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TV Tuesday

Been to see the new Indiana Jones movie? Binged a great series? What have you been watching, and should we watch it too?

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The Bear series one. Can only do a bit at a time though. The editing hurts my heart.

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- Haha same! It's just a bunch of assholes shouting at each other constantly, and jarringly edited. Somehow enjoying it in a 'cant stop staring' kind of way.
  
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Just finished binge watching Race Across the World on iPlayer, very entertaining and actually learned a lot of world geography.

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- If you enjoyed this, try Jet Lag on YouTube. It's by the team who create Half as Interesting. Naturally it is on a more YouTube friendly budget, but they do a lot with it! Series 4 where they travel across New Zealand is likely the closest to Race Across the World in terms of seeing a lot of a place.
  
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- We watched the Canada one, it was really good. My wife and I both had a massive crush on Zainab too.
  
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  Oh 100% she was fantastic. Ladi grew on me as well.
  
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I'm sad Silo has ended but every episode was excellent. I didn't realise it was based on a book series so will probably read those while I wait for season 2.

Futurama is coming in a few weeks so I've been watching from the beginning. It's been a long while but so far so good.

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Since ditching Netflix due to their household change, I've been working my way through the other streaming services. One thing I used Netflix for a lot was for their Korean content. Imagine my surprise to discover that Disney+ actually has a small but decent catalogue. Currently watching 'The Zone' and it is a pretty decent K-Variety show.

Closer to home, I'm continuing my rewatch of Dr. Who leading up to New New Who starting in November. I'm following a guide online to remind me of which episodes that are worth skipping. I've seen them all before, so no big miss to skip some that I didn't enjoy that much.

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- D+ is actually pretty good value in the UK as we get all the Fox stuff that goes to Hulu in the US.
  
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- Haha. Dr. Who is a very patchy show to watch. You never know if it's going to be a camp sci-fi romp for the family or someone shovelling hot diarrhea down your throat for 27 minutes.
  
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We finished 24 season 2 last week and needed a bit of a palate cleanser, so stuck on Black Mirror season 6!

Joan is Awful was pretty good, but absolutely loved Loch Henry. Will probably crack on with that tonight.

We're switching from Virgin to Sky later this month (hopefully) so we'll actually have a wealth of TV shows to watch, including:

Barry

The Last of Us

Succession

Chernobyl

Open to suggestions!
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- Loch Henry felt like such a return to more traditional black mirror for me. Without spoiling too much:
  
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  The bleakness at the end and the very on point message about how technology is used in today's world
  
  was fantastic
  
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- 24 was a pretty good series overall. I remember somewhere around season 4/5 maybe, the writers were told off for starting story threads that just got lost in the events of a season and never resolved.
  
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  It's a banger up until Season 5.
  
  Season 6 is basically all the plots from 1-5 recycled. Redemption (the TV movie) was a great little diversion. Season 7 was pretty good, as was 8. Never finished Live Another Day. Didn't bother with Legacy.
  
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I've just started dipping into Poker Face, I've been watching it on Now. Natasha Lyonne (imo) is always watchable, even if she's basically always playing a version of herself. I'm really enjoying it, quite Columbo-esque, with a different murder to solve in each episode, there's some really entertainment characters and set ups as she works her way through small town America like a foul mouthed Littlest Hobo.

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Just finished watching Barry. Not many people seem to have seen it, but they should. It's absolutely brilliant

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- It’s so good! I’ve just finished s3
  
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If you don't mind a yank popping their nose in, I wanna recommend hit monkey.

Watched it on a lark, expecting it to be just silly and over the top. Which it was! But it wasn't only silly. There's some cool storytelling, and art to it as well. It stands out as one of the rare successes from marvel animation.

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I've been watching a series on Disney + called "Lawless Island".

Its actually very good. Its a National Geographic documentary that follows the lives of people living in a small, isolated village on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. Their struggles include getting enough firewood for winter, stocking up on fish, trapping mink in order to make their shoes waterproof again, felling trees that become a danger to their homesteads and building a shed so that they can have access to duck eggs all year round.

I don't know why its so compelling, but I love the people who live there.

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