šŸ“ŗ GOOD SHOWS (no capeshit pls)

I didnt find the film thread.

Trailer for The Revenant ā€¦ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfj1VCg16Y

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Emmanuel Lubezki, first movie to be filmed only with natural light.

Iā€™ve got them on Sky+ ready for a watch.

Personally I think people are quite snobby about South Park, and it is more important as a social commentary piece (due to the way they decide to write episodes) than Family Guy and The Simpsons.

And also, Randy is fucking hilarious!

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Emmanuel Lubezki

I recommend this film

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I think Iā€™m putting Gotham on my list of good shows. Last season had a definite purpose, even if was unwieldy in getting there. This season, Rise of the Villains, has been very good so far, and this is coming from someone that refuses to watch the final seasons of Smallville on a point of youā€™ve-strung-me-along-far-too-long principle.

The show loves to tease the audience. A new character this year is a dead ringer for Batmanā€™s arch-villain Joker, although Iā€™m not certain thatā€™s going to be the case. Proto-joker, maybe. Regardless, Gotham is an unforgiving city; Iā€™ve often been surprised at how much blood is in the series (probably more than in any of the films, barring TDK). Gotham is a good show. There, I said it.

Everyoneā€™s been banging on about it recently, but iā€™d like to add Netflixā€™s own ā€œNarcosā€ to the list. It follows Pablo Escobar from his relatively small beginnings as a smuggler in Colombia through until he became one of the most powerful and wanted criminals in the world. The trailer below portrays the show as much more glitzy and glamorous than it really is, but I couldnā€™t find a trailer that accurately depicts the mood of it all. Itā€™s brutal, bloody, violent and fucking brilliant.

Iā€™d also like to add in that Wagner Moura (as Escobar) is phenomenal, have followed his career since I saw ā€œElite Squadā€ a few years ago and hope that he gets a good name from this show.

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Warning, this is a documentary and some of you may have seen it before.

Oliver Stoneā€™s Untold history of the United States. Itā€™s a ten episode run, ranging from the end of the second world war to Obama. Like most histories, heā€™s had to pick and choose what to include, but even so, itā€™s a very decent primer into the sort of shenanigans that the US has gotten up to since the end of the second world war.

Thisā€™ll be no surprise to anyone, but the vast majority of its military actions have certainly been immoral, many even illegal. Many, including Iran in 1953, were simply about advancing the interests of US companies, 50 years before the invasion of Iraq.

If nowt else, the show does put the lie to the idea that the US lost its moral authority over Iraq. Some estimates put the number of foreign nationals killed by US military actions since WW2 as high as 30 million. This show, with its examination of how the US has essentially been bang at it for seven decades, gives you a good idea of how it happened.

I 2nd Narcos as the best drama of the year. Funniest comedy by a mile was ā€˜people just do nothingā€™, very well made and acted. I have never seen a funnier or more accurate depiction of doing pills than they did in the final episode. Very pleased to hear they were given the contract for a 3rd and 4th series.

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The Spaced episode where they all go clubbing is pretty sweet, Tokes.

Iā€™ll check it out.

Doctor Foster was very good. It was interesting to have a main character in a difficult situation that wasnt played symathetically.

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Truth and lies.

Funny Bazza put up Narcos first and it got slated, the sheep are well on it now though, I moved on baby, moved on.

Yo TedMaul, this is television, not movies.

I actually feel for you. You must go to cinemas expecting to see Eastenders or summat. Disappointed every time.

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Funny Bazza put up Narcos first and it got slated, the sheep are well on it now though, I moved on baby, moved on.

It was very well received once people had watched it. Stop being a meff.

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River seems to have potential - Sixth Sense meets Swedish Noir

Chabuddy G is one of my favourite TV characters in ages. Love PJDN, though watched 1 ep with the gf and she just did not get it. Perhaps it just doesnā€™t work as well for people that didnā€™t grow up in (North-) West London, listening to pirate garage radio stations. Who knows?

Also, fair play Bazz. You called it. Narcoā€™s is pretty darn good. Brutal right from the offset.

People judge a book by its cover, a bit racist and judgemental if you ask me.