Netflix Recommendations 2.0 READ FIRST POST

batgoat · 28-04-2019 07:12PM

alchemist33 wrote: »

Any recommendations for sports documentaries? I've watched Sunderland Til I Die (excellent) and most of season 1 of QB1 (hit and miss) so far. This is for when the wife is working nights and I can indulge in something she won't enjoy! (No sniggering at the back)

Would recommend Valley Uprising, it's not a traditional sports documentary. Basically about all the people who have climbed Yosemite and how ridiculous awesome and mad they are.

Tom Mann Centuria · 28-04-2019 07:48PM

alchemist33 wrote: »

Any recommendations for sports documentaries? I've watched Sunderland Til I Die (excellent) and most of season 1 of QB1 (hit and miss) so far. This is for when the wife is working nights and I can indulge in something she won't enjoy! (No sniggering at the back)

The Battered Bast*rds of Baseball is good, about Kurt Russell's dad owning a baseball team where they gave a lot of iffy players/characters a second chance.

BoardsMember · 28-04-2019 08:26PM

Watched one episode of Bonding. Hard to believe it is possible to make something so bad. Literally no hook, no reason to watch another episode, crap acting, dialogue, storyline, just empty, truly awful sh1te.

mytime · 28-04-2019 08:26PM

alchemist33 wrote: »

Any recommendations for sports documentaries? I've watched Sunderland Til I Die (excellent) and most of season 1 of QB1 (hit and miss) so far. This is for when the wife is working nights and I can indulge in something she won't enjoy! (No sniggering at the back)

Formula 1 drive to survive is fantastic. Great insight into the sport.

BoardsMember · 28-04-2019 08:30PM

Watched After Life. Really quite enjoyed it, some really nice scenes, gentle, sensitive, heartwarming storyline.

Finished sex education, another one I would really recommend, hope they make another series as it's very watchable.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 28-04-2019 08:37PM

BoardsMember wrote: »

Finished sex education, another one I would really recommend, hope they make another series as it's very watchable.

They've already confirmed a second series of Sex Education.

Earthhorse · 28-04-2019 09:22PM

km79 wrote: »

Third person to say the ending is poor
Thanks for that
Life is too short to watch something so long that will end poorly

So long? It’s six episodes! Didn’t think the ending was as bad as others here but it’s certainly a show that started stronger than it finished.

Have been watching Line of Duty this week myself. It’s good but the sound mix IS REALLY OFF IN MANY SCENES SO YOU CAN’T ACTUALLY HEAR WHAT THE CHARACTERS ARE SAYING. I find this trend in a lot of new shows if I’m honest and have no idea why it’s popular.

ShadyAcres · 28-04-2019 09:27PM

alchemist33 wrote: »

Any recommendations for sports documentaries? I've watched Sunderland Til I Die (excellent) and most of season 1 of QB1 (hit and miss) so far. This is for when the wife is working nights and I can indulge in something she won't enjoy! (No sniggering at the back)

Check out 'The Dawn Wall'.

Synode · 28-04-2019 09:44PM

Earthhorse wrote: »

So long? It’s six episodes! Didn’t think the ending was as bad as others here but it’s certainly a show that started stronger than it finished.

Have been watching Line of Duty this week myself. It’s good but the sound mix IS REALLY OFF IN MANY SCENES SO YOU CAN’T ACTUALLY HEAR WHAT THE CHARACTERS ARE SAYING. I find this trend in a lot of new shows if I’m honest and have no idea why it’s popular.

I've found that with a good few shows lately where they have the music way too loud. Turning the audio to English (original) rather than 5.1 has helped sometimes. You have to do it every time though instead of setting it globally, which is annoying.

madmax72 · 29-04-2019 12:40AM

alchemist33 wrote: »

Any recommendations for sports documentaries? I've watched Sunderland Til I Die (excellent) and most of season 1 of QB1 (hit and miss) so far. This is for when the wife is working nights and I can indulge in something she won't enjoy! (No sniggering at the back)

There is a Bobby Robson documentary. It's very good. Great manager

Autecher · 29-04-2019 07:59AM

Basq wrote: »

'I Think You Should Leave' is a solid enough, often dark, sketch show. Easy 6 episode watch at under 20 minutes a piece.

I finished this yesterday, it's hit and miss as all sketch shows are but I belly laughed at least once per episode which is good enough for me. I hope there is another season.

Slattsy · 29-04-2019 09:02AM

Its not just the end of The Bodyguard that's poor. What a terrible series.

neris · 29-04-2019 09:14AM

alchemist33 wrote: »

Any recommendations for sports documentaries? I've watched Sunderland Til I Die (excellent) and most of season 1 of QB1 (hit and miss) so far. This is for when the wife is working nights and I can indulge in something she won't enjoy! (No sniggering at the back)

Sport & comedy in 1 is Sunderland Till I Die

Gloomtastic! · 29-04-2019 01:53PM

Slattsy wrote: »

Its not just the end of The Bodyguard that's poor. What a terrible series.

