:netflix::prime_video_logo: Streaming Recommendations

Just started Thieves Of The Wood - Netflix-, 18th century cutlass and flintlock cape-shit series.

Watch it in the original Flemish with English subtitles- unwatchable dubbed into Engerlandish

Ari EldjƔrn - Pardon my Icelandic

Netflix

Icelandic comedian in Engerlandish.

Quite a few lol’s

:+1:

Seeing your new found love for Polish TV sit Mrs CS down in front of Sexify on Netflix. Should give you a few days if peace

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Greg Davies : You Magnificent Beast

Live stand up

Very funny

Ending had me in tears

Worth a watch.

Edit: on Netflix

Just started this, much better than the film.

Must read the books I think…

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The Predator- Reboot

26 mins in and aborted

Don’t bother, just don’t

:roll_eyes::face_with_symbols_over_mouth::man_shrugging:t3:

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Not normally a Guy Ritchie fan but Snatch is worth a watch - gangsters, pikey boxers, incompetent robbers and Jewish diamond merchants - violent but a diverting British comedy

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We watched that quite recently, not normally my kind of thing but we really enjoyed it. To the point where I actually picked up the bluray of it at the boot sale last week :+1::+1:

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It’s brilliant.

Always thought his style a mix of Grange Hill, Blackadder and the British crime caper. They’re not realistic at all. No-one would actually speak like that, let alone London’s criminal underworld.

Snatch is eminently quotable and a fuckload of fun. Feel the same about most of his movies really, even the ones that got panned after he became popular.

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The North Water a 19th century whaling adventure/ thriller from the BBC - on iPlayer.

Bad guy Colin Farrell

Well filmed.

As I read elsewhere- blood, sweat and beards.

Makes a change from capeshit.

Recommend

Just finished binging The North Water

Not your everyday box set, a few bits that grated, but worth the long haul (5 eps)

Ahoy, me hearties!

The Wheel of Time 19th Nov on Prime

High fantasy GoT / LoTR type stuff.

There’s about 13 / 14 books - me and YoungAdult#2 have ploughed through them, so it’ll be interesting to see how it is treated for telly.

The trailer is very Female lead - not necessarily a bad things all - it sets out the stall. Very important in the books, but as a bloke that aspect didn’t come though in the beginning- but hey, I probably missed it :wink::man_shrugging:t3:

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I have no hopes for this being transposed properly on television, none whatsoever.

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Correct

Have you read the Confessor series, starts with Wizards First Rule? They mullered that for TV as well…

Read the first 10 books of WoT - all that were out at the time, but couldn’t face rereading to remember the plot when the next book came out (there was a very long time lag). The later books needed a good editor as the pace had dropped to glacial and the plot was a sprawling mess. I’m told the final books are decent.

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Basically only because they had a co-author (…Sanderson?) who I suspect wrote them with very little input from Robert Jordan

Brandon Sanderson, who finished them based on the extensive notes Robert Jordan left. Jordan had been ill a long time and knew he wsn’t going to get to finish the series.

Nope. Any good?

If you enjoyed Wheel of Time then you’ll probably enjoy the Confessor series…