What shows have you binge-watched?

[BKR]

Medal of Honor on Netflix...

[submessenger]

Considering Daredevil... I'm not big on the superhero shows (though I loved the first run of Heroes). Anyways, I finished Twin Peaks, again, and Daredevil preview was up, so... maybe

[Dung Beatles]

Considering Daredevil... I'm not big on the superhero shows (though I loved the first run of Heroes). Anyways, I finished Twin Peaks, again, and Daredevil preview was up, so... maybe

You won't be disappointed at all with the first season. After that, all bets are off.

[BKR]

Considering Daredevil... I'm not big on the superhero shows (though I loved the first run of Heroes). Anyways, I finished Twin Peaks, again, and Daredevil preview was up, so... maybe

I watched all of the latest season of Daredevil.

I thought it was pretty good, or I would not have finished it out.

[Cake of Doom]

Currently making my second journey through the Breaking Bad series. It's been long enough now that I can't remember much of what happened and UK Netflix is getting a bit lite on interesting looking series.

[Dung Beatles]

I don't know about binge watching but Netflix is has Close Encounters of the Third Kind right now. That's a classic with almost infinite rewatch value.

[submessenger]

Currently making my second journey through the Breaking Bad series. It's been long enough now that I can't remember much of what happened and UK Netflix is getting a bit lite on interesting looking series.

I'm in the middle of my fourth pass. It's a really good show.

I don't know about binge watching but Netflix is has Close Encounters of the Third Kind right now. That's a classic with almost infinite rewatch value.

YES - I watched this on Tuesday night, what an amazing piece of cinema for 1977? Spielberg definitely had mojo.

[Dung Beatles]

I'm in the middle of my fourth pass. It's a really good show.


YES - I watched this on Tuesday night, what an amazing piece of cinema for 1977? Spielberg definitely had mojo.

What really struck me was the effectiveness of the story for keeping my attention despite the fact it was portrayed with so little tension. Everything seemed to move a little slower and there wasn't a lot of melodrama.

It reminded me a lot of the way that Stephen King rights. Using the common parlance, the regular way of speaking without much added noise.

When Neary says "How come I know so much" for example and the fact that he included so many kids. The boy crying at the dinner table because he thinks his dad is crazy was a really great touch too. Lots of solid little things in this film.

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What really struck me was the effectiveness of the story for keeping my attention despite the fact it was portrayed with so little tension. Everything seemed to move a little slower and there wasn't a lot of melodrama.

It reminded me a lot of the way that Stephen King rights. Using the common parlance, the regular way of speaking without much added noise.

When Neary says "How come I know so much" for example and the fact that he included so many kids. The boy crying at the dinner table because he thinks his dad is crazy was a really great touch too. Lots of solid little things in this film.

I think my favorite scene was when Teri Garr left with the kids, and he was filling wheelbarrows full of dirt and uprooting garden bushes, passing all that detritus through the kitchen window - which he then climbs through, instead of walking around to one of the normal entry points of the house. For me, that demonstrates a state of mind of obsession which really sells his story. Makeup should have kept his sunburn, though.

(edit) I'm a big King fan. I joined the club, have everything in hardcover, except for a couple which only went to paperback, and the latest one I have seen on sale but haven't gotten my copy, yet. I have a shelf double-stacked with his books. They got me through puberty, and life in general. Too bad he's a fucking liberal hack when not telling awesome stories, but I've managed to rectify that by only paying attention to his published works.

11.22.63 was the reason I started paying for Hulu (long story, but I had premium Hulu before it was generally available, then lost it). Fantastic mini series, though, and very true to the source material. Definitely worth a 1 month subscription to watch it.

[Dung Beatles]

Too bad he's a fucking liberal hack when not telling awesome stories, but I've managed to rectify that by only paying attention to his published works.

His writing suggested to me that he wasn't always so liberal. Specifically his work on The Stand, The Gunslinger and Randal Flagg.

If you look at Flagg's description from those books he's very much a classic exploiter of liberal institutions and committees. He's the evil hippy from hell.

Then a guy like the Gunslinger who comes from a government in Gilead that enforced law and order with cold calculating force and exalts military order. The Gunslinger himself embodies classic macho, steely eyed conservative stereotypes of manhood.

Then add in all the horrible experiences that he's heaped on the head of his favorite Castle Rock sheriff/whipping-boy/hero Alan Pangborn, who is also very much a conservative archetype.

