Amazon is absolutely dire, I pay for Prime and don’t even bother with it.
I had a trial of Amazon Prime. I couldn't find a single thing on there that I wanted to watch which didn't want more money from me, even like 15-year old TV shows.
Netflix and Prime - Prime mainly for postage but I do get it cheap.
Netflix for series - enjoying Saul and Maniac at the minute.
Some shows I have found worth watching on Prime so far - Sneaky Pete, Goliath, Jack Ryan, Bosch
I had a trial of Amazon Prime. I couldn’t find a single thing on there that I wanted to watch which didn’t want more money from me, even like 15-year old TV shows.
Yup it use to be terrible. Now it’s pretty good some great TV shows on there and some good movie. Netflix use to be utter crap too but now is pretty good.
Black Sails and Vikings are worth the Prime subscription
Not Netflix, but if anyone fancies a bit of Australian Noir, I’ve just noticed that Mystery Road is on iPlayer. It’s really very good.
Norsemen - Monty Python meets the Detectorists?
Watched Wind River and Hold the Dark during a weekend bout of sickness. Good stuff - brutal and dark, bit of revenge too.
Enjoyed Hold the Dark.
Going to watch The Apostle tonight - directed by Gareth Evans of The Raid. Looks Wickerman / Red State like.
Also Paul Greengrass' 22 July (based on the 2011 Norway mass killings). This is a Netflix/cinema dual release. Greengrass' has done some great work such as United93 / Captain Phillips.
I've watched Quincy (the biopic of Quincy Jones not the TV sleuth) this week.
Recommended if you have an interest in good music, the length and breadth of his career is absolutely stunning and he's a very wise and very funny guy.
Was hoping for more of the gossip he's been spilling in recent years, but it's a great watch anyway.
Watched Apostle last night.....great..like a proper video nasty from the 80s. Best gory horror I have seen for a while.
Any watched the haunting of hill house yet?
3 eps into Hill house , usual cliched haunted house stuff that gives you the jeebers & at least 2 very pretty Ladies. Adding to that it seems pretty descent so far.
I’m favouring Prime more than Netflix at the moment.
I’ve only just discovered the American version of The Office. It’s on Prime and I’m very late to the party but my word, it’s one of the funniest and cringiest things I have ever watched. Superb.
Also on Amazon - Transparent. Might have mentioned it earlier in the thread but very good family drama about a patriarch who goes trans, but in reality it’s not really about him. Great characterisation.
Over on Netflix, just watched ‘Wonder’ - sweet and moving, probably more so if you have kids. I noticed there is a new series of Norsemen available - looking forward to that, cos it’s bloody funny.
The new series of Ozark is moving nicely as well.
Oh, sorry - just realised this is a thread for Netflix, not Amazon 😄
Its's Singletrack who cares?
My recommendation? The Cannondale Trigger 29.
Or Stranger Things. Especially the Honest Trailers for both, just for Winona Face
same here. slow paced with a few jumps. I'll give it another couple of episodes
3 eps into Hill house , usual cliched haunted house stuff that gives you the jeebers & at least 2 very pretty Ladies. Adding to that it seems pretty descent so far.
same here. slow paced with a few jumps. I’ll give it another couple of episodes
Sinner S2 (Nov 9) and House of Cards final season beginning of Nov.
Norsemen series 2 is now up, brilliant!!!
Sacrifice is ace - but then, everything Derren Brown does is full of wow.
Valley Uprising was a really enjoyable documentary covering climbing in Yosemite.
Just started Dirk Gently on Netflix, whole lot of Wtf and Dirk is annoying in the way only a Douglas Adams character could be. I reckon it'll be a good one.
On Prime I battered through Mr Robot and enjoyed it, The Man in the High Castle is supposed to be worth watching too.
Both platforms are all about the TV, movies are mostly so-so.
I thought Man in the High Castle started out pretty good (series 1) but I think lost it in series 2. I watched the first part of series 3. I'll not be watching anymore.
But it's really well made, and very bleak, if you like that sort of think.
Big event on Netflix, for some, is going to be Springsteen on Broadway, on 15th Dec.
Valley Uprising was a really enjoyable documentary covering climbing in Yosemite.
If you liked that one, Meru is another stunning mountaineering documentary.
Give 'maniac' a whirl. Not for me I don't like it. Going to start a binge into 'mind hunter ' here now.
4 episodes into 'mindhunter', im properly late to the party, but if you like me and just started, id recommend it.
I thought "Making a Murderer" was one of the best documentaries I have ever watched, but the second series is turning out to have just as many "did that really happen?" moments. Definitely truth stranger than fiction.
