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Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,420 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Was probably due to leave and renewed or it did leave and come back. Both will show it as a new add it seems.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,414 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    Disgraced Irish-American lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been found guilty of murdering his wife and son on his estate in South Carolina in June 2021.

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    out march 29th

    Emergency: NYC




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,573 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Cheat : quiz show hosted by Danny dyer and Ellie Taylor. The interesting concept makes it an interesting watch.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,408 ✭✭✭McGrath5


    Fall is worth a watch, the premise is a bit ridiculous but it's entertaining once it gets going.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Delta2113


    Chris Rock: Selective Outrage - pretty good and worth a watch.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭Terrier2023


    Chris Rock selective outrage was a grand 60 mins of comedy while eating your sandwich but no spit out your tea moment !, He has lost his edge & rawness, wealth fame & riches takes the razor out of comedy !



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,364 ✭✭✭jj880


    Just finished it. Really enjoyed it. Top true crime. Also liked the way Netflix finished it off just before the credits.

    Jeeeziz. Bit of a spoiler for anyone yet to watch the series.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,153 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Defo. His last few have been funny, but nothing as good as Never Scared. His last truly great outing.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    as mentioned above

    Chris Rock: Selective Outrage (2023) Chris Rock delivers an electric stand-up set on non-racist yoga pants, spoiling his kids, the Kardashians and his thoughts on the Will Smith fiasco.

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    mixed reviews so far

    https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2023/03/05/chris-rock-live-review-selective-outrage-netflix/11404363002/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,731 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    To be fair, it was all over the news.

    I was thinking it would make an excellent movie when reading about it and I knew very little before the verdict came out.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭cobham


    I thought his family background was Scottish?



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    He's had a team of writers working for him for many years now



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    MH370: The Plane That Disappeared (2023) 3 Episodes In 2014, a plane with 239 people aboard vanishes from all radar. This docuseries delves into one of our greatest modern mysteries: Flight MH370.

    Faraway (2023) After inheriting a house on a Croatian island, a woman embarks on a spur-of-the-moment trip that reignites her joy in life and opens a door to new love.

    The Clovehitch Killer (2018) A teenager's picture-perfect family is torn apart when he uncovers unnerving evidence of a serial killer close to home..

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭Terrier2023


    it shows, nothing from his own soul unlike Hicks or Pryor proper comics !!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭Terrier2023


    3000 years of Longing is an interesting film . Idris Elba & Tilda Swinton i dont know where you can watch it as I streamed it.

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    I enjoyed this a fair bit as well, but it's not on Netflix (or any other streaming platform); looks like it's digital rental or purchase only for now...



  • Registered Users Posts: 303 ✭✭ltd440


    I'd just like to thank whoever recommended Community.

    Great show,with great talent behind it,Dan Harmon, Russo brothers and more household names.

    I don't know how it passed me by for so long but glad I caught up with it. It starts off as an ordinary enough sitcom with dislikable characters but gets more bizarre as the seasons go on,very enjoyable.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    We should be getting the long-promised movie this year. It was greenlit at Peacock I think but we'll see whether it actually happens and of course it remains to be seen if it will be worth the wait.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Supposedly it's to start filming this summer; I'm on the fence, Season 6 already felt like a show far past its natural climax. The show always being quite meta one'd guess this movie might play with the whole "Year Later, Getting the Gang Back Together" trope, but still.

    Wonder if Chevy could be persuaded to come back for a small cameo - even if he was hated by just about everyone.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    You: Season 4, Part 2  (2023) A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by....

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023) Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther (Idris Elba) decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary. The film co-stars Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis and Dermot Crowley, who returns as Martin Schenk.

    Outlast: Season 1 (2023) – In the extreme Alaskan wild, 16 survivalists compete for a chance to win a massive cash prize — but these lone wolves must be part of a team to win.

    Have a nice day! (2023) (Spanish) A retired radio host bags groceries to earn money to attend his former employer's anniversary party, where he hopes to reunite with the love of his life.

