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Watching episode 1. Me like it.

My own attempt at humor. https://ilikepinga.com/2020/05/04/coronavirus-chronicles/

I would not be so sure. Sometimes I feel like overestimating American people's stupidity is impossible.

I am finding pleasure not only in the new stuff I am discovering, but also in revisiting classics. Do you remember when HBO was still Home Box Office?

Yes! Imagine this crisis before Internet! I love my instapot.

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Ignore the melodramatic exaggerations. Daddy's forums are overwhelmingly Liberal, whether or not you like the owner.

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I started watching Counterpart last weekend (originally a Starz production, now available in Amazon Prime), and hopefully will finish the second season tonight or tomorrow. If you are into sci fi thrillers you will love it. It is the typical Parallel Universe narrative with some twists. There is not an infinite number of Universes as it is traditional in this sci fi them. There is only one. In 1987 an experiment accidentally creates a copy of our world. Of course, how to tell which one is the original and which one the copy is impossible. These two world initially identical start to differ, and this disparity increases after the 90s, when one of the worlds suffers a pandemic, which the other one is suspected to be responsible for. The existence of the other reality is a secret, the general population is unaware of it. Around the administration of the passage in between both worlds, spies play a complicated and engaging espionage game. Acting is superb, and screen writing is outstanding. It is an international production, mostly shot in Berlin. One of the things I like the most is that the differences between the two worlds are only partially explained, a lot is left to your imagination and observational skills. Usually in this kind of plots there is a logical organization of the differences between realities. Not here. Part of the premise is that any random little action can trigger those differences. We cannot talk about butterfly effect because this is not a time traveling plot, but the logic is the same. You cannot track and explain the differences, beyond big events like the pandemic. I highly recommend it.

This issue is getting much worse, and it is very annoying. I use Safari, mostly in a MacBook Air. It used to be better in my iPhone, but now I also have the issue there.

In Counterpart's parallel reality they had a flu pandemic in the 90s that wiped out 7% of world population. In this post-pandemic world the creators imagined many if the things we are going through today. That reality is technologically more advanced and with very little physical contact.

I have old memories of watching and liking the first two seasons. Season 7, uh? I will check it when I finish with Counterpart.

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Finished session 2! Yep, I agree @TotallyOz, S1 is better. S3 is still not in Netflix. I started watching another series, from Amazon Prime: Counterpart. It is a very well written and acted sci fi thriller. Thirty years ago, an experiment caused the creation of a parallel reality. Both Universes share the same history until the 30 years ago event, when the timelines became independent. So far, after watching the first episodes of season 1, I am loving it.