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Streaming or currently airing TV shows (AKA Netflix thread) (21 Viewers)
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whoknew
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It wasn't until I looked him up that I realized its the same dude who played the lead in Banshee. That really surprised me. He looks a lot different.
Great work, Kiwi dude.
technicaldifficulties
Footballguy
I really liked it too. Very enjoyable. Thought the acting was pretty good across the board, though I agree with a previous comment that the Deep was kind of bland and the character not really explored.
That “gills” scene though...that was kind of cringeworthy. Had the show on when wife was half watching; she wasn’t into it much before and I think that scene sealed the deal for her that it wasn’t for her
joffer
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Nick Vermeil
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Wait, what?!!Anarchy99 said:
This is why we can’t have nice things
Sweet J
Footballguy
Holy balls this is a good show. I think my favorite scene by far is when The Deep tries to break the dolphin out of Sea World. That was like the Red Wedding all over again. I laughed. . . I cried.
Sweet J
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In a weird way, he makes me of Game of Thrones: If this guy had played Jaimie Lannister, he would have KILLED it.CletiusMaximus said:
I mean, the guy who played Jaimie did a great job in all. But it just seems like the guy who played Homelander nailed how Jaimie should have been played. Just a *little* more menacing, yet, managing to stay a little broken at the same time.
shadyridr
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Kuz
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Good Posting Judge
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AAABatteries
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Watched What If with Zellweger. It was not good - almost a guilty pleasure type show though as it was just crazy enough to keep my interested and my wife wanted to watch it because of Zellweger. If you're bored you could give it an episode or two to see if you can stomach about 10 episodes. Otherwise it's probably a skip.
Recently I watched S3 of Money Heist. It's definitely lost it's luster for me. Ridiculous story lines that didn't seem to bother me in S1 are now too much. The story doesn't end here either so be prepared for S4 if you are so inclined to start S3.
Finished S3 of Stranger Things. On par with the other seasons I'd say. It's a solid show. I wish they just ended here. I don't really see much point in having a S4 but it appears that's where they are headed. Could have easily ended it all here and be on their merry way. Interesting to see the variance in acting talents on display. Some excellent work - Robin, Steve and Dustin, Good performances - El, Max and Nancy but some others were pretty cringeworthy - Mike, Will. Also a shout out to Cara Buono
Finished S3 of Stranger Things. On par with the other seasons I'd say. It's a solid show. I wish they just ended here. I don't really see much point in having a S4 but it appears that's where they are headed. Could have easily ended it all here and be on their merry way. Interesting to see the variance in acting talents on display. Some excellent work - Robin, Steve and Dustin, Good performances - El, Max and Nancy but some others were pretty cringeworthy - Mike, Will. Also a shout out to Cara Buono
Rove!
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When Disney plus comes out with Marvel and Star Wars and Pixar and all of their other IP, who is going to pay the same price for Stranger Things and a bunch of unfinished shows....IP wise, it’s a total blowout...
ConnSKINS26
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They've got the teen/college crowd on lock though. Firstly due to habit and secondly due to the deal they have with the CW where the new seasons premiere on Netflix the day after they end on TV. Different demographic than here but an important one, and there's a million decently popular CW shows this applies to
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I figure Netflix will eventually merge and/or either buy or be bought out by one of the other big players which will address the IP issues. Netflix has a huge edge in international subscribers which is where I think they will continue to lead and put a lot more money into like that movie they are doing with the Rock. Losing shows like The Office and Friends certainly hurts but at least freeing up $80M a year for the rights to old shows allows you to put a ton of money into more original content and IP.
Who knows how it will play out, but IMO Disney+ and HBOMax will hurt Netflix no doubt, but it's going to hurt companies like NBC/Comcast, NAI/CBS, etc. and Amazon Prime even more. CBS in particular has got to figure out something and team up somewhere as going it alone with CBS All Access is going to leave them a distant competitor IMO.
