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good tv shows i havent seen?

Sword of Justice

Vay Wilson (31)
I'm sure people have mentioned it but I'm in love with Formula One on Netflix (I've nearly finished S1). Probably my favourite show of 2020 so far. Didn't realise how interesting F1 was before hand but within a few hours it's got me wanting to follow the race calendar.

The combination of these huge personalities, billion dollar budgets, beautiful cars, 500 person teams, national identities, pride etc is incredible. I don't know why I was so dismissive of F1 before, seems like the ultimate competition.

Question for genuine F1 fans, is 10 x 30 minute episodes much more interesting than following the sport? Do you still get an insight to the personalities and the teams from just watching it on tv? Like are the themes and narratives as obvious?

Also, one thing the show has danced around so far is how good Hamilton is, they don't even mention him. Is the sport boring with Ferrari & Mercedes at the top?

I'm the sort of person who watches or listens to every ball of the test summer so that will give you some insight into my personality but I honestly felt that the show wasn't nearly as interesting as a race weekend. The level of analysis that f1 themselves puts out means you basically can't consume it all. There are a bunch of third party podcasts that are right on top of all the politics in the background as well but yes the show gives a unique insight there.

To your second question, yes it would be good if Mercedes wasn't so dominant but the midfield battles this year have been awesome and that's where the cameras are at most of the time. You see Hamilton basically start and finish the race in first but in between it is very competitive for at least half of the pack. most fans I know are more invested in certain driver or team head to heads which pop up all the time.

I highly recommend getting to a race if you ever get the chance. Just seeing those cars in the flesh being pushed and wheel to wheel gives goose bumps.
 

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John Eales (66)
I'm the sort of person who watches or listens to every ball of the test summer so that will give you some insight into my personality but I honestly felt that the show wasn't nearly as interesting as a race weekend. The level of analysis that f1 themselves puts out means you basically can't consume it all. There are a bunch of third party podcasts that are right on top of all the politics in the background as well but yes the show gives a unique insight there.

To your second question, yes it would be good if Mercedes wasn't so dominant but the midfield battles this year have been awesome and that's where the cameras are at most of the time. You see Hamilton basically start and finish the race in first but in between it is very competitive for at least half of the pack. most fans I know are more invested in certain driver or team head to heads which pop up all the time.

I highly recommend getting to a race if you ever get the chance. Just seeing those cars in the flesh being pushed and wheel to wheel gives goose bumps.

Thanks for the response - yeah I'm super keen to goto Melbourne now. I think I'll watch Bahrain tomorrow morning on delay.

So, do you actively support someone? Do fans support and follow the drivers or the teams? Like do people support Red Bull regardless that it's now Albon not Riccardo or do they follow Riccardo to Renault?
 

Sword of Justice

Vay Wilson (31)
Thanks for the response - yeah I'm super keen to goto Melbourne now. I think I'll watch Bahrain tomorrow morning on delay.

So, do you actively support someone? Do fans support and follow the drivers or the teams? Like do people support Red Bull regardless that it's now Albon not Riccardo or do they follow Riccardo to Renault?


I support Ricciardo to the exclusion of all others but I also like watching Carlos Sainz, Pierre Gasly, and Kimi Raikkonen. There's heaps of little story lines at the moment like how Gasly was replaced by Albon in the senior team but seems to be outperforming Albon to the point where his inferior Alpha Tauri/Torro Rossi is often duelling with the Red Bull. So it's always entertaining watching that tension unfold. There's also quite a bit of mystery surrounding the engineering like recently when Vettel said that he'd have to be stupid not to realise they're preferencing Leclerc over him in the set up of the cars and then the next day said that it was all equal.

Most fans support drivers with the exception of the Italian teams. Ferrari fans will basically support anyone driving in their cars (that includes the junior Alfa Romeo team). Raikkonen who is Finnish actually recently said that he'd rather win a race in front of Italian fans for Ferrari than in front of his own countrymen because of the passion in Italy. I thought I was a big Red Bull fan but then I realised that that was only because of Webber and Ricciardo, now that they've left I actually love watching Red Bull lose.

I think the biggest thing for me is that there is no ambiguity in terms of what you're watching. It's unequivocally the best engineering and the best athletes in motor racing. Some of the smaller teams do have to take drivers who are bringing their own sponsorship with them but the teams that matter have the best drivers in the world, the best mechanical engineers in the world, and the biggest budgets in sport.
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
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Fuck this shit.

