Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

Netflix recommendations

About to be turned into a micropub, the Shoo Inn

I give you longstanding Shoreditch bar opened in an old shoe wholesaler.

IMG_2919.jpeg


And later I’ll post up a link to the pub in Ireland that is also a shoe shop. I think it’s in Carrick on Shannon.
 
Hollywood.
Series 1 is fantastic
I assume it is not related to the Japanese Kingdom 1,2 and 3 films which have also recently been added to neflix (I see my wife has added them to my list). Hopefully nothing like the dreadful Yu Yu Kakusho that I have recently been forced to sit through over dinner.
 
Looks like it is.
Hats off to the imaginative casting
View attachment 410469View attachment 410471
Some photos of Griselda here, rather than a mugshot...

Sofia did wear prosthetics and also wonky, yellowed teeth, as well as thinning her eyebrows to play the part, but yeah, they do look very different.

I think the party is when her true nature is presented to us in full horror, prior to that I feel there was some rose tinted glasses around her behaviour, like she was a mother doing things for her children narrative. Anyway, I thought it was one of the better ones from the Narcos universe.
 
Some photos of Griselda here, rather than a mugshot...

Sofia did wear prosthetics and also wonky, yellowed teeth, as well as thinning her eyebrows to play the part, but yeah, they do look very different.

I think the party is when her true nature is presented to us in full horror, prior to that I feel there was some rose tinted glasses around her behaviour, like she was a mother doing things for her children narrative. Anyway, I thought it was one of the better ones from the Narcos universe.

oh boy....

1707329158471.png
 
Also for anyone who liked Society of the Snow, there is a really good documentary: Society of the Snow, Who We Were on the Mountain which is a documentary about the filming of the thing, with insights into the set, location, special effects, and the (not very well known - new and relatively unknown actors were deliberately chosen for the cast) actors involved in making the film.
 
Another thing...a while after this happened (although not directly related), my dad ended up as an aircraft engineer for both military and civilian aircraft.
His main life's work was making sure plane seats bent without breaking, and that other cabin and galley fixtures didn't come unbolted and cause additional injury in the event of a crash.
 
Another thing...a while after this happened (although not directly related), my dad ended up as an aircraft engineer for both military and civilian aircraft.
His main life's work was making sure plane seats bent without breaking, and that other cabin and galley fixtures didn't come unbolted and cause additional injury in the event of a crash.

That is a pretty good cause to devote one’s life to.
 
That is a pretty good cause to devote one’s life to.
It was something he kind of fell into because he has a good brain for that sort of thing (probably neurodiverse).
He started out as a fitter doing riveting in aircraft wings, and ended up designing stress tests for cabin and galley fittings.
I do like to mention that he was involved in flammability certification for a while, and part of his job involved going to airfields and blowing up planes
waves to NSA/Security services

Not bad for someone who left school at 14 with no education. Spent most of his life as a jockey, tanner, and aircraft fitter, late on people realised he was fucking brilliant at designing stress tests/alterations to designs and he ended up in a good engineering job.
 
Last edited:
I gave up on loudermilk when it was on prime after a couple of eps. I've started watching it on Netflix, but only because there is fuck all else on.
It's my go to for doing the washing up.

His shit taste in music is tedious. I can't get behind a lot of his rants because he is a massive dick, and not in the loveable anti hero way the show thinks they are depicting him.

Also, the shows depiction of addicts, ex addicts etc seems really off the mark and almost offensive.
I started watching it , I’ve done my share of rehabs and NA meetings . I just found it annoying and very inaccurate. Loudermilk would have got a good slapping at some of the meetings I’ve been to.
 
For anyone who read and enjoyed the book "One Day" (I really did!) and even if you didn't - a really enjoyable, nostalgic romcom (or friendcom?) with great music! At least the first two episodes were... Very promising... Spans 20 years starting in 1988....
One Day:

 
For anyone who read and enjoyed the book "One Day" (I really did!) and even if you didn't - a really enjoyable, nostalgic romcom (or friendcom?) with great music! At least the first two episodes were... Very promising... Spans 20 years starting in 1988....
One Day:


Haven't read the book, have managed 10 minutes of this series so far which consists of very irritating rich pratt meets working class leftie Northern woman - ugh.
Will give it til the end of the first episode to reel me in but it doesn't really seem like my sort of thing!
 
Haven't read the book, have managed 10 minutes of this series so far which consists of very irritating rich pratt meets working class leftie Northern woman - ugh.
Will give it til the end of the first episode to reel me in but it doesn't really seem like my sort of thing!

Oh god there was a film adaptation of this I think, it's ringing all sorts of bells with me now.
I've seen the film.
Or at least it was something very very very similar.
With Anne Hathaway I think.
 
Oh god there was a film adaptation of this I think, it's ringing all sorts of bells with me now.
I've seen the film.
Or at least it was something very very very similar.
With Anne Hathaway I think.
Yeah, the film was a pile of disappointing shite, with Hathaway being mercilessly mocked for terrible northern accent :D

Anyway this version is getting really good reviews now, 4 & 5 stars everywhere (not that it matters to me). But looks like the two main characters are in for the big leagues after this. It'll be interesting to see how their careers pan out. (She had a role in "This is going to hurt" and him in "White Lotus" prior to this).
 
Last edited:
Yeah, the film was a pile of disappointing shite, with Hathaway being mercilessly mocked for terrible northern accent :D

Anyway this version is getting really good reviews now, 4 & 5 stars everywhere (not that it matters to me). But looks like the two main characters are in for the big leagues after this. It'll be interesting to see how their careers pan out. (She had a role in "This is going to hurt" and him in "White Lotus" prior to this).
Because of the stellar reviews you mention, as well as a couple of recommendations from friends whose judgement I trust, I decided to give this a go even though on paper it doesn’t sound like my kind thing. To my surprise I’ve enjoyed the first three episodes far more than I thought I would.

It’s not a romcom in the overtly cheesy Hollywood sense of the word. And it has a great soundtrack. We’ll probably binge the whole thing over the next few days.
 
Haven't read the book, have managed 10 minutes of this series so far which consists of very irritating rich pratt meets working class leftie Northern woman - ugh.
Will give it til the end of the first episode to reel me in but it doesn't really seem like my sort of thing!

It's awful but I'm up to episode 6 🤣

I liked him in White Lotus and find him quite watchable. It has that Neflix look though, that's so fake it makes me feel a bit queasy.
 
That is a pretty good cause to devote one’s life to.

Sounds like a lot of bolt-tightening involved, but I can imagine the warm glow you’d feel when the inquiry shows nothing has come loose in the aircraft and the passengers were consumed in the fireball instead.

In your face, fire-suppression monkeys! :p
 
EDIT: Actually just not worth my energy or time.
 
Last edited:
My friend in America told me that Fool Me Once is popular over there, and is on Netflix. I don’t have Netflix though :D
 
Back
Top Bottom