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Tron
Mr. Monkey, I think what you’re saying here is.......it’s illegal.
I couldn’t give two shits about these money grubbing cable companies but, still, I don’t think your current set up will work for me.
I may have to continue getting sodomized by Comcast so that I can be a baseball nerd.
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I have the MLB Extra Innings on my TV and I dont have cable.
 
Tron
Mr. Monkey, I think what you’re saying here is.......it’s illegal.
I couldn’t give two shits about these money grubbing cable companies but, still, I don’t think your current set up will work for me.
I may have to continue getting sodomized by Comcast so that I can be a baseball nerd.
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Yes, appears it could be but playing dumb MrM with it! Anyway, I put the streaming service a step below illegal category as betting with off shore sites! Like I stated, if service goes under, back to a cable company! Like I also said, if richer, thinking like in your position, I would probably stick with cable too! TV has always been a priority for me and wifey with $200 monthly bill the norm over the years! We don't get out much!
 
Matty
What the fuck is Westworld doing.
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They are doing what all the good/great shows do. The writers run out of ideas and let their story lines go completely off the rails. I'm halfway through season 2 and am getting ready to pull the plug.

Same thing happened with Homeland. Started out very good then became unwatchable. Breaking bad was great for a long time too.
I have little patience these days and will bail early on a program if I don't like the way things go.
 
Yeah. Westworld and Homeland both took a nosedive after season 1.

That makes me think - I think The Wire is so many people's #1 show of all time in part because most if not all of it was obviously outlined in advance. It was like watching a massive Dostoevsky novel.

Can't be easy to keep a show on its rails for several years. Budgets change, actors quit/get fired/die, etc.

But yeah, fuck you and your ad libbing, JJ Abrams.
 
Matty
We still pay for basic cable and one sports package, essentially just for Canadiens games. It's like 32 Canadian tomatoes a month. IPTV sucks for live sports.
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I don't have cable or satellite tv but I do have unlimited highspeed cable internet.
I get over 40 local TV stations (mostly major US networks from Detroit + TVO, CBC & CTV in Ontario) over the air with a decent antenna and use friends Cogeco cable login for TSN & Sportsnet streaming for Leaf and Blue Jays games. The lag is approx 20 seconds behind live broadcast. I can live with that.
I'm surprised at how much content there is over the air. Most US stations have sub-channels ie 4.2, 4.3 etc and there is some good stuff on most of the time.

I also have HBO via cravetv and netflix. For anything else I download via torrents.
 
Matty
I tried tuning my TV for OTA but our place is facing west (CN Tower is on the other side of the building). I bet my neighbour across the hall gets an amazing OTA signal.
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I started out using a cheap antenna ~$15 and thought I was getting good reception. I was wrong. Sometimes signals were good but too often signal strength just crapped out on strong channels. I'm ~5 KM's from downtown Detroit (safely in Canada).

I picked up a highly recommended antenna off Amazon for ~$45 CAD, made in USA, not cheap Chinese shit and the difference has been huge. 100% signal strength 99.999% percent of the time (really really windy days can affect some channels but its rare) and I get even more channels than before, but usually those extra channels are religious crap tv programs or home shopping garbage.

 
Casperwaits
The Wire! That’s what up next on my list to binge.
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I think I'm ready for a rewatch. Will try to get wifey to follow along, but I remember that the first couple episodes are a bit of a slog.

Red Oaks is not outstanding in any way but it's just a solid show that's oddly satisfying to watch.
 
MrX
I saw Cats at a "rowdy screening" at a local theater. So you were encouraged to laugh inappropriately, yell about the cats human hands, cats wearing furs, etc. And it was a great way to see it, being such a trainwreck of a concept.

But here's the thing. I actually liked the movie. There was a lot to make fun of, but that aside, I also found it unironically entertaining. I might be the only one.
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Hey it has a 53% audience approval rating at RT.

Not me though. I kind of want to be a bit positive and point out how, amidst all the (IMO) astonishingly bad decisions that went into it, the stuff that I liked about the stage production is still in there. But they actually fucked up some of that too. Like they couldn't just perform the songs. They had to try extra stuff and be clever. Jennifer Hudson inserted some (IMO) weird, inappropriate interpretation to Memory in the middle part. There was some off-stuff with the Mister Mistofellees song too - but whatever.

2.8 out of 10 for me.
 
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