Netflix - What gems have you found?

[Chris_H]

Season 5 of Rake starts on ABC later this month, so hopefully it'll be on Netflix son after!

[Davie_GLA]

Extinction. Utter guff.

Dude with findmyrifle.com was the only decent actor.

[anonymous-user]

Chris_H said:

Season 5 of Rake starts on ABC later this month, so hopefully it'll be on Netflix son after!

Excellent stuff.

[funinhounslow]

parabolica said:

Pretty sure quite a few will have seen this when it was on the BBC/iplayer, but Ken Burn's long-form doc The Vietnam War is now on Netflix; looks like it's the full US release as well (around 900 mins IIRC) instead of the edited 650-minute BBC version. Deep dive, but such a thorough insight into a very complex war.

Working my way through this now - currently on ep 8.

Absolutely fascinating and essential viewing. I didn't catch it on iPlayer, but that must be some savage editing to lop off almost a quarter...

[CaptainSlow]

Davie_GLA said:

Extinction. Utter guff.

Dude with findmyrifle.com was the only decent actor.

Switched off half way through.

[iwantagta]

The end of the f***ing world.

Excellent. And it shows that a series only needs to be 8 odd episodes. Not the 24 episodes a lot of junk is dragged out to be, just tell the story don't keep adding twist after twist until it becomes a nonsensical mess.

[otolith]

Enjoyed end of the f'ing world, and this is how it ends. Also, F is for family, and big mouth. Struggling to get into altered carbon but haven't given up on it.

[clonmult]

CaptainSlow said:

Davie_GLA said:

Extinction. Utter guff.

Dude with findmyrifle.com was the only decent actor.

Switched off half way through.

We enjoyed it ..... bit of an unexpected "twist".

[Brads67]

Watched Icarus last night.

Quite astonishing. We were utterly gripped by the whole thing. That film maker must have thought god had dropped a gift in his lap when that kicked off.

[Smiljan]

Brads67 said:

Watched Icarus last night.

Quite astonishing. We were utterly gripped by the whole thing. That film maker must have thought god had dropped a gift in his lap when that kicked off.

That is a superb documentary, Oscar winning and rightly so.

[DanielSan]

Likely to have been mentioned already but I started watching Unsolved - The Tupac and Notorious BIG murders on Sunday night and onto episode 7 of 10 already. Really good so far and done well, good cross over between the BIG murder being investigated at the time and the task force reinvestigating in 06. Well worth a watch.

[GetCarter]

Finished 'Altered Carbon' yesterday. Thought it was very good, some excellent concepts - though I always hate it when the plot is explained at the end. Should be shown, not told!

I read earlier on this thread that a second season has been confirmed. Good.

[jammy-git]

DanielSan said:

Likely to have been mentioned already but I started watching Unsolved - The Tupac and Notorious BIG murders on Sunday night and onto episode 7 of 10 already. Really good so far and done well, good cross over between the BIG murder being investigated at the time and the task force reinvestigating in 06. Well worth a watch.

My girlfriend and I are enjoying this. I wouldn't say it's gripping, or has the "must watch another one" appeal that a lot of good Netflix series have. Also, we've found the script and acting to be quite wooden at times. But other than that it's been a good little series so far.

[Lazermilk]

jammy-git said:

DanielSan said:

Likely to have been mentioned already but I started watching Unsolved - The Tupac and Notorious BIG murders on Sunday night and onto episode 7 of 10 already. Really good so far and done well, good cross over between the BIG murder being investigated at the time and the task force reinvestigating in 06. Well worth a watch.

My girlfriend and I are enjoying this. I wouldn't say it's gripping, or has the "must watch another one" appeal that a lot of good Netflix series have. Also, we've found the script and acting to be quite wooden at times. But other than that it's been a good little series so far.

I totally agree about your comment on the script/acting, some of it was pretty terrible but I still enjoyed it also, worth a watch for sure even if you aren't interested in the music side of things.

[jammy-git]

Yup. Enjoyed The Defiant Ones and a couple of related documentaries and series. This isn't quite as good but definitely still worth watching.

[Beefmeister]

Chookity

[Lazermilk]

jammy-git said:

Yup. Enjoyed The Defiant Ones and a couple of related documentaries and series. This isn't quite as good but definitely still worth watching.

Yeah Defiant Ones was very good too, well worth watching

[Lazermilk]

Beefmeister said:

Chookity

Final space isn't available here in Austria for some reason, I recently got a VPN for my fire stick so I could get iplayer etc, so I tried with the Netflix app and was able to watch the first episode of it before Netflix somehow detected I was using a proxy of some kind and wouldn't let the next episode play

Looks like I will have to use Kodi to watch the rest...

Edited by Lazermilk on Wednesday 8th August 14:28

[Luke.]

Beefmeister said:

Chookity

Can't believe I searched netflix for that...

[Davie_GLA]

Sky Q now has Netflix app.

Good news for me as the wifi on my telly seems to be crap.