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Optimism opens the door to great things.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Come on, man.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

We are aware of all internet traditions.

The words do not have to be perfect.

This fight is for everything.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Second rate reporter says what?

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Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

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You Guys Were So Right About The Lincoln Lawyer

You guys were so right about The Lincoln Lawyer!

I ditched Inside Man halfway through the second episode.  It was painful watching the characters do the things they were doing.  So I bailed!  But I’m still walking on the treadmill every day, so that’s good.

The Lincoln Lawyer grabbed me right away.  The plot line is intriguing.  The actors are excellent.  Every scene is visually interesting.   The characters are interesting.  I love the music.  Just so happy to have found it!

So how about if tonight we don’t just share what we’re watching but also share what’s so great about it?  Or you can ignore me and talk about whatever you want.

Also, BG is lollygagging this evening is slammed with work right now.  Who knew that teaching full-time, raising a family and trying to write a book would make life so complicated?  :-)

Open thread.

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  2. 2.

    Steeplejack

    The Lincoln Lawyer movie from 2011 with Matthew McConaughey and an A-list cast—Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy et al.—is also pretty good, although probably different from the series. Streaming on HBO Max and DirecTV. It is a big Hollywooden production, but it moves pretty well and McConaughey is well suited to the role.

  3. 3.

    patrick II

    McConaughey is well suited to the role.

    Yes he was. Matt doesn’t always work for me, but that part fit him perfectly.

  4. 4.

    phein63

    I’m glad I’m not alone in cringing at Inside Man.  How could Tennant’s vicar be so, so, incapable of dealing with a human being?

  5. 5.

    mrmoshpotato

    Watching the Kansas City Chiefs about to win against the LA Rams.

    Might watch Trevor Noah’s new special before Sunday Night Football (Green Bay at Philadelphia Go Eagles!)

  6. 6.

    patrick II

    For those of you who might have considered “Andor” but couldn’t watch it on Disney — it is at a two week run on Hulu if you have that.  It is a fantastic show — Star Wars of the working people, no light sabers and princesses here.  It is smart and beautiful to look at.

    Also, The Peripheral on Prime is a six part series based on William Gibson’s book of the same name.  I guess it is my week for smart sci-fi.

  7. 7.

    raven

    Bosch is better.

    eta Actually I only saw the movie and I didn’t think much of it.

     

    Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch is the titular character of Michael Connelly’s most popular series. Harry Bosch is a war veteran and a hard-nosed LAPD detective (that is, before he retires). He’s had a rough life and a tough career, but he always goes after justice no matter what. With 20 books and counting, it’s a beloved and lengthy series—and if that’s not enough, there are five seasons of the “Bosch” TV show adaptation starring Titus Welliver for your to watch. It sounds like a lot, I know—a lot of awesome. Pick your poison and follow Bosch through the ups and downs of his career and personal life.

     

  10. 10.

    Steeplejack

    @patrick II:

    Thanks for the tip on Andor. This might get me to finally pull the trigger on Hulu.

    ETA: Is there some Disney/Hulu combo that is a good deal? I seem to vaguely remember something about that.

  12. 12.

    Starfish

    In an earlier thread, we were talking about the youths not wanting to watch films in black and white. Anyway, I find myself deeply interested in the 1925 silent film “The Freshman” strictly because it has an intertitle that said “Let me alone. I’m looking for a piece of cheese– not a husband.”

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Starfish:

    Anyway, I find myself deeply interested in the 1925 silent film “The Freshman” strictly because it has an intertitle that said “Let me alone. I’m looking for a piece of cheese– not a husband.” 

    Nosferatu from 1922 has an intertitle which reads “Your wife has a beautiful neck.”

  17. 17.

    C Stars

    @mrmoshpotato: we watched the Trevor Noah special last night. It’s pretty good! Entertaining for the most part and not much insult comedy. We watched it with our kids who are 9 and 12, and they LOVED it. I think after all the trauma of the pandemic and the Trump presidency, and the way it affected the adults in their lives, it was super cathartic and helpful for them to see another adult (an adult far cooler than their parents) joke about it and describe some of what happened from a goofy, Trevor Noah  perspective. Maybe it was good for us too.

