Netflix Recommendations 2.0 *READ FIRST POST*

Anyone tempted to start Typewriter after that article about people being unable to sleep after it, don't bother. There isn't one genuinely scary moment in the whole thing.

Taiga wrote: »

Is it worth watching the last season of OITNB before the current one? I gave up on it but wouldn't mind getting back into it as the reviews of the new one are better.

Now do as you please, but from my experience, I watched the first 2 seasons of OITNB and enjoyed them. For whatever reason I just didn't get back to it. Then last year I watched season 6 and really enjoyed it. Then decided to watch season 5, of which season 6 was dealing with the consequences of. Then after enjoying that season, I watched 3 and 4.

tl;dr... You don't need to watch previous seasons but there enjoyable. If you can I recommend going back and re-watching them anyway. In sequential order if possible. It one of the better tv shows currently broadcasting.

Ethereal Cereal wrote: »

Now do as you please, but from my experience, I watched the first 2 seasons of OITNB and enjoyed them. For whatever reason I just didn't get back to it. Then last year I watched season 6 and really enjoyed it. Then decided to watch season 5, of which season 6 was dealing with the consequences of. Then after enjoying that season, I watched 3 and 4.

tl;dr... You don't need to watch previous seasons but there enjoyable. If you can I recommend going back and re-watching them anyway. In sequential order if possible. It one of the better tv shows currently broadcasting.

Halfway through new season
It’s excellent and pretty emotional!
I won’t say anymore in case I spoil it

Ask the StoryBots season 3
Five inquisitive little creatures track down the answers to kids' biggest questions, like how night happens or why we need to brush our teeth.

Basketball or Nothing season 1
Follow the Chinle High basketball team in Arizona's Navajo Nation on a quest to win a state championship and bring pride to their isolated community.


Creed

Dear White People Season 3
Students of color navigate the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as "post-racial" as it thinks.

Don't Knock Twice

Léa & I
Best friends L�a and Camille explore the notion of healing while traveling to Latin America in search of a cure for a terminal disease.

Otherhood
Feeling forgotten on Mother's Day, three best friends leave the suburbs and drive to New York City to surprise their adult sons.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power season 3

added today

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1157065336039997441?s=20

Money Heist season 3.

Boom_Bap wrote: »

To be fair, Netflix are pushing that show hard and making it the featured show when everyone logs in.

Its not the worst show ever though, Its trying so hard to be cool, that its kinda hard to not just go with it. :pac:

Everything these days seems to be season 3 , season 4 ,season 7 ! Etc, gets fairly boring I think. Ruin a lot of stuff.

I AM A KILLER
Death row inmates convicted of capital murder give a firsthand account of their crimes in this documentary

Misfit
After living in America for years, a teenage girl moves back to the Netherlands and is quickly singled out as a misfit by the popular clique at school

Added today

No One Will Ever Know (Nadie sabrá nunca)
A mother and young son escape into their own imaginations to ignore the reality of their lives in rural Mexico

Added today

Drumpot wrote: »

Watched the great hack, very well made documentary. Frightening what goes on and we don’t really care about how we are manipulated!!!

The Netflix blurb says: "Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election".

Its title is a bit of a misnomer; it's not about hacking. It's about how our online activity being monitored seems harmless, and hence why we allow it for the convenience social media apps allow, but where its sale to companies like Cambridge Analytics can actually help to undermine democracy and the fabric of society through the monetization of this data. It sounds hyperbolic, bollix even, but Big Data is there to be bought, and used against us. The take-home message is that we empower these companies. The question is : Do we have the resolve to over-ride our desire for convenience?
The program is over 2 hrs long, and while it seems a little disjointed at times, it's quite informative and thought-provoking.

Mellor wrote: »

People are constantly concerned about hackers steal random tidbits of info online. Then Cambridge Analytica have all this info they were using without out most people's knowledge. They aren't claiming it was via hacking, it's highlight the analogous end result.

The information isn't stolen, so it's not hacking. The point is that people freely give the information over (of their online activity, and preferences), by ticking their agreement to terms and conditions, and thereby allowing data mining (so not hacking- it's abuse of consent). The likes of Facebook etc breach even that, and allow access to other people's data. I think it is a deliberate misnomer on the part of the producer's though, because it mirrors how social media misdirects it's users. Perhaps that's what you meant by analogous.

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Is it any good?

Eight episodes in, I'm enjoying it. Has a bit of a 24 vibe about it, in that, the entire series seems to take place over a very short period of time.

A few weird plot holes though.