What shows have you binge-watched?

[ghost55]

I love that show and so glad it managed to dodge the hit list of recent cancellations. Still waiting on season 2 of American Gods too.

I think the short seasons and the fact that it's critically very well liked are keeping it going. That and a relatively small cast.

[Michael Tzadok]

I think the short seasons and the fact that it's critically very well liked are keeping it going. That and a relatively small cast.

Smoking. It's an ecclectic Japanese show about a gang of hitmen that skin naughty Yakuza alive.

[Michael Tzadok]

I love that show and so glad it managed to dodge the hit list of recent cancellations censorship. Still waiting on season 2 of American Gods too.

Fixed that for you.

[Michael Tzadok]

Gharabeeb Soud(Black Crows)- It is a Saudi drama about and Daesh cell. Clearly it is a bit of a propaganda(anti-Daesh) show, but I find it utterly fascinating in its defense of Jews, Shia and Yazidi. As well as any number of other things that I wouldn't have expected to be on Saudi TV.

Al Jazeera Doesn't seem to like it very much though:

Yet there is nothing new or unprecedented in the way in which Gharabeeb Soud portrays armed groups, pointing the finger at how their interpretation of religion is misleading.
MBC has collected a long history of these morally edifying TV series aimed at fighting media propaganda from "extremist" groups...

Gharabeeb Soud is the latest addition to this anti-extremist media collection MBC began promoting a long time ago. Yet, after the March meetings, this one seems to enjoy the blessings of US diplomacy and the endorsement of a long list of Western publications that have already praised the show, probably having just watched the English-subtitled trailer. Gharabeeb Soud looks like yet another failure of the US-led anti-terrorism PR campaign.

Adding "Jihad al-Nikah" (sexual jihad) as a central topic in the storyline, and presenting several women-centred stories (including Yazidi slaves), make for extra appealing features of a TV series that seems to be mostly crafted for Western press and diplomacy.
Gharabeeb Soud does not reflect on or analyse the causes that lead people (from around the world, not only Arabs) to join ISIL. It generically accuses the latter of misunderstanding Islam and naively refuses to acknowledge that ISIL has succeeded in crafting an ideology that is tempting to many, one that anthropologist Scott Atran calls a "world-altering revolution".

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...101134470.html

Air quoting extremist in reference to ISIL is very telling.

[hungryjoe]

Patriots Rising: The American Revolultion on AHC

Get off my lawn!

[ghost55]

Finally got all caught up on Attack on Titan. S3 gets fucking brutal.

[W. Rabbit]

Finally got all caught up on Attack on Titan. S3 gets fucking brutal.

10 year olds are ahead of you.

[ghost55]

10 year olds are ahead of you.

10 year olds don't have to work full time while managing an additional contracting gig and trying to train regularly.


I'm also now up to date on preacher. The Tom/Brady episode was goddamn hilarious.

[Kravbizarre]

Just binged the fuck out of stranger things. Smashed both seasons in 4 sittings.

[W. Rabbit]

All the seasons of Wynonna Earp, with my momma. Twice in a row. She loves cowgirl shit, and I love Colts.

[ghost55]

Well S3 of preacher is done. That was fucking great. I think I want to try the Expanse next...

[BKR]

All the seasons of Wynonna Earp, with my momma. Twice in a row. She loves cowgirl shit, and I love Colts.

Fillies too, no doubt.

[W. Rabbit]

Fillies too, no doubt.

I prefer night mares.

[Cake of Doom]

Just started the Jack Ryan series on prime (UK). I haven't read any of the books or seen the film so I'm going in fresh.

[ghost55]

I'm really liking The Expanse so far.