Streaming recommendations (including Netflix)

I often hear there is better content on the US Netflix. What are we missing here in the UK?

Can’t remember where I picked up a review of it, but I watched Marriage Story last week. [Just checked: Average Review 8.2 Metascore 93 on IMDb 😲] Scarlet Johansson and Adam Driver are both excellent in it, as are the co-starring Dern, Liotta and Alda.

No super-hero stuff, no special effects, just a nice incisive study of a break-up. Some lovely comedy moments thrown in along the way that elevate it from melodrama.

Not a recommendation but I babysat for some friends a week or so ago. Had a few Netflix things on my mental to-watch list. It’s hilarious switching on someone else’s Netflix isn’t it? 😀 There’s all this stuff on there that you’ve never seen or even realised existed.

Watched a couple of the Witcher, started well, I have a feeling it will fall to cliche soon though and get a bit dull. Still, Boobies

Watched a couple of episodes of The Witcher on the ferry crossing today, seemed ok, have read it’s a nod towards Game of Thrones, which without Sky has passed me by.

The Witcher isn’t on the same level
all, it’s hilariously bad – to the point that I’m surprised Netflix even signed off on its final release.

I switched Witcher off after 10mins it was dreadful !

After ignoring The Kominsky Method for months I’m enjoying it greatly.

I switched Witcher off after 10mins it was dreadful !

Amateur. I lasted 20..

The Witcher isn’t on the same level
all, it’s hilariously bad – to the point that I’m surprised Netflix even signed off on its final release.

I believe they have signed up another series. We’re watching it. It’s alright but nothing more.

The Witcher isn’t on the same level
all, it’s hilariously bad

I watched Ep 1. It is hilariously bad. I think I’ll keep watching it just for laughs.

I actually can’t believe I watched the entire first episode of The Witcher.
Ruined my night shift..

The Expanse is back – new Amazon Prime backed series (no 4)

Yes and it was excellent, watched it over 3 nights

Saw the trailer for The Witcher, it looks terrible – unless you’re particularly fond of video game cut scenes.

Has Godless had a mention? Gritty cowboy/girl mini-series.

Death of Stalin is good.

…as is The Square, which won a Palme d’Or and tonks nicely along (dead easy this film critic lark).

I’m two episodes into The Witcher and enjoying it! Not sure why it’s working for me. I didn’t get as far with the GoTs series tbh, so…weird!

I think I like the fact that everyone seems to think that they’re acting in an entirely different series lol

Don’t f with cats is 2019s making a murderer

I’m enjoying The Witcher but it’s not as good as I was hoping it would be. Maybe it will get into its stride towards the end… Or next series.

Watched a dance music doc called “What We Started” last night, bit of a mixed bag but some good vintage stuff and input from Carl Cox – who was the “star” along with Martin Garrix.

Worth a watch if you’re interested or were there BITD, but overall a bit unfocused and superficial (apart from an emotional bit about Coxy).

Wife and I are really enjoying sex education currently.

Don’t **** With Cats was as disturbing as it was unswitchoffable! I binge watched that one

Don’t **** With Cats

I’ve started that. It’s mad!

Wife and I are really enjoying sex education currently.

Fair play. Could do with some of that myself.

I watched Ep 2 of The Witcher. It was even stupider than Ep 1. Not often we are blessed with something so hilariously dumb.

Saw the trailer for The Witcher, it looks terrible

Watched about ten minutes of the first episode. It’s mesmerically awful at just about every level you can think of. There is worse though. I somehow started watching a Korean (I think) series about a vampire who works as a military doctor, then becomes a top surgical resident. I thought it was very promising, but it mysteriously disappeared from our list, probably due to occult intervention.

More positively I’m quite liking Russian Doll in a Groundhog Day gone slightly darker way. And Bad Omens on Prime. Watched the first couple of episodes of The Spy and thought it was good, but kind of destined to be harrowing, which I wasn’t really in the mood for.

Oh, and the US version of Shameless is ace.

We watched Snatch again last night. Nearly 20 years old and still a great film.

The Movies That Made Us is a good fun series. Watched Home Alone and Ghostbusters (not Ghostbreakers!). Die Hard is next!

Watched about ten minutes of the first episode. It’s mesmerically awful at just about every level you can think of.

I lasted 20 mins. Whenever I saw Henry Cavill pouting with long hair and a sword on his shoulder I thought I was watching Zaphod Beeblebrox from the TV series of HHGTTG, and that it was the sword doing all the acting.

Literally cannot stop watching Don’t f with Cats.

the witcher, good god wtf a really bad princess convention.

I often hear there is better content on the US Netflix. What are we missing here in the UK?

There used to be a fair bit more choice on the US netflix, but with more content creators pulling their programming off netflix, it isn’t that much different anymore, there especially used to be a massive range of documentaries on the US version that we were not getting, now nowhere near as many. Which is a great shame, because browsing netflix brought my attention to some documentaries that I would never have seen otherwise, now I guess in future they will once again go undiscovered.

Netflix is doomed IMO, I hadn’t subscribed for the last 6 months, just joined up again for Christmas, and have found nothing I want to watch, everything is just so sub standard, for the money they are supposed to be pumping into original content, they are really failing to deliver. With the debt they have, and more competition, they will be gone in 5 years.

Netflix is excellent IMO Im glad I continue to subscribe. I always find something I want to watch. Everything is of such a high standard. For the money they continue to pump money into original content. The Irishman wouldn’t have made it into production had it not been for them. They are really continuing to deliver. Atypical, Ozark Better Call Saul, The Kominsky Method, The Barkley Marathons, Unsolved, Mindhunter, Manhunt…..
With the debt they have, and more competition, I hope they survive. 🙂

From a family friendly point of view I would recommend Klaus…an animated, slightly gothic Father Christmas origins story type thing.

The Irishman wouldn’t have made it into production had it not been for them.

There is a reason for that, it just isn’t very good. It is like a long past it band getting back together for a money making last tour, but they can’t sing the notes or keep the rhythm they once could, some might see it through nostalgic rose tinted spectacles, but for most it’s just sad to see how far they have fallen from their heydays.

And the barkley marathon wasn’t Netflix original content.

There is a reason for that, it just isn’t very good. It is like a long past it band getting back together for a money making last tour, but they can’t sing the notes or keep the rhythm they once could, some might see it through nostalgic rose tinted spectacles, but for most it’s just sad to see how far they have fallen from their heydays.

That’s not the reason it wouldn’t have got made – it’s on record the studios wouldn’t fund it. Not because they didn’t believe it was going to be any good or not – they didn’t want to sink that cash into it.

Sure I was disappointed with it – and this golden era of Netflix sinking tonnes of money into lots of risky ventures will not last forever but it’s certainly not a bad thing for viewers.

I agree with your sentiment but it’s certainly not the reason.

And the barkley marathon wasn’t Netflix original content.

And the other numerous series?

Relax your sphincter, would you rather watch ITV?

Honestly, some folk are never happy.

Not Netflix .. but NowTV. Der Pass. A German series with subtitles. Its very good; wife and I both enjoyed it.

I just finished Ep 3 of The Witcher. I was worried they’d run out of stupid, but it didn’t disappoint, even more stupid than Ep 1 and 2. Piglet has a bad time at work, people won’t accept her for who she is because she’s horribly deformed, so she gets cosmetic surgery, transforms into a smoking hot babe, and shags the boss, while Superman has to deal with a literally walking abortion that he magically transforms into a smoking hot babe. He also shags another smoking hot babe.