• trying to find another show

    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Tiny on Wed May 13 02:35:00 2020
    Hello Tiny!

    ** On Tuesday 12.05.20 - 11:39, Tiny wrote to Grim Reaper:

    We binged it last week. Andrea was only off work Monday so that's
    what we did. LOL Now trying to find another show we would both
    enjoy, I get bored VERY easily with shows and give up after a few
    episodes as a rule.

    I was hooked on Ozark. I just finished the most recent season a few days ago. Just like with Breaking Bad, I was anxious to know what was going to happen next. It builds into a complex network of consequences. You are
    left wondering how soemthing is going to play out and what it will set in motion next.

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  • From Tiny@21:1/130 to Ogg on Wed May 13 14:08:14 2020
    Quoting Ogg to Tiny <=-

    I was hooked on Ozark. I just finished the most recent season a few
    days ago. Just like with Breaking Bad, I was anxious to know what was going to happen next. It builds into a complex network of
    consequences. You are left wondering how soemthing is going to play out and what it will set in motion next.

    Andrea liked both those shows too, I lost interest after a few
    episodes. Not sure why, I'll go back and try again one day though.

    Shawn

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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Tiny on Wed May 13 13:03:00 2020
    Hello Tiny!

    ** On Wednesday 13.05.20 - 10:08, Tiny wrote to Ogg:

    I was hooked on Ozark...
    ...Just like with Breaking Bad...

    Andrea liked both those shows too, I lost interest after a few
    episodes. Not sure why, I'll go back and try again one day though.

    It you liked Breaking Bad, someone mentioned that What About Sal (the
    exanded storyline about the corrupt lawyer from Breaking Bad) is an
    equally fine choice.

    What about Westworld? The production values in that one are amazing. It
    is a beautifully re-imagined expansion of the world from the book of the
    same name and a fine nod to the original movie.

    It explores ideas of robots/synthetics/andoids on the road to sentience.
    But there are other interesting subplots that connect with that journey.

    For a similar story about machine intelligence, I thought I AM MOTHER was well done. It's just typical movie length, and therefore a fine complete story that you can watch in one sitting.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Ogg on Wed May 13 11:36:00 2020
    Ogg wrote to Tiny <=-

    What about Westworld? The production values in that one are amazing.
    It is a beautifully re-imagined expansion of the world from the book of the same name and a fine nod to the original movie.

    I'd throw Humans into the mix - I think it was on USA. Interesting take on Robots and sentience.

    I'm going to dig up my old Max Headroom DVD and see how they hold up.


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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed May 13 20:58:00 2020
    Hello poindexter!

    ** On Wednesday 13.05.20 - 07:36, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ogg:

    I'd throw Humans into the mix - I think it was on USA. Interesting take
    on Robots and sentience.

    Thanks! I took a sneak peek of episode one. Looks good.


    I'm going to dig up my old Max Headroom DVD and see how they hold up.

    That was more like a talk show wasn't it? I first recall the MH character introducing music videos or something.

    Today, I learned about the robot dogs they've unleashed in Singapore:

    " Coronavirus: Robot dog enforces social distancing in Singapore park

    A robot dog is patrolling one of Singapore's parks as part of
    coronavirus-related trial.

    The machine - made by US-based Boston Dynamics - is fitted with a camera
    to monitor how busy Bishan-Ang Moh Kio Park becomes.

    It also carries a loudspeaker to broadcast social-distancing messages. "



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  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to Ogg on Thu May 14 02:37:20 2020
    I was hooked on Ozark. I just finished the most recent season a few
    days ago. Just like with Breaking Bad, I was anxious to know what was going to happen next. It builds into a complex network of consequences. You are left wondering how soemthing is going to play out and what it
    will set in motion next.

    Try Yellowstone with Kevin Costner and or Animal Kingdom (I believe on
    Prime, many be netflix ...) both are similar Genre, and both leave you
    hanging each season end. Sons of Anarchy was great too. Lastly, off the top of my head, What about Sal is a good spin off Breaking Bad. It surely starts slow but brings a lot of the same actors and charactors back. This last season, so far, has been the best.

