Netflix recommendations
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So simple 
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
I'm not really getting The Umbrella Academy
We've just watched E:1 and I'm kinda feeling like I still have no idea what's going on or who anyone is.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Just got to end of season 1 of the Umbrella Academy myself, I would go with 9/10, it kept getting better with each episode, thanks to all that recommended it.
T & P
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It’ll make more sense as you go through the series. I’d recommend concentrating on enjoying the ride for the time being though
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
"Losers" a documentary series
The first one is interesting, the second one about Torquay United is great !
The first one is interesting, the second one about Torquay United is great !
1927
Funnier than he thinks he is.
Just binge watched the entire series, very enjoyable, The one about Torquay is great, but I actually really enjoyed the one about curling too!
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
We're definitely going to watch more!
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
That said, is anyone else finding the quality of the netflix commissioned in-house stuff a bit hit and miss? That "friends from college" really has the feel of something devised and scripted by an algorithm. And it's all definitely pitched at a narrow yuppie demographic (both FFC itself and the in-house stuff as a whole).
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
The suitcase. He still had it. However he fell in love with a squadmate. Once the man had died he bailed, then we have the scene of him smashing the suitcase to bits while in some distress
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Ah ok, so the scene where
he smashes up the suitcase is actually him back in the present day, for some reason I thought it was in 1968. . . in that Squid and the Whale movie there's a scene where Bryan Adams' Summer of '69 is played to establish that it's set in the mid-80s - but that didn't work on me, because Irish radio considered BA's track a hardy perennial and kept playing it on heavy rotation well into the 90s at least.
Yeah. I *want* to like Russian Doll. I really do. I'm about 5 episodes in and I'd rather spend the time reading a book. It is just so fucking soulless. I really don't care about the main character.
I do love the food shows though, Chefs Table about Mashama Bailey blew me away recently. That series just gets better and better.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
I think in the case of Friends from College, it's just unrelentingly crap.
I tuned in for Cobie Smulders and Keegan Michael Key, but literally everyone is insufferable and I can fill that niche with IASIP already.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Unrelentingly crap is right, but also fascinating in that train-wreck sort of way.
"Working Moms" about well, working moms in Toronto, has a bad case of Canadians trying to pretend they're not boring (guys, it's OK to be boring).
Reno
The In Kraut
I loved Russian Doll and thought Natasha Lyonne was fantastic in it. It was also created by her and the time loop appears to be a metaphor for the repetitive patterns of addiction, something she knows plenty about. Because it isn’t specifically about a drug addict, it can be interpreted as being stuck in a rut and how to develop on from that. She never lets anybody get too close and has to get out of that. There is so much to dig into when it comes to the psychology of her character but it’s never obvious or trite about it.
Israeli joint
Numbers
an ting!
Spotted it recently too so watched it at the weekend for probably the 5th or 6th time over the years, cracking movie.
Just came here to post about that
They should do a whole movie about the story of Buster - brilliant character and acting, funny as fuck too
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Reno
The In Kraut
That first segment is fantastic, one of the best things the Coens have done. Pretty much liked all of it, the only episode I found a little dull was the one with Tom Waits.Just came here to post about that
They should do a whole movie about the story of Buster - brilliant character and acting, funny as fuck too
Supine
Newt Member
I just read recently it was originally going to be a series but got re-edited into a movie.
Reno
The In Kraut
It was planned as a series but that never happened. It was then reconceived and shot as an anthology movie instead.
T & P
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Yes, some of it is mediocre, and occasionally terrible. But if it one of the end results (whether intended or not) is giving a worldwide platform to lots of emerging writers and filmmakers, it's not such a bad thing.
Netflix has so much content they don't need to finance and produce as many shows and films as they do. The worst consequence for us users is wasting two hours of your life on a shit film from time to time, but I guess the trick is to check online for reviews first.
On the whole Netflix still produces far better quality in-house stuff than the likes of Amazon, whose great-to-shit ratio is much lower. Not to mention Sky, which churns abominably awful stuff most of the time.
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