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sweetie · 04-12-2018 12:17PM

Watched 'February' / 'the blackcoat's daughter' last night by Oz Perkins. Eerie, slowburn horror with great performances from the three leads, especially Kiernan Shilpa and Emma Roberts.

SusieBlue · 04-12-2018 02:15PM

Hurrache wrote: »

Have you watched Vikings, if so, how does it compare? I never heard of it before until it started appearing in my recommendations list, possibly because I added Norsemen to my list.

Very late reply here sorry, I haven't seen Vikings so I can't compare.

But I'm now on Season 3 of this and I'm absolutely addicted to it, I'm surprised it doesn't get more love here!
I get serious Game of Thrones vibes from it, but I actually think The Last Kingdom is superior.
And I say that as a diehard GoT fan :pac:
You should give it a watch, you won't be disappointed!

04-12-2018 06:48PM

So I got a netflix trial today thinking El Marginal and Anime Nere were on there, but I guess they have been taken off.

Any decent foreign series to recommend? Ive seen the usual suspects such as narcos, suburrah and gomorrah

ixoy · 04-12-2018 07:23PM

Deleted User wrote: »

So I got a netflix trial today thinking El Marginal and Anime Nere were on there, but I guess they have been taken off.

El Marginal is there...

Any decent foreign series to recommend? Ive seen the usual suspects such as narcos, suburrah and gomorrah

I enjoyed 'Fauda' and 'Dark' recently, both being very different shows.

crustybla · 04-12-2018 07:23PM

Deleted User wrote: »

So I got a netflix trial today thinking El Marginal and Anime Nere were on there, but I guess they have been taken off.

Any decent foreign series to recommend? Ive seen the usual suspects such as narcos, suburrah and gomorrah

El Marginal is still on it, season 1 and 2. Has anyone seen season 2? What's it like? Really enjoyed season 1.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 04-12-2018 09:01PM

Just finished watching Happy Valley starring Sarah Lancaster of Corrie fame. She plays a Police woman and a granmother who is out to exact revenge on the man that raped her daughter.Her daughter comittes suicide and Lancaster has to bring up the young boy conceived after the rape. There is another major storyline but I don't want to spoil it for those of you who are going to watch it. I really enjoyed it and I would definitely recommend it. It's a BBC production and has two series of which has six episodes. Sarah Lancaster was excellent in her role as a police woman. I would give it eight out of ten for the storyline and the acting.I don't know how long it has been up but both series 1&2 are up.

fin12 · 04-12-2018 10:40PM

The Last Kingdom is one of the best shows ever. I know it’s quite different but it does remind me of Spartacus which I absolutely loved aswell. The opening and theme tune are very similar.

Knine · 04-12-2018 11:29PM

Wolf Creek is not for the Faint Hearted :eek:

05-12-2018 07:17AM

ixoy wrote: »

El Marginal is there...

I enjoyed 'Fauda' and 'Dark' recently, both being very different shows.

When I search for El Marginal, nothing comes up. I signed up from a location in Greece, Im guessing that's the issue? Don't see any way to change it in the settings.

Edit: spoke to customer service. Netflix Greece is not fun at all.

inforfun · 05-12-2018 08:32AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Any decent foreign series to recommend? Ive seen the usual suspects such as narcos, suburrah and gomorrah

La Mante and La Foret

Ciaran_B · 05-12-2018 10:44AM

Deleted User wrote: »

So I got a netflix trial today thinking El Marginal and Anime Nere were on there, but I guess they have been taken off.

Any decent foreign series to recommend? Ive seen the usual suspects such as narcos, suburrah and gomorrah

There's a Spanish show called Money Heist. It's trash but good fun. I watched it when we were all snowed in earlier this year.

Mr Crispy · 05-12-2018 10:46AM

inforfun wrote: »

La Mante and La Foret

Thanks - had had La Mante recommended to me before, but I forgot about it completely! I'll get stuck into that after my exams.

05-12-2018 12:04PM

Thanks folks, my trial won't be wasted!

Xaniaj · 05-12-2018 12:16PM

Deleted User wrote: »

When I search for El Marginal, nothing comes up. I signed up from a location in Greece, Im guessing that's the issue? Don't see any way to change it in the settings.

Edit: spoke to customer service. Netflix Greece is not fun at all.

The contents depends on your current location so signing up in Greece shouldn't matter, unless you happen to still be in Greece of course!

There's no changing location etc, Netflix will default to your current country's content.

Uncharted · 05-12-2018 01:20PM

ixoy wrote: »

El Marginal is there...

I enjoyed 'Fauda' and 'Dark' recently, both being very different shows.

Dark is excellent. Real hidden gem. Series 2 is due to land August 2019 afaik. Can't wait.

wadacrack · 05-12-2018 03:29PM

Deleted User wrote: »

When I search for El Marginal, nothing comes up. I signed up from a location in Greece, Im guessing that's the issue? Don't see any way to change it in the settings.

