Yep he's the best. What he's able to extract out of these people is truly horrifying. The end of episode 2 with his liberal character was proposing a mosque in their town was jaw dropping. Don't know whether to laugh or cry most of the time :laugh:

Haven't seen that yet, will have to renew my Stan subscription. But I'm not surprised given we saw similarly disturbing opinions and attitudes in Bruno/Borat. 

That NRA guy that was on John Oliver as well is borderline insane. The best way to describe that mentality is that its like a cult. 

Just finished watching the second series of "Westworld".  If you like science-fiction with a healthy dose of smarts...  Plus lots of violence, nudity, and some mind-bending plotting, it's fantastic.

Watched the first episode...  Thought it was standard SBC - great ideas, huge balls to pull them off, but the whole thing is over-stretched.  Take out the Israeli guy and it's a pretty flat show with the jokes over-stretched.

Loving Westworld. Easily the most mind ending show out there. Season two seemed to plod at times but the last episode wrapped things up nicely whilst getting us hyped for S3

Kiksuya was such an amazing ep.

-PB

Best part of the season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=semrAAeRlwo

Better Call Saul.

Excellent slow burner prequel to Breaking Bad which, besides being an excellent stand-alone show, is only getting more interesting as they introduce characters from the BB series.

Why can't the Daredevil show runners do the other Marvel Netflix shows.

-PB

I am an devotee of the Australian mini series. We produced some of the finest television in the 80/90s.
The quality rolls off the tongue.. 
Harp In the South.. and sequel Poor Mans Orange. 
Fields Of Fire
Cyclone Tracy
A Fortunate life
Return To Eden
A Thousand Skies
Vietnam
Bangkok Hilton
Dirtwater Dynasty.
Have your say. 

OK I will.  

Why are you bumping months old, if not years, threads?  Don't *you* and Decentric have enough to talk about in the cricket thread?

I was told there was a television thread. Happy to start a new one. What if I have other interests other than sport? Decentric and I are not posting much as the Test summer is finished.
 

Disney being dicks imo. Punisher and Jessica Jones confirmed as gone too.

Really enjoying Chenobyl at the moment, very terrifying. My only complaint would be the use of British actors using there own accent. Would of been a lot better if they were talking in a Russian accent.  

I'll definitely be checking it out soon, according to people who lived in the Soviet Union at the time it is hyper realistic down to every last detail.

Iirc the director came out and explained why they chose the actors to use British accents 

3 days ago

Here's why the majority of the cast in Chernobyl don't use a Russian/Ukrainian accent

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PAUL MOORE

A brilliant decision that really enhances the show

One wonderful HBO show ends, another takes its place.At present, Chernobyl is the highest rated TV show of all time on IMDB and it's easy to see why the five-part series has become such a critical and commercial darling.To begin with, it's incredibly respectful and detailed regarding the catastrophic 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.Nothing is sensationalised, deliberately OTT, or cliched when it comes to this horrific tragedy.By adopting a less is more approach, Craig Mazin has created a superb drama where acts of heroism, bravery, and humanity really shine against the backdrop of such horror.It's impossible not to be moved as the plant workers, miners, and firefighters put their lives on the line to control the catastrophic explosion.Aside from this, the show also features some superb performances with Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, Jessie Buckley and David Dencik all shining.AdvertisementTo be honest, if Harris and Skarsgård don't win Emmys, we'd be shocked.Realism, authenticity, and a search for the truth are at the core of Chernobyl but the filmmakers also made a very astute decision before filming started, they didn't want the actors to use a Russian accent.During an interview on the show's official podcast, writer/producer Craig Mazin was asked about this decision and his answer is very astute."The decision not to use Russian accents was a big one that we made early on. We had an initial thought that we didn't want to do the 'Boris and Natasha' cliched accent because the Russian accent can turn comic very easily. At first, we thought that maybe we would have people do these sort of vaguely Eastern European accents - not really strong but noticeable."What we found very quickly is that actors will act accents. They will not act, they will act accents and we were losing everything about these people that we loved. Honestly, I think after maybe one or two auditions we said 'Ok, new rule. We're not doing that anymore," said Mazin.Of course, cinephiles will be able to count hundreds of examples when bad accents ruined a TV show or film, but Mazin said that the dialect in Chernobyl was influenced by another HBO film."I remembered this old HBO movie called Citizen Xwith Stephen Rea and Donald Sutherland - it's a true story about a serial killer in Soviet Ukraine. I recall there being accents from all over the place in the film. There were South African, English, American accents - some people were sort of trying, others weren't - and then Max Von Sydow appears and he speaks like his usual self, with his Swedish accent. And do you know what? It all works perfectly because they're not speaking Russian."I get the reasons why but this means that there can be no American accents because I think for an American audience, the one thing that will pull you out is an American accent because that sounds silly but beyond that, I think we just ask people to take the edge off (their natural accent)."Mazin also cited Game of Thrones as an influence on his decision to use the natural accents of his cast."For example, in Game of Thrones, anyone from Manchester will be asked to push that a bit so they can clearly be defined as Northeners. We would say 'take the edge off of it' a bit here and there, we'd let someone be Irish or Scottish because they sounded great and there character was good. Also, we're hearing people as they would have heard themselves."There's no consciousness there. My hope is that the accent thing just fades away in seconds and you stop caring about it. Ultimately, a person's accent is completely irrelevant to what's going on because there are things happening that don't even need an accent to be communicated - panic, fear, excitement, worry, sadness. They're just emotions," he said.With just one episode to go, we're certain that Chernobyl is going to be remembered as one of 2019's best shows.If you haven't started to watch it yet, you can catch up with the episodes on Sky Atlantic

The bit with the liquidators was definitely one of the hardest things I've ever had to watch on tv.

Definitely agree that it was a good decision to stick with their own accents, the article explains that very well.

Getting massive nostalgia for my time in that part of the world from the authentic production design. Most western productions portray Russia and other former Soviet countries like a pantomime, but this was respectful and accurate down the light switches and clocks.

Can see Cherny raking it in at the awards.

-PB

Just finished Chernobyl. Brilliant.

Maybe it's just me but I didn't even notice the British accents. 

Chernobyl was amazing.

Also have binged my way up to the current episode of Handmaid's tale. Also amazing!

the witcher actually looks hype

Very keen to start watching Chernobyl. 

Just finished S3 of Stranger Things. Also just finished the last season of Peaky Fookin' Blinders. Both are amazing. 

Also, Animal Kingdom is quite underrated for me. 

The Boys is a fucking amazing show.

-PB

Watched the first 2 eps last night. It's been great. Been watching Preacher as well which has a similar feel.

It ramps up, some great moments in the show.

Has some seriously good character development and delivery.

-PB

Dave Chappelle's new standup is fucking gold.

-PB

Club de cuervos on Netflix is amazing it’s in spainish though you need subtitles 

mentioning Spanish, Money Heist series on Netflix is brilliant to me.
Wife and I couldn't stop watching.
Really enjoyed it but why do so many of these Series fade out in the end.