Netflix recommendations

[Sunray]

Finished Alice in Borderland, so final post on this before you all righty tell me to fuck off about it.

Very, very good sci-fi series. Easily 8/10 for me. Let’s get this out of the way first: there is a lot violence and a high death count. However it is mostly John Wick-style quick deaths, rather than sadistic gore a la the Saw franchise in the physical front. But it can be grim at places, and some of the challenges the hapless protagonists face are quite twisted psychologically speaking, though at the same time damn clever and thought-provoking.

This is an intriguing, captivating, escape room meets Hunger Games cleverly written thriller playing out on the streets of Tokyo. Ludicrously engaging- we finished the 8-episode series in less than 24 hours- and while not perfect, it does everything you could ask a sci-fi action thriller to do, and then some. Thoroughly recommended

Totally agree. Just binge watched this and kinda wish I'd not as its great. Insane at times.

Just watch it in Japanese with subtitles and not the dubbed version as the acting in the dubbed version is shocking, unwatchable imo.

 

[felixthecat]

Ma Raineys Black Bottom

Fucking excellent, watch it.

 

[muscovyduck]

Ava is surprisingly good

 

[DaveCinzano]

Ava is surprisingly good

It's no Nikita, and maybe half a Hanna.

 

[muscovyduck]

It's no Nikita, and maybe half a Hanna.

I'm out here comparing it to Salt, which is what I tried to watch next

 

[Spymaster]

I'm out here comparing it to Salt, which is what I tried to watch next

Huge mistake. How far did you get?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Ava is surprisingly good

I thought it was absolute twaddle myself.
But then that sort of film is not my cuppa anyway. I just tried it to check that I still think that kind of film is absolute twaddle.

 

[muscovyduck]

Huge mistake. How far did you get?

Spoiler

She's sprayed a cctv camera in a corridor. Sorry Salt but the idea that a government department has their shit together enough to remotely lockdown individual portions of a corridor rings particularly hollow at the moment

 

[T & P]

Very enjoyable (so far) new sci-fi/ horror South Korean series, Sweet Home. Two episodes in and loving it.

Something very wrong starts infecting people city-wide and turning them a kind of creature I won’t go about, and the many residents of a large council block try to barricade themselves in and fight the monsters that outside lurk both outside and inside.

Not excessively scary or violent, plenty of characters with evolving development, good effects and unusual antagonist creatures. Recommended on what we’ve seen so far

 

[Spymaster]

The Ripper documentary series was pretty good. Not much new stuff there if you've had an interest in the case and followed it but there are some good interviews with survivors and coppers that I hadn't seen before and the level of police incompetence in the investigation is brought home well. Probably more interesting to those of us old enough to remember it all happening ("The Yorkshire Ripper", not "Jack the ..." )

 

[Part 2]

The Ripper documentary series was pretty good. Not much new stuff there if you've had an interest in the case and followed it but there are some good interviews with survivors and coppers that I hadn't seen before and the level of police incompetence in the investigation is brought home well. Probably more interesting to those of us old enough to remember it all happening ("The Yorkshire", not "Jack the ...")

Watched this the other day with a mate who didn't know much about the case because she wasn't born. When I'd first seen it coming on Netflix I imagined they'd bought up the BBC documentary from last year and it was very similar with lots of the same people interviewed and the same footage used. In fact it wasn't until the end that I realised it was different because a few scenes were missing. I'd told my mate about a particularly obnoxious Yorkshire woman being interviewed and she didn't show up.

The BBC one is still on iPlayer if you've not seen it.

 

[chandlerp]

It was a bit rushed near the end. They went from hearing the Weirside Jack tapes to briefly mentioning they may be fake to having The Ripper in custody with nothing in between. There was no further mention of the tapes.

 

[smmudge]

We've just finished watching and I thought it was good. It all happened before I was born and I'm not from The North, so I knew his name but not much else about him, I'll he honest until they said his name I didn't know who it was actually about. I liked that they mentioned all the names of the women before his and told their story foremost. And how crap the police were.

 

[8115]

It's Kind of a Funny Story. Film about a teenager who is suicidal who gets admitted to an adult psychiatric ward. I had low expectations but it's actually really good in a low key way.

