Netflix recommendations

[T & P]

The second film in the Fear Street trilogy is now available. It’s a lot better than the first one. Not superb or perfect, but still pretty good. So I would recommend it to anyone who watched the first one and is on two minds about trying the second.

Good visuals and production values, and the soundtrack is great .

Will definitely watch the final film next week. Especially as I am liking the reverse chronological order of the tale, as well as the apparent use of some of the same actors for roles in the next film, judging by the trailer .

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The second film in the Fear Street trilogy is now available. It’s a lot better than the first one. Not superb or perfect, but still pretty good. So I would recommend it to anyone who watched the first one and is on two minds about trying the second.

Good visuals and production values, and the soundtrack is great .

Will definitely watch the final film next week. Especially as I am liking the reverse chronological order of the tale, as well as the apparent use of some of the same actors for roles in the next film, judging by the trailer .

I'm watching it now.
I was just about to turn it off actually because it was so dreadfully shit.
The lack of any lore/internal logic is annoying. I don't mind it being daft, but there needs to be a solid what and why for whatever reason. Or am I missing something?

 

[T & P]

I'm watching it now.
I was just about to turn it off actually because it was so dreadfully shit.
The lack of any lore/internal logic is annoying. I don't mind it being daft, but there needs to be a solid what and why for whatever reason. Or am I missing something?

Of course it’s daft, but I thought what’s happening gets explained during the course of the film. But then I don’t normally scrutinise the plot too closely with films of this genre myself.

 

[nagapie]

Just watched the first two episides of Somos. I watch alot of Mexican series, this feels the best so far, quite different. Set in the north and follows families of different social classes. Lots of great swearing too!

I'm no longer here is one of the best films I've seen in the last year. Mexican, on Netflix.

 

[campanula]

I am oddly addicted to this thread. All these things I am never going to get around to watching (although I sometimes make the effort but rarely get anywhere). I have absolutely no idea why I keep returning to it. I try to make a mental list of possibilities but never seem to be in the right frame of mind. Dunno whether I am torturing myself or reassuring myself. Like looking at meals I am never going to cook. Always pleased when I haven't looked for a few days and have a few pages to peruse. Vicarious viewing or like saving up possibilities for desperate late night insomnia. Baffled.

 

[sparkybird]

I'm no longer here is one of the best films I've seen in the last year. Mexican, on Netflix.

Thanks. Yes it's amazing, watched it a few times, the last time with a Mexican friend who was blown away by it.
I also recommend the documentary Ya me voy, (I'm leaving now) about an older guy working in the US, his family still in Mexico. Powerful and very sad. I think it's even on Netflix

 

[Aladdin]

Just watched the first two episides of Somos. I watch alot of Mexican series, this feels the best so far, quite different. Set in the north and follows families of different social classes. Lots of great swearing too!

My 81 yr old mum loves this. I linked her in to my netflix account which she watches on her kindle.
And she got into watching Mexican cartel series and South American series.
And many of the recommendations that pop up for her are S American Cartel type series.

 

[LDC]

Bit of a random choice as I hadn't heard of it, but watched the first 2 episodes of The Serpent last night. Set in 1970s Bangkok and based on a true story that follows a serial killer that killed backpackers. Really excellent and a horrendous story. The main character (still alive in a Nepal prison) is mind-blowing.

Charles Sobhraj - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Epona]

Bit of a random choice as I hadn't heard of it, but watched the first 2 episodes of The Serpent last night. Set in 1970s Bangkok and base don a true story follows a serial killer that killed backpackers. Really excellent and a horrendous story. The main character (still alive in a Nepal prison) is mind-blowing.

I saw that on the streaming service of whatever channel it was on originally - really good series but my big complaint is that there were way too many episodes and way too much rehashing over old ground in terms of the narrative - they could have done it as a 3 or 4 part miniseries and I have no idea why they thought it was a good idea to draw it out that much - it lost some impact and I found my attention wandering in places.

Very good otherwise, horrific events.

