Netflix recommendations
- Thread starter Jon-of-arc
- Start date
T & P
|-o-| (-o-) |-o-|
Watched the first 1.5 episodes. Still developing obviously but decent enough so far. It's about a flawed and a bit fucked up family of adopted kids with superpowers (now adults, but with regular flashbacks to their younger days, telling you their backstory) who meet after a family bereavement. Obviously there is much more going on, and dark forces at work. Dark/ moody comedy, good cinematography and soundtrack. Feels a bit like Watchmen style & looks wise.
will try again tonight perhaps.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
It's great. It's also short. Enjoy.As part of a recent drive to finally check out certain series the rest of the world watched years ago, we’ve just started Peaky Blinders, and 3/4 of the way through the first season, it’s fucking ace
Micro
Out of my box
Holy hell! Just watched it.
The parents were way, way beyond naive and ignorant.
The Umbrella Academy, just on first episode, but really good so far.
ruffneck23
front left
Just into episode 6 of the umbrella academy after starting it yesterday, really enjoying it , although it’s quite mad
Ranu
Poster of the Weak
March 29th
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Russian Doll....I watched it a week or so ago. I liked it. A lot. And I'm finding it's one of those things that is lingering large in my memory. So it's a big thumbs from me. It's just very creative with fantastic performances.
Plus exposing me to Harry Nilsson who I've never heard of before.
Plus exposing me to Harry Nilsson who I've never heard of before.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Well fuck me the Lime in the Coconut song is Harry Nilsson!
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Not on Netflix but on the plane I watched a series - Patrick Melrose - that is one of the best things I've ever seen. It's Benedict Bumblewitch which will either attract or repel but it's totally amazing. It's on Amazon Prime - originally Sky.
Can't recommend highly enough. It's really brilliant.
Can't recommend highly enough. It's really brilliant.
Micro
Out of my box
Watched the first two episodes so far. Feels like a cross between X-men and The Royal Tenenbaums.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
Abducted in Plain Sight. Fucking hell
The dad wanked him off!
The mum had an affair with the paedophile who abducted and married her 12 year old daughter!
Both parents let a 40 year old man sleep in the same bed as their 12 year old daughter as part of his "therapy"!
B was one of those evil men who are utterly charming and manipulative and can manipulate normal people into doing the most terrible things- a la Charles Manson or Hitler
The mum had an affair with the paedophile who abducted and married her 12 year old daughter!
Both parents let a 40 year old man sleep in the same bed as their 12 year old daughter as part of his "therapy"!
B was one of those evil men who are utterly charming and manipulative and can manipulate normal people into doing the most terrible things- a la Charles Manson or Hitler
Does it maintain the pace of episode one?
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
donkyboy
Crazy Cat/Fox man
Watching Punisher season 2 at the moment. Man it is difficult watch. Season 2 not as good as season 1.
The russo storyline is mind numbingly dull. his relationship with the psychiatrist is stupid. why he feels the need to wear a mask when all he has are a few scars on his face. they are no big deal.
the preacher is a far more interesting character who seems to have been forgotten for most of the episodes.
The russo storyline is mind numbingly dull. his relationship with the psychiatrist is stupid. why he feels the need to wear a mask when all he has are a few scars on his face. they are no big deal.
the preacher is a far more interesting character who seems to have been forgotten for most of the episodes.
Was thinking earlier, probably not worth a thread on it's own. But have been watching Nightflyers. And whilst, yeah I quite like it, I'm also actually fed up of scifi shows on Netflix always descending into chaotic violence. Probably scifi shows in general. But Netflix is where I'm watching these days, so the last few shows that come to mind.
Always the same. Interesting ideas, some weird stuff happens... Never mind all that, bring on the smashy, choppy shooty stuff now and for the rest of the series. It's tedious and moronic. Of course there has to be tension, a threat of some sort to characters you empathise with but is having them stab or shoot each other really the only way you can do that.
There is a wider point about how much violence as entertainment is engrained in our culture but I cba expanding on that. If you think I've gone hippy or pacifist, no. Just bored of shows always resorting to this lazy crap.
Always the same. Interesting ideas, some weird stuff happens... Never mind all that, bring on the smashy, choppy shooty stuff now and for the rest of the series. It's tedious and moronic. Of course there has to be tension, a threat of some sort to characters you empathise with but is having them stab or shoot each other really the only way you can do that.
There is a wider point about how much violence as entertainment is engrained in our culture but I cba expanding on that. If you think I've gone hippy or pacifist, no. Just bored of shows always resorting to this lazy crap.
The bit when he gets out of the hospital and the cops run right past to start locking the place down, without noticing the guy they just passed is wearing a fucking mask coz that's not conspicuous at all, was especially
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Umbrella Acadamey is good. Nathan from Misfits. A decent twist on the mutant academy idea so far
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Might want to put a spoiler alert on that wiskey.
Having watched it a few days ago I find it hard to believe a sequel could reveal any utter WTF revelations that top the ones we already know about but given the head the balls involved I may be wrong
I was interested in the Mormon angle and in his family -- both the brother who seemed quite casual about his brother's proclivities and what his wife did/didn't know. No idea if that stuff would be in the sequel though.Might want to put a spoiler alert on that wiskey.
Having watched it a few days ago I find it hard to believe a sequel could reveal any utter WTF revelations that top the ones we already know about but given the head the balls involved I may be wrong
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Cloo
Banana for scale
Yeah, just finished it. There are truly no limits to how the human brain can be fucked about with
I think he was able to get away with a lot simply because paedophilia was so unknown and taboo
I think it was horribly clever of him to 'reveal' he'd been abused and his 'therapy' was to lie with a child because presumably they'd think 'Well, it must be safe because surely he'd be the last person on earth to do to a child what was done to him', whereas now we know that childhood abuse can be risk factor for being an abuser. Still astonishing that parents waited weeks to report each abduction, though.
Similar threads
