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    Jennkryst @Coin
    last edited by Jennkryst 11 Mar 2022, 23:48 2 Nov 2022, 18:27

    @Coin The thing is…

    If they HAD cast Mads, he would have shown up able to do everything day one, because of some obscure thing in his past, up to and including potion brewing and slaying actual monsters.

    Edit because I can’t spell.

    Mummy Pun? MUMMY PUN!
    She/her

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      Wizz
      last edited by 24 Nov 2022, 13:53

      GOD DAMN, the Andor finale.

      GOD. DAMN.

      I love this show so much. This is everything I had loved about Star Wars growing up but eventually given up on as the the franchise moved further and further towards the lowest common denominator and cynical nostalgia explotation.

      This isn’t grown manchildren smashing action figures together, it’s artful cinematography and metaphor and philosophy, politics right on the sleeves, it’s relevant and poignant and personal and powerful. I am absolutely shocked Disney produced this and allowed it to air, lol.

      IT’S SO GOOD AHHHHHFNWIFNFWNJFN

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        Tez Administrators @Wizz
        last edited by 24 Nov 2022, 15:56

        @Wizz

        YEEEEEEE. I have been extremely meh on the Star Wars series – and this is as someone who grew up watching the original trilogy RELIGIOUSLY. I could RECITE THEM FROM MEMORY. But none of the series really managed to catch and pull me in. I’m not a big TV person.

        Honestly, I probably would’ve given Andor a pass, too, but one of my friends was SO INTO IT, and the Star Wars / Disney machine is SO MUCH NOT HIS THING that I was surprised enough to pay attention. And man, what a show. I was nagging @Roz all day yesterday to see if she was ready to go watch the finale. Such a solid finale. Such a good show.

        she/they

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          SpaceKhomeini @Wizz
          last edited by SpaceKhomeini 24 Nov 2022, 21:11

          @Wizz

          Rather than rehash everything you said which I 100% agree with, I also wanted to give a shout-out to extremely cool worldbuilding and cultural design in the locales in this series too:

          Space Florida, Ferrix, the mountainous planet with the garrison and the Eye (and the characters who live there) – all of it’s new and all of it just comes alive.

          I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
          I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
          I’ll get onto it when I give a shit

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            oknow
            last edited by oknow 24 Nov 2022, 21:36

            Andor has made me want to dust off my FFG books and run Age of Rebellion again.

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              Jennkryst @oknow
              last edited by 26 Nov 2022, 16:44

              @oknow said in TV series, news, recommendations:

              Andor has made me want to dust off my FFG books and run Age of Rebellion again.

              shoves in the direction of doing the thing, then

              But yeah, Andor very good. There is just the one thing I expected to happen in the finale, which didn’t, but the thing that does happen instead validates the other theory about it I have, so still gets a 12/10.

              Mummy Pun? MUMMY PUN!
              She/her

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                oknow @Jennkryst
                last edited by 26 Nov 2022, 18:29

                @Jennkryst said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                @oknow said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                Andor has made me want to dust off my FFG books and run Age of Rebellion again.

                shoves in the direction of doing the thing, then

                Running a one shot tonight 😃

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                  Rucket
                  last edited by 5 Feb 2023, 03:29

                  Bumping to recommend Last of Us

                  bill and frank

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                    KarmaBum @Rucket
                    last edited by 5 Feb 2023, 03:37

                    @Rucket I’m waiting for the whole series to drop before I re-sub to watch it, but I’m so pumped!!!

                    On Dragon Wings · https://pern.gaslightswitch.com · pern.gaslightswitch.com port 4201

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                      junipersky Administrators
                      last edited by junipersky 2 May 2023, 17:37 5 Feb 2023, 17:26

                      It isn’t TV or even generally accessible but…

                      The play To Kill a Mockingbird is freaking AMAZING.

                      I never want to hear that many white men use a particular racial slur again, but the sheer discomfort it caused really drove home the lesson. We laughed, we cried, I squeezed my husband’s hand hard at particularly stressful moments…

                      It is brilliant art.

