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aha, not all Tubis are created equal. Who knew?

the Roku Filmrise channels sometimes have really amazing things on them. that you don't find elsewhere. they are all just free channels. all these free channels are good if you just really need to see morvern callar or train to busan in a hurry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8huyeTjZjik

Kanopy (free w/LA Library) and the Criterion Channel ($99 yearly) are the two that I will never cancel. Everything else I leech, finagle, hit the dark.net for.

TCM got gutted by Zaslav today

We have Disney+ free, and BBC etc with the tv licence. I think we have Amazon Prime but find it hard to know what's free on there.
then I pay for one subscription thing and tend to cycle them round to catch up on what's on there. Currently it's Now TV for Succession but also catching up on The Rehearsal, True Detective etc. Will probably go for Apple or Netflix next - been without Netflix for ages.

watched *A Brighter Summer Day* with Cyrus. I watched it a few weeks ago. which means i have devoted 8 hours to that film. happy to do it! its so great. so many doorways! if you drank every time someone stood in or passed through a doorway you would be so drunk! on Criterion.

watched *Alcarras* on Mubi. because Catalonian peach farmers need to be heard from. finishing the movie *Azor* now. also on Mubi. Intrigue among the monied in Argentina. Bankers. Horses. Swimming pools.

By far our most expensive subscription here in Ireland is our Sky box, which is over €80 a month really just so we can watch the HBO shows that Sky has access to (which does not include HBO Max shows like Station Eleven or Minx) and the BBC. At this point that's the one I would drop if I needed to cut corners.

Can't you switch to Now TV, which will have all those shows at a fraction of the price?

We did try it once, but it's so janky, and there are so many ads, we found it impossibly annoying.

yeah the ads are horrible

watched *Alcarras* on Mubi.

what'd ya think? I dug it.

I liked it! that family was soclose. thisclose. hard to believe that they were all actors. but maybe they were just amazing actors. hard to believe that they all weren't born there under the peach trees.

Alfred, I think you might like Azor if you haven't seen it.

Had no idea there were ads xps

Are they during shows or just before?

My dark web connection and family members sharing passwords has been pretty valuable as far as being able to watch all the content that's out there. What we do pay for is criterion, netflix, and amazon. Amazon feels like the least valuable, they have a few good shows here and there but I don't go running to it, it's usually the last choice. Netflix has so many international shows which is pretty valuable, it's like a golden age for that. Criterion is the best though.

I hardly watch anything on Amazon; I only even have it because I need a Prime membership to get things delivered with reasonable speed out here in the middle of nowhere. I've never used Amazon Music or taken any of the ebooks.

I watched the Expanse and Bosch on Amazon, and that Icelandic show trapped when they had it. They had In the Line of Duty for a minute and Spiral as well. Maybe there are some other good things on there that I'm forgetting, but I just never think to go there, they don't really have much of an identity.

They have The Peripheral and The Boys too

Prime has good movies. i used to watch it when i watched stuff thru our playstation. and i did admire their b-movie selection.

I'm sure I could find stuff if I looked but I never think to look. Right now I'm watching The Bear with my wife and Power by myself. At the end of this week Warrior comes back on Max so I'll be diving into that.

Warrior is top notch. as is the Power saga. Raising Kanan is my favorite Power series. Patina Miller gives one of the best performances i've ever seen on t.v. in Raising Kanan. it's up there with any Sopranos or Wire character.

another fave of mine on Mubi was *America As Seen By A Frenchman* from 1960. so good and so hilarious. French title: L'Amérique insolite.

Does Warrior get, like, good good? I watched the first few episodes and it's enjoyable, love the fight scenes (so much better than anything in John Wick, jeez). But there's also a lot of bad on-the-nose dialogue and authentically Cinemax gratuitous sex scenes, more Peaky Blinders than Deadwood.

Warrior is pulp but i found it entertaining and fun to follow. Not unlike my fave Hell On Wheels, another show that most people here probably haven't watched? i shouldn't sell you smart people short. Who doesn't love colm meaney barking orders on a train?

I need to try Hell On Wheels. I tried another one — Damnation? A Western about a town of women? Lasted maybe half of one episode.

Does Warrior get, like, good good?

I mean, if great fight scenes and hot people having sex isn't your idea of "good television" we may be having two different conversations.

Hell On Wheels is good

Ha, yes we are.

Hell On Wheels starts good and just gets gooderer. some of my favorite stuff is the west coast railroad building in the later seasons.

i think one of the reasons i'm watching the first season of Barbecue Showdown on Netflix is because I kinda like seeing black and white southern people cooking together! it makes me believe in a better world. people brought together by meat. the way god intended. i mean these folks are SOUTH south. everyone becomes more likable too as the season progresses.

also now i want a scuppernong i ain't never had one!

https://www.foodandwine.com/thmb/pq5KxPHAda9NqSPVHimAaAXUkFE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/in-praise-of-scuppernongs-FT-BLOG0621-7b1f75fcd6a1442d9407202a511e9892.jpg

All seasons of 24 are on Hulu so we decided to start watching and WOW the writers did the female characters so dirty. Half are villains and half are always fucking up and causing problems.

There is always a point in each 24 Season where it’s clear the writers are snorting crank

There's also a point at which Kiefer's character justifies torturing a suspect because "There's no time" to do anything else.

this is the best 24 scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Tt6wxHgS0

24 is an offensive show.

wrt Amazon I would blow up Netflix to save Patriot

woah - just looked it up 24's first episode aired November 6, 2001....I always assumed it was part of the ugly reaction to 9/11 but it must have been in the can by then.

Ooh looks like both seasons of Yellowjackets just showed up on Paramount - good news since I don’t subscribe to Showtime.

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I think they actually delayed the first season of 24 a couple of months because 9/11 had just happened.

The pilot episode involves a plane getting hijacked and blown up IIRC so yeah, it was delayed.

Lmao thank you Tracer

The other scene that justifies 24’s existence is the beginning of the second season where Jack straight up murders a suspect in custody so he can deliver the dude’s severed head to a terrorist as part of his cover story, just absolutely ridiculous stuff

he gets results

THERE’S NO TIME (commits war crime) GET KIM TO SAFETY (commits another war crime, murders love interest)

I like how he begins each season brooding over the events of the previous season and then immediately snaps back into war crimes mode

His default setting is to commit atrocities and be sad, sometime simultaneously

I think you might like Azor if you haven't seen it.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 15:16 (yesterday)

brilliant movie, probably due a rewatch.

To be fair, there aren't a lot of movies or TV shows where the plot is "everyone is sensible and makes lots of good decisions."

I once tried to write a spec script where the premise was "here is a show where the main characters are well-intentioned, and make utterly no bad decisions ever."

There's a reason you haven't heard of it.