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OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, Teachers & More!! - Part 3

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Re: OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, and More! Part 3 

Post#321 » by Bad-Thoma » Thu Jan 26, 2023 4:32 am

shackles10 wrote:Super slow at work so who’s got movie/show recommendations? I’ve got Netflix, HBOMax, Peacock, and a directv login at my disposal.


If you like dark Sci-Fi I've been re-watching "Nightflyers" on Netflix, it's a single season series based on a George R.R. Martin short story. It's a little like Stephen King rewriting an Asimov story which may not be for everyone but it's original. It's pretty gruesome at times.
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Re: OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, and More! Part 3 

Post#322 » by shackles10 » Thu Jan 26, 2023 4:37 am

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shackles10 wrote:Super slow at work so who’s got movie/show recommendations? I’ve got Netflix, HBOMax, Peacock, and a directv login at my disposal.


Who knows what you're into (TLOU yes), but I've been getting everybody I can on The North Water.

If you do, strongly recommend subtitles.


Snow day here in the Midwest kept me busy with the kids but I’ll check it out tomorrow… subtitles for the accents?
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Re: OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, and More! Part 3 

Post#323 » by Wes-J » Thu Jan 26, 2023 5:03 am

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shackles10 wrote:Super slow at work so who’s got movie/show recommendations? I’ve got Netflix, HBOMax, Peacock, and a directv login at my disposal.


Who knows what you're into (TLOU yes), but I've been getting everybody I can on The North Water.

If you do, strongly recommend subtitles.


Snow day here in the Midwest kept me busy with the kids but I’ll check it out tomorrow… subtitles for the accents?


Same, here in the Midwest also.

Yes the accents are pretty strong. Episode 1 is critical. It's a short series, only 5 episodes. You can do the free trial for AMC via Amazon. Enjoy!
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Re: OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, and More! Part 3 

Post#324 » by shackles10 » Thu Jan 26, 2023 1:32 pm

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Who knows what you're into (TLOU yes), but I've been getting everybody I can on The North Water.

If you do, strongly recommend subtitles.


Snow day here in the Midwest kept me busy with the kids but I’ll check it out tomorrow… subtitles for the accents?


Same, here in the Midwest also.

Yes the accents are pretty strong. Episode 1 is critical. It's a short series, only 5 episodes. You can do the free trial for AMC via Amazon. Enjoy!


Looks like I can watch season 1 through Directv. That’s the log in swap I have with my parents… they get my Netflix, HBOMax, and my dad has my League Pass so he can watch games when I’m not and I get their directv for the ESPN and TNT games.
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Post#325 » by Wes-J » Thu Jan 26, 2023 1:44 pm

That's cool there's only the one season.
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Re: OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, and More! Part 3 

Post#326 » by shackles10 » Thu Jan 26, 2023 4:45 pm

Wes-J wrote:That's cool there's only the one season.


Uhhh interesting start for a show to watch at work :lol: :lol: . Thank God I had AirPods in!
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Re: OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, and More! Part 3 

Post#327 » by bisme37 » Fri Jan 27, 2023 8:50 pm

I spent a few weeks watching stuff that ended up being "just ok" but I found a few good ones this week and have preliminary recommendations. (Preliminary just because I haven't finished them yet.)

If you like detective mystery stuff C.B. Strike is really good. I believe it was a Cinemax/BBC show but now it's on HBO. There are 4 or 5 seasons but it's cool because they are only 2-4 episodes each, so it's kinda like a series of movies about each new case to be solved. The story is quite good and I got involved and invested in the characters very quickly, which is often a missing element in these types of shows.

I checked Mayfair Witches out mainly just to see my foxy gf Alexandra Daddario haha, but it's really good so far. It's a rare Anne Rice story with no vampires. And it's not especially witchy either really, in the sense that no one cackles and wears pointy hats lol. I guess I would describe it as a mysterious supernatural drama. I'm 3 episodes in and pretty hooked. On AMC.

One more... a western called That Dirty Black Bag. I've only seen the first episode but it was very good and I'm looking forward to more. It was an AMC+ exclusive but now they're airing it on regular AMC too.
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Re: OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, and More! Part 3 

Post#329 » by shackles10 » Sat Jan 28, 2023 12:08 am

Any Black Keys/Dan Auerbach fans? The Arcs new album dropped today. Like their other album it’s not blown me away, but I have a feeling it will grow on me and in 6 months I’ll know all the words and not know how.
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Re: OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, and More! Part 3 

Post#330 » by fallguy » Sat Jan 28, 2023 12:18 am

Dopesick is fantastic and rage-inducing. Great cast - Keaton, Sarsgaard, Stuhlbarg, Devers.

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Post#331 » by Bad-Thoma » Sat Jan 28, 2023 1:04 am

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bisme37 wrote:The Menu is delicious! Recent movie with Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy. Free on HBO now.

Hard to describe lol. Starts out as a dark comedy about a star chef and his fancy restaurant and the customers. Goes absolutely off the rails and turns into suspense/horror.

I thought it was amazing. Highly recommended if it sounds like your thing.


Fiennes and Taylor-Joy are brilliant in this.

Absolutely fantastic film.


I just finally got around to watching this, it was fantastic. I know as fellow Celtics fans you all have impeccable taste so I'm not surprised.
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Post#332 » by bigfoot_cryptozoology » Sat Jan 28, 2023 2:12 am

Definitely a magician...

