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The Goggle Box Thread

Yeah I had some time on my hands and it was the perfect thing to pass it by.
 
Yeah Omar was amazing. So complex and psychotic but also cool as ice.

The real life crim who Omar was based on makes a cameo in Season 4 as Donnie, the guy who Butchie sends to protect Omar when he goes to jail
 
Yeah I remember him, good bit of trivia that. Nice one.
 
I really enjoyed Queen's Gambit but the ending was a bit disappointing.


 
She has this big match with the Russian, but we don't really see any of it other than the commentary, which is fine to start with. But the very end of the game she moves one piece one square to the left and he suddenly resigns with a big smile on his face and seems really happy about it? And there's no commentary to tell you what's just happened.

The Russian public seemingly love her instead of rooting for their own player, even though in that era they probably still distrusted Americans after the Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis - Though my history isn't great on this subject I'm assuming that since her government guy warns her about leaving the hotel alone.

Then she deliberately misses her flight home to go play in the park with the Russian geezers? And her chaperone guy from the government just drives off and leaves her?

Was all a bit weird.
 
Watching Raised by Wolves on Sky Atlantic, it's one of those where I don't think I'll be able to make my mind up whether I like it or not until the end. It's not bad (if you're into sci-fi) but it's not really brilliant either. At the moment anyway.
 
The Bear said:
I really enjoyed Queen's Gambit but the ending was a bit disappointing.


 
She has this big match with the Russian, but we don't really see any of it other than the commentary, which is fine to start with. But the very end of the game she moves one piece one square to the left and he suddenly resigns with a big smile on his face and seems really happy about it? And there's no commentary to tell you what's just happened.

The Russian public seemingly love her instead of rooting for their own player, even though in that era they probably still distrusted Americans after the Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis - Though my history isn't great on this subject I'm assuming that since her government guy warns her about leaving the hotel alone.

Then she deliberately misses her flight home to go play in the park with the Russian geezers? And her chaperone guy from the government just drives off and leaves her?

Was all a bit weird.
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You know it wasn't a documentary, yeah?
 
You know even entertainment has to have an internal logic yeah?
 
The Bear said:
You know even entertainment has to have an internal logic yeah?
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The Russian women loved Beth because she was a woman, the didn't show too much of the chess because the programme is billed as not just for chess lovers and she stayed behind because she wasn't interested in going back to the US straight away. All of this was made pretty clear.
 
It wasn't just women cheering for her.

This was the main match, the big finale, and it showed less of how she won than other simpler games previously.

I get why she stayed behind, but why would they all just drive off and leave her when that was their job?

Just seemed like a bit of a rushed and weak ending to me. Maybe it was a chess analogy...? ;)
 
Oh, now you're on to something...

Ask someone at avclub.com and the superfans will crawl all over it.
 
Anybody watched My Octopus Teacher on Netflix - heard good things.
 
Jabbawolf said:
Anybody watched My Octopus Teacher on Netflix - heard good things.
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Havent seen it but also heard good things.

I'm watching Shot in the Dark on Netflix - about freelance cameramen in LA who follow the cop radio frequencies to be on scene to film crashes, shootings, fires etc. Pretty good if you like that sort of thing.
 
Boozad said:
Watching Raised by Wolves on Sky Atlantic, it's one of those where I don't think I'll be able to make my mind up whether I like it or not until the end. It's not bad (if you're into sci-fi) but it's not really brilliant either. At the moment anyway.
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Well that was pretty... bizarre.
 
The Bear said:
It wasn't just women cheering for her.

This was the main match, the big finale, and it showed less of how she won than other simpler games previously.

I get why she stayed behind, but why would they all just drive off and leave her when that was their job?

Just seemed like a bit of a rushed and weak ending to me. Maybe it was a chess analogy...? ;)
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style of play thing and deep appreciation of the game is why they all loved her I reckon. I dunno about simpler, the game v belting(?) was one of nezhmetdinov’s whose best games are a head fuck, at least to me. The final one was an Ivanchuk game doctored by Kasparov presumably. another amazing player, though more current (still playing) than the period so they were cheating a little...or maybe a lot.
 
The finale of The Mandalorian is one of the best ever episodes of TV I have ever seen.

I've watched it back twice now, and it's just amazing.

The best Star Wars since Empire Strikes Back.
 
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