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The Perfect Weapon on HBO, a doc about cyber hacking between nations. It's pretty good.
I didn't realize what the Venetian hack several years back was really about. Several other stories like the Sony hack over the release of the movie "The Interview" about Kim Jong-Un.

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10-20-2020 , 10:49 AM

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lozen

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Canadian show on Amazon Prime Acorn Channel " The Sounds" was really good filmed in New Zealand

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10-20-2020 , 11:02 AM

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Canadian show on Amazon Prime Acorn Channel " The Sounds" was really good filmed in New Zealand

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10505762/

6.2 on imdb doesn't look promising.

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10-21-2020 , 09:07 AM

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The Apex

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The Bad kids chinese drama was really good. Watched free on QIY with ads

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10-21-2020 , 11:08 AM

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coordi

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I'm forcing my g/f to watch game of thrones with me so I got HBO on amazon and have been watching everything I can. Got into rewatching the wire. I can see why it wasn't as lauded when it first came out. Season 1 was fantastic, but season 2 was a giant waste of time. Almost nothing from that season affected the later seasons. It's one of those shows where the payoff really made you realize how great the set up was.

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10-21-2020 , 01:57 PM

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The Bad kids chinese drama was really good. Watched free on QIY with ads

about 30 minutes into the first episode and i'm really liking it!

thanks!

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10-24-2020 , 12:43 AM

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queen's gambit on netflix. it's based on a book written by the same guy who wrote the hustler with paul newman

i just watched episode 1 and it was great!

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10-24-2020 , 02:55 AM

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The book is good. Will definitely watch the series.

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10-24-2020 , 08:00 AM

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queen's gambit on netflix. it's based on a book written by the same guy who wrote the hustler with paul newman

i just watched episode 1 and it was great!

What's it about? I guess i could google.

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The Queen's Gambit centers the "life of an orphan chess prodigy" named Beth Harmon "from the age of 8 to 22 as she struggles with a drug and alcohol addiction in her quest" to become a grandmaster in chess.

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10-24-2020 , 09:31 AM

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ep 2 was great too! i had to make a huge effort to stop watching because i didn't want to stay up all night

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10-24-2020 , 01:09 PM

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Three episodes into Soulmates (new episodes airing right now on AMC). Pretty good, albeit not great, yet worth watching imo. Bonus, it has some great actors/actresses and performances: Shiv from Succession, Gale/Wags from Breaking Bad/Billions/a bunch of other things- just a phenomenal actor, and Georgina Campbell from the Hang the DJ episode of Black Mirror which no doubt helped inspire the show.

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10-25-2020 , 09:34 PM

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Mandalorian S2 starts Friday

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10-25-2020 , 10:33 PM

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queen's gambit on netflix

finished it. highly recommend it. i think this crowd will mostly like it.

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the lead is a great actress! and she is jaw droppingly beautiful. the actress who plays her as a little kid is great too.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1004834..._=nv_sr_srsg_5

8.9 on imdb

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10-25-2020 , 10:44 PM

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The Undoing on HBO, Drama, Thriller, episode 1 of 6 tonight. Looks really good so far.
I think I need to re-watch it, I missed some things.
Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.

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10-26-2020 , 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by filthyvermin

queen's gambit on netflix

finished it. highly recommend it. i think this crowd will mostly like it.

from housenuts post

the lead is a great actress! and she is jaw droppingly beautiful. the actress who plays her as a little kid is great too.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1004834..._=nv_sr_srsg_5

8.9 on imdb

She was great in The Witch. Almost as good as Black Phillip.

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10-26-2020 , 02:39 AM

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The chess scenes in Queen's Gambit were better than poker scenes in every poker movie. But, there's still plenty of problems worth nitpicking (in the chess forum).

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10-26-2020 , 07:30 AM

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Really enjoyed the first episode of Queen's Gambit. The child playing Beth was fantastic.

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10-26-2020 , 12:32 PM

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Pokerisfunny

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Yeh Queen's Gambit was really really good

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10-26-2020 , 10:05 PM

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2 eps into Queen's Gambit. Sick good. Annoyed wife wanted to go to bed instead of watching 3rd ep.

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10-26-2020 , 10:22 PM

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Watched the 1st 2 and its good. I haven't played chess in over 20 years, isn't it pretty much a solved game now? You just memorize the top 30 or 40 opening patterns? Isn't there databases with all the correct moves to study?

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10-26-2020 , 10:24 PM

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2 eps into Queen's Gambit. Sick good. Annoyed wife wanted to go to bed instead of watching 3rd ep.

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imo it slows down a bit after the first 2 episodes. it's still great though, and it does pick back up again. but for me there was a definite drop starting with ep3

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10-26-2020 , 10:25 PM

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Lol that seems like a helluva lot to remember

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10-26-2020 , 10:37 PM

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Lol that seems like a helluva lot to remember

The top speed cubers have a 57 algorithm knowledge base

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10-27-2020 , 01:21 PM

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bobhalford

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I don't understand chess but really enjoyed the series. Saw the first ep of Undone on HBO which looks promising.

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10-27-2020 , 03:53 PM

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^ I assume you mean Undoing

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