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Started watching Chernobyl (HBO miniseries).  Haven't seen it before.  2 episodes in currently.  Good stuff.

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I'll be happy when somebody just finally packages all these streaming services together and provides them as one product, and then perhaps does away with the need for glitchy wifi by just running it a

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I’m pretty sure I’d much rather hang out with Guy Fieri than any of the pretentious squares on this thread bashing Guy Fieri. We’d be pounding Jager bombs and slayin late-40s lake poon while crushing

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It's not like it's poorly made or full of bonkers theories that don't pay off. It uses raw footage of Mia interviewing young Dylan, audio phone calls between Woody and Mia in the aftermath, interviews with the babysitter who was in the house at the time, etc. 
And respectfully, if anyone was cancelled here... it was Mia. Woody was basically her employer by that time, and her acting career never really recovered. It's not a stretch to assume Hollywood circled its wagons to protect one of their own.
To be clear, I'm not 100% convinced he did it; but I disagree with dismissing the documentary outright. 

Yup. I mean, I’d love to hear Woody defend some of these things. Seems pretty obvious to me that even his desires were projected into his movies.
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Saw the previews for Sharp Objects a year or so ago. Dismissed the hell out of it.

Was looking for something new to watch and I would see it mentioned. One night, I said fuck it, and threw it on.

Southern Gothic, and dark. There is a hint of Se7en, David Lynch, some two-part series of Quantum Leap in there. And a dose of Charles Dickens.

I enjoyed it.



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Yup. I mean, I’d love to hear Woody defend some of these things. Seems pretty obvious to me that even his desires were projected into his movies.

Woody gave his defense. “Mia was an angry scorned lover just trying to get back at me because I manipulated and seduced our step-daughter, whom I’ve loved since I first laid eyes on her at age nine!”

And America believed the guy statutory raping his daughter. Er I’m sure Woody waited till she was of legal age, ‘cause that’s just the kinda guy he is!

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8 hours ago, CurlyDumps said:

Woody gave his defense. “Mia was an angry scorned lover just trying to get back at me because I manipulated and seduced our step-daughter, whom I’ve loved since I first laid eyes on her at age nine!”

And America believed the guy statutory raping his daughter. Er I’m sure Woody waited till she was of legal age, ‘cause that’s just the kinda guy he is!

"I get older, and they don't stay the same age."

 

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28 minutes ago, pied said:

A couple episodes into season 3 of Banshee.  At the point, where I think the show is dumb,  but need to finish it.  

Would call it fun, but not great.  Love Job though, GREAT character.

Season 4 is one of the best final seasons IMO.

Hoon Lee is an incredible talent.

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On 3/17/2021 at 6:30 PM, MissingInAction said:

Season 4 is one of the best final seasons IMO.

Hoon Lee is an incredible talent.

Finished it and I agree.  Think S3 was kind of a slog, but (even being ridiculous) thought they wrapped up Season 4 and the series pretty well.  Solid series for what it was.  

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On 3/13/2021 at 10:29 AM, Buzzrock said:

 


It’s a documentary from a self-described activist crew who has used discredited “evidence” in the past (their campus rape doc) so they should be scrutinized. They dropped this one during the #metoo / cancel-culture / white men = evil era, which seems opportunistic at the least. Activism and journalism seem at odds to me.

I believe there is a special place in hell for those who abuse children, and I don’t know if he committed any crimes or not, but using that one documentary to make a decision is pretty unbalanced. He’s not Cosby/Epstein/Weinstein with a long list of victims. He was accused one time 40 years ago but never charged with anything, much less convicted.

This post will likely piss some people off, but all I’m saying is: try to seek out the whole story.

 

Did you watch it? Farrow has video tape from the time. A Connecticut prosecutor weighs in. Court documents are quoted. Phone calls are taped.

Your post will only piss people off if you decided to just spout off and do the thing you accuse the filmmakers of doing. Bring some thing more than suggesting we're all gullible idiots not aware that stores have two sides. 

I found the documentary credible. I don't know about the team that made it. If they fabricated the stuff in the documentary, they're world class deceivers.

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On 3/24/2021 at 12:27 PM, NOMAAA said:

anybody watching this Qanon doc?  that dudes dad is a nut. no doubt in my mind he has killed somebody.

I am watching it.  The Watkins pair weird me out.  And they seem to be constantly fucking with the narrator which pisses me off for some reason.  I hope it pays off.  

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2 hours ago, A-Tex Devil said:

I am watching it.  The Watkins pair weird me out.  And they seem to be constantly fucking with the narrator which pisses me off for some reason.  I hope it pays off.  

It would be extremely surprising if the son wasn't Q.  Haven't finished the doc yet, but it's matching up with everything I've read/seen, and having seen it from the perspective of one with relatives who went down the batshit rabbit hole, it's fascinating. Very well done.

