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Streaming or currently airing TV shows (AKA Netflix thread) (10 Viewers)

jamny said:
With the amazing quality of TV shows nowadays, I watch like 1 movie a week, maybe 2. I have a watchlist in my JustWatch app, so whenever I'm in the mood for a movie, I check it to find where it's streaming and watch it. There's rarely anything I have to see and can't wait.

I would say I'm probably more in the minority by not watching movies again.
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Had never heard of this app before - so thank you for mentioning it in the post - downloaded it and getting familiar with it now.

 
GoBirds said:
What’s this one about? Just finished Start Up and enjoyed it, need some new options 
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Locke & Key - I enjoyed watching the series and character development. The premise is intriguing and the newest season tied in some "historical" scenes to wrap up some loose ends plot-wise. There might be a few slow moments overall. And it is in the realm of "kids/teens will save the day (the world)" ala Disney style. But it's quite a bit more crude and dark than most D-Flix. I had watched before and repeated opening season to go along with newest release. I think it's a worthy binge.

 
MrJimiT said:
Locke & Key - I enjoyed watching the series and character development. The premise is intriguing and the newest season tied in some "historical" scenes to wrap up some loose ends plot-wise. There might be a few slow moments overall. And it is in the realm of "kids/teens will save the day (the world)" ala Disney style. But it's quite a bit more crude and dark than most D-Flix. I had watched before and repeated opening season to go along with newest release. I think it's a worthy binge.
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Yeah, it’s a good watch. Definitely a bit darker than Disney. This season started a little slow but then found it’s groove. Not too sure about next season but what was done at the end was pretty damn funny. Like putting a card in the discard pile. 

 
Rented james bond last night on Amazon.

I'm a sucker for Bond movies so I enjoyed it but something was missing to me. Still...like Craig in the role. 

 
I think you have to have Britbox or use other means to stream it, but a new season of Shetland is out.

Weather is supposed to be crappy here this weekend I think, so I’m already planning to pour some bourbon and watch murders get solved in a place with even worse weather.

I’m a sucker for desolate but beautiful countrysides, dead bodies and inscrutable accents…

 
ghostguy123 said:
Started watching "You".  A few episodes into season 2.

I am liking it.  Well acted, interesting....
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we are almost done with Season 3.

One of the few series that me and my GF can actually watch together.  I really like Season 3, almost as much as season 1, mostly because it rails on white suburbia.  Season 2 is solid, but not as good as the other 2 IMHO.

 
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RC94 said:
What did you guys think of Army of Thieves on Netflix?
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Zack Snyder should rethink his career in Hollywood. Instead of directing whole movies, he should hire himself out to do the first 15 minutes of every major big ticket type film.

If he has one true skill, it's packing in a ton of narrative and style and quiet exposition in a massive opening scene. The first 10 minutes of AoT is the best part.

Take any struggling show and run the hypothetical of having Snyder do the first 15 minutes. So try the new Apple show, Invasion. It's getting gutted by lots of critics and audiences. If Snyder gave it an expensive no holds barred opening sequence, it would hook the audience to give it a longer tryout.

Scream in the early 90s is a good example. The opening scene with Drew Barrymore is considered iconic. But after that, the movie goes for a long time without any type of violence. The "hook" kept people on the edge of tension for the next 2/3rds of the film.

 
Finished up Broadchurch. Liked it very much, especially for the two lead performances ...Millah! Luke warm on the finale and outcome of the S3 crime but it didn't detract from the show, imo.

 
jamny said:
Finished up Broadchurch. Liked it very much, especially for the two lead performances ...Millah! Luke warm on the finale and outcome of the S3 crime but it didn't detract from the show, imo.
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I skimmed through the pilot episode of Gracepoint. Funny to hear Tennant doing what I think was supposed to be an American accent. I loved his accent in Broadchurch, even though I needed subtitles. Not sure I would have liked Gunn after seeing Olivia Coleman. Colman really is impressive in her range on so many roles, especially after seeing Fleabag and The Crown.

 
Finished up Locke & Key season 2 and agree with the others. A little meandering early but solid finish. Definitely a little less “Disney” this season which was good, even though it’s teenager focused the source material is much more horror oriented so glad they somewhat went more in that direction. Still not a horror type show, but good nonetheless. They seemed to also take the criticism’s of the poor cgi in the first season and improved on that quite a bit for a tv show level of effects.

3rd season has already wrapped filming, fingers crossed this show can buck the Netflix cancel after 3 seasons trend.

 
Lots of streaming this weekend.

Disney+ 

Jungle Cruise - Pirates of the Caribbean for a slightly younger audience, and a (very) slight hint of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - I am sure there is more discussion in the Marvel thread.  It was entertaining enough, I was slightly disappointed in the story though, and expected a little more "action".  

Netflix

Red Notice - I was wondering why a film with Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds was demoted to a Streaming platform.  Then I watched it.  Seems like a money grab for the stars.  I could not tell if the movie was trying to be clever and witty, or action-based, but it fell short in both respects.  It held my interest, but probably not something I will watch again.

