Hidden Gems of Netflix's Watch Instantly

Kurrelgyre wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

Watched the first episode of season 3 of Stranger Things, didn't care for it.

Did you watch the previous seasons? Episode 1 is very much the calm before the storm..

Yeah I seen the other seasons which were perfectly paced unlike this season. The first few episodes focused to much on romantic relationships. Sure it was good to set those up but the spent way to much time on them. It felt like they spent at least hour on them in first two episodes. I'm sure people that found it cute loved it, I wasn't one of those people.

Then I didn't like the cartoonish nature of the Russians.

Spoiler:

First episodes the general kills his own man for taking to long. I was hoping it would turn out the Russians were being controlled but the big monster thing but they were just people that apparently that the general just killed a guy they have been working with for years. Yeah I know they were going for cartoonish villains of the 80s, still thought it was dumb.

Don't get me wrong I liked the season, just not the first episode.

ComfortZone wrote:

Trawling for a trashy movie last night, I came across Kin, about a boy in Detroit who finds a "ray gun" in an abandoned factory. From there it kind of turns into a dark Thelma and Louise, but with a cooler soundtrack and guns. I thought it worked, better than I was expecting from a random pick!

I gave up 20 minutes into that. It felt like a sub YA drama (like Roswell - remember that?) dressed up for adults. James Franco and Dennis Quaid should really know better. Also considering Micheal B Jordan is in it as a ‘male cleaner’ it must have been made ages ago before he hit the big time.

So I'm watching this Mad Men show and it's pretty good you guys. It actually doesn't have a lot to do with advertising when you get down to it. I was turned off so much when it first aired. I gotta stop judging shows by their pilot: it's like they have to be bad because they are basically an ad of their own exclusively for executives with no attention span and the type of person who signs up for focus groups.

Out of all the Marvel shows, the first season of Jessica Jones was by far my favourite, but now I'm on Episode 8 of the second one and struggling to keep going. Part of it is likely the "Netflix Stretch", but I think I've finally plateaued on superheroes. I'll still finish watching Legion but for everything else I'm done trying.

I liked the second half of JJ more than the first half and liked the season more on rewatch. The first time I was expected a standard hero show so it let me down. For me a good hero show has a good villain like killgrave, killmonger, fisk, cotton mouth and thanos. Season 2 of JJ doesn't really have villain. The main bad guys can be considered victims. This doesn't make it a bad season just not what I was hoping from a marvel branded super hero show.

I also thought the focus on side characters was odd but they justified in season 3. This also made me like season 2 more.

I'm curious what you enjoyed about Mad Men, @kuddles? (and anyone else who likes it too). My wife and I watched a few of the first episodes a couple years back and we bounced pretty hard. It seemed to be just about a bunch of big egos in a mysoginistic time period.

In addition to the big misogynistic egos, there's also Peggy and Joan, two great characters trying to navigate that time period as independent women.

Then there's the main theme of the show- which is illustrated in the pilot episode- The pilot presents us with Don Draper, an ad man, who visits his lover in the city and seems to be loving the single life of a powerful man, then in the final moments of that first episode he pulls up to a house in the suburbs and greets his wife and two kids, and we realize we didn't know who Don Draper is at all. Later on in the series, we find out more about Don and constantly realize what we think we know about him is wrong. It's an interesting exploration of a character and through that question "Who is Don Draper?" it explores humanity, and social status, and why things changed from the 50s to the 70s.

Buzzrick wrote:

I'm curious what you enjoyed about Mad Men, @kuddles? (and anyone else who likes it too). My wife and I watched a few of the first episodes a couple years back and we bounced pretty hard. It seemed to be just about a bunch of big egos in a mysoginistic time period.

I can certainly understand that position, because I'm usually not into that kind of thing either. (And my girlfriend at the time basically said it's not much different than her modern office environment). I was also turned off by the pilot which kept screaming "this is the 60s!" to the point of irritation.

But I tolerate that stuff because I found it moves into the fragility and insecurities of everyone involved quite quickly, as opposed to a lot of similar shows that want to have it's cake and eat it too by glorifying the behaviour as much as it condemns. I admit this is a tricky line, and someone else could come to the opposite conclusion.

Also, I have a marketing background so it's kind of an entertaining romp in that way, and is a nice different coat of paint on a drama as opposed to lawyers again.

One of the things I really appreciated about Mad Men, aside from the design and performances (which are, across the board, amazing) is the narrative risk it takes. The example that always jumps to my mind is the monologue in the last episode - arguably the most important chunk of text in the series - and rather than giving it to Don, it goes to a day player. The other big example I always think of is the episode that is basically a play - two characters in an office at night. That episode is electric, and it breaks all sorts of TV conventions.

There's a lot of swing for the fences type of stuff throughout its run, and the emotional resonance of the show is quite powerful. It is also a show that picks up steam and gets stronger as it goes, and ends on just the perfect note.

Binged my way through Stranger Things 3 this Sunday and I really enjoyed it. Cary Elwes is terrific as the smarmy mayor!

