Wow at the finale of Midnight Mass in that I had no idea there's likely to be a season 2 as Flanagan's shows are usually one offs
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 05:53 (one year ago) link
Argh, The Midnight Club not Midnight Mass
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 05:54 (one year ago) link
New season of The Dragon Prince next week!
― groovypanda, Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
First episode of Kleo was considerably less hi jinks and more trigger warning than the trailer let on, but I'm still in.
― ledge, Thursday, 27 October 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
The Sheng Wang comedy special is fantastic.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 27 October 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
The admittedly small sample of stuff that I'd read about it was about how fun it was, which is not how I'd remotely describe the first episode, after which I bailed. Does it get better after?
― Fartleby the Scrivener (Leee), Thursday, 27 October 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
I’ve watched three episodes and it’s way more serious than I expected
Although maybe it’s light breezy fun for a German show
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
Cabinet of Curiosities has been really good so far (I've seen first three episodes)
The Autopsy was excellent and full on hands over face in places
― groovypanda, Friday, 28 October 2022 07:06 (one year ago) link
I watched the first three last night. the first was fine, the second was wild, the third was absolutely phenomenal. and yes, truly horrifying at the end.
― ledge, Sunday, 30 October 2022 07:05 (one year ago) link
It’s entertaining though not like super great. The autopsy was pretty good apart from when the switch is happening and the outgoing creature will not stop talking, it really ruined the atmosphere.Have only watched four episodes so far. The fourth one was promising but predictable, it reminded me of Death Becomes Her and a million other things but wasn’t as good as any of them.
― barry sito (gyac), Sunday, 30 October 2022 07:25 (one year ago) link
I watched first 2 Cabinet 0f Curiosities last week and was thinking of posting about it here. I see at least one other person is watching it.Some of the dialogue seems a little melodramatic but it does seem to be quite watchable. Fits this weekend at least.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 30 October 2022 10:33 (one year ago) link
I really liked the first two seasons of The Sinner but this third season is so bad, so very very bad.
― Roz, Thursday, 2 July 2020 17:25 (one month ago)
Yes, shockingly bad! I was mainly hatewatching for the second half of the season. Particularly reprehensible to present the prettyboy sociopath's banal sixth form nihilism as worthy of anything but instant dismissal. Really disappointing.
― chap, Monday, August 3, 2020 7:18 PM bookmarkflaglink
just watched all four seasons.
Third season definitely the worst and completely broke from the formula. agree that the character was insufferable and Pullman couldn't possibly have sympathized with the dude. his own wife got it right, dude was a privileged fuck cosplaying nihilistic murder because he had a midlife crisis.
Fourth season redeemed it a lot, even if it was a bit of a retread of Winter's Bone
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
Cabinet #3 was wild and gross and pretty great. The first two were fine and the fourth predictable.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
It’s all about the 7th one anyway.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
I enjoyed the two Lovecraft ones despite Crispin Glover's accent and the liberties taken with Witch House.
Still have the last two to watch.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
I really liked the first two seasons of The Sinner but this third season is so bad, so very very bad.― Roz, Thursday, 2 July 2020 17:25 (one month ago)Yes, shockingly bad! I was mainly hatewatching for the second half of the season. Particularly reprehensible to present the prettyboy sociopath's banal sixth form nihilism as worthy of anything but instant dismissal. Really disappointing.― chap, Monday, August 3, 2020 7:18 PM bookmarkflaglinkjust watched all four seasons.Third season definitely the worst and completely broke from the formula. agree that the character was insufferable and Pullman couldn't possibly have sympathized with the dude. his own wife got it right, dude was a privileged fuck cosplaying nihilistic murder because he had a midlife crisis.Fourth season redeemed it a lot, even if it was a bit of a retread of Winter's Bone― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, November 2, 2022 8:14 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, November 2, 2022 8:14 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
i didnt make it past the first ep of season 3 i cant believe how bad it was. do i need to watch it or can i skip to season 4 w no issues?
