JamieM
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Most high powered and extremely wealthy business people seem to possess the sociopathic gene for sure.
TV shows you are - or will be - watching.
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Count of Undolpho
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Sense8 - Not perfect but a well worth watching emotional roller coaster. All sorts of plot holes but the characters really carry it off, within a short time you care about them. If you aren't comfortable with sex and LGBT stuff then probably not for you.
Stranger - Interesting Korean murder mystery the translations are a little odd in places and it's steeped in Korean culture and politics but I really enjoyed it. Very quick subtitles in places and on Netflix no way of altering the size or colour - that I've found anyway.
Stranger - Interesting Korean murder mystery the translations are a little odd in places and it's steeped in Korean culture and politics but I really enjoyed it. Very quick subtitles in places and on Netflix no way of altering the size or colour - that I've found anyway.
Julman
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Ozark's very good. Especially the first season, IMO.
Cristobal
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Ozark S02: good (not as good as S01, because the element of surprise has gone and Marty is a problem solver, whatever might fall on him)
Sharp Objects: very boring if you're not into adolescence problems that never disappear once a grown up, and very sh*ty twist at the end and in the middle of the closing credit (after the Led Zep tune)
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: very average (terrific 1st episode though), mostly because of the oversimplification (the good America vs the evil rest of the world, and the pretty inaccurate description of the French Londonistan). Better watch Fauda...
Ghoul: a mini-series which like a B horror movie, well, about a ghoul... Switched from the Hindi version to the French after the 1st episode, very average.
Bodyguard: pretty good actually, beginnings of the two first episodes are intense, the third one is much slower, looking forward to watch the rest of the season . Good BBC1 thriller.
Deep State: average good thriller with Mark Strong
Condor: pretty good spy series inspired by the movie, rather classical plot but efficient, very slow beginning. The good point in the show is that the hero (Max Irons) is a desk jockey so he barely knows how to fight and gets beaten most of the time by the bad guys
Get Shorty S02: really good, as good as the 1st season
Castle Rock: not bad, very good beginning and then it becomes so so
Patrick Melrose: with B. Cumberbatch, not bad, but rather long...
Succession: average good
Preacher S03: good (although my favourite season is the 2nd one), Herr Starr rulez... Very funny story ark with the Irish vampire
The Sinner S02: as good as the season 1
Mayans MC: watched the 1st episode, seems like Sons of Anarchy but in an Hispanic version
Atypical S02: the surprise and the magic have gone, barely funny
For people like me for whom Breaking Bad is the best show ever, Yo bitch!
Sharp Objects: very boring if you're not into adolescence problems that never disappear once a grown up, and very sh*ty twist at the end and in the middle of the closing credit (after the Led Zep tune)
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: very average (terrific 1st episode though), mostly because of the oversimplification (the good America vs the evil rest of the world, and the pretty inaccurate description of the French Londonistan). Better watch Fauda...
Ghoul: a mini-series which like a B horror movie, well, about a ghoul... Switched from the Hindi version to the French after the 1st episode, very average.
Bodyguard: pretty good actually, beginnings of the two first episodes are intense, the third one is much slower, looking forward to watch the rest of the season . Good BBC1 thriller.
Deep State: average good thriller with Mark Strong
Condor: pretty good spy series inspired by the movie, rather classical plot but efficient, very slow beginning. The good point in the show is that the hero (Max Irons) is a desk jockey so he barely knows how to fight and gets beaten most of the time by the bad guys
Get Shorty S02: really good, as good as the 1st season
Castle Rock: not bad, very good beginning and then it becomes so so
Patrick Melrose: with B. Cumberbatch, not bad, but rather long...
Succession: average good
Preacher S03: good (although my favourite season is the 2nd one), Herr Starr rulez... Very funny story ark with the Irish vampire
The Sinner S02: as good as the season 1
Mayans MC: watched the 1st episode, seems like Sons of Anarchy but in an Hispanic version
Atypical S02: the surprise and the magic have gone, barely funny
For people like me for whom Breaking Bad is the best show ever, Yo bitch!
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Julman
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Agreed.
We watch the same things!
Julman
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Agreed on all points. Except Breaking Bad. For me it might 'just' be the second best show ever... after Mad Men.
MntnMan62
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I actually find that the high powered and extremely wealthy business people tend to be the most sane of the bunch. That is because they earned their money or at least had to work hard for it and understand the concept of work and understand the value of a dollar. The insanity comes in when people inherit ungodly sums of money and never actually learned to do anything for themselves, instead working for the family business the day they graduated college. Those who strike out on their own and achieve their own success independent of the family business are refreshingly astute and value conscious. It's the ones who have a job working for daddy (or mommy) but don't really do anything or the ones who couldn't even be bothered to get a job at all who have absolutely zero concept of how the world works. These are the people who focus on pennies and unimportant details, turning silly little things into major blowups. Yet they spend inordinate amounts of money on things that matter to them, such as real estate, see a property they just have to have, undermine your advice during negotiations and just give the seller what they want, put more ungodly amounts of money into it making it into their "dream home", then find they don't like it, want to sell it for what they paid for it plus what they put into it and find they are so far under water that it would take 30 years of appreciation before they could break even. And those are the people who screw things up for themselves with their petulant attitudes and then when they can't sell their "dream home" for anywhere near their cost, they look for someone to else to blame. These people are dangerous, narcissistic, untrustworthy and vindictive. They don't care who's lives they screw up so long as they get their way. They don't have the ability to feel guilt. They have nothing to do all day but argue about why the contractor they hired, who according to them was the absolute only contractor on the planet who can do the project, is going so far over their budget that they throw a fit, not realizing that it is their own constant change orders and designing on the fly that caused the costs to skyrocket out of control. So, yes, I've dealt with these people. And there are a lot of them out there. Remember, if you meet someone new and they have lots of money, and I mean insanely stupid amounts of money, it doesn't mean they actually made it themselves, or have any idea how to keep that money. And decisions are not made based upon a sound business plan or any previous business experience or acumen. Decisions are entirely based upon emotion and/or ego. Or to fulfill some need that is lacking in their lives. THIS is that show. I finished watching it and other than the ridiculously outlandish final episode, I really enjoyed it and can't wait for the next season.
I am now watching Shameless again. I actually missed the season before the current one so I'm catching up with it and enjoying this one immensely as well. I happen to know people like the Gallaghers and their peripheral friends as well. Zappa said it best. Absurdity is the only reality.
