ATOMIC SUPLEX
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The one about elmo was quite uplifting until the other stuff came out.
Netflix recommendations
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Oh crap, that's a shame.It doesn’t seem to be on UK Netflix
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Has this moved from Amazon to Netflix? Soundtrack is by Johnny Greenwood, so, despite not being interested in the Royals, I had imagined it might be an interesting film, and one I mean to watch at some point.
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
Yes just came onto Netflix last week. The soundtrack is by far the best thing about the film, I did really enjoy the music. The rest of it is just vapid and trying way too hard (IMHO).
Griff
Feeding the foxes
On ep 6 of Bodies, and loving it. Not necessarily mindblowing, but still very gripping and entertaining
Yep, just finished it this morning and thought it was excellent.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Enjoyed this too. No great challenges and plot holes plenty, but good light escapist viewing. Ripper St. meets 12 MonkeysOn ep 6 of Bodies, and loving it. Not necessarily mindblowing, but still very gripping and entertaining
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Silas Loom
A lome the lenthe of a yerde
Astonished that there is any love for Bodies. I came here to warn people off. Netflix has no idea what it is doing and sprays money with zero quality control, to the point where I now automatically mistrust anything it has commissioned. This bastard child of Dark and shit ITV police procedural is anything but gripping or entertaining, and everything about it from plot to editing to casting is sloppy. Stephen Graham is going the Vicky McLure route of being great in This Is England and then signing up to total dross.
It's not a patch on Dark but it's entertaining. Not sure could sit through another Dark in current mood, Tbh.
Silas Loom
A lome the lenthe of a yerde
Forgivably dodgy science aside, Dark was precision-engineered perfection, from the golden age of Netflix, when it came up with things like Maniac and bought into talents like Charlie Brooker. I don’t know what went wrong. Something did.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Every time they go 'let's make another thing like that other one we did', it's likely to be a bit of a stinker. They'll always do better trying to give original ideas a chance under the creative control of someone interesting. But the perception in movies has always been that the former is lower risk and the latter is higher risk. I'm not sure what the evidence says, but almost all cine companies seem to agree that sticking to a formula is safer in the financial sense, and Netflix has now apparently decided the same.
My recent sci fi favourites would have Dark, The OA and Devs (Amazon, I know) as top tier. Maniac was good but maybe not as top tier as the aforementioned. I don't think anything has gone wrong, tbh. That's a short time frame you mentioned with Maniac, Dark and Black Mirror. Plenty of time for good stuff to come.... Andor over on Disney, for starters.
Disagree that Stephen Graham and Vicki McClure have gone downhill since This Is England. SG is gold in everything he does, even if the show may not be up to scratch. Less familiar with VMc, although she's excellent in Line of Duty (which also starred SG in a recent season).
Silas Loom
A lome the lenthe of a yerde
She was a bomb disposal cop in the silliest procedural-by-numbers ever broadcast. Forget the name of the show. Not Netflix, so off topic I suppose.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
It's a graphic novel though, they've just adapted it as a TV series.
They didn't come up with the idea themselves.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Agree with you re Dark, The OA and Devs. Haven't seen Maniac, will check it out, thanks. Have you seen Orphan Black and The Expanse? They were both really good too.
Loved both of them but sadly never got to finishing Orphan Black. There's a reboot of it on the way but if Tatiana Maslany isn't in it not sure.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Krysten Ritter is the lead. I thought she was good in Jessica Jones and having just refreshed my memory, she was in Breaking Bad too. Tatiana Maslany is definitely a hard act go follow, but I'll definitely check out the reboot/next iteration.
smmudge
i know the smudge is true
Really enjoyed Colin in Black and White, about and 'presented' by Colin Kaepernick. Short series, kind of hoping they might do some more? Turns out it's not that new so maybe it's been on there for a while.
Bodies was ok, nothing groundbreaking but not offensive either, good enough for some fluff tv.
Bodies was ok, nothing groundbreaking but not offensive either, good enough for some fluff tv.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
My wife is enjoying the Japanese mini series Pluto. It is an expansion of a legendary Japanese manga/anime character Atom (astro boy) story, but told in a much more modern and adult way.
Took me a while to get into, but I am somewhat invested now. Slow build, police investigation, side stories, twists and turns.
Took me a while to get into, but I am somewhat invested now. Slow build, police investigation, side stories, twists and turns.
T & P
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For fans of the horror genre, new Australian film Talk to Me is very good indeed imo. Part supernatural horror part drama, it relies not on jump scares but good storytelling. Very positive reviews across the board
www.rottentomatoes.com
Talk to Me (2023) | Rotten Tomatoes
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Thought bodies was very good. interesting and original story well told and how the ending unfolded was probably the best bit
Although im scratching as to why the authorities left the resistance movments time machine completely unguarded so they could use it. Or how they managed to build it in the first place
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Have you seen Dark?
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I found Dark too difficult to follow, but I'm managing with Bodies. Dark asked quite a lot of my scatty memory and I'm not a binge watcher, so there's ample time to lose track.
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
This - with my ND facial recognition issues and problems remembering plot (which is why I do tend to binge watch), it's difficult enough keeping track of what is going on in a fairly uncomplicated drama where all the characters stay the same age from start to finish and are only played by 1 character each. Having 2 characters with similar hair colour/style/facial hair or not means I struggle.
Having however many characters portrayed at various different stages in their lives by a range of different age actors, many of whom have superficial similarities in appearance to someone else in the cast, was just too much - even referring to the Fandom Wiki as I watched - I can see that it is objectively a great series (and something where I have a love of the genre anyway) and I would love to be able to get into it, but after a couple of episodes I was mentally exhausted and had lost track. I've tried several times.
What I need is a version where each character has a little bubble (similar to a subtitle) floating above their head with their name.
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
For fans of the horror genre, new Australian film Talk to Me is very good indeed imo. Part supernatural horror part drama, it relies not on jump scares but good storytelling. Very positive reviews across the board
Talk to Me (2023) | Rotten Tomatoes
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Yep, that's excellent.
Bodies was good until it hit the usual trouble with
time travel, which is that it's fucking silly. You can't change the past. So all they did was create alternate timelines. Yawn
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