 

[Spymaster]

Bit of a random choice as I hadn't heard of it, but watched the first 2 episodes of The Serpent last night. Set in 1970s Bangkok and based on a true story that follows a serial killer that killed backpackers. Really excellent and a horrendous story. The main character (still alive in a Nepal prison) is mind-blowing.

Charles Sobhraj - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

We saw this when it first came out on iPlayer. Very good.

He was a very naughty boy.

 

[Tooter]

Had to give up Sweet Tooth....descended into gigantic plot holes, magically growing trains, dubious acting, schmaltsy nonsense....shame because I liked the first few episodes too.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Had to give up Sweet Tooth....descended into gigantic plot holes, magically growing trains, dubious acting, schmaltsy nonsense....shame because I liked the first few episodes too.

I thought the same, but I forgave it more than usual for the charm and because my family were digging it (they do not want to hear my thoughts on plot holes. . . AT ALL)

 

[BillRiver]

Had to give up Sweet Tooth....descended into gigantic plot holes, magically growing trains, dubious acting, schmaltsy nonsense....shame because I liked the first few episodes too.

Same here.

 

[rutabowa]

Just watched the first two episides of Somos. I watch alot of Mexican series, this feels the best so far, quite different. Set in the north and follows families of different social classes. Lots of great swearing too!

It was pretty amazing in lots of ways... extremely realistic looking and sounding, very unglamorous. The nonprofessional actors def added something. On the other hand, a lot of the dialogue and acting was pretty wooden as well and a lot of the story lines were a bit lame and cliched. On the whole though it was really good at showing what it would really be like to be swept up in a narco war as an innocent, rather than from the perspective of the gangsters or the dea like usual. The last episode is one of the most harrowing bits of TV I ever saw tbh, it is not really a fun watch, it is really ugly and grim.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It was pretty amazing in lots of ways... extremely realistic looking and sounding, very unglamorous. The nonprofessional actors def added something. On the other hand, a lot of the dialogue and acting was pretty wooden as well and a lot of the story lines were a bit lame and cliched. On the whole though it was really good at showing what it would really be like to be swept up in a narco war as an innocent, rather than from the perspective of the gangsters or the dea like usual. The last episode is one of the most harrowing bits of TV I ever saw tbh, it is not really a fun watch, it is really ugly and grim.

I was going to ask if it was worth a watch, but that last sentence suggests it's not for me.

 

[rutabowa]

It is not particularly graphic, just horrifically bleak.... and the slightly cheesy script makes it even more affecting for some reason, I guess partly because it all so recent.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It is not particularly graphic, just horrifically bleak.... and the slightly cheesy script makes it even more affecting for some reason, I guess partly because it all so recent.

Yeah, I just don't do well with bleak. Brings me down. Happy tears are my bag.

 

[sparkybird]

It was pretty amazing in lots of ways... extremely realistic looking and sounding, very unglamorous. The nonprofessional actors def added something. On the other hand, a lot of the dialogue and acting was pretty wooden as well and a lot of the story lines were a bit lame and cliched. On the whole though it was really good at showing what it would really be like to be swept up in a narco war as an innocent, rather than from the perspective of the gangsters or the dea like usual. The last episode is one of the most harrowing bits of TV I ever saw tbh, it is not really a fun watch, it is really ugly and grim.

Thanks. Only on episode 4. I didn't realise that some of the actors are not professionals. I can't see it's going to end well, but thanks for the heads up about the last episode. What I find so sad is I don't know how Mexico and Mexicans ares ever going to break free from the problems and violence that exist today

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I thought the same, but I forgave it more than usual for the charm and because my family were digging it (they do not want to hear my thoughts on plot holes. . . AT ALL)

Yes, I was charmed by it. Also love the narrator's voice.

 

[chandlerp]

Yes, I was charmed by it. Also love the narrator's voice.

James Brolin, sounding remarkably like John Goodman.

 

[girasol]

Tarrantino's Once Upon A Time in Hollywood has arrived on Netflix... Lots to like in it - although a couple of things about the ending left a bitter taste in my mouth (extreme ultraviolence bleurgh! but I guess that's Tarrantino) it was actually a better outcome than what actually did happen IRL. Overall I really enjoyed it.

I actually sat a lot closer to the TV, on the floor, than usual as I felt it needed a bigger screen/more cinematic viewing experience.

 

[T & P]

Finished Z Nation (series). Fantastically watchable. Season 4 was for me the weak link but not terrible either, but overall a very enjoyable and entertaining series. Skilful balance of action, drama, and comedy, and some standout characters and performances. Murphy and Addy in particular, but frankly everyone else.

I wouldn’t begin to suggest that the acting or artistic merit of this gets anywhere close to the much lauded The Walking Dead, but at the end of the day we quit the latter by S4 out of fatigue and boredom, whilst devouring the entire series of this in a few weeks. Thoroughly recommended

 

[spanglechick]

I’ve also consumed all of z nation since the flurry of mentions on here.

I think one of the refreshing things, when compared with The Walking Dead, is that it isn’t scared to move the situation on. The walking dead is stuck in stalemate (or was. Has it finished now?). Ten years or whatever of glacial movement to societal regrowth, and even then square one isn’t far away. (Actually, later series are at their best when we get to the Kingdom - a community that’s had an improbably easy ride and consequently has a ruler with a sense of humour and theatricality… “humour and theatricality” coincidentally being the core of z nation…)

By contrast the post apocalyptic world of z-nation moves really fast. Yes it’s less probable (though the endless large scale power vacuum of walking dead feels too far the other way), but they’re pretty good at lampshading all the bonkers plot lines as being bonkers, and then pointing out that the zombie apocalypse is such a ridiculous starting point that we shouldn’t expect much sense from the world anyway.

Plus it never feels like a slog.

I do question the male-gaze aesthetic. At least Michonne wasn’t expected to wear a push-up bra and heels, nor do we often see Maggie in full lipstick-and-hair dye glamour. And I know Murphy is a cunt, but to take a well loved character, a woman who has been sex trafficked and forced into prostitution and has a specific horror of being dressed overtly sexually, and then in some weird mind-control death state to have him dress her as a stripper, seemed like an unnecessarily cruel level of abuse and degradation of her memory as a free-willed living woman. The humour in the situation and the message that season 2 Murphy is a shitbag could both have been achieved without that particular long-running sight-gag.

 

[kittyP]

Alright alright alright you lot, I'm giving Z-Nation a go

 

[nottsgirl]

Feel Good is good. I think series 1 is on all 4 and series 2 is on Netflix. Mae Martin plays a non binary trans lesbian ex/ relapsing- addict comedian who falls in love with a straight woman.

 

[kittyP]

Feel Good is good. I think series 1 is on all 4 and series 2 is on Netflix. Mae Martin plays a non binary trans lesbian ex/ relapsing- addict comedian who falls in love with a straight woman.

I think both series are on Netflix
I loved it

 

[kittyP]

I watched 3 eps of Z-Nation and I am thoroughly enjoying it
Thoughts so far are it knows what it is and doesn't take itself seriously and because of that it works.

Also in 10k uses "frakin" as an expletive

I too watched The Walking Dead and gave up after about 3 and a half, maybe 4 series (I forget) because it was just so slow.
This sure is fast paced.

Spoiler

By the end of episode 2 we had had zombie goo pit, zombies on fire and a zombie baby and dog!!!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Am I the only one who found it dull and badly acted? I only got three episodes in. Would it be worth more of my time? Does it find it's stride later on?

 

[miss direct]

Not really sure this is a recommendation, but watched the Turkish film Paper Lives last night and had a bad dream....really sad.

 

[han]

Ooh, I like the sound of Z Nation. Might check it out. I've got 4 episodes of The Walking Dead to watch and then I'll have watched all of it. Just need to watch the last season of of Fear The Walking Dead as well.