 
Strong debut for "Mayor of Kingstown" on Paramount.  Much more of what I would expect from Taylor Sheridan than the Yellowstone tripe.  

 
El Floppo said:
feel like we finally got to some Invasion.

interesting that the same week Foundation found it's feet, Invasion did as well. Also interesting that the season is probably mostly done. 

I don't mind a slow build. I actually complained that Fear the walking dead went too quickly past the fall of society into rinse/repeat TWD story-lines. But Invasion in particular has been silly with what story lines its choosing to tell here and how its telling them. I guess I don't mind the slower build to the Invasion part- but its felt cheap because the other stories seem so stupid and pointless in the face of the larger one. And probably that's the point... but it's been a lot of episodes not telling much else. 

hopefully now we're going to get into more of it. 
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was suprised this week's Invasion ep was only 1/2 hour.

but damn- that was a good 1/2 hour... even if I never really understood the mom's motive for leaving her family to go be a doctor in the first place... and then all of a sudden "oh, right... I have a family". regardless-- that was some good stuff this week.

 
El Floppo said:
was suprised this week's Invasion ep was only 1/2 hour.

but damn- that was a good 1/2 hour... even if I never really understood the mom's motive for leaving her family to go be a doctor in the first place... and then all of a sudden "oh, right... I have a family". regardless-- that was some good stuff this week.
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Was the best one so far IMO. Interested to see where they take it when they widen it back up to all the main characters. 

 
CletiusMaximus said:
jamny said:
parrot said:
Strong debut for "Mayor of Kingstown" on Paramount.  Much more of what I would expect from Taylor Sheridan than the Yellowstone tripe.  
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Not a fan?

I keep seeing people rave about it but the commercials do nothing for me.
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I am not a fan. Tried it, got midway through the first season before tapping out.  The scenery is nice.  The writing is bad.
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we tried the first ep... felt like Dallas or Dynasty. we both tapped.

 
I couldn't really get into anything new after months watching subtitled shows, so I'm watching this old show you may have heard about: The Wire.  4 Episodes into season 2 it is much better than I remember.  But that Ziggy character is almost enough to make me skip to season 3.  

 
Sinn Fein said:
Netflix

Red Notice - I was wondering why a film with Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds was demoted to a Streaming platform.  Then I watched it.  Seems like a money grab for the stars.  I could not tell if the movie was trying to be clever and witty, or action-based, but it fell short in both respects.  It held my interest, but probably not something I will watch again.
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👍Good review. Wasn't really demoted. It was a movie produced by Netflix. It's highest priced production to date. Most of the cost most likely paid out in salaries to the 3 stars.

 
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El Floppo said:
edge of our seats watching that.

are we going to see Sam Neill again?
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No. He gone. Pretty sure they don’t zombify peopled based on the dead soldiers.

This episode was decent and we at least got the what hurts them now. I don’t think we still understand what’s going on, especially that explosion with the soldiers.

Do you remember where the kid found that “rock”, was it from the stuff that hit us neighborhood? Maybe the invasion was trapped on space debris or maybe the real aliens send their “dogs” to planets to wipe out whatever is there before they go in. Thinking a bit more of the former since the weapon that kills them (was it dead or dormant?) came with them.

The show got better, mainly because the doctor stopped worrying about her husband’s girlfriend. It was so annoying. As a white male, I will say we aren’t portrayed well in this show. We have been old fart cops who won’t retire but will wonder into the middle of a hive and die, neo-nazi skinheads, crazy old guys kicking Muslims out of our house, neighbors that turned against Muslims immediately and of course EV loving plug stealing Muslim beaters.

 
This Day of the Dead SyFy show is awful. I don’t know why I am watching. The fact that head shots don’t kill the zombies makes the show really bad.

 
stbugs said:
No. He gone. Pretty sure they don’t zombify peopled based on the dead soldiers.

This episode was decent and we at least got the what hurts them now. I don’t think we still understand what’s going on, especially that explosion with the soldiers.

Do you remember where the kid found that “rock”, was it from the stuff that hit us neighborhood? Maybe the invasion was trapped on space debris or maybe the real aliens send their “dogs” to planets to wipe out whatever is there before they go in. Thinking a bit more of the former since the weapon that kills them (was it dead or dormant?) came with them.

The show got better, mainly because the doctor stopped worrying about her husband’s girlfriend. It was so annoying. As a white male, I will say we aren’t portrayed well in this show. We have been old fart cops who won’t retire but will wonder into the middle of a hive and die, neo-nazi skinheads, crazy old guys kicking Muslims out of our house, neighbors that turned against Muslims immediately and of course EV loving plug stealing Muslim beaters.
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Yeah- the kid wandered out in the street in front of their house and found that shard. I thought it was a piece of their spaceship or other tech, tbh. And agree- the side stories were so hokey: whiney betrayal, supah-dupah meanie bullies, nobody can possilby understand our lesbian love... etc.

