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Old 09-27-2017, 08:23 AM   #5681 (permalink)
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The Handmaids Tale.

7 episodes in. It deserves all of the Emmys it won. Especially Elisabeth Moss. She's absolutely brilliant in it.

It's freaky watching a work of fiction that could easily become reality in the near future if a faction of the powerful men in this country were to become a very large majority.


Anyway I just read that Curb is erring a new series. I'm ready.
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Old 09-27-2017, 10:50 AM   #5682 (permalink)
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The most terrifying parts of “The Handmaid’s Tale” are the flashbacks, to a time very much like ours.

Before the coup, Offred has freedom, a job, Uber. Then things start to change — little things. The government becomes more reactionary. One day, a coffee shop clerk, unprovoked, calls her and her best friend, Moira, “sluts.”

Something primal and angry is awakening. Some people are exhilarated: Finally, they can say what’s on their minds, without the P.C. thought police cracking down! The show is also attentive to how progressive men can back-burner the concerns of women. Offred’s husband, Luke, for instance, is convinced that the craziness is bound to blow over.

It doesn’t. An intermediate layer of flashbacks finds Offred, Moira and a class of future handmaids at a re-education center being indoctrinated, with homilies and a cattle prod, by Aunt Lydia. “This may not seem ordinary to you right now,” she tells them. “But after a time it will.”

The line is terrifying, because it rings so true. You may not believe that anyone, in real life, is actually Making America Gilead Again. But this urgent “Handmaid’s Tale” is not about prophecy. It’s about process, the way people will themselves to believe the abnormal is normal, until one day they look around and realize that these are the bad old days.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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Old 09-27-2017, 10:51 AM   #5683 (permalink)
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Have you read the book?
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Old 09-27-2017, 10:55 AM   #5684 (permalink)
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No, but I've heard the show is very faithful to her story.
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Old 09-28-2017, 08:45 PM   #5685 (permalink)
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It's been a while since I've seen a really good satire show, but it was worth the wait. Essentially it's a pisstake on super serious investigative shows like Making a Murderer and Serial. The punchline is that a high school news paper journalist is doing an investigative series on another student who is accused of spraypainting penises on all the teachers cars. The student is your typical high school screw up, so it's pretty easy to believe he did it, especially when there are holes in his alibi. Anyways, I don't want to give up too much of the plot, but I will say it is some of the funniest shit I've seen all year when it comes to satire. The humor is very much juxtaposition based, and the greatest comparison I can think of is the British show Brass Eye.

Definitely would recommend.
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Old 09-28-2017, 08:47 PM   #5686 (permalink)
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It's been a while since I've seen a really good satire show, but it was worth the wait. Essentially it's a pisstake on super serious investigative shows like Making a Murderer and Serial. The punchline is that a high school news paper journalist is doing an investigative series on another student who is accused of spraypainting penises on all the teachers cars. The student is your typical high school screw up, so it's pretty easy to believe he did it, especially when there are holes in his alibi. Anyways, I don't want to give up too much of the plot, but I will say it is some of the funniest shit I've seen all year when it comes to satire. The humor is very much juxtaposition based, and the greatest comparison I can think of is the British show Brass Eye.

Definitely would recommend.
Thank you, I needed somebody to vouch for it. I'm starting to distrust a lot of Netflix originals these days. Will check it out.
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Old 09-28-2017, 09:02 PM   #5687 (permalink)
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I'm gonna check it out too.

Kind of on topic, but have Netflix recommendations been ass for anyone else or is my device on some dated nonsense?
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Just finished the first episode, hysterical stuff. Here's to hoping it doesn't get run into the ground.
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I'm gonna check it out too.

Kind of on topic, but have Netflix recommendations been ass for anyone else or is my device on some dated nonsense?
Been ass as in? I mean it used to rec me stuff I wanted to watch but not anymore. But I can't tell if that's down to me or Netflix.
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Up until about April or May, I thought that it was consistently recommending great stuff to me. I don't recall any good recommendations from Netflix since then.

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