The HBO Original Programming Thread

[falafel]

I'm still working my way through Lovecraft Country (in contrast to the rest of the world, my TV viewing has gone way down during the pandemic).

I finished episode 6, "Meet Me in Daegu", last night. This show is so great. If you enjoy Jamie Chung (and who doesn't), and you enjoy asian horror mixed with nudity (and who doesn't), this is the episode for you (and @northwestcoug)!

I love how each episode of this show employs a different horror genre. Supernatural/black magic, traditional lovecraftian monsters, haunted house, blood and gore (skin shedding!), asian-style horror/traditional monsters, man-eating monsters in female form; its got it all!

On top of that, the acting is great. Jonathan Majors is excellent as Tic (Atticus) and Jurnee Smollet is great too, although a bit screamy at times. I was really impressed with Jamie Chung, who doesn't really appear in the show until episode 6, but when she does she dominates.

[LiveCoug]

Got HBO Max for Wonder Woman and ended up watching a few series...

Barry: great show. concept is interesting and doesn't seem like it should work at all, but it does. Bill Hader is aweseme

Chernobyl: I know this show was discussed a ton, so finally pulled the trigger. It was really good, but not super amazing. Still recommended

Succession: This one was amazing. Great acting, fantastic storyline, great music and the payoffs are awesome

[jay santos]

I saw The Knick is now on HBO Max. This is my top pick in the "you might not have heard of this one" category.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Allen vs Farrow docu-series launched last night. Super interesting. We are on Team Farrow so far.

[USUC]

Allen vs Farrow docu-series launched last night. Super interesting. We are on Team Farrow so far.

It must be the people I follow on Twitter, but I keep bearing how this documentary should be taken with a grain of salt. My wife and I have talked about watching it, but haven't yet.

https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/sta...934838790?s=19

[Jeff Lebowski]

It must be the people I follow on Twitter, but I keep bearing how this documentary should be taken with a grain of salt. My wife and I have talked about watching it, but haven't yet.

https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/sta...934838790?s=19

People seem to be passionately defensive of Allen - I am sure part of that is due to his genius as a film-maker. That is part of what makes all of this so interesting.

[UVACoug]

I watched it last night too. I have a hard time figuring out what to make of the whole story. Some weird stuff going on on both sides. The fact that Allen ended up marrying Soon-Yi is super weird though, although it appears that she was in her 20s when they first hooked up.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I watched it last night too. I have a hard time figuring out what to make of the whole story. Some weird stuff going on on both sides. The fact that Allen ended up marrying Soon-Yi is super weird though, although it appears that she was in her 20s when they first hooked up.

I don't care how old she is, that is creepy as hell.

[SeattleUte]

People seem to be passionately defensive of Allen - I am sure part of that is due to his genius as a film-maker. That is part of what makes all of this so interesting.

Wrong again! It's because there have been two major investigations, paid for and backed by the power of the state, one by the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic at the Yale–New Haven Hospital, hired by the police, and one by New York State Child Welfare, and they found there was NO ABUSE. Moreover, the prosecutor concluded there wasn't any evidence with which to charge Allen. The Yale–New Haven Child Sexual Abuse Clinic concluded:

“It is our expert opinion that Dylan was not sexually abused by Mr. Allen. Further, we believe that Dylan’s statements on videotape and her statements to us during our evaluation do not refer to actual events that occurred to her on August 4, 1992…In developing our opinion, we considered three hypotheses to explain Dylan’s statements. First, that Dylan’s statements were true and that Mr. Allen had sexually abused her; second, that Dylan’s statements were not true but were made up by an emotionally vulnerable child who was caught up in a disturbed family and who was responding to the stresses in the family; and third, that Dylan was coached or influenced by her mother, Ms. Farrow.

While we can conclude that Dylan was not sexually abused, we cannot be definitive about whether the second formulation by itself or the third formulation by itself is true. We believe that it is more likely that a combination of these two formulations best explain Dylan’s allegations of sexual abuse.”

That should be the end of it. But Mia Farrow and Ronan are famous, Allen is Jewish, and there's money to be made by perpetuating this non-story. Never mind common sense, that these accusations surfaced after Allen and Mia split over Soon-Yi, that Allen has never been accused of abusing children before or since, that this is supposed to have occurred in a house full of Mia's family and friends, while Allen came to visit.

I've warned you before about staying in your lane. You need to stick to geotech engineering, Doktor.

[SeattleUte]

Can somebody please unblock the post I just put up in this thread. It's not spam.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Can somebody please unblock the post I just put up in this thread. It's not spam.

Done

[SeattleUte]

Done

I tried to edit it and it did it again.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Wrong again! It's because there have been two major investigations, paid for and backed by the power of the state, one by the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic at the Yale–New Haven Hospital, hired by the police, and one by New York State Child Welfare, and they found there was NO ABUSE. Moreover, the prosecutor concluded there wasn't any evidence with which to charge Allen. The [FONT=Times New Roman]Yale–New Haven Child Sexual Abuse Clinic concluded:



That should be the end of it. But Mia Farrow and Ronan are famous, Allen is Jewish, and there's money to be made by perpetuating this non-story. Never mind common sense, that these accusations surfaced after Allen and Mia split over Soon-Yi, that Allen has never been accused of abusing children before or since, that this is supposed to have occurred in a house full of Mia's family and friends, while Allen came to visit.

I've warned you before about staying in your lane. You need to stick to geotech engineering, Doktor.

Lol. This is just the kind of over-the-top, unhinged response one can expect from Woody Allen worshippers. Like I said, part of what makes the case so interesting.

Funny you think that the case is closed based on that one data point.

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/28/n...testifies.html

A child psychiatrist testified yesterday that experts at Yale-New Haven Hospital had mishandled interviews and used faulty methodology to conclude that Woody Allen had not molested his 7-year-old daughter, Dylan.

Testifying at the custody trial of Mr. Allen and Mia Farrow, the psychiatrist, Dr. Stephen Herman, called the Yale report "seriously flawed." He said the investigators had developed questionable interpretations of many of Dylan's statements to them, inappropriately destroyed original notes of the meetings and leaped to unsubstantiated conclusions about people whom they had not even interviewed.

In fact, Dr. Herman testified, the report's findings were so unreliable that he could have used the data to arrive at a totally opposite conclusion. "It's just as easy to conclude from this report that Dylan was abused," he said in his testimony in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

"stay in your lane". gtfo.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I tried to edit it and it did it again.

That is really weird. Sorry, I need to figure out how to dial back the anti-spam feature.

[SeattleUte]

Lol. This is just the kind of over-the-top, unhinged response one can expect from Woody Allen worshippers. Like I said, part of what makes the case so interesting.

Funny you think that the case is closed based on that one data point.

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/28/n...testifies.html



"stay in your lane". gtfo.

Expert witness hired by Mia Farrow in the custody trial saying Yale-New Haven flawed. LOL.

So, tell me, did Biden really win the election?