret song in the second episode felt very modern and out of place.

yes, and now it is the closing music for all the episodes that follow (at least the next two) -- I can't really read the credits anyway, so ... I think a lot of it is the mix between vocals and instruments, or ... idk, it's like the dialog dubbing with most things, there's something really off.

And yet the gay club in episode 4 has some great and seemingly fitting jazz going on.

tt and I have discovered Kantaro independently of Scott and Ed but found them to be rapturous about it on here

it's probably the greatest television programme ever made

Dark seemed ok for 3 eps. Does it get bad later?

(lol @ German things tho, even one of the male leads looks like Steve!)

tt and I have discovered Kantaro independently of Scott and Ed but found them to be rapturous about it on here

it's probably the greatest television programme ever made

― imago, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 11:54 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kanataro popped up on tokyo morning tv when we over there last month. He is a classically trained kabuki actor specialising in female roles. The segment showed him going back to his roots in the theatre.

I ate anmitsu in his honour and also went to the chocolate shop, Minimal that he visits in episode 11.

OTCB looks good. Cop show set in pre-handover Hong Kong. Only tested 5 minutes but they had me at archival footage of a plane landing at Kai Tak.

probably should give Babylon Berlin a whirl, it will no doubt feel like slumming it after watching the searing masterpiece Alexanderplatz last year, but let's give it a chance.

MARSEILLE s2 is on netflix uk

the overhead shots of the city are so exciting (i love marseille)

I am so thrilled the new Terrace House will be on netflix soon.

Yes!! I watched everything that’s on Netflix in the space of a month. We need a Terrace House thread. Ryota Yamasato is the best presenter of all time.

All of the hosts have such great chemistry together.

I think my favourite stretch so far was the Nacchan episodes. She was good at stirring up shit.

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I know - such a perfect balance of perspectives. I love how Yu and Tokui play down their lasciviousness for Torichan’s benefit, and Kentaro’s frequent mute horror.

I feel like just watching Han-san made me a better person in dealing with difficult people.

Han-san! Otm. What an amazing presence. I’m still not over his departure. Minori taught me how being brazenly belligerent in the face of anything is actually a reasonable way to get by.

The meat incident was unforgivable though.

I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one taking personality tips from Han-San.

There's some episode where Tokui off-handedly mentions wanting to 'touch Kentaro's man parts' (something like that) that just killed me.

That was amazing. How he sort of casually enacted it too. My phone is full of screenshots of TH.

Even how You was groping Reina as an example of older people trying to relive their youth. I was like, ummmm.... well yeah, it's a bit different in asian and with women.

What was Han-san saying when they were going to confront Nacchan? It was so amazingly good. I am going to look for it tomorrow because everyone should memorize it.