Hidden Gems of Netflix's Watch Instantly

KramNesnah wrote:

Just finished Schitt's Creek. What a good show. A really awesome, heart warming little show. Loved it!

There's also a documentary about Schitt's Creek--Best Wishes, Warmest Regards--that's on Netflix and definitely worth watching.

muraii wrote:

I thought Fear Street was super enjoyable. According to some YouTube stuff I've watched, it's exceedingly loosely based on the R. L. Stein material. It's got a good spirit to it, but more than that I just thought the actors were really well-cast and had a really good chemistry. The series also upends some tropes and conventions without patting itself too hard on the back for doing so.

Yikes.
So that's pretty much what I thought about the series... but in reverse.

beanman101283 wrote:

Schitt's Creek should prevent it from getting censored.

Yip, that explains it! Cheers!

OG_slinger wrote:
KramNesnah wrote:

Just finished Schitt's Creek. What a good show. A really awesome, heart warming little show. Loved it!

There's also a documentary about Schitt's Creek--Best Wishes, Warmest Regards--that's on Netflix and definitely worth watching.

We watched that immediately after finishing. Very good!

Watched all of Fear Street and mostly liked it. The first one I liked. The second one not so much. And I liked the third one.

There weren't that many interesting kills. A few deaths went on for to long the last few in the second episode in particular. Overall I thought it went on way to long. I think reducing it to two episode would have worked better. I don't really care much for bad buys that have near infinite power but can't just use their power in a intelligent way. Then there are parts that just don't make sense. They were done just to mislead who the real bad guy was.

Still the story was good. The acting was good. I didn't read the book this was based on but it captured Stine's style. I thought it ended on a high note.

Watched the last episode of Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom and liked it. Might be the best season of the show. Really liked what they did with the ship. Kind of missed part of the story because they never show events from the bad guys prospective. They state what happen but it would be nice to see it. The ending was complete but left room for more.

They saved money by doing the transformations off camera, lame. I didn't like some voice work at first but it grew on me. I think this was because I watched the original beast wars cartoon. Anyway good show.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Watched the last episode of Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom and liked it. Might be the best season of the show. Really liked what they did with the ship. Kind of missed part of the story because they never show events from the bad guys prospective. They state what happen but it would be nice to see it. The ending was complete but left room for more.

They saved money by doing the transformations off camera, lame. I didn't like some voice work at first but it grew on me. I think this was because I watched the original beast wars cartoon. Anyway good show.

I need to watch it!

KramNesnah wrote:
OG_slinger wrote:
KramNesnah wrote:

Just finished Schitt's Creek. What a good show. A really awesome, heart warming little show. Loved it!

There's also a documentary about Schitt's Creek--Best Wishes, Warmest Regards--that's on Netflix and definitely worth watching.

We watched that immediately after finishing. Very good!

Such a great show!!!

Late to the party, but I finally finished dragging Dark season 3 out for as long as I could. Excellent show, all three seasons. The casting decisions were absolutely perfect, and of course the story and attention to detail were spot-on. Nothing at all to complain about here, except that there's not more of it to watch.

We watched Collateral over the past week. Not to be confused with the Jamie Foxx/Tom Cruise film of the same name, this is a 4 episode limited series starring Carey Mulligan and Billie Piper, among others. A pizza delivery guy is murdered while out on the job, and it's a surprisingly professional hit for a seeming nobody. I would have liked the characters to be fleshed out a bit more, but the mystery was satisfying to watch everyone figure out. It takes place in London, and it touches on immigration and how big systems crush those within them (definite shades of The Wire there). Not a bad way to spend 4 hours of your time.

KramNesnah wrote:
OG_slinger wrote:
KramNesnah wrote:

Just finished Schitt's Creek. What a good show. A really awesome, heart warming little show. Loved it!

There's also a documentary about Schitt's Creek--Best Wishes, Warmest Regards--that's on Netflix and definitely worth watching.

We watched that immediately after finishing. Very good!

It helped immensely with the post-finale depression I usually get when I finish a great show.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend had something similar too. I'd love for them to become a standard thing.

The Good Place had a special with the cast when it ended on NBC. Not sure if that is added on as an episode for streaming, but it was great to watch that night

Stele wrote:

The Good Place had a special with the cast when it ended on NBC. Not sure if that is added on as an episode for streaming, but it was great to watch that night

The Good Place podcast released some really good content after the finale. That helped with my blues regarding that show ending.

