8ball
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Cheers - just finished S4 of The Boys - will give Gen V a look.
Hopefully they’ve put a bit more effort into the political stuff, but that’s a minor gripe.
Amazon Prime streaming video recommendations thread
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Cheers - just finished S4 of The Boys - will give Gen V a look.
Hopefully they’ve put a bit more effort into the political stuff, but that’s a minor gripe.
krtek a houby
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Just finished Them season 2.
Disturbing and plays out against a background of the LA racist cops in the 90s. Which is the "Them" I'm guessing.
The leads are fantastic and it's great to see the legendary Pam Grier as well.
Disturbing and plays out against a background of the LA racist cops in the 90s. Which is the "Them" I'm guessing.
The leads are fantastic and it's great to see the legendary Pam Grier as well.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
The first 4 episodes of season 1 of Twin Peaks.
Wow, this really takes me back.
90s murder mystery set in the Pacific Northwest. The homecoming queen of a small town is found dead and the FBI are interested. Lots of quirky characters and atmospheric shots. It's chilling, cheesy, moving and ground breaking.
Even after all this time, Sarah Palmer's visions still send a shiver down the spine.
Wow, this really takes me back.
90s murder mystery set in the Pacific Northwest. The homecoming queen of a small town is found dead and the FBI are interested. Lots of quirky characters and atmospheric shots. It's chilling, cheesy, moving and ground breaking.
Even after all this time, Sarah Palmer's visions still send a shiver down the spine.
T & P
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I must give this another go. When it came out I was a hormonal teen with little interest in seminal groundbreaking television. And being still in Spain I saw it dubbed.
No dubbed film or series is ever desirable, but something like Twin Peaks will be particularly wasted when watching dubbed.
krtek a houby
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It may seem like old hat to contemporary viewers, but such an influence on everything from The Killing to X Files to Desperate Housewives and so on.
Season 2 is even more out there and wasn't for everyone but I loved it at the time.
Hopefully Amazon will eventually do season 3 which is supposed to be a real event.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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The new one? Yeah that was a hoot.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Batman Caped Crusader is a great extension to the 90s animated series. But for their talk of being unrestrained by the children's TV censors, it really doesn't bring anything new to the Batman universe. It's good, it's worth watching if you liked B:TAS, but I feel like it could have been more.
T & P
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I might have said this in the past because it annoys me as fuck, but why would Prime think it worthwhile to publish audience ratings for a given film or series based on literally a handful of votes? The other day actually we saw something or other having a 5/5 star rating, based on one vote.
Basically, get something uploaded to Prime Video, have all your mates give it a top review, and enjoy a rare 100% ratings
Basically, get something uploaded to Prime Video, have all your mates give it a top review, and enjoy a rare 100% ratings
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Why not just ignore the ratings altogether?
T & P
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Oh I most definitely do, but don’t you think is indescribably pisspoor for any streaming service, let alone the one run by the all-conquering mega rich corporation that has pretty much taken over the world commerce-wise, to think it’s in any way logical, professional, or good optics to run a multibillion streaming service aiming to conquer all other platforms and purporting to be the destination for quality content to publish ratings based on a single fucking vote?
No better than those ‘You the Jury!’ Sun newspaper telephone polls of old in which readers were informed 98% of their army of readers had phoned in to express their opposition to mass immigration.
It’s laughably amateurish to an incredible degree for a corporation of that calibre. But I guess they’re so fucking loaded they’re not bothered with such trivial matters as bothering to present a barely professional-looking interface.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Can’t say it bothers me as I’d not even noticed that Prime displayed star ratings until you pointed it out
T & P
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It doesn’t bother me (or more importantly, will influence me) as to their assessment of a given film, because even when millions of votes are cast we all know in this day and age, internet orchestrated campaigns by alt-right knucledraggers can distort any popular opinion on anything. But still, publishing audience ratings based on the votes of a handful of people is not just completely useless as a reliable indicator, but a fucking embarrassment and insult to our intelligence. I know it is completely inconsequential, but still…
I just switched over to the Prime app, and it took me about ten seconds to find this:
Six people out of a global subscriber audience of tens of millions think it’s a five-star movie. How could they possibly be wrong?
Even the Daily Sport would be embarrassed to peddle such nonsense.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I've started watching 'Them' and enjoying it.
krtek a houby
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There's a Jordan Peele feel to it and it's genuinely unnerving. Season 2 is even better!
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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The trailer to season 1 was rubbish. I thought I would jump straight to season 2, but then read on line that you needed to see season 1 to understand the end of season 2.
Turned out the trailer for 1 was misleading and it's actually a decent stylish watch. Something different. . . . and as it stands I don't really know exactly which way it is heading (which is good, so don't tell me anything about it).
Unnerving is a good description. It's very nicely done. Classy stuff.
I was only watching because I had a free month, but for some reason it makes me do it through a .com rather than co.uk and thinks I am traveling or using a VPN to be in the UK, so is only letting me view everything that is cleared worldwide. I have quickly run out of stuff to watch.
Everything in the US seems to be only available on add on subscriptions. We also have LOADS of stuff on freevee that the US can only watch on Prime or extra add ons.
krtek a houby
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It's very underrated. You could have gone straight into season 2, because the show is essentially an anthology series like AHS... but it does add to the experience to watch the first.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I did hear it was an anthology series but so far the whole of the first season appears to be the same story? So an anthology as in each series is a self contained story?
I've never seen American Horror Story. It doesn't interest me from what I have seen (in ads and previews).
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
First season is standalone, as is the second season. But it helps to see season one, without giving too much away.
AHS are also standalone seasons, but more trashy. I love them but not everyones cuppa, of course. To be fair, ads/previews/trailers never really do any series any favours...
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Oh. I thought American Horror Story was a different story every episode, like the Twilight Zone.
krtek a houby
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That's the spin-off, American Horror Stories
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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So there is 'american horror story' and 'american horror stories'?
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Yup. Story has an arc over one series, Stories is a proper anthology with the exception of the first two episodes set in Story's Murder House.
T & P
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I’ve found the Stories spinoff a major letdown for the most part. There was one that was semi decent but then I can’t remember anything other than that about it, so not a good sign.
Most of the ‘Story’ seasons up to the eighth or ninth were nothing less than very good, with two or three fucking excellent imo. The hotel one with Lady Gaga is probably my favourite of them all.
krtek a houby
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That's my favourite, too. Haven't seen beyond "Apocalypse".
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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So american horror story = good, american horror stories = don't bother?
Where are these streaming?
Where are these streaming?
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I'd agree that Story is better, but I enjoyed a lot of Stories simply because sometimes I want to watch a capsule episode with everything crammed into an hour. Both on Disney+ which has a £1.99 for three months deal right now - deal ends tomorrow.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Horror story never gets as good as the first two series again but the first two series are very good. Flashes of the quality reappear in later srs but its never quite the same.
