This was great, thanks for recommending. almost everything about it is interesting - the acting, the casting, the cinematography and the production design.
― brokenshire (jed_), Monday, 12 November 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
dowd and AA, did you both realise that there's another (very strange) scene after the end credits of the last episode of Homecoming?yes! and it’s probably the twin-peakiest thing about a vaguely twin-peaky show.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 November 2018 08:54 (five years ago) link
SPOILER REDACTED
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 12 November 2018 09:06 (five years ago) link
^^^^SPOILERS^^^^^
Crap, probably shouldn't have said even that. a mod can delete it if they like.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 12 November 2018 09:07 (five years ago) link
probably not spoilers to say this show already has a second series on the way, so that scene is clearly feeding us something
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 November 2018 09:11 (five years ago) link
lads
― unproven (darraghmac), Monday, 12 November 2018 09:38 (five years ago) link
the scene is feeding us lads?
― I hope your face & dick gets ripped off by chimapzai (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 November 2018 09:42 (five years ago) link
Thx for the Homecoming rec (starting tonight). I barely look at Amazon Prime videos so would have missed it.
― Yerac, Monday, 12 November 2018 12:13 (five years ago) link
love how 70s lots of homecoming is
― ||||||||, Monday, 12 November 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
lots of the shots are right out of the conversation / columbo playbook
― ||||||||, Monday, 12 November 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
show is really good and probably deserves its own thread
― ||||||||, Monday, 12 November 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
yeah, no spoilers in the general purpose streaming thread ya dummies
― gbx, Monday, 12 November 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
Homecoming, a good show on Amazon Prime
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
so Narcos season 4 is technically a companion series and not a sequel. If you know anything about the real story behind the season it promises to be potentially quite a bit darker than 1-3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBLcYJ7C4F0
― omar little, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
Halfway through season 2 of Big Mouth. This is hilarious.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 11:21 (five years ago) link
new Narcos looks fun tbh.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
hell yah
― Spottie, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
I like Hasan Minaj's show. Yeah his delivery gets tiring after a while and yeah it's a bit like brown john oliver, but he's funny, what he's discussed, though hardly groundbreaking, has been good, and I think that Amazon ad sealed the deal.
― akm, Thursday, 15 November 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
yeah I am enjoying it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 November 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
it's surprisingly well-thought out and well-written; he's currently the best of the educomedy talk shows. his nonstop wild gesticulating is a bit exhausting but he's almost immediately toning it down so i'm willing to be patient.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 15 November 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
On board with new narcosI don’t seem to get tired of this same story over and over again
― calstars, Thursday, 15 November 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
Brainchild is good - or at least, appeals to my pedagogic nature. I can see the right hating it - as they always do; it has a minority girl as a presenter, is honest about climate change etc. There are things for the left to hate too - I didn't like the inclusion of marines alongside firefighters etc. as people whose job is to help. It's not necessarily wrong, it just struck me as odd.
But it's a lot of fun for kids who are interested in science - and maybe for those who aren't.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 17 November 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
new Mexican Cartel Narcos series delivers the usual lurid entertainment values set by previous seasons (up to ep4). A bit heavy heavy handed the way the only apprentice Cartel underling who get's to be repeatedly called by his name is Chapo, again and again - yeah I got it the first time!
― calzino, Sunday, 18 November 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
Trailer for mex narcos was great but I bailed 15 minutes into episode 1
― calstars, Sunday, 18 November 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
Wow quick trigger!
― Spottie, Sunday, 18 November 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
Ain’t nobody got time for that
― calstars, Sunday, 18 November 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
the scumbag fed voice-over is quite grating, but it is just as much as fun previous seasons as long as you don't take it too seriously.
― calzino, Sunday, 18 November 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
but in this era of netflix hegemony I'm totally pro quick triggers!
