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Severence recent episode (S02, E06) had a lot of things going on on different "personal" fronts... will be interesting now to see how the remaining 4 episodes pan out next in the weeks to come.

Btw... does anyone else feel we should create a separate thread on Severance here on TE (under Movies and Shows sub-section)? I mean this show right now is probably the most intriguing Sci-Fi Psychological Thriller out there so some discussion would be super interesting! We can post spoilers there too for discussing. I know Reddit is full of them but still.
 
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Really enjoyed Zero Day - an excellent watch after a long time of these streaming platforms generating mostly mediocre/garbage content haha.

After watching the first ep at the end credits saw the director name Leslie Linka Glatter - does that name ring a bell for you like it did for me?

Yep she also directed some eps of Homeland and this made me stick around to watch the remaining episodes almost binged them.

Loved the techno-thriller angle coz that's what computer nerds like me prefer.
 
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If you have loved My Wife and Kids - you can't miss Poppa's House starring Damon Wayans and his son.

Another series that I am currently watching is Godfather of Harlem starring Forrest Whitaker. 3 Seasons (30 Eps)
 
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Ssreek said:
Started watching Twin Peaks....4 episodes done, it's going slowly, very slowly...
Not sure if I should continue to watch or not..
The theme music is superb though.
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It'll be slightly faster from here on but again S02 will be lazy.

I watched The Day of the Jackal recently on hotstar and was quite suprised by the series. Only 1 season till now and great acting by the cast.
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Afxal said:
It'll be slightly faster from here on but again S02 will be lazy.

I watched The Day of the Jackal recently on hotstar and was quite suprised by the series. Only 1 season till now and great acting by the cast.
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Loved everything about the show except that agent. Bianca or something.
Also, wanted to give a shout out to The White Lotus now that the third season is out (two episodes out so far). So far so good.
 
Afxal said:
It'll be slightly faster from here on but again S02 will be lazy.

I watched The Day of the Jackal recently on hotstar and was quite suprised by the series. Only 1 season till now and great acting by the cast.
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The movie[*spoilers*] is great but the book by Fredrick Forsyth is greater. If you are into thrillers, this one is a masterpiece.


Ssreek said:
Started watching Twin Peaks....4 episodes done, it's going slowly, very slowly...
Not sure if I should continue to watch or not..
The theme music is superb though.
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You definitely should, it is one of the great David Lynch's masterpieces and love Laura's theme. Here is Angelo Badelamenti explaining how he composed it

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Landman 7/10
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I used to look down on westerns for their cookie cutter formula based writing but Taylor Sheridan has elevated his brand of westerns to a different level. Just finished 1923 S1 and started 1923 S2E1, they are prequels to Yellowstone. Not as hard hitting as others by Taylor such Mayor of Kingstown or Yellowstone but fine emotional storytelling nonetheless.

A common theme is how absolute power corrupts absolutely and rebellion and fight against power structures: ranchers vs. capitalists, natives vs. slavers. etc.

In the movie form these would be akin to Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino or Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese.

The setting, casting, narration... everything seems to fit perfectly.

The dialogues flow naturally too something in fashion of Coffee is for Closers by David Mamet or Billions by Andrew Ross Sorkin
 
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Twin Peaks is the first series I watched and I never finished it. Watching it again in full more than 11 years after my first attempt makes me realize that I just didn't understand what was happening on in this series....

 
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Twin Peaks is the first series I watched and I never finished it. Watching it again in full more than 11 years after my first attempt makes me realize that I just didn't understand what was happening on in this series....

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We have been programmed by traditional media consumption for everything to fit into neat, black and white "explainable" shades. We have a hard time dealing with ambiguity / uncertainty.

I think the works of David Lynch don't "tell" you what is happening but to "feel" and have your own interpretation.

Thomann did a very nice tribute on him recently Quotes such as 'Everyone remembers their first David Lynch Film', 'Oh! a moving painting', 'Ideas come to us, we don't really create them, just like a fish...' and 10 music tracks from David Lynch's films
 
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Two more recommendations from my end:

The Pitt starring Noah Wyle. If you loved him in ER you would love this one. Each episode corresponds to an hour in the Emergency Room at the Hospital aka Keifer Sutherlands 24 type.

The second one is apple TV+ Prime Target - the premise is that a post graduate math student's discovery of finding a pattern in prime numbers that would allow access every computer in the world.
 
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The second one is apple TV+ Prime Target - the premise is that a post graduate math student's discovery of finding a pattern in prime numbers that would allow access every computer in the world.
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This one has great premise and looked promising but by mid way I felt no pull/no connection/interest to slog through the story but definitely a bold idea spanning math, cyptography, surveillance capitalism etc.

Meanwhile,in Prime Target, the head of the secretive spying private research firm is played by Jason Flemyng , he seemed familiar from Guy Ritchie's Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and around this time I came across A Thousand Blows , how a Jamaican immigrant and local female ring leader of a thieving gang shake up world of boxing in 1880s London. For Season 1 the main antagonist is the aging bar owner and local bare knuckle boxing champion Stephen Graham who has bulked up quite a lot for this role and I thought we have two veterans from Lock Stock and Barrels rocking main roles in their advanced careers for these shows but... I was sooo wrong. Stephen Graham was not even there in Lock Stock! but he was in Snatch by Guy Ritchie again in a minor role as Tommy the sidekick of Jason Statham and Statham and Ritchie are the links between the two cult classics. It was curious how in my mind, after so long, the characters had blended together :). Highly recommend A Thousand Blows, powerful story and acting.
 
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