    Rana Naidu season 1 (2023) (Hindi) Rana Naidu is the go-to problem solver for the rich and famous. But when his father is released from jail, the one mess he can't handle may be his own...

    Zombieland (2009) Amid a zombie apocalypse, a cautious loner joins a Twinkie-obsessed daredevil and a cunning pair of sisters on a road trip from Texas to Los Angeles....

    Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) Amid family drama and flesh-eater battles, the zombie-slaying foursome returns, encountering more survivors and a new breed of the undead..

    Jolly Roger (2022) Karma, romance and corruption intersect after a chance encounter between an ordinary man and two crooked cops sets off a catastrophic chain of events..

    and lots more Nike fitness videos

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Welp; having had an account since 2012(!!), I've canceled Netflix. I've been on the fence of late, but it was only after chatting with my wife that we realised we really do watch nothing on the service anymore.

    When we stepped back and assessed what was available? The quality really has cratered, while the constant dump-cancel cycle of anything vaguely watchable, added with the higher price-point, means I'm finally done with it. Not worth €14.99 (when I joined it was only €6.99); not when Netflix are just throwing cash around like crazy people.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,364 ✭✭✭jj880


    We're on 4k plan split over 3 houses. When they stop password sharing that'll be it for us.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    I dropped to the lowest plan (before they introduced the ad-supported tier) a while back, and while it's SD-only (which should be an automatic toe-to-crotch intervention for every manager involved in approving that decision) the lower cost makes it palatable to keep for a while longer. But I must admit, where it was the film library I signed up for we're now at a point where it can be months between films arriving on Netflix I want to see (and even at that they're skewing more and more towards "I wouldn't mind watching it but I don't want to buy or rent it specifically", rather than anything particularly good). At the moment the only thing I know I want to watch on there is S2 of Alice in Borderland, though there might be a couple of other things.

    I feel like it's maybe 2-3 months of drought away from me cancelling it as well, and putting it into the "I'll subscribe for a month when I want to watch something in particular" tier, alongside Prime and Disney+...



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,872 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I still subscribe for family reasons (assuming password sharing doesn't stop that dead) even though I don't use it much myself anymore, but it's staggering to me that Netflix charges so much for the 4K tier when it comes as standard with the significantly cheaper Prime and Disney+ streaming options. There are lots of subscription services where 'premium' tiers feel like fairly negligible upgrades for enthusiasts or very different products / feature sets to the 'core' one, but Netflix really does scabbily hold back industry-standard features in a bid to tempt users to the next subscription tiers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,364 ✭✭✭jj880


    Looking forward to watching new Luther. There are some things worth watching but not often. Murdaughs was fascinating. Great true crime but sometimes quality randomly dips headfirst into the gutter. Watched MH370 The Plane That Disappeared last night. Found the pacing and flip flopping between grieving families and youtube conspiracy lunatics very jarring. Just didnt sit right at all.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I feel like it's maybe 2-3 months of drought away from me cancelling it as well, and putting it into the "I'll subscribe for a month when I want to watch something in particular" tier, alongside Prime and Disney+...

    Yeah that's basically how we'll approach it. It's no longer a resting subscription and we will jump back in if and when there's a decent clatter if items worth watching - then cancel when they're done. It's the smarter approach in the long run when the service has basically become such a chum bucket.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭Porthallian


    Was looking forward to watching World War Z but doesn't seem to be there. Anyone else having this issue?



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    For my sins I stuck on the Luther film and, well, my short review is "skip it, it's pish".

