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[โ€“] saigot@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A lot of my picks are already mentioned so I'll pick an odd one:

Air crash investigator (called Mayday in NA). It's dramatizations of the reports from air crashes, organized like a murder mystery. Surprisingly compelling.

I've never been nervous about flying but this show really underlined how safe flying is, it's actually kinda crazy how thorough the reports are and how often they lead to rule changes. I wish the same institutional dedication to safety was practised in other industries (especially cars).

Episodes that take place in the 80s have you face palming at how stupid the mistakes are, more modern episodes are almost always a combination of many many different small low chance events and minor mistakes from the pilot piling up. I usually skip the terrorist episodes though.

[โ€“] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes! I binge watched Mayday. Very well done documentary with only a minimum of dramatization, you do get some "Get this into the lab!" type acting and shoop shoop edits but not much. Looking into the events they are good about getting like 90% of the info. They have the actors reading straight from the CVR records. It really does point out how the vast majority of accidents require a lot of star all lining up. It also points out how important thorough maintenance is. You've got things failing in ways you'd never expect if they had only, say, put some grease on a single screw. The really frustrating ones are where the crew ignore their instruments thinking they (the pilot) must be right or the crew sit and watch the pilot fuck up without intervening. The cash in Portland OR where the pilot obsessed over a landing gear light and ignored that they were running out of fuel is a case in point.

The most disturbing ones are where a pilot likely suicided and took all the innocent people with him or someone attacked the crew. Insanely selfish a-holes.

[โ€“] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No Good Deed is really good, although it moves pretty slow.

[โ€“] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 2 points 3 months ago

Secret Level.
The Outsider

[โ€“] xamino@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

I love Vox Machina. Give it three episodes though, it needs the Briarwood ark to really get going.

[โ€“] TheFonz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Marvelous Miss Maisle is solid from om beginning to end. Not a minute, scene or note is wasted. The writers know how to pack every scene with as much energy and storytelling as possible. Just perfect.

[โ€“] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] tht@social.pwned.page 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Second season wasn't the best

! Viktor literally wanted to make an utopia, and he is a villian? !<

[โ€“] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah and powder was just trying to free her people. A central theme of the series is good people doing bad things for good reasons. Calling any character a villian feels like missing the point to me.

I don't agree s2 wasn't as good but not for that reason.

[โ€“] Alfenstein@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago
[โ€“] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago
[โ€“] omxxi@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

One Hundred Years of Solitude available in Netflix https://m.filmaffinity.com/en/film463641.html

[โ€“] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago
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