I think that his turnabout in political ideology came from the time he got hit by that van, his well established distrust of religion and reconciling the fact that his daughter is a gay feminist member of the clergy.

I'm intensely curious about Stephen King as a person so I read everything I can get my hands on that gives me insight into his thinking. He wears his heart on his sleeve. He's definitely dying to tell people how he feels but is sensitive enough about criticism to hesitate to say too much on the subject of himself. He gives a lot of hints about his struggles to be a better father and better husband so I think his liberal sensibilities are being driven by a desire to be a more caring person.

I think on his own he'd rather be out howling at the moon, zipping down the road on his Harley and screwing around with his friends down at Honky Tonk clubs. For that reason, I suspect those horrific injuries that he got from that driver also changed his frame of mind. Those injuries are the kind of thing that can change a person.

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His writing suggested to me that he wasn't always so liberal. Specifically his work on The Stand, The Gunslinger and Randal Flagg.

If you look at Flagg's description from those books he's very much a classic exploiter of liberal institutions and committees. He's the evil hippy from hell.

Then a guy like the Gunslinger who comes from a government in Gilead that enforced law and order with cold calculating force and exalts military order. The Gunslinger himself embodies classic macho, steely eyed conservative stereotypes of manhood.

Then add in all the horrible experiences that he's heaped on the head of his favorite Castle Rock sheriff/whipping-boy/hero Alan Pangborn, who is also very much a conservative archetype.

I think that his turnabout in political ideology came from the time he got hit by that van, his well established distrust of religion and reconciling the fact that his daughter is a gay feminist member of the clergy.

I'm intensely curious about Stephen King as a person so I read everything I can get my hands on that gives me insight into his thinking. He wears his heart on his sleeve. He's definitely dying to tell people how he feels but is sensitive enough about criticism to hesitate to say too much on the subject of himself. He gives a lot of hints about his struggles to be a better father and better husband so I think his liberal sensibilities are being driven by a desire to be a more caring person.

I think on his own he'd rather be out howling at the moon, zipping down the road on his Harley and screwing around with his friends down at Honky Tonk clubs. For that reason, I suspect those horrific injuries that he got from that driver also changed his frame of mind. Those injuries are the kind of thing that can change a person.

I think you have something on the hit-and-run; I don't recall him having a public political stance prior to that event. But, he was a school teacher in New England, so maybe he just didn't open his mouth about it, previously. I dunno, I still love the guy's work.

(edit) In fact, a lot of his early writing was driven by his alcoholism, not his politics. Shining is a prime example, and his mini-series treatment really took a hard look at that, even though Kubrick's iconic version is still among my favorite movies.

[Dung Beatles]

But, he was a school teacher in New England, so maybe he just didn't open his mouth about it, previously.

He was a school teacher in rural New England, not exactly a liberal stronghold plus I think he hated that job. I don't think I've ever read about him saying anything good about it other than to say how little it paid, how he'd fight with his wife over the money he spent on cigarettes and how he had to work a second job bagging groceries.

I'm fairly sure from the times that he's brought it up that he hates that period of his life and is extremely glad its over.

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He was a school teacher in rural New England, not exactly a liberal stronghold plus I think he hated that job. I don't think I've ever read about him saying anything good about it other than to say how little it paid, how he'd fight with his wife over the money he spent on cigarettes and how he had to work a second job bagging groceries.

I'm fairly sure from the times that he's brought it up that he hates that period of his life and is extremely glad its over.

Could be, could be. Not worth arguing over, for sure. Like I said, I resolved my differences with him by just concentrating on his published works, and ignoring his public persona.

That does remind me, though... he had a fan club website or something like that which I used to frequent; that was before the accident. I think his return there, after hospital, was when I started getting a distaste for him.

Maybe I'll restart Gunslinger (one of the few that is only available in paperback). Ooh, actually, I should start with Talisman.

[Dung Beatles]

He was a school teacher in rural New England, not exactly a liberal stronghold...

You are right and I am wrong. This place just outside of Bangor is traditionally the most liberal part of Maine. Something about cold wet places makes people liberal, I'm sure of it.

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You are right and I am wrong. This place just outside of Bangor is traditionally the most liberal part of Maine. Something about cold wet places makes people liberal, I'm sure of it.

Haha, well, I guess he could have been the hold-out conservative, back then.

No matter, I no longer care about his politics then, or now.