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  • From Tiny@21:1/130 to Ogg on Thu May 14 14:32:44 2020
    Quoting Ogg to Tiny <=-

    For a similar story about machine intelligence, I thought I AM MOTHER
    was well done. It's just typical movie length, and therefore a fine complete story that you can watch in one sitting.

    I'll check this out. Thanks.

    Shawn

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  • From Tiny@21:1/130 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 14 14:56:28 2020
    Quoting poindexter FORTRAN to Ogg <=-

    I'm going to dig up my old Max Headroom DVD and see how they hold up.

    I bought the series from one of those pirate ebay sellers who
    converted them from VHS tv recordings. Prob about 10 years ago now, I
    enjoyed it 10 years ago anyway.

    Shawn

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Tiny on Fri May 15 02:18:00 2020
    I'm going to dig up my old Max Headroom DVD and see how they hold up.

    I bought the series from one of those pirate ebay sellers who

    That'd be a bit ugly.... Max used to be on before Dr Who here... must be ìsomething like 35 years ago.. maybe more... But they never ran the whole ìseries that I'm aware of, I remember seeing the first ep more than once...

    Spec


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  • From Tiny@21:1/130 to Spectre on Thu May 14 18:04:54 2020
    Spectre wrote to Tiny <=-

    That'd be a bit ugly.... Max used to be on before Dr Who here... must

    Yes it is. Watchable though.

    be something like 35 years ago.. maybe more... But they never ran the whole series that I'm aware of, I remember seeing the first ep more
    than once...

    I loved it when I was a kid. (Tween / early teens I guess...)

    Shawn

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Ogg on Thu May 14 12:09:00 2020
    Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I'm going to dig up my old Max Headroom DVD and see how they hold up.

    That was more like a talk show wasn't it? I first recall the MH
    character introducing music videos or something.

    There was a talk show with Max as the host. Max Headroom (the movie) was a dystopian cyberpunk ("20 minutes into the Future") show where television networks run amok. TVs are required to be on 24/7, and it's got some interesting imagery. There was a spinoff series as well.


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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 14 20:21:00 2020
    Hello poindexter!

    ** On Thursday 14.05.20 - 08:09, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ogg:

    There was a talk show with Max as the host. Max Headroom (the movie)
    was a dystopian cyberpunk ("20 minutes into the Future") show where television networks run amok. TVs are required to be on 24/7, and
    it's got some interesting imagery. There was a spinoff series as
    well.

    Ah.. that was outside my radar range then.

    TVs required to be on 24/7? Sounds a lot like Nineteen Eighty-Four -
    George Orwell.

    MH 20min into the Future seems to be available on YT. I will have to give
    it a try. The wiki writeup about it sounds vaguely familiar.

    I had cable-TV back in 1985 in my apartment, but I also spent much more
    time either on my computer or enjoying my new programmable CD player or my first digital ROLAND piano with weighted-keys! Yeah. :D


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  • From Joacim Melin@21:2/130 to Ogg on Sun May 17 01:41:35 2020
    Hello poindexter!

    ** On Thursday 14.05.20 - 08:09, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ogg:

    There was a talk show with Max as the host. Max Headroom (the movie)
    was a dystopian cyberpunk ("20 minutes into the Future") show where
    television networks run amok. TVs are required to be on 24/7, and
    it's got some interesting imagery. There was a spinoff series as
    well.

    Ah.. that was outside my radar range then.

    TVs required to be on 24/7?

    Only during ZMH.

    :)


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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 17 03:17:00 2020
    Hello poindexter!

    ** On Thursday 14.05.20 - 08:09, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ogg:

    There was a talk show with Max as the host. Max Headroom (the movie)
    was a dystopian cyberpunk ("20 minutes into the Future") show where television networks run amok. TVs are required to be on 24/7, and
    it's got some interesting imagery. There was a spinoff series as
    well.

    I saw enough of the "MH - 20 minutes.. future" version posted on YT to remember that I *did* see it at some point many years ago. When they explained the "blipverts" and the experiments on human subjects, I knew
    that I'd seen it.

    I was getting reinvested in the story when all of a sudden the audio
    stopped around the 25:25 point. :(



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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to The Godfather on Sat May 23 03:10:00 2020
    Hello The!