  18. 18.

    patrick II

    @Steeplejack: 
    There is a Disney/Hulu/Espn2 bundle but I don’t know how much it costs. I think around $15.  Strangely, a few months back an internet add popped up for Hulu for 99cents a month on my browser.  I thought it was a hoax, but clicked anyway and it took me to the legitimate Hulu site and I now get Hulu for 99 cents. I don’t how that happened, but it is fine with me.  Hulu may be the most underrated of the streaming services.

  20. 20.

    JoyceH

    I just started season three of Dead To Me (Netflix). I had to rewatch the first two seasons, since there was a pandemic break of a couple years. It’s a ‘dark comedy’, and the characters are kind of creating their own problems, but it’s very engrossing, and the plot keeps Twisting.

    Before that I rewatched Counterpart (Prime), which was as good and as convoluted as I recalled.

    And open thread – does anyone else get attached to cars? I just sold my Prius on Carvana and am feeling like I kicked out a kitten. But I don’t NEED two cars, and someone with a long commute and short budget will really appreciate it.

  21. 21.

    Danielx

    Note: re-reading Night Soldiers by Alan Furst. Few better at depicting a particular place in time.

  23. 23.

    C Stars

    @patrick II: I came at Andor ready to hate it and was crying during the season finale. It really is a surprisingly good Star Wars show. Will have to check out The Peripheral.

    After Andor we tried watching 1899 but only got through the first episode. I could see it either turning into a good show or descending into horror tropes. Will probably give it a second try, at least finish the episode

    ETA we only got halfway through the first ep

  24. 24.

    Amir Khalid

    I have narrowed my phone search down to two Vivo models, the Y35 and the Y77 5G. (I don’t particularly want a new phone, but the battery in my old pre-pandemic Vivo phone now takes a day or more to charge.) They’re roughly the same; but for RM200 (about US$45) more the latter has a somewhat more advanced, 5G-ready processor. On the other hand, the former has more extended RAM and a faster, 44-watt charger. Decisions, decisions …

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    @Steeplejack: MazeDancer was kind enough to send me some Black Friday streaming info earlier today – special pricing ends today.

    Peacock Premium 99 cents a month for a year. Wiseguy is on Peacock.

    Hulu/Disney combo 5 bucks a month for a year

    Paramount Plus 24 for a year with ads, 50 without.

    Bet all your Brit channels have specials, too, you might check.

  29. 29.

    WV Blondie

    We just found and binge-watched the first season of Wednesday, a very entertaining spinoff of The Addams Family. Played straight, with humor, callbacks to the original show, monsters and a little gore (I’ve seen worse on CSI).

  30. 30.

    C Stars

    @WaterGirl: It’s on Netflix, filmed in Toronto, about 45 minutes. Nothing about why he’s leaving the Daily Show but I guess he the Toronto gig was scheduled a day or two after he made the announcement

     

    ETA he doesn’t talk about the daily show at all, actually, but does describe his experience with several US presidents (& of course perfectly mimics them)

  31. 31.

    Steeplejack

    @Danielx:

    I binge-read the whole Furst series up through Spies of the Balkans and got beached at the start of Mission to Paris. No complaint, just overload. I should get back to those. They are very good. The Polish Officer was particularly good. Has a sort of Ukraine vibe now in my memory.

  32. 32.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Steeplejack: Anybody here read Eric Ambler novels?  A Coffin for Demetrios?  Cause for Alarm?  Spy novels (though it’s been forever, so I might be  misremembering).  I should reread!

  34. 34.

    SpaceUnit

    FWIW, I subscribed to the Disney bundle about a year and a half ago for about $12 a month.  Disney and Hulu are pretty good but ESPN Plus is pretty worthless.  They carry a lot of NHL but the college football and basketball games they stream are mostly 4th tier.  I should have done my research.

  35. 35.

    trollhattan

    I liked it. Similarly, liked the “Perry Mason” prequel-reboot with The American’s lead as proto-Perry. No idea if there’s to be a second season.

  37. 37.

    Steeplejack

    @Amir Khalid:

    It’s hard to give advice, since the phone choices are so different between the U.S. and Malaysia. I think you said you’re not in a 5G area, so I would probably go with the Y35. More RAM is always better, and the processor speed (I assume) is not dreadfully less than that of the Y77. And our phones, like our computers, spend most of their time patiently waiting for us to press a key.

