Netflix recommendations

[The Octagon]

First ep of Umbrella Academy, def interesting enough to keep going.

Love a bit of Tiffany too, so that was a fun scene.

 

[passenger]

Another shout for Afterlife very deep, had me going through all the emotions
up to episode 4 so far.

 

[Reno]

Mid-series update. I cannot emphasise enough how absurdly good and enjoyable this is.

The mixture of the different animation styles, story set-ups (from space exploration to 19th century steampunk-anime fusions to sarcastic tourist droids from another planet enjoying a day out on a human-extinct post apocalypse Earth), and tone of the stories ranging from light and comedic to near-horror) makes you enjoy every story more than the previous one. Do not miss this.

I’m five episodes in and I’m not sold on this. It looks good, I just don’t find the stories that great. Heavy on action, low on ideas. And would it really have hurt to get a few women in to make a few episodes to counteract the sweaty boys vibe ? It’s all tits, guns and monsters. Check out World of Tomorrow by Don Herzfeld, for a really great sci-fi animation short.

 

[T & P]

I’m five episodes in and I’m not sold on this. It looks good, I just don’t find the stories that great. Heavy on action, low on ideas. And would it really have hurt to get a few women in to make a few episodes to counteract the sweaty boy vibe ? It’s all tits, guns and monsters. Check out World of Tomorrow by Don Herzfeld, for a really great sci-fi animation short.

Yes, there are episodes later in which female characters are the main lead and in one at least, the only one.

And some of the storylines are very good indeed. Beyond the Aquila Rift and Zuma Blue are definitely worth checking even if you don’t feel like continue watching the anthology. As are Lucky 13 and A Helping Hand, two of the female-led ones.

A few of them are average or even a bit weak. But overall I loved the idea and it completely hit the spot of a late Saturday night.

 

[danny la rouge]

They also made a TV movie to wrap up the series when it got cancelled.

I’ve just finished Frequency. It turns out it isn’t a TV movie, it’s a 3 min 30 sec epilogue that the original airer, The CW, had made to add to their catchup app when they decided to cancel the show (which was already being developed for a second series). Netflix doesn’t have the epilogue, and so you have to find it on something called Vimeo, which is a bit like YouTube.

Luckily it’s only a very short clip, though.

It could easily have gone on to several seasons, but US networks do tend to have a low opinion of the viewing public, and probably thought the competing timelines were too confusing for people. However, in a way it’s nice to have a story that for once doesn’t need to be rebooted every season, and so concludes in a fairly natural way and before you get annoyed with the reboots.

 

[Reno]

Yes, there are episodes later in which female characters are the main lead and in one at least, the only one.

And some of the storylines are very good indeed. Beyond the Aquila Rift and Zuma Blue are definitely worth checking even if you don’t feel like continue watching the anthology. As are Lucky 13 and A Helping Hand, two of the female-led ones.

A few of them are average or even a bit weak. But overall I loved the idea and it completely hit the spot of a late Saturday night.

I didn’t mean female characters (of which there are several, often heavily sexualised and objectified) and more about female animation filmmakers behind the camera to lend a female perspective. There are 18 episodes, all of them directed by men. I work in animation, there are some very talented female animation fimmmakers out there, it wouldn’t have hurt to approach some of them with so many episodes to go around.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Doomsday Preppers! Ideal with a hangover, ridiculous and brainless, watched about 3 episodes last night

I started watching this last night. Great fun

 

[BigTom]

Boyhood, by Richard Linklater is on Netflix now. I'm a bit of a fanboy for linklater but even correcting for that, this is really great, slow and basically gentle family drama, literal coming of age film, iirc it was filmed over 12 years. Highly recommend it.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The Miami Showband massacre doc is up now.

 

[DaveCinzano]

בתוך המוסד AKA Inside The Mossad - pretty in-depth (not just on the history, or the tradecraft, but also on the philosophical underpinnings) four-part documentary on Israel's intelligence agency.

Dense with talking head interviews with former and serving officers, including ex-directors Zvi Zamir (1968-1974), Dani Yatom (1996-86) and Efraim Halevy (1998-2002, topping off a career begun in 1961); current Deputy Director Ram Ben Barak; key department heads like Avi Dagan (past Head of Recruitment and later ‘Tzomet’, or Collections), Rafi Eitan (Ops Chief or Head of Caeserea 1950-81), David Meidan (Head of the ‘TEVEL’ Political Action & Liaison Division in the 1990s), David Arbel (Head of Europe Division), Rami Igra (Head of the Captured & Missing Division until 1999), Uzi Arad (Research Division); one-time Station Chiefs like Yair Ravid-Ravitz (Beirut) and Eliezer Tsafrir (Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran and Lebanon); various participants in the 1984 Operation Moses, like Danny Limor, Gad Shimron, Yula Reitman and David Ben Uziel, who had been a teenage veteran of the Irgun, and was later a member of a tiny team assisting the Christian rebellion in Southern Sudan in the early 1970s; plus numerous career and case officers like Mishka Ben David, Yossi Alpher and ‘Tamar’.