 

[Epona]

Having watched a fair few Netflix series now, I realise that a lot of it seems to be a thinly veiled excuse for very soft porn in various zombie/sci-fi/historical drama type settings. I am fine with this.

 

[MrCurry]

Having watched a fair few Netflix series now, I realise that a lot of it seems to be a thinly veiled excuse for very soft porn in various zombie/sci-fi/historical drama type settings. I am fine with this.

I don’t think you’re providing enough relevant details.... please list some titles!

 

[editor]

Anyone spot anything new in the line of Scandi drama / murder mysteries?
I watched the Valhalla Murders on bbc4 recently and have gone through Netflix supply.
Is there anything in the offing?

I'm watching the Valhalla Murders now. I'm kinda enjoying it but it does that daft thing where unarmed detectives go wandering into places where they're likely to encounter dangerous criminals without ever waiting for back up.

 

[DaveCinzano]

If the USP of The Valhalla Murders was actually 'Viking detective goes beserk' - Miss Marple meets The Incredible Hulk - then I would be all in.

 

[Sue]

If the USP of The Valhalla Murders was actually 'Viking detective goes beserk' - Miss Marple meets The Incredible Hulk - then I would be all in.

Instead of the suspicious glances across a traditional English churchyard, there'd be broadsword salutes as the boat was set alight and the victim sent on to Valhalla....

 

[DaveCinzano]

Instead of the suspicious glances across a traditional English churchyard, there'd be broadsword salutes as the boat was set alight and the victim sent on to Valhalla....

Episodes to include 'The Audacious Case of the Up-Helly Arsonist', 'Mead, Myself & Eir', and 'Fjord Weddings And A Funeral'.

 

[Mattym]

The Ripper documentary series was pretty good. Not much new stuff there if you've had an interest in the case and followed it but there are some good interviews with survivors and coppers that I hadn't seen before and the level of police incompetence in the investigation is brought home well. Probably more interesting to those of us old enough to remember it all happening ("The Yorkshire Ripper", not "Jack the ..." )

I thought it was really well put together and the soundtrack was excellent. I remember the night he was caught- I had fallen asleep on our sofa in Sheffield, and was then awakened by the ITV early evening news intro music (similar to news at 10 music- which shits me up on all occasions without fail) & the fact that he was caught just down the road.

 

[platinumsage]

Bridgerton (Netflix period drama released today) - Seems to have a good cast and costumes but I only lasted a few minutes - is it worth persisting with it?

 

[Reno]

Bridgerton (Netflix period drama released today) - Seems to have a good cast and costumes but I only lasted a few minutes - is it worth persisting with it?

I've never managed to stick with a show by Shonda Rhimes for more than 2 episodes.

 

[Hollis]

'The Ripper' was excellent...managed to avoid all the pitfalls/cliches of so many 'true crime' series. - I can remember it from when I was a kid - but never knew anything much about it beyond the tape and George Oldfield..

Probably watch the BBC series now to see how it compares..

 

[Mation]

Bridgerton (Netflix period drama released today) - Seems to have a good cast and costumes but I only lasted a few minutes - is it worth persisting with it?

I did intend to go to bed at some point, but no, I've been up all night watching this instead

Thoroughly enjoying it even though it's not at all what I'd normally watch.

 

[T & P]

Bridgerton (Netflix period drama released today) - Seems to have a good cast and costumes but I only lasted a few minutes - is it worth persisting with it?

It’s perfectly decent Christmas escapism tbh. Great costumes and sets and visuals, solid cast, and all-round good entertainment. Already on episode 4- very easy to watch

 

[magneze]

The Midnight Sky looks like it could be good. Out on the 23rd Dec.

It wasn't. Looks great. Acting and directing is good. But the plot is bollocks.

Anyone watched the French series Into the Night? Vaguely similar premise.

 

[Epona]

Also watching Bridgerton - did a few episodes earlier.
Really good cast, highly entertaining.

 

[Epona]

Death to 2020 is available as of yesterday - the usual Charlie Brooker end of year review type thing - nothing unexpected but made us both laugh like drains

 

[MsHopper]

Also a thumbs up from me for Bridgerton. Entertaining and not to be taken too seriously