Hidden Gems of Netflix's Watch Instantly

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Really enjoyed Bone and Shadow.

Is that the Pornhub version?

Oh, you know, the commutative property. Sorry, Shadow & Boners.

Mixolyde wrote:

On a recommendation, I watched a real hidden gem, Midnight Run.

Whenever I see a title that has the word midnight in it my brain always defaults to midnight express. A decidedly different genre and story. I have yet to figure out why.

JC wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

On a recommendation, I watched a real hidden gem, Midnight Run.

Whenever I see a title that has the word midnight in it my brain always defaults to midnight express. A decidedly different genre and story. I have yet to figure out why.

My brain goes to Midnight Cowboy. Also very different.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Oh, you know, the commutative property. Sorry, Shadow & Boners.

Ah, not to be confused with Romancing the Bone and Shadow.

JC wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

On a recommendation, I watched a real hidden gem, Midnight Run.

Whenever I see a title that has the word midnight in it my brain always defaults to midnight express. A decidedly different genre and story. I have yet to figure out why.

i always think of the 1980 classic Midnight Madness lol

Only thing that pops into my mind is Threat Level Midnight.

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I can't believe it's missing The Erotic Adventures of Hercules.

It took me forever to find Casablumpkin, why did they list it under the inferior title "Terms of Enrampagement?"

We watched Sweet Girl last night. There's a lot of stupid, but the action scenes are pretty brutal and there's a twist that kind of saves it.

Nevin73 wrote:

We watched Sweet Girl last night. There's a lot of stupid, but the action scenes are pretty brutal and there's a twist that kind of saves it.

Spoiler:

I couldn't figure out why the Jason Momoa character was having such a hard time killing the drug company exec in the beginning until the end. Then it all made sense.

I really enjoyed the Witcher anime. It started off a little generic but got much better as it progressed.
Some really good animated fight scenes.

Would definitely watch more. There seems to be plenty of history prior to Geralt that is ripe for the picking for side stories like this.

Watched Alone Season 7. I like survival shows and this one was a breath of fresh air. Contestants all knew what to do, and when to call it quits to not hurt themselves.

Although...

Season 7 bear = food for winter... please we want to see a bear
Season 1 (on Hulu) bear = OMG there are animals here?! I quit.

Currently watching 13 Reason Why. I'm aware of the controversy but don't know the specifics. I'm up to episode 4 and can see why people think it glorifies suicide at least up to episode 4. It kind of has a revenge tone to it. "I killed myself and now I'm going to make you feel bad because it was your fault". I wonder if this will be one sided. She did a few things that were bad herself. Kind of filled with teen bs so far but that is to be expected.

Ep1
Did not like. One boy does Hanna pretty dirty.

Ep2
More interested knowing the cast isn't all white. Actually liked this episode.

Spoiler:

The friend states Hanna is telling the truth. So we might be dealing with a narrator that we can't trust which makes the show more interesting to me.

Ep3
Half and half on this episode. Looks like some bad friend drama.

Spoiler:

The girls are put on a list ranking them. This really hurt Hanna because her good friend did it and as a girl she pointed out to someone that is was especially hurtful. I'm not sure which tape Clay was listening to. Each tape belongs to one of 13 people. All of the 13 gets to hear the tape or Hanna's friend will release all the tapes to the world. Clay the main character so far is going through all but his own tape.

One very bad thing Hanna did this episode was go into the boys locker room while it was full of changing guys. We had a incident like that at my high school which was taken more seriously because a few guys including myself were upset over it. Here nothing happen except guys clapping which probably would happen most of the time.

Ep 4
Stalkers and shaming or more shaming. Okay episode. I wonder if a conflict with kissing will come up.

Spoiler:

This was a interesting episode. So Hanna gets a stalker. The stalker ends up taking a picture of Hanna and another making out. Or really the other girl was making out with Hanna who wasn't really into it. Anyway the stalking post the picture to the internet the other girl is really freaked out by this and ends the friendship. Oddly enough no figures out that picture is of them.

Now the crazy part is that Hanna names the other girl in her tape knowing she didn't want the kiss to be made public. I don't think she did it to be mean she just didn't care. I don't believe they are going to address this in the show.