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On 3/30/2021 at 2:24 PM, atomheartbevo said:

It would be extremely surprising if the son wasn't Q.  Haven't finished the doc yet, but it's matching up with everything I've read/seen, and having seen it from the perspective of one with relatives who went down the batshit rabbit hole, it's fascinating. Very well done.

I don't know about 'is' Q, but it came across to me as he took over for Q.

For all the bullshit that they were spewing, the one that stands out is that they did not see 8chan as a potential revenue source, even if that money was coming from Washington dark money.

The appearance of the third monkey in that triad, listed as the financial officer but really a trusted coder, seemed high has fuck. His pupils were huge! But over the course of the doc, he seemed like almost an ok dude. Those guys are nuts, if I still partied, I kind of want to party with them. But I'd probably end up fucking a pangolin and starting a pandemic.

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On 3/24/2021 at 12:27 PM, NOMAAA said:

anybody watching this Qanon doc?  that dudes dad is a nut. no doubt in my mind he has killed somebody.

the irony that Q (Ron Watkins/Codemonkey) and his Dad (8chan, 8kun) are pornographers is awesome. Well i dont know if Ron is technically a pornographer, but it is implied  he has some pretty messed up proclivities.

So was the implication that there might have been a true "in the know Q" at the beginning, but after the hack, he disappeared and Ron Watkins assumed the Q persona to keep 8chan relevant/fuck with people?

Ha, wouldn't surprise me if Ron's mom/Jim's wife is either missing or dead. She was conspicuously missing from the doc.

 

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on a side note:  I love when Jim said he needed money - "that living in America is expensive". I guess living in the Philippines on no to low income is easy.

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So was the implication that there might have been a true "in the know Q" at the beginning, but after the hack, he disappeared

Discussions and any questions about the legitimacy of Q should have ended with the fact that they started out on 4chan, a forum famous on the internet for pranks and porn, and the filmmakers did at least dig at the fact that this all was a prank/money-making scheme, and the Watkins duo definitely helped that out.

The filmmakers ultimately let the Watkins implicate themselves, and I'm honestly surprised the filmmakers had as much access to the Watkins as they did. It's the Ron White joke about having the right to remain silent, but not the ability.

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the irony that Q (Ron Watkins/Codemonkey) and his Dad (8chan, 8kun) are pornographers is awesome. Well i dont know if Ron is technically a pornographer, but it is implied  he has some pretty messed up proclivities.
So was the implication that there might have been a true "in the know Q" at the beginning, but after the hack, he disappeared and Ron Watkins assumed the Q persona to keep 8chan relevant/fuck with people?
Ha, wouldn't surprise me if Ron's mom/Jim's wife is either missing or dead. She was conspicuously missing from the doc.
 
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on a side note:  I love when Jim said he needed money - "that living in America is expensive". I guess living in the Philippines on no to low income is easy.

Watkins is a KNOWN pornographer. At least he was. He started a Japanese prom site when he was in the USAF.
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2 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

I wonder if Watkins was allowed to touch anything in his own data centers?  Good series. Well done.

The way he was portrayed in the series, and from what I've read, he was somewhat savvy about not being on the hook for content, etc. Like he transferred various sites to various companies so that legal issues couldn't drag him personally down, etc.

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1 hour ago, A-Tex Devil said:

I am going to give The Nevers a chance.  Production value is shit for an HBO show.  Incredibly bad.   Whedon must be working on the Firefly budget.  But the conceit of the show is interesting and I like some of the actors.  We shall see.  

From what I can recall, Whedon was separated from the series after the first three episodes (we are getting two six-episode blocks so far), but the people who took it over seem talented.

I like the idea of it.

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On 4/11/2021 at 10:10 AM, Red Five said:

Only through three eps of the Q doc so I'm not reading the posts above. But Fredrick aka Hotwheels is Sam Ehlinger's Mini-Me. Once seen you can't unsee it. 

Hotwheels throws a better deep ball. 

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I've tried the HBO Max app twice now, once when it first came out and once a week or so ago, and I've had to cancel it both times.  The functionality is just horrendous.  I don't get it.  I stream literally everything else in my house with zero problems.  I live in the city with the best internet available.  Just ran a speed test and I'm currently 332 over 99, which should be more than sufficient.  I run Netflix, YouTubeTV, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Sonos, etc with no problems whatsoever.  But that HBO Max app, for some reason, is just brutal.  Every time I click on anything, it takes 10 to 20 minutes to respond.  I've refreshed it, I've rebooted, I've uninstalled/reinstalled, you name it.  It just never works well enough to justify having.  Apparently nobody else has this problem?  Since you're all using it?  I have FireTV sticks on all TVs...is that the problem?

