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Post by snj90 on Mar 16, 2022 20:07:58 GMT -5
Netflix added "Servant of the People" - the 2015 Ukrainian TV series in which Volodymyr Zelensky's character gets elected president of Ukraine, after his rant as a school teacher goes viral. I was watching some of that this evening.
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Post by Strewthless on Mar 18, 2022 16:13:27 GMT -5
Lived up to the hype. No doubt there will be another series, it ought to stop with just the one good series but I can't blame them for cashing in on the shows popularity. |
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Post by Giorbanguly on Mar 19, 2022 1:27:25 GMT -5
How is it? Watching Love is Blind at the moment |
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Post by Giorbanguly on Mar 19, 2022 1:29:59 GMT -5
Lived up to the hype. No doubt there will be another series, it ought to stop with just the one good series but I can't blame them for cashing in on the shows popularity. Just saw this message Squid Game was an excellent show to watch, and unlike a lot of Korean shows I actually loved the cinematography. Gave me Black Mirror/Clockwork Orange vibes I recommend Alice in Borderland too, it's a great show and somewhat similar to Squid Game |
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Post by Strewthless on Mar 19, 2022 6:15:49 GMT -5
Lived up to the hype. No doubt there will be another series, it ought to stop with just the one good series but I can't blame them for cashing in on the shows popularity. Squid Game was an excellent show to watch, and unlike a lot of Korean shows I actually loved the cinematography. Gave me Black Mirror/Clockwork Orange vibes Probably had a higher budget than most Korean shows, Netflix threw a lot of money at it. I noticed a lot of western cultural references in there, obviously trying to make it accessible to us westerners. |
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Post by Giorbanguly on Mar 19, 2022 6:18:42 GMT -5
Squid Game was an excellent show to watch, and unlike a lot of Korean shows I actually loved the cinematography. Gave me Black Mirror/Clockwork Orange vibes Probably had a higher budget than most Korean shows, Netflix threw a lot of money at it. I noticed a lot of western cultural references in there, obviously trying to make it accessible to us westerners. The immigrant character Ali was a nice addition as well. I think this is the first mainstream Korean show to tackle the oppression faced by South/Southeast Asian laborers in the country |
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Post by sari on Mar 20, 2022 13:32:24 GMT -5
Netflix added "Servant of the People" - the 2015 Ukrainian TV series in which Volodymyr Zelensky's character gets elected president of Ukraine, after his rant as a school teacher goes viral. I was watching some of that this evening. I watched a few episodes about a week ago (on YouTube before Netflix added it). I see why he and the show were/are so popular. |
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Post by Strewthless on Mar 31, 2022 14:35:59 GMT -5
Stranger Things - The first episode kinda gave me X-Files vibes, but with an 80s gloss. Good show, although it didn't feel like it needed more than one season. By season 3 it starts to feel like a parody of itself. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2022 15:18:00 GMT -5
I'm watching Queer Eye in Germany right now. It's a little faster paced than the American Queer Eye show.
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Post by greysrigging on Apr 2, 2022 1:10:11 GMT -5
Severance....excellent series....just wish to fuck I knew whats going on....?
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Post by Strewthless on Apr 14, 2022 16:18:16 GMT -5
New season of Better Call Saul starts next week, I'll be watching it if it's on Netflix. Controversial opinion: I think it's better than Breaking Bad.
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Post by Steelernation on Apr 15, 2022 20:17:07 GMT -5
Bridgerton. I found the main couple both seasons to have a very toxic relationship without much there so it was hard to root for them but the side characters and subplots were excellent and quite engaging.
