Netflix recommendations
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Bit disappointed by Iron Fisting also. The lead actor keeps blaming trump and critics for not getting it. Bailed after three eps
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Iron Fist....managed 1.5 eps over 2 nites. Everyone in it is a dick. What am I suppose to be rooting for?
All the best characters are on the sidelines and gone within minutes; homeless guy....hospital guy etc...
The chief baddies secretary is more interesting than any of the leads.
What a fuck up.
All the best characters are on the sidelines and gone within minutes; homeless guy....hospital guy etc...
The chief baddies secretary is more interesting than any of the leads.
What a fuck up.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Really struggling with this. The characterisation is all over the place, the plot is drivel and there are some truly laughable bits of dialogue. Best bit so far is Carrie Ann Moss, who only has about two scenes.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Public Service Announcement: no matter how interested you are in Classical times, or men in togas, or ultra violence, the Netflix series Roman Empire: Reign of Blood is absolutely unmitigated shite. Attempts to retread the epically bizarre and decadent saga of the rule of Commodus, son of Marcus Aurelius - i.e. it's Gladiator but supposedly with real history in it - and just ends up being criminally dull. Hamfisted, cheap reconstructions with terrible acting, worse dialogue, crap CGI and flimsy sets. Dull and insight-free talking heads choppily break up the 'flow' but even though they've nothing to say, the 'drama' is so drama-free it just comes as a blessed relief. Not even Sean Bean reading the narration (in full throttle Sheffield let's-have-it gusto , probably 'cos they just gave him a nice big cheque to try and rescue this thing) can save it.
Really hard to see how or why Netflix would have funded this tbh. Avoid. I watched this so you don't have to.
Really hard to see how or why Netflix would have funded this tbh. Avoid. I watched this so you don't have to.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Three series of Jonathan Creek (the good ones with Caroline Quentin) over the last week. Still think this is massively underrated. Been rationing Always Sunny as I've only a few eps left.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Finished Cleverman. While it didn't live up to early expectations it was still a good solid series with a nice set up for the greenlit sequal.
Hopefully they will dial down the cliche factor of the 'baddies' while opening up some wider questions about racism and oppression of indigenous peoples who have a natural right to land and equal rights.
Hopefully they will dial down the cliche factor of the 'baddies' while opening up some wider questions about racism and oppression of indigenous peoples who have a natural right to land and equal rights.
watcged 'the most hated woman in america' which got really intense really fucking quickly 
and 'tabloid' which is probably the most fucked up story ever, one of them ones where it's proper bad and you cant think it'll get worse but it just gets worse
and 'tabloid' which is probably the most fucked up story ever, one of them ones where it's proper bad and you cant think it'll get worse but it just gets worse
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Is that a documentary or a film?and 'tabloid' which is probably the most fucked up story ever, one of them ones where it's proper bad and you cant think it'll get worse but it just gets worse
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
Just to chuck this one "out there" - I've heard on the radio today that Mötley Crüe's biography "The Dirt" is going to be made into a (mini-?) series on Netflix - date to be announced (and confirmed for that matter)
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
I've watched about half the series so far - still not entirely sure what the fuck it's all about... It has the feel of something that requires the viewer to already know the backstory in detail, otherwise what's on the screen just never makes sense...
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
A couple of episodes in to Frontier and I'm in two minds about it. Larger brainhalf says it's dull, clichéd, cheapo tripe with a crap script badly acted by amateurs with all the wrong accents. Seems derivative of a hundred other things, including Outlander and Black Robe and Black Sails. It looks laughably knockoff and some of the lines go way past creative anachronism and modish cursing to be just ridiculous (sample: villainous British aristo of the 1790s threatens someone with the words "you had better not be fucking around with me" 
)
Smaller half of brain pipes up that the development of Canada in the 1700s-1800s is really interesting, and I like what they're trying to do in terms of depicting a complex, mixed society riven with conflicting loyalties and new ambitions. (No level of my brain is very interested in lead star Jason Momoa, even when he's throwing axes and thumping people, so hormones are not a factor here.) Will give it maybe another hour or two.
)Smaller half of brain pipes up that the development of Canada in the 1700s-1800s is really interesting, and I like what they're trying to do in terms of depicting a complex, mixed society riven with conflicting loyalties and new ambitions. (No level of my brain is very interested in lead star Jason Momoa, even when he's throwing axes and thumping people, so hormones are not a factor here.) Will give it maybe another hour or two.
documentary interview thing about this woman with the most insane fuckin life i think i ever heard about
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Some decent recent additions, some old, some new, some well known, some maybe less so.
There's also a three part series, Five Came Back, with five big name directors of today (Spielberg, Coppola, Del Toro, Kasdan, Greengrass) talking about five big directors of the past (Huston, Ford, Capra, Stevens, Wyler) who joined up in World War 2 to do their bit as propagandists.
Linked in to this are a bunch of said propaganda films:
- MASH - Korea-set war satire
- The Flight Of The Phoenix - downed airplane, people in jeopardy, post-war rapprochement etc
- 9th Company - Afghanistan-set Russian Platoon
- The Nice Guys - Shane Black buddy movie with Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as a pair of seventies private dicks
- The Big Lebowski - rugs, nihilists and bowling
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - English language adaptation of Stieg Larsson's first novel
- Big Game - Icelandic kid helps American president after terrorist attack
- Tower - rotoscoped documentary about Texas Tower sniper Charles Whitman
There's also a three part series, Five Came Back, with five big name directors of today (Spielberg, Coppola, Del Toro, Kasdan, Greengrass) talking about five big directors of the past (Huston, Ford, Capra, Stevens, Wyler) who joined up in World War 2 to do their bit as propagandists.
Linked in to this are a bunch of said propaganda films:
- Why We Fight: The Battle Of Russia
- Nazi Concentration Camps
- The Battle Of Midway
- Know Your Enemy: Japan
- The Negro Soldier
- San Pietro
- Thunderbolt
- Tunisian Victory
- Report From The Aleutians
- Undercover: How To Operate Behind Enemy Lines
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
Watched the last episode of Riverdale last night. Well disappointing.
Looby
Well-Known Member
Yeah, I binge watched season 2 last week. I really like it and Gus reminds me so much of a mate of mine it's scary.Anyone watching Love?
Netflix original, directed by Steve Buscemi and up to season 2 now. Comedy about two mismatched thirty something's who find themselves single and run into each other randomly. Nice easy telly.
tommers
It was... Rebekah Vardy's account
He's in the defenders with cage, Jones and devil.
I'm up to about episode 10 and I don't mind it. It's silly nonsense but it's a superhero show so what do you expect? Luke Cage was one of the stupidest TV shows I have ever seen and it's not been as bad as that, yet.
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
The characters are weak, the story is all over the place, the writing is poor, there's no one - not hero, anti-hero or villain - who you feel is compelling enough to root for.
How many times do they have to replay the plane scene? And why are there next to no flashbacks of the FIFTEEN years he spent in whats-it-called in the mountains?! The whole thing feels cheap, poorly written, ill thought out.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Yes Minister is on there now, spent last night watching it.
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