Streaming recommendations (including Netflix)

And just finished The Departed, also free on Prime. Somehow completely missed this Scorsese film until now - what a cast!

Started watching Jack Irish off a recommendation here, v good fun, Channel 4. #

Almost finished Bosch Legacy, one episode left. Started watching Hacks on Prime, it's... interesting enough to keep watching, I guess

Final season of The Handmaid's Tale now popping up on Prime.

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Started watching Jack Irish off a recommendation here, v good fun, Channel 4.

Choice quote from the first episode: "what?! Did I inadvertently pork someone's wife again?" 🤣 

Instead of The Departed, watch Infernal Affairs. Way better.

Which streaming is that available for free on?

Whilst recovering from my bike ride the other day i watched First Contact on Prime, a 24 year old film, it had 4 sets of 2 minute ads!

It was on Paramount+ for a while. On Netflix now according to Google.

Severance on Apple TV and Mobland on Paramount are both superb.

Tom Hardy in Havoc is brain off stupid ultraviolent fun, I quite liked it.

Unusually something good on ITV; Essex Millionaire Murders. Only two episodes but proper crazy story.

watched First Contact on Prime, a 24 year old film, it had 4 sets of 2 minute ads!

Forget Mission Impossible, and go watch Lost Bullet 1 2 and 3 on Netflix. Flying cars, flying bikes. No cgi as far as I known. The stunts are just stunning. 

Enjoying season 2 of Poker Face on NowTV. 1st season was good fun and the 2nd is off to a strong start 

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Forget Mission Impossible, and go watch Lost Bullet 1 2 and 3 on Netflix. Flying cars, flying bikes. No cgi as far as I known. The stunts are just stunning.

Yeah, I read a review of those, they look like a lot of fun.

I watched The Gorge not so long ago, and really enjoyed it, intelligent SF with good characters and good interaction between the leads. 
Something else I’ve read about recently that looks like tremendous fun is Murderbot, on Apple TV, a security android that hacks its own control systems and only wants to watch things on TV.

Slow Horses has a new series coming up, as does Black Doves, although that’s a little way ahead, but at least it’s been green lit.

Unusually something good on ITV

Actually I find myself watching itv more and more. Latest is Malpractice, which I suspect is wildly unrealistic, but still entertaining. 

I came across Poker Face at the start of the week and then ended up watching the whole of series one and then watched the first episode of series 2 Friday. Been enjoying it, even though I do find her a very odd character. 

I watched The Gorge not so long ago, and really enjoyed it, intelligent SF with good characters and good interaction between the leads. 

Struggling to believe we watched the same film! Maybe if I was 15 and hadn't seen all the scifi I've watched over the last thirty five years. It was a ridiculous plot! 

Can I recommend the new Bergerac on U&Yesterday.

It’s not going to blow your socks off but as police dramas go it’s pretty decent. Only six episodes too. Shows potential and season 2 is in the works.

Pokerface is excellent, although I think in the second series they might have gone a bit heavy on the Columbo aping. 

Still love it though. 

Watched Mandy on Prime on Saturday night. A 1980s-set psychedelic horror movie with Nic Cage.

If you like the sound of that, you'll probably love it. Absolutely bonkers.

Tom Hardy in Havoc is brain off stupid ultraviolent fun

I should have known when I saw it sitting at #1 on Netflix that it was a gamble, but son#2 and myself decided to give it a go.

Jeezy peeps, that was proper garbage 😐 .

Maybe if we had had our brains removed ,loaded in to a centrifuge, then put make in place, it may have been acceptable 😉 🤣 🤣 

Tom,Tim and Forest,what were you thinking of 😕 

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Tom,Tim and Forest,what were you thinking of

Gawd yeah, we didn't make it even half way though. Absolutely terrible. (Does Tom Hardy always walk like he's carrying a massive turd in his pants??) Directed by the fella who did "The Raid" too, which is pretty decent as far as action films go!

Yeah, we started watching Havoc for some Saturday night brain-out viewing. We binned it after about 30 minutes, it was dreadful.

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Does Tom Hardy always walk like he's carrying a massive turd in his pants?

I've never understood all the fuss over him, he just never struck me as anything special. I tried watching Mobland but binned it after one episode, just too formulaic. Mr Inbetween is much better.

I've never understood all the fuss over him,

And yet.. I thought he was amazing in Taboo.

Maybe it's a dialogue thing with his style of acting, less is more.

👍 🙂 

Oh, I like him as an actor, just not in Havoc. But I don't think it was entirely his fault. 🙂

Pokerface is excellent, although I think in the second series they might have gone a bit heavy on the Columbo aping. 

I’ve only watched the first one of the second series but I also kept thinking of Columbo.  

