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I watched the series premier of The Orville which, in the simplest terms, is Seth MacFarlane attempting his own Star Trek spin-off.

Here's the thing: while it attempts to be funny at times, it is definitely not intended to just be a comedy against a sci-fi backdrop. Macfarlane seems serious about doing the sci-fi and having the Star Trek-like plots/relationships/characters (with himself as the handsome, heroic Captain).

What you end up with is something that is not funny enough to be a comedy but not good enough at all that other stuff to be a viable sci-fi.

Well, maybe I'll check out another episode but I seriously doubt it will take.
 
And I watched the premier of The Deuce. It looks somewhat promising. Not sure if I base that on episode 1 or just the fact that David Simon who did The Wire is behind it. (But then David Simon also did Treme which didn't do anything for me.)

Not crazy about having James Franco playing twins but I am going to give it some time and see where it goes.
 
Who is the actor? Can you guess?


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The Handmaid's Tale is fokked up. :ohmy: I can see how the 80's might have inspired Atwood to write that shit.

I assume Elisabeth Moss won some trophies for her performance. Intense stuff from her.

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I just realized this is a brand new series. Thought it was a couple years old.

I predict some trophies for Ms. Moss. :yes:
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She did it! :pope: Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a drama series.
 
by mention of Daft I finished Ozark

very good stuff, i love this type of geographic centered stories

that ruth is a hot little thing


by mention of muddy started Narcos

impression after 3 episodes in, didn't expect so much spanish, the accents are accurate, cucaracha a chilean colombians true down to the regions, except pablo himself, he's a brazilian actor, very good actor but it's hard for me not to hear his portuguese, he does a good job in spanish overall

pablo actor did a movie Tropa de Elite and part 2, SWAT like teams in the favelas of Rio, you should watch this if you havent muddy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5AuNTDxA6A

he did another historical character in JK drama, the story of Juscelino Kubitschek son of czech immigrant that went on to be president of brazil, him along with Oscar Niemeyer created the city of Brasilia out of nothing to become the new capital, during his time in power brazil went on to become the mega country of south america and after his death is when the dictatorship took full control of the country killing and torturing tens of thousands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm-XAHeszvA

rare tidbit, that priest that appeared briefly in ep 3 is now the minister of culture of peru, here is during the march lima flash floods https://youtu.be/L9mjauLvaAE?t=52s

overall story points are accurate, i like
 
Narcos Location Scout Shot Dead in Mexico


A location scout for the Netflix series Narcos was shot and killed while searching for locations for season four of the drama series.

His bullet-ridden body was found in a car on an unnamed dirt road outside Hidalgo which has the highest murder rate in the country, 12.2 per 100,000 inhabitants.

Speculation is that locals may have become suspicious after seeing him with a camera collecting information.


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