Who knows how it will play out, but IMO Disney+ and HBOMax will hurt Netflix no doubt, but it's going to hurt companies like NBC/Comcast, NAI/CBS, etc. and Amazon Prime even more. CBS in particular has got to figure out something and team up somewhere as going it alone with CBS All Access is going to leave them a distant competitor IMO.
dkp993
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Sort of. Still, I have more Netflix IP shows in my queue than I’ll probably ever get around to watching, and my kids watch a ton of stuff on there. Netflix, Amazon, and Disney will be the must haves for our household. I’m tempted to cancel HBO.
Juxtatarot
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Do you ever see movies and TVs taking on the digital music per stream model of revenue? (Spotify pays $0.006 to $0.0084 per stream, for example.) There are tons and tons of old TV shows and movies that can’t be making much revenue these days. I don’t understand why streaming services don’t have more content.
KarmaPolice
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So pretty soon they are all going to merge into one or two streaming options and we will be paying a similar price as cable?
Pretty much.So pretty soon they are all going to merge into one or two streaming options and we will be paying a similar price as cable?
jdoggydogg
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I couldn't make past three minutes of the first episode of Cash Steal or Money Heist or whatever that show was. That writing is awful.
=Smackdown=
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The Sinner Season 2 off to a good start - I'm one episode in.
Enjoyed Season 1 so I'm giving this a shot.
Enjoyed Season 1 so I'm giving this a shot.
JoeSteeler
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Another Life (series) - the effects were good (for the most part) but the dialogue and acting were terrible. It was like 90210 or something in space. Characters made stupid decision after stupid decision - it was laughable in a lot of parts. The only cool part was the holographic AI that was part of the ship - but they ended up ruining him too
2/10 and I am a big sci-fi fan
2/10 and I am a big sci-fi fan
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El Floppo
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you watched the whole season?
impressive.
a few of us commented on it last week or so... I'm a big sci-fi fan too- but no ####### way was I watchign more of that drek.
JoeSteeler
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my GF was into it so I "watched" while doing other things.
need to go find those posts...
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northern exposure
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We just finished episode 4 (2 to go I think) and the wife and I are enjoying it. Some of the actors accents are a bit tricky to understand at times. Interesting that siblings that all grew up in the same home have different accents.
JB Breakfast Club
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This is a reminder that the 2017 Chapelle special is essential viewing. Equanimity is a defining moment in Netflix history that still carries weight today.
northern exposure
Footballguy
I know the thread title is "Watch Instantly Gems", but consider this a cautionary tale. I had read and heard a lot of hype for Hannah Gadsby's Stand up special "Nanette". She was a guest on the "Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend" podcast and I was intrigued enough by this to check out Nanette. I am having difficulty articulating my thoughts and feelings after watching it. It starts out like a standard standup special and then goes somewhere far different than anything I have seen before.
Has anybody else here watched it? If so, what were your thoughts? (I briefly looked through previous pages in this thread and didn't see mentions of Nanette. Apologies if I missed them).
Has anybody else here watched it? If so, what were your thoughts? (I briefly looked through previous pages in this thread and didn't see mentions of Nanette. Apologies if I missed them).
AAABatteries
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Is that the super hero show?shadyridr said:
shadyridr
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El Floppo
Footballguy
I did... Going to sleep now, but briefly- I really enjoyed her comedy. Liked her delivery a lot. Found a lot of what she said insightful and funny- sign of a successful comedian. And I actually liked the segue- I didn't feel offended or hurt, but made me think about comedy at large...also the sign of a successful comedian. I'd recommend it.
Was the cautionary bit you mentioned the segue?
whoknew
Footballguy
Yes. I thought it was terrific. The first half hour was ok. The last 20 minutes was pretty amazing.
northern exposure
Footballguy
Yes. I have seen it called "the twist" or the segue and I know I am walking out onto very thin ice by speaking even slightly negatively about it. I recently watched Aziz Ansari's latest special on Netflix and thought his bit about white people watching "Crazy Rich Asians" applied here. Nobody dares to do anything but rave about it because they don't want to be seen as part of the problem. So, in my opinion, "Nanette" has been universally praised because nobody wants to say it was just "ok" for fear of being bludgeoned by the "woke" masses.Ansari's bit about the pizza in his special also mocks people's rush to show their outrage about the next big thing everybody should be outraged about.