  44. 44.

    zhena gogolia

    I am enjoying See How They Run so far. Saoirse Ronan cracks me up. We finished The Crown last night. Loved Elizabeth Debicki and Imelda Staunton.

  45. 45.

    C Stars

    @WV Blondie: Yeah, my family has been binging Wednesday over the break. I’ve been busy with other stuff when they’ve been watching it but you’re making me think perhaps I should go back and try to catch up.

  46. 46.

    UncleEbeneezer

    We’ve been really enjoying 1899 on Netflix.  Very confusing but beautiful and dark and lost of great acting performances.  Hopefully by the end of this season we have a better idea how everything is connected, but it’s a really enjoyable ride, either way.

  48. 48.

    Steeplejack

    @zhena gogolia:

    You reminded me that I’ve got to watch See How They Run. The trailers looked so good that I was going to see it in the theater, but then I got sick. And now it’s on HBO Max. Convenient!

  49. 49.

    Dan B

    @Amir Khalid: We got a 5G Samsung phone from T Mobile but discovered the 5G didn’t work at our house and we’re 4 miles from T Mobile headquarters.  We can get 5G to work a bit outside but apparently you need to be in line of sight of a 5G source and within a few hundred yards.  Ugh.

  50. 50.

    RSA

    @Chetan Murthy: Yes!  I had a collection of Ambler novels; the ones you mention sound familiar, though it’s been so long since I’ve read them that I have no idea what they are about.  I do remember enjoying them, as period pieces.

  52. 52.

    SpaceUnit

    @billcinsd:

    Yeah.  I just assumed that it was going to be all the stuff on regular ESPN plus some additional content.  Like I said, I should have done my homework.

  53. 53.

    Steeplejack

    I spent some time today fiddling with my old warhorse Chromebook and Firefox, preparatory to starting in on my PBS Passport backlog. It’s an Asus Flip C100PA; I bought it in 2017 and got the notice of last system upgrade in July 2020. Not a big deal, because I use it almost exclusively for streaming, mainly with Cox Contour and HBO Max, both stand-alone apps. But I use a browser for PBS Passport on my computer, and I am a bit concerned about Chrome being “outdated” on the Chromebook. Hence my thinking that I should use Firefox or another browser that still gets updated.

    Any tips or advice? Does anyone think it’s okay to use outdated Chrome?

    I have to say that this Chromebook has been one of my tech superstars. Bought it in the summer of 2017 for $300 and am still using it daily.

  54. 54.

    patrick II

    @C Stars: ​
     
    If you haven’t seen Rogue One, to which Andor is a prequel, check it out. You will cry some more. It is the best of the SW prequel movies. It is on the Star Wars group on Disney.

  57. 57.

    brendancalling

    The boy and I are watching “The Get Down” on Netflix. It’s about the early hip-hop/rap/disco scene in the Bronx in the 1970s. It’s pretty good. The footage of the Bronx from that era is unreal. I was just a little kid in the 1970s, and we left NYC in 74 for my dad’s job.

    The writing, IMO, would lend itself better to theatre. As a play, I would 100% see this. As TV/movie, it’s got some flaws. Not enough to make me turn it off though. Definitely worth your time.

  59. 59.

    Brachiator

    @patrick II:

    @C Stars: ​

    If you haven’t seen Rogue One, to which Andor is a prequel, check it out. You will cry some more. It is the best of the SW prequel movies. It is on the Star Wars group on Disney.

    While I also recommend Rogue One, I think you could watch it after watching Andor.

  60. 60.

    frosty

    We finished watching a movie last night and Netflix recommended Wednesday, about the Addams Family daughter sent to a boarding school for outcasts. Binged 3 episodes. We liked it!

  61. 61.

    Dangerman

    @mrmoshpotato: The Rams won’t win again this year with that Matador OL (they yell Ole and spin out of the way as a Defensive End considers knocking the QB into next week).

  62. 62.

    Amir Khalid

    @Dan B:

    In Malaysia, as in most all countries, the 5G networks are only a year or two old and still need a lot more building out. Especially since a 5G base station has a much smaller coverage footprint than a 4G base station. Also too, the non-power user majority, which I belong to, will probably not need 5G anyway, at least for a few years to come.

