What are you watching? 2022/23

Luckily the three series are available on YouTube. the fact the House of Cards was only the first part - with To Play the King and The Final Cut making the trilogy may confuse Yanks who find a gay man portraying a straight one confusing.

Edit: after many met unhappy accidents Commander Corder was the shining figure through all.

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A fun examination of Final Destination which resulted in me investigating the poster for Psycho regarding a bra not matching the one in the movie - yes, I do have a very visual memory.

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Another treat appeared in my feed. Luckily The Drinker covered the distinct differences between the international and American cut. The sequel was an epic what the fuck moment for most on this spinning globe who watched the first one. Reviewers, as a community (including myself), were just baffled.

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I enjoyed this short series on Prime. Elvis’s granddaughter, Riley Keough, plays Daisy.

"Nicks confirmed that she’s watched the series inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours era (twice!), and that it ā€œmade me feel like a ghost watching my own story.ā€

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I agree @mew. When my wife first put it on, I didn’t think I would like it, BUT, hehe, I was wrong. Very well done.

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Just finished this. Really enjoyed it.

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A great watch!

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I wasn’t expecting the ending either!

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This was put together very well. I didn’t think I would be so impressed. Apparently, the Academy doesn’t agree with me. Butler does his own singing.

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Loved the movie. Didn’t think Tom Hanks would be so unlikable

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Piece o’ shit that one there :rofl: Well, that’s good acting for you.

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I watched that recently and although I’d read a fair bit about ā€œThe Colonelā€ over the years which certainly wasn’t complimentary I didn’t realise he was such a terrible person.
If only half of that is true it’s probably fair to say he had a good bit to do with the early death of Elvis. Tragedy seems to follow a lot of these megastars.

Glad I’m only a very average Joe who just plods along.

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I’d probably have to agree with you on that. I haven’t finished the movie yet but I’m somewhat familiar with the story. He seems to have mercilessly drove Elvis to perform and make money for him. And thank goodness Elvis followed his heart with his music and didn’t listen to that dumb quat of an ass who was clueless.

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@Gazza7 I finished the movie. So effing sad. That sob imprisoned Elvis in a gilded cage just so he could gamble free for the rest of his miserable life. He took advantage of an innocent country boy and Elvis’s father was no helpful saint either. There’s a place in Dante’s Inferno for people like that.

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The whole world knows how much Elvis deteriorated in his later years and it truly is very sad. The power and presence of the man in the 68 special was quite unbelievable but to think that less than a decade later he’d be dead and a shadow of his previous self.
Subsequently I’ve read a few articles which seem to indicate the truth of the latter part of his career is somewhat in the middle between the film and real life but even so that’s enough to lead me to believe that Tom Parker certainly contributed to his tragically young death.
When such people are taken so young it’s easy to put them on a pedestal but he was a talented force that would never had faded into obscurity.

Contrary to what I’ve stated above I wasn’t a massive Elvis fan but you can’t take away what he brought to the world and I still find it almost criminal how his life ended.

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I’m with you on that.

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I’m waiting for the other half of season five Yellowstone, I hope it’s better than the first half. I need go get some ideas of what to watch from this thread. Being an equestrian I came across a reality cattle rancher show, the Cowboy way, and halfway through I realized I had ridden with one of the guys. He came to our farm a couple years ago to teach. I thought that was pretty cool. He’s a south Florida Cattle rancher. Booger Brown. Probably dumb to most people, but made me kind of happy. :smiling_face:

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Yellowstone had a good run. I hope the second half of the current season provides a good ending (first half was a letdown). Mayor of Kingstown is an excellent drama, also by Taylor Sheridan, that you can binge. Hopefully Jeremy Renner will be able to come back to it.

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Just finished series three of Deadwood. A good watch but the ending was left a little open…

I guess I’ll have to watch this too, seems like it might tie up the loose ends.

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