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[TV] Netflix - What's good to watch?
- Thread starter Stat Brother
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Interesting historical backdrop about the Mormon Wars with its obvious parallels to modern day religeous fundamental terrorism.
I kept having to fact check which I often do with historical dramas and apart from the fictional artistic licence it was shockingly quite accurate.
- Apr 13, 2015
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Who would have thought the Mormons had so much violence wound into their history.
Just like many minority religeons the Mormons suffered extreme persecution, together with violence in the US so it's understandable that the only way they could respond to it and defend against it was with using violence themselves, but the events depicted in American Primeval with the Mountain Meadows Massacre took it to a whole new level of unjustified religeous terrorism.
I think its an event that has been largely erased from US history, and understandably an event the Mormons would prefer to be forgotten.
Another thing I learnt from my fact checking while watching the series but which I don't think was referenced at all in the show was the Mormons anti-slavery ideology which brought them into a lot of conflict with those who relied heavily on slavery and who saw the Mormons as a threat to their livelihoods by stirring up anti-slavery sentiment, especially in the wake of the emerging Abolitionist movement. Their anti slavery ideology was one of the causes of the persecution they suffered.
However, their attitude to slavery later became more conflicted and some began to accept it and even practice it, especially when they began to recruit members to their Church in the southern States. Brigham Young, who featured heavily in the show, even became a strong advocate for slavery, preaching that it was ordained by God.
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GOM
living vicariously
Hilarious and ridiculous and fun to watch. Not for those that like to have to study a film for plot holes or engage their brain.
Cordwainer
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- Jul 30, 2023
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Really enjoying it…like the camera work particularly. The director Peter Berg also did the excellent Friday Night Lights and The Leftovers I think.
dolphins
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Skaville
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Thoughts on three:
Black Doves - excellent, must see TV. 9/10
The Missing - drivel. Too much plot. Enough for three dramas in one show. Great cast, yet terrible performances.
Squid Game - four episodes in. Not living up to season 1.
Black Doves - excellent, must see TV. 9/10
The Missing - drivel. Too much plot. Enough for three dramas in one show. Great cast, yet terrible performances.
Squid Game - four episodes in. Not living up to season 1.
keaton
Big heart, hot blood and balls. Big balls
- Nov 18, 2004
- 9,997
On a Mormon link Under The Banner of Heaven was very good. Set in the 80s I think about murder in a Mormon community, with lots about the history of the religion
- Oct 20, 2022
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I actually started watching this last night (sorry wrong thread) - it’s good but taking me a while to dig in.You will be watching Slow Horses next calm down
(Was stuck for ages btw on what the Cricket ground was in Episode 2 - kept winding it back because I thought it was Lords but after checking some images online realised it was probably the Oval)
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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DEPARTURE about a team investigating a commercial aircraft the goes missing over the North Atlantic is corny as f*ck, with a ludicrous plot, naff dialogue and wooden acting. But apart from that, fine. It's flashily filmed in London town and for some reason is grimly compelling viewing. Only part-way through Series 1. Lord alone knows what Series 2 is like. The spirit of LOST is strong within this one 
"Unbelievable" I watched this a few years ago on Netflix and didn't realise it was still on there. It left a lasting impression.
This is really good and quite harrowing, based on real events about a victim of rape. The title tells you what she had to endure following her experience....
This is really good and quite harrowing, based on real events about a victim of rape. The title tells you what she had to endure following her experience....
schmunk
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Just finished series 1. The high point was seeing both my current and previous workplaces in the background of shots...DEPARTURE about a team investigating a commercial aircraft the goes missing over the North Atlantic is corny as f*ck, with a ludicrous plot, naff dialogue and wooden acting. But apart from that, fine. It's flashily filmed in London town and for some reason is grimly compelling viewing. Only part-way through Series 1. Lord alone knows what Series 2 is like. The spirit of LOST is strong within this one
- Jul 27, 2024
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Worthy, I know, but I can’t bring myself to watch this sort of thing. Too distressing. I’m shallow enough to want entertainment first and foremost.
Justice
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I’m enjoying Primeval.
BrightonCottager
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Finished it last night.
I've read one of the sequels so knew he'd escaped but not the story of his time in Italy.
sussex_guy2k2
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- Jun 6, 2014
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This isn’t Netflix though, right?
Whoislloydy
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Not sure about what is on Netflix UK, sorry.
vegster
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- May 5, 2008
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Just started on Black Doves recently.. bit gory for me with some ridiculous plot holes but strangely fascinating. Ben Wishall puts in a sterling performance as a downbeat assassin who everybody seems to know, he's come a long way since Paddington...... It's a bit Jason Bourne with British accents.