Anyone started “Homecoming”?
finished Haunting of Hill House. i though it was spectacular. there was one episode in particular, maybe 6 or 7 where they're at the funeral parlour - that is just insanely good.
onto second series of GLOW now.
also, i watched half an hour of the 1st episode of Schitts Creek. seems pretty funny but it hasnt stuck on me yet...
We're half way through Ozark season 2, really enjoying it.
I'm halfway through season 2 of Ozark too. Started watching based on the reviews here and it's really good. Possibly getting a little far-fetched but I've enjoyed it.
Also halfway through Haunting of Hill House. Found it slow to begin with (which is partly down to me just being tired of the stock horror format) but it's really picking up as it goes through.
Line of duty is absolutely gripping, just about to start series 4, I'll be gutted when I've finished it!
finished haunting of hill house, didnt like it for the first few episodes as i think itd been overhyped as the scariest thing ever. once i started watching it for what it is, i quite enjoyed it, nowt special tho.
tried norsemen last night expecting it to be funnier than what it was, so binned that.
enjoyed the first two series of line of duty which keeps us binge watching it, so probs try series 3 tonight.
also half way through Ozark 2. It's good but the Sisyphean challenge/failure/someone screws up is getting a little draining. And the kids are a right pain in the wotsit.
Will watch Making a Murderer 2 after as MAM was astonishing.
Also liking Gotham, fantastical stories and characters despite which even a cynic as me can happily suspend my disbelief for.
Happy was v funny, I hope there's a second series.
And the kids are a right pain in the wotsit.
Boy is OK, but I've been wanting the daughter to get shot for sometime now...
S5 of Line of Duty is imminent.
Bodyguard was pretty good.
enjoyed the first two series of line of duty which keeps us binge watching it, so probs try series 3 tonight.
Sadexpunk, S3 steps it up a level!
S5 of Line of Duty is imminent.
That's made my monday aphex!
Line of duty is absolutely gripping, just about to start series 4
I thought there were only 3? Oh this is good news .
S5 of Line of Duty is imminent
And this!
Oh, yeah. Orphan Black.
not this...
<p>Randomly stumbled across Aggretsuko last night. It's a Sanrio series about a typically cute red panda accountant who vents her workplace frustrations via death metal karaoke. Most amusing, rated PG but definitely not for younger ears.</p><p>
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Loving the chilling adventures of Sabrina at the moment.
Sadexpunk, S3 steps it up a level!
just binge watched it, finished last night. brilliant.
Just started Dirk Gently on Netflix, whole lot of Wtf and Dirk is annoying in the way only a Douglas Adams character could be. I reckon it’ll be a good one.
It is. Both series were excellent. Sadly they've canned it now.
Huge fan of the Dirk Gently series's. Half way through re watching currently.
There is a campain to get the third series made. They are watching the stats on whos watching the first 2 closely fro justification.
Please watch.
I would really recommend Dark. It’s a German series that reminded me slightly of Stranger Things but without the Goonies bit. Really enjoyed it although bit of a head **** keeping up with all the different characters in the different time lines. It’s on Netflix.
I started on Sabrina last night. As a, ahem, fan of "the teenage witch" , (especially Willow!), I didn't expect much - It's ace. 🙂
I would really recommend Dark
Yep, really enjoyed this. Thinking man's version of Stranger Things.
Plus 1 for Dark but make sure you watch it in German with subtitles as the dubbed into English version is laughably bad.
Plus 1 for Dark but make sure you watch it in German with subtitles as the dubbed into English version is laughably bad.
Currently watching 3% on my commute. Similar laughable dubbing (from Spanish I guess).
didnt finish the first episode of Sabrina. Dross.
Watched the Netflix made film Outlaw King tonight. Not bad at all.
We saw Outlaw King being filmed up in the Cairngorms last year, came round the corner with my then 3 year old girl on the forward facing bike seat, only to see fifty or so horsemen with all the regalia, a few loose horses and all the noise of hooves and shouting.
Little whimper from the front and then TOTAL amazement. Quality!
especially Willow!
Do you mean Buffy?
Ha.Yes . Early onset.....
i watched the outlaw king. Very good -for Netflix
Waiting for the rain to set in so I can binge House of Cards guilt free
also half way through Ozark 2. It’s good but the Sisyphean challenge/failure/someone screws up is getting a little draining. And the kids are a right pain in the wotsit.
We just finished Ozark 2, really enjoyed it. A third season has been commissioned, just have to wait now...
Ive stalled halfway through while I finish S4 of Gotham and have started Making a Murderer 2
Will get back to Ozark shortly though. Long nights drawing in.
Amazon Prime -
The Americans
Halt and Catch Fire (first season is a bit slow but by about half way through the second it picks up and I thought the last two seasons were outstanding). Interesting history of the modern tech age.
