Netflix - What gems have you found?

[Gary29]

Anyone watched any of Insatiable yet?

(She's 25 don't worry, I checked)

I should clarify that I haven't actually watched any of it myself, but the trailer keeps auto playing every time I log in (similar to above) that's what prompted me to ask.

Edited by Gary29 on Tuesday 14th August 09:28

[Smiljan]

SpeckledJim said:

Thanks all for the recommendation, we enjoyed this last night.

Wind River tonight.

Wind River is pretty good, a slow burner with a bit of an unlikely ending but very enjoyable.

[SpeckledJim]

Gary29 said:

Anyone watched any of Insatiable yet?

(She's 25 don't worry, I checked)

I should clarify that I haven't actually watched any of it myself, but the trailer keeps auto playing every time I log in (similar to above) that's what prompted me to ask.

Edited by Gary29 on Tuesday 14th August 09:28

Yes. first half hour last night. I agree completely...

Lovely voice as well.

[GetCarter]

zubzob said:

Enjoyed Calibre too. As Frankie tweeted 'a broadly realistic depiction of what it’s like to holiday in Scotland.'

As much like Highland Scotland as the film Notting Hill is like London.

Reasonable film mind.

[karma mechanic]

The Sinner

Not so much a whodunnit since we see the crime. But neither the protagonist or the audience know why it was committed.

Rather a dark story, a bit slow at times, but an enjoyable watch if you like puzzling things out. Not as jumpy as Sharp Objects and not quite as twisted, more of a detective story really. Binged the last half of the series in one go...

[rambo19]

The vietnam war, a film by ken burns.
Brilliant so far, gives you the history leading up the the war itself.
10/10

[tenohfive]

Another shout for Wind River - excellent film. I'd skimmed over it a few times until I saw the number of recommendations in this thread.

[torqueofthedevil]

rambo19 said:

The vietnam war, a film by ken burns.
Brilliant so far, gives you the history leading up the the war itself.
10/10

Just watched episode 8 it’s brilliant. Great if you’ve been to Vietnam and you recognise some of the locations

[Jonesy23]

Hannibal - very good version of the Red Dragon/Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal stories, more based on the books than the films but reworked a bit so it's a new vision of the story and mixes a few little bits in from later in the chronology.

First couple of seasons are basically set in the bit before Red Dragon & include stuff from that period referenced in the other stories.

Not lightened up at all for TV; darker & nastier than the cinema versions and truer to the books.

Just a bit gutted though - I was sure Netflix had all three seasons when I started watching but it seems they only have two at the moment now I've got to the end?

[SpeckledJim]

tenohfive said:

Another shout for Wind River - excellent film. I'd skimmed over it a few times until I saw the number of recommendations in this thread.

And another. Good performances by the two leads.

[Joyrider1]

The Boy

Creepy little fker.

Watchable horror flick about a nanny (Maggie from The Walking Dead ) going to look after a kid for an eccentric old couple, but it turns out to be a life-sized doll with a strict list of instructions on how to look after him, strange things start to happen when the couple go away and the list is neglected....Better than it sounds, if a little predictable

[SpeckledJim]

This thread has delivered two hits in two days in our house.

We liked Calibre and Wind River.

What say you all for this evening? Lets keep it relatively, but not very, high-brow please, no super-heroes.

[Joyrider1]

I see Mississippi Burning has been added - watched this loads of times over the years - A couple of FBI agents (Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) go to Mississippi to investigate the killing of some civil rights activists, and get into trouble with the KKK and racist local law enforcement. Imagine most have seen this, but it's a very powerful film and well worth watching...

[mikebradford]

Just finished the newly uploaded series 3 of Uncle.
Really liked series 1 and 2 and this has some really good laughable moments.

[ATM]

I've not seen many new recommendations in here recently so I've been watching all kinds of rubbish in the search for something not already seen and worth recommending and I think I've found it. Now I'm not saying it's breaking bad good or the OA good but it's kept my interest up and if you have one the wife might like it too.

Wanted

[Ali2202]

Sure it's been mentioned plenty before...

''Godless''

I'd normally have to tie The Mrs to a fencepost before she'd watch anything in the Western genre but even she is loving this one. Vividly brutal right from the off.

8/10 so far (4 episodes in)

[P-Jay]

Davie_GLA said:

"Life" - 90's Film with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. I thought it was very good.

I watched that 'back in the day' and thought it was excellent, largely ignored at the time and forgotten now, but it's funny and surprisingly touching given the actors.

[Mark Benson]

Ali2202 said:

Sure it's been mentioned plenty before...

''Godless''

I'd normally have to tie The Mrs to a fencepost before she'd watch anything in the Western genre but even she is loving this one. Vividly brutal right from the off.

8/10 so far (4 episodes in)

It has but worth mentioning again if only for the fact that like yours, my wife won't go near westerns but based on previous recommendations from here that she ended up liking, I persuaded her to give Godless a go. She loved it (and so did I), so nice to have a mini-series that doesn't set up series 2 to the detriment of the story in series one - as someone said previously; a beginning, middle and an end.

[JackThrust]

mikebradford said:

Just finished the newly uploaded series 3 of Uncle.
Really liked series 1 and 2 and this has some really good laughable moments.

Making my way through this at the moment, loved the first two series.

Proper belly laugh when Errol was trying to chat up a teenage groupie, "Nicola Sturgeon follows me on twitter".

[Davie_GLA]

I've starter Lilyhammer. Episode 5 so far and enjoying it.

Plot holes galore mind you.