Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

EltonJohn69 · 17-09-2020 3:58pm

Who knew Jon Snow could act !

peteeeed · 18-09-2020 8:20am

First Man
Damien Chazelle’s moon landing drama finds gripping danger amid its tale of remote emotions.

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Season 1
Set within the same timeline as the 2015 blockbuster sequel, the animated series follows a group of six teenagers chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime experience at a new adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar. But when dinosaurs wreak havoc across the island, the campers are stranded. Unable to reach the outside world, they’ll need to go from strangers to friends to family if they’re going to survive.

Ratched: Season 1
“You should bathe more often. Your fingernails are filthy.” That’s the sound of Nurse Ratched bringing her unique bedside manner to Netflix in Ryan Murphy’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest prequel series, starring Sarah Paulson as the iconic asylum nurse.

The American Barbecue Showdown Season 1
Eight of the country's best backyard smokers and pitmasters vie for the title of American Barbecue Champion in a fierce but friendly faceoff.

Johnny English Strikes Again

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sydthebeat · 18-09-2020 9:01am

Watched old guard for the craic last night. Ah jaysus....

What starts as a good premise for an "underworld" type movie (immortals living amongst us) it just turns to complete farce with pretty suspect acting.

The more the 2 long hours play out, the more it morphs into a pilot... With the ending securing that aspect.

They only good thing about the movie is that I could watch Charlie theron mix mortar and I'd still be enthralled

budgemook · 18-09-2020 9:32am

Is there not some Fernando Torres documentary supposed to be out today?

Mickeroo · 18-09-2020 9:40am

budgemook wrote: »

Is there not some Fernando Torres documentary supposed to be out today?

I thought that was coming out on amazon prime.

budgemook · 18-09-2020 11:45am

Mickeroo wrote: »

I thought that was coming out on amazon prime.

So it is. I was reading something about it earlier in the week and they definitely said Netflix but obviously had it wrong.

p to the e · 18-09-2020 12:06pm

Itssoeasy wrote: »

I can’t wait to watch the challenger documentary(which I hadn’t realised was four parts and not one) later on. I mean I’ve read the report of the accident over the years and know most of the stories behind this awful tragedy and I saw Dick Scobbies wife in the trailer and hopefully they have more than just Alan McDonald from Morton Thiokol(he’s a legend in his own right but hopefully we get more) and their take on that part of it. I’ll stop because I could keep rambling on about it.

mikhail wrote: »

I don't know if they mention him in it, but Richard Feynman's minority report on the disaster is required reading at many engineering colleges. It's quite an accessible read.
https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/Appendix-F.txt

Looking forward to this myself. I studied Mechanical Engineering in College and the challenger disaster was a case study that came up time and time again across multiple subjects (thermodynamics, Materials science, Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics). I was a bit of science nerd so couldn't believe it when I heard Feynman was involved in the investigation. Amazing how such a small component failure led to such a disaster.

km79 · 18-09-2020 3:00pm

Anyone watched Cobra Kai yet ?
It’s supposed to be very good
I’m wondering if it’s suitable for a 10 year old though ?
We watched this first two karate kids with him over last month

Itssoeasy · 18-09-2020 4:19pm

mikhail wrote: »

I don't know if they mention him in it, but Richard Feynman's minority report on the disaster is required reading at many engineering colleges. It's quite an accessible read.
https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/Appendix-F.txt

If I remember correctly from other documentaries and stuff I’ve read the committee just knew his name and didn’t know his personality and got caught by the O ring in the ice experiment he did.

If you’ve been in the space forum of this site you’ll know I’m a huge fan of space and manned space flight both American and soviet/Russian and both the challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters took the shine off nasa for me. The shuttle was sold as doing stuff in a time frame it couldn’t achieve in term of number of launches per year. Challenger should never have happened if NASA hadn’t of been so ****ing arrogant because they only ever had one disaster on the pad(Apollo 1) and I think some nasa management got moved after Columbia thankfully. Again I’m rambling so I’ll stop.

Edit: btw no I’ve not watched the documentary yet but I plan to do it this weekend.

shrapnel222 · 18-09-2020 5:14pm

km79 wrote: »

Anyone watched Cobra Kai yet ?
It’s supposed to be very good
I’m wondering if it’s suitable for a 10 year old though ?
We watched this first two karate kids with him over last month

season 1 is borderline ok (gains a few nostalgia points), season 2 is atrocious. Perfectly fine for a 10 year old

cml387 · 18-09-2020 5:23pm

Stop everything and watch Criminal.

Mentioned before was Jon Snow in the second episode of the new series, a very morally ambiguous story that will get you thinking.
Also Sophie Okinedo is excellent in the first episode.