    The longer version is: the film appears to be almost entirely tropes lazily strung together, the premise for the villain could have been good but was both under-baked in terms of selling its believability and delivered in an OTT way (not the first time Luther has had this problem but definitely one of the worst moustache-twirling villains they've had overall). Then there's the various instances of idiot-ball required for the plot to not immediately halt, and the succession of people who fall over themselves to baldly tell us that while John might be, you know, a bent copper who was finally so bent that he got sent to jail for it, but he's still actually a good bloke really and we should totally ignore all the stuff we know he's done (a mere subset of which was enough to get him convicted for a multi-year sentence in a maximum security prison) because, for some reason largely relating to everyone else in the police force being utterly useless, he's the only one who can catch the villain. Oh, and such glorious internal consistency as "we immediately establish that pretty much everyone in the prison he's sent to - where for some reason he is in the general facility, not any kind of protective custody - wants to kill him and make this clear from the outset, but also he's been able to get someone to set him up with a phone within a day or so of arriving".

    Then you add in Netflix's happiness for any given production to go for baggy runtimes rather than prioritising pacing or effective storytelling and you end up with a mediocre-to-bad 90-minute film which is now stretched to 130 minutes.

    About the only actual positive thing I'll say for it is that I was pleasantly surprised that sexualised violence against women (which has been relied on far too often in the series) wasn't a significant aspect of the plot here. If you think that might be damning with faint grace, you'd be right.

    As a series, I would say that Luther managed 2 really good seasons at the start, a pretty good 3rd season, and the 4th & 5th seasons were a nosedive in quality. This continues that trajectory, and frankly if another film gets made I won't be watching it.

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Looks like it's not on Netflix - Justwatch says it's available to stream on Prime UK but not in Ireland, but the other options are all rentals or outright purchases.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭flasher0030


    Thats a shame. I had lined this up for tonights watch, as it generally got positive reviews. Might still give it a chance, if I dont come across something more interesting.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Having slept on it I'd say it likely depends on how you feel about the TV series overall - I really liked the first two seasons, but would stop there if I was rewatching the series. If you still got enough enjoyment out of the later series you might get more out of the film.

    On balance probably it's biggest problem is that the narrative overall feels like it was planned for a 4-episode season and just compressed into a film, without any significant refocusing or finessing to better suit a film.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭flasher0030


    Thanks. I never saw the series or never even heard of it. Anyway, I'll give the film a go tonight. I do like a serial killer crime movie.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Ah, in that case you may as well give it a go - if you like the characters and general feel of the thing, you've then got 5 seasons of the series waiting for you (though weirdly Netflix have missed a trick and let the rights to Luther go for the UK & Ireland, though if you've got access to BBC iPlayer I think it's still on there...)



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    I thought for the most part it was back to the old quality of Luther there was a lot to like and got engaged fast. But they aimed too high with this and fell short.

    Low budget James Bond style action brings an instant emotional disconnect



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    arrested development leaving netflix on 24th march



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,316 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    I enjoyed it and thought it was great to have Idris Elba back as Luther. So really hope that Netflix green light more Luther movies for me it's an 8/10



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    I was enjoying it until it got the final act in the house, the effects got very very poor and it got a bit silly, with the countdowns and it was all a bit too poor mans James bond as I said. There will definitely be another one going by the ending....but it looks like it's leaning in to Bond more than gritty grimy Luther which is the essence of his and the shows quality I believe.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,316 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    I hope it doesn't go the spy route, I'm hoping some special unit tracking down terrorists)Serial Killers which would be more to the Luther we are used to from the series.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    The problem with the ending of the film is that the dangling sequel-bait thread sets up a sloppy resolution to the central conflict in Luther's character that drove the series - namely, the high-minded desire to catch criminals vs his ever-accumulating set of debts and obligations which force him to break the law and become a bent copper.

    For example there's a bit in the 2nd series where

    Luther rescues a teenage girl from being forced into a porn shoot, and cuts a deal with the producers in which IIRC he threatens a witness in an upcoming trial to get him to withdraw his testimony in exchange for the girl's freedom.

    That sort of thing works when he's a cop who has to try and hide his dodgy dealings from his boss and colleagues, and contributes to the tension when he's trying to solve whatever case he's working on. But if you change that and have him just as a sort of Crap Batman on the Serial Killer Task Force or whatever, you get a fundamentally less interesting character and dynamic.

