Netflix recommendations

[Reno]

I recently enjoyed Outside In with Edie Falco and Jay Duplass. It’s about a man who gets out of jail after twenty years for a crime which he didn’t commit and his former school teacher who devoted her life to get him out. Falco gives a performance which deserves an Oscar nomination.

 

[T & P]

Everyone else is giving highly cultural reviews and recommendations for Netflix programmes. I'm posting to say watch Big Mouth cos it's funny and gross. Only two episodes in but I really like it

Anyone else seen Big Mouth? I think it's great, proper funny and deals with topics that you rarely seen discussed on TV, let alone a cartoon show. Took me a couple of episodes to 'get it.'

The gross and totally non-PC Hormone Monsters steal the show for me.

We’ve discovered this by chance today. It’s just fucking brilliant isn’t it? Halfway through and absolutely loving it

 

[dervish]

The new Matt Groening creation, Disenchantment, is out today. Just finished the first episode. It’s okay. Not great, but perfectly watchable. Unlike The Simpsons or Futurama it seems to be an evolving story throughout the entire series.

Yes, I've been watching this, it's better than I thought it would be.

 

[rubbershoes]

Cardboard Gangsters.

It's not brilliant but it's good enough. Great lead performance by John Connors, though. He really carries the film.

I found the Dublin accents a bit challenging so I went for subtitles, which were pretty loose. Too much weed can make you para not power

 

[Dom Traynor]

4.5/6 eps down and pretty good.

Some right howlers in terms of plot holes and characters doing things that they wouldn't do, though. The useful idiot track is pretty effective though, and the turn to triple cross.

Great use of some solid Aussie character actors - Jacki Weaver, Marcus Graham, Justin Smith, Alex Dimitriades. Dan Wyllie is superb.

Good to see PC Garfield off of The Bill as well.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Good to see PC Garfield off of The Bill as well.

Previously covered

 

[krtek a houby]

Cardboard Gangsters.

It's not brilliant but it's good enough. Great lead performance by John Connors, though. He really carries the film.

I found the Dublin accents a bit challenging so I went for subtitles, which were pretty loose. Too much weed can make you para not power

Ooh, looks good. Not on our Netflix yet, though. When you say challenging, was the dialogue too fast or the sound mix a bit murky? Trailer seems fine.

 

[rubbershoes]

Ooh, looks good. Not on our Netflix yet, though. When you say challenging, was the dialogue too fast or the sound mix a bit murky? Trailer seems fine.

Fast dialogue and strong accents that I'm not used to.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I thought calibre was excellent.

I watched that last night and really enjoyed it.

Spoiler

so fucking tense during the search of the woods and when they found the grave

 

[Sue]

I do always enjoy the Netflix recommended 'because you watched' thing.

I watched Some Like It Hot yesterday and off the back of that I apparently might want to watch A Royal Night Out, Bronson, Ghostbusters, Captain America and The Wolf of Wall Street... Utterly random and quite bizarre.

 

[Leafster]

I do always enjoy the Netflix recommended 'because you watched' thing.

I watched Some Like It Hot yesterday and off the back of that I apparently might want to watch A Royal Night Out, Bronson, Ghostbusters, Captain America and The Wolf of Wall Street... Utterly random and quite bizarre.

What I find most annoying is that it’ll suggest you watch something because you watched something else and then when you’ve watched the new suggestion, it’ll suggest you watch the thing you watched in the first place to get the new suggestion!

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Been watching Unforgotten, first two series on Netflix, series 3 on ITV catchup. Fantastic tele, a proper emotional rollercoaster for a police series. So many well know British acting faces. A must see if you haven’t seen it

 

[girasol]

Jon-of-arc was it you asking for films. 20th Century Women is amazing and Loving Vincent is supposed to be good and I think they're both on Netflix now.