Another thing I found interesting was stalker dude was rather pathetic. He actually ask to hang out with Hanna. Hanna laughs in his face. The show makes it out to seem he didn't seem to understand he did something wrong. He seems to be the weird loser guy without friends. I wonder since this thing goes on for four season will this guy kill himself over what Hanna did and blame her for it. I don't feel sorry for him but I wonder if they are going to go anywhere with him. This episode represents his tape so maybe just being outed as stalker could put him over the edge to suicide. I wonder why Hanna didn't go to the police especial after he sent the picture out.

Also in this episode a different dude grabs Hanna's ass. He felt he had a right to because Hanna has been slut shamed in school. Basically I guy said he had sex with her when he really didn't but even if he did he shouldn't have spread it all around school. Interestingly he did not get a tape. The guy that grab her butt did get a tape. Hmmmm well they specifically stated he didn't get a tape but maybe that was a lie and he might get one later.

Wait until the last episode or two.
I'm still mixed on the series as well but those episodes are thought provoking.

13 Reason why

EP 5
This went places I didn't think it would because something in the previous episode turned out to be untrue.

Spoiler:

So people did in fact find out about the kiss between Courtney and Hanna. This is a big plot point and episode represents Courtney's tape. I'm not sure is this story mistake or if the narrator just lied.

Anyway at one point Courtney is questioned / bullied over the kiss by a dude. Courtney decides to throw Hanna under the bus and tells the guy Hanna wanted a threeway with some other dude. So this is the third time Hanna got slut shamed. This is doubly bad because Hanna didn't even want to kiss Courtney. Hanna rightfully goes off her.

After hearing Courtney's tape Clay blames her for Hanna death. The interesting is Courtney tells him how it is growing up with two dads and how hard it was for her. She also tells him that coming gay with two dads would ruin her. Everybody would think her dads made her gay.

So this is the second person I could see being pushed into suicide because she wont be able to handle the harassment for being gay or the guilt trip for Hanna's death. Also interesting thing is Clay sent out a nude pic of the stalker that Hanna took in the past. Yeah Hanna stalked her stalker so he could feel like he made her feel. So the stalker already labeled as a loser becomes a joke to the school.

So the big problem in this episode is that only the people that have heard the tapes knows the stalker is a stalker. A girl just died from what we think is bullying. So shouldn't someone stand up for the stalker for no other reason to prevent another suicide from bullying? I hope they address this in a later episode , if not that would be said. Is Hanna the only one that stands up for people, I mean when she not doing crazy stuff like going into the boys locker rooms or outing gay girls.

Can we talk about how truly awful Emily in Paris is.

I watched both The Losers and The Paper Tigers over the weekend, and enjoyed both of them, particularly the latter.

Paleocon wrote:

Can we talk about how truly awful Emily in Paris is.

I mean "truly awful" is the best thing you can say about it.

Mixolyde wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

Can we talk about how truly awful Emily in Paris is.

I mean "truly awful" is the best thing you can say about it.

I'm currently remembering the tweet from Netflix that asserted that "Emily in Paris" should be spoken with a French accent so that the title rhymes.

It’s atrocious and needs to disappear. Forever.

Good video elaborating on why:

Completed season 1 of 13 Reason Why and don't know how I feel about it. I pretty much lost most of my interest in the show on episode 6 which was about Marcus. Didn't care for the episode at all but it did setup the next episode which was about Zack . Then I was ho hum on the episode until 12 which needs a rape warning. There is actually another rape but don't recall which episode it was in at the moment. Had to put the show down for a few days after this one. The last episode didn't turn me into loving the series or hating it.

The show gives you a lot to think about. I can see why people think it glorifies suicide. I would have to agree with them. I don't think they made lite of suicide. They just made a choice for this to be entertainment with not enough substance. Euphoria is similar theme show with teens getting raped and attempted suicide and being terrible to each other but it was fantastic and had substance. That show put for more effort to not just be entertainment.

Some random things that are spoilers

Spoiler:

One of the 13 people Hanna blamed for her death I think was Sheri. Sheri hit knocked out a stop sign and didn't report it. I thought this was so dumb. No one would care. It just wasn't believable in any way. 911 wouldn't have done anything. That sign would have sat for a week before getting fixed. Also you still have to come to a complete stop at intersection that don't have signs or stoplights. It would have been believable if Hanna went along with Sheri but later freaked the F out once she found out someone died at the intersection.

