Netflix recommendations

[T & P]

Griselda is very good so far. Recommended.

Griselda review – this intense Narcos spinoff is so much fun it’s appalling | Television | The Guardian

The team behind Netflix’s hit drama turn their gaze to a terrifying female drug lord – and it’s a pulpy, stylish ride. It’s almost too entertaining, given the real-life suffering she caused

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Spymaster]

Griselda is very good so far. Recommended.

Griselda review – this intense Narcos spinoff is so much fun it’s appalling | Television | The Guardian

The team behind Netflix’s hit drama turn their gaze to a terrifying female drug lord – and it’s a pulpy, stylish ride. It’s almost too entertaining, given the real-life suffering she caused

amp.theguardian.com

Finished this yesterday. Very good but definitely more fiction than fact. Satisfying ending too.

Mr.Bishie rubbershoes

 

[rubbershoes]

Society of the Snow. It doesn't say anything particularly new about the Andes plane crash survivors but is well done

 

[Epona]

Society of the Snow. It doesn't say anything particularly new about the Andes plane crash survivors but is well done

I was just coming here to post about this, I'm about halfway through it.

I actually think it's amazing, better than any previous dramatisation and I can't see that another one is needed really after this.
It is so well done, harrowing and sympathetic to what they went through.
Horrific but also a brilliant film - it is not going to be for everyone, but if anyone has an interest in the subject matter (dramatisations of real life survival situations) and can cope with it, then I recommend this film.

 

[Sweet FA]

Another vote for Boy Swallows Universe here. Just finished e03 and loving it.

 

[T & P]

Finished this yesterday. Very good but definitely more fiction than fact. Satisfying ending too.

Mr.Bishie rubbershoes

Have finished it myself. Certainly a 7/10 for me but nothing more than that overall. Sofia Vergara’s performance is superb though, and alone worth watching the show.

I’d waited to finish it before checking her real life story. Among the articles I quickly browsed I saw some quotes from the creators in which they claimed they took care not to glamourise the real Griselda. Which seems bullshit to me after checking her bio. She killed a kid when she was 11 over a kidnapping gone wrong ffs. And it seems getting married to her turned out to be a serious health hazard for all of her husbands.

Still, pretty enjoyable overall.

 

[Spymaster]

Sofia Vergara’s performance is superb though, and alone worth watching the show.

She's also far too beautiful to be playing Griselda Blanco!

 

[Epona]

I was just coming here to post about this, I'm about halfway through it.

I actually think it's amazing, better than any previous dramatisation and I can't see that another one is needed really after this.
It is so well done, harrowing and sympathetic to what they went through.
Horrific but also a brilliant film - it is not going to be for everyone, but if anyone has an interest in the subject matter (dramatisations of real life survival situations) and can cope with it, then I recommend this film.

I finished watching it, it was really good.
One of my favourite dramatisations of that ilk to this day.
My taste in films may not be to everyone's liking.

 

[nightowl]

Just watched first two episodes of Kingdom, a historical zombie series made in Korea. Excellent stuff so far.

 

[tommers]

Just watched first two episodes of Kingdom, a historical zombie series made in Korea. Excellent stuff so far.

Yeah, great stuff. Waiting for the next series.

Also just finished Griselda. She was an absolute fucking monster. It was alright, very much like Narcos or a bit Miami Vicey. Worth a watch.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Griselda is very good so far. Recommended.

Griselda review – this intense Narcos spinoff is so much fun it’s appalling | Television | The Guardian

The team behind Netflix’s hit drama turn their gaze to a terrifying female drug lord – and it’s a pulpy, stylish ride. It’s almost too entertaining, given the real-life suffering she caused

amp.theguardian.com

Finished this yesterday. Very good but definitely more fiction than fact. Satisfying ending too.

Mr.Bishie rubbershoes

I found it unsettling that Alberto is played by the Pacho actor

 

[Spymaster]

I didn't notice that!

 

[DaveCinzano]

I didn't notice that!

When I saw them in the car together in episode one I was thinking ‘why's Pacho acting so boorishly heterosexual? When did he get so plump?’

I guess this puts the kibosh on a crossover series

 

[Chilli.s]

Griselda... that birthday party

 

[Orang Utan]

Is this the true story of Griselda Blanco - ‘the Ccaine Queen Of Miami?
If so, will give it a miss, as I’ve heard the story already on Behind The Bastards

 

[Orang Utan]

Is this the true story of Griselda Blanco - ‘the Ccaine Queen Of Miami?
If so, will give it a miss, as I’ve heard the story already on Behind The Bastards

Looks like it is.
Hats off to the imaginative casting

 

[Mation]

Enjoyed the film Our Souls at Night. Hadn't heard of it before. Jane Fonda and Robert Redford both very good - gentle and direct - and not a story I've seen before. It was the right length for the plot, but I'd happily have watched more of it.

 

[Orang Utan]

Enjoyed the film Our Souls at Night. Hadn't heard of it before. Jane Fonda and Robert Redford both very good - gentle and direct - and not a story I've seen before. It was the right length for the plot, but I'd happily have watched more of it.

Sorry for sniggering at the title!

 

[Mation]

Sorry for sniggering at the titel

S'ok. I don't get why, though Why?

 

[Epona]

S'ok. I don't get why, though Why?

Cos it sounds in some English regional accents, particularly Northern ones, like "arseholes in the night"
Which is a whole other genre

 

[DaveCinzano]

S'ok. I don't get why, though Why?

Our Souls
ARR SOLES

 

[Mation]

Cos it sounds in some English regional accents, particularly Northern ones, like "arseholes in the night"
Which is a whole other genre

Oh!

Absolutely didn't occur to me at all, which is most unusual for something like that

 

[Epona]

The thing is as a Southerner, it didn't occur to me until someone pointed it out, and now I cannot unhear it

 

[Mation]

God now I can't stop giggling

 

[Orang Utan]

“To save our souls from bitter, shame, and mourning,
Thou bearest, Lord, base treachery and scorning” was a favourite hymn at church parade when I was a Cub Scout

 

[Orang Utan]

Is there still a shoe/leather shop on King’s Road in Chelsea called R. Soles?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Is there still a shoe/leather shop on King’s Road in Chelsea called R. Soles?

They got taken over by BROGUE TROUPER

 

[Orang Utan]

They got taken over by BROGUE TROUPER

After merging with Clog Eat Clog and Four Sandals

 

[belboid]

About to be turned into a micropub, the Shoo Inn

 

[DaveCinzano]

After merging with Clog Eat Clog and Four Sandals

The less said about the unwise diversification strategy that led to SOCKS APPEAL the better