What are you watching in 2020 (or re-watching)???

[Bo Ryan's Massage Therapist]

Nobody has mentioned Squid games yet unless I missed it.  Horrifying but binge worthy and very disturbing but entertaining

[StillAWarrior]

Nobody has mentioned Squid games yet unless I missed it.  Horrifying but binge worthy and very disturbing but entertaining

You missed it. Although admittedly it wasn't discussed much considering how many people have watched it.

[JWags85]

Nobody has mentioned Squid games yet unless I missed it.  Horrifying but binge worthy and very disturbing but entertaining

I liked it, binged it, but didn't love it.  First 6 eps are really really good, the last 3 are kind of ehh for me.  I personally didn't like the last episiode/season ending at all.

I read a quote from the creator that was like "This is a show about losers" which I agreed with, until the rest of the quote talked about "they get left behind while others win and level up".  IDK, I think one of the hardest parts were 90% of the characters were wholly unlikable.  I couldn't stand Gi-Hun the entire time...but I think that was intentional.

[Billy Hoyle]

We just finished Midnight Mass on Netflix. I liked it and some of the twists to a classic horror story I thought were very creative.

Cool, I’m intrigued by that one. Was coming here to ask about it. Hard to think that’s Matt Saracen from Friday Night Lights.

[Hards Alumni]

Cool, I’m intrigued by that one. Was coming here to ask about it. Hard to think that’s Matt Saracen from Friday Night Lights.

Watched episode one... my wife is afraid of scary movies so who knows if we will ever finish it.

[jesmu84]

Anyone watch Love, Death and Robots on Netflix?

I liked the anthology/short story format.

Rec if you're into sci-fi/fantasy

[CreightonWarrior]

Saw Bond, pretty good but too long and Malek’s character was weak. For those who have seen a lot of Malek were his mannerisms in bohemian rhapsody similar to other roles? Feel like some of those bled into this character and I didn’t like it.

[StillAWarrior]

We enjoyed the S3 premier of Succession. Interesting frenetic pacing right on the heels of the events that closed out S2 and battle lines being drawn.

[MU82]

We enjoyed the S3 premier of Succession. Interesting frenetic pacing right on the heels of the events that closed out S2 and battle lines being drawn.

Totally agree. It was a thoroughly entertaining Ep 1, and we're looking forward to what the rest of the season has in store.

My only nit: I guess it would have killed them to open with a "last season on Succession" recap! Thankfully, we had re-watched S2 not that long ago.

[StillAWarrior]

Totally agree. It was a thoroughly entertaining Ep 1, and we're looking forward to what the rest of the season has in store.

My only nit: I guess it would have killed them to open with a "last season on Succession" recap! Thankfully, we had re-watched S2 not that long ago.

Funny that you should mention that. I felt the same way. Then, when listening to a podcast they specifically mentioned the recap. When I pulled S3E1 up on my phone, it included a very good 2.5 minute "Previously on Succession" recap. I don't know why it didn't play when I watched the episode on the TV at home. I wonder if I did something with preferences that turned off the "Previously on..." recaps.

[cheebs09]

Watched the Season 1 finale of “Only Murders in the Building” last night. Fun show with a great cast. Can’t wait for Season 2.

[shoothoops]

“Untold: Breaking Point” on Netflix was good. Mardy Fish.

[MU82]

Funny that you should mention that. I felt the same way. Then, when listening to a podcast they specifically mentioned the recap. When I pulled S3E1 up on my phone, it included a very good 2.5 minute "Previously on Succession" recap. I don't know why it didn't play when I watched the episode on the TV at home. I wonder if I did something with preferences that turned off the "Previously on..." recaps.

Huh. Weird. We watched it on the streaming app using Roku. No recap.

Anyway, we did get up to speed quickly, thanks in part to us having seen the S2 finale only a couple weeks ago.

[warriorchick]

Just finished watching the first episode of the Docuseries "Bad Sport".  It was about the ASU point-shaving scandal, and it was very good.

The crazy thing is that the people involved may have never gotten caught if they hadn't gotten so greedy or otherwise made some incredibly stupid mistakes.

[Warrior Code]

Just finished watching the first episode of the Docuseries "Bad Sport".  It was about the ASU point-shaving scandal, and it was very good.

The crazy thing is that the people involved may have never gotten caught if they hadn't gotten so greedy or otherwise made some incredibly stupid mistakes.

I think about this almost every time I watch a movie/show about drug dealers. Things usually start off pretty great, until they decide to expand into a rival's turf or they start having to smuggle massive amounts of product. I'm like you're literally sitting on stacks of money! You made $200,000 last month, why do you feel this urgent need to increase it tenfold?? Don't get caught up in a war or get yourself on the FBI's radar, you goof.