No fucking way I was going to spend 3 whole days, 12 fucken hours a day, sitting through an entire non-stop 6-season marathon of this old biddies bullshit. A fucken soapie about pommy silver-spoon toffs from 1914? GTFO.

And yet, aside from changing channels for a few NFL wild card games, FFS, that's exactly what I did.

Fucken loser. Crochet a doily to my cock and call me The Rt.Hon Duke Spoontoff Silverware XIth, the 72nd Archbishop of West Shartesbury Bishes.

Fucken upper-crust "blueblood" wankers shouldve all gone in the pot when the sissy-hatted fluffybunnyz rocked up to Onehunga's Cape of Good Cock in their fuckhead galleons and sailboats back in the day.

FFS though, once you start watching this telly show it's so fucking hard to stop. Part of it must be the magisterial opulence of the design. That swanky shit is so fucking relaxing. The library, the fireplaces, the marble pillars, the ramparts, all that shitFFS.

Plus the totally weird and jolting poshness of the dialogue. Man, these people really believe in this whole blueblood classwar bollocks. Even the kitchen slave serfs. Know your place, know your station.

The editing of the show is just so brilliant too. IHomo, it's the key ingredient to the addictive recipe. It's just rotating 45 second vignettes going around and around to motherfucking nowhere. The constant changing of scenes every 45 seconds might seem infuriating but yet it cleverly serves to stave off boredom with this soapy rubbish show in which NOTHING of any consequence ever goddamn happens.

It is a total master class in writing too, iHomo. Perfectly seamless and guileful evolutions of so many separate and intertwining character arcs from 1914 to 1925. Baddies slowly and gradually become goodies etc. Trust the understated brits, all caustic acerbic seethe at their stations in life, to do the slow release of the pressure valves. Meanwhile in the seppo dramas they just kill everyone in a big fucking gun battle and start again the next week. "No use bottling it up!"

The house looks ace but wished they showed more of the opulent grounds. WhoFt maintains those acres and acres of immaculately-clipped lawn. They never show the grubby groundsman fluffybunnys and there must be at least 20 of the fuckers working around the clock on those acres and acres of magisterial rolling baize lawn.

Must've watched too many eps of "Dark" cos I keep imagining where my 2021 to 1921 time-travelled arse would fit in with my silly jandals and footy shorts and polyethyleurathane jacket. "Look, just dont tell the cops about this glitch in the matrix and keep me on I can make you all rich as fuck betting on sports shit over the next 100 years. And for Gods sake, dont send me to the front you toff fucks, I've seen the first season of Blackadder and I know how that shit pans out."

It's so fuckign weird how the lower class slave plebs just accept their garbage lot in life. Serving the toff and doffing the forelock every fucking minute of every fuckign day for their entire hopeless, funless, cashless, utterly fucked lives. And doomed by virtue of what. Not being born with a plum in their mouth

If I was a kitchen serf4life I'd probably just kill every single fucking toff in their sleep, pocket the family jewels, and hit the fucking road under stealth of darkness. No CCTV in 1914, bishes. So long, suckers!

Anyway, here is The Definitive Internet Guide to The Downton Abbey Nobility and The Other Scum.

Her Royal Highness Dowager Duchess Countess Magdalene Toffeeplum XVth of Arse-Upon-Chaise.

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Best character. Has all the best lines. Impossibly snooty. Spends all fucking day having tea time and bickering with her village granny pal who she never does realise is actually her only friend.

Pic of her from her youth:

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His Lordship The 82nd Earl of Cumforth-Upon-Tweed.

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The show anchor. He is a good bloke. Stuck in the past and a raging toff but still a good bloke. His season 6 dinner table scene was so fucken hilarious I had a laughing fit and almost coughed up an ulcer too. Oh dear, His Lordship The 82nd Earl of Cumforth-Upon-Tweed has committed an EGREGIOUS error of high-society dinner etiquetete by chundering up hoary great fucking geysers of blood all over the silverware!

This will not stand, good Sir!

If the lizard-eyed dowager should have chimed in with "...it will be the devil to remove the stain of the splattered remains of your silly little self-indulgent exploded bloody ulcer from the tabled cloth!" I would have had a laughing hemorrhoid hemorrhage in my gruds.












Her Royal Ladyship Princess Doilyface of Cambridge Oxford Harvard.

