Streaming recommendations (including Netflix)

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.

id never heard of this til i heard an interview with sophie willan on 6 music the other day.  watched both series over the last few days, excellent viewing.  siobhan finnery (sp) steals the show 😀

id never heard of this til i heard an interview with sophie willan on 6 music the other day.

I don;t know much about her, but the music choices in it are exceptional too.

Just started watching Gangs of London on iPlayer last night.

Blummin eck, it’s a bit on the violent side. A fight scene with a dude with a meat cleaver in the first episode properly made me squeamish.

Seems like it might be good though, albeit quite disturbing.

I quite enjoy cartoon violence, but this is all a bit plausible…

Rebel Ridge; just checked Rotten Tomatoes to see if we were talking about the same film 🙂

The critics loved it (95%), I’m clearly in the 28% of audience reviewers 🙂

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rebel_ridge

but this is all a bit plausible…

Haha! Wait til you see the shootout in the house! Plausible my fat arse LolZ

Just started watching Gangs of London on iPlayer last night.

Netflix I meant.

Just started watching Gangs of London

I’m pretty sure I watched that but it was so forgettable, I can’t remember what happened.

KLEO ! … only mention I can see is johnx2 a few pages back, but it is bloody excellent. Traces of Killing Eve, but has more layers, so I actually think it’s better. Few to go on series 1 and 2 is there waiting for us. Superb 🙂

Hellbound is back for a second season of Korean dark fantasy.. really enjoyed S1 – may have to re-watch beforehand.

Silo season 2 next month too!

Oh and Generation Z on Chan 4 is Ben Wheatley’s new horror if you haven’t caught it. Not watched yet, so can’t truly recommend, but its gotta be better than his Rebecca!

Just finished Rivals on Disney – brilliant! It’s like early Game of Thrones but without the carnage, just loads of backstabbing, political machinations, and shagging 🙂 Some great performances too, even Danny Dyer is decent!!

Alma’s Not Normal

First series was just great.

Not gelling with the 2nd series though – something is missing that I can’t quite put my finger on. Maybe too many characters now.

even Danny Dyer is decent

I’m not sure we can trust anyone who says this!! o_O

Watched and enjoyed A Man Called Otto over the weekend. Always happy to watch Tom Hanks do his thing, but some good supporting performances as well. Not read the book, but think I will now. Also – and I make no excuses for this populist choice 🙂 – watched The Fall Guy as well. We both thought it was well done popcorn fun.

Has anyone been watching Disclaimer on AppleTV ? It seems like a winner – Cate Blanchett in the lead role, some saucy soft porn with Greta Scacchi’s daughter. But it’s just so incredibly boring. The plot is ridiculous and you end up just wanting all the characters to die so the thing can end. Disclaimer? Disappointing more like.

I can thoroughly recommend Hidden Figures on Netflix. That there was segregation even at NASA hits hard.

Doesn’t Disclaimer feature Jung Ho-yeon? I’ve not managed to gather sufficient enthusiasm to watch it myself mind, but that would be why I’d try and persist…

I’m not impressed with Apple TV, I’ve a 3 month free trail but can’t see me paying for it…

On Netflix I’ve been immersed in k-drama as per usual.

Currently on Knight Flower. A bit weak and more or the usual (costum Joseon drama) but not offensive.

Watched Love Next Door (it has Jung So-min of Alchemy of Souls as the female lead). Not bad (but kind of BAU k-drasma fare).

Started Eve, its a little dark but, Seo Ye-ji is lead character so I’ll get back to it.

Enjoyed the Atypical Family although it was nonsense.

Been rewatching some my old faves:

Our Beloved Summer (with Kim Da-mi). Two school kids covered by reality tv show and the next 10 years.

See you in my 19th Life (Shin Hye-sun and Ha Yoon-kyung) about reincarnation/past life trauma.

Shin Hye-sun also features in Welcome to Samdal-ri about a photographer (and her 2 sisters and haenyeo leader uma and her childhood friends). Definitely a firm favourite! She is excellent.

Queen of Tears I enjoyed (again, a bit tough going due to the k-drama trick of adding implausible issue upon implausible issue) but Kim Ji-won makes it for me.

Gyeongseong Creatures second series as ridiculous as the first (but enjoyable trash 🙂 )

Doesn’t Disclaimer feature Jung Ho-yeon?

Yes but very minor role.  AppleTV has some good stuff on – Slow Horses alone is worth the subscription. Heck, the line where Gary Oldman says “the next sound you hear will be me expressing confidence  <farts> ” is worth the subscription.

I did watch first three seasons of Slow Horses (and enjoyed them) but got stuck on season 4.

Maybe just overloaded on it?

Only a minor role? Okay, that’s a nail in that particular coffin 🙂

Should have mentioned in Welcome to Samdal-ri that it also features Kim Mi-na as Sam-dal’s little sister. The interplay with her and her daughter (the worldliest of the four of them!) is truly heartwarming. The kid is awesome!