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Post by nei on Apr 16, 2022 8:52:13 GMT -5
New season of Better Call Saul starts next week, I'll be watching it if it's on Netflix. Controversial opinion: I think it's better than Breaking Bad. I've only watched a few epsiodes, thought it was fun to watch. idk if a better series. I should watch it starting from the beginning, didn't realize they were still making new episodes. Good to hear it hasn't gottens talll |
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Post by Strewthless on Apr 17, 2022 11:14:34 GMT -5
New season of Better Call Saul starts next week, I'll be watching it if it's on Netflix. Controversial opinion: I think it's better than Breaking Bad. I've only watched a few epsiodes, thought it was fun to watch. idk if a better series. I should watch it starting from the beginning, didn't realize they were still making new episodes. Good to hear it hasn't gottens talll Maybe it's because it's been so long since I watched Breaking Bad, so I can't remember quite how good it was. I like the chilled pace of BCS, and it goes much deeper into the drug cartel storyline. |
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Post by Ariete on Apr 17, 2022 19:09:17 GMT -5
So Doña Jimena I started to rewatch the Unknown Soldier miniseries. As the novel's status is in Finland is comparable to Tolstoy's War and Peace in Russia, a lot of analysing of the characters in the novel, film and miniseries has been done to the most minor detail possible. There's also several quizzes and thought experiments on who you / me / your mother / your dog would be in the setting. (This was Väinö Linna's point, that it was a "people's war", and it features people from all kinds of backgrounds. Including Rokka's neighbour Susi who is clearly intellectually challenged and would never be considered fit for service today. I never read the novel, we didn't have to do it in school, so I've been unaware of many of the details. So after the first two episodes my favourite this time is especially Corporal Lehto, the eternally grumpy and ruthless - almost sadistic - squad leader who executed the Russian prisoner in the first episode. Him:
Analysis (which I didn't know until I read about him),
Author Linna: "Lehto is an orphan and street kid from Tampere who never speaks anything about his past. He is defined by his toughness, disregard for rules and extreme aggressiviness. He views patriotism as an embarrassment and a joke." (Remember that we didn't have a welfare state back then as we do now.)
Kalland, psychotherapist and early childhood therapist: "Lehto is a child left on his own, he has an extremely negative view of himself and the surrounding world. He doesn't want to be attached to anyone or anything, because to him being abandoned as a child can never happen again. Lehto loathes Riitaoja above everything (the one who at one point can't carry on anymore and is kicked by Lehto), because he sees Riitaoja's weakness as a reminder of the weak child he was himself".
Tamminen, novelist: "Lehto did never ask anyone for anything, even a light. If he was offered anything, he refused. Except food from charities, but even then he just grabbed his soup and retreated beyond sight to eat it, like a wolf. Lehto liked the smell of gasoline and lilacs. He disliked the animal kingdom, the Sun, trees, men, women and children. His rebellious childhood and teenage negative age started 5 months before he was born, in the womb when he realised that he will be abandoned, and it ended 21 years later in a wet forest near Petrozavodsk". (Again abandoned and wounded. He couldn't prevent himself for being born, but he could decide how to leave this world.)
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Post by greysrigging on Apr 17, 2022 19:21:26 GMT -5
So Doña Jimena I started to rewatch the Unknown Soldier miniseries. As the novel's status is in Finland is comparable to Tolstoy's War and Peace in Russia, a lot of analysing of the characters in the novel, film and miniseries has been done to the most minor detail possible. There's also several quizzes and thought experiments on who you / me / your mother / your dog would be in the setting. (This was Väinö Linna's point, that it was a "people's war", and it features people from all kinds of backgrounds. Including Rokka's neighbour Susi who is clearly intellectually challenged and would never be considered fit for service today. I never read the novel, we didn't have to do it in school, so I've been unaware of many of the details. So after the first two episodes my favourite this time is especially Corporal Lehto, the eternally grumpy and ruthless - almost sadistic - squad leader who executed the Russian prisoner in the first episode. Him:
Analysis (which I didn't know until I read about him),
Author Linna: "Lehto is an orphan and street kid from Tampere who never speaks anything about his past. He is defined by his toughness, disregard for rules and extreme aggressiviness. He views patriotism as an embarrassment and a joke." (Remember that we didn't have a welfare state back then as we do now.)
Kalland, psychotherapist and early childhood therapist: "Lehto is a child left on his own, he has an extremely negative view of himself and the surrounding world. He doesn't want to be attached to anyone or anything, because to him being abandoned as a child can never happen again. Lehto loathes Riitaoja above everything (the one who at one point can't carry on anymore and is kicked by Lehto), because he sees Riitaoja's weakness as a reminder of the weak child he was himself".