The events she details from her life are horrific singularly and devastating when heard as a whole. But, I found her insistence that "this is why I must quit comedy" disingenous because of course that isn't what happened at all (she is touring now with "Douglas"). I am watching "Nanette" about a year after it was released, so this may be an unfair criticism on my part.
As a viewer I felt like the audience was down for the count and Hannah kept hammering them. I of course have no idea what it is like to live my life as a white, lesbian in Tasmania. But, I felt she was making sweeping generalizations and demonizing straight, white males. We aren't all Trump, Weinstein, etc. and most of us are horrified by their actions and words too.
As I said earlier I am having difficulty articulating my thoughts. But, I did find "Nanette" thought provoking and a wild emotional ride. I just would not rave about it and insist it is a "must watch".
El Floppo
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I didn't find the "quitting" disingenuous, mostly beause she spent time deconstructing comedy- in general, but specifically how it relates to her "self-deprecating" approach. I took that she can't keep doing the same approach because it's keeping her from progressing as human being past the trauma she's gone through... and perhaps, keeping the public from doing it as well.
as comedy- I liked it. as think-stuff- I also liked it. I don't know that either was exceptional or rave-worthy, but in combination, I defininetly would recommend it. almost wish the think-stuff was integrated earlier.. but I did like her pacing and way of bringing stuff back.
being aware that you're feeling demonized... is good, IMO. that's part of what the show was about. having the awareness to feel that way is what she's saying she goes through every day of her life- intentionally or not- by the white patriarchy. getting an emotional response should hopefully help elicit or provoke empathy. a good thing, even if it creates awkard or uncomfortable emotions.
i can't remember exactly what she said, but it reminded me of something from college for me. we had a professor from city college (here in NYC- Leonard Jeffries) coming to give a speech and the campus was up in arms because he had been in the spotlight (granted, NY Post) as having said and taught some anti-semitic and anti-white things. I went to see what the fuss was about and coincidentally ran into two team-mates of mine on the soccer team- we sat together.
Jeffries quickly explained the anti- stuff away (to my satisfaction) and then proceeded to give a 3+ lecture on the history of the world... but from an african-centric standpoint. everything he said was factually true and supported everything I had already learned, but... it was ignoring everything that non-african civilizations had done. I found myself starting to bristle at the willful exclusion of greece, rome and other traditionally white civilzations had done in the conversation- the globe wasn't a vacuum- the stuff that was happening he had talked about wouldn't be happening without outside influences as well.
the lecture finished and I felt geniunely embittered by the talk- felt like it had been antagonistic by being manipulative in its omissions and and was looking forward to discussing my frustration my friends. then I looked at them. Jeffries is black, as are my friends; they were jubilant and bursting with impassioned excitement. as we talked- I realized none of us had ever heard the world described this way- in reality, we had heard it our entire lives described in a similar way- just the opposite- completely euro-centric. africa and african americans place in world history were two-part- slaves,breaking free from slavery as civil rights leaders. and that was it (caveat- this was in the late 80s and I know education has changed since then).
my friends got a chance to live in those three hours during the lecture what I had lived for 20 years- a world that was all about me and my people. and they were over the moon. as importantly- I got to see what they'd been living for 20 years... a world where the sum total of me and my people was about slavery. I had come in with the confidence and knowledge about the rest of it... and it still made me feel like pissed off, minimized, antagonized ####. in 3 hours.
as we talked, I thought about having to spend my life that way- minimized and marginalized, but without the confidence and knowledge about the rest of it to support or fall back on. my friends were kids of people with means- but it put me into their life, and the lives of all the black kids I grew up with who didn't have the means to attend college and may not have had the opportunity to ever hear something like this to feel, if even for a few hours, the sense of self and pride my friends did. extrapolating those three hours into a lifetime... woof.