Rafi Eitan has just died

Spymaster behind the capture of Adolf Eichmann dies aged 92

 

[Mrs Miggins]

"Piercing" is quite a stylish little number. It ends rather abruptly but I enjoyed the ride.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

And 3 part comedy drama "Ill Behaviour" from Peep Show creator Sam Bain. You all probably watched it on TV when it was on but I wasn't here then. I really enjoyed it.

 

[DotCommunist]

Love Death and Robots. Just the first one Sonnie's Edge, which was very very familiar. Peter F Hamilton wrote it in 'Second Chance At Eden', which I read ages ago. Gave up on Hamilton somewhere around the late Comonwealth books. Good but usual Hamilton caveats apply.
I haven't looked at the full author list but I see Jon Scalzi's done one. I liked his book Redshirts, its one joke but its a good joke. Will watch the rest of them.

 

[DotCommunist]

there are some very talented female animation fimmmakers out there, it wouldn’t have hurt to approach some of them with so many episodes to go around.

Same with the writers tbf.

 

[D'wards]

About seven episodes into Love, Death + Robots.
I love it, reminds me of why I love sci fi, especially the sci fi horror.

Some wiley publisher should buy up the rights of all the short stories and publish in one volume quicksmart

 

[Idris2002]

I watched the LDR ep with Red Army versus monsters - very good!

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I'm watching Doomsday Preppers again. These people are fucking nuts!

It's also quite sad that they are so afraid of everything that they need to do this stuff. Is this mainly an American thing?

 

[ash]

I'm watching Doomsday Preppers again. These people are fucking nuts!

It's also quite sad that they are so afraid of everything that they need to do this stuff. Is this mainly an American thing?

I just binge watched some. They are mental some of them are spending 6-8 hours/ day on it. The guns are a bit scary too - it is quite addictive I agree.

 

[DotCommunist]

Working my way through all the LDR's now. Good stuff, Just saw the alisdair reynolds one 'Beyond The Aquilla Rift' which makes me want a Chasm City film done with this animation company.

 

[D'wards]

Working my way through all the LDR's now. Good stuff, Just saw the alisdair reynolds one 'Beyond The Aquilla Rift' which makes me want a Chasm City film done with this animation company.

This one had the best computer animation I've ever seen

 

[Idris2002]

I'm definitely going to watch more LDR. Did you see the one with the cage-fighting monsters? Very 2000AD, I thought.

While we're here, does anyone know if it's possible to change the language of subtitles. I wanted to watch The Bridge, but you only have the options of Danish or German, neither of which I speak, well some German but only if I have to.

So . . . is it possible to get English subs on this one?

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm definitely going to watch more LDR. Did you see the one with the cage-fighting monsters? Very 2000AD, I thought.

While we're here, does anyone know if it's possible to change the language of subtitles. I wanted to watch The Bridge, but you only have the options of Danish or German, neither of which I speak, well some German but only if I have to.

So . . . is it possible to get English subs on this one?

Pretty sure everything is subtitled on Netflix. Mine are permanently turned on.

 

[danny la rouge]

Who watched season one of the OA? I did. It was a while back, but I remember enjoying it.

Well, I watched episode one of season two (or “part 2”, as they’re calling it), and thought I was watching the wrong thing! I could really have done with a recap.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

S1 ended in the school hall....we thought there was about to be a shooting. Is S2 a totally different story to the first S?

 

[danny la rouge]

S1 ended in the school hall....we thought there was about to be a shooting. Is S2 a totally different story to the first S?

I think I’d better not say!

Spoiler

Yes, the school canteen scene was what I was expecting to pick up from

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I did enjoy S1 but found the ending disappointing because I thought all the movements would add up to something important like in A Prayer for Owen Meany.

I'm not sure about bothering with S2 because the end was such a disappointment.

 

[DexterTCN]

Spoiler: OA

It stopped a massacre at a school.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Spoiler: OA

It stopped a massacre at a school.

But not in a way that really made sense with the movements. The actual movements didn't have any real purpose.

 

[D'wards]

Isn't Netflix flipping good value!
(Not that I pay, I have a mates second login, which makes it even better value)

 

[Micro]

The Miami Showband massacre doc is up now.

Watched it. Heavy on speculation, light on facts. Not very well put together.