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I've tried the HBO Max app twice now, once when it first came out and once a week or so ago, and I've had to cancel it both times.  The functionality is just horrendous.  I don't get it.  I stream literally everything else in my house with zero problems.  I live in the city with the best internet available.  Just ran a speed test and I'm currently 332 over 99, which should be more than sufficient.  I run Netflix, YouTubeTV, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Sonos, etc with no problems whatsoever.  But that HBO Max app, for some reason, is just brutal.  Every time I click on anything, it takes 10 to 20 minutes to respond.  I've refreshed it, I've rebooted, I've uninstalled/reinstalled, you name it.  It just never works well enough to justify having.  Apparently nobody else has this problem?  Since you're all using it?  I have FireTV sticks on all TVs...is that the problem?

I watch on a computer on just a browser. No problems at all with speed, but the functionality of the interface is shitty and is not intuitive. That, or I’m an idiot.

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I've tried the HBO Max app twice now, once when it first came out and once a week or so ago, and I've had to cancel it both times.  The functionality is just horrendous.  I don't get it.  I stream literally everything else in my house with zero problems.  I live in the city with the best internet available.  Just ran a speed test and I'm currently 332 over 99, which should be more than sufficient.  I run Netflix, YouTubeTV, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Sonos, etc with no problems whatsoever.  But that HBO Max app, for some reason, is just brutal.  Every time I click on anything, it takes 10 to 20 minutes to respond.  I've refreshed it, I've rebooted, I've uninstalled/reinstalled, you name it.  It just never works well enough to justify having.  Apparently nobody else has this problem?  Since you're all using it?  I have FireTV sticks on all TVs...is that the problem?

 

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I watch on a computer on just a browser. No problems at all with speed, but the functionality of the interface is shitty and is not intuitive. That, or I’m an idiot.

It's a kludge.  Pretty much always has been going back to HBOGo days.

Seems to go for looks over functionality and something is always glitching.  Closed captioning.  Server/buffering problems over strong connections, etc.

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HBO Max app on Samsung TV here.  The UI is super laggy compared to Netflix/Prime/YouTubeTV.  Also the stream always starts in like 480.  It gets better from there and eventually gets up to where its supposed to be but its annoying.  Also there is no HDR in the Samsung app.  If I Chromecast from a laptop to the TV, HDR works.  Annoying all around.

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I've had it glitch several times on various platforms too. For a while I couldn't get anything to play on it through XBox Series X, then it would play but not remember where you were if you stopped halfway through, then it started going fine.

UI is pretty bad.

But yesterday I realized all of Reno 911 is on there so I watched like 5 episodes and forgot all about how bad the app is.

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3 hours ago, Landomatic said:

I've tried the HBO Max app twice now, once when it first came out and once a week or so ago, and I've had to cancel it both times.  The functionality is just horrendous.  I don't get it.  I stream literally everything else in my house with zero problems.  I live in the city with the best internet available.  Just ran a speed test and I'm currently 332 over 99, which should be more than sufficient.  I run Netflix, YouTubeTV, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Sonos, etc with no problems whatsoever.  But that HBO Max app, for some reason, is just brutal.  Every time I click on anything, it takes 10 to 20 minutes to respond.  I've refreshed it, I've rebooted, I've uninstalled/reinstalled, you name it.  It just never works well enough to justify having.  Apparently nobody else has this problem?  Since you're all using it?  I have FireTV sticks on all TVs...is that the problem?

I conur. We use the HBO Max app on a Firestick and the PS4. Compared to the other streaming services we use, it is laggy, clunky and outdated. I hate using it. Not a smooth experience at all. We have had buffer issues as well and had to restart the app and clear the cache. Never have this happen on other apps and our speed is plenty fine.

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I've had HBO/Max for a couple months and only an occasional glitch, no more than Amazon Prime and much less than UVerse. 

And I'm a late adapter, not only with technology in general but also TV shows, because I've watched less TV over the past decade, with the exception of sports and now the Disney+ Marvel/Mandalorian series.  For example, I binged Parks & Rec for the first time last summer at the recommendation of my daughter.

With HBO/Max, I've finally watched Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown.  Holy shit what an amazing series.  I always liked him going back to Kitchen Confidential, but for some reason this show never interested me when it had originally aired on CNN, and I also never watched No Reservations.  I loved travel, but was never into travel shows.  Parts Unknown is just fantastic, and makes me wish even more that Bourdain was still around.

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I suppose it depends on the platform.  I have used it on browser, android app, and smart tv (as HBOGo).  

It's better on the "native" device (e.g. phone/tablet if app, pc if browser), but when you chromecast it, it definitely becomes more of a kludge, and the smart tv app seemed worse than average when average is pretty bad.

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