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Television and Movies Thread
The new US remake of House of Cards (by netflix) is absolutely excellent. Modern world politics and ruthlessness.
Borgia (also known as Borgia: Faith and Fear) is also very good. Political drama, and an excellent reminder of the massive values dissonance in the renaissance. Good, but slightly spoilery article on that aspect
It starts really well, but after 6 or so episodes it becomes progressively less believable (as in, it gets really hard to maintain the standard suspension of disbelief), given many of the key events and actions. I predict the second season will be downhill from there.
One of the primary issues with it is that it's based off a plot that fits the British political system- and so things just seem weird. Urquhart, the British version, eventually becomes cevzr zvavfgre, juvpu vf n uhtr cebzbgvba. Underwood eventually becomes ivpr cerfvqrag, juvpu npghnyyl frrzf yvxr n qrzbgvba ng uvf ntr.
A few threads ago I posted some mini-reviews of some in-progress anime series I was watching: http://lesswrong.com/lw/hlm/june_2013_media_thread/9350 For the sake of completeness here's my ratings of those series now that they've all finished:
Flowers of Evil: 9.0 (was my most anticipated show of the season by the end)
Attack on Titan: 8.5 (slow in the middle, but good at the beginning and end)
Valverave the Liberator: 8.0 (still amusing nonsense, weak ending)
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet: 7.0 (went off the rails in 3 different directions)
Note that this is on something of a "school grade" scale (ie 7.0 is more "acceptable" than "good"). Also I seem to be pretty generous overall.
During this time I also watched A Certain Scientific Railgun and sequel A Certain Scientific Railgun S (basically Buffy meets X-Men meets cute Japanese high school girls), giving 9.0 and 8.5 respectively. (The latter would have been an 8 but the last episode was amazing).