Apple TV+ recommendations?

[The39thStep]

There is a Portuguese series on Netflix called Rabo de Peixe which translates as fish tale but Netflix has retitled it Turn of the Tide . It's based on a real incident in 2001 where Italian gangsters in a storm stricken boat going from Venezuela to Spain had to throw a cargo of cocaine into the sea. It gets washed up on the shores of a small impoverished fishing town Rabo de Peixe , in the Azores.

Its a little cliche ridden but it's very fast paced and good fun. The first series has finished and a second series has been commissioned. You can watch it it subtitles or a dubbed English version.

Story from The Guardian about the real version http://archive.today/ZQNmO

 

[Nivag]

I beg everyone, don’t watch “Ghosted”.
Beyond awful. About the only thing which has been utterly dreadful on Apple TV+ so far.

I can vouch this is awful.

 

[Me76]

There is a Portuguese series on Netflix called Rabo de Peixe which translates as fish tale but Netflix has retitled it Turn of the Tide . It's based on a real incident in 2001 where Italian gangsters in a storm stricken boat going from Venezuela to Spain had to throw a cargo of cocaine into the sea. It gets washed up on the shores of a small impoverished fishing town Rabo de Peixe , in the Azores.

Its a little cliche ridden but it's very fast paced and good fun. The first series has finished and a second series has been commissioned. You can watch it it subtitles or a dubbed English version.

Story from The Guardian about the real version http://archive.today/ZQNmO

Wrong thread? Netflix recommendations

 

[The39thStep]

Wrong thread? Netflix recommendations

Thanks

 

[sim667]

I’m halfway through watching pachinko at the moment and think it’s excellent.

 

[T & P]

Platonic it’s actually a pretty good and funny comedy. Like Colin from Accounts, but even better, imo at least.

 

[T & P]

Started the new thriller series Hijack, about, er, a plane hijack, starring Idis Elba.

It’s decent enough escapist stuff so far, but a slow burner. Also, it requires a significant dose of suspension of disbelief. You don’t need to be an expert in aviation security to know in this day and age the hijacking would be unworkable, or extremely short-lived at best.

 

[dogboy_hackney]

Starting the near-future climate change disaster anthology series Extrapolations. I had noticed before but thought it was a documentary rather than fiction.

It seems to have pretty mixed and overall lukewarm reviews, but looks well produced and boasts a fairly decent ensemble of acting talent throughout the series. Will report if worth watching imvho.

Yeah, I got two episodes in and went Meh! It was just so ernest.

 

[Saffy]

Platonic it’s actually a pretty good and funny comedy. Like Colin from Accounts, but even better, imo at least.

I really enjoyed this. Actually had some laugh out loud moments for me.

 

[T & P]

The premiere of S2 of the very watchable whodunnit comedy The Afterparty has just dropped

 

[T & P]

I was concerned about the writing and pace of Hijack given that based on the first few episodes, the entire timeline of the entire 7-episode series might cover just six hours , but they’ve made it work midway through the series.

As most thriller / dramas of the genre, it’s full of plot holes, but it’s decent and engaging enough, and so far it has kept crucial aspects of the overall plot well guarded. 7/10 so far.

 

[Spymaster]

I was concerned about the writing and pace of Hijack given that based on the first few episodes, the entire timeline of the entire 7-episode series might cover just six hours , but they’ve made it work midway through the series.

As most thriller / dramas of the genre, it’s full of plot holes, but it’s decent and engaging enough, and so far it has kept crucial aspects of the overall plot well guarded. 7/10 so far.

Annoying being released over about 4 weeks though.

 

[T & P]

Annoying being released over about 4 weeks though.

Apple are very fastidious about that. To the best of my knowledge they have never dropped any series all at once. All the other streaming services do a mix of weekly instalments and whole-series drops, but not Apple.

I would mind a little less if at least they used different days of the week. But it’s Wednesdays or Fridays only.

 

[Orang Utan]

Apple are very fastidious about that. To the best of my knowledge they have never dropped any series all at once. All the other streaming services do a mix of weekly instalments and whole-series drops, but not Apple.

I would mind a little less if at least they used different days of the week. But it’s Wednesdays or Fridays only.

Why does it matter what day it is?

 

[T & P]

Why does it matter what day it is?