The never said anything about how wrong it was to out Courtney. Hanna's character didn't need to address it but someone else should have said something about it. I guess this is really one of the reason why I don't dig the show. Hanna is only pushed back on by people being terrible. Hanna is never pushed back on by someone that actually believes she did something bad. This feeds into the glorification of her suicide.

The thing is Hanna killing herself for any reason is believable especially for the serious stuff that goes on teen bs. I'm sure some people will think they killed her but not all of them. The rapist might be the only person that thinks he didn't do anything wrong which is pretty F up.

Interesting that one kid shot himself in the head but they didn't go into any details why. Oddly enough it wasn't the stalker kid that they showed with all the guns. This is example of the show being entertainment without substance. Oh look this kid is about do a Columbine 2.0 but you'll have to wait for next season to see what happens maybe.

During the first rape Hanna is in the same room as the girl being raped. At the time I just couldn't figure out why she didn't do anything. She has been shown to be pretty strong. Later it is made clear there was incident that put her into a bad state of mind. I liked what they did but hated how they told the story out of order. This was done for entertainment reasons to dangle the viewer on to the next episode to show Hanna didn't do anything. I know this is tv show but should they be treating rape and suicide this way? They could have done better other shows have done better. The Magicians which is a adult harry potter show has done better.

I don't think I will continue, might change my mind later. The more I think about the show the less I like it.

I enjoyed the horror movie Blood Red Sky. Try to avoid learning anything about it if you can but, in all honesty, it’s probably not possible and you may figure out what’s going on fairly quickly anyway. I didn’t one hundred percent click with the movie for a large part of it but can see, and appreciate, what it was doing in retrospect and I like the way they handled the subject matter.

My main issue with 13 Reasons Why was the show depicting Hanna's suicide. It has since been deleted from the episode, but it took two years of people and suicide prevention organizations screaming about it for them to act.

Thanks for the thoughts, Baron. You're reaffirming my decision not to watch 13 Reasons why.

Eleima wrote:

It’s atrocious and needs to disappear. Forever.

Good video elaborating on why:

It is truly so bad that it should, by all rights, end careers. It is 50 Shades of Gray bad (or worse). It is Jar Jar Binks bad (or worse). It is Atlas Shrugged bad.... okay, maybe there is such a thing as too far.

Paleocon wrote:
Eleima wrote:

It’s atrocious and needs to disappear. Forever.

Good video elaborating on why:

It is truly so bad that it should, by all rights, end careers. It is 50 Shades of Gray bad (or worse). It is Jar Jar Binks bad (or worse). It is Atlas Shrugged bad.... okay, maybe there is such a thing as too far.

It's not that bad to an American audience who wants to be spoonfed American dribble with pretty French pictures.

It is one of Netflix's Hallmark-like shows that found an audience who are happy with their fake American exceptionalism on full display.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Completed season 1 of 13 Reason Why
Some random things that are spoilers

Spoiler:

The rapist might be the only person that thinks he didn't do anything wrong which is pretty F up.

And yet extremely realistic.

Baron Of Hell wrote:
Spoiler:

During the first rape Hanna is in the same room as the girl being raped. At the time I just couldn't figure out why she didn't do anything. She has been shown to be pretty strong. Later it is made clear there was incident that put her into a bad state of mind. I liked what they did but hated how they told the story out of order. This was done for entertainment reasons to dangle the viewer on to the next episode to show Hanna didn't do anything. I know this is tv show but should they be treating rape and suicide this way? They could have done better other shows have done better.

I’d like to address that concern.

Spoiler:

Because people are always talking about fight or flight but there’s also a third reaction which is to freeze. When the trauma is so great that your brain shuts down, your body shuts and you can’t respond in any way than just shock. No matter how “strong”
You think you are. It’s well documented, a little googling will get you plenty of info.

garion333 wrote:

It's not that bad to an American audience who wants to be spoonfed American dribble with pretty French pictures.

It is one of Netflix's Hallmark-like shows that found an audience who are happy with their fake American exceptionalism on full display.

Oh I know I’m very far removed from the target audience. Still…. It’s like… very not great.