  64. 64.

    lgerard

    Came across this hilarious Fox News article claiming that a 1% daughter was rescued and restored to the bosom of her Palm Beach mansion by the heroic efforts of her mother.

    Do Fox readers really believe this tripe?

    New York City pharmaceutical heiress Annabella Rockwell is claiming that her mother paid a $300-a-day “deprogrammer” after believing her daughter had been “brainwashed” by attending an all-female elite liberal college that left the young woman “totally indoctrinated” and estranged from the parents who raised her.

  70. 70.

    thruppence

    I usually get home late and don’t often have the energy/attention to take on new complicated narratives. Every holiday season I watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I know it so well that I can stop and start it at any point and still follow closely.

  71. 71.

    NotMax

    Something which to my surprise held my interest all the way through was The Saint Steps Into Television, an audacious choice to make a two hour documentary about a mid-tier action TV program. Doesn’t take itself or its subject matter too seriously; it’s both informative and just plain fun. Streaming on Tubi.

    @Steeplejack

    99 cents was last year’s deal. This year’s is $1.99 per month, Just canceled the 12 month 99 cent subscription the other day. It’s about to expire and revert to standard pricing anyway and IMHO there’s (a) not enough content I find of interest and (b) the entire UI is wonky and glitchy, to the point of being supremely annoying when it does deign to work.

    Tried watching the free-for-all first two episodes of Andor. Kept nodding off part way through, rewinding and continuing, then falling asleep again before eventually making it through both. I gave up on the whole Star Wars thing when Phantom Menace was first released so have zero familiarity with anything since. Suffice to say Andor pushed no buttons on my personal taste meter; find it somehow fitting the name is an anagram for Drano — a product not intended for consumption and whose raison d’être is to disappear by swirling into oblivion, leaving only the faintest lingering trace of its passage.

  73. 73.

    RSA

    @Steeplejack:  I don’t have any good advice… I keep around a circa 2010 Macbook Air because it runs a long-outdated, paid-for Scrabble application that I like to play, along with a few other games.  I occasionally fire up Chrome to look something up, and I get warnings that I’m using a version that is unsupported (since around 2017, I believe) and is not secure.  I’m not logged in to any online accounts on the machine (e.g. amazon, gmail) which I hope counts for something.

    Chromebooks may be different.

  74. 74.

    karen marie

    @patrick II:   Thanks for the reminder about Peripheral.  I’ve been watching it but I get screwed up when something is released in once-a-week episodes.

  75. 75.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    @NotMax: …a product not intended for consumption and whose raison d’être is to disappear by swirling into oblivion, leaving only the faintest lingering trace of its passage.

    It gets better after a few episodes.

  76. 76.

    karen marie

    @WaterGirl: This is great!  The Hulu deal is good until tomorrow – at least that’s what it said just now when I raced over to subscribe.  If you had subscribed in the past and have an old account, you still get the deal.  Whee!

    I watch so little “TV,” it doesn’t make sense for me to maintain subscriptions to any streaming services, but for $1.99/month, even I can afford it.

    The HBO $1.99 deal is only good for three months, so mark your 2023 calendar!

  77. 77.

    TaMara

    I watched all of Inside Man…but only by fast-forwarding through the David Tennet plot. It was terrible, not just grim, but a terrible plotline. Loved, loved, loved, Stanley Tucci and his plotline. The series would have been much better focusing on him solving mysteries exclusively.

    Couldn’t get into Lincoln Lawyer, like the movie enough I kept comparing.

  79. 79.

    Steeplejack

    @RSA:

    Sounds about the same. And, yeah, I don’t access any of my “personal” accounts on the Chromebook. Although you do have to use your Google account to log into the Chromebook.

  80. 80.

    Craig

    I started watching The English on Prime. Good, heavily stylized Western with Emily Blunt as a English noble on a revenge mission. She convinces Pawnee ex cavalry scout to help her travel and lots of good English actors die. Pretty photography, pretty good writing, good acting.

    Andor is fucking great. See it.

  82. 82.