Tamminen, novelist: "Lehto did never ask anyone for anything, even a light. If he was offered anything, he refused. Except food from charities, but even then he just grabbed his soup and retreated beyond sight to eat it, like a wolf. Lehto liked the smell of gasoline and lilacs. The disliked the animal kingdom, the Sun, trees, men, women and children. His rebellious childhood and teenage negative age started 5 months before he was born, in the womb when he realised that he will be abandoned, and it ended 21 years later in a wet forest near Petrozavodsk". (Again abandoned and wounded. He couldn't prevent himself for being born, but he could decide how to leave this world.)
I've found a copy of the 2017 movie....the English subtitles are so bad its almost unwatchable....bit like the littoral translation of Chinese, Korean and Japanese. ( called 'Chinglish' ). I've not heard of the mini series, but I'll do a Torrent search and see if I can find it. I like Finnish TV series eg Karppi ( Deadwind ), Arctic Circle, Bordertown etc... |
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Post by Doña Jimena on Apr 18, 2022 6:28:28 GMT -5
So Doña Jimena I started to rewatch the Unknown Soldier miniseries. As the novel's status is in Finland is comparable to Tolstoy's War and Peace in Russia, a lot of analysing of the characters in the novel, film and miniseries has been done to the most minor detail possible. There's also several quizzes and thought experiments on who you / me / your mother / your dog would be in the setting. (This was Väinö Linna's point, that it was a "people's war", and it features people from all kinds of backgrounds. Including Rokka's neighbour Susi who is clearly intellectually challenged and would never be considered fit for service today. I never read the novel, we didn't have to do it in school, so I've been unaware of many of the details. So after the first two episodes my favourite this time is especially Corporal Lehto, the eternally grumpy and ruthless - almost sadistic - squad leader who executed the Russian prisoner in the first episode. But he is from Tampere.  I find it a it shocking that you associate yourself with Lehto. I thought you would like to be like Rokka. I certainly don't associate myself with that Russian prostitute singing Kalinka.  |
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Post by Ariete on Apr 18, 2022 12:55:00 GMT -5
But he is from Tampere.  I find it a it shocking that you associate yourself with Lehto. I thought you would like to be like Rokka. I certainly don't associate myself with that Russian prostitute singing Kalinka. 
Nooo, I don't associate with him, I merely have sympathy for him when I learnt about his difficult childhood. My personality is like 50% Lahtinen and 50% Kariluoto.
And Vera from Petroskoi is a elementary school teacher.
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Post by Doña Jimena on Apr 18, 2022 14:06:11 GMT -5
Nooo, I don't associate with him, I merely have sympathy for him when I learnt about his difficult childhood. My personality is like 50% Lahtinen and 50% Kariluoto. And Vera from Petroskoi is a elementary school teacher.
So you are 50% commie and 50% upper class idealist? Regarding Vera, she is supposedly Karelian, but the actress looks like Ashkenazi Jewish. Finns portray Russians only as Jews or Mongoloids, when in reality it is far from that. But I like how the movie is not propaganda showing only good sides of the Finnish army and there are ironic moments as well. In Russian war movies it is never like that, they show enemies as idiots and all Russians as perfect heroic people. Latvian war movies are somewhere inbetween... |
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Post by Ariete on Apr 18, 2022 14:20:37 GMT -5
So you are 50% commie and 50% upper class idealist? Regarding Vera, she is supposedly Karelian, but the actress looks like Ashkenazi Jewish. Finns portray Russians only as Jews or Mongoloids, when in reality it is far from that. But I like how the movie is not propaganda showing only good sides of the Finnish army and there are ironic moments as well. In Russian war movies it is never like that, they show enemies as idiots and all Russians as perfect heroic people. Latvian war movies are somewhere inbetween...
Well, no if you put it like that. Referring to their personality types. And both Lahtinen and I like to argue. 
"In Lehtonen's and Lahtinen's arguments, it is clear that Lahtinen's is the smartest person in the bunch. He has read about the Scopes Monkey Trial, while the theory of evolution became mainstream in Finnish schools only after the war. Lahtinen is characterised by intellectual smugness and self-confidence which was typical for the more educated working class in Tampere before WWII".
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I find it a it shocking that you associate yourself with Lehto. I thought you would like to be like Rokka.
I find it a it shocking that you associate yourself with Lehto. I thought you would like to be like Rokka.
