Netflix recommendations

[krtek a houby]

Yes, it works as a standalone tale as most prequels usually do.

Great. We liked the first season but had heard that the second was so so.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Trying the Night Agent and I’m screaming at the tv and it’s only episode - the witness won’t reveal what they know incase she gets targeted but people are already targeting her and give me strength

 

[T & P]

Great. We liked the first season but had heard that the second was so so.

S2 is certainly ‘more of the same’, and at the end of the day feels like a modernised Jane Austen romcom story wears thin before long. This is nothing of the like in tone.

 

[Aladdin]

Trying the Night Agent and I’m screaming at the tv and it’s only episode - the witness won’t reveal what they know incase she gets targeted but people are already targeting her and give me strength

It's good. I enjoyed it a lot.

 

[Thora]

Nearly finished Queen Charlotte and its actually brilliant period drama telly, with a far better written and more mature storyline than Bridgerton and staying well away from any Austenesque romcom themes. Recommended to anyone who likes well produced period drama even if they didn’t like (or have watched) Bridgerton.

I've enjoyed it, and also enjoyed wikipeding what happened to all her children. 15 children and none of them had any interest in having a large family themselves (or even legit marriages really ).

 

[T & P]

As an pointless bit of trivia, the actor who plays Lady Agatha Danbury probably lives in Herne Hill- a friend recently saw her at taking a dog into the vet’s.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I watched Aka y/day and quite enjoyed it as an action thriller. About a special ops agent who goes undercover to infiltrate a criminal organisation, headed by Eric Cantona.

The lead character Adam Franco (played by Alban Lenoir) would give Bourne a run for his money. Proper menacing tough character.

Yes, I liked this. I'm in France at the mo so trying to watch more French language stuff. This hit the spot. Eric Cantona is very good as the menacing mob boss. And the guy who plays the lead is good too, complex character well played.

 

[Orang Utan]

As an pointless bit of trivia, the actor who plays Lady Agatha Danbury probably lives in Herne Hill- a friend recently saw her at taking a dog into the vet’s.

Sorry, gonna be unreasonable and disproportionate here, but it really fucks me off when people can’t be bothered to find out who plays these roles. It’s really easy to do. Just use IMDb. Her name is Adjoa Andoh and she has played many other roles. I haven’t even seen Bridgerton, but come on ffs, be curious, these people are actors and deserve to be appreciated and named.

 

[T & P]

Sorry, gonna be unreasonable and disproportionate here, but it really fucks me off when people can’t be bothered to find out who plays these roles. It’s really easy to do. Just use IMDb. Her name is Adjoa Andoh and she has played many other roles. I haven’t even seen Bridgerton, but come on ffs, be curious, these people are actors and deserve to be appreciated and named.

It might then infuriate you even more to learn that I had looked her up on IMDB, but at this time of night I found her name too difficult to memorise, and as copying and pasting text from the IMDB app seems impossible on my phone, I took the lazy way out. More so as I’ve always thought misspelling an actor’s name is worse a crime to me than not stating it in the first place.

 

[Orang Utan]

It might then infuriate you even more to learn that I had looked her up on IMDB, but at this time of night I found her name too difficult to memorise, and as copying and pasting text from the IMDB app seems impossible on my phone, I took the lazy way out. More so as I’ve always thought misspelling an actor’s name is worse a crime to me than not stating it in the first place.

That’s on you. You can still do stuff on your phone. I rarely post any other way.

 

[kabbes]

I’d much rather be told that you saw “The actor that played X” than “<actor’s name >”. The former is meaningful to me, but I rarely know the names of actors.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’d much rather be told that you saw “The actor that played X” than “<actor’s name >”. The former is meaningful to me, but I rarely know the names of actors.

That’s your fault though. People should be credited for their work

 

[Chilli.s]

Her name is Adjoa Andoh and she has played many other roles.

I would recomend any audiobook read by her, shes a fantastic voice actor too

 

[kabbes]

That’s your fault though. People should be credited for their work

Who processed your home insurance policy?

 

[Orang Utan]

Who processed your home insurance policy?

No idea.
It’s not art is it?

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Sense 8 started great, but then turned into self indulgent drivel and unsurprisingly got cancelled. Annoying, because there was a good story there that was worth finishing, but they blew it.

iirc, it got cancelled, so they couldn't complete the story arc, but they managed to cobble together a film or two-parter to round it off instead.

But yeah, an unsatisfactory conclusion.

Annoying when they cancel something you're just getting into.

 

[Artaxerxes]

No idea.
It’s not art is it?

Great now you've upset your broker you monster

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

iirc, it got cancelled, so they couldn't complete the story arc, but they managed to cobble together a film or two-parter to round it off instead.

