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TV/Films - What ASF members are watching

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So how do actors, writers, production companies work in lockdown ?

Just saw a brilliant show on ABC Iview. Called "Staged" and features David Tennant, Michael Sheen and partners. Very clever. Well worth a view to see what the new normal can look like.

Staged

Life is back to normal for David and Michael, they have moved on from lockdown and returned to their everyday working life, while Simon's career remains stagnant.
iview.abc.net.au
 
Just saw "On the Basis of Sex". This was a biographical legal drama on the early life of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the ground breaking legal case that set a new US precedent on Sex Discrimination.

Eye opening and certainly not a sycophantic depiction of RBG. Great legal history lesson.

On the Basis of Sex - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in On the Basis of Sex

Was Marty Ginsburg really such a babe? We fact-check the RBG biopic.
slate.com
 

Watched it too. She certainly was a groundbreaker.

Also worth watching on Netflix is Human Nature. Very relevant as it details the discovery of a genetic tool called CRISPR. The two ladies at the centre of its discovery were awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry just a few days ago.





The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to

Emmanuelle Charpentier
Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany

Jennifer A. Doudna
University of California, Berkeley, USA

“for the development of a method for genome editing”

Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code of life

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision. This technology has had a revolutionary impact on the life sciences, is contributing to new cancer therapies and may make the dream of curing inherited diseases come true.
 
Great movie ! Thoroughly enjoyed it. It actually has three parts so don't miss the last episode.
If you have ever felt like just getting on your bike ... and going.. check it out.
Thanks Caveman..
 
Watched Kartini on Netflix over the weekend.
Powerful and fascinating story of a young aristocratic Javanese girl in the late 19th Century.

Offered a great insight into the conservative culture of Indonesia at the time and Kartini and her sisters efforts to improve the life of women through education and challeging the traditional roles women had been alloted.. IMV well worth watching.

Review: Four perspectives on Hanung Bramantyo’s Kartini - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

A quarterly magazine on the peoples of Indonesia - cultures, politics, economy and environment
www.insideindonesia.org

Raden Adjeng Kartini - Dangerous Women Project

Annee Lawrence explores the life and writing of Raden Adjeng Kartini who left a powerful feminist, intellectual and nationalist legacy in Indonesia.
dangerouswomenproject.org

Kartini: Princess of Java | Netflix

A woman of nobility battles patriarchal norms in order to improve educational access for women in early 1900s Indonesian society.
www.netflix.com
 
Been watching Roadkill on ABC IView.
British political drama featuring Hugh Laurie as a charismatic Conservative politician trying to make a difference.
Enjoying it immensely..

Roadkill

The past comes back to bite you. A charismatic politician's life begins to unravel as he walks the high wire between glory and catastrophe to outrun secrets from his past.
iview.abc.net.au
 
Watched Selma on Netflix. . A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

Might seem like a long time ago but in 1965 Trump and Biden were the age of the young men who featured in the march and the attacks on the protesters. Worth seeing just to understand what US society looked like in that time.
 
Been watching Hilary on SBS.
Life and times of Hilary Clinton. Very intriguing to understand her history and life as Bill Clintons partner as well as her own very strong views.

Eye opener.
 
Watched another episode of Hilary. This one included exploration of the Monica Lewinsky affair, the political fallout the personal fallout.
Hilary's memories, Bills utter shame, her friends observations, how Chelsea effectively kept them together.
Quite excruciating to expose such events and the agonies they caused. But obviously essential to appreciating the impact this had on all their lives.
 
Finished watching Series 4 of The Crown.

I thought it was breathtaking. We are told it is a "story" but the reality of all the events and the brilliance of the writing just brings one into its orbit.

The historical episodes it revives memories of the world and England in the 80's. The political intrigues, the advent of Thatcherism, the challenges of being in the Royal Family.

Powerful series IMV.
 
Excellent compilation of Olivia Colman as the Queen in The Crown.

Highlights the writing of The Crown as well as the historical events and Olivia Colmans skills.

 
Come on all you lazy "fat" bastards on the General Chat Thread and enter the stock picking competition.

And post in the thread of your pick. Let us get to 100 entries in the January 2021 Comp.

gg

 
Came across The Detectorists on Netflix a few days ago.

Seems like a bit of a daggy British country show at first but it very quickly becomes a quite clever, funny and moving series. Really worth checking out for the sly humour and great observations of "daggy" people searching for buried treasure in English fields.

 
This horse refuses to die.. Lets thrash it a bit more
I promoted The Detectorists last week as a very clever, very funny and quite brilliant piece of TV.

Just came across another gushing review of the series. Nice finale

Detectorists has become one of those programs I find myself endlessly, overzealously recommending. It’s good-natured and charming, and there’s really something admirable about a series so singularly dedicated to making you feel good. And after the year we’ve just had, don’t we all deserve that?

Detectorists: a sitcom about amateur archaeologists that's a bonafide heartwarming joy

Each short episode of this charming series about a bumbling small-town metal-detecting club is a perfectly calibrated good mood
www.theguardian.com
 
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