Edit: spoke to customer service. Netflix Greece is not fun at all.

Cocaine Coast is very good, essentially the Spanish version of Narcos

Luff123 · 05-12-2018 04:11PM

November 13. It's a 3 episode series about the terror attacks in Paris. Really sad, but interesting

Synode · 05-12-2018 04:22PM

Xaniaj wrote: »

The contents depends on your current location so signing up in Greece shouldn't matter, unless you happen to still be in Greece of course!

There's no changing location etc, Netflix will default to your current country's content.

Thought they changed that recently so that you access your home country's content no matter where you are

Pelvis · 05-12-2018 04:23PM

Ronnie Coleman: The King is a good documentary I though.

05-12-2018 05:23PM

Synode wrote: »

Thought they changed that recently so that you access your home country's content no matter where you are

Negative. You can only get what’s what at your physical location according to their staff today. Makes sense thinking about distribution rights etc

dulux99 · 05-12-2018 06:06PM

This thread seems to recommend a lot of new additions, which is great but I'm going to recommend something I watched about two years ago and watched again recently : A Most Violent Year

In 1981 New York, a fuel supplier (Oscar Isaac) tries to adhere to his own moral compass amid the rampant violence, corruption and decay that threaten his family and his business.

Bit of a slow burner but a very unique type of film I felt, great acting from Oscar Isaac who's one of my favourites these days. Not too long at just over 2 hours. Really good stuff, even after watching the second time it still had a lot of rewatch ability.

peteeeed · 05-12-2018 07:23PM

dulux99 wrote: »

This thread seems to recommend a lot of new additions, which is great but I'm going to recommend something I watched about two years ago and watched again recently : A Most Violent Year

In 1981 New York, a fuel supplier (Oscar Isaac) tries to adhere to his own moral compass amid the rampant violence, corruption and decay that threaten his family and his business.

Bit of a slow burner but a very unique type of film I felt, great acting from Oscar Isaac who's one of my favourites these days. Not too long at just over 2 hours. Really good stuff, even after watching the second time it still had a lot of rewatch ability.

Good call

Synode · 05-12-2018 11:12PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Negative. You can only get what’s what at your physical location according to their staff today. Makes sense thinking about distribution rights etc

https://www.thejournal.ie/eu-streaming-rules-3111009-Nov2016/

This link suggests it came into law earlier this year

https://www.cullen-international.com/events/conferences/2018/03/New-rules-on-cross-border-portability-of-online-services-enter-into-application--ready--get-set--go--.html

ixoy · 05-12-2018 11:38PM

Synode wrote: »

https://www.thejournal.ie/eu-streaming-rules-3111009-Nov2016/

This link suggests it came into law earlier this year

https://www.cullen-international.com/events/conferences/2018/03/New-rules-on-cross-border-portability-of-online-services-enter-into-application--ready--get-set--go--.html

It's a little more complex though. So sure if you signed up in Ireland, whilst living there, you have the Irish catalogue. Then if you went on holidays around Europe, you'd still have the Irish catalogue. But if you stay in a country for a while, you end up with their catalogue. It's only designed to let you see your home content when travelling - you're not entitled to it permanently if you move.

From their own help page:

For countries within the European Union, we provide the same content as your home country for a limited period of time. We'll let you know when the limited period is over, and you'll have access to the TV shows and movies for the country you are travelling to. When this happens, we’ll be sure to let you know.

I think the time is a few weeks at most.

peteeeed · 06-12-2018 08:30AM

a million ways to die in the west
riddick
added today

marketty · 06-12-2018 08:42AM

ixoy wrote:

It's a little more complex though. So sure if you signed up in Ireland, whilst living there, you have the Irish catalogue. Then if you went on holidays around Europe, you'd still have the Irish catalogue. But if you stay in a country for a while, you end up with their catalogue. It's only designed to let you see your home content when travelling - you're not entitled to it permanently if you move.

Can't understand how in this day and age the EU isn't just all one market for this stuff. We'd be a bigger market than the US then and surely get all the content without this VPN carry-on

Hurrache · 06-12-2018 09:35AM

marketty wrote: »

Can't understand how in this day and age the EU isn't just all one market for this stuff. We'd be a bigger market than the US then and surely get all the content without this VPN carry-on

It's simply because of licensing. We don't have a single broadcaster in the EU so there's loads of individual agreements with different European stations with content producers who will want to maximise the revenue stream of their product.

kirk buttercup · 06-12-2018 09:57AM

peteeeed wrote: »

a million ways to die in the west
riddick
added today

love the Moustache song

mooseknunkle · 06-12-2018 01:44PM

Crazy to think Netflix paid $100 million to keep Friends for a year!,who knew it was still that popular..

sweetie · 06-12-2018 02:55PM

mooseknunkle wrote:

Crazy to think Netflix paid $100 million to keep Friends for a year!,who knew it was still that popular..

I know, right!

Watched the excellent 'Cargo' last night; an aussie 'zombie' flick with a great performance by Martin Freeman

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