For anyone who has Xfinity in the US: Check your bill, I have been getting Peacock for free on my plan for a while and literally only just noticed the other day.

They all had the same contract, so not really

I’ve never understood why people tell you they cried, and then they’ll tell you they’re also a white adult male like this somehow makes their crying exceptional.

She is the reason I cannot watch this show. I cannot stand the character she plays on everything. It is bad enough when she is just a side character. Her as the show lead, no thanks.

It doesn't help that there were some awful movies recently that seemed to borrow heavily from the book like Antebellum and I seem to recall another but can't think of the name.

Season 1 of The Handmaid's Tale is pretty much the first book. They cut out the mother character and things like Gilead having tourists but most of the story is intact.

Most of the extra stuff is when they ran out of source material.

Fan of the book but living in Europe so waiting until it is available here before watching.

So I am actually surprised that it wasn't a mini series. It's not too long of a book. If they could get all of The Handmaid's Tale (314 pages) into a 10 episode run, it feels like you could hit most of Kindred (287 pages) into an 8 episode run.

Netflix behaves like old Hollywood studios with regular players. Popular actors in their shows tend to get opportunities in other Netflix shows/movies when they stick around.

I like the show, but her "power" makes it a bit easy for her to find the murderer each time.

1. Wait for a murder
2. Talk to some people about the murder
3. When you hear they are lying, ask more questions until you guess how they do it.

They've not had many instances where she finds a liar who isn't the murderer.

I always tried to keep my remote in hand while bingeing, but sometimes I'd get absorbed in the first scene and get so startled I'd drop the remote. I feel like it's pretty memorable!!

https://youtu.be/4pO909JTnL4

I don't know who in their right mind would listen to an hour of this, but maybe it'll ring a bell?

“Just uh, one thing there sir… thats pecan wood in the dogs wound. And the funny thing is, you only use the pecan for the tongues here. Funny how that wound up in the dog, huh?”

Hmm, that is interesting to know, I will revisit it.

Been on a bit of a Russian Doll binge recently, late to the party I know but it’s created a new appreciation for Natasha Leonne, she’s bloody brilliant. Look forward to watching this.

> but even the way she solves stuff usually involves a ton of luck and a ton of coincidences.

Oh, so she's just recycling the same character she played in "Russian Doll". First season was charming, second season was completely flanderized. That tells me all I need to know about this series. Thanks for the breakdown!

> SkyShowtime, the European streaming joint venture of Comcast and Paramount Global, will continue its rollout with its biggest expansion to date via its launch in eight new markets across Central and Eastern Europe on Feb. 14. > > The streamer said on Tuesday that it would debut on that day in Albania, Czechia, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. This will bring its reach to 20 of its 22 targeted markets.

Homeland

Happy Valley. The Jake Bugg song is good but it's not a good fit for the show. It's like they just heard the lyrics and went with it without thinking about whether it will match the tone. It's too upbeat and a better fit for a comedy series. You'll watch someone die and it will cut to this song. It's quite jarring.

Let’s stop call it cancelling and start calling it holding people accountable for their actions, as it’s always been.

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I'm really hesitant to start TV shows these days because you really do never know what's going to get cancelled.

You have your surefire hits like The Last of Us, but I'd say a solid 90% of shows you don't really know if they're worth the investment because they might not get any sort of payoff.

Love the show, in my eyes Natasha Lyonne is the Tom Cruise of television, she plays herself in everything, I don’t mean that in a bad way, I find her totally intriguing and entertaining. I hope I never tire of her.

Soundtrack is good too, the gentle understated banjo just seems to fit nicely.

Better Call Saul. Almost by intention though. I understand why the music cuts off early but I still hate it lol.

companies don't care about scores, they care about viewership

By complete random coincidence, I just happened to see an old late 79s Johnny Carson episode with her as a guest. She hadn’t crossed my mind more than a handful of times in my life and a day later this news hits.

I know it’s kind of an observer bias phenomenon when this happens, but it still blows my mind when it does.

Even the first three shows you mentioned went on for way too long. Dexter was the only one out of the three that I stuck around til the end for, and even that was a struggle considering how awful some of the latter half of Dexter was.