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Streaming or currently airing TV shows (AKA Netflix thread) (17 Viewers)

Not sure if it belongs here, but speculation on my local sports talk station today that Netflix could announce going to an ads based option soon.  They are losing subscribers (and this money) fast.  

 
matttyl said:
Not sure if it belongs here, but speculation on my local sports talk station today that Netflix could announce going to an ads based option soon.  They are losing subscribers (and this money) fast.  
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Yeah, this is known. They’ve already partnered with Microsoft to develop it.

 
beer 30 said:
I'd say give it a chance but I'm biased so take it with a grain of salt. The plot advances and does come together but it is a little choppy at first. I'd say episode 3 on it starts to become more followable and eventually makes sense in the end. I wasn't a fan of the memory thing but I don't know how else they would portray it either so I have no solution for that.
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Yeah, I enjoyed the whole series but it definitely was a bit confusing early. Maybe that was on purpose because at that point he didn’t know what was real. It picked up after that got settled a bit more.

 
moleculo said:
Anyone mention Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)? Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez, solving a mystery, podcast style.  A classic, entertaining whodunit.
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krista4 said:
Loved the first season!  Just loved it.  But I'm a huge Steve Martin fan, and Martin Short was absolutely brilliant.  Not watching the new season yet since, other than Better Call Saul, I won't watch a show until it's over.
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All in on this. Started it a few weeks ago after some friends from work recommended it and just got caught up. So far season 2 is just as promising as the first one. 

 
I was disappointed in the first episode of The Rehearsal. Not that it wasn’t good, but the bar is so high after Nathan for You and How To With John Wilson.

 
While I'm enjoying The Bear it does seem like a lot of chaos for a place that seems to just serve Italian Beef sandwiches.

And couldn't they outsource the bread? 

 
I Am Not Okay With This is a hidden gem buried on Netflix (debuted in 2020 and canceled under Covid) that is worth checking out if you missed it originally. Teen dark comedy with some mysticism and horror elements. Easily consumed in a weekend...I'm on my 4th watch, and I bought the comic book it is based on. 

 
Our Father was the darkest horror movie I've seen in awhile and there was almost no blood.

Good God. When that final number came up on the screen....

 
Watched E2 of Terminal List.  It was good.  I hear things start to get confusing, though.  About to hop on a plane and will watch E3 on the way home.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
Our Father was the darkest horror movie I've seen in awhile and there was almost no blood.

Good God. When that final number came up on the screen....
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The main daughter in the movie was annoying and it was hard to "root" for her.   I still think the only thing they can get him on would be fraud for the couples that thought they were getting the husbands sample.  Many of the others were just random and the sample wasn't specified on who it should be.  Just a very bizarre story.  

 
Gally said:
The main daughter in the movie was annoying and it was hard to "root" for her.   I still think the only thing they can get him on would be fraud for the couples that thought they were getting the husbands sample.  Many of the others were just random and the sample wasn't specified on who it should be.  Just a very bizarre story.  
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Past the statute of limitations for fraud.   

 
This week in KDrama binging 

Started watching Signal (on 8 of 16e)

Lead actress is a Kim Hye-soo (smoke show), 3-time winner of the Blue Dragon Film award in Best Actress category and picked up a few best actress in a tv series for her work here. As did the male lead, plus the writer. 2016 show, just came to Netflix in February. 16th highest tv ratings in South Korean history.

Premise is similar to the movie Frequency. Detective / profiler on a cold case squad is receiving transmission from a cop living 15, 20, 25 years ago. Unintended consequences (butterfly effect.)

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My Mister

Another older (2018) Kdrama series which is so worthwhile. Brilliant writing and character development. Kpop singer IU (Lee Ji-eun) crushed this role. You might recognize the male lead (Lee Ji-eun) from Parasite.

Same director as Signal. Same writer on both. Very high production quality on both.

 
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A few things I've been watching lately...

Caught up with the last season of Barry. Show keeps getting darker. I wonder how they are going to pull off another season given the current plot status.

Caught up on the last couple of episodes of Better Call Saul. Just a tremendous show. Ready for the concluding episodes and yet not. Will be a bit of bummer to say goodbye.

Making my way back over to Dark Winds and working on catching up after seeing the first episode a while back.

Oh yeah, also about half way thru Deadwood. Need to pick that one back up again after having taken a few days off. Such a great show.

 
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Joe Mammy said:
The Gray Man" is released on Netflix.
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Saw it, yaaaaaaawn.

It was made for 12-year-old boys with ADD who absolutely need AWESOME COOL NEATO kills every two seconds.  Another ridiculous CGI one-guy-kills-everyone bubblegum flick. 

The market is saturated with mindless/plotless/zilch character intravenous pumping of absolutely nothingness. 

I wouldn't even care to complain but they are dominating releases and it is making me hate studios who put enormous budgets on crap like this movie.  

 
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The Bear is just nonstop white men shrieking.

Black Bird is excellent.  Bang up acting all around.

Coincidentally, each show features a former Talk Soup host 

 
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Bracie Smathers said:
Saw it, yaaaaaaawn.
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I tend to agree. I'd been anticipating this flick for like 18 months. I've read all the Greaney Gray Man novels including the newest one "Sierra Six" which was an excellent book and I'm a big fan of the pulp.

