Very interesting documentary in classic BBC style: "Scientists have discovered that rubbing a dogs belly makes the dog happy ... "

Still, pretty cool show. Helps you appreciate dogs and their contributions to humanity.
StaticAge wrote:Séamas wrote: Currently watching Wild Wild Country on Netflix
It's a six part docu-series (I have watched 2/6).
I am sure there is more to be revealed and there will be a twist/turning point.
The subject is the Cult following of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their purchase of several thousands of acres in rural Oregon in order to build a city.
But so far it is describing a significant culture clash, and while the Cult/Ashram is weird and all, it's just another weird religion, albeit with a VERY large bank account.
The cult members themselves seem like typical educated people of that time doing the typical "seeking" of eastern mysticism and following a charismatic guru.
The alarming thing for the townfolk is the open sexuality of the cult members and reports of bizarre practices (group aggression therapy undertaken while naked and other things).
The townfolk at this point of the documentary come off as fearful and fairly intolerant, and they make no efforts to hide their attempts to intimidate the freaky cult members. Reading ahead it seems things escalated quite severely with the cult members taking things several steps too far.
So far more me this documentary does expose a great deal of America's rather iffy devotion to religious freedom.
Since I have subscribed to Netflix several years ago I have caught a number of pretty good documentaries on various cults (most of them born out of the counter-culture new age group sex variety). They all have disturbing attributes, but you can easily see how many of our current religions started out--just with less group sex.
I would love to see more in-depth analysis of Scientology, LDS and perhaps Islam, as they each have similarities to these. (Christianity does as well for certain, but I think that analysis has been done to death)
I have friends who became Buddhist monks and friends who are into Krishna consciousness but to me, Osho is like a combination of self help books, Ayn Rand, and almost a cliche of eastern mysticism. I was somewhat familiar with what happened out there and his religion. I never thought he was the crook they made him out to be, just a typical charlatan (although, I have heard his scholarly work on various ancient texts are supposed to be decent). It was mostly Sheela and other higher ups. But as close minded and typically conservative you’d imagine a bunch of old white hillbilly Christians, the smug elitism and self centered vindictive way the sunnyasins operated irritated me. They were all about themselves first, making money, etc, and free love and psychoanalytic gibberish. A feel good movement for young wealthy white people, ‘pat yourselves on the back, for your privilege means enlightenment’. The show made me wonder if that was how the people in Palestine felt when their living space was encroached upon by the Jews who moved there pre-Israel.
Yori wrote: French and Saunders on Netflix.
Metacell wrote: Lost in Space (Netflix). As Nu Star Trek is dead to me, I thought I'd give this a try. What a breath of fresh air. Great!
Donkey Butter wrote: hey does anyone have Amazon Prime Video in Canada? and can you recommend anything good to watch (other than The Tick and The Grand Tour)?
DukeofNuke wrote: Give "Justified" a try.
Donkey Butter wrote: hey does anyone have Amazon Prime Video in Canada? and can you recommend anything good to watch (other than The Tick and The Grand Tour)?
jkahless wrote:Donkey Butter wrote:DukeofNuke wrote: Give "Justified" a try.
Added to my watch list. Thanks
Great series. Great music.
Metacell wrote: Ash vs Evil Dead (on Netflix)
Apologies to Starz, Showtime, and HBO. I'm not subscribing for the one show each of you make that I like.
But for sure, this is the good stuff. I think the episodic character-driven fomula set in real-world side-of-the-road 'Muricaland actually makes this more fun than the movies. Perfect way to kill a half-hour. Also: best. LSD-trip. sequence. ever.