Netflix recommendations

[dervish]

Finally finished Love, Death and Robots, it had loads more episodes than I was expecting, some were excellent, some not so much, but overall very enjoyable. Especially the Hitler and Yogurt ones.

 

[DexterTCN]

Santa Clarita S3 episode 1. It's like (serial killer tv program) Dexter at its best. So funny.

 

[yield]

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.

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

Finally finished Love, Death and Robots, it had loads more episodes than I was expecting, some were excellent, some not so much, but overall very enjoyable. Especially the Hitler and Yogurt ones.

It's a bit hit and miss. Favourites were Sonnie's Edge, Beyond the Aquila Rift & Secret War.

 

[T & P]

Santa Clarita S3 episode 1. It's like (serial killer tv program) Dexter at its best. So funny.

I was worried (as always) that there might be a dip in quality and enjoyment but have finished S3 now and imo at least is as good as the others

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 - A lot of fun. Some good gags. Entertaining.

The Legend of Cocaine Island - Documentary about daft people doing daft stuff because they see dollar signs where common sense should be. It's pretty throw away, but really well filmed and put together despite not being much of a story at all. It'll pass 90 mins if you have it to spare.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Rolling Stones: Olé Olé Olé! - Really enjoyable documentary about The Stones making it to play Cuba...

 

[Patteran]

It's pretty relentless on the tits and violence front. I've not watched all of them, but there's been two versions of Hong Kong so far, one steampunk the other cyberpunk and both have had women in states of undress fleeing sexual violence. You'd think someone might ask why that's come up more than once?

The animation in both of those episodes in particular has been ace, but I'm reminded of the Animatrix in terms of it being technically brilliant but having a lot more misses than hits in terms of concept. There's an awful lot of tropes and not always deconstructed. (I think the Steampunk Hong Kong one does a good go at decolonising Steampunk, and I'm a sucker for sacred fox stories.)

Agreed. The mixed media animation on Witness was stunning - but the content was rotten. It's interesting looking at these techniques & advances and wondering where & when they'll cross over into video games. But I gave up on the series after vampire scooby doo & the teeth-grindingly awful sex scene in the lost space ship.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Marc Maron - Too Real - it made me laugh...

 

[8115]

Chefs Table - Series 5, episode 1. Christina Martinez. I know I bang on about the food programs but this program is amazing, a must watch even if you have zero interest in food. Her story is so moving.

 

[Mordi]

Agreed. The mixed media animation on Witness was stunning - but the content was rotten. It's interesting looking at these techniques & advances and wondering where & when they'll cross over into video games. But I gave up on the series after vampire scooby doo & the teeth-grindingly awful sex scene in the lost space ship.

Hah, sounds like we have very similar tastes. I skipped any if they had that 3D animation stuff, that can all fuck right off. I always get excited at the prospect of games using engines as beautiful as some of this digital animation. It is possible!

 

[DexterTCN]

DexterTCN I broke the code! I have apologised for being weak.

 

[Riklet]

The Hook Up Plan.. french show, only one season... really great charming light fun tbh. Loads of slang and all that if youre keen to improve your french.

 

[Badgers]

Attenborough thing looks like a good (if a bit depressing) watch

 

[Spymaster]

We started Quicksand last night. New Scandi thriller. It starts with a school shooting in Stockholm and a girls arrest but it's not clear if she's the shooter or a victim. Looks very good.

 

[8115]

The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Not watched it yet but it had great reviews when it came out in the cinema. Basically its about a girl getting sent away to a gay treatment centre in the USA.

Also watched the first episode of The Kindness Diaries, really enjoyed it. Man travels around the world with no money, relying only on the kindness of strangers. Could be awful but it's actually well done and an interesting exploration of altruism and connection. Nice twist in the tale too.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Never mind Netflix - my current fave show is Pose on BBC iPlayer.

 

[T & P]

Sabrina is back for a new season Weekly episode releases but I can live with that.

 

[Saffy]

I'm just watching Sabrina now.

 

[marshall]

OA series 2 - I thought the first series was confusing but this is something else

Two eps left, no real idea of what's going on, but loving it; I think I sort of get the gist of what's happened and where it's going but when it comes to articulating what's so good about it to my daughters, my explanation falls apart. It's certainly ambitious.

Am liking the San Fran setting too.

 

[74drew]

Noticed Roadhouse with Patrick Swayze was on it yesterday and couldn't but help myself. It's a masterpiece.

 

[Part 2]

The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Not watched it yet but it had great reviews when it came out in the cinema. Basically its about a girl getting sent away to a gay treatment centre in the USA.

I was surprised to see it on there and missed it at the pictures last year. Very much worth a watch.

Black 47 also recently added. I enjoyed it, it's set in the Irish famine but very much a western revenge film.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Black 47 also recently added. I enjoyed it, it's set in the Irish famine but very much a western revenge film.

Pleasantly surprised by this - it just appeared on my reccos, so I took it for a spin, had no preconceptions, yet was pulled in to the very end. Not the most original, but absorbing enough with some fine performances.

Compares very favourably with 2010's thematically not-unadjacent Tracker, which ultimately wasted Temuera Morrisson, Ray Winstone and some spectacular Aotearoan landscapes.

 

[danny la rouge]

We started Quicksand last night. New Scandi thriller. It starts with a school shooting in Stockholm and a girls arrest but it's not clear if she's the shooter or a victim. Looks very good.

I started that yesterday. Wasn’t sure if I wanted to (a bit difficult given where I live and people I know), but it’s well done.

You have to muck about to get the original Swedish with English subtitles, but I recommend doing that,

 

[Spymaster]

I started that yesterday. Wasn’t sure if I wanted to (a bit difficult given where I live and people I know), but it’s well done.

You have to muck about to get the original Swedish with English subtitles, but I recommend doing that,

Yes, I'd have thought you'd have given it a miss but as you say it's well made. It defaulted to Swedish with subtitles for me so no worries there. Is there a dubbed version there as well?

 

[danny la rouge]

Yes, that’s what it defaulted to with me, for some reason.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yes, that’s what it defaulted to with me, for some reason.

Pretty sure it defaults to whatever you chose last time

 

[danny la rouge]

Pretty sure it defaults to whatever you chose last time

I doubt it, because I watch lots of subtitled stuff and have this problem almost every time.

(Only when they had Les Reverands did it default to the original French. Perhaps because there wasn’t a dubbed version).

 

[MBV]

I have just starting Bad Bank which is a German drama about the financial crash. Only one episode in but enjoyable so far.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

anyone else watching Rebellion? - drama about the birth of the irish republic. Seen first two episodes - really good - gritty, unsentimental and (to the best of my knowledge) historically accurate.

Me and my mum watching it now, yes totally unsentimental! Good to hear it’s historically accurate, films easier to absorb than written knowledge eh.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

I doubt it, because I watch lots of subtitled stuff and have this problem almost every time.

(Only when they had Les Reverands did it default to the original French. Perhaps because there wasn’t a dubbed version).

Yep I’ve noticed this cropping up often in Netflix, it took me a while to realise that was happening at first as I’d never seen a dubbed film before.
I mind my Bulgarian friend ranting about the dubbed films they got “Every actor, same voice! Tom Cruise, Al Pacino, Kevin Costner, same voice!”