I'm trying- but I can't begin to explain how life-altering that lecture and especially discussion afterwards with my friends was. completely changed my perspective- I like to think in a better way. and I feel like nanette touched on some of that, granted from a gender/sexuality/identity standpoint.
bleh- I hope that makes sense in terms of the show?
gianmarco
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Amazing post and thank you. I've never been taught to be intolerant of others. I've never disliked any "group" of people. I've always tried to do right by others.
But it's only until recently that I'm really appreciating that that alone isn't enough. That growing up as a white male has conferred so many advantages and that I'll never fully understand what it's like for anyone other than a straight white male. It's not my fault, per se, given when I grew up, but that's not an excuse anymore. We ALL need to do better. I now try to be as aware as possible about what anyone else is going through and try to view it from a viewpoint other than my own.
Even the idea that a woman in a group full of men can and likely does feel uncomfortable should give us pause. Because I never feel that way. Maybe at a baby shower if I were the only one, but it wouldn't be out of fear. Otherwise, if just being a straight white woman in a situation such as that can be uncomfortable, the fact that it can be worse anytime you start adding other categorizations a person may be is sobering. And when you add all those groups up, it's no longer a minority of people in this world.
We need to do better.
ETA -- And now, back to your regularly scheduled Netflix programming.
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whoknew
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The Family - New documentary on Netflix. Starting the first episode now.
Netflix's latest docuseries, The Family, investigates a super secretive Christian Conservative organization in Washington, D.C. called The Fellowship Foundation, but referred to internally as "the Family." According to Jeff Sharlet, the author of the book that the series is based on,hey believe that "the real message of Christ is not so much love, as strength." Sure, that sounds innocent enough. Until you realize that the Family has lots of power all over the world, and they're not using it for good.
Netflix's latest docuseries, The Family, investigates a super secretive Christian Conservative organization in Washington, D.C. called The Fellowship Foundation, but referred to internally as "the Family." According to Jeff Sharlet, the author of the book that the series is based on,hey believe that "the real message of Christ is not so much love, as strength." Sure, that sounds innocent enough. Until you realize that the Family has lots of power all over the world, and they're not using it for good.
bigbottom
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My wife and I just watched all four episodes back to back this evening. I don’t think any film, series or tv show has left me as devastated as this show did. It is absolutely fantastic and features some incredible acting performances, but I don’t know that I can recommend it. Part of me wishes I hadn’t watched it. But I think this is one of those stories that we need to hear, even if it leaves us feeling scarred to a degree.
Don't Noonan
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WDIK2
Footballguy
Screwball is entertaining if you're at all interested in the "characters" involved in the ARod major league baseball PED situation. #### hits the fan about 40 minutes in over what turns out to be a fairly insignificant amount of money. Story gets pretty wacky from there. 
Do any current of former baseball players talk to ARod? Interesting that he's still able to do games on TV.
Do any current of former baseball players talk to ARod? Interesting that he's still able to do games on TV.
Shutout
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I'm a quality over quantity guy and I'm also in that age range where I was the same age as the cast in S1 of stranger things when it launched, so for me, Stranger things, Dark, Umbrella Academy and a couple of others are by far enough for me to pick up anything Netflix is laying down and saying "check this out". They have some amazing original content in my opinion.
Mr Anonymous
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Watching this now and who pops up in a clip from 2009? None other than Jared Kushner.
It's at the 34:55 mark of episode 2 during the resignation of SC Governor Mark Sanford. During the resignation Sanford commits a big no-no alluding the a group called the "C Street" which is known to be part of the "Family". Anyway good old Jared is standing off to the side of reporters during the resignation press conference. One. why the eff is Jared Kushner even there? You can tell by the credentials on media gathered that it's in South Carolina, likely the Capitol building. And two, why the eff does Jared Kushner look exactly the same in this 2009 clip as he does today?
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