Think of the best bits of Line Of Duty, the interviews, and that's what Criminal is.
You are dropped into a crime with no backstory, no explanation, and figure out what's going on.

Itssoeasy · 18-09-2020 11:49pm

Watched the first episode of the challenger disaster documentary and it’s very well done. The two worst phrases from the shuttle programme were “go at throttle up” for challenger and “UHF comm check” for Columbia. Hopefully the other three episodes are as good as the first one.

Damien360 · 18-09-2020 11:56pm

Just watched “The Devil all the time”. Great movie. Almost Tarintino in its feel. Great acting, great story.

joeguevara · 19-09-2020 3:07am

Watching second season of 60 days in. Undercover prison documentary. Absolutely riveting.

munster87 · 19-09-2020 7:24am

joeguevara wrote: »

Watching second season of 60 days in. Undercover prison documentary. Absolutely riveting.

The constant replaying of segments, due to airing on US tv I assume, annoys me in that show. Otherwise well worth a watch.

peteeeed · 19-09-2020 8:31am

A Cure for Wellness
Dispatched to retrieve his company's CEO from a remote European wellness spa, a naive underling discovers the alpine retreat's terrifying secrets

Fukrey Boyzzz Season 1
A troublemaking trio dreams big, plays hard and stirs up all sorts of classroom mischief in this animated spinoff of the popular Hindi film franchise.

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seligehgit · 19-09-2020 8:34am

cml387 wrote: »

Stop everything and watch Criminal.

Mentioned before was Jon Snow in the second episode of the new series, a very morally ambiguous story that will get you thinking.
Also Sophie Okinedo is excellent in the first episode.

Think of the best bits of Line Of Duty, the interviews, and that's what Criminal is.
You are dropped into a crime with no backstory, no explanation, and figure out what's going on.

Could'nt agree more.The second season was excellent.

Kit Harrington GOT typecasting was well and truly a thing of the past.

Cyrus · 19-09-2020 8:38am

Just finished succession (not on Netflix ) and need something new? Anything must see in the drama realm ?

Mickeroo · 19-09-2020 9:40am

Cyrus wrote: »

Just finished succession (not on Netflix ) and need something new? Anything must see in the drama realm ?

You watched Borgen? I'm enjoying season 1 a lot more than I thought I would as I don't usually like political drama all that much (found house of cards a slog even at its best) but have found it really enjoyable. Its more episodic than I expected too, there's over arching stories but it's mostly the characters dealing with the issue of the week.

alchemist33 · 19-09-2020 9:44am

I've also started warching S1 of Borgen and heavily recommend it.

And I just finished Breaking Bad, having not watched it before. For the 2 people who haven't watched it, it deserves every bit of praise it received and it's never too late to start. It really is one of, if not THE, best TV programmes ever.

Caranica · 19-09-2020 10:36am

alchemist33 wrote: »

I've also started warching S1 of Borgen and heavily recommend it.

And I just finished Breaking Bad, having not watched it before. For the 2 people who haven't watched it, it deserves every bit of praise it received and it's never too late to start. It really is one of, if not THE, best TV programmes ever.

I've tried BB twice but didn't even make it to the end of the pilot.

Sardonicat · 19-09-2020 10:57am

Damien360 wrote: »

Just watched “The Devil all the time”. Great movie. Almost Tarintino in its feel. Great acting, great story.

Really looking forward to this.

CastorTroy · 19-09-2020 2:18pm

Just started Camp Cretaceous.
The fact the have the excellent Jurassic Park soundtrack is a huge plus

Itssoeasy · 19-09-2020 5:32pm

alchemist33 wrote: »

I've also started warching S1 of Borgen and heavily recommend it.

And I just finished Breaking Bad, having not watched it before. For the 2 people who haven't watched it, it deserves every bit of praise it received and it's never too late to start. It really is one of, if not THE, best TV programmes ever.

Borgen ? I’m watching the challenger documentary but might give this a look.

Fysh · 19-09-2020 5:42pm

The Devil All The Time is one of the upper-tier Netflix films; a great cast whos deliver solid performances, a strong narrative with multiple threads weaving together, with a Coens-esque feel to it.

Itssoeasy · 19-09-2020 8:50pm

Finished the challenger documentary and Larry Mulloy is still as dislikable as any other time I’ve read or seen anything by him. He’d make the same decision today that he made in late January 1986 that led to the deaths of seven astronauts. Is it any wonder Columbia happened when this was the mentality in NASA. Larry mulloy didn’t lick that attitude off the VAB ffs.

gmisk · 19-09-2020 9:00pm

I have just finished series one of criminal.
It's really excellent imo.

