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Steve Goldberg's avatar

Super excited for Documentary Now. Even if I hadn’t seen the source documentary every episode of that show still works. You can feel the inspiration dripping off the screen. Too bad “The Peripheral” is a dud. I find the success rate of great sci-if books to screen-- large or small-- to be sadly quite low.

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Gilby VM's avatar

Yeah, I really enjoyed DN! And I can't remember the last time I watched a great sci-fi movie/show. I liked ARRIVAL. That was in 2016. I think that Villeneuve is one of the few directors trying to make sci-fi worth watching. But most of his films are too long and have pacing problems.

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Kevin Alexander's avatar

That Briston Maroney track is a new one for me. Any song that involves Oregon is a win in my book!

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Gilby VM's avatar

Nice! Are you from Oregon?

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Kevin Alexander's avatar

I am! I was born & raised there.

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Gilby VM's avatar

Nice! I don't know much about it but I used to love Portlandia. That was probably a very exaggerated version of the city, right?

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Kevin Alexander's avatar

Haha. Yes, definitely exaggerated. Still funny, though.

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Michael's avatar

That’s unfortunate about “The Peripheral”. William Gibson, along with Neal Stephenson and Bruce Stirling are among the best in the genre - apparently they rarely translate well to live action. Too bad.

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Gilby VM's avatar

Yeah, I was super disappointed as well.

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