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Containment (2016)
A good binge watch
I just watched the entire season in 2 evenings. Is it a new idea? No. The oldest one on the same subject I can think of is "Outbreak" from 1995, and I'm sure there are plenty that go back further than that. Is it a well produced story? Yes, I think so. The character growth of Jake in particular is wonderfully done. Katie is the school teacher there with her kids on a field trip, and she gives Jake - a police officer - just the right amount of a wake-up slap when she says in her teacher voice "there are a bunch of 11 year olds who are handling this better than you!". There is even a death scene (in a show about a lot of death) that actually made me cry - I can't remember the last time I cried at a TV show. I haven't seen the shows that other reviewers are unfavourably comparing this to, but as a show to watch, I would recommend it.
Hercules Returns (1993)
Intellectual Free Zone
One of my all time favourite films from anywhere, this makes me proud to be Australian. Even my extremely conservative mother nearly fell off the couch laughing. As you have probably already gathered, it is a film version of a live act that had been touring Australia. Basically the film makers wanted to make the movie of their live act so whacked a fairly thin plot around an excuse to do the show. Now, nearly 20 years later, I am about to show it to my 13 year old son. Bad language aside, it is screamingly funny and that all there is to it! I will have to explain what a Labia is ("What's that man doing with his hands on my Labia") and what chlamydia is but he should be able to figure out the rest.
If you want a copy of the movie, there must be a DVD somewhere because I downloaded a DVDrip from one of the Torrent sites. I can't remember which one but if you have uTorrent, just do a search and it will come up. I just finished downloading it and have already watched it and the quality is fine.