    ** On Wednesday 13.05.20 - 22:37, The Godfather wrote to Ogg:

    Try Yellowstone with Kevin Costner and or Animal Kingdom (I believe on Prime, many be netflix ...) both are similar Genre, and both leave you hanging each season end. Sons of Anarchy was great too.

    They sound like they might work for me. Thanks. The last one goes back
    to 2008 and 7 seasons; that one feels too much to get vested in.

    There are quite many series out there, but not enough free time to watch.


    Lastly, off the top of my head, What about Sal is a good spin off
    Breaking Bad. It surely starts slow but brings a lot of the same
    actors and charactors back. This last season, so far, has been the
    best.

    You mean Better Call Saul? I've heard that it is a very respectable spinoff/continuity to Breaking Bad. I was thoroughly emmersed into
    Breaking Bad. It was the first series that I binge-watched late into the early mornings day after day for several weeks. I was a bit of a wreck at work the next day as I dreamed of operating a lucrative business.


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  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to Ogg on Sat May 23 03:35:16 2020

    Try Yellowstone with Kevin Costner and or Animal Kingdom (I believe o Prime, many be netflix ...) both are similar Genre, and both leave yo hanging each season end. Sons of Anarchy was great too.

    They sound like they might work for me. Thanks. The last one goes back to 2008 and 7 seasons; that one feels too much to get vested in.

    There are quite many series out there, but not enough free time to watch.


    All are good. Yellowstone sounds like a good first to start with, as it's
    only completed Season 2 with a 3rd season approved and ready to release in fall. Ozark, just now into season 3. Sons of Anarchy save for when you have time -- it's an epic story of an organized criminal biker gang. Lots of
    twists and excellent characters. Animal Kingdom I think is finished, but it, weeds, and Ozark are the most like Breaking Bad I had seen, with obvious different angles.

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  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to Ogg on Sat May 23 03:39:20 2020
    You mean Better Call Saul? I've heard that it is a very respectable spinoff/continuity to Breaking Bad. I was thoroughly emmersed into Breaking Bad. It was the first series that I binge-watched late into
    the early mornings day after day for several weeks. I was a bit of a
    wreck at work the next day as I dreamed of operating a lucrative
    business.


    Yes, I always get the name wrong. It's a very good spin off of breaking bad with a lot of the same characters in the show. The show fills in a few gaps, and tends to follow the same time line on occasion, as breaking bad. So the shows tend to intertwine very well. The show, like most good ones, does
    start off slow, but I'm caugth up on the seaasons and personally am glad I
    hung in there. El Camino was a quick one off relating to "What happened to Jesse" from breaking bad as well. It's not a bad watch. Its one short movie. And I too would go into work the next day with those evil thought in my head
    of distributing narcotics through my employers to the home owners we served lol! But, I'd shake the prior nights binge watching out of me and get back
    to the reality of a non profitable business owner.

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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to The Godfather on Sun May 24 17:32:00 2020
    Hello The!

    ** On Friday 22.05.20 - 23:39, The Godfather wrote to Ogg:

    personally am glad I hung in there. El Camino was a quick one off relating to "What happened to Jesse" from breaking bad as well. It's not a bad watch. Its one short movie. And I too would go into work the next day with those evil thought in my head of distributing narcotics through my employers to the home owners we served lol!

    LOL. Me too. I was thinking, that it would be very easy to avoid many of
    the pitfalls that the characters depicted in those stories encountered.


    But, I'd shake the prior nights binge watching out of me and get back
    to the reality of a non profitable business owner.

    I keep shaking my head, but "it" is still in me.

    It irks me to think that actors get away with asking so much for just
    playing pretend and having fun.


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  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to Ogg on Sun May 24 20:20:15 2020
    I keep shaking my head, but "it" is still in me.

    It irks me to think that actors get away with asking so much for just playing pretend and having fun.


    Dammit Ogg, now I'm going to have to binge the show again. Too many awesome memories in that show. The luck Walter and Jessie had was unrealistic and so funny. I'm in .. watching it again. Maybe I'll find a chicken fast food chain to funnel my crack through haha!

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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to The Godfather on Sun May 24 23:11:00 2020
    Hello The!

    ** On Sunday 24.05.20 - 16:20, The Godfather wrote to Ogg:

    I keep shaking my head, but "it" is still in me.