Finished the Haunting of Hill House ... bit disappointing that one. Director has done some good stuff (Hush) - but this was flabby and melodramatic. Some of the monologues were so drawn out. On the plus side they did try something a bit different and some of the scares were great but generally I thought it was not worth 10 episodes.
Episode 6 was a technical tour de force - not quite equalling the Steadicam sequence of True Detective but impressive.
Sinner S2 - has got off to a fantastic start though. A proper 'why dunnit' with a decent sense of pace, mystery and character.
You've been recommended all the good ones but if you want something factual to watch I can wholeheartedly recommend The Vietnam War series. I grew up to young to remember anything about it so it really opened my eyes to the horror and futility of it all.
I started on Sabrina last night. As a, ahem, fan of “the teenage witch” , (especially Willow!), I didn’t expect much – It’s ace. 🙂
I've just finished it. I didn't make it through the first episode the first time around but went back and actually really enjoyed it. Jeez it's dark: I wasn't expecting it to be quite so graphic and outlandishly satanic. Even the Church of Satan are suing the show over use of their statue as it's too literal in it's representation of Satanism.
Dammit, though: I'm now struggling to find something to watch afterwards. I started with the Punisher but found it pretty dull.
Edit:
Even the Church of Satan are suing the show over use of their statue as it's too literal in it's representation of Satanism.
It turns out they aren't. It's a political activist group called TST (The Satanic Temple) who have sued the show and have nothing to do with the CoS.
after watching the Deviate ones about Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine, i now seem to be have been drawn into a deep abysis of history of hiphop and Rap programmes on netflix. quite enjoying them at the moment.
after watching the Deviate ones about Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine, i now seem to be have been drawn into a deep abysis of history of hiphop and Rap programmes on netflix. quite enjoying them at the moment.
Yeah, they are good. Hip-Hop evolution, and The Get Down were my favs
Do you mean Buffy?
Why would he mean a slayer when he was talking about witches?
It is. Both series were excellent. Sadly they’ve canned it now.
FFS... Yeah better get those stats up!
Watched the first episode of Narcos Mexico last night. A good start and has to be watched for the two best haircuts in television history.
So about half way through House of Cards, got the nagging sense of rewrites all over it and there is a big chuck of missing time that doesn't really make sense (or probably the first 3 episodes which would have included spacey to get to the new start point.
Watched 'The Ballad of Buster Scraggs' yesterday, a collection of western-themed short stories from the Coen Brothers.
Absolutely brilliant.
Started watching the Chilling Adventures of Fake Hermione last night.
Shaping up to be quite good except for the constant distraction of how obvious the casting process must have been to find an actress who most closely resembles Emma Watson to play the teenage witch on her way to magic boarding school.
Also, the cat better start talking soon.
Watched the first episode of Narcos Mexico last night. A good start and has to be watched for the two best haircuts in television history.
Gonna get on it this eve. Been watching El Chapo but it's a poor substitute really.
I watched buster craggs last night .
very brilliant and some genuine laugh out loud moments for me. I am a Cohen bros fanboy though.
A more traditional homage to spaghetti westerns is Valley of Violence I enjoyed it.
my grandad would have loved it.
+1 on the Vietnam series.
watched ballad of Buster scruggs and was left disappointed and wanting. I am a big Coen bros fan usually
Ooh is that on Netflix?
OK, changed my plans for this eve now.
That's the evening sorted also - great first 30 mins. Laugh out loud at places.
One for the French ctimedrama fans La Manta (The Mantis) so many twists Inthe plot, got last episode to do tonight.
watched ballad of Buster scruggs and was left disappointed and wanting. I am a big Coen bros fan usually
Just started watching. Certainly seems one the their batshit crazy ones.
Gets better as it goes on.
watched ballad of Buster scruggs and was left disappointed and wanting. I am a big Coen bros fan usually
Watched it last night, felt the same, something was missing. The one with the dog and the gold miner one were excellent though, overall let down by the other 4 parts.
For those who have appreciated, I really don't think liked is the right word, Ken Burns series on Vietnam the one on the Civil War is also excellent and despite being about events 150 years ago very moving.
Loved Ballad of Buster Scruggs, just started watching The Good place, 4 episodes in liking it a lot
Watched the 'ballad of buster scruggs 'due to ratings and reviews. Meh , worth 2 hours if you've nothing else to do, but i can't understand the high ratings. Going to binge 'line of duty' here.
Unabomber, an oldie but new to me wasn't the worst. Couldn't get on with sabrina or the sinner at all.
Was going to give outlaw king a whirl, but on hold for now. Same with ozark, house of cards, oitnb etc. . I don't want to commit to any shows atm. Patiently waiting on GOT.