And I missed Crash Course in Romance. Roh Yoon-seo is awesome in it (again the world weary ‘daughter’ role). Again nonsense plot lines but really engaging and excellent the cast gels so well. This also features one my favourite all time k-drama scenes when Hae-yi asks if she can call Heang-seon ‘uma’… I blubb every single time…

Don’t Move is a decent film on Netflix ATM

I’m no fan of Stallone, but really enjoying Tulsa King (Paramout+), not sure for how long but season 1 was good

I am re-watching Band of Brothers for the umpteenth time. It is the best tv drama ever? Probably.

Whilst recovering from my broken collarbone I have also been watching

The Legend of Vox Machina (very good)

Batman Capes Crusader (excellent)

Tomb Raider The Legend of Lara Croft (boring)

Agatha All Along (Marvel finally gets a series ptched just right)

The Diplomat (worthy but not very exciting)

Nobody Wants This (very good romcom series, excellent acting and witty dialogue)

The Bruce Springsteen Road Diary documentary on Disney+ was an interesting watch. I saw him on this tour so it was fascinating to see how he put the tour together, the setlist, rehearsals and so on.

Graham Hancock’s second season of Ancient Civilisations. Fascinating. I’m not sure what to make of him though.

I’m not sure what to make of him though.

he is a loon… HTH 🙂

Has anyone watched Seoul Busters (on Disney+)?

I’ve only seen a 20s clip on an IG reel but it looked worth finding out more.

Course I’d need to sign up to Disney+ mind….

Just finished ‘Mr Inbetween’ on Disney. Dark mixture of comedy and violence. One of those that makes you root for the antihero,

Graham Hancock’s second season of Ancient Civilisations. Fascinating. I’m not sure what to make of him though.

He’s shilled “alternative views” on archeology all his life and cried foul when he’s been pulled up on his utter bullshit but he’s made a good living out of courting utter idiots so he’s not going to change now.

Joe Rogan loves him, don’t go “bro rogan on facts”

In anticipation of The Mirror and the Light, i am rewatching Wolf Hall.

I see that Beeb4 have the same idea and are putting it out over the actual air waves.

It is just amazing. Cannot recommend highly enough.

Just finished Rivals on Disney – brilliant!

Only watched 3 eps so far, but agree it’s brilliant fun. Like a sexy ’80s panto.

We watched Green Room on Prime for a bit of horror, really tense and well-directed – with Patrick Stewart being surprisingly scary as a neo-nazi once you get used to it.

Very much looking forward to season 2 of Arcane coming soon.

Oh and Generation Z on Chan 4 is Ben Wheatley’s new horror if you haven’t caught it.

haven’t made it through the first episode of this yet! Total yawnfest. Does it ever get going? Plus, surely the whole zombie genre is played out now, so you’ve really got to bring something new to the table? This does not from what I can tell! Best moment was the unintentionally hilarious lorry crash at the start, special effects looked straight out of Thunderbirds 🙂

the whole zombie genre is played out now,

I’ve never been into zombie stuff but The Last of Us was really excellent.

Plus, surely the whole zombie genre is played out now

Pretty funny, I enjoyed it. And they aren’t zombies 😀 Just old people with a lust for young blood.

Plus, surely the whole zombie genre is played out now, so you’ve really got to bring something new to the table?

All Ben Wheatley stuff has an undercurrent of social commentary to it and you don’t have to be a psychologist to work this one out. Also lots of dark humour

I thought it was really good for a bit of blood and gore splatterfest nonsense and worth watching just to see Anita Dobson eat a dog

worth watching just to see Anita Dobson eat a dog

OK, say no more, I’m in!

We smashed through Rivals in a week, loved it. On to Slow Horses next.

I’ve also heard good things about Presumed Innocent on Apple TV – anyone seen it?

Fascinating

I think the word you’re looking for is “nonsense”.

OK, say no more, I’m in!

@chakaping – Anita Dobson is absolutely fantastic in it. To say that she fully embraces the role of flesh (and dog) eating zombie would be massively understating things. She looks like she’s having an absolute ball.

I think Mrs Binners is going to start a Disney+ subscription purely so we can watch Rivals. It does look good

At the opposite end of the spectrum we watched the first episode of ‘Until I Kill You’on ITV last night and it’s brilliant, but absolutely grim. Anna Maxwell-Martin is always fantastic in anything

Watched the first episode of Doctor Odyssey on Disney+ the other day. It’s truly, truly appalling to the extent that it’s actually really good. Think medical team on a luxury cruise ship  led by a new doctor who’s a sort of poor man’s George Clooney. Comedy cases. Ridiculous relationships. Preoposterous storylines and Shania Twain playing a glamorous granny in episode two.

I started watching it out of sheer disbelief at the concept, but now riveted by the ongoing insanity.

I think Mrs Binners is going to start a Disney+ subscription purely so we can watch Rivals. It does look good

Metaphorical fingers in ears. We signed up to watch The Bear. If you want a high culture rationalisation, that’s the badger…

Rivals? A Jilly Cooper adaptation with David Tennant? I can’t imagine many things worse.