They get whispers as to their chances. If they get the word no chance they pull out to save face.
Is it true your real name is Dee, DUB?
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Goan outta that.
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So, Iām at home grading around 50 5 page papers between now and Monday, and I needed some mindless tv as a break between grading sessions.
iāve promised myself I wonāt do zombies again because (pun intended) itās been done to death.
But after a few āletās try thisā¦Jaysis this is shiteā attempts to find something else, I stuck on Black Summer on NF. And, yes, itās Zombies, but itās not bad.
I mean, the basic story is the same as everā¦the world ended, and there are Zombies, and there are various folk trying to get to safety avoiding the real monsters (den den denā¦) PEOPLE!!!
But, it tells the story in a 1980s Robert Altman āShort Cutsā (or if that predates you, a 1990s Pulp Fiction) way, where there are several mini-stories that are initially told independently, but are, in the telling, revealed to be interconnected.
And, two episodes in, with admittedly zero expectations, iām enjoying it for how itās told. Robert Altman (or, less stylishly, Q.Tarantino) does Zombies.
The scriptwriters rely on using āmotherfucker, Iāll ā ā ā ā you upā more than a bit much come episode 2, but itās at least the way the tale is told (so far at least) is a different spin on the zombies.
And at least its not superheroes, or rich people being assholesā¦
Black Summer is excellent. Fast Rage Zombies are great!
Will give that black summer a look. Just finished the first season of the last of us, it is really good
Just switched on the movie āFallā to see if I could even watch it, itās about the 2 girls climbing the radio tower. 2 minutes in and Iām already hiding behind the couch with a pain in my stomach. Main story hasnāt even started, and then Negan just appeared in it! Will keep going as much as I can
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Watched it the other night myself. Was hard going after a week of gargle and my own fear of heights ! Must have paused it 20 times to take a breath
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Saw enough of it on Googlebox last week. Hate heights myself so stomach was turning with that short snippet.
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I hate heights too. Very dodgy. And yet I jumped out of a perfectly good aeroplane with only a bag of silk on my back to ensure I got back to terra firma safely. Mad Ted.
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The very same. Hate heights and all these thrill seeking videos you see. I think Iām about half way through it. Had to keep pausing too, took me around 3 hours to *watch less than an hour of it
*when I say watch, Iām not even looking at the TV, looking at it through the corner of my eye
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Was at the match last night. My nephew was looking up at the bars supporting the roof and says, āimagine waking up and youāre standing up there, clinging on for dear lifeā. I got mad pins and needles in my feet just thinking about itā¦
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Worse. Imagine waking up in the seats and seeing McClean and Hendrick coming on.
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I thought i was having a nightmare last night ā¦ā¦ but it actually happened 
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Just finished it there. Not sure why I put myself through it. Have a pain in my stomach from watching it. Definitely not worth it
Only took you a couple of days 
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Coincidently Iām just watching Black Summer at moment as well. I finished the first season and while I donāt think it is anything amazing, the quick pace and relatively tight focus make it fairly enjoyable viewing if disaster/apocalypse stories are your thing.
The second season of Yellowjackets is just starting, I really enjoyed the first one. It is like Lost crossed with Lord of the Flies crossed with Alive.
For more sort of old fashioned adventure/mystery of the week style shows there are two I would recommend. Poker Face by Rian Johnson, which stars Natasha Lyonne. Basically Lyonne plays a character who can tell when someone is lying (just go with it), she is travelling around and basically solves a new murder every week. It is like a bizarre modern cross between Columbo and Murder She Wrote and is actually quite fun. Also quite enjoyable is Star Trek: Brave New Worlds. It is set aboard the Enterprise during Captain Pikeās time in charge and has a great old style Trek feel. Iād say it is easily the best Star Trek property since DS9.
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Poker Face is good, very good in many ways, with alot of echoes of True Detective, Cohen Bros stuff, and other series from a similar stable(s). Really looks great, and gas a super cast.
However if it has a serious fault itās that the plots just go down the road of being a bit too lite, and silly, almost as if it doesnāt know if it wants to be a comedy as well.
Fleabag is very good though repetitive after a bit. Great visuals of course, and even more so in her previous series, Crashing, though thatās alot more annoying than fleabag. Jesus she looks so good in it though!
As an aside, great use of the disused buildings of the old Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, filmed the same year myself and Mrs Oh went there for a 25th anniversary visit for her, it was where she went from the Co Clare in 92 to do her Nurse training.
Then I found out Casualty 1909 was also filmed there, in 2012ā¦
Think I posted this before but worth putting up again. Superb BBC Documentary Series The Death of Yugoslavia
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Watching the tommy tiernan show at the moment, missed the start of the 2nd half, copped he was talking to a singer but until he said Dolores near the end Iād no idea that it was Dolores Keane he was talking to, jaysus she has changed.
Good interview btw.
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Great stuff, will watch that later. Had and still have some personal connections to that, I worked on a refugee visa program in Germany in the later 90s. Met alot of great people, just recently had contact again with two of them who got the visa to go to the USA, back arse of Utah nowhere, sort of place where most went to. 24 years since our last contact, when they came to visit me in Ireland before they left Hamburg for good.
I drove them down to West Kerry in my old version 91 Nissan Micra. In December. They say that the trauma of that cured them of the trauma of war!