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The seppo mummy. This placid bish must've been on the opium pipe all day. She sort of glides through everything looking half zonked with no fucks given.

Fairly forgettable character. It's weird how much they accept her into the family given she's a seppo and as such is a totally alien species to the poms and their strictly stratified and codified class caste system of anal fluffybunnyery.

Never did get used to m'maaa looking about 45 years old and her shithead daughter Mary looking about 35 years old.











Her Majesty The Marchioness Mary of Midtown-Mongolia

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Stupid snooty bish. GTFO.

Camp leader and I were confused to shit though cos Mary the anorexic slag is a dead ringer for my little sister. Minus the eating disorder.

So well written though. Alternates between being a haughty arsehole and then phases of humaneness before getting back on her "fuck the ordinary people" high horse.

Fucking hilarious sign of the times how Mary spent a grand total of about 30 seconds of the entire fucking tv series actually interacting with her own toddler over the years. Fobbed the sprog off to the nannies 24/7. I don't think she ever even made eye contact with the poor little Lord Fauntleroy wanker let alone actually fed the dwarf fuck some food or read him a bedtime story or any of that actual mummy shit.













Her Spacker Ladyship Rose Fontanelle of Curtseybow-upon-Pearlnecklace

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The Roaring 20's party girl.

WFT. Being the moran I am, I watched all 6 seasons of Downtown Abbey and didnt realise til the LAST FUCKEN EPISODE that this chick isnt even one of the daughters. Her m'maaa and p'paaa aint Robert and Cora. Who the fuck is this chick?

FFS.












Her Ladyship Edith the Gonzo Patron of Gashforth-upon Birth Hatch.

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V.interesting character arc. Started out as a spoiled silver-poony shithead but, as with Barrow the horrid footman, the writer was patiently and quite brilliantly playing the long game here and Edith matured, got to keep her bastard spawn and hooked up with a nice mega-rich fluffybunny and, in the end, even outranking m'ma and p'pa so now even they have to doff the forelock in her presence goddamn this pommy caste system is so fucked up











Presenting Lady Sybil The ArchRoyal Dowager of Birthsharts.

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One of the only toffs with a heart and a backbone so of course they killed her off quick.













Lady Village of Village OK Who The Fuck Is This Slag

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The old bat's only pal. Really though I had no idea who the fuck this granny was. She wasn't in the snooty fam yet somehow popped in for every single swank dinner to argue with Her Royal Highness Dowager Duchess Countess Magdalene Toffeeplum XVth of Arse-Upon-Chaise.













Viscount Piers Cretinforth Shartmajor XIIIth
of the 52nd Battalion of Bogshart-Upon-Sussexy.


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The missed and mixed and missing signals of his "romance" with Mary Queen of Snots was one of the enduring WFT's of the whole show. Just hook up and root each other you snooty fux. Instead they draaaaag it out for seasons and seasons, then bring in other auxiliary subsidied roots, and then FINALLY pair them up. Maybe another masterful turn of writing here, another goddamn long game comes to fruition.

So weird how these crusty twats get married when they've never even held hands before let alone had a practice root to lube up the pipes. "A hug? That would be a bit overly forward my dear".



Of course, when the actor left the show in real life they had to Bolan the poor character and his automobile into a tree. Defo not planned and, given the other patiently evolved character arcs, this storyline was an abrupt fuckup which shouldnt have panned out as it did.










The Rt. Hon Dr Ballantine Wainwright, XXXIInd
Viscount of Shartbooger-Upon-Boogershart.

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Actually just Henry the racing driver, the mug who finally got lumped with Queen Mary.

Poor bastard. That bish is high maintenance and ain't gonna stand for being married to a used car salesman for long....
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
Lord Humbert the 37th Arch Crotchfelt Marquis of Widow's Peak.

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Seems like a good dude to go with being mega rich so a happy ending for the long-suffering Edith.

Pretty funny when dude took Edith to his mummy's castle and the fucking place made Downton Abbey look like a dilapidated lean-to located on the outskirts of Bumcrack Hovel Central.
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FFS MANG











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Kind of made a lot of medical fuckups as a Doc.

Maybe craftily written given how agricultural their medical procedures were.











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Marries into the family even though he's obviously just a shitty foreign fucken taxi driver.

Probably socially classed even below the dipshit kitchen hands at the start but slithers into the heirlooms and nonsense.

Bit of a nothing character even though he was in every fucken scene for all 6 seasons.















