Amazon Prime Original Series and Netflix Original Series

Lyte · 04-24-2018, 03:41 PM

Watched the whole thing over the weekend! I never really cared for the original but this one was SUPER!! 1. The gals are large and in charge!! 2. FX are quite good. 3. Other changes re: cast were a surprise and done very well!

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Originally Posted by homoe

Netflix has slotted April 13 for the launch of its Lost In Space remake of the 1965 series!

HBO's Westworld tv series ... heck yeah!! Another excellent remake ... rework... whatever... thumbs up!!

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Originally Posted by charley

Oh my, such a fine series, questions the nature of reality and who and what we are

Lecheloco · 05-15-2018, 03:59 AM

Anyone watching the new lost in space?
Ally sheady is is awesome in her role
Great spin on the series totally digging this

Martina · 05-15-2018, 10:53 AM

I am thinking of watching Safe on Netflix. Dexter actor with a British accent.

I just watched Berlin Station. I love espionage. It was good.

*Anya* · 05-17-2018, 10:45 AM

The series finale of Sense 8 will be on Netflix on June 8th.

I had commented in another thread (can't remember which one) about the series.

I loved the diversity of the cast, the truly beautiful locales and I also found the series utterly confusing.

I will watch the last one anyway as it may tie it all together for me.

PS: A side note of trivia that is interesting, back in 2016, flilm director Lilly Wachowski came out as a transgender woman. She was the creator of the Matrix series of movies. Lilly and her sister Lana, created Sense 8.

Sense 8 has as its leads, a gay male couple, a lesbian couple and a straight couple. One half of the lesbian couple is a transwoman. (Not my assumption, I looked it up online).

It is this diversity of cast that feels really good to watch. "Our family" represented front and center, if you will.

girl_dee · 05-17-2018, 04:01 PM

If you are into crime drama, this one is a good one

homoe · 05-24-2018, 03:35 PM

Safe .......

Orema · 06-07-2018, 06:13 AM

Amazon Greenlights Barry Jenkins & Plan B’s ‘Underground Railroad’ Limited Series With Jenkins Directing All 11 Episodes

Amazon Studios landed the new take on the story of the underground railroad from Jenkins’ PASTEL and Brad Pitt’s Plan B, in March 2017 with a script-to-series commitment.

The project is based on Colson Whitehead’s bestselling novel The Underground Railroad, which won a Pulitzer Prize a month after Amazon bought the adaptation. The book, which drew critical praise for its imaginative blend of history and magical fable – moving beyond the boundaries of realism in its depiction of a mythical underground train that transports slaves across an alternate America — also was a 2016 National Book Award winner and Oprah Book Club pick.

The Underground Railroad, which will be released on Amazon Prime Video, centers on young Cora, a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape.

The underground railroad is no mere metaphor — engineers and conductors operate a network of tracks and tunnels constructed in secret beneath the very Southern soil upon which they’ve been enslaved. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, a relentless slave catcher of mythic origin, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state-by-state, seeking true freedom in a heroine’s journey carved through the soil and soul of America.

“It’s an absolute gift to have Barry Jenkins commit to directing all the episodes for our upcoming limited series The Underground Railroad,” said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios. “Barry’s eye for character and sustained exhilarating, emotional storytelling style ensures that this project is in the right hands. We can’t wait to get started and bring this significant story to our Prime Video audience.”

Amazon has found success with another alternate-history drama series, The Man In The High Castle, set to return for Season 3 later this year.

Pastel, founded by Jenkins, Adele Romanski and Sara Murphy as a home for artists to create provocative, boundary-pushing work in film, television and beyond, is executive producing The Underground Railroad with Brad Pitt’s Plan B.

https://deadline.com/2018/06/amazon-...es-1202404221/

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Martina Senior Member How Do You Identify?: * Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: * Posts: 4,999 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,409 Thanked 18,285 Times in 4,167 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I am thinking of watching Safe on Netflix. Dexter actor with a British accent. I just watched Berlin Station. I love espionage. It was good. __________________ "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up" - Lily Tomlin

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