Netflix - What gems have you found?
Discussion
AlecT said:
The other day I found the Detectorists starring and written by Mckenzie Crook, this passed me by when it was on BBC 4, brilliant writing and very funny, only series one on Netfix at the mo so looking forward to series 2 appearing soon.
Highly recommended
This is brilliant.. I've seen it on a plane and suggested to my wife that we should watch it... First 2 episodes she did not get it, but then she really loved it and cannot wait for series 2....... "Found anything?"Highly recommended
Some motoring type stuff I've enjoyed;
Highway through hell; follows a Canadian breakdown and heavy recovery company, some right characters in it and some jaw dropping crashes / recoveries they have to deal with.
Head to head; available online / u-tube also but they do the stuff that PH'ers will be interested in. Lots of super / hyper car shoot outs and a fair bit of this is done at Laguna Seca.
Roadkill; Californian hot rodders doing insane road trips and are very hands on. For example on one trip they pull up and do an engine transplant in the car park of what would be Halfords in the snow, using the logic that it will be quicker to get parts. Nutters.
Highway through hell; follows a Canadian breakdown and heavy recovery company, some right characters in it and some jaw dropping crashes / recoveries they have to deal with.
Head to head; available online / u-tube also but they do the stuff that PH'ers will be interested in. Lots of super / hyper car shoot outs and a fair bit of this is done at Laguna Seca.
Roadkill; Californian hot rodders doing insane road trips and are very hands on. For example on one trip they pull up and do an engine transplant in the car park of what would be Halfords in the snow, using the logic that it will be quicker to get parts. Nutters.
colin_p said:
Roadkill; Californian hot rodders doing insane road trips and are very hands on. For example on one trip they pull up and do an engine transplant in the car park of what would be Halfords in the snow, using the logic that it will be quicker to get parts. Nutters.
I've been watching Roadkill on their youtube channel - didn't realise it was available on Netflix!Those guys are nuts, and I've tended to find the show more entertaining than Top Gear.
Obi Wan said:
The riot club - not great but not bad. A bunch of pompous upper class students from Oxford uni form a society that involves drinking and general debauchery. Pretty much all of the characters are unlikable but I couldn't stop watching it until the end.
It's based off of a play called Posh.That play is based off of a real dining club called The Bullingdon Club which is the UK's conspiracy theorist's equivalent of the Skull & Bones secret society.
Many members, a very unbalanced number of which, have found themselves in very powerful positions.
The dining club is allegedly the 3 year initiation into the actual club which then looks after members to ensure as many stay in powerful positions within their careers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1542634/Cam...
It's an interesting rabbit hole to look into.
I'm working through the original Star Trek series, digitally remastered. Quality of the remastering is excellent, quality of the writing/storylines is similarly excellent. I was a bit worried that revisiting it after 40 years would disappoint (like watching an episode of Lost in Space several years back!!) but no. The planet sets are a bit polystyrene and the "features" on the Enterprise are a bit Thunderbirds but the stories, acting, characterisations have, IMO, stood the test of time. Recently watched the episode which yielded the storyline for The Wrath of Khan, good stuff! Interestingly (for me) there are a number of episodes (darker ones to be fair) of which I have no recollection whatsoever and I watched the original release as an 8 year old and subsequent repeats through my childhood.
If you were a fan, the digitally remastered originals are worth a look.
If you were a fan, the digitally remastered originals are worth a look.
Final two episodes of S2 of Narcos tonight. Looking forward to it.
Is it wrong that I'm feeling a little bit sorry for Pablo!? I'm putting it down to the quality of his performance, rather than my being a murderous psychopath sympathiser.
Is it wrong that I'm feeling a little bit sorry for Pablo!? I'm putting it down to the quality of his performance, rather than my being a murderous psychopath sympathiser.
Edited by SpeckledJim on Wednesday 28th September 15:25
SpeckledJim said:
Final two episodes of S2 of Narcos tonight. Looking forward to it.
Is it wrong that I'm feeling a little bit sorry for Pablo!? I'm putting it down to the quality of his performance, rather than my being a murderous psychopath sympathiser.
Well, it was as good as expected.Is it wrong that I'm feeling a little bit sorry for Pablo!? I'm putting it down to the quality of his performance, rather than my being a murderous psychopath sympathiser.
Looking forward to S3 now.
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