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I confirm all the good comments about Billions. I just bingedingewatched season 2. The next best thing to "house of cards" in a high finance setting.
If he watches it Vlad will cream his pants for Chuck, a self proclaimed defender of ethics whose obsession is to put all the wealthy guys in jail, as of course they are necessarily evil
If he watches it Vlad will cream his pants for Chuck, a self proclaimed defender of ethics whose obsession is to put all the wealthy guys in jail, as of course they are necessarily evil
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I watched the first few episodes of that a couple of weeks back, it's fascinating. I had heard of the organization long ago and had the bad luck to encounter some of their followers in Pune in the 90s. Horrible people.McPhisto wrote:Haven't seen it, but Netflix is showing a 6 part documentary series called Wild Wild Country about the surreal Rajneesh Movement centered around Indian "spiritual leader" Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, whose followers set up a massive and controversial commune on a sprawling ranch in rural Oregon in the early 1980s. The story reads a bit like Hare-Krishnas-meet-the-Manson-Family, complete with arson, murder plots, free sex, Islamic terrorism, and what would now be called a biological weapons terror attack on the local population, which intentionally sickened over 700 people with salmonella.
Following in the wake of the 1979 Jonestown Massacre, the scene was eventually set for a collision with the US government and local gun-toters. But the fiery and acid-tongued movement spokeswoman Ma Anand Sheela always made for riveting interviews. The general story of the Rajneesh Movement was well told by a former child member in the book My Life in Orange. It's a good read if you haven't read it.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Been watching Billions over the holiday. It's pretty good, easy watching. A bit too soap-opera, though, almost like a modern day Dallas, not that there's anything wrong with that.logos wrote:I confirm all the good comments about Billions. I just bingedingewatched season 2. The next best thing to "house of cards" in a high finance setting.
If he watches it Vlad will cream his pants for Chuck, a self proclaimed defender of ethics whose obsession is to put all the wealthy guys in jail, as of course they are necessarily evil
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
I know everyone loves Peaky Blinders, but I only managed two episodes. It might have been on the terrible accents getting on my nerves.violet wrote:Going to attempt Peaky Blinders now, having binged on The Crown
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
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Just watched the first two episodes... Amo is no Narcos, and there is no comparison — it’s like comparing The National Enquiror to The New York Times.Miguelito wrote:Netflix has taken this thread by storm.
I’m looking forward to Amo:
Will Netflix's Amo be the Philippine Narcos?
slavedog wrote:I know everyone loves Peaky Blinders, but I only managed two episodes. It might have been on the terrible accents getting on my nerves.violet wrote:Going to attempt Peaky Blinders now, having binged on The Crown
Same with me, the brummie is bad enough, but other brummie characters talk scouse, even though they are from the same family in the plot.
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I'm watching that series Wild Wild Country I mentioned now. The documentary is not near as much about a cult movement or Rajneesh beliefs or bizarre behaviors by followers but much more about abuse of power and the frailty of democracy, and how a system can so easily be manipulated and the inevitable backlash when people are confronted with uncertainty and the fear of abrupt change. Quite relevant to fake news cycles, media manipulation and gerrymandering in America today. Definitely interesting.Lucky Lucan wrote: I watched the first few episodes of that a couple of weeks back, it's fascinating. I had heard of the organization long ago and had the bad luck to encounter some of their followers in Pune in the 90s. Horrible people.
My favorite part so far is when the cult bussed in thousands of homeless people from all over the US as an attempt to gain voters and swing local elections in Oregon, only to be shocked and surprised that some homeless people they brought in had severe psychological issues and wreaked violence and havoc in their commune, so their solution was to drive the worst homeless crazies off the compound and dropped them off in neighboring communities to fend for themselves and started drugging the rest to keep them docile via sedatives in their nightly beer ration.
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They sure come across as a mercenary bunch of loonies rather than anything holy in that documentary, which as you say doesn't really focus on any of the beliefs of the movement and more on their dodgy moves. My dad was involved with those similarly dodgy Transcendental Meditation crowd in the early 70s, until my mom put him straight.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Again on Netflix, just watched First They Killed My Father. Very impressive piece of work all around. I thought the directing and cinematography were great and the casting perfect. Good little actress, the main girl. I think the movie might have seemed a little disjointed if I hadn't read the book long ago which helped fill in the story gaps a bit. I wonder how the film was received locally, with the Vietnamese army shown as being the saviors of the Cambodian population. True as that may be, I don't know how that part of history is taught in Cambodia these days.
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Money Heist - La casa de papel
Very good from Spain.
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Heist
Umbre
Very good from Romania.
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbre
Pardon my engrish, thanks you.
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