Gems on streaming networks part 2

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Watched the two hour finale of 1923. It was very well done, and almost like an independent movie. One could just about watch it without knowing much about the earlier episodes. Helen Mirren is amazing. Worth a watch.
 

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"The Murder Tapes" on Investigative Discovery. It's on cable along with other crime shows but if you want to watch just it, then you can stream it by itself. I'm through the first season and into about 3 episodes of season 2. It's a show that was created quite a few years back so these are all re-runs basically.

I like the actual body cam and interview room footage mixed in with the overall concept of solved a murder each episode.

Little bit gruesome I guess but it's all based on actual crimes so pretty realistic in that sense.
 

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"The Only Girl in the Orchestra" is a documentary short on Netflix about Orin O'Brien, the first woman in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Her parents were movie stars in the old days of Hollywood. She entered the orchestra during the tenure of Leonard Bernstein and had a 55 year career, while also teaching at Julliard and many other schools. Would have loved to have a more in depth look at her life than the 35 minutes we were given.
 

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Just finished season 4 of Babylon Berlin. It's on some obscure streaming service, but I just bought the DVD. Good season further developing the Charlotte Ritter and Gereon Rath characters, and exploring organized crime and fixed boxing matches in inter-war Berlin, but a strange ending. I think it's mainly setting up the end of the series in Season 5.

Not for kids, though. There's some brief nudity and sex. It's not a ton of screen time but it is medium-level graphic.
 

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Watched Titan on Netflix. Good documentary on the OceanGate sub that imploded on its way down to the Titanic, killing the company founder, a few paying passengers and a professional oceanographer.

I'm well aware that filmmakers can present the facts that they want to present. Even with that caveat, the founder, Stockton Rush, comes off as reckless and arrogant. If only half of the documentary is accurate, it was entirely preventable.

I spent a chunk of my banking career working for an identical personality type. While nobody was physically hurt under his management, a lot of careers were damaged and his own career imploded about as dramatically as the OceanGate sub did.

Don't mess with Karma. She really doesn't like it.
 

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Saw first couple of episodes in the series A Gentleman in Moscow on flight to 'Bama a couple weeks ago. I'm a sucker for well-done period pieces and it was good so I'm binging on it now on Paramount+.

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After recently returning to Russia from Paris, aristocrat Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov spends decades banished to an attic hotel room following the October Revolution, after being sentenced to house arrest by a Bolshevik tribunal.
 
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Watched Titan on Netflix. Good documentary on the OceanGate sub that imploded on its way down to the Titanic, killing the company founder, a few paying passengers and a professional oceanographer.

I'm well aware that filmmakers can present the facts that they want to present. Even with that caveat, the founder, Stockton Rush, comes off as reckless and arrogant. If only half of the documentary is accurate, it was entirely preventable.

I spent a chunk of my banking career working for an identical personality type. While nobody was physically hurt under his management, a lot of careers were damaged and his own career imploded about as dramatically as the OceanGate sub did.

Don't mess with Karma. She really doesn't like it.
Agree that it was well done. Rush just refused to deal with reality. His ego got everyone killed. His firing of everyone who disagreed with him was a tell tale sign of trouble.
 
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I can highly recommend "The Accountant 2" on Prime.

I thought it was much better than the first Accountant. And I really like the first Accountant too, so take that FWIW.

Looked at some trailers but as usual they give too much away so not going to post any.

I really enjoy Affleck's acting and with Jon Bernthal included as his brother - it's fantastic!
 
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I can highly recommend "The Accountant 2" on Prime.

I thought it was much better than the first Accountant. And I really like the first Accountant too, so take that FWIW.

Looked at some trailers but as usual they give too much away so not going to post any.

I really enjoy Affleck's acting and with Jon Bernthal included as his brother - it's fantastic!
Will probably watch it tonight. Looking forward to it. Had never seen A1, so we went back and watched it the other night. Thought it was well done, so looking to like A2 as well! Thanks for the heads up.
 
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Agree that it was well done. Rush just refused to deal with reality. His ego got everyone killed. His firing of everyone who disagreed with him was a tell tale sign of trouble.
I loved the head of engineering who, when Rush told him they weren’t going to get the sub “classed,” got up from their lunch and walked out on the spot.

Probably the single best decision that guy made in his life.
 
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On the 50th anniversary of the blockbuster film that shocked and excited the world, Steven Spielberg shares an exclusive look inside the story of Jaws. From Peter Benchley’s epic novel to Spielberg’s film, Jaws continues to influence pop culture, cinema and shark conservation. With interviews from Hollywood’s most influential directors and shark scientists, the legend of Jaws is endless.

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Sunday 13 July 21:00 CAT
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