Netflix recommendations

[Spymaster]

Has anyone else watched Operation Odessa a true crime documentary about a group of 'businessmen" who try to buy a submarine for the Cali drug cartel!

We watched this tonight. Very entertaining.

I can't understand how Yester is still alive

 

[T & P]

Someone mentioned a few weeks ago here a way to watch foreign language series on Netflix dubbed into English? It's not my first choice but my OH prefers it to reading subtitles. Does anyone know how to do it, and whether it's available on all foreign language series? We watch Netflix through a preloaded app on the TV rather than through the Netflix website on a computer, and i couldn't find any option to switch the language to dubbed English when I tried the other day...

 

[lazythursday]

I think it's just a few foreign programmes, especially if they were made by Netflix itself, eg Dark and 3%.

 

[Leafster]

Someone mentioned a few weeks ago here a way to watch foreign language series on Netflix dubbed into English? It's not my first choice but my OH prefers it to reading subtitles. Does anyone know how to do it, and whether it's available on all foreign language series? We watch Netflix through a preloaded app on the TV rather than through the Netflix website on a computer, and i couldn't find any option to switch the language to dubbed English when I tried the other day...

If it's anything like my Samsung TV, then there's an option called "Audio & Subtitles" on the screen after you've chosen your programme. Alternatively, if you've started watching, you can pause and then there's an icon on the screen called "options" and you can find it from there. I guess that both these alternatives will only show the language options if they are available for the programme you're watching. If I'm watching a foreign language programme, I watch in the original language with subtitles so I don't know how many have been dubbed into other languages.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Watched a couple of the old Kenny Branagh Wallanders last night. I never watched them before because I liked the Swedish ones so much. They not bad but they just don't quite nail the atmosphere - I have not actually read the books so I can't really say how the stories should be. There was just too much Kenny moody handsomeness going on for me and they seemed to wrap up the stories too quickly.

I like this guy best as Wallander

 

[fucthest8]

I might check this out. How does a drama like that work in a country with as controversial past as Spain?

Well, they seem to have gone in willing to take the piss out of themselves. "We wouldn't be good Spaniards if we didn't do it all at the last minute". Also, arguably, a little bit revisionist in places and a willingness to accept prevailing popular opinion of who were the good guys. Plus, some entertaining plot devices to take the heat out of some tricky bits e.g. Franco period ... can't say much more because spoilers.

It's good, amusing and thoughtful (and really popular in Spain as I understand it) pleasantly different take on the time travelling genre.

Also making me read up on Spanish history!

 

[fucthest8]

Lost in Space has far far too much melodrama. Far too much. Fucking crying all the time. Just suffocate in a frozen lake with some dignity please. Automatically skipped flashback scenes. Fuck right off with that, anything with this level of mawky shite is going to have eyewateringly bad flashback scenes

I'll give it to more eps. And wheres the old scientist bloke who everyone thinks was a nonce irl?

She's a slightly different character in this one.

It's not grabbing me tbh. Gonna give it one more ep.

 

[fucthest8]

I seem to have binged the entirety of Nailed It last night. It's terrible and compelling. Totally low budget baking show, where 3 contestants are shown some professional cakes and have to recreate them, but they are all shit bakers. In feel it's like Can't Cook Won't Cook but without an audience and less slick if that's even possible. All the budget went on the 10k prize the winner gets at the end of each episode.

I used to be confused by people who say they pop something on the telly in the background while they get on with other stuff but Nailed It nailed it.

This was recommended to me by someone that I would not have expected to, so I tried it. Brilliant hungover telly. Some real belly laughs, making them say "Nailed it!" as they uncover a total piece of shite. Superb.

 

[fucthest8]

Anyway, I recommend Flint Town, documentary following the Police in Flint, Michigan as it all goes to shit in the wake of the car industry collapsing and the ongoing water crisis (lead contamination) there. Not a light watch, but really worth while, gives a real sense of how broken race relations are. Watch without your ACAB goggles on and have a think.

 

[cheesethief]

Just finished Lost in Space - I'd give it 7/10. I prefer my sci-fi a bit darker, a bit more full-on, such as the Expanse or BSG. However, my GF really liked Lost in Space, and she's not normally much of a sci-fi fan, and it was nice to be able to watch a bit of sci-fi with her without constantly thinking "she's only watching this to keep me happy".

 

[nuffsaid]

Enjoying 'Santa Clarita Diet' for my get home half hour chill out viewing after work. Drew Barrymore as a zombie mum who needs to feed on human flesh...what's not to like.

The fact that she and her husband are estate agents makes this all the more plausible.

 

[Mab]

Yeah - think I got a bit overexcited about Fallet and have got bored with it.

Yes! Me too exactly.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Have revised my opinion of Branagh Wallander. It's bloody excellent.

 

[Chz]

Have revised my opinion of Branagh Wallander. It's bloody excellent.

He really is quite good. It's just that the Swedish guy is even better.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

He really is quite good. It's just that the Swedish guy is even better.

I think it took me a few episodes to forget the Swedish ones and take this version for what it is. I haven't read the books as I said but on face value, It's very well made, well acted and compelling.

