We ended up bingeing all 6 episodes on Saturday. Still not sure if i thought it was good or rubbish, but as you say it was entertaining. I think we just continued watching it to see which one of the mum or girlfriend turned out to be the biggest crank, turned out they were both as mad as each other 
Watched 28 years later recently. Was pretty disappointing. Am hoping the sequel will be better.
Thought Love Lies Bleeding was great although it didn’t do any favours for my anxiety meter.
Absolutely loved Dream Scenario. One of the best things I have seen in ages.
Ooh saw the first of these. Great fin, Bob odenkirk never disappoints
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Just started The Deuce after picking up both seasons for a couple of quid from a chazza.
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New series of Fisk on Netflix. Like an Australian Office meets Colin From Accounts
So pretty easy going fluff with laughs 
Posting as a PSA - avoid this one. Could have been a tidy little thriller, it was rather awful. Script appeared to be AI. Matthew Macfadyen added a bit of creepiness to his Tom Wambsgans persona. Rachel Sennott was in it for exactly one minute. Nicole Kidman was at sea. How do these things get made?
Just watched Charlie Sheen documentary on netflix 
just 2 episodes fckn crazy… I didn’t recognise his ex Denise Richards until way to long in the show… Drugs are bad M’kay
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Some great Satire in that show - Ros especially
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“ I didn’t realise how phootgenic I am, and I haven’t had anything done” 
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The Guest on BBC
Started quite well but deteriorated quickly. Only 4 episodes so stuck with it but in hindsight I wish I hadn’t.
4/10.
The Piper Alpha documentary on I and I player is well worth a watch. Fing grim. Those guys went through absolute hell because under Neoliberism, profit always comes before people.
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I haven’t watched this, but one of my uncles was on Piper Alpha and was one of the first guys to be interviewed from hospital on the tv. I didn’t know it had happened and I was in the very north of Canada watching the news. And who should pop up but my Uncle. I nearly had a hairy canary. It dragged on for years as it went through the courts.
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Awful. I used to work offshore on semi-submersible drilling rigs and latterly on survey and sub-sea vessels, until the downturn in 2016 and I was made redundant and thought fuck this, I’m out.
I never really got used to the choppers but sailing with the vessels (particularly the small survey vessels - the worse the weather, the better I slept) was brilliant, and watching the ROV pilots on the sub-sea vessels ‘fly’ them along pipelines and have to set them down and turn the lights off every ten minutes or so because there were too many fish in the way and they could no longer see anything was fascinating.
I’ve got enough stories - good and bad - to fill a novel 
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Highest To Lowest, the new Spike Jonze / Denzel thing on Apple. Not great. The first half has the most distracting, disjointed score I’ve ever heard. Like its from another movie entirely. Cant work out if its deliberate or not. Second half is better but still pretty preposterous. New York looks great though
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Wow - that sounds like a crazy job that you had. I love being underwater, but that’s obviously different level!
It was the choppers that used to freak out my uncle too. Especially the drill that you had to do where the helicopter dropped in the pool and went upside down and you had to escape to safety.
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Yeah I watched it over the weekend, thought it was decent but didn’t need to be 3 hrs or whatever the run time was, could have been told in half that time.
Saw foreshadowing parallels with Trump in the manic way his fans responded to him, particularly online, in the ‘Tiger Blood’ days, with his ‘i can do and say whatever i want cos i’m rich and don’t give a fuck’ like he was some kind of hero when the reality was he was a hopeless addict, deadbeat dad and a grass (Heidi Fleiss) at the time.
Would like to see a similar show on Heidi but doubt that would be greenlit in Hollywood for obvious reasons.
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Last film I watched of his was Da 5 Bloods which was awful imo so won’t be running to watch that.
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Yeah the HUET training. Full thing then refresher every couple of years. I absolutely hated it. I also did the Norwegian escape chute training. Essentially you fall down a net from side to side . Bruised for weeks.
Tertiary escape on rigs is a lower platform with steps to the sea… Jump the last 20 feet or so 
Once did a full unannounced abandon vessel exercise at 2am in awful weather in the ‘shadow’ of the installation we were supporting. Absolutely terrifying. Pitch black, half asleep, couldn’t get my life jacket on, went to the wrong muster station. Would probably have gone over the side had it been real…
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No wonder everybody working offshore that I met tended to live a pretty full-on life!
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The military don’t bother with Helicopter escape training. They don’t sugar coat it, if you come down over the sea it’s the same as hitting concrete, survival extremely unlikely. The only way they can get civilians onto choppers is to offer you some ‘comfort’ with training…
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