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Legendary (2020) S3 E7
expresso 1 points 1 year ago.

This ball is off the hook! Makaveli finally showed up! Leslie Jones is my spirit animal!

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022) S1 E5
Birdsforme 5 points 1 year ago*.

This episode could also have been called “Looking at things through your eyes”. Much of the episode was about seeing things through the others perspective. I also remember an episode from the first Star trek that had parts of Spocks dream complete with the sound effects. It was season 2. episode 5, and called “Amok Time”

expresso 3 points 1 year ago*.

Hah. I saw “Spock Amok” as a sly homage to “Duck Amuck” (where the animator is in godmode messing around with Daffy).

Angelyne (2022)
augusts1 1 points 1 year ago.

She was never a fauxlebrity. She is a pioneer of doing what the Kardashians have done just on a smaller scale. She didn’t get anywhere close to being as famous or wealthy as they did since there was no social media back then. But she did use billboards to great effect to get her name out there.

Going to check this out since I love Emmy (which is what she goes by) & Angelyne. Thanks for commenting to bring it up in the current featured comments.

expresso 2 points 1 year ago.

I agree - I think of her as a hacker working around the system. What she created is basically an early analog version of social media (that’s an extremely heavy lift if you’re not a tech or media company). She ran against Gavin Newsom in the recall election!

Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) S1 E3
Teamratt -1 points 1 year ago.

Obi Wan cuts himself off from the force then wonders why he can’t contact Qui Gon. Leia’s actions continuing to put herself in jeopardy makes me want to put my head through a wall. I’m convinced that she does the opposite of what she’s told because she wants to die. She’s just a poor plot device since the start. Why would you tell your alias to someone who knows your real name? Now if tortured Tia could say that Obi Wan is going by the name Ben. People on the run going from safe house to safe house shouldn’t sign their name on the walls unless you want to leave breadcrumbs. If you have the means to escape, don’t waste time staring at the person trying to find you. If you have your opponent in front of you don’t lose track of them by running 60 feet away then igniting your lightsaber so they know exactly where you are. Vader could have easily walk around the fire or extinguish it with a force push like he’s already done to get Obi. There’s a lot more I could say but I’d just be nit picking. I’ve had enough. I’m not going to keep watching this just because it’s Star Wars. The writing is awful.

expresso 0 points 1 year ago.

In other words, television.

Dark Winds (2022)
expresso 5 points 1 year ago.

Zahn McClarnon has been been paying dues as a character actor for a long time - he earned this and I can’t wait :)

Halo (2022)
Piglet 2 points 1 year ago.

Yeah, they sure are about like Jeff and Beau Bridges and Dennis and Randy Quaid. In my opinion, Dennis is the better actor of the two.

expresso 1 points 1 year ago.

IMO Pablo has more range (leprechaun!) - lots of things I didn’t recognize him in right away. Liev needs detox after Ray Donovan.

The Midwich Cuckoos (2022)
expresso 2 points 1 year ago.

This looks interesting - first two episodes dropped

1899 (2022)
Piglet 2 points 1 year ago.

Couldn’t really get anything out of the trailer, but I’ll watch it once it has an air date. A group of European migrants leave London on a steamship to start new lives in New York City. But when they encounter another migrant ship adrift on the open sea, their journey begins to turn into a nightmare. From the creator of “Dark”.

expresso 2 points 1 year ago.

Thanks for pointing this out - looks very cool

Halo (2022)
Piglet 1 points 1 year ago.

I didn’t realize that Pablo Schreiber and Liev were half-brothers. I liked Ray Donovan until Jon Voight became a main character.

expresso 2 points 1 year ago.

Get out! Actually now that I think about it, those faces. Holy cow are they a talented bunch.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022) S1 E5
irdulili 5 points 1 year ago.

Not sure but I’m pretty certain that one gray/stripey alien was Armin Shimerman—AKA the actor who played the ferengi, Quark from TNG et al. IMDB has done a lousy job of listing extras and guest stars lately.

expresso 3 points 1 year ago.