It's like they boiled down all the books, threw in the Bourne Identity original story- best killer vs best killer and then made it into a flash bang blow up alot of stuff, toss in some chase scenes, travel the world announcing each exotic destination and then a final duke out.

Yawn is right.

 
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Capella said:
The Rehearsal is the most insane thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Oh my God. 
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Watched the first episode and some of the second today. WTF. Is it always going to be, how do I say it, flawed people on the show? I mean the end of the first episode was jacked up. I mean, the whole thing he was afraid of couldn’t have gone any better in part because he did do well. Sorry, but if somehow you didn’t realize that a construction worker randomly telling you about the tallest building (two times) or the cop didn’t seem odd to you, that’s life.

Funny that he’s so hurt about subliminally getting answers ruining his trivia reputation but doesn’t have any care in the world that he completely manipulated his trivia friend (she’ll watch this show too) who he thought might get violent. Yep, I’m sure the first thing on her mind will be that you learned things on a walk and not that you told the world that she has anger issues and that the show made multiple mentions that she doesn’t shut the hell up.

 
stbugs said:
Watched the first episode and some of the second today. WTF. Is it always going to be, how do I say it, flawed people on the show? I mean the end of the first episode was jacked up. I mean, the whole thing he was afraid of couldn’t have gone any better in part because he did do well. Sorry, but if somehow you didn’t realize that a construction worker randomly telling you about the tallest building (two times) or the cop didn’t seem odd to you, that’s life.

Funny that he’s so hurt about subliminally getting answers ruining his trivia reputation but doesn’t have any care in the world that he completely manipulated his trivia friend (she’ll watch this show too) who he thought might get violent. Yep, I’m sure the first thing on her mind will be that you learned things on a walk and not that you told the world that she has anger issues and that the show made multiple mentions that she doesn’t shut the hell up.
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You might want to rewatch the ending to make sure you know what was real and what was a rehearsal. 

 
stbugs said:
Huh? When the guy went off after being told he was fed answers, that was not a rehearsal.
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Check again. Nathan says he has something to admit (real) then his worst case rehearsal plays with the actor going off...then back to reality where Nathan doesn't admit feeding him answers. He says I think you're a great guy instead. 

 
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Spring (Tubi - free) is a romance movie set in Italy, but this movie poster hints at the rest of the movie.  It wasn't what I expected (typical werewolf or vampire movie), but was better.  I thought this was really good.  The info dump near the end was different than what I was expecting, and I wonder if it could support a deeper dive, like sequels or a Netflix show.

 
ignatiusjreilly said:
Just finished the first season of Mr. Inbetween. I liked it -- the main guy is a really interesting character, and the daughter is great, too -- although not much actually happens. Does that change in subsequent seasons or is it just kind of a vibe show?

BTW, at various points I had to turn on subtitles because I couldn't understand the accents. 
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Finally finished all three seasons of Mr. Inbetween. I thought it was good, not amazing. More stuff does happen in the final two seasons, and I thought it achieves a satisfying character arc by the end.

I wouldn't say that everyone needs to run out and watch it, but if you're looking for something, especially if you like shows set in the criminal underworld, I think you'll enjoy it. Also, the 30-min runtime makes it easy to knock off an episode or two whenever you have some spare time. 

 
ignatiusjreilly said:
Finally finished all three seasons of Mr. Inbetween. I thought it was good, not amazing. More stuff does happen in the final two seasons, and I thought it achieves a satisfying character arc by the end.

I wouldn't say that everyone needs to run out and watch it, but if you're looking for something, especially if you like shows set in the criminal underworld, I think you'll enjoy it. Also, the 30-min runtime makes it easy to knock off an episode or two whenever you have some spare time. 
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Thought it was pretty good, would assess similarly in that it’s definitely worth a watch as long as youre ok with something that is a slow burn…but not in my top 5 either.

 
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Tick said:
Spring (Tubi - free) is a romance movie set in Italy, but this movie poster hints at the rest of the movie.  It wasn't what I expected (typical werewolf or vampire movie), but was better.  I thought this was really good.  The info dump near the end was different than what I was expecting, and I wonder if it could support a deeper dive, like sequels or a Netflix show.
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keep posting the movie you watch , i slowly but eventually get to them and enjoy many of the ones you mention

 
Haven't seen any discussion of "Only Murders in the Building" here, but after watching a different series on Hulu, I feel like I've seen a million ads for it. Is it any good? I've always been a huge fan of both Steven Martin and Martin Short, so I'm inclined to give it a try

 
Finished the 3rd Season of The Umbrella Academy about 2 weeks ago. Interesting plot twist in season 3 setting up a very interesting Season 4. Tom Hopper who was Billy Bones in Black Sails is a main character in this and does a great job. 

 
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Geez the Old Man got a little too tied up in its backstory and didn’t really develop any other further story after about the second episode. It was still good but certainly not great, like a B-. Guess they had to scramble to piece it together when Jeff Bridges almost died so it makes sense why it came unglued a bit. 

 
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