― Spottie, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
as long as you're just aware that Sonya is Harry's girlfriend now, because of events from Season 3, and Harry is haunted by what happened in 3, you're good. otherwise don't revisit three, it's poor and the character arc for Jamie Burns makes no fucking sense.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
ok thanks
― Spottie, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
First episode of Kleo was considerably less hi jinks and more trigger warning than the trailer let on, but I'm still in.The admittedly small sample of stuff that I'd read about it was about how fun it was, which is not how I'd remotely describe the first episode, after which I bailed. Does it get better after?Fartleby the Scrivener (Leee) at 11:44 27 Oct 22four episodes in and it has lightened considerably in tone.
― ledge, Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
Two episodes into the new season of Dragon Prince, and it's cornier and gayer than ever and absolutely incredible. The amount of time spent on developing Viren even more also feels radical for not just a kids show but high fantasy.
I was also a little concerned about the animation quality, since my other favorite Netflix cartoon (Kipo) got a lot worse as it went on, but fortunately that isn't the case here.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
c'mon crispin glover was far and away the best thing about either of those.
― ledge, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
Otm that accent was incredible, in an Aidan Gillen way.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
it was 'reverse engineered' by a 'dialect person'! https://screenrant.com/guillermo-del-toro-cabinet-of-curiosities-crispin-glover-interview/
― ledge, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
Who am I to argue with a "dialect person" then.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
"featuring a monumental performance from shagrat brown, this might be director jungo munz's most impressive feature yet says the daily fartblast"TELL ME WHAT THE FILM IS ABOUT YOU TURDS
― ledge, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
A while ago, a nice person on Twitter compiled a list of the Indian films on Netflix I might like. I've been working my way through them, but now a load of them are going to expire soon and it's giving me pre-emptive FOMO. I never heard of these films before this year. My life was complete without them. But now if I don't get to see them I'll be bereft. December is an anxious enough month without this pressure.
― trishyb, Thursday, 8 December 2022 09:13 (one year ago) link
A Chris Rock comedy special titled “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage” will be “the first-ever Netflix live streamed global event,” Netflix announced Sunday. https://t.co/8ovMB4FX69— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 26, 2022
Lol, “the first-ever Netflix live streamed global event." I think they cracked the code.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 December 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
man, i wonder what his number was
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 December 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
Couldn’t pay me to watch this shit
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 11:55 (one year ago) link
Wednesday is a really fun show - like it much more than I thought I would. Any talk of it on another thread?
― nashwan, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 12:08 (one year ago) link
I am wary of Burton, but I've had several people recommend it.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
Found Wednesday all a bit meh. Ortega is great but the rest of it is pretty sub-standard (or maybe just standard) Netflix fayre - a lowest common denominator supernatural teen drama. Think I gave up after about 5 episodes
― groovypanda, Thursday, 29 December 2022 08:26 (one year ago) link
The writing is terrible and the tone is all over the shop: aimed at 10yos but with eviscerations etc. And Burton hasn’t had an interesting idea in decades.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 29 December 2022 11:50 (one year ago) link
I was visiting my granny and we put on this remarkably stoopid Netflix thing harlan coben’s stay close and immediately I got a strong sense of déjà vu because just before the pandemic I had gone round there and we watched an almost identical thing that was also a coben thing — looking into it there are a load of these adaptations of his books that move the action to the uk & feature Brit tv mainstays like James Nesbit I’d completely forgotten watching the other series but there’s a very distinctive flavour of trash with these that is instantly recognisable, when we talked about it before itt kinder compared it to itv 2-part dramas (netflixed and stretched to 8 hours) which is otm but there’s an extra layer of ludicrousness that has to come from coben. Literally every character is concealing a dark secret, even the 9 year olds; it has the classic bad fiction thing where it feels like the ppl making it have never been anywhere or done anything; it has, and I don’t say this lightly, the worst “quirky assassin” characters I’ve ever seen, and that’s a crowded fieldI can’t in good conscience recommend but I couldn’t keep silent about it
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Monday, 6 February 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
I hate the secrets being concealed by everyone thing, almost as much as I hate the thing where characters are at a stubborn impasse or have a major falling out over something minor or incorrectly perceived, strictly because one character inexplicably refuses to explain themselves before the other party exits the room, or they themselves exit without explaining things.
