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@fplfail.bsky.social
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Recovering American abroad. Arsenal, inveterate reader and list maker, movies, and other stuff. Was allegedly good at FPL once. My Letterboxd movie reviews: boxd.it/4pqcp My book reviews on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/33921897

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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Possum” has the most disturbing scene I can remember in a long time. “Local Hero” just kind of bored me but was fine, and “Honey Don’t” made me think, ‘I thought I was a Margaret Qualley fan. But am I really?’ Sam Spade and feminism it turns out, really are mutually exclusive #LastFourWatched
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Honey Don’t (2025) This wants so hard to be a feminist reboot of Sam Spade. I like feminism, I like Sam Spade. This succeeds at neither. The jokes are flat,and the characters are one dimensional caricatures, all seemingly acting in a different movie at the same time. Other than that, I loved it
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A Desert (2025) The first 40 minutes of this were great. Slow burn psychological horror. The middle act dragged, and the last 20 minutes decided it was going to become surrealist metaphor even though nothing before it even hinted at it. Hate films that aren’t true to the worlds they build.
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Local Hero (1983) I just didn’t feel much from this. I get it’s kind of an ode/elegy to small town village life and community, but if that life is so great, why does everyone in this film want to take the money and run? Some nice scenery of the Scottish coast but otherwise a bit dull
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Teenage Sex and death at Camp Miasma (2026) Works best when it leans into its campier elements and satire of slasher films. Less so when it gets didactic and ham fisted about sex and gender. Schoenbrun is a fantastic director and this is beautiful to look at but this a common thread in their work
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
45 points and 5pt red arrow down to 2.2m. Team full of PL stars but not FPL stars. Path to winning seems to be get Haaland, Tark, Gross, and a handful of other boring players who only marginally help me but would stop the bleeding. Feels like im not playing the same game as everyone else sometimes
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
9 point green arrow with Isak and 🧢Bruno to play. What a weird week with my Hull GK returning again and a dirty 6 points off the bench from DeCuyper. Was thinking Sangare 1st bench all week after JP news but disengaged so never got it done. My team does best when I’m as far away from it as possible
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Drunken Angel (1948) It’s Kurosawa directing Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura so you know it’s going to be good going in. Then you realize how incredibly young, nattily attired and handsome a young Mifune looked back in the day. Even when his character is racked with TB, he’s still fire on screen🔥
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My instincts are to make transfers (hits) after two rotten GWs but I look at this team and struggle with who I’d drop. Wissa in a heartbeat if he didn’t have Hull and Coventry in his next two. Seems silly to lose him now when these 2 fixtures were the whole reason for having him in the first place
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Punishment Room (1956) This was a rough watch. Pure dark and unfiltered nihilism from start to finish and one of the darker entries in the large 1950s Japanese sub genre of “Sun Tribe” films about juvenile delinquents. As an Ayako Wakao fan, I hate what Ichikawa Kon does to her here #filmsky
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Woman of Tokyo (1933) Silent film only 44 minutes long but packs a punch thanks to Ozu’s trademark camera angles and symbolism. Great performance as well from Yoshiko Okada. If you’ve never heard about her I urge you to check out her wiki page. She lived an insane, almost unbelievable life.
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nearly doubled my rank to 1.8m and a 17 point red arrow. I remember a time in FPL when 66 points was pretty good but this was all Raya and captaining Isak. Still think the team is good, just need to curb my instincts for having fun and choose boring captains. The Defcon Duds B team win this round
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
OR 🌏 990k 👨‍✈️ Isak 🇸🇪 2FT ♻️ Cherki➡️Rogers White➡️Konsa TV➡️ 102.1 🏦 ➡️ 1.5m 🧢 Isak simply because he has the best fixture imo. Chelsea could very well haul against Hull but they’ve shown themselves to be pretty solid so far whereas Fulham have been all over the shop. Good luck all! 👍
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
-Descendant was legit really good! Not at all where you’d expect an alien abduction flick to go. -Drop went exactly where you’d expect a Michael Bay produced film to go. Nowhere good. -Clown In a Cornfield had well…clown(s) in a cornfield. And teens trying to use a rotary phone.📞 #LastFourWatched
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not a great GW but could’ve been much worse. Down to 990k and a 17 point red arrow but set up well moving forward and still have my TC. A brace on that would make most of my losses back 🙏 Rougher week for the Defcon Duds B team though!
