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

Winning market share in India is one of Netflix’s top priorities, and something they’re currently failing to do as quickly as they wanted, so it’s an area of great investment for them. I guess it’s easier to build credibility if you’re competing against Zee, etc, with the diaspora as well.

That sorta makes sense and there might be similar reasons as to why there's so much Korean and Japanese content. I still don't quite get why you would buy and show films such as Chauthi Koot and An Offday Game, those are minuscule art films. Oh well, I love it.

Expat communities as well, lots of Indians and and Koreans in lots of markets around the world. Hulu, in the early days of subscription went big on Korean content as Korean Americans was a big enough niche without any designs on going overseas.

Second series of Au Service de la France is up and while not as immediate as the first hits it's stride about 4 or 5 eps in. Excellent stuff.

wasn't feeling series 2 as much, but the red telephone gag did make me laugh for 2 minutes straight, and mary jo is awesome.

Most enjoyable thing I've seen this year is 'A Korean Odyssey' Fun, the clothes were great, and the guy who plays Devil King Woo is terrific.

'Something in the Rain' is good too, be interested in knowing if it's a realistic portrayal of workplace dynamics in Korea. Also all the characters seem to stay up drinking half the night p much every day!!

I know we've already been over it, but it blows my mind that Netflix has Gandu available:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6vqxPLxkUE

Only in India...

i am now watching gomorrah the TV series as advised by calzino ages ago (on amazon prime arrow free 7-day trial rather than netflix)

Naples looks amazing in Gomorrah, probably the true star of the show really.

― calzino, Sunday, October 15, 2017 6:05 PM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^cosine this totally, urban or rural

tfw the chief top villain physically reminds you very much of someone you know who is sweet and by nature unvillainous

some of the flats in gomorrah sort look like the pre-refurb Park Hill flats in Sheffield, but brutalist concrete decays differently in the Mediterranean sun or something, and their slums in the sky look way more sexy! I never got into S3 of this, but this was more to do with tv series burnout or something. Apparently some of S4 is being filmed in London.

Glad to hear there's a new season coming, this was probably my favorite show that I watched recently

there's some fantastic gang bosses in this, in some cases they look like factory workers that have just won 30k on a scratchcard last week.

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that Don Salvatore though, he doesn't even smoke proper tabs!

https://www.pieandbovril.com/forum/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://www.studiopedagogicopavese.org/images/criminologia/Gomorra/salvatore_conte.jpg&key=28747f0d750affb6bdd6b6a4b49c0044daf65d14d9d050789b58791865d05e5a

whole lotta vapin goin on

this is not a good photo (you can' t see his pointy ears) but i love* the long-haired gang member -- he also reminds me a bit of a friend
https://occ-0-901-999.1.nflxso.net/art/f7dd9/f95d5c6539c7a41bb3588f98c90299a7c76f7dd9.jpg

*you know what i mean, everyone is terrible

here he is with his ears -- his name's zecchinetta

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sw0mln7mcQ4/VGeYv35_wgI/AAAAAAAADOM/JH4Wf3f0gyM/s1600/Zechinetti.jpg

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.