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Erica Ambler wrote:

Finally got round to Manh(a)ttan after exhuming it from Amazon Prime.

It's so rare to find an adult TV show these days, I can live with all its historical revisionism. Although the erasure of Emilio Segrè and the pioneering work of Tube Alloys is most regrettable. Even so, I defy anyone not in thrall to the EU to watch it and not to conclude the sad truth of the Allied atomic bomb programme: it should have been dropped on Germany not Japan.

I'm not sure if you're serious or not, but if you are, what is your reasoning behind that belief?

Strategically it makes no sense, since the Trinity test only happened after V-E day.

Erica Ambler wrote:

Watched the first few Punisher episodes. Gets better as it goes along, though the plot is a hackneyed as they come.

Possiby the most Jewish show I've seen since the heyday of Woody Allen and Golan Globus.

On Golan Globus, the docu 'Electric Boogaloo' about them and the infamous Cannon Films is a hugely entertaining watch.

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Germany destroyed? Surely not! I mean, who would be left to boss Britain about?

Secret Files wrote:

Germany destroyed? Surely not! I mean, who would be left to boss Britain about?

Surely Britain has not run out of posh public school boys?

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So reading up on it online, this is like an alternate history of the Manhattan Project? How much do they deviate from the real facts?

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Well there must have been some women working on the Manhattan project?
Didn't Clair Patterson meet his wife that way?

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Erica Ambler wrote:

There were lots of women working on the Manhattan Project, particularly mathematicians - I read a book on that very subject about 20 years ago when science most interested me. They just weren't in very prominent positions and I have no doubt that was due to the prevailing views at the time.

Checked my Clair Patterson recollection, it's not quite accurate. Clair and Lorna Patterson actually met at college but did subsequently both go on to work on the Manhattan project.

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A friend recommended Dark on Netflix, anyone seen it?

bitchcraft wrote:

A friend recommended Dark on Netflix, anyone seen it?

I did.
People like to compare it to "Stranger Things", but it's a very different show.
It's darker (occasionally much darker) than the Spielberg/King homage that is "Stranger Things".
It's worth the watch, though I feel like not all of the promise built in the first five episodes is realized in the latter five.
But it's somewhat interesting (though obviously referential) in terms of its writing and it is incredibly well-cast.

Erica Ambler wrote:

Watched S2 of ‘Orange is the New Black’ with my lost niece over the Christmas break. I was surprised by how slick and professional it is; Ep13 could almost be a handbook on how to write an effective season finale. Lorraine Toussaint steals the show.

Does this mean she navigated through her Stepford teen phase?

Salomé wrote:

I did.
People like to compare it to "Stranger Things", but it's a very different show.
It's darker (occasionally much darker) than the Spielberg/King homage that is "Stranger Things".
It's worth the watch, though I feel like not all of the promise built in the first five episodes is realized in the latter five.
But it's somewhat interesting (though obviously referential) in terms of its writing and it is incredibly well-cast.

Thanks, will give it a look

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It bugs me that all the inmates in Orange - bumpkins and ghetto dwellers alike - seem exceedingly articulate and well-read. Have the writers never met a legitimately dumb person?

Anyway, just started season 5. I found the last couple of seasons a bit stale, but I begrudgingly admit there's still some quality present. I've even gotten used to the masturbatory SJWism oozing from every frame.

I saw the first episode of "The Alienist".
Somehow I feel like this show is a decade too late.
Serial killer stories need quite a bit of work to not feel dated, no matter the setting.

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Erica Ambler wrote:

CJB wrote:

It bugs me that all the inmates in Orange - bumpkins and ghetto dwellers alike - seem exceedingly articulate and well-read. Have the writers never met a legitimately dumb person?

Anyway, just started season 5. I found the last couple of seasons a bit stale, but I begrudgingly admit there's still some quality present. I've even gotten used to the masturbatory SJWism oozing from every frame.

You're going to love S5; the inmates take over the prison and form a matriarchy 'safe from the male gaze'.

For some reason I'm reminded of the guy who flashed his junk at a "slut walk" rally in Brazil.



A face of the purest satisfaction.