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hallow Road 🇮🇪 doing some very heavy lifting this week for some bad, bad films. #filmsky #LastFourWatched
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Drop (2025) Why do I do this to myself? Got a thing about films that try to build dramatic tension or high stake choices but then basically say none of it matters when the main characters are beaten, bludgeoned and shot but just pop back up with a one liner. Also, over the smartphone movie thing
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
13 points from my WC to start the week and halving my rank to 240k is the stuff of dreams. Now time to get behind the sofa while Haaland does a Viking stomp on my team
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Barring anything crazy, this is how GW3 WC is going to shake out for me. No Haaland is terrifying but think my front 7 stacks up against anyone. Pretty good defense as well with double Arsenal in most weeks. Haaland will score a lot of goals, I’m gambling that my attack can match him. Good luck all!
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Feels like this WC is a big directional swing for me. If I go left, I’m probably not going to Haaland anytime soon. If I go right I feel like my overall depth is weak and things mostly depend on Bruno and Haaland hauling. But it would also probably make my GWs fairly boring but stable. 🤷‍♂️
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Unlikely I end up here on my WC but as far as Haaland/Bruno/Palmer teams go, this is actually pretty tempting. Needs some work around the edges but if I were the kind of FPL manager who just wants to hold steady around my 400k rank, this is a good way to do it.
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
121 points and a 37 point green arrow (safety score was 84!), OR up from 4m to 400k. Just silly, wild numbers. A victory for joy in FPL and a setback for my Defcon Duds. I’m sure they will drip drip their way to points again but this week is for football. ⚽️🥅
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I don’t know why but I love that two of the most popular transfers this week are: Palmer ➡️ Rogers AND Rogers ➡️ Palmer It kind of just sums up the madness of early season price changes.
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
LiveFPL’s new feature that tells you if a price drop will affect your selling price is why I love it so much and hope it never goes away. You could always calculate it on the FPL site in your head but for the math challenged, team value obsessives like myself, it’s absolutely perfect.
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m not someone who’s averse to taking hits whenever I think I need to but just looking at this team…it still looks as good as it did last week when it bombed. Can’t see anything I want to change. Hopefully this GW the outcomes match the process. Good luck all! 👍
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Main team: 51 pts I expected the MGW over Rogers choice to blow up in my face, and it did. Otherwise, all is mostly well. Will ride with them until GW3 then evaluate. Defcons Duds: 62 pts Fully expected them to outscore the highly paid main team. Not sure how I ever FH or WC with this team though
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
After the 3 Arsenal clean sheets it’s been a house of horrors. Blanks up and down the team with Semenyo, Pedro, and NOR left to salvage the week. Meanwhile my Defcon Duds B team is blowing them out of the water even with 2 zero pointers!
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I was fairly sure I’d get some returns in this match. Didn’t think it would come from my 3rd bench Hull CB.
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If I could give one piece of advice to the creators of the unspeakably awful #1 and #4 on this list it would be to watch #2 and #3. The latter are narratively and visually interesting. The former probably relied on AI at some levels of production, and it shows #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No real changes from the team I’ve had for most of the time since the relaunch minus Morgan Rogers. Good players, good teams, good fixtures is the name of the game this season. Good luck all! 💪👍
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Not to push you in a particular direction but Hemmings being the only player on the site listed by his full name would be the clincher for me
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The con here is an obvious break glass in case of emergency bench. Pros are there are double digit haulers all across the starting 11, and some real flexibility to move to the Isaks, Sakas, and Palmers if they go off. Planning an early WC but this group might also have some staying power 💪
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Blast of Silence (1961) Misanthropic and self loathing hitman with an internal narrator who alternately praises amd belittles him, has to spend a few days in New York on a job he hates. Turns out the mundanity of stalkng a target just leaves you more time with yourself. Noir nihilism at its finest.