Because if we are to be made to watch new series the old fashioned way, namely an episode per week, instead of whole series made available at once, it would surely be much more logical if there was a wider choice of new stuff to watch every day of the week (or at least five out of the seven)?

If it were just Apple it wouldn’t matter that much, but most streaming services seem to have a hard on for Wednesdays and Fridays. Until very recently when Paramount decided to drop new episodes of ST Strange New Worlds on Thursdays, not a single series across all the streaming services we have would drop new episodes on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays or Sundays.

Sky/NowTV does offer new stuff on Mondays, at least, but we constantly find ourselves with no new offerings of series we’re watching half of the days of the week, then a myriad of them on Wednesdays and Fridays.

 

[Orang Utan]

The great thing about streaming though is you can watch it whenever you want - so you have the rest of the week in order to watch your choices on whatever day is convenient. You might as well broadcast it live otherwise.

 

[T & P]

The great thing about streaming though is you can watch it whenever you want - so you have the rest of the week in order to watch your choices on whatever day is convenient. You might as well broadcast it live otherwise.

Yeah that is the case for us some of the time, as we don’t spend all our spare time every week watching telly. But some other times when you’ve had a quiet social week, or stay in all weekend, it’s quite easy to go through any remaining unwatched episodes.

Not the worst thing ever, but it still feels unnecessary to me. Though perhaps there’s a marketing reason behind it, like studies that suggest you get higher viewing figures on certain days of the week. But even then, if you were a schedule decision maker at any given channel or streaming service, and were deciding when to launch the next high profile show, why on earth would you pick up a Wednesday when you’d be competing directly with no fewer than 4-5 popular new shows from Apple and Disney, when you could have your series drop on the Tuesday when there’s virtually no other new releases? Makes fuck all sense.
and we

 

[Orang Utan]

we don’t spend all our spare time every week watching telly.

I find that hard to believe

 

[T & P]

Great episode of Hijack this week, even if the subplot twists were fairly predictable.

 

[Saffy]

I'm loving Hijack. I knew something like that would happen with that actor. They've been in the background until now but I thought they were too famous to just have that role.

 

[spitfire]

Great episode of Hijack this week, even if the subplot twists were fairly predictable.

Loving Hijack but as a fully qualified armchair general some of the anti terrorist and surveillance stuff is making my teeth itch.

* Special forces are in place at the airfield *

I've seen paintballers deploy in better positions.

And surely the UK can afford better drones. My mate Willy's DJi gets better pictures and his day job is a truck driver so if your day job was a drone operator then you might have something a little better!

 

[T & P]

Loving Hijack but as a fully qualified armchair general some of the anti terrorist and surveillance stuff is making my teeth itch.

* Special forces are in place at the airfield *

I've seen paintballers deploy in better positions.

And surely the UK can afford better drones. My mate Willy's DJi gets better pictures and his day job is a truck driver so if your day job was a drone operator then you might have something a little better!

Yes, even I who has zero security services or military experience feel fully entitled to call bullshit on some of the subplots and actions of the authorities/ government. For starters, there’s no fucking way the UK government would agree to (episode 6 spoiler) agree to terrorist demands and free convicted criminals at the drop of a hat to save a couple of hundred lives. In fact, that plane would have been blown out of the sky by now.

It’s also laughable how credible the ATCs and government agencies of the various countries involved apparently are after the pilot had first issued a hijack alert and then told them not to worry, it was all a silly misunderstanding .

 

[T & P]

And perhaps a ballistics expert can correct me on this, but unless the hijackers don’t care whether they live or die, or had intended to crash the plane all along, any bullet from any standard calibre gun hitting the wall of the plane would absolutely pierce it and very likely cause a catastrophic decompression. So madness to use a gun to kill someone.

 

[spitfire]

Yes, even I who has zero security services or military experience feel fully entitled to call bullshit on some of the subplots and actions of the authorities/ government. For starters, there’s no fucking way the UK government would agree to (episode 6 spoiler) agree to terrorist demands and free convicted criminals at the drop of a hat to save a couple of hundred lives. In fact, that plane would have been blown out of the sky by now.

It’s also laughable how credible the ATCs and government agencies of the various countries involved apparently are after the pilot had first issued a hijack alert and then told them not to worry, it was all a silly misunderstanding .

Spoiler: exactly

and then they decide to try and nick them again 2 hours later?

 

[T & P]

Spoiler: exactly

and then they decide to try and nick them again 2 hours later?

