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Are there any good dramas I should try?

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  1. hkmb

    hkmb Senior Member

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    Yes, it's ridiculous. I don't think it's accents so much as just mumbling: it seems to be a combination of poor diction and possibly dodgy recording.
     
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    Thanks for recommending this. I've watched the first two episodes, and it looks promising. The main guy is a bit one-dimensional, but you're right about Katya: she's an excellent character.

    They've just started showing "Witnesses" (Les Témoins) on TV here: episode 2 is on tonight. That looks pretty good so far too, although it's a little on the slow side.
     
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    Just want to reiterate that Marco Polo (netflix) was excellent...

    I just really hope they make a second season. So far it is just the first season filmed in 2014...
     
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    Some folks have mentioned stuff on Netflix. OP's in Australia. Netflix isn't available thru legitimate means there yet... but it is coming soon (by end of March 2015). Unfortunately, I've heard the ISP data caps are pretty low there/Internet access is expensive.
     
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    They're getting it soon apparently.

    But don't judge that the Netflix you get will be the same everywhere. The UK version is nowhere near as good as the one you guys get with a much restricted catalogue. And you're right, data caps apply in many places and he's one of them. Many have a 'fair play' policy and so long as you don't take the p**s you'll be fine. Trouble with Netflix is that a HD movie can be a good few GB of your allowance and if you go over you get slapped with a 'fine'.

    I guess it's to make up for Netflix using expensive bandwidth and putting nothing back.

    I haven't signed up as their UK website Netflix - Watch TV Shows Online, Watch Movies Online doesn't give listings of the movies they hold and what's available. They're trying to hide that their offerings are much restricted compared to the US. They want you to sign up first? Lol, Doesn't wash and never going to happen. Sorry.
     
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    AFAIK, even in the US, you cannot search the US catalog and see what's inside.

    There are also PLENTY of shows and movies that Netflix streaming doesn't have in the US. And, each catalog varies quite a bit, depending on the country.

    One should be able to sign up for a free 1st month and give it a shot.
     
    #26 cwerdna, Mar 14, 2015
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    That's the idea I'm sure, but historically whenever one has to sign up for something unseen, there is usually a catch.
     
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    There shouldn't be. Just remember to cancel before your month is up, to avoid having to pay for another month. In the US, AFAIK, you can't get a pro-rated amount back, if you cancel mid-month.
     
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    I lived in China long enough to know how to beat geo-blocking.

    We have two rivals to Netflix that launched in the last couple of months, and Netflix itself is coming soon. But we will get ripped off, I suspect: iTunes charges Australians almost twice as much as it charges Americans for the average song.

    This was a terrible thing when I moved here six years ago, but the situation has improved dramatically. Until recently, my mother-in-law was paying a vast amount of money for an ADSL service with a cap of 6GB per month. Really. But I've finally managed to get her to move her account.

    I moved to one of the new service providers a couple of years ago. It's cheaper, and I get decent customer service (something our legacy carrier will never manage.) And I get unlimited Internet, and unlimited calls across Australia and to several countries, including the ones I call most often (China, UK, US, HK, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Japan). So it's good.

    Mobile data is still capped and expensive, though.
     
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    I was about 16 when I signed up for that Britannia CDs-by-post service. Bloody hell. If you didn't notify them that you didn't want it in person at precisely 12:17am on the second Tuesday of the month in a shed in Stornoway five miles from the nearest road, they'd send you a Gloria Estefan CD every day for 40 years and charge you 100 pounds for each one. Or something. It was awful.
     
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    Woah. That's horrible for non-mobile broadband. I'd blow thru that very quickly.
    Out of curiosity, have a link to their pricing?
     
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    Yes, it was really nasty. She was on a horrible mobile package too: when we were on holiday in Britain, she called us using Viber - three or four times, for ten minutes each time - and they tried to charge her $300!

    TPG product list for residential and business customers

    I suspect it's still more expensive than America, but it's not bad.
     
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    lol I knew there was something in my past that made me wary of offers like those of Netflicks: It was Britannia for me too! And funnily enough they did seem to push bloody Gloria Estefan all the time. I remember them being an absolute twat to be released from.

    Suckering you in with offers of 5 'free' CDs from their select 'unwanted crap' basket. Being young and about 16,17 or 18 you'd sign up thinking you'd be able to get out. Ha ha ha, six years on you'd be returning their little postcard with a big tick in the box saying "NO, go away pleeeeease", yet they'd still send you their pick of the month and billing you over the odds. In the end I think I had to move, though for me it was another town not another continent.
     
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    Yes, this is the main reason I live 10,000 miles away. But one day, they will find me, and force a Gloria Estefan CD into my cold, dead hands.

    It was always Gloria Bloody Estefan, wasn't it?
     
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    Gloria Estefan, Meat Loaf - Bat out of hell 2 (never the original), Tom Petty, probably Erasure or Now 32 (from two years earlier). Oh and Aerosmith. lol.
     
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    Netflix is now live in Australia and New Zealand.

    Per Netflix
    Google tells me that AU $11.99 is currently $9.43 USD. (AU $8.99 is $7.07 USD.)

    In the US, currently, for new customers, the two-stream plan w/high def is $8.99 USD. Single-stream plan w/o high def is $7.99 USD.

    There was a price increase in the US but those who were on the old plan were grandfathered into the existing price for at least two years (I believe this held true as long as you didn't change plans). I'm currently grandfathered on the two-stream plan w/high def for $7.99/mo.
     
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    Yep, SOA - stories of 2 wheeled drama queens trying to out-disfunction each other.

    DBCassidy
     
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    My main knowledge of Sons of Anarchy comes from local news here.

    A couple of years ago, Queensland brought in really tough anti-biker-gang legislation: the biker gangs apparently control much of the ice and heroin trade. Specific biker gangs were outlawed, and membership of one of those gangs became illegal, as did wearing gang colours.

    Some idiot policeman arrested someone for wearing a Sons Of Anarchy t-shirt.

    Yes, really.
     
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    Yes, it's been all over the news here today and yesterday. Between that, and its two rivals, Stan and Presto, we should get a good range of things to watch. Until now, Murdoch's cable company, Foxtel, has had an absolute monopoly over pay TV: this should really improve things, in terms of what we get to see, how soon we get to see it, and how much we have to pay.
     
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    +1 for breaking bad
     
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