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Leverage Redemption is on Prime. I loved the original Leverage series. Lots of fun. Redemption is the same cast minus Hardison and Nate Ford. I was never particularly attached to Timothy Hutton as Nate Ford, but you can feel his absence. Maybe it's just that they've had a number of weak scripts (same writers and directors too), but I feel like they've been getting C- through B- grades, whereas with the original, they got maybe B- through A- grades.
 
Decided to give The Handmaid's Tale a start last night.

:oops:

Pretty good, despite being grim-dark supreme and I'm only three episodes in.
 
Squid Game...meh. If you want shock value in something from Korea, go watch Old Boy instead (the original, not the awful Spike Lee adaptation). Netflix, to it's credit, is also carrying the much better Korean series My Name - the basic plot is hardly original (it's been done repeatedly in Hong Kong cinema), but it's still really well done.
 
Just started Turn on Netflix. It's a story about a guy who becomes a spy for Washington during the Revolutionary War. When I was watching it I found myself recognizing the very same character names that were used in a young adult book I read in 6th grade called 'Spies on the Devils Belt'

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Started watching Average Joe. I was surprised at how good it was, and how it gets into your head with the what-if questions.
 
Watching yellowjackets - it doesn't meet up with the hype but I am following it anyway lol

My daughter had me watch a few episodes of Veep and I was surprised that I laughed as much as I did so I will likely head back to that as I need a good laugh

Finished The Mire season 2 and it was very good - the English version isn't bad but I prefer watching it in Polish and then reading the subtitles

The new Dexter isn't bad, it's basically another season of Dexter which I don't understand why critics thought it would be anything but that
 
Watched the latest Lost in Space season. Watching Hawkeye and Wheel of Time as they put up episodes.
 
My 12 yr old and I watched Tremors last night on Netflix.

Still a good one and he enjoyed it as it was his first time seeing it.

Realized the actress that played the granddaughter Lex in Jurassic Park was also in Tremors.
 
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Watched The Tower on BritBox yesterday. I liked it a lot, and wish there was more already.

I started Dr. Who on Season 1 (still B&W) but the "granddaughter" was very irritating. Fast forward to Season 4, and am hanging in there.
 
My wife hurt her back so she spent the last couple evenings in bed trying not to move too much so instead of watching a show together in the living room like we do most nights, she was watching something on the laptop while I had the TV to myself. Sunday night I decided to give Lupin a try since she didn't want to watch it with the subtitles and I had heard that the English language dubbing was done so bad that it was laughable. Well... I finished it last night and now I'm sad I'll probably have to wait a year for the next set of episodes!

I cannot recall the last time I plowed through a show that quickly. Count that one up as totally binged!
 
I finally caught up on Season 5 of the Expanse. I am through 8 episodes. I took a year and a half off from season 4. Its been very good. The show really delivers on those shock moments.

Also, I have watched a couple of Amazon movies recently that were pretty good thrillers actually and they were straight to Amazon ones made by the Saban Company, known for the Power Rangers. One is called the Silencing and the other is Wander with Tommy Lee Jones and Heather Graham. Both were pretty well done.
 
I recently went though all of Goliath. I'm running through The Mandalorian right now, then will jump back into Amazon Prime land to catch up on Jack Ryan, The Expanse, Hanna, Carnival Row, and then will probably dive in to Wheel of Time.

I really liked Goliath. Each season has its own feel and it kind of goes from straightforward to surreal and halfway back again across the four seasons. The dreary San Francisco atmosphere of the final season was excellent.
 
I just finished Vienna Blood season one. Liked it very much. Its a period piece similar to Ripper Street. Set in 1907 Vienna. A young doctor using tools like profiling and Freud to help solve murders. It was actually on PBS first. They blur out a naked butt or boobs, but will show a sliced up body..hmmmm
 
Currently watching The Great (highly fictionalized account of Catherine the Great) on Hulu. Enjoying it quite a bit.
 
I saw the first season of The Boys. I have decidedly mixed feelings about it. I get the point of hero worship and all the imaging that goes on behind the scenes. How much of it is just so much B.S. As a person of faith, I think it serves as a warning on we come across to non believers.

I'm not sure about watching the second season.
 
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She is so good at narcissistic/self-depravation and being funny! She also had chemistry with each character which seems impossible - she definitely deserved all those awards

The backstory with the guy playing her assistant is that he was often laughing into her back or into his bag so he wouldn't ruin the scene! I would have had to do the same.
 