Finished it today, and as a tense thriller/ drama it’s certainly very good, But pending to be corrected by any pilot or aviation expert in here, the inaccuracies/ improbabilities, and mistakes in this episode were the worst yet:

The very slight heading change whilst still over Belgium making the authorities realise the plane was heading for central London instead of LHR was bad enough- all the flightpath routes shown on ATC and government situation room screens throughout the entire series showed the plane on the usual easterly approach that flies right over central London as a matter of course. Are the scriptwriters really unaware that most planes heading for LHR fly directly over London already?

And far worse was the plot development about the plane being about to run out of fuel because of the hijacker diverting the plane ever so slightly before landing at the intended destination anyway.

I explained to my OH my despair at such glaring plot error, due to the (surely) well known fact about the mandatory fuel reserves commercial aircraft must carry to attempt three landings and then divert to another airport if necessary, but she just gave me one of those ‘you sad anorak twit’ looks

 

[Looby]

Because Platonic is finished, Hijack has made us wait and The Morning Show doesn’t start til September I have a gap.
The stuff I’m watching on Prime are also weekly eps so I’ve started Dear Edward on Apple.
It’s a bit sad, fairly predictable but enjoying it. It’s got Connie Britton who seems to be in everything and whatsherface from OITNB.

 

[T & P]

Because Platonic is finished, Hijack has made us wait and The Morning Show doesn’t start til September I have a gap.
The stuff I’m watching on Prime are also weekly eps so I’ve started Dear Edward on Apple.
It’s a bit sad, fairly predictable but enjoying it. It’s got Connie Britton who seems to be in everything and whatsherface from OITNB.

Have you tried The Afterparty? It’s a very watchable whodunnit murder mystery comedy series. First season came out last year and available in full. Second season halfway through and involves some of the same characters, but is a new case.

Other than comedy (I assume you have watched Ted Lasso already), if you like unconventional but extremely well written sci-fi slow-burning series, I can’t recommend Severance enough.

 

[donkyboy]

As mentioned in the wrong thread a few days ago: Hijack:

-Why the fuck does he not say in his text message there is a hijack rather than a serious incident?

-a gun loaded with blanks is still lethal. The scene where one passenger shot at Sam as they tried to get into the cockpit was hilarious. Gun went off, what 50 cm from his face and he just stood there like it was a toy cap gun.

-agree about the crap drone footage. God help us if that is the best our secret service can do.

-non of the villains were impressive. They just don't have the hijacker/bad guy look that we are so used to seeing. Poor choice of actors

 

[Spymaster]

Finished Hijack last night. It was enjoyable enough if you ignored the plot holes but

Spoiler

I was quite amused that they ran out of fuel at 1500 feet over The City, and managed to glide 6 miles to Northolt

 

[T & P]

As mentioned in the wrong thread a few days ago: Hijack:

-Why the fuck does he not say in his text message there is a hijack rather than a serious incident?

-a gun loaded with blanks is still lethal. The scene where one passenger shot at Sam as they tried to get into the cockpit was hilarious. Gun went off, what 50 cm from his face and he just stood there like it was a toy cap gun.

-agree about the crap drone footage. God help us if that is the best our secret service can do.

-non of the villains were impressive. They just don't have the hijacker/bad guy look that we are so used to seeing. Poor choice of actors

Finished Hijack last night. It was enjoyable enough if you ignored the plot holes but

Spoiler

I was quite amused that they ran out of fuel at 1500 feet over The City, and managed to glide 6 miles to Northolt

Absolutely, and I’ve moaned to my very uninterested OH about the bollocks both of you have pointed out. You don’t need to even be an anorak to question such bullshit.

Also, there’s just no fucking way any ATC or government agency would be happy to accept a pilot’s plea to dismiss an earlier possible hijack alert as a silly misunderstanding. Laughable in the extreme. As is the proposition that the UK government (or any other) would agree to the demands of terrorists in control of an airliner, that included not just the release of high profile criminals but allowing the hijackers to fly the plane towards a major city, just in case they execute more passengers. Even the entire plane load. That plane would have been blown out of the sky the very moment it was over an unpopulated area or sea- end of.

But at the end of the day, almost all such terrorist/ hijack thrillers in history have had plenty of their own ludicrous plot holes. So far enough- far more so as the writers managed to stretch a six-hour story into seven hours and keep it interesting.