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Stuff i'm watching
Mar. 29th, 2024 06:01 pmKingpin Katie, an action comedy on the DropOut service. very fun and features some wonderful actors.
A couple more documentaries about disasters on Netflix, one about the Camp Fire in California in 2018, called Fire in Paradise. The fire wiped out the entire town of Paradise and killed 80-some people because it traveled very very fast.
Aftershock, about a huge earthquake in Nepal in 2015. The doc focuses on 3 stories: some mountaineers attempting Everest, some tourist hikers in another area, and a hotel owner in Kathmandu. This is the rare disaster documentary that shows some of the survivors behaving badly: the tourist hikers were young men from Israel, and they got into conflict with some villagers. There is also one of the Everest mountaineers who comes off as a real asshole-- no surprise there because that's a pursuit that attracts some very rich egotistical people.
There are probably lots of stories like this because people are so stressed in emergency situations, but I can only speculate. One thing I liked was a "professional rescuer" who was interviewed and said that he uses a "very very powerful tool" which is hope.
My roommate and I are watching Taskmaster New Zealand and are in series 2.
A couple more documentaries about disasters on Netflix, one about the Camp Fire in California in 2018, called Fire in Paradise. The fire wiped out the entire town of Paradise and killed 80-some people because it traveled very very fast.
Aftershock, about a huge earthquake in Nepal in 2015. The doc focuses on 3 stories: some mountaineers attempting Everest, some tourist hikers in another area, and a hotel owner in Kathmandu. This is the rare disaster documentary that shows some of the survivors behaving badly: the tourist hikers were young men from Israel, and they got into conflict with some villagers. There is also one of the Everest mountaineers who comes off as a real asshole-- no surprise there because that's a pursuit that attracts some very rich egotistical people.
There are probably lots of stories like this because people are so stressed in emergency situations, but I can only speculate. One thing I liked was a "professional rescuer" who was interviewed and said that he uses a "very very powerful tool" which is hope.
My roommate and I are watching Taskmaster New Zealand and are in series 2.
