Netflix recommendations
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Don Neto was/is my Fav.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Watching this on Netflix now.
mack
Fact Me Till I Fart
Found season 2 of NM a bit of a slog to get through, I get that they need to flesh out/embellish the story, but some of the early episodes dragged on.
Still.. looking forward to the rise of El Chapo in the next season.
Rosemary Jest
Wrong and Unstable
Watched The Stranger, it was ok until the last episode, which was terrible.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
OK . . . Funeral in Berlin. Michael Caine doing the sort of Michael Caine that most readily lends itself to parody. Arguably the best of the Harry Palmer movies?
Spy Game. Robert Redford as the maverick CIA guy, and Brad Pitt as his protege who gets into serious trouble in China. A good ride, if you can overlook the ludicrous ending, with effective passages in Cold War Berlin and '80s Lebanon.
Spy Game. Robert Redford as the maverick CIA guy, and Brad Pitt as his protege who gets into serious trouble in China. A good ride, if you can overlook the ludicrous ending, with effective passages in Cold War Berlin and '80s Lebanon.
I had to laugh at the love interest saying she'd been involved in a UK "human rights group" that accidentally killed a Chinese politician's son in a bomb attack.
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Couple of eps into The Umbrella Academy. Someone somewhere described it as X-Men meets Wes Anderson. I get that. As ensemble super dramas go, it's pretty good. Plus, it has Cameron Britton in it, who (chillingly) stole ever scene he was in, as serial killer Ed Kemper, from Mindhunter.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Ragnarok was great. Looks beautiful, scandi landscapes and cold light. Lots of interesting stuff just to do with normal norway life- they have Spar! Alcohol is srs bssns! The seriousness and sensibleness of the schools intervention (misguided, but still). The Jutuls (jotun) amazing rich peoples scandi house (so tasteful they don't even have a TV!).
The story itself is intriguing, good modern elements to the norse mythos by bringing in eco-crimes. I will watch series 2.
The story itself is intriguing, good modern elements to the norse mythos by bringing in eco-crimes. I will watch series 2.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Just started with 'Pandemic' given the current world situation. Watched the first 2 of 6 episodes. Slightly annoyingly American going on about a tech start up going to solve the flu issue, and the anti-vax hippie they interview is just horrendous, but it's worth a watch overall.
T & P
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It's very good indeed. It can take a few episodes for some people to get into it, but if you're already enjoying it after the first two you will love the rest.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I was the opposite. I got 4 or 5 in and completely lost interest. It wasn't bad at all, but there's so much stuff to watch, too little time to do it in. And this just wasn't interesting enough.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
The Good Wife has moved from Amazon to Netflix. Was distraught when we thought we'd lost it, as it's turned out to be much more gripping than expected. It's kind of weird watching it and spotting characters who later turn up in The Good Fight, making their first appearances - (we watched that first) but am thoroughly into it now. Started season 4 last night.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
If you’re into those you'll probably like Suits as well. Give it a couple of episodes because it looks a bit silly at first but then turns into good drama.
Also check out Damages with Glenn Close. That's really good. I think all the seasons are on All 4.
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
It gets going a bit after about episode 5. Which is a bit of a shame given that it’s only 10 episodes in total.
I don't understand why film makers do that, when the real story is actually way more interesting than some bollocky fucking thing they made up.
Reno
The In Kraut
Nothing to do with Stranger Things, it’s by the team behind The End of the Fucking World and like that show it’s based on a graphic novel by Charles Forsman. Tempted to check this out as I loved The End of... and I really like the lead actress Sophia Lillies.
Looks like it’s a collaboration between the two.
Netflix has dropped the trailer for 'I Am Not Ok With This' and we are officially hooked
Goodbye, social life.
Reno
The In Kraut
Looks like it’s a collaboration between the two.
Netflix has dropped the trailer for 'I Am Not Ok With This' and we are officially hooked
Goodbye, social life.www.glamourmagazine.co.uk
Fifty Shades of Grey is from the people behind Jaws, because both were made by Universal studios. The production company 21Laps is behind several Netflix shows and many movies but creatively that means not a lot. Nearly every time publicity mentions that something is from the same producers, its just a bit of empty hype which allows them to draw a connection to something that is a success.
Ah, gotcha- well it worked on me - but thought is was worthwhile nonetheless.
T & P
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The first couple of episodes are good though a bit slow and not particularly dramatic story wise, so I was taking it as a passable coming of age teen-targeting programme. But then it got much more interesting story wise with one episode to go.
Regardless of the creators might be, it certainly looks like ‘Stranger Things meets Sex Education’. It amuses me that even it’s set in present day it still screams ‘1980s’
Brilliant soundtrack as well.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
s2 of altered carbon is a lot better than s1 in my humble. I still think the Envoy stuff is poorly explained compared to the books but its not a huge issue. Pacing has improved overall, less monologuing thanks to a larger role for allies/friends. Story wise its closest to Woken Furies the books but like srs one not a direct interpretation of the written stories.
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