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Recommend good stuff you've seen on Netflix streaming

I need to watch that Hemingway doc. Had drinks with my parents tonight and they were talking about it. In the middle of a Hemingway bio that I’m enjoying right now. What a life.
 
I mean, I doubt I'd notice these things. But they sure made it seem like the largely absent stein and Fitzgerald and Perkins and dos passos were neglected influences
 
well my wife wanted to watch The Stand In, so we did. it was quite possibly one of the worst things i have seen in a while. i tried to take a nap during the watching but it was so bad i couldn't fall asleep.

you have been warned...
 
Just finished "This is a Robbery," the four-part documentary about the Isabella Stuart Gardner art heist in 1990 which still remains unsolved.

I love heists and art stuff so this was right up my alley. I'd listened to a podcast about this a few years ago, so I knew the basic story, but the documentary got just about everybody they possibly could on camera and had a solid soundtrack and some decent reenactments. Definitely recommend if you're into that sort of thing.

Also, chatting with my mom about the heist, I didn't realize we were living in Boston only a few years later and only blocks, literally, from the museum in Brookline. Also, my best friend's mom apparently worked there? Wish I knew about this back then, but my mom pointed out that nine-year old me would probably not have enjoyed a Venetian palace with old paintings.

Also recently watched the art forgery documentary "Made You Look" and enjoyed that too.
 
Finished Highlander season one last night. That's basically soft porn, straight and gay.
 
I missed Random Acts of Flyness back when it came out on HBO back in 2018, but it's pretty great -- hard describe, stream-of-consciousness sketch weirdness -- good stuff

Dominque Fishback is great and is gonna blow up here soon
 
yeah, that was where I first saw her and then watched Show Me a Hero for another Simon feature

she's awesome

still haven't watched Judah and the Black Messiah
 
Finished Stranger Things season 3 earlier today.

I think it’s OK, not great.

Worth watching if you want a highly implausible good vs evil sci-fi set in the 1980s with uneven but at times pretty good character/caricature development with coming of age and teen angst stuff rolled into one.
 
I never got into Deadwood. Great cast, great characters, crappy dialogue. It never came off as natural, just stilted.

The Ken Burns Hemingway thing was good, though absurdly detailed. As with most Ken Burns stuff, it could've benefited from some editing. To its credit, it is allowed to get so detailed because there is such an immense paper trail of letters and correspondence. It was also cool that they were able to get so much from the interviews with his son. And while it was brief, I found the delving into his sex life and use of the n-word to be unnecessary-- a nod to the current time.
 
anybody check out Mare of Easttown? first ep was sunday, I can see myself really digging this show. Winslet is killing it so far
 
just started watching deadwood

who wants to talk about it with me?

A buddy of mine from high school plays Wyatt Earp.

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I never got into Deadwood. Great cast, great characters, crappy dialogue. It never came off as natural, just stilted.

I'm sympathetic to your take on the dialogue: it wavers between characters monologuing as dialogue and excessively-clever Aaron Sorkin-style mode of speech run through a Western filter; the language doesn't move me one way or the other though

but the off-beat rhythm it produces is not necessarily a negative to me -- it keeps things more lively, in a way, to me

but I get that it may be distracting to others
 
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