Netflix - What gems have you found?

[anonymous-user]

steak revolution on Netflix.

9/10

[eccles]

Davie_GLA said:

Young Offenders.

No idea why i stuck this on but actually quite enjoyed it. Quite charming if a little cheesy.

I saw this a couple of weeks ago, thoroughly enjoyed it with few genuine laugh out loud moments.

[SpeckledJim]

eccles said:

Davie_GLA said:

Young Offenders.

No idea why i stuck this on but actually quite enjoyed it. Quite charming if a little cheesy.

I saw this a couple of weeks ago, thoroughly enjoyed it with few genuine laugh out loud moments.

Me too. Goodsilly, not badsilly.

[remkingston]

The Man from No Where

Korean action flick. Brutal but compelling also. 8/10


Reclaim
A Netflix original about a couple who get caught out on an adoption scam. Full of plot holes. Avoid.

The League of Gentlemen
I hadn't watched it the first time around. After doing so I can not believe Little Britain got made as they have ripped off TLoG's characters with less funny sketches.

Psychoville by them is even better, worth a watch too.

[jmorgan]

Yellowbeard. So bad it is good.

[RicharDC5]

When does 13 reasons why get going? The pilot was good but I've given up after about 3 episodes. The story line just seemed to disappear. Was like watching a crap high school teen drama.

I watched Silicon Cowboys last night which is a good doco on computery stuff.

Edited by RicharDC5 on Thursday 4th May 21:28

[MiniMan64]

Is it me or are there a lot less films and a lot more telly on there now?

[jmorgan]

^^^
Dunno, I am getting bored with it. But don't want Amazon.

[Quickmoose]

RicharDC5 said:

When does 13 reasons why get going? The pilot was good but I've given up after about 3 episodes. The story line just seemed to disappear. Was like watching a crap high school teen drama.

I watched Silicon Cowboys last night which is a good doco on computery stuff.

It's true it is a trial for some time....
Each episode explores a 'reason'
Most of them are quite samey.
Obviously there are 13 episodes
It ramped up from 7
ramped up again at 10

Seems to be a pattern in modern drama....like Breaking Bad...takes ages to get moving but when it does it doesn't let up.

[kowalski655]

Telegraph telling you how to find those obscure movies
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/on-demand/0/netflix-sec...

Not had a chance to look so it may just be clickbait BS

[rodericb]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I do remember reading about that quite a few months ago. It does the rounds of the media. It is a thing though - I never tried it at the time but I did just now. If you go to the website (not via any app) you'll see the URL. If anything appears depends on your country apparantly. Nothing appears for me under 'cult sci-fi & fantasy' on my Australian Netflix.


One hidden gem I've read about (and seen ep 1 so far) is Nobel. https://www.netflix.com/title/80131415

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_(TV_series)

A series of incidents in Afghanistan set complicated political and personal events in motion for a returning Norwegian Special Forces Soldier....

[P-Jay]

MiniMan64 said:

Is it me or are there a lot less films and a lot more telly on there now?

Yes, by design.

Rather than fight over rights for a 5 year old blockbuster most fans have already seen with Amazon, Sky Movies etc they're now focusing on new original content they make themselves and exclusive rights to stuff they don't - for the most part that's TV series / Boxsets, but they also make their own films, okay they're not knocking out $300m SuperHero films (thank god) but smaller, but better written stuff like 'Beasts of No Nation'.

They've evolved a lot from DVD by Post, to Movie Streaming and now evolving into a major international 'network' - they just don't bother with the messy business of dealing with broadcasters etc.

[London424]

P-Jay said:

MiniMan64 said:

Is it me or are there a lot less films and a lot more telly on there now?

Yes, by design.

Rather than fight over rights for a 5 year old blockbuster most fans have already seen with Amazon, Sky Movies etc they're now focusing on new original content they make themselves and exclusive rights to stuff they don't - for the most part that's TV series / Boxsets, but they also make their own films, okay they're not knocking out $300m SuperHero films (thank god) but smaller, but better written stuff like 'Beasts of No Nation'.

They've evolved a lot from DVD by Post, to Movie Streaming and now evolving into a major international 'network' - they just don't bother with the messy business of dealing with broadcasters etc.

Yep, Netflix are really changing the industry right now.

Brad Pitt's film War Machine coming out soon.

http://uproxx.com/entertainment/brad-pitt-war-mach...

They are spending big money and giving directors/writers a lot of control of what they are making that just isn't happening in the big studios.

[chris watton]

I find that I watch SKY very little these days, I have the movies package, but I already own all of the films I want to see on BR or 4k BR, so it's becoming irrelevant to us. We stopped watching light entertainment crap on terrestrial channels over a decade ago, so that's even less relevant. Most TV viewing, at least 80% of it is now Amazon or Netflix, and mainly TV series box sets. I guess I only keep Sky for GoT and TWD, may ditch the movie package..

