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Streaming or currently airing TV shows (AKA Netflix thread) (12 Viewers)

We started Bloodlines when it first came out, but the wife was pregnant and got sick with the camera stuff so stopped after one episode. 

Worth watching?

 
El Floppo said:
bro1ncos said:
Haven't went back through this thread, but getting back in to some series on Netflix. So you guys may have talked about this. 

Any thoughts on The 100? Watched the first 2 episodes and definitely interested in seeing more. 
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I was a fan. It bounces between decent sci-fi post-apoc and flat out horrible teen melodrama. Yeah, if you made it through the first two... Welcome aboard! I may have started a thread for it.
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here's the other thread... I didnt' start it- everybody's favorite poster did.

 
I liked the 100 but it fell out with the wife. With downloads now active I intend to binge. 

I have one episode of Stanger Things left. I'm already feeling the pangs of withdrawal. 

 
Nick Vermeil said:
I liked the 100 but it fell out with the wife. With downloads now active I intend to binge. 

I have one episode of Stanger Things left. I'm already feeling the pangs of withdrawal. 
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I might be the most vocal proponent of the show, but rereading that thread... yeah- the last season was pretty horrible.

but love Stranger Things.

 
I really liked Paranoid. Strangely, I think the 2-sentence Netflix description of it was a bit too spoilery.

Watched all of 3%. I thought it started off a bit too Hunger games-y, then got pretty good in the middle, then limped to the finish.

 
Nick Vermeil said:
:no:  jamny continues to slip in the rankings.  Love this show.  Saw my childhood cookie jar in the last epissode!
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:lmao:

I'm not a nostalgic person so those kind of things don't affect me.

There were a couple of episodes in the middle of the season that I liked but overall it was a struggle to get through the rest. My wife didn't like it at all, so she was happy when I said I was probably done.

 
Northern Voice said:
I really liked Paranoid. Strangely, I think the 2-sentence Netflix description of it was a bit too spoilery.

Watched all of 3%. I thought it started off a bit too Hunger games-y, then got pretty good in the middle, then limped to the finish.
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I binged the hell out of Paranoid- literally couldn't stop watching the middle episodes one night.

but I felt like it was ultimately a bit fluffy (the writing), in spite of some decent acting. didn't buy the way it played out at all. 

3% suffers from the worst voice-overed dubbing I can remember. shows how important the acting is (even voice-over), because this really did feel like low-budget porn without the sex or any meaningful nudity.

 
El Floppo said:
ok... be honest- nudity in the two last episodes of ST... how do you rate it vs the nudity in the last two episodes of the Fall, s3?
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I'd say nudity in ST - 8/10 (who knew the creature would be so exquisite buck naked?)

The Fall S3 - 6/10 (that nurse in love with the psycho had a nice set)

 
gianmarco said:
We started Bloodlines when it first came out, but the wife was pregnant and got sick with the camera stuff so stopped after one episode. 

Worth watching?




 
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S1 - strong start, crap middle, pretty good end. There were times in the middle of the season I was ready to walk away from it. There's too much talent to give up on it entirely but it was frustrating in the middle. A show that is better served being 8-10 episodes than 12-16, y'know?

 
Statorama said:
I had to quit watching that because every episode of every season is just finding a new way to kick the guy in the nads.  It was just too damn depressing.

Well acted, well written....but dang give the poor guy a ray of sunshine sometimes.




 
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I understand your point. I'm fine with slow burning shows - the Wire is a perfect example of that - but so far this show is almost actively avoiding even that. 

 
Aside from the Netflix produced shows, most of which I don't love, what is the difference in content between Netflix and Amazon Prime?  I am getting tired of the content on Netflix and their lack of good, newer movies.  At least with Amazon Prime you get the better pricing and other deals on items you purchase through Amazon.

 
RC94 said:
Aside from the Netflix produced shows, most of which I don't love, what is the difference in content between Netflix and Amazon Prime?  I am getting tired of the content on Netflix and their lack of good, newer movies.  At least with Amazon Prime you get the better pricing and other deals on items you purchase through Amazon.




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that's part of their business is not coming back. that's why they are making these moves with original and/or overseas content? Amazon doesn't have that part down yet. So they have the movies to rent and content similar to Netflix. You can add "channels" to Amazon - Showtime, HBO, whatever - to get more recent movies for like $6-8/month and the Prime offerings. Amazon is getting better at it all but Netflix is still ahead of them with the tv show content.

 
El Floppo said:
we barely look at Prime.

lack of content.




 
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there is good content but it's a chore finding anything to watch via their interface. i'm just surprised that they're not smarter about it all. Netflix is better in that regard but not by much. they're too busy promoting what they've added and new categories instead of using their GD algorithm to show stuff that I probably would like.

 
I find "my list" on Netflix impossible to manage.  Having been a customer for a long time now I have well over 100 titles in my list.  After they changed it a year or so ago I can no longer order the list effectively.  Dragging and dropping doesn't work.  It's one of the many reasons I am getting fed up with Netflix.  However, if Amazon still doesn't have much content then I am not going to switch.  Amazon has other problems as well.  It's a behemoth of a website and their search function rivals FBG's in ineffectiveness.  Every time I try to find something, 1 million options show up and it's hard to narrow it down the way I want to.  Disappointing options all around right now.  I used to like Netflix but it's gone downhill and apparently the competition still hasn't caught up.