I thought the same thing when I saw him…

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022) S1 E5
expresso 6 points 1 year ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

This was a perfect episode. TOS homage to Vulcan battle music? Check. Whimsy? Check. Balls-out captain risky meta-move? Check. Personal predicament that echos the major episode predicament? Check. Tens across the board. They Did What Needed To Be Done.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022)
expresso 3 points 1 year ago.

Anson Mount has Big Dad Energy

Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies (2022)
expresso 1 points 1 year ago.

Nice job here using ordinary analogies to explain the technology breakthroughs that allow research and discovery on the sub-atomic and galactic-string levels (both halves are in one link)

Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
p1mpface 3 points 1 year ago. (Contains Spoilers)

omg this was awful the little girl single highhandedly ruined the show with cringe nothing she does is believable

expresso 1 points 1 year ago*.

baby yoda she is not

Angelyne (2022)
expresso 2 points 1 year ago*.

Highly entertaining biopic about the 1980’s LA ‘fauxlebrity’ Angelyne - Emmy Rossum is great

Raised by Wolves (2020)
irdulili 1 points 2 years ago.

Rotten Tomatoes also says “6 Episodes” for this season, spelled out like that. Kind of a bummer. Usually a studio orders a small 1st season then more for the 2nd and subsequent seasons so long as it’s doing good. And everyone seems to love this.

expresso 1 points 2 years ago.

We are at 8 epis now…

Raised by Wolves (2020) S2 E8
expresso 3 points 2 years ago.

I keep saying there’s no way they can top the sheer insanity of the previous episode and I keep being wrong. Mind blown.

La Peste (2018)
expresso 1 points 2 years ago.

Great mystery set in medieval Spain - adding YT links

Max Headroom (1987)
expresso 3 points 2 years ago.

Worth going back and doing a rewatch…

Star Trek: Picard (2020) S2 E2
YgraineDance 3 points 2 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

I’m kinda with you on your point about Q; I could never stand him and just wanted him gone. Seeing him now, I still feel that way. I find the Borg Queen arc to be most interesting, though…so maybe the Q angle won’t be so horrible.

Cabreras is a lot of fun. Remember him as a Musketeer a few years ago?

expresso 2 points 2 years ago.

You and I may have had this conversation before…I ADORE that show. I rewatch about every other year!

Hoping Q gets less screen time and Borg Queen gets lots more.

Star Trek: Picard (2020) S2 E2
moongoddess 4 points 2 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Always loved a Q season. Can already tell this will not disappoint.

expresso 3 points 2 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

I find Q exasperating, I think he’s an acquired taste. Working with the Borg Queen however, that’s going to be really interesting. Love Santiago Cabreras.

Star Trek: Picard (2020) S2 E2
expresso 2 points 2 years ago.

This season is DARK

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2022)
expresso 1 points 2 years ago*.

Samuel Jackson yes please! Added to Quarantini

That Dirty Black Bag (2022)
expresso 0 points 2 years ago.

Looks tasty keep the Westerns coming

Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021) S2 E15
expresso 2 points 2 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Wheatley was very tiresome RIP

Star Trek: Discovery (2017) S4 E12
expresso 1 points 2 years ago.

That was the best episode in the Discovery series hands down

Raised by Wolves (2020)
expresso 1 points 2 years ago.

I can’t believe this show only has 4 stars

Raised by Wolves (2020) S2 E7
Saucer-People 10 points 2 years ago.

What an episode! The CGI is used to spectacular effect!
Obviously I had to search elsewhere to watch episode 7, but I felt strangely compelled to return and comment on PW as it’s a hard habit to break - let’s hope against hope that this link situation isn’t irreversible.

expresso 4 points 2 years ago.

Amen! This show continues to top itself every week.

Borgen (2010)
expresso 1 points 2 years ago.

Glad to see links refreshed, it’s on my list for a rewatch

Sita Sings the Blues (2009)
expresso 4 points 2 years ago.

Stunning remix of animation styles and modern narrative woven through Indian mythology. If I hadn’t noticed @Bsharp2C’s watch party I never would have found it - thank you!!

Raised by Wolves (2020) S2 E6
expresso 2 points 2 years ago.

Every time I think I can’t possibly be more blown away by this it proves me wrong.

