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Val Keating said:
I read the book a few years ago. Very good. Didn’t
know that it was made into a film. I’ll watch it now.

hopefully the show does the book justice.

The Ra were far from perfect, did some terrible things, but they were fighting against a foreign power taking control of their country.
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Yes well it’s not anywhere near “in the name of the father” but it does have a viscousness about it that is unsettling

I watched a 5-6 part documentary on the Troubles in Lockdown. It was almost a day by day account from the first sectarian killings that led the Brits into Nth Ireland to keep a “peace” between the two right through to Omagh and the Good Friday deal. In the end the Brits had basically infiltrated the Provos with touts and double agents and combined with low and high tech IT, they knew when they were going to sneeze.

I think the show does little to make a distinction between the IRA and the Provisional IRA. Treats its audience with a simplistic history of the Troubles in favour of the narrative. It’s worrying when histro-dramas gloss over history because sadly the audience is too lazy to question or follow up afterwards, and it becomes their reality.

It does not paint Gerry Adams very well. At all.
 
Gasometer said:
Yes well it’s not anywhere near “in the name of the father” but it does have a viscousness about it that is unsettling

I watched a 5-6 part documentary on the Troubles in Lockdown. It was almost a day by day account from the first sectarian killings that led the Brits into Nth Ireland to keep a “peace” between the two right through to Omagh and the Good Friday deal. In the end the Brits had basically infiltrated the Provos with touts and double agents and combined with low and high tech IT, they knew when they were going to sneeze.

I think the show does little to make a distinction between the IRA and the Provisional IRA. Treats its audience with a simplistic history of the Troubles in favour of the narrative. It’s worrying when histro-dramas gloss over history because sadly the audience is too lazy to question or follow up afterwards, and it becomes their reality.

It does not paint Gerry Adams very well. At all.
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Interesting. I started watching it late last night but fell asleep. I’ll give it another go tonight.

The book doesn’t paint Adams as good or bad when you consider what was going on at the time…. maybe because of my Irish heritage and upbringing I have a very biased view.
 

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If you are into Sci Fi, i just watched an 8 episode series called Teacup, as with most show's of this genre, plenty of unanswered question's and last ep definitely left the opportunity for a second series, also stars Yvonne Strahovski, who i like a lot. 7/10
 
I watched Getting Lost a documentary on Lost TV

Even if you had a passing interest in the show it’s a brilliant insight to the tv game changer and provides some shocking insights into the background of the show

Almost completed Landman and after a very slow start it improves. Billy Bob being Billy Bob.

Good little Netflix NZ thriller “Friends like these” although the conclusion was a bit iffy.

Half way through Squidgame 2; the shock value is less than S1 but it still sucks u into the story because they spend time delving into the characters

There is a top 5 tv show thread of 2024 in the Media and E Board if you’re looking for other shows to watch

I’m going to revisit Severance soon
 

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I’m about a third of the way through reading, or rather listening to The Reformatory by Tananrive Due and I’m absolutely hooked.

It’s historical fiction/horror.

Can see why the reviews are so good.

Has anyone else read it or started reading it?

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The Reformatory

"The Reformatory is one of those books you can't put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park." Stephen King Winner of the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel, this is a gloriously creepy Deep South horror story based on the infamous Dozier School for boys, perfect...
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Anybody remember this show?
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Apparently, it's 50 years since this Number 96 shocked and titillated Australian audiences. Anyway, I don't really know who the mad bomber was, nor who was cropping the crotches out of the undies in the unattended laundromat but I have some recollections.

Abagail is wearing the 96 t-shirt. In the early 80s there was a scene for a movie being filmed in the Great Space in Collins St where she and some bloke were at a cafe talking about something. We were at a nearby table taking a break from work (as you do), and the movie people asked us if it was OK for us to be in the background of the shot, which we agreed to. When we got up to go back to the office the movie people insisted we stay because they had to do some re-takes and get different angles etc. and if we moved that would ruin their continuity. We agreed, despite knowing we'd be in the shit when we got back to work.

I don't have a clue what the movie was called but one night, channel surfing, I spotted Abagail on TV and sure enough, it was the movie. I made my wife sit and watch it so we could see my "scene". Sure enough, we see Abagail in the Great Space and there were a few camera angles - and in the background, a table with some coffee cups. FFS, the bloody camera operator cropped us out!
 

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