What are you watching?

At first I was worried this might be a spoof, because Maria Bamford is one of my favorite comics. I've decided it's legit, though.  

Linda

If you like Maria you’ll love this. Unique. Respect to Netflix for taking a punt and bunging her some $$.

season 2 trailer:

I LOVE Maria Bamford! Lady Dynamite is a great show. I'm not normally into "cringe comedy" but she nails it. Really hoping for a season three.

Courtesy of the Daily Grail - "Rabbits" (2002) is David Lynch's idea of a situation comedy:



According to Wikipedia, the film was used in a scientific study which showed that paracetamol was an antidote for surrealism.

According to Wikipedia, the film was used in a scientific study which showed that paracetamol was an antidote for surrealism.

I wasn't sure that an antidote was needed? Following the link, it also mentions pain, death and existential crisis, which wasn't what I thought of at first - surrealism to me suggests something quite different.

I wasn't sure that an antidote was needed? Following the link, it also mentions pain, death and existential crisis, which wasn't what I thought of at first - surrealism to me suggests something quite different.

I'm afraid I couldn't follow the link because I am in Europe. 

My post was clearly ambiguous - I'm in Europe too. I meant the Wikipedia page which you referenced. I assumed you had read it.

My post was clearly ambiguous - I'm in Europe too. I meant the Wikipedia page which you referenced. I assumed you had read it.

Sorry, I thought you meant the link to the LA Times article cited by Wikipedia. That was the one I couldn't follow.

I wouldn't mind so much if I wasn't getting just as much spam as I used to before the EU banned it. 

Wow, how strange.... I just re-watched a bit of Rabbits two days ago, and I haven't logged into this forum for about a month or so. My son was playing Little Big Planet 3, and he couldn't wait to show me this sound he'd lifted off a mech. (I know -- games, but I did understand what he was trying to show me.) I heard the sound, and I KNEW I'd heard it before. I had him play it several times, but I couldn't place it. I then went to take a pee, and, having a toilet thought (you all know what I mean),  I realized the sound was from Rabbits. I immediately looked up Rabbits and it was the same sound.

For anyone who cares, the sound in Little Big Planet is labeled as "steam engine sound #3," so I suppose it's a stock sound in the public domain.

As for the rest of the discussion surrounding Rabbits, I had no idea, so I guess I will go down that rabbit (haha) hole later.

"Meriel the Ghost Girl" - a 1976 BBC Drama in the "Mind Beyond" series, based on Harry Price's alleged encounter with a materialised girl "Rosalie" at a seance in Brockley in 1937. As far as I know, it's not available online, but it's not too hard to find bootleg DVDs of the series.

I think it's brilliant. The first segment is a wonderfully atmospheric and (I think) reasonably accurate dramatisation of Harry Price's account of the alleged event, in which Donald Pleasence plays the Harry Price character. The rest consists of three more segments, dramatising different interpretations of what happened. An American private eye is hired to investigate, and concludes it was a hoax on the part of the investigator. A psychical researcher (Janet Street-Porter) investigates further, and concludes it was real, despite a confession by one of the other participants. Finally a psychologist concludes it was a group hallucination.