― calzino, Sunday, 18 November 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
I'm watching The Terror vis a recommendation upthread - thanks! although it's not streaming, i torrented it hence this may not be the best thread for this - but, as a brit, I'm finding it impossible to work out what on earth anyone is saying. I had to turn on the subtitles but watching english language things with EL subtitles takes you out of the thing and makes it weird to watch. Very frustrating.
― brokenshire (jed_), Monday, 19 November 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
Amazon and not Netflix, but I think the Romanoffs is quite good, better that some reviews had lead me to suspect. The first one in particular stands as a good indie film completely on it's own. I've been about five; second favorite one is the third with Christina Hendricks co-written by Mary Sweeney. Goofy but entertaining.
― akm, Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
Great News really scratches an itch for people hankering after more 30 Rock.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 25 November 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
Lol i totally needed subtitles for the Terror too fwiw
Xp
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 25 November 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
great news is incredibly good. only 23 episodes will exist ever, so it's easy to knock over.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
Ha - audio on The Terror was indeed maddening. I'd always watch it after my wife went to sleep and was constantly toggling the volume up and down between the muffled dialogue and loud action scenes. Apparently, I'm not smart enough to turn on subtitles.
― Darin, Monday, 26 November 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
watched the girl with all the gifts (2017) on amazon video yesterday and was way more impressed with it than i expected to be - been thinking about it ever since
the setup is almost identical to the videogame the last of us - a troubled girl who may hold the cure to a catastrophic fungus outbreak which has turned most of the world's population into violent zombie-like creatures is transported across dangerous terrain by a ragtag group of survivors - and it borrows from a lot of postapocalyptic fiction but it leads somewhere quite poignant and unexpected
the similarities between the game and the movie are apparently down to the game producers and mike carey, the movie's writer, both seeing a documentary on the brain-controlling cordyceps fungus at the same time and having similar ideas
has a great central performance from newcomer sennia nanua, who plays a very believable mix of sweet vulnerability and unexpected rage, and solid supporting performances from glenn close, paddy considine and gemma arterton
it does an amazing amount of impressive visual effects work for a budget of just £4m, too
anyone else seen it?
― sign up for my waterless urinals webinar (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 November 2018 11:25 (five years ago) link
it ends like one scene too late, though
― sign up for my waterless urinals webinar (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 November 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link
I started watching it, but I was just wanting something to half watch while I played a game, and I realized it was going to take more attention than that. Will try agin.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 26 November 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link
this Dogs show is some tear jerky shit. Is Zeus a celebrity in Berlin now? I think I'd lose my fucking mind if I ran across Ayham and Zeus in the wild.
― akm, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 05:40 (five years ago) link
also...how did they get footage of Ayham's friend crossing the border? Was that a re-enactment? Because I can't imagine it would have been safe to even put one other person there with a camera.
― akm, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 05:49 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/loqqwrF.jpg
MANIAC
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 2 December 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
Wait a new season or what??
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 2 December 2018 04:24 (five years ago) link
No, I just watched it. I always end up watching this shit when everyone else has already moved on. I loved it
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 2 December 2018 06:04 (five years ago) link
Also love Dogs
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 2 December 2018 06:19 (five years ago) link
Maniac was great. Trippy, and ultimately warm and humanist.
― DJI, Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
i was surprised there wasn't a thread for it! but yeah, other than a couple luke-warm episodes in the middle, it was consistently great from start to finish, and i can see myself rewatching it sometime soon.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
Cautiously enjoying “kominsky method” which I keep calling “meyerowitz stories” in my head. Sour Alan Arkin is a pleasure and MD keeps shit moving
― calstars, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 03:36 (five years ago) link
i got back on netflix after quite a few years off due to $$$$$
it's surprising how the selection is even shittier now than it was
― j., Wednesday, 5 December 2018 04:16 (five years ago) link
Trying Travelers, enjoying that it's more of a traditional show than a 13-hour long bad movie.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 05:59 (five years ago) link
i was surprised there wasn't a thread for it!
― just sayin, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 08:58 (five years ago) link
dangit, i'm the worst! i searched for Netflix Maniac, but couldn't find one. do you know the name of it?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link