Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

I wasn't a fan of 'The Harder They Fall', all a bit on the nose. Overly stylistic(in parts) with a cliched storyline, one dimensional characters and 45 minutes longer than it needs to be. I'd still be interested to see what the director Jeymes Samuel does next

Watched Red Notice and like a lot of the big budget movies Netflix has put out recently its a bit of mindless fun

The new Netflix short series "Unlikely Murderer" is very well made with an excellent cast and beautiful design (Sweden in the 1980s) but I am not convinced that it solves the mystery of the Palme murder.

It's reminiscent of those documentaries about Sophie Toscan du Plantier (incompetent investigation, media-hungry suspect) but the cases are quite different. Palme was shot in front of his wife and a dozen witnesses on one of Stockholm's main streets. It is possible that he was killed by a lone gunman with no special links to Palme but, as the Prime Minister and a leading international figure e.g. in the anti-apartheid movement, Palme had many political enemies, including some with murky motives and a history of assassinations. A lone gunman would be much more convenient than the many conspiracy theories that have developed about this murder, including by Stieg Larrson, the author of the "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" trilogy. A drug addict, Christer Petterson, was convicted on flimsy ID evidence and, even after that conviction was quashed, many Swedes believed he was the murderer.

A series well worth watching but suspend judgement on the murder. I can't recall a less sympathetic central character. Even Hannibal Lector had a charming side.

Not the first time I've seen this assessment and probably accurate for people who mostly stick to heavily promoted works.

Imdb is the better resource ratings are compiled by the users, looking at Red Notice a current score of 6.6 after 20k submissions that's a better than I'd have predicted score tbh.

A lot of stuff on RT particularly older titles doesn't have enough people be it critics or audience scoring them to be worthwhile noting.

When it comes to 20 Critics say rating a movie to get a percentage then maybe the 25k audience rating sure know best but if say 300 critics are instead swinging one way on something I mean you could likely chalk that down as best opinion, now when it comes to TV shows just ignore RT altogether.

The thing with Red Notice is you know what you kind of know what you are going to get, a base of cast immediately endearing to major audiences before play has been pressed, references to other movies of its type, throw in a bit of action see how they get on. Nothing wrong with that these are ten a penny for a reason but an offset of that is that won't have critics banging down doors to give it top marks when they've likely seen it packaged differently those thousand times already.

I love the first season of Mexico, much more than any of the Colombian seasons. Sadly, it declined through the seasons, with the last being the weakest.

El Chapo is a seriously underrated series. Most people seem to grade it slightly above average, but for me it was at least very good, sitting on the border of being great. With each new season I expected a decline in quality due to how good the previous was, yet it never happened. I'd personally highly recommend it.

Re: Dark

I watched it when all 3 seasons were out, so was able to watch it for start to finish without interruption. An episode or two each night.

Seasons 1 and 2 were very good, clever, and kept me interested.

Season 3 for me was a mess. Totally over complicated and I struggled to finish it as I couldn't understand half of what was going on. Shame as it ruined it's overall score for me. Stopped it being in the top tier of boxsets.

Passing was disappointing I thought. Stylish with an interesting premise but just lacks substance. Negga and Thompson drag it from mediocre to watchable.

Cowboy Bebop is getting a hammering off a lot of reviewers

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/cowboy_bebop_2021/s01/reviews

We've had various <insert country name> days. Today is DTV sequel day with Hard Target 2, ID2 and Jarhead 3. Is it a coincidence they're all 2016? I might check out ID2 as I liked the original so will see how it goes. "F**king love you, Gumbo"

https://twitter.com/NewOnNetflixUK/status/1460669538689822727?s=20

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Tear Along the Dotted Line (2021) Season 1 (Italian) - A cartoonist in Rome with his armadillo-for-a-conscience reflects on his path in life and a would-be love as he and his friends travel outside the city

Bizarre ER (2017) Season 1 - Take an inside glimpse into the most unusual emergency room situations, from a pencil stuck in a lung to a man who fell into a cement mixer

THE FABLE (2019) (Japanese) - An elite gun-for-hire is forced to lay low and not kill anyone for a year, but underworld figures start to threaten his newly calm and quiet life

THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill (2021) (Japanese) - While trying to live a normal life, a deadly assassin must somehow protect a young woman and confront a man bent on revenge -- without killing anyone

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Keeping Up with the Kardashians Season 4

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