 
RC94 said:
I find "my list" on Netflix impossible to manage.  Having been a customer for a long time now I have well over 100 titles in my list.  After they changed it a year or so ago I can no longer order the list effectively.  Dragging and dropping doesn't work.  It's one of the many reasons I am getting fed up with Netflix.  However, if Amazon still doesn't have much content then I am not going to switch.  Amazon has other problems as well.  It's a behemoth of a website and their search function rivals FBG's in ineffectiveness.  Every time I try to find something, 1 million options show up and it's hard to narrow it down the way I want to.  Disappointing options all around right now.  I used to like Netflix but it's gone downhill and apparently the competition still hasn't caught up.
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I would say doing BOTH the dvd/streaming option makes it well worth it.  My wife and I watch 1 episode of some really good show every night.  If they don't have it on instant they have it on disk.  I've even found crazy good shows I never would have thought of: noticed during credits that Prisoners or War was the series Homeland is based on.  It's an Israeli series, spoken in Hebrew with English subtitles.  We got the DVDs of Season 1 and it's amazing.  Especially being able to see where the first two season of Homeland came from.  Anyway, if we just had streaming we'd be frustrated.  But paying the extra $8 for DVDs 1 at a time makes it completely worth it for us.

 
Maybe some newbies need a guide.  Shows I feel are well worth watching on Instant (I watch very few movies):

The Fall

Stranger Things

Rectify

Bloodline

Parks and Recreation

House of Cards (you'll start hate-watching it by end of Season 2)

Arrested Development

Office

Archer

Happy Valley

Better Call Saul

Breaking Bad

The League

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

How I Met Your Mother

30 Rock

American Dad

An Idiot Abroad

Making a Murderer

Hell On Wheels

Bojack Horseman

Portlandia

Futurama

Narcos

Fireplace For Your Home (MERRY CHRISTMAS!!)

Chill With Bob Ross

Terriers

Doc Martin

Mascots

Cosmos

Better Off Ted

Turn

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Stephen Fry in America

Occupied

Wet Hot American Summer

Todd Margaret

The Returned

American Crime

Young Doctor's Notebook

Wallander

Burn After Reading

Spotlight

 
whoa... is Chill with Bob Ross actually with Bob Ross? like- his mainline smack sink into a fog and paint bumpity, gnarly trees- bob ross?

eta: :wub:  x gajillion.

 
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facook said:
I would say doing BOTH the dvd/streaming option makes it well worth it.  My wife and I watch 1 episode of some really good show every night.  If they don't have it on instant they have it on disk.  I've even found crazy good shows I never would have thought of: noticed during credits that Prisoners or War was the series Homeland is based on.  It's an Israeli series, spoken in Hebrew with English subtitles.  We got the DVDs of Season 1 and it's amazing.  Especially being able to see where the first two season of Homeland came from.  Anyway, if we just had streaming we'd be frustrated.  But paying the extra $8 for DVDs 1 at a time makes it completely worth it for us.
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Not a bad idea, but I wouldn't get my money's worth out of the DVDs.  I used to have that service too, but canceled it because between the time it takes with having to mail everything back and forth and the other things I have to do in life, I wasn't feeling like it was a good value.

 
RC94 said:
Not a bad idea, but I wouldn't get my money's worth out of the DVDs.  I used to have that service too, but canceled it because between the time it takes with having to mail everything back and forth and the other things I have to do in life, I wasn't feeling like it was a good value.
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Gotcha.  It's what makes my wife feel like we are "spending time together", to sit down on the couch and watch an episode of some show.  So between DVDs and instant we are utilizing Netflix usually 4-5 nights/week.  Makes it worth it for us.

 
facook said:
Gotcha.  It's what makes my wife feel like we are "spending time together", to sit down on the couch and watch an episode of some show.  So between DVDs and instant we are utilizing Netflix usually 4-5 nights/week.  Makes it worth it for us.
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We do the same. We're re-watching The Office (US) on streaming and watching All in the Family on DVD. On the rare event there's actually a good movie out, we'll get that for a Saturday night.

 
bro1ncos said:
No, but guessing if you weren't a fan of BB then you won't be a fan of Saul.
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His character feels less bleak and unlikable, isn't Better Call Saul a bit more tongue in cheek/comedic, or no? I watched the first three seasons of BB and mostly liked the story but found myself hating almost every character and not really caring whether they live or not, which I think kind of took me out of some of the series bigger moments. 

 
saintfool said:
I liked that show quite a bit at first blush. It didn't hold up quite as well upon an attempted repeat viewing. 
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So many shows become MUCH better in Season 2 or 3.  Parks and Rec stands out as one to me.  If they'd gotten more of a chance to develop and mature as a show I think it could have been great instead of just good.

 
facook said:
So many shows become MUCH better in Season 2 or 3.  Parks and Rec stands out as one to me.  If they'd gotten more of a chance to develop and mature as a show I think it could have been great instead of just good.




 
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there's a fair amount of truth. season 4 is usually when it starts to lose it for me and the quality of the series diminishes. there are exceptions but whatever.

 
Just started watching American Crime (Timothy Hutton).

Episode 1 - Good (I guess) but depressing.  Seems like it could be good and grab me, but I'm not terribly interested in watching a series that's all depressing through the winter months.  Winter in the Northeast is depressing enough.

 
On The Rocks said:
Just started watching American Crime (Timothy Hutton).

Episode 1 - Good (I guess) but depressing.  Seems like it could be good and grab me, but I'm not terribly interested in watching a series that's all depressing through the winter months.  Winter in the Northeast is depressing enough.
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Wife and I made it thru Season 1 and needed a break. Pretty, pretty depressing...

 
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