    Dammit Ogg, now I'm going to have to binge the show again. Too many awesome memories in that show. The luck Walter and Jessie had was unrealistic and so funny. I'm in .. watching it again.

    The timing of the "luck" was a lot of fun.

    It was fun to imagine how the characters could get away with hiding their activity from snooping authorities. I liked the suspect-is-right-under- your-nose tension between Walter and his brother-in-law officer.

    Ever see the film Glorious Basterds? There's a fine bar scene that plays
    with that same tension between suspect and officer.

    Infact, the opening scenes in the film between the officer and the family
    man trying to lie inorder to protect the family under the floorboards is
    of equal tension - but not humourous.


    ... Maybe I'll find a chicken fast food chain to funnel my crack
    through haha!

    I thought that that home fumigation service was very clever.

    Ya.. you need a place that normally emits odors such as a cleaner, home fumigation, maybe even a pulp and paper mill.


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  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to The Godfather on Mon May 25 01:26:42 2020

    All are good. Yellowstone sounds like a good first to start with, as it's only completed Season 2 with a 3rd season approved and ready to release
    in fall. Ozark, just now into season 3. Sons of Anarchy save for when you have time -- it's an epic story of an organized criminal biker gang. Lots of twists and excellent characters. Animal Kingdom I think is finished,
    but it, weeds, and Ozark are the most like Breaking Bad I had seen, with obvious different angles.

    Yellowstone is a great show! The just read the new season starts in June.

    Agreed, Ozark and Sons of Anarchy are great. I'm caught up on Ozark and SoA finished awhile back now.

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  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to Ogg on Mon May 25 01:49:36 2020
    The timing of the "luck" was a lot of fun.


    When they got stuck in the house in the desert, with the old dude in the
    wheel chair with the bell (forget his name). Speaking of, I believe it's Better Call Sal that expands on how he got into that chair and learned to use the bell -- an example of BCS being good at filling inbetween the lines of Breaking back.

    their activity from snooping authorities. I liked the suspect-is-right-under- your-nose tension between Walter and his brother-in-law officer.


    Right? To think a school teacher would go open a car wash .. smh.

    Ever see the film Glorious Basterds? There's a fine bar scene that plays with that same tension between suspect and officer.
    Infact, the opening scenes in the film between the officer and the
    family man trying to lie inorder to protect the family under the floorboards is of equal tension - but not humourous.


    I'm not sure if I have, when was it made, is it on netflix?

    I thought that that home fumigation service was very clever.

    Ya.. you need a place that normally emits odors such as a cleaner, home fumigation, maybe even a pulp and paper mill.


    Well a traveling RV is just not my style. Heck, a pig farm should mask the smell.

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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to The Godfather on Mon May 25 02:44:00 2020
    Hello The!

    ** On Sunday 24.05.20 - 21:49, The Godfather wrote to Ogg:

    When they got stuck in the house in the desert, with the old dude in the wheel chair with the bell (forget his name). [...]

    That dude was some ex-mob boss kingpin or something. There was some good stress/tensions truth/dare situations going on there.

    I thought the scenes with the drug addicts and their kid were both funny
    and difficult to watch. The woman who played the wife and hated being
    called a "skank" resembled by appearance a customer of my store. Infact, there are a handful of people I know (including myself) that have doppelgangers I can pick out. But I digress..


    their activity from snooping authorities. I liked the
    suspect-is-right-under- your-nose tension between Walter and his
    brother-in-law officer.

    Right? To think a school teacher would go open a car wash .. smh.

    Or maybe an P.Eng electrical engineer operating a bookshop. Yeah.. right.


    Ever see the film Glorious Basterds? There's a fine bar scene that
    plays with that same tension between suspect and officer. Infact,

    I'm not sure if I have, when was it made, is it on netflix?

    2009. According to google, it lists at Netflix, YT, and GooglePlay.

    And a correction.. the actual title is Inglourious Basterds.


    Ya.. you need a place that normally emits odors such as a cleaner, home
    fumigation, maybe even a pulp and paper mill.

    Well a traveling RV is just not my style. Heck, a pig farm should mask the smell.

    Now YOU are thinking wisely. LOL

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