Sounds great. Did you ever see generation kill? That was superb
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Yeah in uk cheapest way to watch it is to get now tv entertainment package £6.99 p/m just pay first month cancel anytime and binge it
Otherwise it’s exorbitantly priced elsewhere about £20 a season
Not seen generation kill looks good though
Me too I gave up on it as we were watching loads of things at the time … Gonna give it another look starting tonight…
Yeh that was really good. One line from it has stuck with me after all these years:
“As the great warrior poet ice cube once said. If the day does not require an AK, it is good”
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Yeah lotta love for The Deuce, I thought it was extremely under rated. Was gutted when it ended
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His character is fantastic. I read the book as well which was really enjoyable. Cant remember which I did first. The book or the series.
May have already been posted but watched this over the weekend. The crunch point between ideology, money and violence. The guy who made it also sounds a lot like Herzog.
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You seen Treme? Weirdly overlooked. Thought it was also outstanding once it gets going. I went from finding it annoying initially to fully loving the whole thing top to bottom. Only David Simon thing I found a bit forgettable was the east coast housing / politics one. Might rewatch Generation Kill actually.
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Treme is absolutely brilliant.
I totally get how you found it annoying. I was the same. Some of the characters are totally unsympathetic and the story is a bit polemical at first. Whereas now I think it’s probably David Simon’s best work. Plus the music is excellent.
Time to watch it again!
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I never watched treme but will get round to it at some point. Yeah the housing thing wasn’t as good as the other stuff. Did you watch the corner? Also slightly underwhelming.
Rewatched Generation Kill about a year ago. It’s aged really well.
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Not only is the music excellent but its got to be the best integration of music into a drama I’ve ever seen.
A lot of that is down to David Mills who worked as a co-producer with David Simon on this, The Wire and The Corner (another must see).
Mills died during the filming of (I think) the 2nd series of Treme.
He wrote an incredible blog, which is still up, and I can’t recommend highly enough, with eye-popping posts like ‘Nazi Jazz Mindfuck’, ‘Attack Of The Giant Negroes’ and ‘The Most Racist Songs Ever Recorded’!!
http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com/
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Thanks for the David Mills suggestion - that’s my afternoon sorted, work can wait.
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I think this is what makes David Simon’s work so interesting. I remember really hating all the guys in Generation Kill to begin with but by the end was rooting for all of them. A lot like Treme too, I really loved that and it really got me into a lot of different music. Davis the DJ was a bit annoying too but also quite sweet with his enthusiasm.
I remember when I first watched the Wire, seeing how Mcnulty was really great, then he was a bit of an asshole, and so on. I’m not sure it was the first series by any means that really showed depth of character, flaws and all, good and bad in everyone etc etc but it was very refreshing and seemed novel at the time to me.
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Started Chimp Crazy last night, made by the same director as Tiger King. Already absorbing and disturbing, with a provocative central character (can anyone top Joe Exotic? Tonia Haddix comes close). Recommended if you enjoyed TK and/or you have an interest in animal rights. Available on HBO.
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That Louis theroux episode on animals in the US - the room full of insane angry chimps really got to me
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Fresh off reading the autobiography, straight into this Oprah-produced biog on Apple Plus
What a man, what a life.
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Finally got around to catching up with Ripley. Fantastic stuff, deserves to be in the top telly of the year. Loved the atmosphere, the pacing, the acting. All of it
On to the new series of Slow Horses now.
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Currently enjoying Vince Vaughan in Bad Monkey on AppleTV.
Saving S4 of Slow Horses for autumnal binge watch.
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A few episodes in on The Duece. Can see this being very good indeed.
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