Streaming recommendations (including Netflix)

And can anyone tell me does the new series of Umbrella Academy get better. First episode left me cold, which is a shame as really enjoyed the earlier ones.

Yes. Give it an episode or 2, it warms up!

Umbrella academy final season left me somewhat underwhelmed.

Quite a few plot lines appeared to be there mainly as fillers, and what was the ending all about?

I think it was on Prime originally but Nine Perfect Strangers is another series with Nicole Kidman that has a nice watchable / quirky what’s going on feel about it.

Couldn’t get on with it. In theory I should have liked it, I usually like a whatsgoingon as much as a whodunnit, but it just didn’t stick. I kept wishing a sinkhole would appear under the resort and consume everyone; no sinkhole after ep3, I gave up. YMMV.

Into the Fire – the documentary on Netflix is absolutely insane. Completely ****ed up and a totally compelling story about what a woman is prepared to do to find what happened to her missing daughter

Not an easy watch at all, but a pretty inspiring story about about sheer bloody-mindedness and intuition

Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War on Netflix

Fantastic documentary series linking the invention of the atomic bomb up to the current situation with Russia.

Second Into The Fire. What a monster!

Third for Into the Fire, watched it today after Binners recommendation.

Another new series to watch – Perfect Couple directed by Susanne Bier (Bird Box and a load of Dansk films) and starring Nicole Kidman as rich American woman (as usual)  and various other well known actors in other roles Bono’s daughter from Bad Sisters

Started off good but thought the ending was a bit weak.

I found Bono’s daughter to be a really weird actor, only seemed to have a few facial characteristics and to display them at the wrong time.

Right, finished S4 of the Boys and by god it’s awful. The pacing is all over the shop, the writing is just horrendous, the storylines abysmal (Hughie’s last few episodes are just… what?!) and the gore is used to make up for it all, it seems. S5 will have to be something special to get me to watch it.

Bad Monkey wasn’t gripping me, but episode 3 is a bit of a gamechanger, definitely has me more interested now.

Still trying to persuade the OH to try more of Sherwood (“oh but it’s depressing” says the woman who loved Happy Valley). And apparently Presumed Innocent (Apple TV) is good?

Apparently The Penguin is supposed to be quite good according to the Guardian.

Apparently The Penguin is supposed to be quite good according to the Guardian.

Yeah, we watched the first episode last night and its looking very promising. Farrell was very good (although you wouldnt know it was him from looking)

Yep, I thought The Penguin was excellent.

Nothing like I was expecting; no sign of Batman or other sillyness. More like a gangster/mafia series.

Can’t wait for the next episode.

The Forest is great for a French language series.  Will probably work for you if you liked Broadchurch.

Not Netflix, but BBC iPlayer. Bob Servant, both series. A cult classic, one of the funniest things by the writer of Guilt and The Gold.
Starring Brian Cox (Succession, not Astronomy) who I used to think was pompous and humourless, but not any longer.

Vox Machina series 1-3 on Prime.

Not Netflix but there’s a 2 part Ken Burns documentary on iPlayer at moment about the American Buffalo which is superb.

I just kind of stopped watching the new series of The Boys. Might pick it up again, but it’s definitely lost its mojo.

Really enjoyed the second series of Colin From Accounts (iPlayer).

Noticed the OG Mean Girls is on Prime for free, so I’ve marked that to watch with my daughter.

I just kind of stopped watching the new series of The Boys.

It’s pretty obvious that it’s just scripted to move the story along to the finale, so it’s hard not to treat it as filler. If you know the series well enough, you could watch the first and last ep. of season 4 and not really miss out anything crucial.

Rebel Ridge on NetFlix. Late to the party I know. Thought it was great, wonder if they’ll do another one.

Ludvig on iPlayer.  David Mitchell doing David Mitchell things. Best thing I reckon he’s done since upstart crow. And defo set up for a second series.

Slow Horses S4: just gets better. We deliberately waited until all episodes were ready to stream as we knew we’d binge watch it.

I got 2 episodes into Kaos (which was very well reviewed) but just didn’t gel with it at all. Binned that off.

I watched Wolfs last night (Apple TV which required signing up for a week’s free trial which I’m going to have to cancel again before they take £8.99 off me) which was enjoyable. Quite silly but funny in parts, even if it is just Brad Pitt and George Clooney being Brad Pitt and George Clooney.

Rebel Ridge on NetFlix. Late to the party I know. Thought it was great, wonder if they’ll do another one.

Yeah, agree, solid action thriller, done quite well, enjoyed it.

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I got 2 episodes into Kaos (which was very well reviewed) but just didn’t gel with it at all. Binned that off.

