Notable Nexflix / Amazon / Premium Channel Series & Movies

[dhg]

We've been watching Only Murders In the Building on Hulu. Me and the wife are really enjoying it.

[TBBills]

1 hour ago, dhg said:

We've been watching Only Murders In the Building on Hulu. Me and the wife are really enjoying it.

That was surprisingly a good show.

[Nextmanup]

First couple episodes of Euphoria on HBO, Season 2, are now out.

 

I LOVE this show--check it out if you haven't watched it.

 

 

[Nextmanup]

Watched Episode 1 of the new season of "Ozark" last night.

 

Enjoyed it and look forward to the new season, but I didn't realize how much I had forgotten about all the little details going on in the show.  Took us the full hour to remember everything that was happening.

 

 

[stuvian]

Love you to death with Marcia Gay Harden 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

On 1/15/2022 at 2:25 PM, Rampage said:

If you can get through the first four-five episodes of Ozark it turns into a pretty good show. I was falling asleep on the early episodes and actually stopped watching it at one point before going back to it a year later and binging it.

Now that is a ringing endorsement!  😄

[The Poojer]

100 foot wave.  About a guy who is a surfer, looking for the biggest wave.  It's a pretty good watch.  Learned about it on the Smartless podcast 

[May Day 10]

Finished the Ozark episodes last night.

 

 

 

I have to say, the show has completely jumped the shark for me.  The actions of people and authorities is way off the reservation, ludicrous, and any sort of immersion is lost.  

 

Ill watch the last 7 episodes to see how it wraps up, but this first 7 episodes were absurd.

[The Poojer]

I love Ozark, but there is a lot of suspending of reality lately...plus i want to punch jonah in the head, several times

 

1 hour ago, May Day 10 said:

Finished the Ozark episodes last night.

 

 

 

I have to say, the show has completely jumped the shark for me.  The actions of people and authorities is way off the reservation, ludicrous, and any sort of immersion is lost.  

 

Ill watch the last 7 episodes to see how it wraps up, but this first 7 episodes were absurd.

[May Day 10]

53 minutes ago, The Poojer said:

I love Ozark, but there is a lot of suspending of reality lately...plus i want to punch jonah in the head, several times

 

 

Ha agreed

 

Part of the awesomeness of the show is how leveraged the Byrds were on all fronts, and were relatively helpless... but managed to keep all the plates spinning in the air.

 

 

But now we are at the point where leaders of the FBI bend to Wendy Byrd's will because she makes a mean face at them.

 

[Just Jack]

Murderville on Netflix, came out last Thursday.  Will Arnett is a grizzled detective and each episode has a guest actor.  But the twist, the guest does not have a script and must improvise their lines, and figure out who was the murderer at the end of the episode.  

 

 

[WhoTom]

We watched the first two episodes of "Reacher" on Amazon Prime. I never read the books and never saw the movie with Tom Cruise, so I had no preconceived notions going in. It seems pretty good so far. Reacher is a retired military officer who travels around the country as sort of a vigilante. If you remember "Kung Fu" with David Carradine, it's similar.

 

We've also been watching "1883" on Paramount+. If you like westerns, you'll like this.

 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

New episodes of Wentworth are out. Its an amazing show

[The Poojer]

i tried with this one.  i think i got 4 seasons in and couldn't suspend reality any more, despite Bea and Franky being total smoke shows!

 

1 hour ago, Canadian Bills Fan said:

New episodes of Wentworth are out. Its an amazing show

[Canadian Bills Fan]

Also just watched The Tinder Swindler in Netflix

 

Really good!!

[thenorthremembers]

Started Mayor of Kingstown with the wife last night.   Its dark, but the acting and writing is well above average.  Only got through one episode but Ill be back for more.

Edited February 7, 2022 by thenorthremembers

[dhg]

On 2/6/2022 at 11:04 AM, Just Jack said:

Murderville on Netflix, came out last Thursday.  Will Arnett is a grizzled detective and each episode has a guest actor.  But the twist, the guest does not have a script and must improvise their lines, and figure out who was the murderer at the end of the episode.  

 

 

We watched the first 2 episodes last night. Overall, thought it was pretty good. There were some real LOL moments. 

[BillsPride12]

Pam and Tommy on Hulu....I miss the 90s

[Royale with Cheese]

I had no idea.  Did you guys know this?

 

"In 2010, Netflix acquired the rights to Breaking Bad, produced by Sony Pictures Television, after the show's third season, at a point where original broadcaster AMC had expressed the possibility of cancelling the show. Sony pushed Netflix to release Breaking Bad in time for the fourth season, which as a result, greatly expanded the show's audience on AMC due to new viewers binging on the Netflix past episodes, and doubling the viewership by the time of the fifth season. Breaking Bad is considered the first such show to have this "Netflix effect".

- wiki

Edited February 16, 2022 by Royale with Cheese

[Metal Man]

On 12/2/2021 at 7:56 PM, Just Jack said:

 

It's on my "To Be Watched" list, haven't started it yet. 

 

On 12/3/2021 at 1:31 PM, Nextmanup said:

 

I like the genre a lot, but find most offerings in this category are not well done.

 

 

On 1/3/2022 at 6:49 PM, Limeaid said:

 

Big Isaac Asimov fan; as a kid I sent a letter to him about a correction and he said yes I was correct and it was an editing mistake and he already contacted publisher to correct it on next edition.

 

Foundation and its sequels are extremely complicated books and hard to translate to media.

 

Finally got around to watching the first season of Foundation.

 

It starts out as a pretty good sci-fi show. Very heady high concept stuff with a focus on character development and world building. Eventually it kind of struggles with staying in that lane and tries to into more main stream storytelling which I assume is to attempt to appeal to a broader audience. Overall I mostly enjoyed it though and it was renewed for a second season.

 

I have no experience with the source material so I have no idea how faithful it is but based on what I've heard about the books I am going to guess it diverges quite a bit.