Watched the first episode, if you can call it that, of Fear Street. I really liked it. Great throwback to the 80's slasher movies. Looking forward to seeing the other two.

They should do that with shows that are canceled too. Ones that are without adequate closure would provide an amazing respite for die hard fans.

fangblackbone wrote:

They should do that with shows that are canceled too. Ones that are without adequate closure would provide an amazing respite for die hard fans.

Like Lost?

Watched season 2 of Black Summer. I wish it was told in order but I still liked it. Maybe one bad episode or really really unnecessary episode. Or maybe two but they were kind of interesting. All in all good season that was a little hard to follow at times.

The buzz in here around Blood Red Sky had gotten my hopes up. Decided to take the plunge at the end of my long weekend and I was thoroughly disappointed!

The set up in the first twenty minutes were promising enough. I was expecting a very somber, dark and violent (read: gory) vampire thriller. The movie went into full ridiculousness, I suppose rightly fitting its "vamps on a plane" premise. But the whole time it never really got in on the joke that it set up for itself. Even in terms of being a guilty pleasure, I felt short changed by the vampire-on-terrorist action for the most part. None of it was choreographed particularly well and the gore was all quite restrained and pedestrian.

Plot contrivances and characters doing dumb things all over the place, as you would expect in a horror show but somehow I wasn't as forgiving with this movie. It was those darned expectations clouding my perception again.

Lead actor Peri Baumeister was strong. Her resemblance to Noomi Rapace is striking. The movie was really trying to put the focus on the bond with her son. I think that element worked fairly well.

Watched Oxygen and thought it was okay. Its in French but you can watch it English. The French is better. I watched in both mainly because I wanted to be doing other things while I had it on. Also thought I might have missed something but I think it was a movie mistake unless I missed it twice.

The movie is kind like that one movie where deadpool is buried alive and the entire movie takes place in the small box he is buried in. I was entertained enough to watch it twice but I wouldn't call this a good movie. I think most people are going to hate it. hmmm wait maybe not got 88% on rotten tomatoes.

Anyway I guessed the "mystery" and the solution to the problem as soon as I seen the cause. The problem is the characters who are scientists did not figure this out. One of the scientist created the system. Granted there wouldn't be a story if they just did the thing off the bat but the movie is now seems kind dumb like someone trying to break into a room that is unlocked because he never checked to see if the door is locked.

I don't really know if the mystery is a mystery because it is so obvious. Also there is something else regarding lady deadpool's name that makes something really obvious that when you see the character work it out all you are thinking is so you are a scientist. They don't make scientists like they use to. Maybe the movie thinks the audience is extremely stupid and need things spelled out on neon signs with arrows pointing at it.

Yeah I'm really down on the movie but I did enjoy watching it just needed to be a little smarter. Watch the deadpool movie, that one was way better, either the one where he is buried alive or fights francis.

Maclintok wrote:

The buzz in here around Blood Red Sky had gotten my hopes up. Decided to take the plunge at the end of my long weekend and I was thoroughly disappointed!

It was not nearly good enough to be actually good and not nearly bad enough to be good-bad. Someone took the crazy premise and a limited budget and did the unironic best that they could. Sadly, what they did was very middling, at best.

Maclintok wrote:

Lead actor Peri Baumeister was strong. Her resemblance to Noomi Rapace is striking. The movie was really trying to put the focus on the bond with her son. I think that element worked fairly well.

Agree she was the high point.

Ohhh Netflix now has 2010's The Losers, which is super fun!

@tboon: that's a great way to put it. They did the unironic best that they could!

I mostly enjoyed He-Man but man, Teela's perpetual fit over Adam's secret being kept from her was frustrating as hell to watch. She wasn't wrong to be hurt or mad (especially at Adam), but she should have at least let them try to explain themselves before completely throwing away their relationships, instead she ended up being the jerk.

Sigh, Trollhunters movie, sigh... Decent flick, with some cool visuals and such, but oh man, why did they end it that way.

Spoiler:

There is no way or reason why Toby should become the trollhunter and why he would survive or persevere enough to accomplish all that Jim had done over that time. They even made this big point in the last half of the movie about how Jim and his mom do not ever give up and that's the only reason he has succeeded, but Toby is never brought into that equation. It just doesn't feel warranted or like any sort of decent decision to do that other than Jim shirking his responsibility of becoming the trollhunter and dooming everyone just to go after Claire, who (IIRC) only got involved with him because of his trollhunter armor getting him the Romeo roll in the school play.

TLDR: The change due to the timeline reboot makes no sense whatsoever.

