Second season of Orange is the New Black launched today.

 

Anyone else into this?

 

I have to admit to being a bit of a TV/movie-phile.  I generally buy Blu-Rays when there's a movie I want to see rather than just watching it on PPV or In-demand (I like to collect).

 

Premium TV has really been leading a creative resurgence in recent years, probably dating back to The Sopranos.  Its nice that Netflix has become a legitimate competitor for HBO (which puts out some really great shows like Sopranos, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood etc).

 

House of Cards was tremendous.

 

While cable channels like AMC are getting in on the act, I annoys me a bit.  The Walking Dead would be so much better on Netflix or HBO where they could truly appeal to adults (HBO passed on The Walking Dead when Thomas Jane was attached).

 

As for Orange, it took me a few episodes to get into last season but Im looking forward to banging out a few episodes tonight.

 

As an aside, for you Trekies, it was recently the 20th anniversary of the finale of TNG, one of the best Series' Finales in TV history.

Edited February 5, 20188 yr by The Unknown Poster

3 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Is Amazon streaming available in Canada?  And what is XBMC...is it an "illegal" stream?  Basically, I want to watch everything on my TV.  How do I do that?

I have a kodi box and love it. It's basically like a  jail broken apple TV.  But it comes that way straight out of the box. I recently cut my cable down to basic. Stream everything else

I am surprised that a TV addict and internet addict that you are unaware of Kodi.

Installs easily on any pc or Linux box and is fantastic for watching TV shows.

we have the box and xbmc on the laptop, but since rearranging limited to just the laptop for now,  but an hdmi cord solves all if you wanna watch it on your big screen

I'm very technicallY deficient when it comes to that stuff. I like it easy. I resisted Netflix for ages. 

lol its easy enough,  as to your illegal question,  my 11 year old asked me last weekend if it was too because they do show cam uploads from theaters..ect  my explanation to him was, it's illegal to download movies and redistributing them without consent of the film company,  this however is not downloading,  its streaming like youtube. you are not able to obtain your own file of the torrent to burn, your basically just watching what someone with a physical copy uploaded. 

 

I believe that was the issue with all those file sharing programs like Napster,. Kazaa..ect people actually had to download their own copy of the files and some exploited it for monetary gain

Edited January 27, 201610 yr by Taynted_Fayth

Best way I had it described is: "It's not legal, but you can't be sued over it"

Did you know it's not legal to watch/listen to youtube videos with copyrighted music?  

Nearly anything on youtube could be considered illegal to watch. 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Brandon said:

Did you know it's not legal to watch/listen to youtube videos with copyrighted music?  

Nearly anything on youtube could be considered illegal to watch. 

 

 

Im the right age to remember the uproar over file sharing and whatnot.  So many bands and labels didnt get it.  In Canada we pay a premium for storage (blank CD's etc) that is meant to off-set any loss from people copying music.  What drives me crazy is uploading a video clip to youtube and having the music scrubbed out due to a copyright claim (GNR was awful for this, not sure if they still are). 

It was ironic Metallica got so up in arms and was a major voice against this when they gained most of their popularity thru people making mix tapes of their albums and passing them around in the 80's. I guess when you have 8 kids to put jordans on every dollar counts

One add-on is for NHL Network. Unless I'm mistaken it will only work for Windows PC's. Great quality tho.

Watched the 2 X-Files shows.  You know, I thought I was going to be irritated with this show because near the end it was just losing it's luster with me, but listening to the beginning brought back memories and the show is actually really good.  Heck, it almost feels real.

I enjoyed early Xfiles back in it's original run,  I definitely wasnt hardcore and could take it or leave it,  especially towards the later seasons, but yeah that 2 part reboot was pretty good. I just hope the rest of the season doesnt start to fade like alot of shows tend to do lately,  put all the effort into the launch then fizzle off as it goes. 

X-Files collapsed under the weight of its own mythology.  Although when they brought in Robert Patrick it was sort of a resurgence for me.  He's tremendous.  Would love to see him cameo on the new season.  They seem to have got back to basics but also they flat out explained the Alien conspiracy and everything that the previous 9 seasons taught us so there isnt that same "weight" of "what is true/what isnt true" that permeated the original.

