Streaming Recommendations (Netflix, HBO, Amazon, etc.)

November 27th, 2020 at 1:16:45 PM permalink
terapined
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Just getting into the Crown on netflix
Just a few episodes in
Suprised how Edward is portrayed
Did a little reading. In reality, he's a much worse person. The series did him a favor.
He pretty much was a nazi sympathizer. He thought Germany would win and make him King again so he met with Hitler.
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November 27th, 2020 at 2:43:00 PM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: terapined
Just getting into the Crown on netflix
Just a few episodes in
Suprised how Edward is portrayed
Did a little reading. In reality, he's a much worse person. The series did him a favor.
He pretty much was a nazi sympathizer. He thought Germany would win and make him King again so he met with Hitler.


In real life he was an incompetent
idiot. He wasn't capable of being
king, that's why he stepped down.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
November 27th, 2020 at 6:19:05 PM permalink
Pacomartin
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Quote: terapined
He pretty much was a nazi sympathizer. He thought Germany would win and make him King again so he met with Hitler.


Prince Charles was more than a sympathizer.

Charles Edward in 1933, as SA-Gruppenführer.

The Americans locked him in a POW camp. He died in poverty after watching his second cousin twice removed be crowned monarch of the United Kingdom in 1952, two years before he died at the age of 69.
November 29th, 2020 at 12:36:49 AM permalink
Evenbob
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Gillian Anderson is brilliant as
Margret Thatcher in The Crown.
Here she responds to the queen
after being told she is making too
many enemies in her own gov't.




You have no enemies, you say?
Alas! my friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done.
You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,
You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You’ve never turned the wrong to right,
You’ve been a coward in the fight.

I immediately thought of Lincoln,
who was hated by both parties
and had nothing but enemies and
still accomplished great things. And
Trump, who has also done great
things while being reviled by almost
everybody. He's already been
nominated for another Nobel
Peace Prize. They stopped Lincoln's
2nd term with a bullet, they might
stop Trump's with the most corrupt
election we've ever had. Great men
are always hated by little men and
must be stopped at all cost.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
November 29th, 2020 at 6:50:59 AM permalink
Pacomartin
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Margaret Thatcher in Scarborough, England on March 18, 1989 on the left and Gillian Anderson, portraying Margaret Thatcher on the right.

Quote: Evenbob
Gillian Anderson is brilliant as Margret Thatcher in The Crown.


The primary actors in The Crown are Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Matt Smith, Tobias Menzies, Vanessa Kirby, and Helena Bonham Carter, Erin Doherty , Josh O'Connor, and Emerald Fennell are all British.

However the American actors Gillian Anderson as Margret Thatcher and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill really stand out.

Margaret Thatcher was really like that. She would answer a question with a lengthy quote. She loved classical education including Greek and Latin.
November 29th, 2020 at 7:04:24 AM permalink
ams288
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Is Gillian Anderson really an American? I always assumed she was.

But I’ve seen her doing press for The Crown and she has a British accent.
“A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman
November 29th, 2020 at 7:46:42 AM permalink
Dalex64
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Anderson

Born in Chicago, moved early to Puerto Rico then London until the age of 11, then to Grand Rapids, MI. Sounds like she was quite a hellion as a teenager.

"Anderson is bidialectal. With her English accent and background, she was mocked and felt out of place as a teenager in the American Midwest and soon adopted a Midwestern accent. To this day, she easily shifts between her American and English accents."
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November 29th, 2020 at 8:42:11 AM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: Dalex64
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Anderson

Born in Chicago, moved early to Puerto Rico then London until the age of 11, then to Grand Rapids, MI.


When my brother had the camera
store when the X Files was on,
Gillian would bring in her Xmas
photo's for developing. Movie
stars are quite boring in their
home settings, just like the rest
of us.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
November 29th, 2020 at 10:16:34 AM permalink
Evenbob
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Really nice video about the making
of season 4. I had forgotten how
beautiful Gillian Anderson is.

If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
November 30th, 2020 at 6:02:51 PM permalink
ams288
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Hulu has a Cyber Monday deal for $1.99/month for a year. Still a few hours left to snag it.

I just signed up. Will finally check out The Handmaid’s Tale.
“A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman