Netflix recommendations

[HoratioCuthbert]

I don’t even know if I can recommend it. Brilliantly made but proper infuriating

oh wow, what an absolute cunt


eta: not finding it so well made. When the music and that is constantly tense rather than gradually building tension I find it really hard to follow. Just how my brain works though I guess. Subtitles agree with me:

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

We saw the Tinder Swindler, over the weekend.

He's an amateur in comparison to The Puppet Master.

The lassies in that make it cheerful viewing though I must tell someone with a deadpan voice that I would feel sorry for them if they weren't a piece of shit sometime.

 

[DotCommunist]

I watched Avengement which was a bit crap but had entertainment and comedic value overall. Big 'Gangs of London' influence in the violence and the whole thing tbh. The redoubtable Thomas Turgoose gets some good bits. Craig Fairbrass also.

 

[Spymaster]

The lassies in that make it cheerful viewing though...

Aye, the Dutch lass in particular was very cool.

Also the Tindler Swindler, whilst still a massive cunt, really only nicked money and people's self respect. The Puppet Master was a far darker, totally evil bastard, who's left very deep psychological scars on a lot of people.

 

[Saffy]

I had to watch Tinder Swindler to understand lots of memes I'd seen. The Dutch woman was brilliant and getting some of her money back in that way was excellent.

Might have to watch Puppet Master now.

 

[Aladdin]

Aye, the Dutch lass in particular was very cool.

Also the Tindler Swindler, whilst still a massive cunt, really only nicked money and people's self respect. The Puppet Master was a far darker, totally evil bastard, who's left very deep psychological scars on a lot of people.

All fucking cunts.

 

[Spymaster]

All fucking cunts.

For sure. But the TS didn't have the utterly jaw-dropping WTFness, of the PM.

 

[Aladdin]

For sure. But the TS didn't have the utterly jaw-dropping WTFness, of the PM.

Oh the PM was an absolute psychopath and is still damaging that woman.

The tinder fucker is still swindling women. Just in another country.

 

[belboid]

I remember the puppet master case from the first trial (tho not particularly well). His release following appeal was a key driver in bringing in the coercive control law (only took another six or seven years). It would still be hard to prosecute him without the victims blessing, but at least he wouldn’t get out so quickly if it did come. No such law in France, which is probably why he’s there.

 

[T & P]

This is why you lot should watch Inventing Anna. You don't feel bad for the victims because they're as unlikeable as the scammer herself

 

[Aladdin]

This is why you lot should watch Inventing Anna. You don't feel bad for the victims because they're as unlikeable as the scammer herself

I ended up liking Anna. At the very very end...

 

[Thora]

I’m halfway through Inventing Anna and really enjoying it. I think her accent is spot on - a Russian doing American English with a German twang.

 

[Aladdin]

I’m halfway through Inventing Anna and really enjoying it. I think her accent is spot on - a Russian doing American English with a German twang.

I thought she was brilliantly portrayed.

 

[Epona]

I am halfway through the first episode of Inventing Anna and it is fucking brilliant so far.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Am I watching something else? I'm three episodes in to Anna and is certainly not grabbing me the way it seems to be grabbing everyone else. Don't get me wrong it's decent enough fluff, but at the moment I could still take it or leave it. It's probably the rave reviews from people who have completed it that are keeping me going. I'm more curious as to when it will become gripping and what the turning point will be.

 

[Supine]

I am halfway through the first episode of Inventing Anna and it is fucking brilliant so far.

Why are you posting on u75 halfway through an episode then?

 

[platinumsage]

Am I watching something else? I'm three episodes in to Anna and is certainly not grabbing me the way it seems to be grabbing everyone else. Don't get me wrong it's decent enough fluff, but at the moment I could still take it or leave it. It's probably the rave reviews from people who have completed it that are keeping me going. I'm more curious as to when it will become gripping and what the turning point will be.

I was a bit ambivalent after the first episode but hooked after the third.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I was a bit ambivalent after the first episode but hooked after the third.

Well that's what I have heard but I've just done the third and I don't think my feeling have changed. . . . Unless you mean it takes off after the third.

 

[platinumsage]

Well that's what I have heard but I've just done the third and I don't think my feeling have changed. . . . Unless you mean it takes off after the third.

I guess if you're not interested in the characters and their motivations by the end of the third then maybe you don't like the show that much.

 

[Epona]

Why are you posting on u75 halfway through an episode then?

Why not?

I don't switch my PC off and sit staring at the telly for hours on end, they are both on at the same time.

If I can't manage to post a short sentence without losing concentration on a TV show then I need someone to book me in for a cognitive function test.

In fact because I can touch-type I don't even need to take my eyes off the TV.

 

[T & P]

Well that's what I have heard but I've just done the third and I don't think my feeling have changed. . . . Unless you mean it takes off after the third.

For me it did kind of take off after the third. Not necessarily the fourth episode, but around the middle the series there is an outstanding episode (the one in Morocco) that takes the series to the next level and then some. From then on you'll be (or should be) hooked to it.

 

[Reno]

For me it did kind of take off after the third. Not necessarily the fourth episode, but around the middle the series there is an outstanding episode (the one in Morocco) that takes the series to the next level and then some. From then on you'll be (or should be) hooked to it.

I admire your relentless optimism that one day you'll get AS to like something.

 

[smmudge]

I liked Inventing Anna, I enjoyed the second half more, pretty much as the lies start coming apart is when it gets good imo. There is a flux of 'characters', some important at one time then disappearing, previous bit parts then coming to the fore (probably like her life).

My only complaint is that Netflix called it a "limited series" but at 9 episodes that is surely a full series, limited is 3 or 4.

 

[platinumsage]

My only complaint is that Netflix called it a "limited series" but at 9 episodes that is surely a full series, limited is 3 or 4.

I think "limited series" means it's limtied to one season, and refers to the fact it's a one-off story with zero prospect of it being renewed for further seasons, rather than there being a limited number of episodes in that single season.

 

[Epona]

I think "limited series" means it's limtied to one season, and refers to the fact it's a one-off story with zero prospect of it being renewed for further seasons, rather than there being a limited number of episodes in that single season.

They quite often label shows that they have picked up from elsewhere eg BBC dramas as limited series though, and since they didn't make them they can't say for sure that there is zero prospect of it being renewed, since they do not quite own Telly yet.

I understand it to mean something shorter than the standard US run (which is typically 12+ episodes).

 

[Thora]

I enjoyed the first few episodes and the Morocco ones were great, but then the one where they went to Germany was a bit dull (and really long). Just got the last episode to watch.

Previously watched Tindler Swindler and Puppet Master - this one is much more enjoyable to watch as she's basically just scamming shallow rich dim people who love money.

 

[harpo]

I made myself horribly late for work this morning because I couldn't seem to switch off Inventing Anna last night. One episode to go.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Previously watched Tindler Swindler

Every-time someone posts about this I keep reading it as Tilda Swinton.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I'm hooked in Inventing Anna too. I am just hooked on the story and I am finding everything about it highly entertaining. She's quite a fascinating figure and I can't help but admire her chutzpah even though she's probably some sort of horrendous psychopath.

 

[Aladdin]

I made myself horribly late for work this morning because I couldn't seem to switch off Inventing Anna last night. One episode to go.

Thats how I was too.
I stayed up way too late watching it...like still up at 5 am.