Whereas I’m now 6 episodes in and absolutely gripped! Very much horses for courses though – it’s quite “clever” (as in, it thinks it is), so I can see why it’s not for everyone.

Wolfs is a great weekend film for watching with the OH, solid 7/10 all round. Which, frankly, is getting harder to find these days on streaming platforms!

Hearts of Darkness on C4, the making of Apocalypse Now by Coppola’s wife. Must have watched it 30 years and only just spotted it was available.

(Forgive the casual sexism – Eleanor Coppola, plus a couple of others).

Nobody wants this, Seth and Veronica Mars go dating. It’s not perfect but enjoyable.

Rebel Ridge on NetFlix. Late to the party I know. Thought it was great, wonder if they’ll do another one.

I found it a bit formulaic. Gravel bike was welcome, but I didn’t make it to halfway before giving up

Whereas I’m now 6 episodes in and absolutely gripped! Very much horses for courses though – it’s quite “clever” (as in, it thinks it is), so I can see why it’s not for everyone.

Enjoyed Kaos for its contemporary retelling of Greek myth, even got a mythology Q correct on The Chase because of it 😉

Great cast but there won’t be a second series on NF

3 episodes into Sweetpea (Now/Sky):: British drama with dark humour about a bullied wallflower turned killer… enjoying it, gets going fairly quickly too

Why do Netflix buy up crap from ITV / Channel 5 and present them as a fab new mini-series?! As Outer Range had petered out to an end, we tried “The Cuckoo” as it was high in the chart. Oh my god, what garbage. I’m sure it must’ve been on C5 to start with.

Not sure where to go next as Netflix is full of old rubbish. Partner doesn’t have Sky or BBC, as I’ve started Sweetpea , which seems good. And The Penguin which is fab.

By the way, Ella Purnell, star of Sweetpea is also the main character in Fallout – which IMDB says has a second series coming.. yay!

bullied wallflower turned killer

Spoilers! 😛

I found it a bit formulaic.

I don’t think anyone or anything associated with it has pretended otherwise?

Great cast but there won’t be a second series on NF

Shame.

Brassic if you’ve not seen it. Just bombed the lot. Quite funny but goes a bit OTT in the end like Derry Girls did a bit

Brassic if you’ve not seen it. Just bombed the lot. Quite funny but goes a bit OTT in the end like Derry Girls did a bit

yeah agreed.  we started watching this one, got a couple of episodes in and just thought meh, cant be bothered with it anymore.

Breaking Bad. Started watching it last night. Pretty good so far, 2 episodes in.

Am I a bit late to the party?

Am I a bit late to the party?

I was just thinking of rewatching it, it’s up there with The Sopranos and The Wire as one of the greatest shows ever. I rewatched The Sopranos and Battlestar Galactica a few months back, they both held up well. Amazing that a reboot of a cheezy 70s show could turn out to be so good.

I found it a bit formulaic. Gravel bike was welcome, but I didn’t make it to halfway before giving up

That’s interesting, as I found it to be quite against the norm. Mrs P has zero tolerance for formulaic action and very little tolerance for predictability in films and she loved it. It kept us guessing, and had much more suspenseful impending threat rather than just shootouts.

I felt the writers wanted to go against the grain with controlled non-lethal stuff. There was even a slow-speed car chase at the end 😀

New third series of Industry on iPlayer.

Watched 2 eps last night and they’ve maintained or improved the quality from S2.

Still plenty of swearing, drugs and filth, obvs.

Yeah I’ve really enjoyed this series of Industry, have one more episode to watch. Agree it’s upped it’s game since the last series.

Anyone going to admit to that they’ll be watching Rivals (starts tomorrow)? From what I’ve read about it so far it looks like it will be a lot of trashy fun.

It looks as though a new season of What We Do in the Shadows starts next week, but not sure if that’s in the OK or not.

That’s interesting, as I found it to be quite against the norm. Mrs P has zero tolerance for formulaic action and very little tolerance for predictability in films and she loved it. It kept us guessing, and had much more suspenseful impending threat rather than just shootouts.

I felt the writers wanted to go against the grain with controlled non-lethal stuff. There was even a slow-speed car chase at the end 😀

Yeah, Rebel Ridge is definitely an unconventional action film. I was expecting it to go all First Blood and it deliberately didn’t.

But I supposed you’d never know if you only watch half of everything.

It looks as though a new season of What We Do in the Shadows starts next week

Fab, didn’t know that was coming

Also got S2 of Alma’s Not Normal on my watchlist, the first series was one of the best things the Beeb has done for years.