Not me - neither that nor the plushie. The dogs would get the plushie (and even if we put it on a shelf the cat would knock it down for the dogs ... it’s a conspiracy!).
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Actually watched all three versions and each one takes the series in a different direction. The US version tries to be more realistic and removed some of the romance & drama.I actually really like that the US show notes this at the opening of *every* episode.
As for me I started reading subtitles for anime almost twenty years ago. After that a friend introduced me to a few foreign shows. Been hooked ever since.I think you may be right on that. I am less averse to subtitles than my wife as I have been watching "foreign" stuff more than her. I tend to get distracted when a scene is both plot and action heavy, in other words too much going on at the same time.
Reminds me of the glow worm toy my parents fought to get for X-mas thirty years ago.Anyone preordering?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0828J93DK?creativeASIN=B0828J93DK
Last night I watched the first episode of the Boys, I rather enjoyed it a lot. Interesting premise, a good set-up at the beginning, and the cast seems pretty solid. I'll likely watch another episode or two this week at some point.
Best series of 2019 together with Kingdom.
I saw couple of episodes of Kingdom and for some strange reason its was kind of disturbing and then stopped. I will have to see it again because I have been hearing good stuff about it everywhere.
The Boys goes into the same basket with Titans and Umbrella Academy. Groups of superheroes that are potentially (or really are) supervillains, in stories about people totally opposite from morally "clean" Avengers. Pick either one or all three and fun is guaranteed.
If you're searching for "the best" from this year, I'm also suggesting Love, Death & Robots.
A couple I recommend skipping (overrated) are Chernobyl and Baptiste. The first one presents itself as accurate but is too much of innacurate. The second one is drag-o-rama and wasted potential of it's parent show.
I really liked Chernobyl, but yeah its perhaps a bit overrated..
How is Chernobyl overrated?
What do you mean how. Check the score on imdb:How is Chernobyl overrated?
Cliff Robinson arrived early for work on April 26, 1986, so he decided to go to the break room and grab some breakfast. He wanted to brush his teeth afterward, and that meant a trip to the building's changing room. To return to his office, protocol said he had to scan himself with a radiation detector, because the changing room was in the protected section of Sweden's Forsmark nuclear power plant. That's when the alarm went off. The detector had sniffed out some radioactive dust on his feet. Ooof.
It was a lot of dust -- enough that the plant couldn't just send Cliff over to the showers, but had to order a whole evacuation. Apparently, something had gone horribly wrong. But Cliff figured Forsmark couldn't be the source of the dust, because he hadn't gone to the "controlled area" of the plant, where all the fun stuff happens. He stayed behind as the plant was evacuated, brought a shoe to the lab for further analysis, and found that some of the elements responsible for the radiation didn't even exist in Forsmark. They were created through nuclear reactions of some kind. Had someone secretly set off a nuclear bomb?
The radiation had indeed come from a nuclear plant, just not Forsmark. Based on the wind direction, the dust had to have come from the southeast, all the way over the Baltic Sea. They considered Lithuania at first, but then eyes turned to a plant in Ukraine, almost 1,000 miles away. Once contacted, Moscow was like "Nah, we cool! Please stop asking immediately, or suffer consequences." Sweden said they were going to inform the International Atomic Energy Authority either way, and Moscow reluctantly admitted that, um, yeah, something had happened at Chernobyl.
The Chernobyl plant had just experienced history's worst nuclear disaster, as seen in the recent super-popular HBO miniseries Chernobyl. The show doesn't include anything about Cliff or Forsmark, but it does invent a new scientist in a distant nuclear plant who detects Chernobyl's radiation. HBO put her in Minsk, 250 miles from the plant, because setting the scene all the way in Sweden would have seemed unrealistic, right?
What do you mean how. Check the score on imdb:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7366338/
95/100. Aka per imdb users it's the show with laserprecision historical accuracy and especially scientific accuracy - with only a couple of scenes that aren't good that Held it slightly below 10/10.
I personally dont score TV-shows like that, if this was a documentary then sure, i'm more critical. For TV-shows that are based on true events i always take them with a huge grain of salt. People enjoyed the show, that's all that the IMDB score means.