Its really good.  Plus, that theme.  The exact same opening, not even updated with the older actors, I love it.  it really says "this is season 10" not a re-boot. 

Investigation Discovery's Steven Avery : Innocent or Guilty

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Edited February 2, 201610 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

Last night's episode of the X-Files was brilliant.  Reminds me very much of many of their classic episodes, with just a hint of self awareness to add a new twist to it (especially love Muldur's ring tone being the X-Files theme)

Tonight is the People vs OJ.

Regarding "Making A Murderer" subject Steven Avery, he has new lawyers working on getting a new trial and they've released some interesting information.

• ody was not burned in burn pit bc heat would have burned down Avery's garage. A lot of junk science at the junkyard."
• "Culprit had to remove his own DNA from key so TH's removed in process. Rub key on Avery's clothes for skin cells. Presto."
• "The 22 removed from garage did not exit TH's head. State expert failed to testify bullet exited -- that 22 driven to scene."

Also, the former Prosecutor (who was chased from office after a sex scandal) apparently mailed Avery imploring him to work with him (the prosecutor) on a book where Avery would confess.  That guy is a dink.

Anyone else check out American Crime Story last night?  i thought it was tremendous.  I highly recommend the book its based on (Run of His Life), which I've read 2-3 times as its such a fascinating case.  I imagine the producers are quite happy the whole Making a Murderer thing exploded as these are two sides of the same coin in some respects.

OJ was a rich and powerful guy who got away with murder after accusing the cops of planting evidence they didnt plant.  Steve Avery was a poor and uneducated hick who was convicted of a murder he didnt commit after accusing the cops of planting evidence that they actually did plant.  Amazing.

I hope they intend to keep American Crime Story going.  So much great material out there.  Scott Peterson.  Jon Bonet.  Steve Avery.  There's three seasons right there.  I'd love to see the Peterson case get the season long treatment.  That's another fascinating case with an interesting suspect.

 

EDIT: Looks like a second season is already planned:

The Hollywood Reporter reveals in this week’s cover story that the second installment will center on Hurricane Katrina and its devastating aftermath. The working plan, according to Murphy, is to follow a group of six to eight people in an attempt to examine all sides of the tragedy, from the Superdome to the hospital to those who were put on buses and dropped off with babies who were forced to wear trash bags for multiple days.

"I want this show to be a socially conscious, socially aware examination of different types of crime around the world," he said. "And in my opinion, Katrina was a f—ing crime — a crime against a lot of people who didn’t have a strong voice and we’re going to treat it as a crime. That’s what this show is all about."

Edited February 3, 201610 yr by The Unknown Poster

Talk to anyone from New Orleans who was there during Katrina, and it's pretty evident MAJOR crimes were committed. I was there in 2013 and it was astounding what some of the heavily affected communities still looked like. Think 3rd world. Literally. 

Is it true I cant watch HULU in Canada?

They are launching a cool series I want to see based on Stephen King's book  11-22-63.  But apparently, Hulu is not available in Canada.  Morons.  Does Hulu release its series on DVD after the fact?

1 hour ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Is it true I cant watch HULU in Canada?

They are launching a cool series I want to see based on Stephen King's book  11-22-63.  But apparently, Hulu is not available in Canada.  Morons.  Does Hulu release its series on DVD after the fact?

Kodi has....everything.

It's on Superchannel.

9 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

It's on Superchannel.

Really??  Is it weekly or all at once like NEtflix?  maybe Ill buy crappy SC for two months to watch it.

23 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Really??  Is it weekly or all at once like NEtflix?  maybe Ill buy crappy SC for two months to watch it.

Weeky.

Thanks Frosty. I like all things JfK and I heard the book was great. I didn't read it as I don't like King's book (but do like many of the film adaptations). Also it's like 12,000 pages 

Another brilliant episode of X-Files.  If this keeps up, it will be their best season ever.