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Re "Stranger Things" current season, my wife really enjoys it. To my taste the story and the gang have become long in the tooth. It's turned more into a monster movie, which is fine if you like that kind of thing.

I have to giggle about how they've done their best to de-sexualize Millie Bobby Brown. In real life she's turned into quite the va-va-voom attractive woman. But the producers try to keep the cast as younger aged grade schoolers.

The series should probably have ended before this season. The punch has long gone, IMO.
 

I just finished season 6 of Homeland. But I'm not so sure that I'm going to watch seasons 7 and 8. It's been pretty good so far but it's starting to reach that point where the writers are getting desparate for new ideas to keep it going and they are having to reach too far to come up with them. Also at the end of season 6 they killed my two favorite characters. :mad: Dontcha hate it when that happens?
 
I just finished the latest season of The Diplomat on Netflix. It has become on of my favorite Netflix originals. The acting is top notch and the behind the scenes political intrigue and the dark humor reminds me of the earlier seasons of House of Cards. Next up for me is The Abandons. It was developed by Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy) so I know it is going to be over the top in many ways but I'm in the mood for some mindless fun. Apparently Kurt Sutter left as the filming was winding down due to creative differences with Netflix.
 
Trade said:
I just finished season 6 of Homeland. But I'm not so sure that I'm going to watch seasons 7 and 8. It's been pretty good so far but it's starting to reach that point where the writers are getting desparate for new ideas to keep it going and they are having to reach too far to come up with them. Also at the end of season 6 they killed my two favorite characters. :mad: Dontcha hate it when that happens?
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I think I watched all seasons of "Homeland", but I was getting real tired of Carrie's (Clair Danes) outbursts, breakdowns, and hysteria. Come to find out most of the characters she plays act the same way....:(
 
Jules said:
Since I have to use this one month Apple subscription, I’ve watched season 1 of Loot. I like Mya Rudolph and this show is light. Started Palm Royale. Undecided. Carole Burnett is part of the attraction.
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I love Loot. I'm on Season 3. Maya and the cast are funny. I love Kristen Wiig, so I watched the first episode of Palm Royale. Didn't interest me.
 
ChiroDoc said:
I think I watched all seasons of "Homeland", but I was getting real tired of Carrie's (Clair Danes) outbursts, breakdowns, and hysteria. Come to find out most of the characters she plays act the same way....:(
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I agree about Claire Dane's character Carrie. And now that they have killed off my two favorite characters, Quinn and Astrid, I'm going to give seasons 7 ad 8 a pass. I also watch a few minutes of "The Beast in Me" and there was Claire Danes again playing Carrie Matheson 2.0. So I'm going to pass on that too.
 
ChiroDoc said:
I think I watched all seasons of "Homeland", but I was getting real tired of Carrie's (Clair Danes) outbursts, breakdowns, and hysteria. Come to find out most of the characters she plays act the same way....:(
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We watched that series a few years ago. I really liked the first season but then it went downhill like a lot of series where they just try to milk everything they can out of it simply for more profit. Dexter was like that, too.
 
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Slightly dark, but surprisingly good - as long as you don't mind that almost everyone in the show is some sort of "bad guy"....

Put off watching this for quite some time, but DH talked me into it - and we are already thru Season 1.

Adults only for sure.
 
Trade said:
I agree about Claire Dane's character Carrie. And now that they have killed off my two favorite characters, Quinn and Astrid, I'm going to give seasons 7 ad 8 a pass. I also watch a few minutes of "The Beast in Me" and there was Claire Danes again playing Carrie Matheson 2.0. So I'm going to pass on that too.
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Akkk Spoiler Alert 😂

I got really really tired of Clair Dane in Homeland. Stopped watching after Season 3 [ I won't say why] ;) and it wasn't until years later that I went back and watched the show all the way thru with my husand.

Overall - excellent show. Damien Lewis is an amazing actor, and Mandy Patinkin too!
 
I received a email today saying Netflix has been sold to Warner Brothers , apparently we was informed about it some time back ,but i prob just skipped over it ….Watch the prices go through the roof now ….:oops:

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros



What’s changing?​


Nothing is changing today. Both streaming services will continue to operate separately. We have more steps to complete before the deal is closed, including regulatory and shareholder approvals. You’ll hear from us when we have more to share. In the meantime, we hope you’ll continue to enjoy watching as much as you want, whenever you want - all on your current membership​
 
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Yeah, I'm afraid of that too; seems like any excuse to raise prices, they do.
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Netflix is already through the roof. It's costing me almost 20 bucks a month now. The last time they raised prices I went with the cheaper "with ads" plan because they said it would have "just a few short ads". And it started out like that but almost immediately the ads started to get more and more frequent along with getting longer and longer. What finally put me over the edge was when I would pause whatever show I was watching for some reason and instead of freezing the frame of the program they would put a still of an ad and leave it there until I unpaused it! :mad: That's when I finally gave up and went to the more expensive "no ads" plan. And that is now running me $19.43 a month.
 
Trade said:
Netflix is already through the roof. It's costing me almost 20 bucks a month now. The last time they raised prices I went with the cheaper "with ads" plan because they said it would have "just a few short ads". And it started out like that but almost immediately the ads started to get more and more frequent along with getting longer and longer. What finally put me over the edge was when I would pause whatever show I was watching for some reason and instead of freezing the frame of the program they would put a still of an ad and leave it there until I unpaused it! :mad: That's when I finally gave up and went to the more expensive "no ads" plan. And that is now running me $19.43 a month.
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Much like cable, when it first came out - you paid for an ad free experience and then, slowly but surely - the ads came and you paid for tv with ads. Over time, it's every bit as bad as regular tv - which we can't even get anymore without some streaming service.

Streaming was great to start off, but like most things - now they are getting greedier. Peacock has 2 or 3 tier packages, and every one of them has ads! They claim the more you pay the less ad time you get - but as you found out - they lie!

Prime - you pay and then almost every movie you want to watch costs an additional $3-4 bucks.

Let's not even get started on just how many streaming services have popped up - so you have to search on Google or something to find out what your watching options are... where it's steaming.

By the time it's all said and done, it's every bit as bad as cable ever was..... but have you watched regular tv lately? I was waiting around in a hotel for my DH and the number of commercials they showed was astounding! It was more commercials than tv show ---- at least it felt that way. (sigh)
 
Trade said:
Netflix is already through the roof. It's costing me almost 20 bucks a month now. The last time they raised prices I went with the cheaper "with ads" plan because they said it would have "just a few short ads". And it started out like that but almost immediately the ads started to get more and more frequent along with getting longer and longer. What finally put me over the edge was when I would pause whatever show I was watching for some reason and instead of freezing the frame of the program they would put a still of an ad and leave it there until I unpaused it! :mad: That's when I finally gave up and went to the more expensive "no ads" plan. And that is now running me $19.43 a month.
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We have the no ads plan but it's only costing us $17.99/month. I wonder why the difference in price? The most expensive service we've got is Hulu; we're paying $18.99/month for it.
 
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