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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-28 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 08:01:51 -0700
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On 6/29/24 7:22 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
> 
>> I watched:
>>
>> Nothing.
>>
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Hey, thanks for asking!
> 
> I watched worse than nothing as I suffered Ian‘s revenge for the short form
> movies.
> 
> AGE OF THE LIVING DEAD (2018) Prime and Plex.
> 
> A.k.a. Era of the Living Dead
> 
> It’s a six episode miniseries about which almost nothing is known and what
> is known is wrong. For instance, IMDb says there are three seasons of six
> or seven episodes each but it’s pretty clear they only made one six episode
> season. There’s also a video game that nothing is known about.

You can't trust IMDb, no matter how much I try to "fix" it!!

> This is an absolutely dreadful incompetently made series that’s pretty much
> like “hey kids let’s remake the strain with the grade school video club“
> 
> You may recall that I can’t stand the strain.
> 
> I am pretty sure this suffers from Defiling Gravity syndrome, where the
> first and last episodes are written by one person and the rest is just
> fill-in. Credits say the same guy wrote them all, but the credits are
> standardized and identical for every episode so I suspect they lie.
> 
> 10 years ago vampires somehow took over New York City and now there are 250
> million of them occupying the East Coast of the United States from the
> Atlantic to about Chicago. The 150 million remaining American humans live
> pretty much in California. In between is a no man’s land, that works pretty
> much like Star Trek where nobody’s allowed to go in it at all.  The
> vampires haven’t leached over the Canadian or Mexican borders at all and
> the British seem to think they don’t exist anywhere else in the world even
> though many of them talk like a bad satire of Bela Lugosi and have been
> around for hundreds or thousands of years.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> As all these weird storylines collide, the show doesn’t end it just stops.
> 
> The best thing I can say for it is it has several attractive actresses.

That's the only reason I want to watch this, though I would probably 
"watch" this as pure background noise (e.g. while listening to music).

> All shot in horrible handheld, constant shaky cam.