    Having said that, the film already feels a bit like an attempt at soft-rebooting the character from the above internal conflict to a lazier, more boring version of the "breaks rules but gets results" cop trope, particularly considering the way Season 5 wraps up:

    The relationship between Luther and Alice Morgan reaches its inevitable conclusion, they fight (after she murders a couple of Luther's colleagues) and then falls to her apparent death; all of his dodgy dealings and lies collapse and he is arrested for several murders.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    On a different note, I finally got around to watching No Nos Gusta Capitan Morcilla! (We Don't Like Captain Sausage!), a Spanish documentary about the 80s home computer game industry in Spain and the development of Capitan Morcilla - later renamed to Capitan Sevilla in Spain and released elsewhere in Europe as Captain S. If you have any memories of growing up playing ZX Spectrum, Amstrad or Commodore games it's a pretty interesting watch.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,135 ✭✭✭holly_johnson


    Delighted to see Naatu Naatu from RRR won best song at the Oscars. What a romp that musical scene was!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭flasher0030


    Ya, I really enjoyed it. I hadn't known anything about Luther before watching the film. It was really entertaining as a stand-alone movie.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Bert Kreischer: Razzle Dazzle (2023) Shameless -- and shirtless -- as ever, Bert spills on bodily emissions, being bullied by his kids and the explosive end to his family's escape room outing..

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    sweet tooth season 2 airs april 27th



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Money Shot: The Pornhub Story (2023) Featuring interviews with performers, activists and past employees, this documentary offers a deep dive into the successes and scandals of Pornhub...

    The Law of the Jungle season 1 (2023) (Spanish) Twelve people abandoned in the jungle must work as a team, or sabotage each other for a cut of a jackpot. Every player has their price -- what's yours?.

    Marmaduke (2010) When the Winslows relocate to the sunny climes of California, their big-hearted Great Dane gets a taste of the ideal dog's life.

    Adele: 30 Greatest Moments (2022) This documentary counts down Adele's career highlights with stories from friends and colleagues who've known the singer from childhood to stardom

    Hotel Transylvania (2012) Hotel Transylvania owner Dracula pulls double duty as an overprotective dad when an unwelcome suitor shows interest in his teenage daughter.

    Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) It's love at first sight for Dracula when he meets Ericka, the charming but mysterious captain of the monster cruise that Mavis plans for the family..

    Keeping Up with the Kardashians season 2 (2016) The Kardashians try to put family first as they manage their growing fame, expanding empires, high-profile relationships and more in this reality

    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 2 (2022) The hit reality franchise takes up residence in Beverly Hills, where well-heeled frenemies fight, drink and primp their way to maximum drama.

    Below Deck season 2 (2016) As staff on a luxury yacht, a young crew navigates life at sea as workplace romances, demanding guests and waves of drama threaten their happy voyage.

    Million Dollar Listing New York season 2 (2016) 2 Seasons [12] [New Episodes] Superstar brokers vie for their piece of the Big Apple in this Emmy-nominated reality show about the dog-eat-dog world of New York luxury real estate

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭hold my beer


    Below Deck has been on there for ages no?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Shadow and Bone season 2 (2023) The series, based on Leigh Bardugo’s worldwide best-selling Grishaverse novels, finds us in a war-torn world where lowly soldier and orphan Alina Starkov has just unleashed an extraordinary power that could be the key to setting her country free. With the monstrous threat of the Shadow Fold looming, Alina is torn from everything she knows to train as part of an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha. But as she struggles to hone her power, she finds that allies and enemies can be one and the same and that nothing is what it seems.

    Still Time (2023) (Italian) In this time-jumping dramedy, a workaholic who's always in a rush now wants life to slow down when he finds himself leaping ahead a year every few hours..

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Just saw that The Farewell is leaving after this weekend, which might actually nudge me into watching it.



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