And we still pay the BBC TV licence, which has the least relevance to our lives than any other channels!

[P-Jay]

chris watton said:

I find that I watch SKY very little these days, I have the movies package, but I already own all of the films I want to see on BR or 4k BR, so it's becoming irrelevant to us. We stopped watching light entertainment crap on terrestrial channels over a decade ago, so that's even less relevant. Most TV viewing, at least 80% of it is now Amazon or Netflix, and mainly TV series box sets. I guess I only keep Sky for GoT and TWD, may ditch the movie package..

And we still pay the BBC TV licence, which has the least relevance to our lives than any other channels!

You could do what I did.

Ditched the premium TV, upgraded to 100Mbps fibre (if you don't have already) and stream everything, BBC, C4, Sky (via now TV which covers you for GoT and TWD) Amazon and Netflix. You only really need 6 meg for HD but add kids with phones and whatnot and you need all you can get.

The only slight sticking point at the moment is hardware licensing - I wanted a single set-top box, went for Apple TV thinking, it's expensive, it's Apple it's bound to be good yeah? Sadly not, Amazon Prime isn't on Apple TV (or maybe just in SD, I forget which) okay what about Firestick? Firestick doesn't support NowTV (they seem to be in a stand-off) okay what about NowTV box? No Netflix. Total PITA.

Ultimately I dropped Amazon, Grand Tour didn't grab me and I was a bit annoyed at their stance about Apple TV. Apple TV works wonderfully, nice remote, lovely looking OS, doesn't do much, but what it does it does well.

Keep Freeview for times when you don't know what to watch or you just want background noise. Saved me £40 a month I think.

[chris watton]

P-Jay said:

You could do what I did.

Ditched the premium TV, upgraded to 100Mbps fibre (if you don't have already) and stream everything, BBC, C4, Sky (via now TV which covers you for GoT and TWD) Amazon and Netflix. You only really need 6 meg for HD but add kids with phones and whatnot and you need all you can get.

The only slight sticking point at the moment is hardware licensing - I wanted a single set-top box, went for Apple TV thinking, it's expensive, it's Apple it's bound to be good yeah? Sadly not, Amazon Prime isn't on Apple TV (or maybe just in SD, I forget which) okay what about Firestick? Firestick doesn't support NowTV (they seem to be in a stand-off) okay what about NowTV box? No Netflix. Total PITA.

Ultimately I dropped Amazon, Grand Tour didn't grab me and I was a bit annoyed at their stance about Apple TV. Apple TV works wonderfully, nice remote, lovely looking OS, doesn't do much, but what it does it does well.

Keep Freeview for times when you don't know what to watch or you just want background noise. Saved me £40 a month I think.

SKY is expensive and I feel it does need a cull. Didn't realise we are paying almost £80 per month, compared to £14 for both Amazon (which pays for itself anyway as I order loads from it) and the full Netflix package. I do not mind at all, and am more than happy to pay for content I watch. For me, both Amazon and Netflix offer very good and varied content to sate our 2-3 hour per day viewing. That and our BR/4K BR collection. I sometime get annoyed at paying for SKY yet on the non-movie channels, adverts are 20 minutes per hour on most other pay channels!

In fact, thinking about it as I type, I will cancel our SKY subscription, I am sure I can purchase the latest episodes of GoT and TWD on Amazon when they are aired, and there's still plenty on Netflix to watch.

[31mph]

RicharDC5 said:

When does 13 reasons why get going? The pilot was good but I've given up after about 3 episodes. The story line just seemed to disappear. Was like watching a crap high school teen drama.

It is basically this, along with every 'american teen film' cliche in the book

I was disappointed with it

[31mph]

Think I might give up my Netflix subscription after the new House of Cards.

I don't like that they've replaced the star rating system with this percentage 'match' thing - it just looks like they're trying to hide their rubbish content

[Bullett]

P-Jay said:

The only slight sticking point at the moment is hardware licensing - I wanted a single set-top box, went for Apple TV thinking, it's expensive, it's Apple it's bound to be good yeah? Sadly not, Amazon Prime isn't on Apple TV (or maybe just in SD, I forget which) okay what about Firestick? Firestick doesn't support NowTV (they seem to be in a stand-off) okay what about NowTV box? No Netflix. Total PITA.

In case you didn't know the Playstation 3/4 supports all of them Amazon, Netflix, NowTV, BBC, ITV etc. I think the xbox does as well but not 100% sure.

[chris watton]

Bullett said:

In case you didn't know the Playstation 3/4 supports all of them Amazon, Netflix, NowTV, BBC, ITV etc. I think the xbox does as well but not 100% sure.

PS4 definitely does have Netflix, Amazon etc. I used to use this a lot until I bought our new TV, which is connected to the internet and has the same options for online viewing.