Netflix recommendations

[Mrs Miggins]

Ep4.....oh dear

Fuck me people are fascinating

 

[mystic pyjamas]

Paradise lost.

 

[girasol]

Wild Wild Country - overextended at 7h total (in 6 parts) and it soft-pedals some of the central questions, but this account of the Rajneeshpuram fiasco in Oregon (cult commune spiralling into paranoia and exploitation, something that almost never happens...) is still pretty gripping. Great access and archive, a story to die for - some of it beggars belief - terrific 'characters', and some real questions about freedom and religion thrown in. Looking back on it it's extraordinary that any of it happened at all - but it did - and just kept getting weirder.

Came here to recommend it too, finished it yesterday. What a story, and yes, it raises some really interesting questions, the people involved were just wonderful to watch - complex AND strong female characters!!!! Real life stories are so much more interesting than fiction! One minute I'd be siding with Sheela & the community and then there'd be a twist and I'd be "You did WHAT????" I never understood how people could worship a person to that level and never understood the need some people have to "follow" someone/something - but I do get the whole community/freedom thing, so I could see how people ended up there.

Jane Stork ("Ma Shanti Bhadra") was the person who touched me the most, especially on the last episode, I had a lump on my throat when she described the conclusion of her part in the story and I just generally liked her manner. I thought Sheela was too combative, maybe if they had been more diplomatic things would have turned out differently, but maybe not? We'll never know.

One of the most interesting documentaries I've seen in a loooong time. (I think the last one I enjoyed this much was "Sugar Man")

 

[J Ed]

Just been watching Under an Arctic Sky, really fun shortish docu about some Americans who go to surf in Iceland. Absolutely breathtaking scenes, and a fun soundtrack... great light viewing.

 

[DexterTCN]

Santa Clarita Diet.

Drew Barrymore, Tim Ollyfantastic. Zombie comedy. Very funny. Very funny.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Seven Seconds.

A New Jersey cop accidentally kills a black kid, tries to cover it up with the help of his squad and it snowballs out of control. A good exploration of racism in the US, excellent acting, a twist at the end, and it becomes a decent courtroom drama for the last 2 episodes.

Just finished this. Best series I've seen on Netflix. It's tremendously pessimistic in its portrayal of a society, convincing in every detail and layer.

 

[Plumdaff]

Another vote for Wild Wild Country. Really gripping and really astonishing how much your sympathies were constantly shifting. Lots of questions, didn't realise that Osho was only 58 when he died (in the company of the doctor!). It also introduced me to the music of Bill Callahan.

 

[cheesethief]

Recently started binge watching Weeds, it's pretty good. I'd give it 7/10.

 

[Chz]

Recently started binge watching Weeds, it's pretty good. I'd give it 7/10.

As has been noted before... for the first few seasons, sure. I'd even give it an eight. Somewhere along the line it completely jumps the shark and loses any interest you might have had though. I got about halfway through Season 4 and suddenly wondered why I was wasting my time with it.

 

[cheesethief]

As has been noted before... for the first few seasons, sure. I'd even give it an eight. Somewhere along the line it completely jumps the shark and loses any interest you might have had though. I got about halfway through Season 4 and suddenly wondered why I was wasting my time with it.

Bummer

Can't say I'm entirely surprised though, after watching the first couple of episodes & seeing just how many seasons there were, I did wonder how such a simple premise could be stretched out that far.

 

[magneze]

Mute
Once you get past the really bad first 20 minutes it gets going and it's a pretty good film. I enjoyed it.

 

[Supine]

I liked Weeds right up to the end. If I remember correctly it went through a bit of a bad patch and then improved again

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Wild Wild Country. Great TV.

As it played out my allegiance continuously shifted from those at Rajneeshpuram to the people of Antelope and back again, and then I really didn't like any of them, and then I did again; it's a proper ride.

Sheela was something else really. Tougher than tough, and still sticking to her guns.

Every time Swami Prem Niren appeared as a talking head I kept thinking of David Soul (as he is now)....

 

[T & P]

Season 2 of the highly enjoyable A Series of Unfortunate Events is out this Friday. Yay!

 

[Corax]

Everything Sucks!

Teen angst stuff. Good fun. Well made.


The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale

Absolute bollocks. Totally formulaic, but again nice easy watching if you like McHale's shtick - which I do.

I'm sure Black Mirror has already been recommended dozens of times, but it can't be recommended too much

 

[Corax]

Okay, apart from Black Mirror the above recommendations were just *easy watching* - but this one is proper good.

In the 19th century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be alienated from their own true natures. Experts who studied them were therefore known as alienists.

January 22nd - Today, Netflix, the world's leading Internet entertainment service, announced that the highly anticipated series The Alienist, starring Daniel Brühl, Dakota Fanning and Luke Evans, will launch on April 19th exclusively on Netflix everywhere excluding the U.S. and France. All ten episodes will be available at once for members around the world.

Rotten Tomatoes & Metacritic scores are good, but bizarrely low IMO. I've just watched the first three back to back (thanks Pirate Bay!) and I'm completely taken by it.

 

[campanula]

Wild Wild Country. I started to watch this as I know a whole bunch of Sanyasins, from both Puna and Oregon. Noted the casual line quite early on ' we can 'borrow' money from the sanyasins) which slipped by almost without comment...but the entire thing was a gross microcosm of a hierarchical society built on a toxic mix of sex.greed, money, shame, exclusivity and selfishness (with some laughable attempt at spiritual growth). Had to bottle it as I was astonished at the unresolved anger (and contempt) i felt for the entire debacle (I might have lived in an orange hotspot, with Medina and all (the old Herringswell Manor, scene of youthful acid trips). A loathesome time - not sure I have the fortitude to sit through the grotesquely scammed greedfest which destroyed lives, wrecked childhoods and celebrated a disgusting sense of entitlement and specialness. I fucking hate these people.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

I fucking hate these people.

