farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I had a free week trail of Prime and forgot to cancel it 
so I've added as many bad B moves as I can find to watch.
so I've added as many bad B moves as I can find to watch.
Amazon Prime streaming video recommendations thread
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Leafster
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It was on Netflix for the first couple of series. I quite liked it. I think there's a new series on Prime so I'll probably get around to watching it some time.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I really enjoyed Life In Pieces. It is not all 4 years old - I think they are still making it - although the most recent series isn't quite as funny.
I was surprised at how funny it was - it is kind of understated and mostly believable humour until you reflect on what has just happened or been said or whatever. I think it is well acted and well written. I watched it twice because I binge watched it and missed bits. Every episode has at least one laugh out loud moment.
And I recognised one of the actors in Undone which kind of surprised me, since Undone is a cartoon, I thought. I had to pause it so I could google. Turns out it is that thing where they act it with real people and then paint the actors and the scenes around them. I forget what it is called.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Good recommendation! light and funny.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Some bits of it are down to earth humour and some are just surreal. That is part of what is funny about it - you never quite know what is going to happen next. And, somehow, the characters are all likeable.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Did they? I thought there were more to come!
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Just ends halfway through the season. Ridiculous way for a company to treat viewers.Did they? I thought there were more to come!
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Oh, that is sad. Not good for the cast and crew either!
ginger_syn
Her Insanity laughs under pressure...👾
Just finished watching Swamp Thing, really enjoyed it.
blairsh
pale knuckle grip on this steering wheel
*Hell Comes to Frogtown*I had a free week trail of Prime and forgot to cancel it
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
It's cancelled.
ginger_syn
Her Insanity laughs under pressure...👾
I know
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
We’ve started watching Mr Mercedes, a crime series about a serial killer who starts taunting the detective who tried and failed to catch him and has since retired, the latter played by Brendan Gleeson. It’s very good indeed, recommend it
mr mercedes - Google Search
ETA: just discovered only the first three eps are free, for the others you have to subscribe to Starz
Has anyone persevered with this? We've watched the first 3 episodes and it started well but has really slowed.
Keep going?
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T & P
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Well we liked it a lot by the time we finished it. I agree the pace is rather slow at times but it does get more eventful with every episode, and the last two were proper tense. Very watchable indeed and a great show.
S2 and 3 (8 episodes out of 10 on S3 so haven’t seen the ending yet) are also pretty decent though S1 is the best imo.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Well the last episode we watched ended with Brady's mum giving him a wank.
That's certainly different.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Well it's quite small but I think very noticeable. Even two frames is noticeable to most people on fast transient sounds like a fist on a table or a car door slamming.
T & P
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Well it goes towards explaining how fucked up Brady is. A lot of Stephen King’s stories feature sexual or physical abuse of some characters. But it’s not prevalent occurrence even if there or might not be a further instance or two...
True Convictions is worth watching. A documentary film about three guys who between them served 60 years in Texas jails for crimes they didn’t commit and were ultimately totally exonerated for. They now spend their time investigating other wrongful convictions. Texas had 169 such overturned convictions in 2016, and the wrongfully accused had spent an average of 15 years each in jail. It’s a tough watch but it’s well put together.
T & P
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Thanks for the heads up. Started this and enjoying it more than I thought we would. The fact that they’re not scared of a bit of graphic violence and a high death count separates this from many other similar sci-fi shows.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
My family put on the Japanese TV show business men Vs aliens today. I was not mad keen, but found the first alien quite entertaining. My family however were rolling around the floor laughing, and demanding we watch the entire series. Maybe something is lost in translation. Fun show though, and a bit different (though very much Japanese TV show humour).
Yeah, me too actually. I’m into season 2 now. It suits my commute pretty well. Shows you don’t have to be startlingly original as long as you put it together with enough conviction and make the characters likeable.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I reckon that’s probably only you!
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
I got all excited about this yesterday, but in the evening it turns out that i got it in May or June and watched it then. Good telly though, enjoy.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
We were the other way around. Started watching season 5 and realised we hadn’t seen S4.
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
I reckon that’s probably only you!
We got drawn in by bingeing the first two series and then we had to make that calculation around whether to just junk that viewing experience or to persevere with it. Perseverance won out, narrowly. We thought that it might end up disappearing up its own arse like Lost or Under the Dome but it's worked itself out.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Watched Brittany Runs A Marathon the other day - was expecting a by-the-numbers rom-com, but it's actually pretty good, a smart indie comedy about finding something that gives you a purpose in life.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
The Captain (Der Hauptman). German WW2 thriller, supposedly fact-based, about a German deserter who finds a captain's uniform, forms a rag-tag unit with other deserters, and basically goes on a murder spree in the last weeks of the war. Quite difficult to watch and surreal in places and shows how cheap life was in those times.
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