My wife found the British version of Law & Order on Tubi(?) with ads and we've been digging it.
 
Between Christmas and New Years my 11-year-old decided she wanted to watch the Marvel movies in order so we've been binging those.

We started with the three Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies. I know they're not canon to the MCU but I recall really liking the first couple so I thought that was a good spot to ease her in. She really liked them too but agreed that the song and dance scene in number 3 was horrible (or totally "cringe" as she put it).

So far we've gotten through:

Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain Marvel - I couldn't find Howard the Duck anywhere on streaming so we had to skip that one ;). I hadn't seen Captain Marvel yet but really enjoyed it. It also had the best Stan Lee cameo I've ever seen.
Iron Man
The Avengers
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - we just started this one last night and are only about an hour into it. I cannot recall if I had seen this one before.

We skipped Iron Man 2, Thor: The Dark World, and Iron Man 3 since those are pretty bad. We also skipped the Edward Norton Hulk movie as well since that one seems to be only tangentially related to the rest of the MCU but I'd like to go back and watch this one again as I remember enjoying it when it first came out.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Between Christmas and New Years my 11-year-old decided she wanted to watch the Marvel movies in order so we've been binging those.

We started with the three Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies. I know they're not canon to the MCU but I recall really liking the first couple so I thought that was a good spot to ease her in. She really liked them too but agreed that the song and dance scene in number 3 was horrible (or totally "cringe" as she put it).

So far we've gotten through:

Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain Marvel - I couldn't find Howard the Duck anywhere on streaming so we had to skip that one ;). I hadn't seen Captain Marvel yet but really enjoyed it. It also had the best Stan Lee cameo I've ever seen.
Iron Man
The Avengers
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - we just started this one last night and are only about an hour into it. I cannot recall if I had seen this one before.

We skipped Iron Man 2, Thor: The Dark World, and Iron Man 3 since those are pretty bad. We also skipped the Edward Norton Hulk movie as well since that one seems to be only tangentially related to the rest of the MCU but I'd like to go back and watch this one again as I remember enjoying it when it first came out.
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this is an excellent idea - how fun!!!
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Between Christmas and New Years my 11-year-old decided she wanted to watch the Marvel movies in order so we've been binging those.

We started with the three Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies. I know they're not canon to the MCU but I recall really liking the first couple so I thought that was a good spot to ease her in. She really liked them too but agreed that the song and dance scene in number 3 was horrible (or totally "cringe" as she put it).

So far we've gotten through:

Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain Marvel - I couldn't find Howard the Duck anywhere on streaming so we had to skip that one ;). I hadn't seen Captain Marvel yet but really enjoyed it. It also had the best Stan Lee cameo I've ever seen.
Iron Man
The Avengers
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - we just started this one last night and are only about an hour into it. I cannot recall if I had seen this one before.

We skipped Iron Man 2, Thor: The Dark World, and Iron Man 3 since those are pretty bad. We also skipped the Edward Norton Hulk movie as well since that one seems to be only tangentially related to the rest of the MCU but I'd like to go back and watch this one again as I remember enjoying it when it first came out.
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Are you watching them in any particular order? We started about a year ago trying to do the MCU timeline via Disney+.
 
GeogPlanner said:
Are you watching them in any particular order? We started about a year ago trying to do the MCU timeline via Disney+.
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That method is good, but it does expose some of the narrative continuity errors in any given movie that references movies before or after in the MCU timeline, but not the production timeline.

I was watching Avengers (2012) again this weekend and found a narrative mistake in relation to Loki's scepter. In Avengers (2012) the scepter is said to be 'powered' by the Tesseract (aka Space Stone). This conflicts with the narrative position in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) that Loki's scepter is actually powered on its own by the Mind Stone within the scepter itself.

Unless it's retconned early in Age of Ultron.

I also try not to worry too much about it.

Also see: space magic

;)

@WSU MUP Student

EDIT: Also here's a good explanation of the production timeline's retconning in regards to Loki's scepter and the Mind Stone.
 
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GeogPlanner said:
Are you watching them in any particular order? We started about a year ago trying to do the MCU timeline via Disney+.
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I gave my daughter the option of production order or MCU timeline on Disney+. She picked the timeline method (but like I mentioned above, we're still skipping some of the crappier ones).
 
WSU MUP Student said:
We skipped...Iron Man 3...
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To defend Iron Man 3, Ben Kingsley's performance is pretty stellar and worth watching the movie just for him.

You know you can fast forward? It's helpful to get through the sloggy part(s) of pretty much...anything.
 
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