1883 (2021)
expresso 2 points 2 years ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

This plays against every expectation and every classic element of the western genre. Westerns are safe, formulaic, sentimental accounts of heroism. This central character is a woman and not a man, her narrative is lyrical, not sentimental, and the story is about naive and unprepared immigrants going west where nothing they have learned in life is useful or applicable and the things that keep going horribly wrong are brutal and oppressive and cannot be fixed by testosterone. Deadwood and Hell on Wheels are excellent series I love and have watched many times. You leave the old order for a chance to shake the snow globe and land in a better place in the new order. This show is about the chaos of the unknown. There is no order. It’s dark and brilliant.

Cyrano (2022)
expresso 2 points 2 years ago.

The casting is odd, the National’s music is same-y, Peter Dinklage is not a singer and yet I found this charming and innocent and boy do I not get enough of that.

1883 (2021) S1 E10
expresso 9 points 2 years ago.

This was devastating

The Musketeers (2014)
expresso 4 points 2 years ago.

Damn Vikings is over already…need more swords…

Vikings: Valhalla (2022)
expresso 2 points 2 years ago.

Loved it - more please! If you like this period while you are waiting there is a great short podcast called Stones & Bones about Emma of Normandy who had a far more complicated life than the window of time we see here. I was wondering about this version of Leif Erikson so I waded through articles on ScreenRant about this adaptation that answers some of the questions on this page.

La faille (2019) S2 E9
expresso 0 points 2 years ago*.

Quebec City is the real star of the show here. Decent plot twist at the end of a well-acted and solid comfort-food procedural. Poutine on screen :) We need more French Canadian drama.

Moonfall (2022)
expresso 6 points 2 years ago.

Straight to cult classics!

La faille (2019)
expresso 2 points 2 years ago.

Really enjoying this French-Canadian Noir! Starts out slow, turning into a great binge for a snowy Saturday.

La faille (2019) S1 E3
expresso 0 points 2 years ago.

NOW it’s getting interesting!

Vikings: Valhalla (2022)
expresso 2 points 2 years ago.

Can’t wait for more Vikings!

The Green Planet (2022)
expresso 3 points 2 years ago*.

Time lapse photography of plants killing their competition - if you’re “oh another nature show” take a look it’s pretty amazing.

Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard (TV Special 2021) (2021)
expresso 6 points 2 years ago.

Fossil hunting, stone tool making, spear throwing and a mammoth dig with David Attenborough on a cozy Sunday afternoon :)

Star Trek: Discovery (2017) S4 E7
expresso 1 points 2 years ago.

WOW can’t wait for February 10th!

Zama (2017)
expresso 2 points 2 years ago.

5/5 Kafka in the Chaco, Waiting for Godot, Heart of Darkness, Aguirre the Wrath of God - if those sound tasty this film is for you. Visually and mentally stunning.

Don't Look Up (2021)
expresso 4 points 2 years ago.

Yes - amazing! I actually have a Gary Oldman playlist already, for exactly the same reason. Time for Cate Blanchett playlist - great idea!

expresso 5 points 2 years ago.

dediCATEd:The Cate Blanchett List https://www.primewire.ag/playlist/4671

Around the World in 80 Days (2021)
expresso 1 points 2 years ago.

David Tennant as Phileas Fogg :)

Don't Look Up (2021)
irdulili 6 points 2 years ago.

She’s another master of disguise, like a female Gary Oldman. Did you see the Queen Elizabeth movies?

expresso 4 points 2 years ago.

Yes - amazing! I actually have a Gary Oldman playlist already, for exactly the same reason. Time for Cate Blanchett playlist - great idea!

Star Trek: Discovery (2017) S4 E6
Crenshaw1 4 points 2 years ago.

Yes, I’m aware, but there is not a Spock type character on the crew or main cast.

expresso 3 points 2 years ago.

Michael started out in Season 1 much more Vulcan. They’ve taken that out of her since the time jump and she’s less balanced and less interesting.

What we’re all missing is Georigeou.

Star Trek: Discovery (2017) S4 E6
expresso 4 points 2 years ago*.

The science to melodrama ratio per hour is way way down. I loved the first 2 seasons, last one was okay, this one…it pains me greatly and I never thought I would ever say this about I show I like, too touchy feely.