TV Shows: What are you watching?

[Mickey107]

I'm sure there'll be some features on Jose Whales, my personal fave, is.90 on this day. I think Doyle was 50 yesterday.

His boy

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Happy Birthday..

[rats19]

Just finished Ray Donovan

Apparently season 8 possibly November

Good series

[Blob Mckenzie]

Just finished Ray Donovan

Apparently season 8 possibly November

Good series

Other than the season where a character unnamed died, it was good. Liev Schreiber said there will be an ending. It got cancelled after season 7 but apparently someone will pick it up. I liked Avi a lot. He was in Scarface.

[rats19]

Just finished Ray Donovan

Apparently season 8 possibly November

Good series

Other than the season where a character unnamed died, it was good. Liev Schreiber said there will be an ending. It got cancelled after season 7 but apparently someone will pick it up. I liked Avi a lot. He was in Scarface.

Avi and Lena We’re both cool

[Per]

Not sure if you get this in Canada, but here in Sweden both Netflix and HBO now offer Unknown Soldier, a Finnish movie that is often referred to as one of the most realistic war films of all time, as a five episode TV series. If you can find it - watch it!



The book, that was written by Väinö Linna, who himself fought in the Continuation War against the Soviet Union, is a Finnish classic but caused a major stir when it came out as the Finnish soldiers, as described in his book, were not heroic. They were normal people with fears, obsessions, gambling and drinking habits, who just happened to be sent into battle. At the time it was considered almost treasonous to portray them as such flawed characters, but today we hail it as an unusually honest and realistic depiction of soldiers in war.

It has been filmed at least three times, in 1955, 1987 and 2017 (iirc) and all three films are masterpieces and definitely worth watching. Naturally, special effects have improved, but the book/script is so good that all three are worth the watch. The TV-series available now is basically an extended version of the 2017 movie, cut into five pieces. Strongly recommended. Almost all main characters die. It's shitty, dirty and pointless. except, they're fighting for the survival of their nation. Vibes of Private Ryan.

[Blob Mckenzie]

Per you were a fan of Barney Miller weren’t you?

[Per]

Per you were a fan of Barney Miller weren’t you?

Barney who?

May not have run in Sweden. Googled it, but rang no bells.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Per was more of a Vilse i Pannkakan kind of guy

That is a totally psychedelic fucked up trip of a concept i must say Per

[Mickey107]

[Per]

Seriously, you must have too much spare time...

Watching Swedish standup with subtitles?

[Per]

Per was more of a Vilse i Pannkakan kind of guy

That is a totally psychedelic fucked up trip of a concept i must say Per

Amazingly, everyone is talking about how much they hated that show. I simply never watched it.
But we only had two channels back then, so I guess some people just remained seated in front of the telly even though they hated what they saw...

I guess some people here might like it though...it was all about sock puppets...

[Blob Mckenzie]

Per was more of a Vilse i Pannkakan kind of guy

That is a totally psychedelic fucked up trip of a concept i must say Per

Amazingly, everyone is talking about how much they hated that show. I simply never watched it.
But we only had two channels back then, so I guess some people just remained seated in front of the telly even though they hated what they saw...

I guess some people here might like it though...it was all about sock puppets...

Doc likes the puppet shows

[Strangelove]

Doc likes the puppet shows

[Cousin Strawberry]

Per was more of a Vilse i Pannkakan kind of guy

That is a totally psychedelic fucked up trip of a concept i must say Per

Amazingly, everyone is talking about how much they hated that show. I simply never watched it.
But we only had two channels back then, so I guess some people just remained seated in front of the telly even though they hated what they saw...

I guess some people here might like it though...it was all about sock puppets...

I watched it with subtitles somewhere, possibly in sweden, and it was a mindwarp i must say.

[Blob Mckenzie]

I started watching Yellowstone. Very good show. Kevin Costner has had two careers it seems. Started out like a house on fire to start his career with some great films. Then he made a bunch of garbage like the Postman, Wyatt Earp and Waterworld. Then he rebounded again starting with Tin Cup and the Upside of Anger. Good to see him having success on the back nine of his career.