    Tim

    How I loved “Lost”; warts and all. Lack of Resolution, complainers complained. Well. Since the I’ve fallen in love with 3 shows with Perfect Resolution: no loose ends and everybody winds up where they belong: Hannibal, The Good Place, Lucifer. Let’s not fight

  83. 83.

    randy khan

    We just started a new series on the PBS online service – a German police show called Luna & Sophie.  The bit is that they are best friends (I think from college) who also are partnered as detectives.  Luna is a bit of a free spirit and Sophie is less so, but there really isn’t much tension between them, or at least not so far, but there’s a lot of the stuff you get between friends who’ve known each other forever.  And so far the crime parts are fairly interesting.  There are 25 episodes available, so it’s a decent length so far, but not too much of an investment.

    (And I’m still recommending Astrid.  The treatment of people who aren’t neurotypical is pretty sympathetic and seems at least a little insightful, and Astrid is not the only character on the spectrum, which is good, too.  Of course, I don’t really know if the portrayals are right or not, but they seem much more nuanced than most of what i’ve seen over the years, where people on the spectrum mostly are treated as problems in one way or another.  These characters have problems, but one thing you see is how they deal with them.)

  84. 84.

    JaySinWA

    @Steeplejack: If your Chromebook has Android support, you can run the Android version of Firefox, (I don’t know if Android Chrome is available) but last time I used it it was underwhelming in it’s tablet format. Brave may run in that enviroment as well.

    If the your box supports the Linux environment, Chrome, Firefox and Brave are options and run well in the Chromebook Linux environment.

    You may have the option of running OS Flex (the Chromebook everywhere option) on your old Chromebook as well, but that’s a fair amount of work compared to installing it on an old Windows box

    I see your CBook is Intel based, that helps make these options possible  Whoops ARM Rockchip? not so easy. There are Linux replacements but that’s just as problematica as OS Flex

    ETA 2 I see it doesn’t appear to support a native Linux environmen

    ETA 3 Android emulation looks like it works for this device, so Play Store may be your best chance.

  85. 85.

    Suzanne

    I went to see “Glass Onion” — in an actual movie theater — last night. It was great fun. Daniel Craig is hilarious, Janelle Monae was surprising (can’t say why) and just stunningly beautiful, Ed Norton did a great job as a rich asshole. Great big asshole.

    It reminded me, though, why I don’t really love going to the movies. The woman next to me smelled bad and there were some college-age kids behind me who wouldn’t shut the fuck up during the movie. And even though the zillion-plex was very empty, it was understaffed and the bathrooms were trashed. It was only my second time going to the movies since March 2020. I know they all want us to come back…. but my living room is much more pleasant and the snacks are better. And I don’t have to wear pants. Big plus.

    In all seriousness, I feel like this whole experience needs to take it up a notch.

  87. 87.

    Steeplejack

    @randy khan:

    Seconded on Luna and Sophie. I’ve only seen the first two episodes, but it’s pretty good. Gotta remind myself to put it on my Passport list.

    ETA: And I will check out Astrid.

  88. 88.

    Steeplejack

    @JaySinWA:

    My Chromebook does support Android, and I’ve already got Firefox and Brave installed on it. Not looking to do a tear-down renovation of the whole environment.

  89. 89.

    Brachiator

    @C Stars:

    I haven’t seen it. Wondering if I should wait until the show ends.

    I would say yes, wait. Andor is in some ways its own story about the early years of the Rebellion.

  90. 90.

    Steeplejack

    @NotMax:

    I’ll have to check out that doc on The Saint. I always hated Roger Moore as James Bond, but when I watched all of The Saint on MeTV a year or so ago I found that I liked him a lot in that. The problem was that he went into the Bond franchise playing 007 exactly the way he did Simon Templar. Ugh.

  91. 91.

    JaySinWA

    @Steeplejack: Nope, I wouldn’t go there either unless there was no other option and a new or newer machine wasn’t available to me.

    OTOH there are significant vulnerabilities in Chrome that have been found in the last two years. ChromeOS probably limits the damage that can be done to your environment and Powerwash can alleviate that, but I don’t know how Chrome vulnerabilities translate in to risk to your personal data on the CBook

    ETA you should probably turn off sync for extensions to protect other devices

  92. 92.