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Post#333 » by bucknersrevenge » Sat Jan 28, 2023 5:58 am

fallguy wrote:Dopesick is fantastic and rage-inducing. Great cast - Keaton, Sarsgaard, Stuhlbarg, Devers.



It was both fantastic and rage-inducing for SO many reasons. Later on the oxy epidemic was finally treated as the health crisis that it truly was. If only the crack epidemic had been treated similarly. Weird that was treated so differently.
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Post#334 » by Ed Pinkney » Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:18 pm

bucknersrevenge wrote:
fallguy wrote:Dopesick is fantastic and rage-inducing. Great cast - Keaton, Sarsgaard, Stuhlbarg, Devers.



It was both fantastic and rage-inducing for SO many reasons. Later on the oxy epidemic was finally treated as the health crisis that it truly was. If only the crack epidemic had been treated similarly. Weird that was treated so differently.



I live on the other side of the world and I’m pretty sure I understand why crack and opioids have been approached so differently in the US. It doesn’t seem that weird.
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Post#335 » by bucknersrevenge » Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:46 pm

Ed Pinkney wrote:
bucknersrevenge wrote:
fallguy wrote:Dopesick is fantastic and rage-inducing. Great cast - Keaton, Sarsgaard, Stuhlbarg, Devers.



It was both fantastic and rage-inducing for SO many reasons. Later on the oxy epidemic was finally treated as the health crisis that it truly was. If only the crack epidemic had been treated similarly. Weird that was treated so differently.



I live on the other side of the world and I’m pretty sure I understand why crack and opioids have been approached so differently in the US. It doesn’t seem that weird.


I'm sorry, I was attempting poorly to be facetious. I'm not bitter.

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Post#336 » by Ed Pinkney » Sun Jan 29, 2023 1:16 am

bucknersrevenge wrote:
Ed Pinkney wrote:
bucknersrevenge wrote:
It was both fantastic and rage-inducing for SO many reasons. Later on the oxy epidemic was finally treated as the health crisis that it truly was. If only the crack epidemic had been treated similarly. Weird that was treated so differently.



I live on the other side of the world and I’m pretty sure I understand why crack and opioids have been approached so differently in the US. It doesn’t seem that weird.


I'm sorry, I was attempting poorly to be facetious. I'm not bitter.

Not at all.




I probably should have picked up on that, on second reading of your post it seems fairly obvious.
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Post#337 » by dice » Sun Jan 29, 2023 6:17 am

bucknersrevenge wrote:
fallguy wrote:Dopesick is fantastic and rage-inducing. Great cast - Keaton, Sarsgaard, Stuhlbarg, Devers.



It was both fantastic and rage-inducing for SO many reasons. Later on the oxy epidemic was finally treated as the health crisis that it truly was. If only the crack epidemic had been treated similarly. Weird that was treated so differently.

i get your point, but there's the additional obvious reason that one is prescribed and one is illegal

the more salient race-based point when it comes to cocaine is the sentencing disparities

opioids are still probably vastly over-prescribed, by the way
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Post#338 » by bucknersrevenge » Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:33 pm

dice wrote:
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fallguy wrote:Dopesick is fantastic and rage-inducing. Great cast - Keaton, Sarsgaard, Stuhlbarg, Devers.



It was both fantastic and rage-inducing for SO many reasons. Later on the oxy epidemic was finally treated as the health crisis that it truly was. If only the crack epidemic had been treated similarly. Weird that was treated so differently.

i get your point, but there's the additional obvious reason that one is prescribed and one is illegal

the more salient race-based point when it comes to cocaine is the sentencing disparities

opioids are still probably vastly over-prescribed, by the way


It's legal so that it could be prescribed (or more to your point, over-prescribed) so that pharmaceutical companies can make a **** ton of money getting people addicted to the stuff and to not go to jail for doing it. Crack dealers just never figured out (or had the juice) to get crack legalized. Those companies and the reps they sent out everywhere are nothing more than dealers in suits. Hell, some crack dealers wore suits.
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Post#339 » by bucknersrevenge » Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:35 pm

This was one of the funniest and realest movies I've seen in a long time. High recommend to anyone and everyone.

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Post#340 » by dice » Mon Jan 30, 2023 2:07 am

bucknersrevenge wrote:
dice wrote:
bucknersrevenge wrote:
It was both fantastic and rage-inducing for SO many reasons. Later on the oxy epidemic was finally treated as the health crisis that it truly was. If only the crack epidemic had been treated similarly. Weird that was treated so differently.

i get your point, but there's the additional obvious reason that one is prescribed and one is illegal

the more salient race-based point when it comes to cocaine is the sentencing disparities

opioids are still probably vastly over-prescribed, by the way


It's legal so that it could be prescribed (or more to your point, over-prescribed) so that pharmaceutical companies can make a **** ton of money getting people addicted to the stuff and to not go to jail for doing it. Crack dealers just never figured out (or had the juice) to get crack legalized. Those companies and the reps they sent out everywhere are nothing more than dealers in suits. Hell, some crack dealers wore suits.

very true. again goes back to big pharma having packs of lobbyists

the latest angle is using ketamine (or "special K" on the streets) as a minimally researched legal treatment for depression. it is "off label," so typically not covered by insurance, meaning big bucks for doctors injecting it into your system

they were also working on getting opioids approved as antidepressants. that fell through when the opioid crisis hit
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