/rant

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

I think about this almost every time I watch a movie/show about drug dealers. Things usually start off pretty great, until they decide to expand into a rival's turf or they start having to smuggle massive amounts of product. I'm like you're literally sitting on stacks of money! You made $200,000 last month, why do you feel this urgent need to increase it tenfold?? Don't get caught up in a war or get yourself on the FBI's radar, you goof.

/rant

Everything I know about drug dealing I learned by watching Snowfall on FX.

But I think the issue is that if you are small, you are eventually going to get squeezed out.

[jficke13]

I think about this almost every time I watch a movie/show about drug dealers. Things usually start off pretty great, until they decide to expand into a rival's turf or they start having to smuggle massive amounts of product. I'm like you're literally sitting on stacks of money! You made $200,000 last month, why do you feel this urgent need to increase it tenfold?? Don't get caught up in a war or get yourself on the FBI's radar, you goof.

/rant

I could say the same thing about virtually any wildly lucrative capitalist enterprise. Bezos, you're "wealthier than most countries," why the imperative to force your employees to pee in bottles to squeeze every last scrap of margin out of the process? When maximization of profit/wealth/shareholder value/drug empire is the ends, then the means are naturally going to go further and further, no?

[warriorchick]

I could say the same thing about virtually any wildly lucrative capitalist enterprise. Bezos, you're "wealthier than most countries," why the imperative to force your employees to pee in bottles to squeeze every last scrap of margin out of the process? When maximization of profit/wealth/shareholder value/drug empire is the ends, then the means are naturally going to go further and further, no?

My theory is there are certain people who treat it as a game in which dollars are the way one keeps score.  Same thing with professional athletes who hold out for an additional few million dollars a year on top of the tens of millions they are already making.  You are already making more than you can reasonably spend.  How is that additional money going to measurably change your enjoyment of life? 

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Just finished The Hunters on Prime.   Now watching Goliath.

[JWags85]

I think about this almost every time I watch a movie/show about drug dealers. Things usually start off pretty great, until they decide to expand into a rival's turf or they start having to smuggle massive amounts of product. I'm like you're literally sitting on stacks of money! You made $200,000 last month, why do you feel this urgent need to increase it tenfold?? Don't get caught up in a war or get yourself on the FBI's radar, you goof.

/rant

Cause its not a stable business.  There really isn't a "I found a nice niche, so I can be content and make decent bank".  Its dog eat dog, so if you're not actively expanding, you're having to defend against others expansion or coming for your market.  Basically until you're big enough to hold it down, but then, you're a size that you're on every law enforcement agency's radar.

I could say the same thing about virtually any wildly lucrative capitalist enterprise. Bezos, you're "wealthier than most countries," why the imperative to force your employees to pee in bottles to squeeze every last scrap of margin out of the process? When maximization of profit/wealth/shareholder value/drug empire is the ends, then the means are naturally going to go further and further, no?

Not to get overly philosophical, but I think there is a switch you can't turn off sometimes.  When you're a start up, or growing fast, you have to dig for every bit of margin and profit you can.  Then it gets baked into the culture and middle management is making those minute calls and not seeing the forest for the trees.  Its not like Bezos or his C-suite is sitting there like "lets make sure all employees piss in bottles".  But the culture of profit above all is endemic. 

I had final round interviews at Amazon about 5 years ago.  There were a couple of things that came up about the culture and practices that were clearly derivative of some of Bezos' early tenets, but had taken on a mind of their own.   People underestimate how disconnected upper management can get from middle management.  Its not justifying it, but its far more complex than "why do rich companies care about a few dollars".  I worked at a Fortune 100 company for awhile, and my division had some stupid sh** that was standard practice.  The head of the brand I worked on happened to sit in on a divisional meeting by happenstance and was like "why the hell is this being done/cared about?!" and then it was changed.  But until stuff like that, it can often be noise.

[Jockey]

Just finished The Hunters on Prime.   Now watching Goliath.

The Hunters was violence porn.

Goliath is outstanding.

[Warrior Code]

Cause its not a stable business.  There really isn't a "I found a nice niche, so I can be content and make decent bank".  Its dog eat dog, so if you're not actively expanding, you're having to defend against others expansion or coming for your market.  Basically until you're big enough to hold it down, but then, you're a size that you're on every law enforcement agency's radar.

So do it for a few months and bounce! Take your suitcases of cash and move to another state. Don't wait for rival dealers or LEOs to catch up with you. I imagine if you're really smart you could do this a few times then just head down to Barbados to live out your days. I'm not married to the game

[Hards Alumni]

Watched episode one... my wife is afraid of scary movies so who knows if we will ever finish it.

Finished Midnight Mass.  It isn't a scary series, really.  It is a lot more philosophical.

[CreightonWarrior]

Succession has been great.

[Mutaman]

Get Shorty on Epix and Amazon prime. Boy did this fly under the radar. Was never a fan of Everybody Loves Raymond but Romano is hilarious here. As are a bunch of other actors who no one has ever heard of before- Goya Robles, Isaac Keys (former Packer) and especially Lidia Porto.