Netflix recommendations

[dervish]

Someone suggested I watch Designated Survivor.
I will never take a recommendation from them again. It's absolute balderdash!

Oh it really is, and the best bit about it is that it doesn't get ANY better at all (watched the first series as everyone at work was watching it)

I think they canned it halfway through the second series.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Oh it really is, and the best bit about it is that it doesn't get ANY better at all (watched the first series as everyone at work was watching it)

I think they canned it halfway through the second series.

Christ

 

[DotCommunist]

Its the most peculiarly american cheese I ever did see. I'm told it develops an interesting plot down the line but I didn't manage more than two eps. At the time I said it was like crushing up a bald eagle and snorting it.

 

[DaveCinzano]

it was like crushing up a bald eagle and snorting it

 

[campanula]

Recent crushing insomnia (and access to youngest's Netflix account) has driven me to attempt watching stuff again...but finding it almost impossible. Series go on far too long. I started watching Calibre until a kid was shot (turned it off sharpish) and am now attempting Sacred Games (and largely succeeding because I love the way Indians swear and the music is enjoyable). A little alarmed because it is a series (I have started several of them and given up very quickly indeed). Am at that tricky episode 5-6 where I have started getting bored and twitchy - resisting urge to just read the synopsis and flick to last episode. Worth persevering with?

I managed Breaking Bad last year during a similar sleepless state...but grief, my finger was on the fast forward more times than off it. especially family scenes.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I've decided that piffle is a better word for Designated Survivor. There may be more. Watch this space.

 

[campanula]

I've decided that piffle is a better word for Designated Survivor. There may be more. Watch this space.

Mmm, I am sure it is your recommends I take note of Mrs Miggins (christ, what a rubbish sentence)...so you can be sure Designated Survivor will feature nowhere in my viewing regimen

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Mmm, I am sure it is your recommends I take note of Mrs Miggins (christ, what a rubbish sentence)...so you can be sure Designated Survivor will feature nowhere in my viewing regimen

That is very flattering - thank you
Think of every possible chilche you could imagine, multiply it by 10 and then you're still not even close to how rubbish Designated Survivor is

 

[Supine]

That is very flattering - thank you
Think of every possible chilche you could imagine, multiply it by 10 and then you're still not even close to how rubbish Designated Survivor is

I know something worse than designated survivor.

Series 2 of designated survivor

 

[sojourner]

Live From the BBC - hour long stand up comedy shows. There's been some really unusual and very interesting comedians on it - two women especially caught my attention - Felicity Ward and Sofie Hagen.

 

[Reno]

I know something worse than designated survivor.

Series 2 of designated survivor

It was great guilty pleasure watching for the first half of season 1 but then it ran out of steam. Never bothered with season 2.

 

[Tooter]

'Out of Thin Air' an interesting documentary based on the disappearance of several people in Iceland.....the music is by the brilliant Olfur Arnalds too. It kept me engaged....crazy the trials and tribulations some people go through in their lives...the mind boggles.

 

[moonsi til]

I started Insatiable & managed about 5 episodes but found it very annoying. I might still go back to it.

I liked ‘to all the boys I have loved’ , easy watching long episode.

Have started Innocents or Innocence? 50-50 on that too.

Watched Brain On Fire which was alright , based on true story about a rare brain disorder that mimicked psychosis.

I’m saving S2 of Ozark & latest Better Call Saul for one I really need good TV

 

[Spymaster]

I’m saving S2 of Ozark & latest Better Call Saul for one I really need good TV

I've had 2 false starts with Ozark 2. Each time I've got about 15 minutes in and it becomes apparent that it's an extension of S1 and you need to remember the story line. Trouble is I don't, and as far as I can tell there's no recap.

 

[planetgeli]

Wow. An Ozark 2!! Fuck yeah. And BCS. And still three episodes of Animal Kingdom! (That's just me, coz I've been away. Well aware it's 'finished')

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I've had 2 false starts with Ozark 2. Each time I've got about 15 minutes in and it becomes apparent that it's an extension of S1 and you need to remember the story line. Trouble is I don't, and as far as I can tell there's no recap.

We were well fuckin lost. Have a recap & stick with it. Awesome dark shit

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I’m saving S2 of Ozark & latest Better Call Saul for one I really need good TV

Deffo saving BCS to binge come early November

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I've had 2 false starts with Ozark 2. Each time I've got about 15 minutes in and it becomes apparent that it's an extension of S1 and you need to remember the story line. Trouble is I don't, and as far as I can tell there's no recap.

Spoiler: Also

Last ep on season one when he dropped his family off at the rvp to move on & he’d follow - totally threw us too when we were propelled back into season one again!

 

[Spymaster]

Spoiler: Also

Last ep on season one when he dropped his family off at the rvp to move on & he’d follow - totally threw us too when we were propelled back into season one again!

Cheers mate. I'll rewatch the end of the first season. My memory for tv stuff is super-shit. I can't remember what happened last week in Bodyguard, never mind last year in Ozark.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Same here

 

[planetgeli]

Cheers mate. I'll rewatch the end of the first season. My memory for tv stuff is super-shit. I can't remember what happened last week in Bodyguard, never mind last year in Ozark.

But this is weird. Because, same same, I can't remember what I watched last week in Animal Kingdom. But definitely remember what happened last year in Ozark. odd.

 

[Spymaster]

But this is weird. Because, same same, I can't remember what I watched last week in Animal Kingdom. But definitely remember what happened last year in Ozark. odd.

I can't even remember what Ozark was about. Just that it was good, and by a lake, and something to do with a drug dealing family dealing gear in bibles during sermons on the lake.

 

[planetgeli]

and something to do with a drug dealing family dealing gear in bibles during sermons on the lake.

This is the 'not quite right' bit.

The family got mixed up with the...oh fuck it, google it.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Well, Paul Greengrass' 22 July, about the slaughter of children on Utøya in the name of Europe's poor old oppressed white men, is released on Netflix on 10 October:

22 July review – Paul Greengrass's harrowing account of Anders Breivik's mass murder

 

[Part 2]

I've been steaming through Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown. wacthed first 3 series in the last week. I'd never known anything about him but the places he goes, food he eats and presenting style aren't your usual foodie travelogue and he seems like a good guy.

 

[Badgers]

Cheers mate. I'll rewatch the end of the first season. My memory for tv stuff is super-shit. I can't remember what happened last week in Bodyguard, never mind last year in Ozark.

I finished the first series too but have little recollection of how it ended. Do recall that I was less interested towards the end but stuck with it.

Need to catch up on Better Call Saul first but will give Ozark S2 a go after that.

 

[sojourner]

Cardboard Gangsters.

Hunger.

The Maze.

God's Own Country.

 

[sojourner]

Calvary. Excellent film.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

"I don't feel at home in this world any more"

A film I really enjoyed last night. Definitely recommended.

 

[Hellsbells]

We just finished a series called The Sinner. Ending was a bit of a let down but my god the rest of it gave me such nightmares. Not to be watched before bed!