On season 5 of the base series she had gotten rejected by her mom as a sponsor for Azan. She then gives the whole-hearted empty threat of moving to Morocco and taking Mae if someone doesn’t sponsor her…which then almost forces the dad to agree to sponsor. And that whole conversation where the dad and step mom were telling her that they’ve agreed to sponsor you could tell she was just nodding along long enough for them to stop talking so she could get outta there cause she got what she wanted and could care less.
Maybe this strikes a chord with me more because my drug addicted brother and his girlfriend do the same thing when they’re just trying to bum money from us. They never cared about us, how it affects us, what we think or feel. They just want their addiction fed.
My brother’s addiction is drugs, Nicole’s addiction is Azan.
Glad to see that relationship is finally over.
But the entitlement, arrogance, selfishness and naiveness is infuriating.
Whirlpool forum: https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/9nkvj7m3
Australian TVs use PAL as the broadcast encoding standard - although it's somewhat complicated, this means some old TVs only refresh at 25hz or intervals thereof. To display 24fps content, Binge chooses the laziest method: displaying 24 frames of video across 25fps, thereby speeding up the playback by 4%, and then lowering the pitch slightly to compensate.
To explain this even more basically: in America, 4 seconds of the show will show 96 frames, in Australia you will see 100 frames. 100/96 = 1.04166 = ~4.17% sped up.
This is true for all 24fps content on Binge, not just Succession, and can be easily proven by pulling up a YouTube video of a scene, say the bottle throwing scene in S2E4, and comparing it to Binge, which should finish a solid 10 seconds or so earlier.
This means a 60 minute episode of Succession is 2 and a half minutes shorter, and although you can't really tell if you're absorbed in the show, a side by side comparison shows a noticeable difference in tempo with jokes, characters movements etc. This has always been the case, so if you've watched the show on Binge you've not seen the same tempo of the acting and jokes as others here.
There is no legal alternative to this, but I thought I would share so people are aware! Do with this info what you please 😊
You wonder why you’re depressed and bored with life when you sit on your couch/in your bed all day and mindlessly stare at life on a screen?
Get outside. Read a book, learn a language, talk to your friends. TV isn’t a hobby. TV should be an intentional moment where you sit down and watch something because you think it will enrich your day or life, not because you’re bored and need general stimulation
EDIT: it appears my opinion is quite unpopular
I had a terrible binge-watching habit that would disrupt my sleep cycle all the time, make me put aside work so I could finish not just a couple of episodes, but entire seasons of a show. It was a 'I HAVE to finish what I started' mindset.
Overtime, I managed to get it under control. I realised that a lot of what I was watching wasn't adding value to my life and was solely for entertainment - something I could provide to myself without having to go to streaming services and platforms. I would still occassionally binge-watch but it wasn't half as bad as before.
But, in March, I deactivated these streaming services - Netflix and Prime (the only ones I used), calculated the money I'd be saving for the next four months and donated it to COVID relief services here in India.
Another good thing this has led to - Instead of watching a movie before going to bed, I read. :)
While Watching The walking dead with my wife this last week we got through a couple of seasons and it was a bit difficult to pinpoint where the seasons end or when it’s a new season. Obviously we can pretty much tell by looking at the credits but it’s a bit anticlimactic I think.
Welcome.
Nowadays you can just binge an entire season of a show the day it comes out on Netflix, Hulu, or whatever your favorite streaming service may be. We used to have to wait a whole week for new episodes. People talked about the latest episode all week and the excitement only got better! I also really do miss the feeling of a hearing about a marathon of my favorite show coming on.
Say the service has Star Trek. Instead of playing just TNG or DS9, it plays through TOS, TNG, DS9, Voy, and then goes back to the next TOS.
It would mimic how people used to watch television where they would get one episode each of four shows each day instead of four hours of the same show.
This is in reference to Disney+ not only locking down their content in their own walled garden, but also releasing new episodes of their shows on a weekly basis.
The ads part is mostly related to the cheaper version of Hulu and the never ending rumors about Netflix planning on showing commercials - which is something that they already do, to a lesser extent, for their original movies and shows.
Some may say that, like Thanos, this outcome was inevitable. That still doesn’t make it any less shitty for consumers. It’s almost as if networks and studios haven’t learned anything in the last couple decades, and are completely missing the point on what made streaming appealing in the first place.
If streaming becomes the new cable, an even newer alternative will emerge in the future - also inevitably. Either that, or piracy will gain back whatever ground was lost thanks to the low cost and ease of access of streaming. As Gabe Newell once said: “Piracy is a service problem”.
Binge is a streaming service new to Australia, their website states:
“Whilst viewing BINGE with closed captions is not currently available, it’s on our radar for development.”
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Not currently in development, just on their supposed ‘radar’.
I'm not a very festive person, and everything fun is either closed, crowded, or too cold to do. So I'm counting down the days till Holiday vacation so I can sign up for a free trial of HBO, and watch GOT, Watchmen, Chernobyl, and whatever else they have.
My plan is to complete them all in that one week span, because otherwise I wouldn't have the time on a weekend, or weekdays after work, and would need to pay a subscription to properly watch them.
Any show suggestions? (not a big TV watcher)
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So i don't know where to post this since the little shits are evading it but Binge the streaming service is so fucking shit if your internet isn't perfect because i have been signed out and this time I had to reset my password since the stupid fucking shit service can't sign me back in and just saying I have none of these problems with Netflix or Stan.....
I prefer a juicy drama (although it can have some comedic elements): It can be old or new. Have full cable, hbo/Showtime, amp premiere, netflix/hulu/amaon prime. Here are examples of shows I have loved:
The West Wing, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Americans, Homeland, The Affair, The Deuce, Mad Men
Shows I have liked are: Scandal, How to Get away with Murder, Damages, ER, Jack Ryan, Berlin Station, Big Little Lies, The Spy, True Detective, Bodyguard Mindhunter, Fargo/Killing Eve (both just ok), Ozarks (just ok), Fauda, The Good Wife, McMafia, Red Oaks, The Little Drummer Girl, The Newsroom, The Night of, The Night Manager, Billions, Succession, Informer.
As far as comedy shows they must be relatively sophisticated. Example of ones I like/loved: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep, The Other Two, Friends, Sex and The City, High Maintance, Crashing (the US one), Alpha House, Red Oaks comedy-drama,Sports Night, Barry, The KoMINSKY Method, Fleabag. The marvelous Mrs Maisel.
I just can't get into TREME or THE WIRE!!! I prefer shows set in the last 50 years.
I had a terrible binge-watching habit that would disrupt my sleep cycle all the time, make me put aside work so I could finish not just a couple of episodes, but entire seasons of a show. It was a 'I HAVE to finish what I started' mindset.
Overtime, I managed to get it under control. I realised that a lot of what I was watching wasn't adding value to my life and was solely for entertainment - something I could provide to myself without having to go to streaming services and platforms. I would still occassionally binge-watch but it wasn't half as bad as before.
But, in March, I deactivated these streaming services - Netflix and Prime (the only ones I used), calculated the money I'd be saving for the next four months and donated it to COVID relief services here in India.
Another good thing this has led to - Instead of watching a movie before going to bed, I read. :)
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