Netflix - What gems have you found?

[Davie_GLA]

Been watching too much in parallel. Need to stick with something and then move on.


By the way, The Stranger - anyone recommend it?

[TyrannosauRoss Lex]

Davie_GLA said:

Been watching too much in parallel. Need to stick with something and then move on.


By the way, The Stranger - anyone recommend it?

Yes.... But there are a few plot holes. Still found it a fairly enjoyable watch. It did start off better than it ended, but it's worth a watch in my opinion.

[MrsMiggins]

Speed is my Need. Documentary looking at the psychology of motorcycle racers. Includes BSB and IoM TT riders. I ride, but they're a different breed for sure.

[stuarthat]

pidsy said:

Butter Face said:

Season 2 of Narcos: Mexico is up. Awesome stuff

Been looking forward to this.

Yes very good usual death drugs and corruption done well .

[Lynchie999]

... been watching old episodes of "Bottom" ... haven't laughed so much in a while!

[steveatesh]

Just watched Wasteland a film about somebody wanting to get revenge on a drugs kingpin (uk setting), have to say it was very good and a very clever story. Acting was well done as was the directing. Won’t spoil it but it’s worth watching .

[davek_964]

Watched Unbelievable yesterday - it's been on my list for a while, but hadn't got around to it. Thought it was very good - it felt like a fairly moderate pace, but not in a slow / boring way. Worth watching.

[RichFN2]

chilistrucker said:

Me too. Only 2 episodes in and so far, so good and noticing some lad called, 'Chapo' seems to be popping up a bit more. I really hope season 2 of Mexico carries on developing nicely.

Makes me wonder if at some point in the future they, (Netflix) would take on doing, Narcos: El Chapo?
I'd imagine it wouldn't be easy, and they may come up against a few 'obstacles.'

They already have:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6692188/?ref_=nv_sr_s...

The 3 series covers all of his 'professional career' and from memory they used some of the Narcos production crew etc so there is a similar feel to the series. Its safe to assume there will be a 3rd season of Mexico so will be interesting to see how Netflix handle the Chapo story in the Mexico series, without treading on the toes of their own series dedicated to the man

[pidsy]

Uppity - the story of Willy T Riggs

I must admit, I’d never heard of him until someone on this thread mentioned this doc. The story of the first black driver to drive the Indy 500.

This guy really had no luck throughout his career!
Amazed to see the level of racism within the sport even up til the mid 80’s.
Roush seemed like a very difficult man to drive for.

Interesting.

[Adenauer]

Hell or high water.

Enjoyable watch if you can ignore Jeff Bridges doing that talking like a stroke victim thing he does too often in films.

[monthefish]

TyrannosauRoss Lex said:

Davie_GLA said:

Been watching too much in parallel. Need to stick with something and then move on.


By the way, The Stranger - anyone recommend it?

Yes.... But there are a few plot holes..

That's an understatement!

Major one right at the end, totally undermined the whole series.

they pinned the murder of Doug Tripp on Patrick Katz, but Katz was in custody at the time
Also, with the alternate cover story, how did they know where to look for the body of Corrine

[smn159]

monthefish said:

TyrannosauRoss Lex said:

Davie_GLA said:

Been watching too much in parallel. Need to stick with something and then move on.


By the way, The Stranger - anyone recommend it?

Yes.... But there are a few plot holes..

That's an understatement!

Major one right at the end, totally undermined the whole series.

they pinned the murder of Doug Tripp on Patrick Katz, but Katz was in custody at the time
Also, with the alternate cover story, how did they know where to look for the body of Corrine

It got more and more ludicrous with each episode frankly

[jcremonini]

monthefish said:

TyrannosauRoss Lex said:

Davie_GLA said:

Been watching too much in parallel. Need to stick with something and then move on.


By the way, The Stranger - anyone recommend it?

Yes.... But there are a few plot holes..

That's an understatement!

Major one right at the end, totally undermined the whole series.

they pinned the murder of Doug Tripp on Patrick Katz, but Katz was in custody at the time
Also, with the alternate cover story, how did they know where to look for the body of Corrine

Katz was in custody at the time he was shot, yes, but who is to say he didn’t kill Tripp before he went after the others ( and was then arrested ) ? The police case against him would not have been “you killed him at exactly this time” but “you killed him then went on to attempt to kill the other people, where you failed and were arrested. As far as knowing where to look , they could say they located Tripps car following a search and then found his body and that of the woman. I admit the story was not clear but it shouldn’t really need to be.

