On occasion YouTube one can find some old classics.
Pardon if this was posted before but the 10 part ESPN/netflix documentary āThe Last Danceā is quite good if you are into the NBA and want to see some pretty honest interviews about the Bulls final NBA championship run.
The Bulls allowed for filming of that entire '97/98 season and now they have interviews with virtually everyone involved and so far the interviews with Jordan, Pippen, Phil Jackson, and the Bulls owner is pretty unfiltered. They are quite dense episodes with not a lot of fluff.
Not being an NBA historian it was nice to see the roots of Jordan and Pippen and the drama of that 1997 season woven in. Iāve only seen the first two episodes so far.
Argh, not available in Taiwan/HK Netflix yet.
I did just finish watching The Carter Effect and as a fan of basketball documentaries, itās up there.
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Someone strongly recommended Barry to me.
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Iāve heard itās great as well. Like a more humorous āBreaking Badā Iāve heard it compared to. Iām going to wait until the series ends, and then binge the whole thing.
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If you have the cable channel VIDEOLAND ē·Æä¾é«č²å° they showed it this past weekend. But not sure about when they might be replaying it.
If it was played on tv, chances are itās already on Youtube. 
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This one debuts on Netflix today. Could be funā¦
Watched the first episode. Good production values (for a Taiwan production), terrible acting for the most part. Not sure if Iāll keep goingā¦
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Well-done analysis and speculation
I spend all my free time binging shows as of late that I feel like I should work for Hollywood Reporter or something.
Broadchurch - Season 1 is fantastic. Unfortunately it was so fucking popular in Britain that they must have a season 2, then the whole thing just went to shit. Not even Olivia Colman could keep me hooked.
Endeavour - A show no one outside England is watching and itās their loss. Such a perfect detective show and the lead is HAWT af. I went into it knowing nothing about the Morse series and I was immediately hooked. Itās about as good as whodunnit can be. The latest season is a bit weak though.
The Good Place - Reminds me of Bojack Horseman in that it deals with heavy subjects effectively without being preachy, the humour is somewhat similar, and both shows have a moron character whom I canāt stand (Todd and Jason).
Itās really a shame that UK shows now feel pressure to follow the American model of multiple seasons, when most are initially designed just for one. I just finished āAfter Lifeā season 2, and thought it was okay, but didnāt feel very necessary.
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Afterlife is on my list. I will get to it as soon as I can.
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The Carbonaro Effect, hidden camera magic TV show, also available on YouTube.
Iām watching it to practice listening to conversational Mandarin. Looks interesting enough.
The conversations go pretty fast, and thereās a a good amount of dialogue in Taiwanese. A lot of the dialogue is also pretty unnaturalā¦the script is poorly written. Did I mention the bad acting?
Finished āAfter Lifeā season 2. Not as good as season 1 (and season 1 kind of give us a complete arc, so some debate whether continuation was even necessary), but Iād give it a 7 out of 10.
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Considering my Mandarin is maybe kindergarten at best (having started studying only this year), Iām really just picking up the phrases I know and the context in which theyāre used.
I guess Iām just looking for a way to augment my studies the way I used to do with Japanese using subbed anime/dramas. As for the bad acting, watching with a bottle of Merlot is pretty desensitizing.
Yeah, I popped a few beers after I saw how bad the acting was and it helped a little.
Watched The Decline (Netflix) a couple weeks ago.
Itās about an earnest young Quebecker who with his g/f and their daughter are prepping for disaster and who is on the cusp of paranoia. Theyāre modeling a youtube channel run by an older Quebecker to learn how to store grain, self-defense, etc. Within the first ten minutes of the film (maybe five minutes) he decides to ditch youtube and to spend a weekend with like-minded Canadians at this older guyās self-sustaining farm in northern Quebec. The narrative clicks into place soon after.
Less than 90 minutes long, the plot is stripped way down, palpable velocity. Thereās a brief, meaningful (hint) discussion about what it means to be a ālucid citizen,ā and then several logical outcomes are at the heart of the story.
Doubtful youāll have the time to anticipate the ending. It contains maybe the best fight scene in cinema since the train fight scene in the old Bond movie From Russia With Love. Thereās some Frankenheimer-level directing by Patrice LalibertĆ©, and I am keeping an eye on this director.
All dialogue in Quebecois French, so subtitles for people like me, but I highly recommend with one caveat: thereās considerable, graphic violence. Not a movie for children.
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Billions, S05 is out. Lots of Chuckās mellowflosity (sic) and an amazing ayhuasca (sp?) trip for Axe.
Coming full circle to have them going at each other again seems sharkjumpy, but I trust these writers. The Axe monologue dismissing his woman last episode of last season was one of the best examples of writing Iāve seen since the Deadwood days.