 

[trabuquera]

Binged The Alienist (all of it) over the weekend. Visually brilliant - lots of straight rips from the Jacob Riis / other sociological tomes on the darker side of "Golden Age" New York 1896. Nicely sarky and subtly subversive script as our crew of misft psych-profilers before the act (a woman, a couple of Jewish brothers, a disabled guy, a lot of juvenile delinquents and rent boys) try to identify a crazed killer of children. Lead actors do decent jobs. Yet dramatically it's a little bungled on pace and overall just ... not that dramatic, which is weird for a serial killer thriller. Honestly it has none of the emotional depth of, say, Ripper Street, so you just end up looking at it a lot, rather than feeling gripped. But not a waste of time.

 

[1927]

An offering from Christopher Guest thats worth a watch.

 

[sojourner]

Hmmm - Alice Through the Looking Glass is new on netflix, with Johnny Depp.

That's my telly for tonight then.

 

[InfoBurner]

Hmmm - Alice Through the Looking Glass is new on netflix, with Johnny Depp.

That's my telly for tonight then.

Shapes and colours and whizzes and bangs. No substance. I endured it last night with the sprog.

 

[girasol]

FOR KIDS (and adults too): Masha and the Bear It got my 2.5 year old gd off Peppa Pig (which is terrible, sexist, boring, etc), she loves it and so do we (adults in the house) because it can be quite funny (slapstick childish humour) and sweet.

It's originally Russian, but it's in English. The Bear used to work in the circus and is extremely handy and smart - he's a genius bear. Masha is the bear's neighbour, we never see her parents but we see the house she lives in along with a pig, goat, dog... She drives the bear to the distraction but he never ever loses his patience with her, it's really great.

It's also on YouTube and vimeo

 

[sojourner]

Shapes and colours and whizzes and bangs. No substance. I endured it last night with the sprog.

I'm in a bit of a hole at the moment. Sounds fine to me.

 

[InfoBurner]

Fill ya boots

 

[cheesethief]

Shapes and colours and whizzes and bangs. No substance. I endured it last night with the sprog.

Saw it the other day with my GF, visually it's quite pretty but otherwise it's a bit lame unless you're under 10. Even the sight of the ever comely Anne Hathaway couldn't detract from the boredom. Depp is barely in it, and his performance is distinctly underwhelming.

 

[marshall]

Binged The Alienist (all of it) over the weekend. Visually brilliant - lots of straight rips from the Jacob Riis / other sociological tomes on the darker side of "Golden Age" New York 1896. Nicely sarky and subtly subversive script as our crew of misft psych-profilers before the act (a woman, a couple of Jewish brothers, a disabled guy, a lot of juvenile delinquents and rent boys) try to identify a crazed killer of children. Lead actors do decent jobs. Yet dramatically it's a little bungled on pace and overall just ... not that dramatic, which is weird for a serial killer thriller. Honestly it has none of the emotional depth of, say, Ripper Street, so you just end up looking at it a lot, rather than feeling gripped. But not a waste of time.

I actually AM quite gripped, agree that it's visually stunning though, turn of the century NYC looks amazing, also the opening credit sequences on this, and many other Netflix and Amazon Prime shows are great, do they have their own award category somewhere?

 

[sojourner]

We watched 50 minutes of Alice Through the Looking Glass and concur with all the negative opinions so far. I haven't read the story but the fella has and he said it bears no resemblance to it. Anne Hathaway was irritating me with those fucking finger movements anyway. Shite.

 

[Mungy]

I'm currently watching Lewis. I used to like Morse, but just never got around to watching after John Thaw died. I like it. Sometimes I think it's quietly taking the piss out of itself. It has the same qualities as Morse and the prequel Endeavour.

 

[1927]

Anyone else watched Man V Snake, the story of The Nibbler world record and the guy who scored the first ever billion points on the video game. I'm not a gamer, and don't understand the fascination at all, but i have to admire the decimation of anyone who can spend 40hrs playing game non stop.

 

[souljacker]

Anyone else watched Man V Snake, the story of The Nibbler world record and the guy who scored the first ever billion points on the video game. I'm not a gamer, and don't understand the fascination at all, but i have to admire the decimation of anyone who can spend 40hrs playing game non stop.

Sounds good to me. If you liked that, watch King of Kong too. It's not on Netflix but is on youtube. It's about a bloke who tries to beat a long standing Donkey Kong world record. After you've watched it, look up his nemesis Billy Mitchell on Google because there were some interesting new developments in the story recently.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Watched a couple of the old Kenny Branagh Wallanders last night. I never watched them before because I liked the Swedish ones so much. They not bad but they just don't quite nail the atmosphere - I have not actually read the books so I can't really say how the stories should be. There was just too much Kenny moody handsomeness going on for me and they seemed to wrap up the stories too quickly.

I like this guy best as Wallander
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I tried watching the Branagh and original versions but gave up very quickly as Wallander was just too irritating for words, always going off to investigate a lead without back up and getting into trouble. Dickhead.

The Bridge is brilliant, though. And Borgen was good too. (They were also on BBC Four, don't know whether they're on Netflix.)

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Enjoying The Alienist but by far and away the best thing about it is Dakota Fanning's dresses. Oh my those sleeves!