Thought it was pretty good up till the last episode myself! :rolleyes:

tigger123 · 29-04-2019 02:12PM

neris wrote: »

Sport & comedy in 1 is Sunderland Till I Die

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Tim76 · 30-04-2019 07:25AM

Slattsy wrote: »

Its not just the end of The Bodyguard that's poor. What a terrible series.

Agreed. I thought Richard Madden's acting was terrible and the rest of the cast weren't much better. Very wooden performances all round

Autecher · 30-04-2019 10:50AM

The new Anthony Jeselnik special was added today. He's always good for a laugh even if I think he's better in small doses.

30-04-2019 11:09AM

Really enjoying quicksand. Two left to watch, hope it ends well

CrankyHaus · 30-04-2019 11:31AM

Slattsy wrote: »

Its not just the end of The Bodyguard that's poor. What a terrible series.

Yeah I wasn't bothered finishing the first episode.

It was like a parody of BBC Sunday evening telly: turgid wine-coma melodrama with MOR titillation for the middle-aged female libido. I'm sure a bare-chested crossover with Poldark is in the works.

spacecoyote · 30-04-2019 12:07PM

alchemist33 wrote: »

Any recommendations for sports documentaries? I've watched Sunderland Til I Die (excellent) and most of season 1 of QB1 (hit and miss) so far. This is for when the wife is working nights and I can indulge in something she won't enjoy! (No sniggering at the back)

Not sure if it's still on Netflix or not, but there's a great doc called The Short Game.

It's about young golfers & some (very) pushy parents. It's a really good watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKW3vldhw0

somesoldiers · 30-04-2019 07:46PM

somesoldiers wrote: »

Anyone watch Resurrection Ertegrul, had started downloading before I noticed there are about 150 episodes @ 40 mins +. 7.6 rating on IMDb though

8 episodes into this and I’m really enjoying it, read somewhere it was theTurkish Game of Thrones, not quite up there but good enough, let’s see if I last, only 68 more episodes to go in season 1...

Mantis Toboggan · 30-04-2019 08:41PM

spacecoyote wrote: »

Not sure if it's still on Netflix or not, but there's a great doc called The Short Game.

It's about young golfers & some (very) pushy parents. It's a really good watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKW3vldhw0

Yep it's on Netflix must give it a watch.

Edit: excellent documentary.

alchemist33 · 30-04-2019 08:43PM

Thanks for all the sports doc recommendations folks.

Mantis Toboggan · 30-04-2019 08:44PM

spacecoyote wrote: »

Not sure if it's still on Netflix or not, but there's a great doc called The Short Game.

It's about young golfers & some (very) pushy parents. It's a really good watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKW3vldhw0

Yep it's on Netflix must give it a watch.

Fysh · 30-04-2019 08:50PM

Just finished watching The Wandering Earth, and enjoyed it rather a lot. It's a visually spectacular disaster movie, sort of like a mix of Sunshine, Gravity, The Day After Tomorrow and Armageddon - but one that demands to be seen on the biggest screen you've got because you can see every penny that's been spent on it. The plot is at various points dumb as a box of rocks (as you might expect given some of the comparisons I've made) but it's entertainingly dumb and there are some breathtaking visual moments.

30-04-2019 08:51PM

Kai Mango Transition wrote: »

Really enjoying quicksand. Two left to watch, hope it ends well

Would recommend..6 episodes....gripping till the very end

Franz Von Peppercorn · 30-04-2019 08:53PM

Slattsy wrote: »

Its not just the end of The Bodyguard that's poor. What a terrible series.

Ah no it is, Ted. First few episodes were fine.

inforfun · 01-05-2019 06:56AM

Bodyguard took a tumble when

Julia Montegue was killed (episode 4?).

in my humble opinion.

But that the entire series was award winning quality if i compare it to Baptiste which i watched after Bodyguard.
That is not on netflix but if it ever gets there... avoid.

Tom Mann Centuria · 01-05-2019 11:45AM

Autecher wrote: »

I finished this yesterday, it's hit and miss as all sketch shows are but I belly laughed at least once per episode which is good enough for me. I hope there is another season.

(I think you should leave)

Yeah, I agree. I think some of the sketches were also overlong but there was normally at least one very funny sketch each episode.

Drumpot · 01-05-2019 04:39PM

Fysh wrote: »

Just finished watching The Wandering Earth, and enjoyed it rather a lot. It's a visually spectacular disaster movie, sort of like a mix of Sunshine, Gravity, The Day After Tomorrow and Armageddon - but one that demands to be seen on the biggest screen you've got because you can see every penny that's been spent on it. The plot is at various points dumb as a box of rocks (as you might expect given some of the comparisons I've made) but it's entertainingly dumb and there are some breathtaking visual moments.

Has it got English language option? If it’s Armageddon (that’s truly one of my favourite guilty pleasures) then I’d rather be able to enjoy the spectacle then miss bits reading subtitles!

Netflix Recommendations 2.0 *READ FIRST POST*

Comments

Netflix Recommendations 2.0 READ FIRST POST