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Seerek said:
I suspect one can't help comparing Wentworth with Orange is the New Black, though I must say that Wentworth has kept focus on its core character group (i.e. Bea, Franky) a little more tightly thank OINTB, IMO.

I'll have to double check if Season 3 has already been made available.
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Yes, it has.

I didn't really want to watch another prison series ... but I've heard so many good things about this I might just have to.
 
Has anyone else had a problem with staying logged in when sharing a Netflix account? About half-way through my month I gave my login info to my mother so she could watch Happy Valley and a couple of other shows. Once she started using the account though I started having to log in every time -- and so does she. It's a 2-screen account so that shouldn't be a problem. Very frustrating.

This is via a set-top box (we both have Telus, which offers Netflix as a "channel"). On my computer, I continue to stay logged in all the time. I tried googling the problem and didn't come up with anything.
 
Netflix finally has the movie The Babadook available and I'd heard so many great reviews that I had to see it. Normally I stay away from horror movies as I can't stand them but this one starred Essie Davis and I think she's an amazing actress so I watched. It's billed as a horror movie but I thought it was more psychological thriller and there were parts of the movie where I just wanted to cry for Amelia and her son. Definite watch.
 
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Has anyone else had a problem with staying logged in when sharing a Netflix account? About half-way through my month I gave my login info to my mother so she could watch Happy Valley and a couple of other shows. Once she started using the account though I started having to log in every time -- and so does she. It's a 2-screen account so that shouldn't be a problem. Very frustrating.

This is via a set-top box (we both have Telus, which offers Netflix as a "channel"). On my computer, I continue to stay logged in all the time. I tried googling the problem and didn't come up with anything.
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We've had that issue lately too. We've had a shared account for years without a problem, but just in the past few weeks it's started to ask for login information every damn time.
 
Just finished watching Top Spin about the Americans hoping to play ping pong at the London Olympics

Also loved the documentary Twinsters which I first found on Kickstarter.
 
made_in_canada said:
We've had that issue lately too. We've had a shared account for years without a problem, but just in the past few weeks it's started to ask for login information every damn time.
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Us too. We've shared for years. The problem is only on our smart TV not my phone or nexus.
 
I watched Top Spin too. Have to admit that I was cheering for the Canadian players. They're Canadian, for one, but closer to my age!
 
Ok, glad to know the login thing isn't just me. It'll be moot soon as I'm suspending my account (again) at the end of the month, but it's definitely a PITA.
 
Netflix doesn't have a terribly good selection of documentaries but last night I watched one called Dear Mr Watterson, an homage to Calvin and Hobbes and its reclusive creator. Not the most insightful documentary ever, and of course frustrating when the subject of the documentary doesn't appear, but still it was still fun to revisit the strip and hear about others' relationships with it.
 
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Seerek said:
I suspect one can't help comparing Wentworth with Orange is the New Black, though I must say that Wentworth has kept focus on its core character group (i.e. Bea, Franky) a little more tightly than OINTB, IMO.

I'll have to double check if Season 3 has already been made available.
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I enjoy the supporting characters more than the main characters on OINTB so I've enjoyed it more since it's not just Piper whining all the time.
 
meggonzo said:
I enjoy the supporting characters more than the main characters on OINTB so I've enjoyed it more since it's not just Piper whining all the time.
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I read an interview with Jenji Kohan and she said that Piper (white, middle-class) was really the character that got the series greenlit. She figures that no one would have given her the time of day to write stories of black, latina, asian women without using Piper's story first. They've diverged pretty dramatically from the real Piper's story but that was always the plan.

Piper annoys me, so I'm also glad the supporting characters are getting their stories told.
 
Visiting my father and stepmother this weekend, we were looking for a TV show we could all enjoy watching together. They like sitcoms more than I do -- one I had been watching was The Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt so I suggested that and we ended up watching 4 episodes straight.
 
