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

Quote: missedhervee

As long as people hold hidebound views such as yours many may question whether life is worth living.

The world could be much, much better than it currently is, and advocates of "woke" culture see that clearly.

Race should not matter, period.

You would make a great dictator. Trust me the world will be a marvelous place when it is run the way I want to.

You guys are part of the problem with your hoary attitudes and short-sightedness.

But things are changing and will continue to change; not a damned thing you can do to stop it.

Thing is, it's tough to predict just what that change will be.

Whatever, deal me in.

Quote: ams288

Canceled today after one season.

This is why I never bother with Netflix shows till I know they’re popular. Netflix can be brutal with the cancellations.

Yea saw that
Haven't finished the 1st season
On the flip side
Did not like the 3 body problem book
Which means it will be a great Netflix series

The Witcher second season just premiered. I forgot how good this is. The first season was shot entirely in Hungary Thomas season two entirely in the United Kingdom. The production values are super as is the story and even the acting is pretty good. I should re-watch the first season because it's been two years and I barely remember what it was about. Cavill underplays his role superbly.

Quote: missedhervee

You guys are part of the problem with your hoary attitudes and short-sightedness..

There's a word you don't see very often anymore; "hoar (adj.)" from Old English "har" meaning gray, venerable, or old.

Most people just say "old-fashioned", or "canoso" in Spanish which is just from the Latin word for old.

You seem young, which is more surprising that you would use an older word like that,

Season 1 of The Witcher got a 68% on Rotten Tomatoes. Season 2 got a 96%. If the whole second season is as good as the first episode, they have a monster hit. I don't think that's possible but it sounds like it doesn't get any worse. The first episode had everything you could possibly want and more. Totally watchable and entertaining.

Quote: Evenbob

Totally watchable and entertaining.

Based on one episode I totally agree. I may have to re-watch season #1 before I go further.

Freya Allan was just age 18 for the first season, and now she is a young adult. Very beguiling,

Quote: Pacomartin

Based on one episode I totally agree. I may have to re-watch season #1 before I go further.

Freya Allan was just age 18 for the first season, and now she is a young adult. Very beguiling,

The two female leads, this girl and the one playing Jennifer, are the best actors on the show. The blonde is especially good and I see a big future for her. Her character is very believable. Finished episode 3 and so far it's holding up. Probably the worst actor is Cavill, but he downplays it enough that it's passable.

I watched two episodes sometime ago, too much unnecessary nudity in that show for my liking, and I also think it's boring. It probably doesn't help that the two episodes were mid-season, so I really couldn't figure out what was going on.

That said, I thought that Cavill did a good job as Charles Brandon, First Duke of Suffolk, in The Tudors.

Quote: Mission146

I watched two episodes sometime ago, too much unnecessary nudity in that show for my liking, and I also think it's boring. It probably doesn't help that the two episodes were mid-season, so I really couldn't figure out what was going on.

The first season jumps backward in time to tell the backstories of Geralt and Yennefer. As they are supernatural creatures they are long lived so Yennefer is age 90, and Geralt is age 95, but both are still young. The first Netflix season covered ~ 57 years in a non-linear fashion, and roughly 2 weeks in the life of the young girl Ciri in the year 1263.

I doubt very much you would have any idea what happened from 2 mid-season episodes.

Geralt was born in 1168 and Yennefer in 1173.
Episode 1 bounds from year 1231 to 1263 (which is basically present day for purposes of the story)
Episode 2 1206 to 1240, to 1263
Episode 3 1210, 1243, and 1263
Episode 4 1240, 1249, and 1263
Episode 5 1256 (Geralt and Yennefer meet), and 1263
Episode 6 1262, and 1263
Episode 7 1263
Episode 8 1263

The writer of the stories is Polish and the Duchy of Poland was founded in the year 960. So he sets the timeline in a period when Poland was a great state.

The second season does jump back and forth from location to location, but it follows a straightforward timeline in year 1263. most of the nudity has vanished.