But yeah, an unsatisfactory conclusion.

Annoying when they cancel something you're just getting into.

I just wish it hadn't drifted into filler territory. If they had kept it on track and engaging it might have completed the arc.
I don't think I saw the films that wrapped it up. . . they weren't on netflix were they?
I feel like Cloud Atlas might have made a better TV experience too. There are some bits of the book that I would have enjoyed seeing on screen. . . and perhaps a bit less of the 'taping up the eyes' to appear korean.

 

[krtek a houby]

I just wish it hadn't drifted into filler territory. If they had kept it on track and engaging it might have completed the arc.
I don't think I saw the films that wrapped it up. . . they weren't on netflix were they?
I feel like Cloud Atlas might have made a better TV experience too. There are some bits of the book that I would have enjoyed seeing on screen. . . and perhaps a bit less of the 'taping up the eyes' to appear korean.

The feature length finale was released an a year after season 2, and was shown on Netflix.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The feature length finale was released an a year after season 2, and was shown on Netflix.

I see. I have just had a look and I assume it is what is listed as the last episode of series 2 (two and a half hours).
I might give it all another go and then finish it off.

 

[krtek a houby]

I see. I have just had a look and I assume it is what is listed as the last episode of series 2 (two and a half hours).
I might give it all another go and then finish it off.

It's not perfect but it's an improvement on the previous.

 

[Brainaddict]

My most embarassing netflix occasional watch is Lucifer. I can't defend it. It's copaganda, which I hate. The premise is entirely absurd (the devil in human form assists a detective in solving cases). It has amusing moments but otherwise the script is... basic. Lucifer basically sexually harasses Chloe for the first season and a half, as though this is set in the 70s and that still just raises a snigger. No-one particularly distinguishes themselves acting, though that's not their fault when the things they have to say are so ridiculous. It is, in other words, total trash, but somehow it is the right sort of braindead trash when I want to switch my brain off.

 

[kabbes]

My most embarassing netflix occasional watch is Lucifer. I can't defend it. It's copaganda, which I hate. The premise is entirely absurd (the devil in human form assists a detective in solving cases). It has amusing moments but otherwise the script is... basic. Lucifer basically sexually harasses Chloe for the first season and a half, as though this is set in the 70s and that still just raises a snigger. No-one particularly distinguishes themselves acting, though that's not their fault when the things they have to say are so ridiculous. It is, in other words, total trash, but somehow it is the right sort of braindead trash when I want to switch my brain off.

Tom Ellis sure can sing, though.

 

[kabbes]

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[krtek a houby]

My most embarassing netflix occasional watch is Lucifer. I can't defend it. It's copaganda, which I hate. The premise is entirely absurd (the devil in human form assists a detective in solving cases). It has amusing moments but otherwise the script is... basic. Lucifer basically sexually harasses Chloe for the first season and a half, as though this is set in the 70s and that still just raises a snigger. No-one particularly distinguishes themselves acting, though that's not their fault when the things they have to say are so ridiculous. It is, in other words, total trash, but somehow it is the right sort of braindead trash when I want to switch my brain off.

Lucifer is more agreeable in The Sandman

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The feature length finale was released an a year after season 2, and was shown on Netflix.

Watching it all from the beginning. There is some utterly embarrassingly shit acting from a couple of the cast. I thinking it didn't perhaps go off the rails as late as season 2.
I almost wish it was a slower burn. The 8 having separate stories that have this weird crossover that they all interpret differently. Perhaps they don't all meet up, perhaps nobody is there to explain it all to them, no big dangerous event that suddenly brings them all together. Just a slowly unfolding mystery with several co existing but connected side stories. Almost like cloud atlas. Maybe introduce two or three characters later on who have not developed yet, or who know what is happening and choose not to participate.

 

[T & P]

This is probably going to be shit, but it'd be rude to not give it a try at least

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

This is probably going to be shit, but it'd be rude to not give it a try at least

Looks like a joke trailer from Tropic Thunder.
"I'm retired!!"

 

[Idris2002]

Rough Diamonds

The prodigal son of a family orthodox Jewish diamond dealers in Amsterdam comes home after 15 years in the secular world. When you first see him you think, well he's probably a cop, or ex-military or something like that - no, it's something rather darker! His connections will prove useful, but also . . . problematic. And I hope I haven't given too much away with that one.

A good bit of work, especially compared to the travesty that is Transatlantic.

 

[izz]

I'd like to submit another vote for Queen Charlotte, I think it's been pretty well done, it's well plotted and written, the dialogue is modern but without words like 'ok' or 'gonna' or 'wonna' shudder and again I've googled George, Charlotte and their many progeny, interesting lives these people led.