Been going through the 1st season of Blacklist. I'm enjoying it tho some of the acting is cringy.

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Added after seeing the whole series: This is, by far, one of the best shows I have seen in a while. It is about a different submarine so it is not a repeat of the movie but the plot and acting are as good as the movie. And the last scene...beautiful twist.

Watched "Titan Games". Good stuff. Makes me want to be a titan. Although it is fun that the song used in the opening was a Melodifestivalen
Song contest runner up. Maybe the Rock is a Eurovision fan :).

Watched the first episode of Killer Mike's show. El-P's hilarious douchiness was the most redeeming thing about it tbh. I didn't have very high expectations for it anyways.

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loving this show. louie anderson is a gem.

I find the last interviews with him just before being executed reinforce the idea that sociopaths are kind of uninteresting to talk to. They're just too focused on pretense to actually have any merit in getting meaningful discussion from. It's interesting to watch them speak but as far as getting any kind of mutual connection through ideas it's a complete wash. You're really just looking for kinks in their sociopath armor.

Speaking of Netflix docs, I've been watching Evil Genius, which is about the Brian Wells case where he was forced to rob a bank (among other things) in order to deactivate the bomb around his neck. It's pretty fascinating.

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Proto-Suicide Squad?

The concept of superheroes is romanticization of extra-judicial justice though. If it's not regular humans beating up criminals to get info it's superhumans taking information out of the equation to essentially be cartoon big brother. Or doing both.

Superheroes in a real sense is a ****ed concept. It has "good" relevance in the sense of expressing the desire for justice in the face of the systemic injustice that exists in every society that people recognize and feel powerless in the face of. But there's no way to divorce that from the fascist desire for a strong person to solve your problems for you.

This is why you don't take superhero stories literally as if they have any immediate answer to your problems. This is how we get police officers with Punisher skull stickers on their cars. So just forget about the stupid elements.