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If I'd known Michael Emerson had such a big part in Evil, I probably would have been watching it before it came to Netflix.

Kurrelgyre wrote:

If I'd known Michael Emerson had such a big part in Evil, I probably would have been watching it before it came to Netflix.

Added to my ever expanding list

Evil is a good show and surprisingly edgy for a network show.

Season 6 of Schitt's Creek is up.

Sawed through Emily in Paris yesterday with my wife. The first few episodes weren't very good but, hang in there, it gets better.

Anyone knows some good documentary's out there on Netflix or HBO?

For now I only seem to hit wrong things like Gordon Ramsay climbing a hill for sensation (can't be arsed by that: just cook and tell us about it) or these emo-interviews on becoming a sports star or something. Even the archeologists shouting 'ah my gawd' in a jungle is getting tiresome.

Looking for some non-emo, non stretched good docu.

TIA!

“Documentary” is an incredibly broad term. There are hundreds of good documentaries available to stream.

What are your main areas of interest? Science? What kind of science? Zoology? Astronomy? Tech? There are just too many possibilities.

Reelgood is an app and website that will tell you where things are streaming. You might have luck just searching your interests there.

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I’ve been watching a true crime doc series called A Wilderness of Error. I don’t go for the stereotypical crime docs which focus only on violence and horror. I only like them if they have some sort of critical thinking elements to them.

A Wilderness of Error has a lot of interesting aspects to it. One of which is that one of the producers, Errol Morris, seems to have his head up his ass. Luckily, the director, Mark Spurling, is there to call Morris out when Morris is being stupid.

According to Reelgood it’s streaming on Hulu, Fubo, and FX Everywhere.

Start with "Prison Terminal" on HBO.

I watched "Cursed" over the weekend. Definitely a slow start to the season, some awkward CGI effects, and questionable sense of geography and time scale... but I ended up enjoying it on the whole. It's a pretty neat take on what I assume will lead into the classic "Knights of the Round Table" stories.

I saw "He Never Died" and found it quite enjoyable. Henry Rollins and the cast related to the protagonist deliver good performances.

I'll have to look up "She Never Died" the sister sequel that I just found out exists!

The Legion was downright awful by comparison. It was minutes long sequences of a guy running across different landscapes with seconds long plot points involving other characters stitched in between. Plus you get the bonus of Mickey Rourke in drag make up and an I patch rambling semi coherently.

The Golem was pretty middling. Nothing too awful but nothing really remarkable either. The premise had such promise too.

PWAlessi wrote:

Sawed through Emily in Paris yesterday with my wife. The first few episodes weren't very good but, hang in there, it gets better.

Not a chance. I just know I'll be groaning through the bulk of it.

Finally got through the second season of The Umbrella Academy with the missus and overall we really quite enjoyed it. The characters felt more fleshed out than in the first series and their motivations and objective matched what was going on better. Although the central overarching plot was basically the same, it did it differently enough that it wasn’t stale or repetitive. Really likes the set up for season 3 as well.

The other things to say is that no matter how good, remarkable and captivating they are, there's no denying that Sir David Attenborough's (UK national treasure, we don't have many of them left to be honest) documentaries are getting increasingly depressing to watch. His autobiographical A Life on this Planet is wonderful, but 20 minutes in I was thoroughly depressed and ashamed to be a member of the human species!

slazev wrote:

Cobra Kai shouldn't be good. It doesn't have great acting and the story's quality is not far from the typical CW show, but I'll be goddamned if I didn't scream "where's the 3rd season!?"

So it nailed 80's cinema?

Glow was cancelled. The final season wont be done because of the virus.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Glow was cancelled. The final season wont be done because of the virus.

The worst timeline!

fangblackbone wrote:

I saw "He Never Died" and found it quite enjoyable. Henry Rollins and the cast related to the protagonist deliver good performances.

I'll have to look up "She Never Died" the sister sequel that I just found out exists!

I really enjoyed "He Never Died" some years back. I just looked up the sequel on IMDB and with no Rollins, I'm out.

Mixolyde wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

Glow was cancelled. The final season wont be done because of the virus.

The worst timeline!

Noooooooo!

Should I remove it from my queue then? Is it still worth it?

Most definitely still worth it.

The first two seasons are outstanding. It's just kind of a bummer that at the end of the second season, they've finally "made it" and are able to set their own course, and we'll never see that play out.

Um they did make season 3. It released last year and it's definitely worth watching! Bummer that there won't be another though.

Right, my bad, I watched them all, just got the timeline mixed up.

I am Canadian, and what I call BBQing, is actually, I have come to understand, grilling.

I started watching The American Barbecue Showdown. Wow. So much I didn't know, and a hell of a lot of personality and skill. Worth watching if you are a fan of BBQing.

The judges, OTOH. I like the judges, judges, but the hosts? Meh. Dump them. I would have liked to see more explanation of what they liked and didn't like in the judging parts.

mudbunny wrote:

I am Canadian, and what I call BBQing, is actually, I have come to understand, grilling.

I started watching The American Barbecue Showdown. Wow. So much I didn't know, and a hell of a lot of personality and skill. Worth watching if you are a fan of BBQing.

The judges, OTOH. I like the judges, judges, but the hosts? Meh. Dump them. I would have liked to see more explanation of what they liked and didn't like in the judging parts.

Just be aware that that show is heavily Texas focused. Texas BBQ is fine, but there are other parts of the country that have their own specialties.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Glow was cancelled. The final season wont be done because of the virus.

One of the few shows I cared for another season of. I join the chorus of dismay.

Ahem. Nooooooo!

Ego Man wrote:
mudbunny wrote:

I am Canadian, and what I call BBQing, is actually, I have come to understand, grilling.

I started watching The American Barbecue Showdown. Wow. So much I didn't know, and a hell of a lot of personality and skill. Worth watching if you are a fan of BBQing.

The judges, OTOH. I like the judges, judges, but the hosts? Meh. Dump them. I would have liked to see more explanation of what they liked and didn't like in the judging parts.

Just be aware that that show is heavily Texas focused. Texas BBQ is fine, but there are other parts of the country that have their own specialties.

I would love to see shows about that as well. Any links?

In terms of BBQ, I liked Chef's Table BBQ episodes. While I find Chef's Table deeply pretentious, I found the BBQ series the most enjoyable to learn about different BBQ traditions and some of the best pitmasters.

If I traveled more, one of the things I’d like to do is go places and order just “barbecue” and see what I get...

Haunting of Bly Manor tomorrow!

Created by Haunting of Hill House creator and all around awesome horror writer/director Mike Flanagan, based on Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.

I watched Chris Struckman's spoiler free review. He said it's good but he'd have enjoyed it more if he'd have known one thing going in:

Spoiler:

It's a romance as much as anything.