there's a documentary on Black Adder, was it included in the set? I've been trying to get ahold of a copy for a while!!

I don't know!! I can't watch the DVD's!!! :mad::rolleyes:

But the cover doesn't mention any documentary. Mine has 4 DVD's, and has only the 4 seasons without extras. There are also boxes with more DVD's for instance here is mentioned that the ultimate collection has that documentary. Damn, should have searched a bit better, I only checked the boxes that were on sale, the 6 disc version is only costing a couple Euros more even though it's not on sale ... Perhaps I could return it even though I already removed the shrink wrapping.

I don't have a laptop. I did try once to connect the desktop PC with a very long HDMI cable, but that didn't work well, perhaps for DVD's but I still couldn't play some other media. Especially flac files, I've got loads of them, but never managed to get them played from the PC to the home cinema set. So this has been an annoyance for as long as I've had that home cinema set plus that it doesn't have a headphone socket, which is stupid because I love listening to music on headphones. And also connection through Wifi didn't work well.

So I've decided to get me a new system. It's Black Friday week(end), so I should be able to get a good deal somewhere. For the geeks, this is a Sony BDV-E780w and like I said, it's possibly already 10 years old, so it's about time for a replacement.

I try to stay away from paid online streaming services. I've got HBO now, but that's only because it comes free with the cable package. I'm still old-fashioned, I like physical media. Besides, there's a lot of fuzz about Amazon right now, so that's another reason for not paying for streaming via Amazon. Instead I bought these boxsets from the Amazon site :D No not really, I used the Dutch competitor, but I did order some other stuff (CD's that the Dutch site didn't have) recently from the German Amazon.de site which currently still serves as the homebase for the Netherlands.

^^ oh, i don’t have amazon music, only prime video, which comes free with the 2-day shipping

you guys got black friday too? hahaha. plague does travel...

[eta: i still have a refurbished br player i bought for $30 on amazon, years ago. it’s in my boondocks house waiting for the alpacalypse.]

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anyway, im re-hooked on the sopranos all over again (yes they’re free on prime video right now for some reason), just started the final season.

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eta: except for too many dream/alternate reality episodes, which... come on already this is not twin peaks

Yep we get all the good stuff from your country. Sales and fast food. Until now we've been able to stay away from the Thanksgiving turkeys. But especially in my city there's a US original fastfood restaurant on every corner.

Some stores were complaining about Black Friday because it's too close before Sinterklaas (5 December) and Christmas. So they were proposing to reschedule Black Friday to earlier in the year.

Anyway, I subscribed to Netflix to watch The Irishman. So if anyone has any suggestions, fire away. Especially if there's a good science fiction alien comedy series or film.

black peter friday: is it racist?

anyway, netflix

the... what’s the name with the junkie lady from orange... natasha.... lyonne? RUSSIAN DOLL! very good.

i started watching santa clarita diet but forgot, the guy from justified was in it and was funny (sheriff bullock from deadwood)

never seen narcos but apparently it was traumatizing for many

house of cards was brilliant till they shitcanned kevin spacey

orange is the new black can be good in seasons but also depressing (‘merica! jails!)

CHAPELLE IS A MUST

GLOW was great too

oh, holy shit, the best show ever is BOJACK HORSEMAN

none of these are science fiction. trying to think of one. black mirror? never saw it so i am not sure.

Black Mirror is overrated, mass brainwashing disguised as edgy avant-garde television. It is Twilight Zone without humanity.

glad i dodged that bullet

aside from that—didn’t you like peaky blinders? or am i thinking of the wrong person?

before you splurge on a new dvd player, check out your refurb shop, if you have one, I got a 2005 era Marantz with like 0 wear on it for 10$, it's been working great for 4 years.

yeah, a couple of the episodes were really repulsive in Season 1, the one about the pig and the one with Mike Smiley where the criminals were killed over and over again. Extra crappy stuff. I stopped watching. Charlie Booker was a great snarky comedian, not so much as a dystopian writer

caught last night the first episode of CARNIVAL ROW



nice cast, peculiar settings, there’s some promise in the story—i’m slightly intrigued, yeah.

^^really enjoyed first season of that and yeah i binged. good story (about refugees, indentured servitude, racism, etc), and the girl is pretty.



(also: titties)

rené echeverría who had a hand in ds9 is one of the creators, and it shows—the borg queen is in this hahahahah

I keep seeing the trailers before watching anything on prime. Annoying thing is when it plays there's a sound on it that sounds like someone rapidly knocking on my front door.

Since then I'm boycotting the program. I need to be more confused than I already am.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EMlthfXAluA

This is longer trailer but the knocking on it does my tree in. It's played before I watch something else on Amazon prime so many times I'm boycotting it without knowing anything about it.

oh, that rapping sound does not exist in the show. that fucking music is in the trailer alone

anyway, here’s an adolescent argument in favor (nsfw if your job involves children)

https://ci.phncdn.com/videos/201909/...SIzpBoU7)7.jpg (pg 13: titties)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

plus maybe, if you watch it, the trailer will cease to play elsewhere

but seriously, was a decent/timely story, imaginative, visually well put together, and a good cast— plus the borg queen!

anyway, britannia season 2 is not on yet :(

Watchmen be killing it, guys.

sure, maybe on vacation i’ll get a free month of hobo and binge

I ordered the new Monty Python boxset a couple weeks ago, it still hasn't arrived, even though something else I ordered at the same time did arrive last week. I just checked the invoice, under shipping carrier it says:



Carrier Monty Python Shipping


So now I'm afraid it will take another couple of months ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ECUtkv2qV8 :p