As much as I enjoyed the series I did find it criminally lacking in how the whole thing was portrayed as a 'cult vs feds' thing without exploring the power dynamics and clear exploitation within the Sanyasins. Not on when people like Sheela and the lawyer/mayor are just given the mic without having to face questions about their very dubious behaviour, which the creators no doubt are/were aware of.

And it was way too long.

 

[danny la rouge]

http://www.coltranefilm.com/

Chasing Trane is up on Netflix now. So, get watching it. Highly recommended. It's John Coltrane, why wouldn't you watch it?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Tabula Rasa

A Belgian series of the mystery/amnesia slowly unfolding type. Genuinely great a lot of the time but with a strangely hurried ending.

 

[Corax]

Rotten Tomatoes & Metacritic scores are good, but bizarrely low IMO. I've just watched the first three back to back (thanks Pirate Bay!) and I'm completely taken by it.

Having just finished the series, which was excellent, I took a look at the negative professional critics' reviews. They mainly seem to be complaining that there's so much focus on the internal workings of the mind instead of rooftop chases and explosions - which is kinda the whole fucking premise of the show.

 

[bimble]

Wild Wild Country. I started to watch this as I know a whole bunch of Sanyasins, from both Puna and Oregon. Noted the casual line quite early on ' we can 'borrow' money from the sanyasins) which slipped by almost without comment...but the entire thing was a gross microcosm of a hierarchical society built on a toxic mix of sex.greed, money, shame, exclusivity and selfishness (with some laughable attempt at spiritual growth). Had to bottle it as I was astonished at the unresolved anger (and contempt) i felt for the entire debacle (I might have lived in an orange hotspot, with Medina and all (the old Herringswell Manor, scene of youthful acid trips). A loathesome time - not sure I have the fortitude to sit through the grotesquely scammed greedfest which destroyed lives, wrecked childhoods and celebrated a disgusting sense of entitlement and specialness. I fucking hate these people.

That is strong stuff campanula. I still know a little bunch of ex/ recovering sanyasins too and feel a bit scared to watch this in case I get angry like you. I was really young when I met them, and my first ‘proper’ boyfriend (still friends now) had been brought up in the cult, thanks to his mum.

 

[danny la rouge]

Star Trek: the franchise frontier. My continuing mission to explore new series I'd ignored for decades.

I've now finished TNG (which I ended up enjoying a lot of), and have started on DS9. I'm on S1: E17. So far finding it much lower quality and much more patchy. The worst episodes have been real stinkers. (The one about the new species from the Gamma Quadrant bringing a board game that used real people as participants was a real low point in TV).

DS9 feels much more soap-like, and feels strangely far more dated than TNG. It also inexplicably makes heavy use of the weakest species from TNG, the Ferengei. And for some reason also had an episode with the worst character from TNG: Q. Q was the worst thing about TNG; you'd have thought they would want to forget that ever happened.

I like O'Brien though. And I understand Worf turns up later - I liked him. Not really getting Cisco's acting, though. It doesn't - how can I put it? - seem any good.

 

[B.I.G]

Star Trek: the franchise frontier. My continuing mission to explore new series I'd ignored for decades.

I've now finished TNG (which I ended up enjoying a lot of), and have started on DS9. I'm on S1: E17. So far finding it much lower quality and much more patchy. The worst episodes have been real stinkers. (The one about the new species from the Gamma Quadrant bringing a board game that used real people as participants was a real low point in TV).

DS9 feels much more soap-like, and feels strangely far more dated than TNG. It also inexplicably makes heavy use of the weakest species from TNG, the Ferengei. And for some reason also had an episode with the worst character from TNG: Q. Q was the worst thing about TNG; you'd have thought they would want to forget that ever happened.

I like O'Brien though. And I understand Worf turns up later - I liked him. Not really getting Cisco's acting, though. It doesn't - how can I put it? - seem any good.

This is just subjectively and objectively wrong.

When you think this again go and watch any of the nonsense from season 1 or 2 of TNG.

 

[danny la rouge]

This is just subjectively and objectively wrong.

When you think this again go and watch any of the nonsense from season 1 or 2 of TNG.

Not sure what you're disagreeing with. I thought S1 and 2 of TNG were indeed poor. Especially S1. And the last series was a downward spiral to the final episode, which was terrible. Anything with Q was just stupid.

So far DS9 has just seemed like it was written in a different time, though.

Also I forgot to mention Dr Bashir's "acting". I could do better and I'm rubbish.

 

[Corax]

They're all better than TOS though. That's just unwatchable shite.

 

[B.I.G]

Not sure what you're disagreeing with. I thought S1 and 2 of TNG were indeed poor. Especially S1. And the last series was a downward spiral to the final episode, which was terrible. Anything with Q was just stupid.

So far DS9 has just seemed like it was written in a different time, though.

Also I forgot to mention Dr Bashir's "acting". I could do better and I'm rubbish.

That DS9 is of lower quality. DS9 is the best trek series.

From someone that refused to watch it until recently as "it was no TNG" and preferred Babylon 5 anyway.

 

[danny la rouge]

That DS9 is of lower quality. DS9 is the best trek series.

From someone that refused to watch it until recently as "it was no TNG" and preferred Babylon 5 anyway.

So it improves after S1?

 

[B.I.G]

So it improves after S1?

Yes. It still has the occasional terible episode. Especially the ferengi one and bashir ones. But overall its superior to TNG.

 

[B.I.G]

So it improves after S1?

I find these helpful. If you agree with the reviews of the ones you have watched already. Its worth sticking with.

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