Watched Loving Vincent -
the world’s first fully painted feature film -
yesterday, very nice - although I thought it was odd they used a squarish aspect ratio. I'm sure there's a good reason for it.

ah, it's even on their website
"Originally we were intending to make the film in the standard modern aspect ratio 16:9, but in the end we decided to use a 1.33:1 ratio for Loving Vincent, also known as Academy."

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[SpookyFrank]

Been watching Unforgotten, first two series on Netflix, series 3 on ITV catchup. Fantastic tele, a proper emotional rollercoaster for a police series. So many well know British acting faces. A must see if you haven’t seen it

I'm boycotting that on account of the title. The correct English would be 'remembered'.

 

[Riklet]

Fariña meant to be good. Called Cocaine Coast (urgg) in English. Netflix series set in 80s-90s Galicia, when they started smuggling coke in there.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Season 2 of Ozark - 31st this month

 

[DexterTCN]

Good Place, start of September.

 

[T & P]

^ Superb News!

Also coming in September is the new season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (well, in the States at least, so I’m assuming/hoping Netflix will show it here straight away). Have missed it lots.

 

[BassJunkie]

Watched Loving Vincent -
the world’s first fully painted feature film -
yesterday, very nice - although I thought it was odd they used a squarish aspect ratio. I'm sure there's a good reason for it.

ah, it's even on their website
"Originally we were intending to make the film in the standard modern aspect ratio 16:9, but in the end we decided to use a 1.33:1 ratio for Loving Vincent, also known as Academy."

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I'm excited to see that Loving Vincent is now on Netflix, I've wanted to see that for a while. The fact that it's been partly drawn to my attention by someone named 'sunflower' seems delightfully apposite.

 

[Kaka Tim]

(good girls) I couldn't get past the first episode... Never felt like going back for more.

ive given up after about 6 episodes. nice performances, sparkly dialogue - but the plot is all over the place and full of holes. The programme creators have set up the situation and are just riffing on it as they go along. Meh, basically.

 

[krtek a houby]

Justice League appeared the other day so we gave it a go.

It's... ok. Rubbish villain and average generic plot. WW and Batman are the best characters and there's some nice musical nods to 1989 Batman and 70s Superman but overall, DC are still outclassed by Marvel at every turn.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Irish film "A bad day for the cut" is worth a look. Things turn rather dark for a mild-mannered farmer...

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Been watching Unforgotten, first two series on Netflix, series 3 on ITV catchup. Fantastic tele, a proper emotional rollercoaster for a police series. So many well know British acting faces. A must see if you haven’t seen it

Yeah I liked that and will give S3 a look - thanks for the tip.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Irish film "A bad day for the cut" is worth a look. Things turn rather dark for a mild-mannered farmer...

Goes a bit silly at the end, but the journey there is nicely done

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Goes a bit silly at the end, but the journey there is nicely done

I wouldn't disagree with that but the hot pan is pretty funny

 

[RubyToogood]

Ever since I joined Netflix it's been very, very insistent that I watch The Crown and I've been like "no fucking way". I finally caved a few days ago and it's actually really good

 

[Riklet]

Anyone given this series Fauda a try?

Really good, gritty and dark and not as biased as I thought it might be at the start. Almost finished the first series and I'm hooked. Would def recommend it folks.

Really popular in Israel apparently, not sure about Palestine.

 

[Spymaster]

Ever since I joined Netflix it's been very, very insistent that I watch The Crown and I've been like "no fucking way". I finally caved a few days ago and it's actually really good

It keeps sticking that under my nose too. If I could I’d put it on ignore.

 

[Thimble Queen]

I watched the innocents over the weekend. The acting and the dialogue was pretty shoddy tbh but the story was quite interesting. It could just be that I'm starved of English TV though

 

[Boudicca]

Ever since I joined Netflix it's been very, very insistent that I watch The Crown and I've been like "no fucking way". I finally caved a few days ago and it's actually really good

Yes! I did exactly the same. "No I really don't want to watch that, but it's got so many awards, so lets just pretend its just another historical drama"

And it is very good.