The XIIth Earl of Shartesbury-Upon-Tweed


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This dingus tried to root The Mother of Dragons but just got a nasty case of Grayscale for his troubles.

In hindsight the poor cnut wound up getting posterised as a cuck in two of the biggest telly shows ever, Downton Abbey and Game of Thrones LOLL sux 2 be u moran









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The insanely posh butler with the gravelly radio voice. Dude is stuck in the 1500's. Probably the moral compass and backbone of the whole stupid show.

Him getting married to the other slave granny after working and living together completely unaffectionately 24/7 for 50 years was weird as fuck though. FFS they'd never even held hands before and then just seemed to offhandedly decide to get hitched.

Carson's totally mental ramrod-straight moral rectitude was one of the key attractions of the show. His unwithering aversion to moral turpitude is just so refreshingly, jarringly different to today's shartphone bullshit fad-mad human.










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Another one of those show backbone sorts that are in a lot of scenes.

Comical turn of events once she decided she was to marry head butler Carson and she had to dispatch third-party intermediaries to communicate to Carson whether or not big lad would be envisaging rooting being part of the marital consummation. FFSBISH. Fasten the bindings, sea hag, big lad Gru is donkey-punching above his weight tonite.










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Season 4 was all about her rape. Kind of annoying how she draaaaaaaged it out trying to keep it secret, in turn punishing poor hubby Bates who didn't know wft he'd done wrong. Just tell the poor Gru git, gear us up for some cathartic baddie bashing and move on. That's how the seppo version would have played out. None of this hush-hush, long-game, stiff upper lip, "oh it's nothing ma'am, just a flesh wound" pommy bullshit.








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Had a vague boner for this seemingly dowdy old seamstress.

Once I googled her I can see why.

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Fucken mega hottie that the producers tried to make as plain as possible.

Can't fool me bishes.

The cock knows wut the cock knows.
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
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The baddie.

A conniving fluffybunny for seasons and seasons on end but they gradually turn his QEII around. Possibly the most brilliantly written character arc of them all, they adroitly guided his narrative away from running aground off the coast of You Fucking Wanker and helmed the bilious tosser into less choppy waters. "Just stop being an officious snarky wanker to everyone and you might get some pals" A very british turn of advice for the decidedly un-laconic poms there.









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Fairly frustrating narrative with all the ex-wife crime/framing/prison time carry on as well as new wifey's rapey thing.

Like Bates, he also looks like that Gru character from the Minions film.
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Mrs Fapmore more like, amirite guys?

Head chef. The backbone of the whole operation.

Probably some old biddies favourite character in the whole show.

WFT am i doing even watching this doily cumrag bullshit let alone typing out a fucken thesis about the fvcken thing

FML.










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Vicious baddie who weirdly just up and fucked off halfway through one of the seasons.










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Braggy kitchen slag who wound up preggers with Major WWI Dethly Moustache Dude's sprog then something else happened fuck knows who cares.








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The officious kitchen hand who answered every question and workplace request with cynical thickness and off-putting derision.








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Poor old Moldsley had one of the most patiently written character arcs of all. Years toiling away as a tryhard waiter, constantly getting rejected, then FINALLY he wins in the end. Was weird how he never did end up rooting the "dowdy" seamstress Baxter though, they seemed destined to shack up.










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Dipshit bagboy Willy of course gets his nuts blasted to Timbuktu and back for King and Country while up at the front. Tip top and tally ho old fruit, over the top to glory and back home in Blighty just in time for oh fuck








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Another cocksure footman. Cool job, dude. Yeah, plenty to feel haughty about there. Just fetch my bags and be quick about it you oily serf fuck.








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Interesting one, poor old Robert His Lordship The 82nd Earl of Cumforth-Upon-Tweed and this randy maid only had a few interactions but instantly had some weird cock/vag chemistry fire up and dirty old Bob was helplessly itching to get groaning in her boneyard. They both knew it and the saucy temptress had to go.



Anyway, fuck Downton Abbey.

I had the Downton fever for 3 days but have got that shit out of my system now. But I still hope they make more episodes damnit. Some sort of grisly chronicling of it all going horribly pear-shaped for these idiotic toffee-nosed twats. The estate in the throes of financial ruin being dragged kicking and screaming into the 20thC. Maybe a 1960's serf uprising where the kitchen staff and servants kill the toffs Charlie Manson style and turn Downton into a hippie commune. Or maybe during WWII with the luftwaffe strafing the place with tracer. Kitchen staff all survive as they huddle downstairs while the toffs upstairs get all their shit riddled with hun fun.