    Comrade Colette

    I’m halfway through Beyond Evil, a murder mystery thriller series on Netflix that came out last year. Set-up is the discovery in a small town of a body that appears to be tied to a couple of unsolved murders and disappearances 20 years ago – is there a serial killer? A pretty-boy cop from the big city with his own obscure agenda comes to town and (of course) clashes with the local cops, who are (of course) nowhere near as backward or inept as he assumes. That doesn’t begin to do it justice. It’s creepy and thrilling and intense – fantastic performances by two of Korea’s best actors, Shin Ha-kyun and Yeo Jin-goo. The violence is more implied than shown so far, but what is shown indirectly is pretty disturbing. I can’t watch it late at night but I can’t stop watching.

  94. 94.

    Another Scott

    @Steeplejack: You’re probably not doing anything too dangerous, but it’s obviously a good idea to move to something supported.

    I think I’ve still got a Toshiba Chromebook 2 around here somewhere. I haven’t used it recently, but never had any problems it (only used it for web browsing). It looks like the “end of life” date was last year.

    If you’re feeling adventurous, there’s at least one version of Linux that is customized for Chromebooks – GalliumOS. It lists the Toshiba Chromebook 2 as being supported (Intel chip), while, unfortunately, your C100PA is not supported (ARM chip).

    It looks like one can get an ARM Chromebook to run Linux using crouton and picking the right distro. Ubuntu can work, also too. There are probably issues with finding ARM apps though…

    This seems to be a decent list of Chromebooks with extended AUE dates. Maybe there are some bargains to be found on a supported box?

    HTH a bit. Good luck!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  96. 96.

    Larch

    Recently finished streaming Vera on BritBox and loved it. (Amazon Prime has the 1st season, I believe, and PBS is airing the last or next-to–last season. The titular character is a near middle-aged, kind of frumpy, cantankerous & anti-social but compassionate DCI in Northumberland. As the series begins her poacher father has just died & she’s dealing with cleaning out his house in the middle of nowhere while breaking in a new sergeant. The show is based on a series by Ann Cleeves, and features some beautiful scenery. Solid, modern* procedural mysteries, very good acting, just enough personal content for the characters to have dimension without becoming a soap opera.

    A new season is due later this year, supposedly. Note that the seasons (series in the UK) are very short, but each episode is 1-1/2 hours.)

    I’m currently streaming Shetland also on BritBox, also based on an Ann Cleeves series, also very good. This one is based on Shetland (duh) and focuses on DCI Jimmy Perez and his team. Also good, modern procedural mysteries; slightly grittier than Vera; a little more of the characters’ personal lives, but not too much, especially for a place where it almost seems everyone knows everyone else; also gorgeous scenery. Episodes are 1 hr, most seasons have 6 episodes, seven seasons in all.

  97. 97.

    Steeplejack

    @NotMax:

    It’s more that I spend a huge amount of time in front of the computer and multitask with TV or video on the Chromebook next to it. Very rarely can I bring myself to sit down in front of the big TV and just watch something. Fragmented attention.

  99. 99.

    kalakal

    @Chetan Murthy: I read loads of them decades ago. The ones I remember were The mask of Dimetrios, Doctor Frigo, The Intercom Conspiracy, The Night-comers, Dirty Story & The Schirmer inheritance. I liked them a lot. There’s a very silly one called The Dark Frontier were he has nuclear weaponry but not as we know it

    ETA those will be the English titles

  100. 100.

    El Muneco

    @lgerard: “attending an all-female elite liberal college left the young woman estranged from the parents who raised her”

    That is not false, and that is why they hate college education. Education is what breaks young women out of that bubble, and that’s the one thing the parents can’t stand.

  102. 102.

    prostratedragon

    @lgerard: ​
    Mount Holyoke!!! [screams, collapses in a heap]
    Maybe next year we’ll see a farce on Prime or NetFlix about the deprogramming.

  103. 103.

    Jeffg166

    @Craig: I had reservations about watching it. Got hooked quickly. Not real plausible but very well done. My suspension of disbelief is holding.

  104. 104.

    HeartlandLiberal

    We have been watching on Netflix Under the Queen’s Umbrella, a Joseon era period South Korean drama, about a Queen trying to protect her sons from the other consorts and political conspiracies threatening the king. It is 16 episodes long and we just finished episode 12, and have concluded it is perhaps the best, most serious South Korean period drama we have ever watched. Rookie Historian was first till now, but I think this one beats it for the seriousness.

    FWIW, we have been alternating evenings with Wednesday, the new Addams Family daughter series by Tim Burton, also on Netflix. It is outstanding so far.

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