itt: non-english-language netflix series you recommend (or not) and commentary thereon

typical ageing raver!

"imboscata"

an interesting thing in gomorrah series one -- i'd have to rewatch to firm up how i feel abt it, and whether it "works" -- is there's an odd mobility to yr feel for some of the main characters, not just yr identification with them but how on top of their own story you feel they are. partly this is bcz the action takes place over several years, and two or three of them grow up and grow hard and perhaps grow "bad" (a very relative idea in this drama), and their relative capabilities w.r.t. one another shift

(don't spoiler me! i'm watching e12 s1 right now -- i think i know how it will end but i could be completely wrong!)

series two is nuts

LA MANTE!

bcz a friend came to stay who also likes this kind of stuff but between us we'd watched nearly everything except this

it's bad! hannibal lecter retread except hannibal is an elegant enigmatic lady of stonefaced sorrows and clarice starling is her son

i: everyone's house is VAST and FANCY! evidently kevin mcloud was on hand when it was designed and didn't believe they'd get it finished before the ep ended
ii: lol turning a chateau into a makeshift lecter-cage (who is tending the GARDEN?)
iii: the key tec -- the son -- is a charisma-free pod
iv: the lecter lady's name is (and this is honestly where suspension of critical faculties turned into hooting disbelief) MRS CARROT

I would watch this if she were a large animate carrot who is a vegetarian cannibal.

If you haven’t reached the end yet, it gets even worse.

I like Carol Bouquet and Frederique Bel but this was ghastly and, in the end, enormously offensive.

http://imgur.com/FfA3gdUl.png

i like how three of the six-strong crime team never do anything and one of them never says anything either

very feeble of french to have no word for copycat

ok lol the commissioner just said "why not bring hannibal lecter onto the team?", which is brass balls chutzpah on the part of the scriptwriter

anyone watch dad of light yet

― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, December 19, 2017 11:38 PM (ten months ago)

somehow i watched all of dad light three times, at least

all of dad of light

very feeble of french to have no word for copycat

― mark s, Saturday, 27 October 2018 8:26 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Of course they do but Le Copiechat is banned by L’Acadamie Française.

CALL MY AGENT SEASON TROIS BEECHES

its perfect herself fodder she pours wine down her and snorts laughing and i can get the ironing done unencumbered

also everyone kills it and the guest roles are great

it is the best show, genuinely surprising and moving

noemie is managing to steal the entire series imo

^ good recommendation imo.

DEADWIND (= finnish)

my trivial pleasure is whenever the cops shout "police" they have to shout "poliisi!" which sounds like "policey!"

deadwind update: the two little girls whose mum died are heartbreaking, esp.the smaller one :(

Oh man, I watched one episode of La Mante and seeing this thread it looks like I should stop right now.

The French also have no french word for 'weekend" and...there are lots of jokes there.

her estranged son DAMIEN CARROT

deadwind update update: a key strand in this story is ZONING

deadline theme is VERY like judy nylon's "information rain" off of pal judy

New season of Money Heist!

Is Trapped (the Icelandic series) on Netflix? I just watched Season 2 on Amazon Prime and it's really good.

fairly sure trapped was originally broadcast on BBC2 in the uk: it is indeed very good

I really enjoyed Babylon Berlin and wish more people watched it.

Friend of mine loved it and has been reading all the books - in German- but I haven’t really latched onto it yet.

Trapped is excellent - sent me down a rabbithole of grim Scandi-et-al crime dramas for a long while after but this one really was one of the best of them for me. Olafur Olafsson is so good!

Loved Babylon Berlin SO much. They’re doing a second season apparently.

Babylon Berlin mostly hooked me for how well-studied the look was. That whole thing of dressing up but still looking sweaty & desperate is very specific & they pulled it off amazingly well. Plus lots of Bryan Ferry Orchestra :D

Trapped is pretty much perfect VG, I agree, and it really is better than most. I've got the second season lined up. Love me some grim Nordic viewing in the summertime.

i have started watching "The Could’ve-Gone-All-the-Way Committee," alternatively translated from the Japanese as "The Almost Got Laid Committee." In each episode, a guy (I think they're all guys) comes before the three-member committee, comprising a karate master, a businesswoman, and a rock star in a floppy hat, and tells them about a time he almost got laid. The committee investigates and rules on whether or not he could've.

okay that sounds like a dream I've had

the only way that could be more ilxor-bait was if it was called The So-Not-Gonna-Happen Committee

I'm sold on it just by the poster

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTdiOWE5ZmMtZTk4MC00ZTMzLWIzYjUtZmY2NjE1NWYzYzJhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjY2OTU0MTg@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,705,1000_AL_.jpg

Money Heist is very good, even though season 2 is approaching Breaking Bad levels of ridiculous brinksmanship. Subtitles are very bad, clearly produced by a non-native speaking robot.

El Ministerio del Tiempo is goofy fun, I'm only 3 episodes in but so far it seems more light soap opera than high stakes drama, even when they were actually plotting to kill Hitler. Doesn't look so good, ep 2 in particular looks like it was shot at ISO 256000.

I watch Money Heist with the subtitles and dub on (I don't know if that is different for everyone) and it's weird how they don't match.

Even with the ridiculousness, I still love it. I want another season.

^ just reached the end of season 3 cliffhanger, noooooooo!

Marianne, the French horror series, is very silly and enjoyable half way through.

I only watched the first ep and it really was terribly silly. Is it worth continuing? Found it hard to take it seriously tbh.

i've started MYTHOMANIAC, abt a small-town french family who are likeable enough (if v neurotic) except they have webbed themselves into a net of mutual lies

3rd series of OCCUPIED is up

for some reason i didn't register FLAVORFUL ORIGINS with this thread last year: second series is now up, 15-min eps, a fabulously filmed and extremely addictive chinese-made guide to regional chinese cuisine and ingredients, with a weirdly written or translated english voice-over, so far set in chaoshan and yunnan provinces

I’ve started watching Gogol on Amazon Prime, which is a deeply silly, but entertaining, cross between Sleepy Hollow and Penny Dreadful.

The Platform (originally 'El Hoyo' in Spanish) is decent if you like dark, dystopian sci-fi/horror type things. Its social commentary may not be the most original, but it's pretty well executed all round and nicely shot and acted.

Spanish language read probably best for after you watch it: https://www.espinof.com/criticas/hoyo-que-alegoria-social-mordaz-satira-voracidad-humana

I was wondering about this. I put it on my list to watch but I hadn't heard anything about it. (watching new season of Money Heist.

A friend suggested it, with a not for the squeamish proviso (which I'd reiterate), so my partner & I gave it a go last weekend and both enjoyed it. It's not spectacular, but worth its 90 minutes or so, if you're in the mood for that kind of darker thing.

yeah, i am not squeamish at all. But I don't want to be really disappointed by the ending which is what ends up happening with a lot of things that I have watched recently in that spirit (High-Rise, El Bar).