Motivation- I like your space debris idea, or sending the dogs. We were trying to figure out why these things are here in the first place- killing everybody- and what motive or tactic would make sense to have one single creature at that random house... seemed- odd.

re: Sam Neill- the Japanese woman- I think..- said something where she thinks her girlfriend might still be alive (because she said something after the ship had been breached- where sound shoudln't be possible). the way Neill went down leads me to think he might be as well. he wasn't all out attacked like we saw this week, IIRC he was hunted and somethign seemed to jab him in the neck. Some of these people have a biological connection to what's going on, IMO- the boy whose nose didnt' bleed, the epileptic kid foreseeing things in his comics, and maybe Sam Neill. 

I'm ok with white males taking a hit for a while, tbh. everybody else has had their turn. doesn't necessarily make for good writing or story telling, but it doesn't inherently bother me.

 
El Floppo said:
I'm ok with white males taking a hit for a while, tbh. everybody else has had their turn. doesn't necessarily make for good writing or story telling, but it doesn't inherently bother me.
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I don’t care as long as it doesn’t mess up a show. It had to be a privileged rich white blonde lady the husband was doing and there is no chance that they would have made a black guy and a white guy beat him up for a plug. I know it’s the thing now and again I was more joking but it seems a little forced. I mean was there even a point to having neo nazi skinheads?

I will say that I love the Japanese actress, probably my favorite character by far. Soldier next and at the bottom is the doctor mom. She improved and as long as the stupidity is over, she can be fine.

I would enjoy seeing Sam Neill show up again but I figured he was like Drew Barrymore in Scream or Steven Seagal in Executive Decision, there for the opening it dropped like a bad habit.

 
I'm only halfway through Red Notice, but I'm enjoying it.  It reminds me a lot of The Rundown with the Rock and Seann William Scott from way back in the day.  Basically the Rock doing the Rock things, with the same type of motormouthed, wisecracking side kick in Ryan Reynolds.

 
Just finished Midnight Mass which I'll never watch again. I'd rate it 5 or 6 out on a scale of  10 but it was waaaaaaay to close to my religious upbringing and creeped the hell out of me. I went to church and Sunday school every Sunday the first 17 years of my life, wanted to become a preacher, before I had to walk away. Over time I figured out how organized religion had and can manipulate people to ... justify or hate almost anything.

The scene where the townspeople recognize all the health and age changes they're going through, set to "Holly Holy" by Neil Diamond, woke me up 3 times in fear that night. High creep factor due to my upbringing, not due to the presented story.

Last episode was very poorly done. There were fast-moving dramatic things happening but each scene would just stop for a soliloquy or narration for what seemed like forever. The preacher who'd manipulated the hell out of everybody suddenly became ineffective. Just way too much crapola slowing down the story line.

I'll never watch that again. I want a Bev Keene pinata to destroy.

 
I’m sure it’s been mentioned before but prime is super annoying now. Seems like everything they “suggest” or show me is for a show or movie that I need yet another even more obscure subscription. We already have Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, Starz and HBO. 

 
fatness said:
Just finished Midnight Mass which I'll never watch again. I'd rate it 5 or 6 out on a scale of  10 but it was waaaaaaay to close to my religious upbringing and creeped the hell out of me. I went to church and Sunday school every Sunday the first 17 years of my life, wanted to become a preacher, before I had to walk away. Over time I figured out how organized religion had and can manipulate people to ... justify or hate almost anything.

The scene where the townspeople recognize all the health and age changes they're going through, set to "Holly Holy" by Neil Diamond, woke me up 3 times in fear that night. High creep factor due to my upbringing, not due to the presented story.

Last episode was very poorly done. There were fast-moving dramatic things happening but each scene would just stop for a soliloquy or narration for what seemed like forever. The preacher who'd manipulated the hell out of everybody suddenly became ineffective. Just way too much crapola slowing down the story line.

I'll never watch that again. I want a Bev Keene pinata to destroy.
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agree about the last epsiode being weaker. soliloquys didn't bother me as much as the burn it all down aspect just to reach a satisfying end (for mortals). for such a slow well thought out burn, that all felt rushed and dumb and trying to solve the plot, rather than let the plot solve the writing... if you know what I mean. 

but the first religious parts- sounds like that worked really well for you, even if too close to home? I mean, if it had that much affect on you- that's a show that's well done, IMO. I'm not religious and I found that part of it the most compelling aspect of the show. And the preacher- that made sense at the end to me in terms of religion- the flock takes control of the narrative from the messiah...eventually. BUt again, I didn't buy their collective giving up because there wasn't a single spot on the island to find a hiding spot from the sun?

 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
I’m sure it’s been mentioned before but prime is super annoying now. Seems like everything they “suggest” or show me is for a show or movie that I need yet another even more obscure subscription. We already have Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, Starz and HBO. 
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we barely even look at Prime any more. seems like it's mostly b-rated crap...at least that they're trying to push on you. or, as you say, pay to play stuff (we always forget to turn on the "free to me" tab... and sucks that it's auto-set to off).

 
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