Actually watched the first episode on a 14 hour train journey in Vietnam and concluded that no matter how bad it was being a soldier there, it couldn't have been more unpleasant than that experience
05-17-2020, 06:08 PM (Edited 05-17-2020, 06:09 PM by Mikey.)
Finished it last night. Really good.
The Viet Cong
Went to the Hanoi Hilton and they genuinely try and kid on that it was actually like a big holiday camp. Pictures of American pilots all smiles eating Turkey at Christmas and that
Started watching the Marvelous Mrs Maisel on prime. Only a couple episodes in, but it's great. It's about a jewish housewife in late 50s new york who gets dumped by her husband and starts doing stand up. Really snappy writing and a cracking support cast (Tony Shalhoub and Kevin Pollack play the couple's parents).
Usually anything involving stand up is naff because it's difficult to get the feeling right and actually be funny; this is set in the fifties so you don't mind if the comedy is weak because, honestly, even Lenny Bruce isn't actually funny.
Has anyone watched Inside The Real Narcos on Netflix? Going to start watching it tonight. It's done by the boy Jason Fox from SAS Who Dares Wins who I think comes across really well.
I've been listening to his podcast recently which is also recommend so quite looking forward to this.
The last 2 episodes of The Last Dance were absolutely phenomenal. Definitely the best sport documentary I've ever seen.
I did see someone summarise it as “best basketball player ever wins all the time†though, which for some reason I couldn't stop thinking about, and it kind of pulled the curtain back a little bit. No one could hang with him or the Bulls, and he was so much better than everyone else that it does affect the drama of it to an extent. As an insight into what it takes and what it means to be the best though, unreal.