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RugbyReg

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
So Stan has some pretty damn good shoes.

Watched the 2 seasons of Party Down and it is consistently very funny.

Now watching Kidding which is quite brilliant actually. Gondry and Carrey (and a few others) at their best.
 

Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
Staff member
Downton Abbey is surprisingly excellent. I thought it wouldn't be a show I'd be interested in at all but it is excellent throughout.

Really well written and the characters all have really good story arcs. Characters you hate become likeable and vice versa.
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
Blue Bloods. Stupidly got addicted to this Noo Yawk cop show lately. All the cops are heroic white I-talians and of course they never mention the fact that half the US police force are obviously card-carrying klansmen. Hopefully BLM shot this thing in the fucking brains.

The Walking Dead. still trucking with this despite the massive bedshittery of Season 7.

The Great British Bakeoff. The fuck am I doing watching this old lady's fucken bullshit.
  • I don't give a shit about baking.
  • I can't bake for shit.
  • I've never even fucken tried "baking".
  • I don't even give a shit about fucken regular food and only eat the stupid shit so I don't get fucken sick.
Maybe the rubbernecky attraction is that the multi-tasky bakey bullshit, with its insanely tricky recipes, is so far beyond my scope of technical comprehension that I literally have no fucking idea WFT is going on or how they are making this shit.

The Mandalorian. almost finished with this. bit too heavy on the little boy light sabre battle choreography for me. But the scenery looks ace.

Top Gear (UK). dont give a shit about cars and I'm guessing The WokeVerse have cancelled "Clarkson" many times over by now for his overtly-racist/sexist etc posh twit jibes. And yet, still, some of these episodes are goddamn hilarious, even factoring in the peculiar way Brits have of being cruelly hostile to one another whilst still being pals.

New Tricks. Old git cop show with old git camaraderie. Bloody great.
 

zer0

Jim Lenehan (48)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Quite simply the greatest sitcom to emanate from the States. Not least of all because it has no laugh track.

The premise is basically, what if the Blues -- fuck off, we're good now -- Waratahs owned an Irish pub in feral Philly? Ineptitude, corruption, and degeneracy, both moral and otherwise, abound.

Also the first episode is titled "the gang gets racist", and Danny De Vito joins the cast in season two.
 

Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
Staff member
The Marvel shows on Disney+ are pretty good.

Wandavision starts off a bit strange but is really good.

Falcon and the Winter Soldier is pretty good after two episodes. The action scene to start the show is excellent.
 

Highlander35

Andrew Slack (58)
I'm a little flat on them both TBH. It might be the 9 act film format, it might be that I'm STILL tired of generic superhero stuff after the Endgame finale into the calmer Far from Home epilogue, it might be something else entirely. WandaVision lost me about halfway through episode 4 when they started feeding us the more "generic marvel" stuff (As wonderful as Randal Park and Teyonah Parris are) and not just letting us wallow in the weird, while so far, the set pieces of Falcon and the Winter Soldier have taken me out of what's otherwise a pretty engaging story.

Maybe I'm finally turning into a cynical fart now between COVID and since I've stopped spending all my time around late teens to mid 20s hyper geeks. Or maybe "The Boys" has spoiled me with respect to what the streaming format that exists between feature film and TV series can do for the Genre. More people should watch "The Boys".
 

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John Eales (66)
Wish Wandavision kept going on the weird tbh. First episodes were the best, loved all the meta stuff. By the end it was just classic Marvel coloured energy beams shooting at each other.

Falcon & the Winter Soldier would make a solid film, I'm pretty blown away by the budgets on these tv shows. Starting to see more and more Hollywood stars go to the small screen, whereas previously they'd never dream of it.

To think we've had Modern Film now for 80 years to study, improve techniques, learn and get better etc. Films these days are hardly innovative or ground breaking. Whereas we've only had modern TV for what? 20 years? No wonder we're still learning about story telling techniques/new innovations. We can only get better with TV. I think the golden era of TV is truly just beginning.
 

James GC

Larry Dwyer (12)
Dennis Leary - Living with the Moody's just started season 2 pretty funny for a light hearted watch. I prefer an older series of his called Rescue Me if you haven't seen it very funny and dark.
 
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