Has anyone watched Marcella either on Netflix or during its original run in the U.K.? I'm one and a half episodes in, and while it holds my interest, it's so bleak and the main character is so difficult to relate to, I'm not sure if I'm going to continue. Should I hang on?
 
Oh that sounds like my kind of show. Will add it to my list. @Tesla, do you recommend it?

But right now I'm watching old episodes of Longmire.
 
Longmire is one of my favorites. Season 5 is supposed to be out in September & I read this season it was filmed in Santa Fe, NM (another one of my favorites :lol: ).
 
You didnt ask me, but it hits all my TV boxes.

Lonely brooding hero - check (classic strong silent type... fabulously acted by Robert Taylor... sort of in the Clint Eastwood vein, which is one great vein)
Great scenery, wherever it is (ostensibly Wyoming) - check
Interesting relationships - especially the one with his Cheyenne best friend (and more broadly the relationship between "white" and Cheyenne cultures), also the ones with his daughter, his little staff, his villains - check
Sufficiently complicated plot - check (combining cases that get solved in each episode with much longer storylines)

I love Westerns but very selectively. This one is excellent. FWIW, a full-blooded indian friend of mine who is retired military/law enforcement considers it authentic in its portrayal of both Indians and crime and law enforcement in the West.
 
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Penny Dreadful is on Netflix! :cheer2:
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I started watching it but have a hard time keeping close attention. May try one or two more episodes before I completely give up.

What was with the episode where Hartnett's character has the gay fling with Dorian Gray? I was only half paying attention. Was that just to show that Gray was so beautiful that anyone would want him?
 
Artistic Skaters said:
Besides the reasons pointed out by Spun Silver, I really like Henry Standing Bear, who is the ultimate cool guy.
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As evidenced by the suave way he answers his phone: "It's a wonderful day at the Red Pony, a perpetual soirée. How may I help you?" Once when Walt has to cover for him, he manages something like, "Uh, Red Pony - wonderful day - soirée."
 
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Stranger Things with Winona Ryder and Matthew Modine is getting good reviews & will begin streaming on Netflix July 15. The reviews say it's a nostalgic supernatural thriller about a young boy who disappears in 1983 reminiscent of ET, Stand By Me & The Goonies. I don't binge watch, but it's eight episodes for those who do.
 
Portlandia is killing me. I am in love with Carrie Brownstein.

Can anyone who has gone to Evergreen State College and seen the show tell me whether it also applies to Olympia?

Also, @alilou recommended Dance Academy, an Australian TV series that is like a cross between the movie Center Stage and the TV show Party of Five, which for me means totally sucked in, although I'm 4+ decades older than its target demographic.
 
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kwanfan1818 said:
Portlandia is killing me. I am in love with Carrie Brownstein.

Can anyone who has gone to Evergreen State College and seen the show tell me whether it also a pies to Olympia?

Also, @alilou recommended Dance Academy, an Australian TV series that is like a cross between the movies Center Stage and the TV show Party of Five, which for me means totally sucked in, although I'm 4+ decades older than its target demographic.
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Isn't Dance Academy fabulous! I wish there was more of it, but alas it's finished except for a movie coming out next year.
Christian Reed played by Jordan Rodrigues :swoon: :swoon:
 
kwanfan1818 said:
Also, @alilou recommended Dance Academy, an Australian TV series that is like a cross between the movie Center Stage and the TV show Party of Five, which for me means totally sucked in, although I'm 4+ decades older than its target demographic.
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Is it on Canadian Netflix? That totally sounds like my kind of show.
 
I have a US account - - I'm working on contract in Seattle - - and I can't get past the "We won't give you any info until you sign up" screen (using Hola), but there are half a dozen sites that purport to have listings for Netflix Canada, and the first two I tried came up Yes.
 
alilou said:
Isn't Dance Academy fabulous! I wish there was more of it, but alas it's finished except for a movie coming out next year.
Christian Reed played by Jordan Rodrigues :swoon: :swoon:
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I LOVED Dance Academy.
I didn't know there was going to be a movie.
 
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