Give me something to watch on Netflix

It's still NOT on netflix so I bought Better Call Saul season 5 on Amazon. Best $23.99 I've ever spent. All 10 episodes were a thrill ride and I didn't want the season to end. The writing, the acting, the look and feel, the details... the whole season was pure enjoyment. Can't recommend enough.
 
frunobulax said:
We watched the first episode of 'This is a Robbery's about the Gardner museum heist. Really well done documentary.
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That's on my watch list. WBUR and The Boston Globe did a series/podcast about the heist a few years ago, Last Seen. It was really well done.
 
BlockInlay said:
That's on my watch list. WBUR and The Boston Globe did a series/podcast about the heist a few years ago, Last Seen. It was really well done.
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This is really good

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micwalt said:
Anyone watching Invincible on Prime?
It's fucking awesome!
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I started watching Invincible based on your recommendation. I wasn't feeling it at all until the last 15-20 minutes of episode 1 and then I was completely hooked. Just finished episode 6 this morning. Ep. 7 drops on April 23 I think. Pure fun.
 
Just finished Taboo on Hulu. Solid B, maybe even a B+. The show isn't without its faults but Tom Hardy isn't one of them. Dude is a treat to watch no matter what he's starring in. The same can be said for Jonathan Pryce too. He elevates everything he appears in.
 
BlockInlay said:
It's still NOT on netflix so I bought Better Call Saul season 5 on Amazon. Best $23.99 I've ever spent. All 10 episodes were a thrill ride and I didn't want the season to end. The writing, the acting, the look and feel, the details... the whole season was pure enjoyment. Can't recommend enough.
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Funny, it's on my Netflix here. Great show and terrific cliffhanger.
 
I'm watching The One on Netflix after having just finished the book earlier this year. The series has little in common with the book other than the basic premise of a DNA test that match you to your one true love. I'd probably stop watching it, but I'm really curious as to how they are going to work in the major plot point that comes toward the end. They eliminated the vector by which said plot point comes about.

Why do move studios do this? Why do they buy the rights to popular books just to gut the perfectly usable story line and replace it with dreck? I can understand why they'd do this if the book was mediocre, or some screen writer came up with something vastly better. Better in this case, anyone reading the script after having read the book would say "meh..."
 
If you have Prime and like horror flicks check out Tumbbad. It’s an Indian horror film that avoids the usual American horror tropes.
 
BlockInlay said:
I started watching Invincible based on your recommendation. I wasn't feeling it at all until the last 15-20 minutes of episode 1 and then I was completely hooked. Just finished episode 6 this morning. Ep. 7 drops on April 23 I think. Pure fun.
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That's exactly how we were. It was fine, a little derivative--maybe a young superhero coming of age deal. Then, BAM! The shit hit the fan.
Didn't get to the new episode last night will watch tonight.
 
The first season of the new Creepshow series is on Prime for another week and it’s great. It’s all low budget with practical effects so it captures the feel of Tales From the Crypt and Tales From the Darkside. No contemporary TV morality plays, just old school cheesy magazine horror.
 
jp_nyc said:
The first season of the new Creepshow series is on Prime for another week and it’s great. It’s all low budget with practical effects so it captures the feel of Tales From the Crypt and Tales From the Darkside. No contemporary TV morality plays, just old school cheesy magazine horror.
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I like the sound of that.
 
jp_nyc said:
The first season of the new Creepshow series is on Prime for another week and it’s great. It’s all low budget with practical effects so it captures the feel of Tales From the Crypt and Tales From the Darkside. No contemporary TV morality plays, just old school cheesy magazine horror.
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I watched it on Shudder last year. And even watched the Dana Gould episode about the fat-burning leeches again the other day.

The second is on Shudder now... and it's not very good. Lot's of special guests, but it seems like a lot less effort and just self-consciously wacky.
 
Bones McHorror said:
I watched it on Shudder last year. And even watched the Dana Gould episode about the fat-burning leeches again the other day.

The second is on Shudder now... and it's not very good. Lot's of special guests, but it seems like a lot less effort and just self-consciously wacky.
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Boo! I hate it when you get excited about something and then the second season drops is quality.

Good to know the first season is good though.
 
Are we cancelling Joss Whedon? If not, I recommend the new HBO show The Nevers. Victorian metahumans thing, to simplify it.
 
Motorik said:
Are we cancelling Joss Whedon? If not, I recommend the new HBO show The Nevers. Victorian metahumans thing, to simplify it.
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Haven’t seen The Nevers yet, but my wife and kids and I just finished binging Buffy. First time for the kids, and I hadn’t seen it in over a decade.

Was initially tentative given the Whedon shit, but figured what the hell, given that it had a very strong (largely female) cast who’ve spoken out on how proud they are or their work on the show. And ditto for writers and producers.

Anyway, it has aged extremely well. There are a handful of episodes in the first 2 seasons that are 100% disposable... but it was way ahead of its time, and while there were plenty of problematic issues, they all made for great debate and discussion. I still love the series.
 
Flamencology said:
Haven’t seen The Nevers yet, but my wife and kids and I just finished binging Buffy. First time for the kids, and I hadn’t seen it in over a decade.

Was initially tentative given the Whedon shit, but figured what the hell, given that it had a very strong (largely female) cast who’ve spoken out on how proud they are or their work on the show. And ditto for writers and producers.

Anyway, it has aged extremely well. There are a handful of episodes in the first 2 seasons that are 100% disposable... but it was way ahead of its time, and while there were plenty of problematic issues, they all made for great debate and discussion. I still love the series.
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I should give it a rewatch. I was a big fan of Buffy and Angel the first time round, bought the boxsets at the time as they came out, but haven't watched them in years.

How did the kids like it?

Funnily enough, I was talking to my daughter on the phone about Buffy the other day. I think she must have rewatching them, and her current take was that Xander was a jealous, cockblocking, passive-aggressive dick, and that Wesley Wyndham-Price might have had the best character arc in the whole Buffyverse.
 
Motorik said:
I should give it a rewatch. I was a big fan of Buffy and Angel the first time round, bought the boxsets at the time as they came out, but haven't watched them in years.

How did the kids like it?

Funnily enough, I was talking to my daughter on the phone about Buffy the other day. I think she must have rewatching them, and her current take was that Xander was a jealous, cockblocking, passive-aggressive dick, and that Wesley Wyndham-Price might have had the best character arc in the whole Buffyverse.
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The kids loved it. They’re all in their early teens. A good chunk of the costumes, makeup, special effects, etc., look majorly ridiculous, but it still works as camp.

And yeah. Xander has not aged well at all with respect to his treatment of Buffy and her BFs.

I don’t really have much interest in revisiting Angel, for some reason. I remember it as being much less fun and much more uneven.
 
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