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Streaming Recommendations (Netflix, HBO, Amazon, etc.)
| May 24th, 2021 at 12:34:26 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | The Highwaymen on Netflix is so good I'm watching it in 30 minute segments so it lasts longer. The acting, the writing, the way they captured the 1930s in the search for Bonnie and Clyde is over the top great. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 27th, 2021 at 10:58:06 AM permalink | |
| JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 971 | My preconception of any new sitcom is that it sucks and I am seldom wrong. That's what makes the exceptions so refreshing. Loudermilk streaming on Prime is a winner. Ron Livingston (from Office Space) plays a recovering alcoholic who runs a support group. The writing, the character development, the story are all great. Jokes are funny too. As I said it's a winner. I hope they do a fourth season. The mind hungers for that on which it feeds. |
| June 3rd, 2021 at 7:24:09 AM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12531 | Mare of Easttown (HBO Max) Wow. Wow. Wow. Couldn’t recommend this one any higher. One of the best shows in a long long time. Kate Winslet is phenomenal (actually, all the actors are). She somehow nails the local accent. All the characters feel real, with incredibly messy lives. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| June 3rd, 2021 at 8:36:51 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | Hope it's better than the trailer which is Debbie Downer depressing. Good grief. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| June 4th, 2021 at 4:30:01 AM permalink | |
| gamerfreak Member since: Feb 19, 2018 Threads: 4 Posts: 527 |
Just finished this last week, I’d give it a 7/10. The show was filmed in my hometown. The school scenes are in the middle school I went to. Exterior police station is right down the street. They nailed a lot of local references, including the brand of chips from the local manufacturer that we were eating while watching. They really laid on the PA accent way too thick, it was almost offensive. |
| June 4th, 2021 at 8:21:13 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I only watched the trailer. Is that what that was, a Pennsylvania accent? I thought they had a mouth full of marbles. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| June 4th, 2021 at 8:57:03 AM permalink | |
| gamerfreak Member since: Feb 19, 2018 Threads: 4 Posts: 527 |
Yea, I guess some people around here have a distinctive accent. Search Mare of Easttown accent. Tons of interviews with Kate Winslet saying how hard it was for her to learn to talk like that. I don’t really pronounce words the way the do on the show, but I have friends/family that do. I think they turned it up way to far in the series. |
| June 4th, 2021 at 12:37:07 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I dated a woman for a while in the late 70s who was from West Texas and had an extremely distinctive Texas drawl that drove me insane. I had to break up with her after a few months because I probably would have had to kill her eventually. She drove me that crazy. Instead of sleeve she said slave, instead of leave she said lave. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| June 4th, 2021 at 4:37:54 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Always remember that 52 counties in Pennsylvania are officially in the Appalachian region. The 15 counties in the Southeast including Philadelphia contain over half the state population. Toni Collette (Australian) in the Sixth Sense is often honored as the most accurate Philadelphia accent ever portrayed on film. But I don't remember her as having a lot of lines. Rocky Balboa is considered one of the most innacurate. Delaware County (DelCo) is in Philadelphia metro area to the west and was roughly 30,000 people in the Civil War, broke 100,000 in the 20th century, and peaked in population half century ago in 1970. It is 66% white-non hispanic, 22% black, and with a tiny sampling of Latinos at 4%, and Asians at 6%. Tina Fey and Cheri Oteri from SNL are from DelCo. |
| July 2nd, 2021 at 9:27:44 AM permalink | |
| JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 971 | The final season of Bosch is streaming on Prime. The mind hungers for that on which it feeds. |