[stew-STR160]

pidsy said:

Uppity - the story of Willy T Riggs

I must admit, I’d never heard of him until someone on this thread mentioned this doc. The story of the first black driver to drive the Indy 500.

This guy really had no luck throughout his career!
Amazed to see the level of racism within the sport even up til the mid 80’s.
Roush seemed like a very difficult man to drive for.

Interesting.

A great documentary. Insane hearing the racism involved. Were it not for that, I imagine he'd have made a good go of it in F1.

[parabolica]

Currently making my way through Narcos Mexico S2 at the moment; as other have said it's brilliant. Really impressive to see that 5 series in (counting the original series) the qualify of the show has never wavered or deteriorated one bit. Nice to see a few faces from the old show pop up in this Mexico sub-series also. Diego Luna really leads the show well, but I still prefer Wagner's Pablo as the antagonist.

It's been a bit of a drought recently for me and Netflix, but on top of Narcos, Ozark S3 is coming and so is the S2 of Drive to Survive, so looking good for the next few weeks at least.

[roboxm3]

stew-STR160 said:

pidsy said:

Uppity - the story of Willy T Riggs

I must admit, I’d never heard of him until someone on this thread mentioned this doc. The story of the first black driver to drive the Indy 500.

This guy really had no luck throughout his career!
Amazed to see the level of racism within the sport even up til the mid 80’s.
Roush seemed like a very difficult man to drive for.

Interesting.

A great documentary. Insane hearing the racism involved. Were it not for that, I imagine he'd have made a good go of it in F1.

I'm not sure he suffered much bad luck at all to be honest!!

[pidsy]

Engines blowing?
Italians stipulating Italian drivers?
Poor finishes?

I’m not sure Racism was the cause of all of them.

[anonymous-user]

The stranger is better to watch the first and last episodes, the inbetween ones are jusy fillers. It felt like it was written by the Line of Duty writers with stupid post twists.

[monthefish]

jcremonini said:

monthefish said:

TyrannosauRoss Lex said:

Davie_GLA said:

Been watching too much in parallel. Need to stick with something and then move on.


By the way, The Stranger - anyone recommend it?

Yes.... But there are a few plot holes..

That's an understatement!

Major one right at the end, totally undermined the whole series.

they pinned the murder of Doug Tripp on Patrick Katz, but Katz was in custody at the time
Also, with the alternate cover story, how did they know where to look for the body of Corrine

Katz was in custody at the time he was shot, yes, but who is to say he didn’t kill Tripp before he went after the others ( and was then arrested ) ? The police case against him would not have been “you killed him at exactly this time” but “you killed him then went on to attempt to kill the other people, where you failed and were arrested. As far as knowing where to look , they could say they located Tripps car following a search and then found his body and that of the woman. I admit the story was not clear but it shouldn’t really need to be.

A rudimentary post-mortem of a gun shot death would have shown that the time of death of of Doug Tripp meant it was impossible for Patrick Katz to have been the killer

[jcremonini]

monthefish said:

jcremonini said:

monthefish said:

TyrannosauRoss Lex said:

Davie_GLA said:

Been watching too much in parallel. Need to stick with something and then move on.


By the way, The Stranger - anyone recommend it?

Yes.... But there are a few plot holes..

That's an understatement!

Major one right at the end, totally undermined the whole series.

they pinned the murder of Doug Tripp on Patrick Katz, but Katz was in custody at the time
Also, with the alternate cover story, how did they know where to look for the body of Corrine

Katz was in custody at the time he was shot, yes, but who is to say he didn’t kill Tripp before he went after the others ( and was then arrested ) ? The police case against him would not have been “you killed him at exactly this time” but “you killed him then went on to attempt to kill the other people, where you failed and were arrested. As far as knowing where to look , they could say they located Tripps car following a search and then found his body and that of the woman. I admit the story was not clear but it shouldn’t really need to be.

A rudimentary post-mortem of a gun shot death would have shown that the time of death of of Doug Tripp meant it was impossible for Patrick Katz to have been the killer

A post mortem, say, 3 days after death wouldn’t be able to tell someone was killed at a specific hour and certainly would not be able to tell if someone died at x o clock or 2 hours beforehand