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crublue1 said:
Afterlife is such a good series. Gervais has his critics but he keeps writing great scripts regardless. Who else can hold up to his body of work since the office?
Not sure about Wednesday, I watched the first two, I get it's Tim Burton, and it's beautifully shot, but I don't get the character. Is she supposed to be a murderer? If so kill someone. She keeps saying she'll do this, that, but does nowt other than bully.
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She is an emotionally repressed child who is fascinated by the macabre and death. Her hobbies include raising spiders, experimenting on her younger brother Puggsie and researching the Bermuda Triangle. Just another character from the Addams Family that also includes a werewolf (uncle Fester) a vampire (morticia) much of the humour is driven from pastiche of the horror movies of the period.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
She is an emotionally repressed child who is fascinated by the macabre and death. Her hobbies include raising spiders, experimenting on her younger brother Puggsie and researching the Bermuda Triangle. Just another character from the Addams Family that also includes a werewolf (uncle Fester) a vampire (morticia) much of the humour is driven from pastiche of the horror movies of the period.
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Unless you're talking about the comic strip (which I've never seen) that's not right surely?
 
crublue1 said:
I must admit I'm guilty of dismissal if a series doesn't grab me from minute one.
I'm the same with films.
Missed out on a lot, especially it seems, with the sopranos.
I will make an effort.
I do like the idea of Wednesday, and I will follow it up. But I have a problem with the character, is she just a sadistic goth, or a proper murderer in the making? I wish she'd just kill someone, instead of all the posturing. Maybe I'm missing the point. It wouldn't be the first time..
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She's neither, she's just Wednesday Addams. Perhaps it's an age thing but I was brought up on shows like this although I was probably too young for the first run, I'm not sure when it was first shown in the UK.

The Munsters came shortly after and was of a similar genre.

I absolutely loved the show BTW.
 
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kaz7 said:
Down to the last ep of the tudors , hate when there is only one ep left of things i liked

Catching up on vikings tomorrow
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Love the tv shows set hundreds of years ago but never watched tudors I’d it worth a watch if I enjoyed wolf hall vikings etc ?
 
New series of ottoman coming soon to Netflix and it’s about mehnet v vlad in Romania . Should be really good .
 
Centurions said:
Unless you're talking about the comic strip (which I've never seen) that's not right surely?
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The original comic is about an odd aristocratic family none are supernatural beings and fester is hardly in it

the TV show hinted morticias family (her and granny frump) were witches and Fester is her uncle not gomez brother as is now implied, but still none are supernatural.


only thing is supernatural but could be result of the family women being witches
 
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Caught up with a series that passed me by from last year - Dopesick, about the rise in fatal overdoses attributed to the prescription painkiller oxytocin in the States - late 90s-early 2000s.

Pretty crazy that this opiate, a synthetic derivative of heroin but twice as potent, was being prescribed to Joe Public for minor pain such as headaches. And sure enough people became hooked on it, despite it being lauded as 'non-addictive' by the manufacturers Purdue Pharma. They were a family-owned business - the Sackler family, an absolutely repugnant bunch. Won't go into any more details but definitely worth a watch.

Drug overdoses are responsible for more deaths in the states per year than any other (non-natural) cause - 65K in 2016 for example. Sobering figures, and history seems to be repeating itself with the rapid growth in Fentanyl addiction over there.
 
ActonBlue said:
Caught up with a series that passed me by from last year - Dopesick, about the rise in fatal overdoses attributed to the prescription painkiller oxytocin in the States - late 90s-early 2000s.

Pretty crazy that this opiate, a synthetic derivative of heroin but twice as potent, was being prescribed to Joe Public for minor pain such as headaches. And sure enough people became hooked on it, despite it being lauded as 'non-addictive' by the manufacturers Purdue Pharma. They were a family-owned business - the Sackler family, an absolutely repugnant bunch. Won't go into any more details but definitely worth a watch.

Drug overdoses are responsible for more deaths in the states per year than any other (non-natural) cause - 65K in 2016 for example. Sobering figures, and history seems to be repeating itself with the rapid growth in Fentanyl addiction over there.
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Watched this last year and like you said, definitely worth a watch.

Good that they showed the story at so many levels - the boardroom, the sales force, the doctors prescribing it, the poor sods using it and the investigators.

Absolutely incredible that stuff like this goes on but as in so many cases, money talks.
 
ActonBlue said:
Caught up with a series that passed me by from last year - Dopesick, about the rise in fatal overdoses attributed to the prescription painkiller oxytocin in the States - late 90s-early 2000s.

Pretty crazy that this opiate, a synthetic derivative of heroin but twice as potent, was being prescribed to Joe Public for minor pain such as headaches. And sure enough people became hooked on it, despite it being lauded as 'non-addictive' by the manufacturers Purdue Pharma. They were a family-owned business - the Sackler family, an absolutely repugnant bunch. Won't go into any more details but definitely worth a watch.

Drug overdoses are responsible for more deaths in the states per year than any other (non-natural) cause - 65K in 2016 for example. Sobering figures, and history seems to be repeating itself with the rapid growth in Fentanyl addiction over there.
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I also watched this recently, great series ,Michael Keaton was excellent in it as was
Michael Stuhlbarg (Boardwalk Empire,Your Honour.) who plays Richard Sackler.
A very eye opening watch.
 
ActonBlue said:
Caught up with a series that passed me by from last year - Dopesick, about the rise in fatal overdoses attributed to the prescription painkiller oxytocin in the States - late 90s-early 2000s.

Pretty crazy that this opiate, a synthetic derivative of heroin but twice as potent, was being prescribed to Joe Public for minor pain such as headaches. And sure enough people became hooked on it, despite it being lauded as 'non-addictive' by the manufacturers Purdue Pharma. They were a family-owned business - the Sackler family, an absolutely repugnant bunch. Won't go into any more details but definitely worth a watch.

Drug overdoses are responsible for more deaths in the states per year than any other (non-natural) cause - 65K in 2016 for example. Sobering figures, and history seems to be repeating itself with the rapid growth in Fentanyl addiction over there.
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I broadly agree with the synopsis but how about an edit to add a spoiler alert so that you don’t spoil it for others? Cheers mate
 
ActonBlue said:
Caught up with a series that passed me by from last year - Dopesick, about the rise in fatal overdoses attributed to the prescription painkiller oxytocin in the States - late 90s-early 2000s.

Pretty crazy that this opiate, a synthetic derivative of heroin but twice as potent, was being prescribed to Joe Public for minor pain such as headaches. And sure enough people became hooked on it, despite it being lauded as 'non-addictive' by the manufacturers Purdue Pharma. They were a family-owned business - the Sackler family, an absolutely repugnant bunch. Won't go into any more details but definitely worth a watch.

Drug overdoses are responsible for more deaths in the states per year than any other (non-natural) cause - 65K in 2016 for example. Sobering figures, and history seems to be repeating itself with the rapid growth in Fentanyl addiction over there.
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Brilliant show. Michael Keaton is fantastic in this.
 
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