― omar little, Monday, 6 February 2023 20:46 (one year ago) link
You might like how detective James Nesbit simply doesn’t answer his phone ever
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Monday, 6 February 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
there was one book in the Tana French "Dublin Murder Squad" series (which I overwhelmingly liked) which had a plot point that infuriated me, where a woman he thought abandoned him actually got murdered years ago.
I don't remember the details perfectly but he had secretly planned to fly to England with her, she never showed, and he went to her family's house, neither she nor her things were anywhere to be found, but there was a note she left that said something like "I hope you can support my new life in England", and it was pretty obvious the way the letter was written that it was a note she left for her parents, who didn't know she was leaving. and that she had left the house to meet him, which meant he should have been very concerned.
instead, he assumed the letter was for him, even though it would be utterly weird for her to have chosen to run away to the same exact country they had both planned to go together, and the letter was very clearly not written to a romantic partner. so he leaves angrily, doesn't dig into it further, and like 30 years later finds out she was actually murdered that night lol.
― sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 February 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
like i'm pretty suspension of disbelief in almost all mystery tales but when a mystery hinges on someone believing something completely dumb af it kind of ruins it.
― sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 February 2023 21:25 (one year ago) link
I was thinking yesterday about the trope of:
1. Lead character's spouse is murdered/dies in an accident/disappears2. Lead character discovers their spouse had secrets, follows trail of clues, asks "did I really know this person at all"3. Bonus points: spouse isn't actually dead
and how I really hate shows like this
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 6 February 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
imagining a The Fugitive where Richard Kimball's wife staged her own death because she thought her husband's breath stank
― sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 February 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
Xps lol I love those Coben adaptations! Probably wouldn’t if they were American but I love basically any British crime/suspense/thriller type of show.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 06:59 (one year ago) link
The Harlen Coben ones are just nutso. I almost admire how they cram MOAR into everything. I reckon when I'm granny age I'll be up for watching them.James Nesbitt lost a lot of my goodwill with the execrable recent series of Badlands too.
― kinder, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 10:46 (one year ago) link
we watched Coben's The Stranger and hated it by episode 4 but watched till the end for resolution
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 12:24 (one year ago) link
that’s the curse of the coben
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link
Aggretsuko season 5 more sweet, smart and funny business
― nashwan, Friday, 10 March 2023 12:27 (one year ago) link
More fun from netflix descriptions:
This 2021 action thriller featuring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Woody Harrelson was co-produced by Bryan Unkeless
Co-produced by Bryan Unkeless! Shit, let me drop everything to watch it!
― ledge, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 08:06 (one year ago) link
watched life (2017) on netflix last night, basically "what if alien was set on the international space station". it's kind of funny how it doesn't depart one iota from the template (except, no spoiler, theres no evil android) and just how much it borrows. and though it tries even ryan reynolds & jake gyllenhaal can't make the characters a tenth as likeable or memorable. nevertheless it's the kind of corny sf I love, it's very well paced with a few good shocks and though the ending was predictable and ridiculous it somehow still freaked me out a little.
― ledge, Monday, 8 May 2023 10:59 (one year ago) link
You might like SPUTNIK, a Russian version of the same basic ingredients.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 8 May 2023 11:30 (one year ago) link
yes i've seen it! that one's worthwhile for doing something a bit different with the story
― ledge, Monday, 8 May 2023 12:02 (one year ago) link
the ending of Life is soooooooo hilarious, was worth it alone for that
― Nhex, Monday, 8 May 2023 12:13 (one year ago) link