re: Any Netflix Recommendations?

Synchronicity. Low budget sci-fi noir. Takes a LOT of influence from Blade Runner, but worth a watch.

I realize it's old but I just finished up on Planet Earth. My kids and I really enjoyed it together.

Occupied (Okkupert in Norwegian)

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In the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union, due to the fact that the newly elected environmental friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production in the North Sea.

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America comes off slightly better than than the EU, who are outright villains in this piece. America just doesn't give a damn, given that in this near-future the US has achieved energy sufficiency, and has withdrawn from NATO.

Apparently the show has ticked off the Russians....

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Okkupert (“Occupied”), the most expensive Norwegian television show in history, never mentions the word “quisling.” And yet its premise — a Russian occupation of Norway — evokes Vidkun Quisling’s Nazi collaborationist government and is permeated with the still unshakable trauma of that era.

Okkupert wrestles with a modern version of Quisling’s devastating legacy — and the shameful blot it left on the country’s history. The show is set in the near future, where a Green party government comes to power in Oslo on the heels of a hugely damaging global warming-related hurricane. Promising to unveil a revolutionary new form of nuclear energy powered by the chemical element thorium, Prime Minister Jesper Berg strikes a very Scandinavian pose by announcing that Norway will lead by example and immediately shut down its considerable gas and oil production.

This upsets the European Union, of which Norway is not a member. In cahoots with Moscow, Brussels secretly threatens Berg with a full-scale Russian invasion unless he commits to maintaining Norway’s fossil fuel extraction under Moscow’s supervision. (The United States, having recently achieved energy independence, has withdrawn from NATO and sits disinterestedly aside.) Berg reluctantly agrees to this scheme, promising his people that the insertion of Russian worker crews to restart Norway’s energy industry will be temporary.

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Politico

Contrast this show's premise to today's reality, where the US is completely vested in Norway's independence, having gone so far as to pre-position tanks, artillery, infantry fighting vehicles, and other support vehicles in Norwegian caves.

If you watch the show, you really gotta feel for the Norwegian Prime Minister. He really tries to do the right things for his country and is almost completely unappreciated.

Good show!

That sounds like a growed-up SFP Saturday night flick