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I love MGW but moving down to Rogers lets me upgrade Gvardiol to NOR. Think these two spots are the last thing to be decided before Friday 🤔
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
State of Siege (1972) 🇫🇷 “One who is a fascist in their home country is a fascist everywhere”
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My 3rd FW (3rd bench) for a while now. Just because he doesn’t block a triple up from better teams later and his low ownership. I hate losing team value on bench fodder. @planetfplpod.bsky.social Ipswich corespondent says he might get some minutes though🤔 I’ll drive the bandwagon (tractor?) for him
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
After listening to @planetfplpod.bsky.social pods about Ipswich and Sunderland, part of me really wants some Sunderland for those first two fixtures. But the rational part of me says who would you take out for any of them? The fixtures are nice but as James said, it is still Sunderland 😂
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
FPL teams and Asahi dreams 🤔🍺🏮
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Last House (2026) Lots of chatter online that AI was used here because of the nonsensical stuff that happens. Feels like an insult to AI though in that it probably knows that 5 year old antibiotics kept in a flooded house won’t work or that you can’t hold your breath underwater for 3 minutes
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
New draft with Thiago, MGW and Semenyo in. Raya surprisingly still there anchoring triple Arsenal defense. Overall, think this team might be the strongest I’ve made yet. Strategy is good teams with good fixtures. That front seven is filthy 🔥 ⚽️ 🥅
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Ruling Class (1972) No idea what this is but it’s utterly unique and unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Think American Psycho meets Monty Python. O’Toole as an aristocrat, Jack the Ripper, and Jesus Christ (or Bert) is wonderfully unhinged. It also has lots of dancing and the “Electric Messiah”
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“Teki” (2024) The “enemy” here is so fluid that thematically it could be one or all of: Online xenophobia. Yourself, for being sucked into it. Aging. Your memories as you age and realize that not everyone fondly shares the way you remember things. Definitely need to see more of Yoshida’s work.
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Toying with creating a second FPL team made up of entirely Defcon monsters. Only rules I’m setting for myself is one FW, who I can’t captain, and must be in and around top 5 in defcon points. Will it outscore my main team? I fully expect it will. 😂 Any suggestions for players welcome 🙏
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
George Washington (2000) One of the most beautiful films about adolescence I’ve seen. Wild that this was mostly 1st time child actors and a 25 year old 1st time director who’d go on to do mainly stoner comedies and schlocky horror remakes that don’t remotely resemble this masterpiece 🤷‍♂️
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Killers (1964) This movie is like a Christmas wish list come true for someone like me. Lee Marvin and a stellar supporting cast, nihilism for days, and awesome noir crime vibes. As if it didn’t already have everything, John Cassavetes also punches Ronald Reagan in the face
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’m not a premium GK guy but I think this works. Raya the safe one in an Arsenal defense that’s not nailed in GW1. Might WC out of it in GW3 or 4 but he’s at least is good for a few CS until then. I think I like me some MGW talisman swag in my team as well. Aina could be Mitchell, Ajer, or Kayode
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This might be the most boring draft ever made. But also somehow the best(?). It’s ridiculously attacking and since I’m probably using my WC around GW3-4, nice for the short term and then evaluate what needs to be changed. Also doesnt feel like I should be able to afford this team from GW1 🤷‍♂️
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
New draft that’s both visually striking (Joao Pedro annoyingly blue) and optimized for an early WC. Almost good enough for a BB if I add a 4.5 keeper!
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
First draft. Sure it will evolve as I get more info on the promoted sides but for right now fairly happy with it outside of lack of Arsenal coverage and wanting two United attackers for their opening fixtures.
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Fpl fail @fplfail.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Staying at a hotel with maybe 5-6 other guests, an hour away from civilization with massage chairs and unlimited caffeine. I don’t think I’ve ever had or will ever have more ideal conditions for an FPL launch than this.
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