Watched the 2nd episode if the new Bruce Parry Tribe series. I don't fully agree with the earlier spoilers in this thread about it - I think the viewers are looking at it purely through our western eyes -not that I'm able to completely disassociate from that of course. Interesting to hear the tribe's views about it and also Bruce speak about his involvement with part of it after. Not a fun watch, but was well worth watching.

Yeah, we started watching Havoc for some Saturday night brain-out viewing. We binned it after about 30 minutes, it was dreadful.

The only interesting thing about Havoc is it was entirely shot in Wales. Which is some incredible CGI feat.

Murderbot on Apple has started OK. Not earth shattering, but mildly good.

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Murderbot on Apple has started OK. Not earth shattering, but mildly good.

I'm a bit disappointed with Alexander Skarsgard, he comes across as too human. I think if he was more like Summer Glau in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles it would have worked better. She was quite creepy, a robot trying to pretend to be a human.

On Summer Glau, new series of Firefly?

Watched A Working Man on Prime last night. Good Statham action, although a bit po-faced compared to some of his others. 

We also love his film titles:

Jason Statham is.... The Transporter! 

Jason Statham is... The Mechanic! 

Jason Statham is... A Beekeeper! 

Jason Statham is.... I dunno, what've we got... some sort of Working Man?

Love a bit of Stath, almost always reliable action films. That said, Beekeeper was unexpectedly great, a genuinely excellent example of the genre I thought! Is he unique now in that there aren't any other A-listers still exclusively doing this kind of straight-up 80s/90s style action film? Obviously Dolpgh Lundgren et al will keep churning out action B-movies until they just can't do it anymore, but that's not really the same!

Have also been enjoying MobLand (Paramount+)... slightly less ridiculous than Gangs of London.

Mobland?!?!  I just couldn’t get past pierce brosnan’s appalling accent.  What on earth was he thinking?  AND HE’S IRISH!

Ive just watched the Fred West documentary 3-parter on Netflix.  “Good” is probably not the way I would describe it…. But it was certainly very well made, and told a story which I was vaguely familiar with from my youth, but soon realised I didn’t really know all that much about it.

Mobland?!?!  I just couldn’t get past pierce brosnan’s appalling accent.  What on earth was he thinking?  AND HE’S IRISH!

fortunately he's not the main character otherwise yeah it would be completely unwatchable. 🤣 

We enjoyed the (Netflix) Korean series "Weak Hero" - some crazy fights in it. The violence is kinda cartoonish (mostly they recover like Wiley Coyote ), but its good for being a bit different to most other streaming series.

I'm an episode into The Residence on Netflix. I'm planning on watching more. It's a murder mystery in the vein of Knives Out/Only Murders. We'll see if it's any good, but the first episode was alright.

We’ve watched most of the second series of Pokerface and it’s a fantastically good, fun bit of nonsense. All the nods not just to Columbo, but loads of old school TV shows are just brilliantly done.

One of those programmes where it looks like they all had an absolute ball making it

Welcome to Wrexham series 4 has started on Disney+.  Very much a rinse and repeat of last year so far and a bit cheesy outside of the football, but the Americans will lap it up.  Up the town!

I'm belatedly working through Fall of the House of Usher. It's... not bad. Gruesome, and slowly builds into being quite compelling

On no account watch Anatomy of a Fall on Netflix. Unless you love watching people talk incessantly. For 2 and a half hours. Jeez, there's a lot of dialogue. Also, 

I am never watching another French film again. 

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I am never watching another French film again.

I came to that conclusion in about 1988.

Finally caught up This City is Ours (BBC1) that we recorded weeks ago and has been recommended on here

Good cast. Some procedural nonsense; would you dispose of a body in plastic that you'd handled without gloves?

Not too heavy, but a good story and overall we enjoyed it. Looking forward to S2

On no account watch Anatomy of a Fall on Netflix. Unless you love watching people talk incessantly. For 2 and a half hours. Jeez, there's a lot of dialogue. Also, 

Really? I liked it a lot. True there’s dialogue, and no car chases or fight scenes. 

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Mobland

Lisa Dwan. That’s enough for me. 

On no account watch Anatomy of a Fall on Netflix. Unless you love watching people talk incessantly. For 2 and a half hours.

I must admit I struggled with it too. 

Just didn't really care about or engage with any of the characters and felt it wasn't as clever as it thought it was. 

Something I would recommend is the original Miami Vice series, now free on prime. More gritty and modern feeling than you might expect. Can really see the influence it's had.

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Something I would recommend is the original Miami Vice series, now free on prime

Thanks for the heads up :-). Something I'd like to see is NYPD Blue. I bought a bunch of DVDs but now I don't have a DVD player !

I've just started Murder Mindfully on Netflix.  

It's a German series described in the cover note as something like Better Call Saul meets Dexter.  Early signs aren't bad.  I don't mind subtitles though.  

Black Snow on iPlayer is very watchable. Two series with great stories and good characters. 

I've finally got to the latest series of Black Mirror. It's as good as ever.