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Category: Netflix Recommendations

Netflix Recommendation: Whose Vote Counts, Explained (2020)

10/09/2020

Documentary Recommendations, Netflix Recommendations

This three-part docuseries covers origins of voting in America, cost factors in running for any office, and gerrymandering that occurs for whoever is in control of the senate. This year people seem more motivated on how the election in the U.S. will turn out. They are invested, in other words, they are flocking to the…
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Netflix TV Docuseries Recommendation: Challenger: The Final Flight (2020)

09/28/2020

Documentary Recommendations, Netflix Recommendations, Space

Time has a way of making things seem distant in some ways, but in other ways there isn’t that much change. When the Challenger exploded in 1986, I had no idea I’d see a space shuttle much later in life when the Endeavour was retired at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. I’m much…
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Netflix Recommendation: The Speed Cubers (2020)

09/19/2020

Documentary Recommendations, Netflix Recommendations

These kinds of documentaries can either be a hit or a miss, but this one is a complete hit. It deals with the competition of putting together Rubix cubes at record speeds. In 2019 the World Cube Association was held in Melbourne, Australia. The cubing competition was stiff and two of the competitors couldn’t have…
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Netflix TV Recommendation: Cobra Kai (2018-)

09/09/2020

Netflix Recommendations

The key to this move is making your enemy think you are retreating. But just as they let their guard down, that’s when you strike the hardest. -john kreese- This has everything a person growing up in the 80s could ask for and complete with the reminder that you are not that young anymore. It…
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TV Show Recommendation: In the Dark (2019-)

09/09/2020

Netflix Recommendations, TV Recommendations

Since the beginning of time, women have healed themselves. -Murphy- This CW show is about a blind woman who has a drinking and commitment problem. She’s not a very likable character and as a viewer you don’t have much in common with her unless you like to drink A LOT, have one night stands, go…
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Netflix Docuseries Recommendation: Fear City New York vs. The Mafia (2020)

09/09/2020

Mafia, Netflix Recommendations

This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this, hey, that’s great. But it’s very, very unpredictable. There are so many ways you can screw it up. -Paul castellano- This three-part docuseries is pretty self-explanatory. It covers the five Italian American Mafia families in New York during…
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TV Mini-Series Recommendation: Waco (2018)

09/09/2020

Netflix Recommendations, TV Recommendations, U.S. Government, U.S. Law Enforcement

No matter what you think of David Koresh or the people that died in there, they died for what they believed in. And that’s more than I can say for a lot of people. -David thibodeau- Most everyone knows the story of David Koresh and his followers that were Branch Davidians. The percentage of what…
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Netflix Documentary Recommendation: Athlete A (2020)

08/12/2020

Documentary Recommendations, Netflix Recommendations

This is a documentary that makes you think about the behind the closed door happenings you don’t know until it opens and all kinds of skeletons come out. This is about the USA Gymnastics organization and how they punished one gymnast in the running to compete in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Her name was Maggie…
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Netflix TV Recommendation: Dead to Me (2019-)

08/10/2020

Netflix Recommendations, TV Recommendations

I blazed through the first two seasons and only one season left before the producer calls it quits. I think some TV shows could learn from this. Go out on a high note. Dead to Me is a drama drenched in the right combination of sarcasm, loneliness, and friendship to make a positive impact on…
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Journal Entry Type #44: How Different Are We? Very, I Hope!

05/25/2020

Amazon Recommendations, Humans, Netflix Recommendations, Writing

I’ve been watching more shows than I probably should since getting Amazon and the first streaming service I watched, Netflix. I’ve watched a documentary about Darrell Hammond, powerfully explosive and recommend it to anyone who wants to see the effects of child abuse. You can watch it on Netflix. I’ve watched a documentary about Lorena…
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Netflix Docuseries Recommendation: Coronavirus, Explained (2020)

05/16/2020

Netflix Recommendations

Executive Producers: Claire Gordon, Ezra Klein, Mona Lalwani, Chad Mumm, Mark W. Olsen, Joe Posner, and Marina G. Stadler Major Cast: J.K. Simmons (narrator), Peter Daszak, and archival footageGenres: Docu-Series Running Time per Episode: 28 minutes TV Rating: TV-PG ******* To take a breather from watching all kinds of shows on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon,…
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TV Recommendation: Hell on Wheels (2011-2016)

05/07/2020

Netflix Recommendations, TV Recommendations, TV Reviews

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Netflix TV Show Review: Orange is the New Black (2013-2019)

03/15/2020

Netflix Recommendations, TV Recommendations, TV Reviews

Quote from Orange is the New Black by Crazy Eyes “I threw my pie for you.” Creator: Jenji Kohan Writer: Piper Kerman (Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison book) Total Seasons: 7 Total Episodes: 91 Episode Length: average is 59 minutes Rating: TV-MA ******* Major Prisoner Cast: Taylor Schilling as…
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