Alright, I said I'd back when I caught up on He-Man and I have now done so. I even bumped Castlevania S4 off my queue to get to it faster. Full spoilers for the released episodes ahead.

Spoiler:

So, uh, yeah, they sure did kill He-Man and Skeletor in the first episode. That might have worked for a long-term fan, but flipping the entire He-Man world upside down doesn't work when you don't know the status quo. There was no emotional impact for me since I don't know these characters. The pilot would have been better if it had been a two parter -- the first part could be a standard He-Man adventure of the week episode letting the audience get to know the characters and the world before Skeletor's big attack on Castle Greyskull that changes everything. Just a little more time to let things breathe.

In fact, that was my biggest problem with the season -- the pacing. Everything just moved so damn fast and there were too many plot threads in too few episodes. Personally, I would have had Season 1A end with Teela learning about the threat to Eternia from the Sorceress and the upcoming Season 1B would end with Skeletor's return and Adam getting stabbed. Just let things breathe a little please. We needed more time with Teela as a merc before she returned to her old life and we needed more time to see how Eternia has suffered since Adam's death.

But that's it for the negatives. Overall this was an excellent show that added a lot of depth to a cheesy 80's Filmation show. I normally don't binge shows, but I ended up staying up until 1am watching all 5 episodes. I was hooked and I didn't want to stop. Orko and Evil-Lyn were the highlights of the season for sure and I really enjoyed their budding friendship that sadly did not last.

And yes, it was nice to see Skeletor finally get a win. I may not have watched the show, but I know the memes.

I agree with Djinn's take on He-Man. I didn't mind the pacing though. It definitely felt fast, but I was ok with that. I felt Loki "wasted" two episodes. Maybe streaming and binge-watching have made me impatient, but I felt He-Man's pace respected my time.

Watched The Guest 2014 also free on tubi. I liked the movie. It is one of those twisted but you know there is going to be a twist movies. A military guy goes to the home of his deceased comrade's house to give the family closure. They invite him in to stay hence the title The Guest.

The guy from Legion is the star of the movie. We spend most of the movie watching him helping the family and being weird. What's his deal, does he have something to hide, does suffer from ptsd, is the only odd thing is that there nothing odd? We find out kind of. The movie kinds of hits a point where the S hits the fan and we go on a ride.

Good movie, best not to read about it if you plan to watch it.

There's a Masters of the Universe aftershow (on Netflix) that had Alan Oppenheimer appear. The legendary voice-actor touched upon the brief life lessons segment per the original show. I remember a few of those. They imparted proper morals and highlighted the value of forgiveness, friendship, and never giving up. They were great. They also mattered greatly to those, who even at such a young age, needed an uplifting positivity buff. I for one am thankful to have had them.

As for Revelation. Well, I watched it. There were ups. There were downs. I'm not particularly interested to return.

Spoiler:

Adam/He-Man is a master of failure. Teela is a master of narcissism. Not good lasting impressions for protagonists to have from the get-go.

Duncan, Roboto, Evil-Lyn, Orko, and Andra. These are good characters who pulled me through. I actually got a wee tad teary eyed with Roboto. And Evil-Lyn totally pulled a swerve on me. Great writing there. Andra is relatable, and endearing.

Skeletor and the Sorceress had too little progression to make an impact.

I'm unsure what Kevin Smith was going for. It's not quite for any existing audience. Who have shunned this incarnation. It's neither quite landed branching anew. The audience numbers don't seem to be there. Part Two has its work cut out. I wish it luck.

Random. I now feel like looking up The New Adventures of He-Man which at the time I recall few caring for. I liked it well enough.

RnRClown wrote:
Spoiler:

Adam/He-Man is a master of failure.

That seems bit harsh. His plan wasn't bad, it just depended on Teela. He expected her to stay and carry on the fight, he also didn't expect that what he did would take magic away from Eternia. It was naive, sure, but this Prince Adam was only a teenager. They could have used an extra episode like Djinn suggests to better establish how the characters related to each other before Skeletor's assault on Grayskull though.

Had Teela stayed like he thought she would, Sorceress wouldn't have had to get Evil-lyn to trick her into coming to see her. She could have learned of the danger the loss of magic posed and gone on the quest to get the swords much earlier and without Evil-lyn. Evil-lyn not being part of it would mean Skeletor couldn't have popped out of her broken staff to stab Adam. Adam might not have even come back at all since things on Eternia wouldn't have gotten that bad yet and the rift between his friends wouldn't have been as huge.