Hidden Gems of Netflix's Watch Instantly

fangblackbone wrote:
The Expanse just did not do it for me

Burn him!

Easier to just blow him out an airlock.

Quintin_Stone wrote:
fangblackbone wrote:
The Expanse just did not do it for me

Burn him!

Easier to just blow him out an airlock.

The airlock seems like an unnecessary complication, but I guess everyone has a fetish.

Peoj Snamreh wrote:

The Expanse just did not do it for me, and I bounced off Lost in Space pretry hard.

Easier to just blow him out an airlock.

Nuke him from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.

Spoiler:

Crap, wrong reference!

Woah!

I said it didn't do it for me, i think that is kind of a neutral thing to say the this series and me don't go along. I could elaborate - and then you can nuke me and throw me out of the airlock.

I agree with you Peoj. I like the books much better than the show.

I gave The Expanse a couple episodes. I remember a lot of locations throughout the solar system and a lot of politics- but no characters that I could latch on to. So it wasn’t for me either. (Also isn’t it a prime video show? I had to google it to be sure I was thinking of the right show)

It is a well known universal constant that "The Expanse" is awesome!
Quit with the jibberjabber

If you didn't like The Expanse you didn't watch enough The Expanse. It is known.

I think I just better watch a Battlestar Galactica again - now that was awesome!

I tried to fill the BSG-shaped hole in my heart with The Expanse, and after a couple episodes gave up too. I didn't care about any of the characters. Maybe I'll try the books, then try the show again if they manage to grab me.

Peoj Snamreh wrote:

I think I just better watch a Battlestar Galactica again - now that was awesome!

For 3 seasons anyway

Stele wrote:
Peoj Snamreh wrote:

I think I just better watch a Battlestar Galactica again - now that was awesome!

For 3 seasons anyway

2.97

Nah,
3.14159265

Can we go a full page without mentioning a single show that's on Netflix?

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Can we go a full page without mentioning a single show that's on Netflix? :)

Lost in Space is mentioned in one of the quoted replies, so there’s one show mentioned in a technicality.

Also I finished Dead To Me last night. It was very good. Linda Cardellini and Christina Applegate are both amazing in this. I’d be very happy for a season 3, but also thought things ended well here.

And Avatar the Last Airbender is a lot of fun!

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Can we go a full page without mentioning a single show that's on Netflix? :)

Well, I have to heartily recommend The Great on Hulu. It’s better than even the trailers show.

Huzzah!

My wife and I just watched the first episode of a French show called "Into the Night," and so far it looks promising.

Jayhawker wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

Can we go a full page without mentioning a single show that's on Netflix? :)

Well, I have to heartily recommend The Great on Hulu. It’s better than even the trailers show.

Huzzah!

I wholeheartedly second this. The two leads (Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult) are both delightful. And Phoebe Fox who plays the handmaiden Marial is delightful, too! Given what happened to Peter historically I'm really looking forward to seeing how that plays out in the show.

Yes, Jayhawker, you made me ditch HBO and resub to Hulu. Kinda glad I did, actually, as my watchlist there is quite substantial. Handmaids Tale season 3, Killing Eve, 11.22.63, Castle Rock, Fargo, Brockmire, Future Man... and a lot more.

Netflix tax: I started rewatching The Magicians. Maybe this time it won't turn me off when it goes off the rails in season 2.

Mario_Alba wrote:

My wife and I just watched the first episode of a French show called "Into the Night," and so far it looks promising.

I watched this last week and enjoyed it.

karmajay wrote:
Mario_Alba wrote:

My wife and I just watched the first episode of a French show called "Into the Night," and so far it looks promising.

I watched this last week and enjoyed it.

Good to know!

Mario_Alba wrote:

My wife and I just watched the first episode of a French show called "Into the Night," and so far it looks promising.

I too enjoyed this show quite a bit.

Dead to Me is brutal.
I can see why the leads were drawn to it but at some point several episodes in I remarked to my wife that it must be an emotional beast to put yourself through the sequential rollercoaster scenes. I know that TV and film are shot out of order and days or weeks apart but I don't see how that makes it better

I have heard for more than a decade now from people with tastes similar to my own about how great Avatar The Last Airbender is. I think I tried to watch it ages ago, I want to say it was on Amazon, and I think it was before I had kids (so maybe like 2011 or so?) and thought it seemed cute but I just didn't get into it. But it has perpetually been on my listen of things to watch with my kids at some point, a list that is very hard to maintain because my oldest, who is 8, is kind of terrified of everything. At my suggestion, we watched the first episode a couple of nights ago, and even though she was loving it at first, near the end of the episode, she started freaking out when Aang and Katara are going into a ship they weren't supposed to go into (kids not following instructions is a massive trigger for her, which you'd think would be helpful as a parent, but doesn't seem to make her any better at actually following rules). I barely convinced her to finish the episode, but I felt even if I had won the battle, I had clearly lost the war. But then last night she asked to watch the next episode. And she liked it a lot, although there was some light violence and sneaking around that all made her very nervous, she at least didn't ask me to turn it off, and was really excited by the end of the episode. Maybe we'll get through this! Fingers crossed.

I notice, though, that on my 16:9 tv the show fills the screen and the image is a bit blurry, as clearly they are just stretching out what was originally a 4:3 SD animated show. Is this like The Simpsons has been on streaming services, where they have just bastardized the show and there's nothing you can do about it for now (though I know the Simpsons is supposed to put out an option for original aspect ratio shows eventually), or is there like a setting in Netflix somewhere that will let us watch them as originally created? I imagine we could buy the DVDs or something and see them the right way, but I don't wanna do that.

I’m watching Avatar in the correct 4:3 ratio. I don’t know if there’s a setting or not. I’m using the Netflix app for my Amazon fire cube and it has just worked for me.

Grenn wrote:

Crazy sidenote: that guy (Sung Won Cho aka ProZD) is the voice actor for FL4K in Borderlands 3.

He's a pretty prolific voice actor in general

Tscott wrote:

I’m watching Avatar in the correct 4:3 ratio. I don’t know if there’s a setting or not. I’m using the Netflix app for my Amazon fire cube and it has just worked for me.

Hmm yeah, I just checked on my browser and it is 4:3 there too. I think the culprit is the Netflix app running on my Comcast DVR. Will try it through the Fire TV stick next time...

Tanglebones wrote:

He's a pretty prolific voice actor in general

He voiced every character in Chairem Anime!

BadKen wrote:

If you didn't like The Expanse you didn't watch enough The Expanse. It is known.

They should really place a disclaimer at the front of the first few episodes that says “At least watch through episode four or five, trust us.”