Enjoying this season of Stranger Things too, but it's getting to the point there are so many homages, riffs, etc it's becoming distracting! It doesn't help that my memory is not quite good enough to remember where most of them come from.

Just finished the third season of Stranger Things, and I had a blast. I liked it better than season 2 for sure!

I made it 24 min into the flat earth documentary before I had to stop. A nice insight into the people behind it but I just wanted to scream.

Not hidden, but Historical Roasts. Holy sh*t. Frederick Douglass had just a few lines but stole the Lincoln Roast

2 episodes into Season 3 of Stranger Things and so far so good. Laying on the cultural references thick and fast ( my, I wonder how it’s all going to end?) but enjoyably so.

Sorbicol wrote:

2 episodes into Season 3 of Stranger Things and so far so good. Laying on the cultural references thick and fast ( my, I wonder how it’s all going to end?) but enjoyably so.

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I figure they're all gonna get eaten. I mean, they're up against somesort of bulletproof psychic super-predators from another dimension, and they've got a slingshot? Clearly going to get eaten.

Watched Strangers Things season 3. Still a lot of fun. Is Will the Bran of this series? He gets nothing to do apart from from caressing his neck.

Also watched Dark season 2. Still really liking it, but now there's paradoxes inside paradoxes. By the rate this is going, I believe we the viewers will be trapped in one of those paradoxes in season 3.

"Because you watched Neon Genesis Evangelion, we recommend: The Office, Friends, and Austin Powers in Goldmember."

I'm bringing this specific instance up next time at work I'm told to "trust" an algorithm.

Though admittedly, Ross is probably the Shinji of the Friendsiverse, if not as sympathetic.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

"Because you watched Neon Genesis Evangelion, we recommend: The Office, Friends, and Austin Powers in Goldmember."

I'm bringing this specific instance up next time at work I'm told to "trust" an algorithm.

Hey, it just wants to cheer you up after Evangelion.

Congratulations.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

"Because you watched Neon Genesis Evangelion, we recommend: The Office, Friends, and Austin Powers in Goldmember."

I'm bringing this specific instance up next time at work I'm told to "trust" an algorithm.

Though admittedly, Ross is probably the Shinji of the Friendsiverse, if not as sympathetic.

After watching 'Mia and Me' via our normal account with Mini-Sorb (it's a kid's TV series about an orphaned girl who gets magically transported to a world with Elves and Unicorns every episode) one of the recommendations that came up was "Hot Girls Wanted" - some expose (I use the term lightly) on the adult internet porn business.

We set up a kids specific account for Mini-Sorb after that one.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

"Because you watched Neon Genesis Evangelion, we recommend: The Office, Friends, and Austin Powers in Goldmember."

I'm bringing this specific instance up next time at work I'm told to "trust" an algorithm.

Though admittedly, Ross is probably the Shinji of the Friendsiverse, if not as sympathetic.

I was looking at my Netflix recommendations today and the first show listed under "Crime TV Shows" was One Punch Man

I got a recommendation for Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn out of the deal.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

"Because you watched Neon Genesis Evangelion, we recommend: The Office, Friends, and Austin Powers in Goldmember."

The algorithm has determined that you're a middle-aged white person who likes sh*t from the 90s and early 2000s. (:

My Netflix login is in active use by two different parents' households, one sibling with small children, and at least one ex-girlfriend. The algorithm serves me up a regular ol' smorgasbord, let me tell you what.

hbi2k wrote:

The algorithm has determined that you're a middle-aged white person who likes sh*t from the 90s and early 2000s. (:

So what the hell will it do when it loses rights to all that sh*t?

It usually vacillates between thinking I'm a boy around 11, a girl around 16, or an exceptionally grim person of indeterminate age.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:
hbi2k wrote:

The algorithm has determined that you're a middle-aged white person who likes sh*t from the 90s and early 2000s. (:

So what the hell will it do when it loses rights to all that sh*t?

It usually vacillates between thinking I'm a boy around 11, a girl around 16, or an exceptionally grim person of indeterminate age.

So it’s recommending a lot of Anime, is what you’re saying.

At least they got the horse right!

Netflix "The Witcher" First Look at Roach

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God I wish Timothy Olyphant was the Witcher. He basically has embodied that personality in previous roles.

doubtingthomas396 wrote:
SpacePPoliceman wrote:
hbi2k wrote:

The algorithm has determined that you're a middle-aged white person who likes sh*t from the 90s and early 2000s. (:

So what the hell will it do when it loses rights to all that sh*t?

It usually vacillates between thinking I'm a boy around 11, a girl around 16, or an exceptionally grim person of indeterminate age.

So it’s recommending a lot of Anime, is what you’re saying.

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Watched Blown Away, a glass blowing reality show competition. And it was really good, but the recommendations following afterwards were very strange.

farley3k wrote:

At least they got the horse right!

Netflix "The Witcher" First Look at Roach

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Wait, why isn't the horse on a house?

I'm more bothered with why does he only have one sword?