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So what's everyone binge watching these days?

I'm planning on starting "The Rain" on Netflix tonight. I've heard good things about it, and I love a creepy mystery type show so I'm hoping it's as good as people have been saying.

Quote from: LegallyNuclear on May 22, 2018, 04:19:07 pm

So what's everyone binge watching these days?

I'm planning on starting "The Rain" on Netflix tonight. I've heard good things about it, and I love a creepy mystery type show so I'm hoping it's as good as people have been saying.

Stranger Things is a favorite.

Altered Carbon started off great and kind of slowly died.

I have to start WestWorld.

I loved House of Cards until this current political climate made the show seem...tame...and the whole K. Spacey stuff soured it.

Westworld has been really great this season, so you need to watch it for sure!


I agree with you about Altered Carbon. I lost interest the more the show went on. It's disappointing because the premise is interesting and the first few episodes were really promising, but it's like they just didn't know how to keep up the momentum.

I loved House of Cards until this current political climate made the show seem...tame...and the whole K. Spacey stuff soured it.

Did you watch the original British version of House of Cards? It is available on Netflix. It beats the American version hands down in my opinion. It's only 12 episodes total so a relatively quick series.

For anybody who has Amazon Prime, I highly recommend the miniseries adaptations of Emma (with Romola Garai and Johnny Lee Miller) and Sense and Sensibility (from 2008) that are on there. They are both excellently done and just delightful to watch (in fact, it really pains me to say this because I love Emma Thompson, but this S&S adaptation is honestly so much better than hers ).The casting is perfect in both of them, they stay wonderfully true to the novels, and they have oodles of pretty dresses to drool over. Emma has 5 or 6 episodes and S&S has 2 or 3, so they're nice when you want something a little less time-consuming than working your way through eight seasons of something.

Quote from: lowspark on May 23, 2018, 04:09:48 pm

Quote from: Damocles on May 22, 2018, 04:22:48 pm

I loved House of Cards until this current political climate made the show seem...tame...and the whole K. Spacey stuff soured it.

Did you watch the original British version of House of Cards? It is available on Netflix. It beats the American version hands down in my opinion. It's only 12 episodes total so a relatively quick series.

There’s a British version? Same name?

There is but it's showing its age.

Quote from: Felicia on May 23, 2018, 05:27:24 pm

Quote from: lowspark on May 23, 2018, 04:09:48 pm

Quote from: Damocles on May 22, 2018, 04:22:48 pm

I loved House of Cards until this current political climate made the show seem...tame...and the whole K. Spacey stuff soured it.

Did you watch the original British version of House of Cards? It is available on Netflix. It beats the American version hands down in my opinion. It's only 12 episodes total so a relatively quick series.

There’s a British version? Same name?

There is but it's showing its age.

Ha. I guess it is outdated in that no one has a cell phone! But if you can set aside the lack of modern day conveniences, it's a very compelling story. Ian Richardson is excellent as Prime Minister.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098825/

I'm currently re-binging The West Wing.  Someone explain to me why we can't get a revival here? Sam Seaborn for President!

...Oh wait, that actor is current on Code Black. Um... CJ for President?

I'm currently re-binging The West Wing.  Someone explain to me why we can't get a revival here? Sam Seaborn for President!

...Oh wait, that actor is current on Code Black. Um... CJ for President?

Fun Fact: They actually based an episode of The West Wing on my dad. Way back around 1998-1999, my dad (who is a lawyer/law professor whose area of expertise is election law and campaign finance) was nominated to a spot on the Federal Election Commission, which oversees campaign finance laws and regulations. His particular views on this subject meant that his nomination ended up being really controversial and got a lot more press than FEC nominations usually get. It became such a kerfuffle that they actually did a West Wing episode about how this guy had been nominated to the FEC and that just couldn't happen because he had such crazy views on money and politics and AAAAAHHHHHH CRAZINESS!!!eleventy!! I don't know how the episode ended (I was 12, if they weren't actually showing my dad, I wasn't interested), but in real life my dad's nomination did go through and he served a five-year term.

So yeah...I've still never actually watched the show, though.