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                        Pavel @junipersky
                        last edited by 5 Feb 2023, 20:10

                        @junipersky said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                        I never want to hear that many white men use a particular racial slur again, but the sheer discomfort it caused really drove home the lesson.

                        I can’t remember who said it, though I think it was Jamie Foxx who said something akin to “if we’re going to tell the story of my people, we’re going to have to get used to seeing white people doing horrible shit and saying horrible things.”

                        He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                        BE AN ADULT

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                          Zephyr
                          last edited by Zephyr 2 Jun 2023, 08:34 6 Feb 2023, 08:33

                          I didn’t see it mentioned, and having just finished the first season a few days ago, Severance is something I would recommend. Especially if you like psychological thriller/mystery box things. I am excited to see where it goes with the second season.

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                            Pyrephox Administrators
                            last edited by 6 Feb 2023, 14:39

                            If you like police procedurals, I highly recommend Will Trent. It’s based on a series of mystery novels (that I haven’t read) and it’s real good so far.

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                              Roz @Zephyr
                              last edited by 6 Feb 2023, 15:34

                              @Zephyr said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                              I didn’t see it mentioned, and having just finished the first season a few days ago, Severance is something I would recommend. Especially if you like psychological thriller/mystery box things. I am excited to see where it goes with the second season.

                              Severance is AMAZING. Like — one of the best things I’ve seen in years.

                              she/her | playlist

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                                shit-piss-love @Roz
                                last edited by 6 Feb 2023, 16:05

                                @Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                                Severance is AMAZING. Like — one of the best things I’ve seen in years.

                                Also tricky to recommend to people because the best I can come up with is some version of “You just have to trust me, this show is amazing but I will ruin it by saying pretty much anything.”

                                But I have got like ten people to watch it and now they are all fans of a waffle party.

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                                  Roz @shit-piss-love
                                  last edited by 6 Feb 2023, 16:22

                                  @shit-piss-love said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                                  @Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                                  Severance is AMAZING. Like — one of the best things I’ve seen in years.

                                  Also tricky to recommend to people because the best I can come up with is some version of “You just have to trust me, this show is amazing but I will ruin it by saying pretty much anything.”

                                  I dunno, I find the basic premise – that you learn immediately in the show, nothing that’s spoilery – is already pretty fascinating on its own? Like, I’ll tell people that it’s about people who have their work life and personal life split so that they don’t remember the other side, and that the show explores all of the implications of what that would mean to a person, in life, and in an American workforce, in a really thorough and fascinating way. (That is: it is sci-fi at its very best. Exploring the implications of technology and also using it to comment on our current world.)

                                  she/her | playlist

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                                    Pavel @Roz
                                    last edited by 6 Feb 2023, 16:23

                                    @Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                                    people who have their work life and personal life split so that they don’t remember the other side

                                    That’d be a fucking blessing.

                                    He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                                    BE AN ADULT

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                                      Coin @Pavel
                                      last edited by 6 Feb 2023, 16:24

                                      @Pavel said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                                      @Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                                      people who have their work life and personal life split so that they don’t remember the other side

                                      That’d be a fucking blessing.

                                      There’s a whole show about how it really kind of isn’t…

                                      God, if only I could remember what it was called…

                                      I feel like it’s right there in front of me.

                                      <.<

                                      In Occam I trust.

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                                        shit-piss-love
                                        last edited by 6 Feb 2023, 16:35

                                        See I think even asserting what the show is about in some specific terms takes some of the power out of the many red herrings and competing themes.

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                                          Roz @Pavel
                                          last edited by 6 Feb 2023, 16:36

                                          @Pavel said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                                          @Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                                          people who have their work life and personal life split so that they don’t remember the other side

                                          That’d be a fucking blessing.

                                          Except for your work self. 🙂

                                          @shit-piss-love said in TV series, news, recommendations:

                                          See I think even asserting what the show is about in some specific terms takes some of the power out of the many red herrings and competing themes.

                                          I guess I feel like everything I said is the most basic of descriptions of the premise! And aren’t items that are challenged.

                                          she/her | playlist

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