Are the foreign language episodes worth a watch or should I just go to second series of UK series?

Dyr · 19-09-2020 9:16pm

Fysh wrote: »

The Devil All The Time is one of the upper-tier Netflix films; a great cast whos deliver solid performances, a strong narrative with multiple threads weaving together, with a Coens-esque feel to it.

I got half way through it, Coenesque my arse, its a pile of clichéd ****e like most Netflix content these days.

CastorTroy · 19-09-2020 10:24pm

CastorTroy wrote: »

Just started Camp Cretaceous.
The fact the have the excellent Jurassic Park soundtrack is a huge plus

I enjoyed that. As for my earlier comment about it likely not having deaths and all, having subtitles on and seeing a dinosaur approaching a man followed by the subs showing "Crunching sound" proves that wrong.

Hercule Poirot · 19-09-2020 11:48pm

Another vote here for The Devil All The Time, although I can get why others didn't like it.

It's a slow burner, bit like a season of Ozark, it builds the story slowly and ends with a finale. I thought Pattinson in particular was excellent in it.

Hrududu · 20-09-2020 12:43am

I started “Staged”. Filmed during lockdown, a comedy where David Tennant and Michael Sheen rehearse a play they were supposed to be in pre COVID over Zoom. Very funny so far.

seligehgit · 20-09-2020 8:23am

gmisk wrote: »

I have just finished series one of criminal.
It's really excellent imo.

Are the foreign language episodes worth a watch or should I just go to second series of UK series?

Do both,second season is very good.Ditto the various foreign language versions.

peteeeed · 20-09-2020 8:37am

Some Japanese movies added - High & low and lots of sequels and spin offs

scouttio · 20-09-2020 10:14am

Watching Staged and enjoying it so far. Tennant and Sheen work really well together. Nice and easy 6 20 minute episodes.

johnny_ultimate · 20-09-2020 10:39am

peteeeed wrote: »

Some Japanese movies added - High & low and lots of sequels and spin offs

Just to note this is resolutely not the Kurosawa classic High and Low

peteeeed · 20-09-2020 11:55am

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Just to note this is resolutely not the Kurosawa classic High and Low

Nope

2015

fin12 · 20-09-2020 6:37pm

Thought the Duchess was pretty good. Binge watched the whole thing.

fin12 · 20-09-2020 9:15pm

Johnny English strikes again is very funny. It’s my favorite one out of the franchise.

Fysh · 21-09-2020 8:27am

The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then Bigfoot was a good watch, better than the name suggests. Good turns from Sam Elliot and Aidan Turner, and a story that somehow manages to encompass the events described in the title while having more nuance and character focus than you'd be expect. It reminded me a bit of Bubba Hotep, but might actually be a bit better than it.

peteeeed · 21-09-2020 8:31am

A Love Song for Latasha
The killing of Latasha Harlins became a flashpoint for the 1992 LA uprising. This documentary evocatively explores the 15-year-old's life and dreams.

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inside no.9 has been removed , i would hope we will see it back soon

Tim76 · 21-09-2020 10:02am

Operation Odessa is worth a watch.

MonkstownHoop · 21-09-2020 10:38am

Fysh wrote: »

The Devil All The Time is one of the upper-tier Netflix films; a great cast whos deliver solid performances, a strong narrative with multiple threads weaving together, with a Coens-esque feel to it.

Watched it last night, great film.

peteeeed · 22-09-2020 8:14am

Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father season 4
Jovial comic Jack Whitehall and his stuffy father, Michael, take unusual and amusing trips to foreign lands in an attempt to strengthen their bond.

Kiss the Ground
Science experts and celebrity activists unpack the ways in which the earth's soil may be the key to combating climate change and preserving the planet.

Mighty Express season 1
Catch a ride with the Mighty Express -- a team of trains and their kid friends who overcome trouble on the tracks with quick thinking and teamwork!

The Playbook season 1
Coaches with championship résumés share their personal rules for success in sports and life in this reflective and inspiring documentary series.

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peteeeed · 22-09-2020 8:21am

Coming in October
N=Netflix original

October 1st
Addams Family Values (1993) – Beloved 90s family comedy sequel which sees the Addams family contend with Uncle Fester’s new gold-digging wife.
A Moving Image (2016) – Small independent drama movie about an artist returning to her home that has been gentrified.
All Because of You (2020) N – Asian action comedy.
Banana (Limited Series) – Channel 4 limited series by Russell T. Davis.
Beyond the Mat (1999) – Sports documentary on WWE looking at the day-to-day lives of wrestlers.
Carmen Sandiego (Season 3) N – Animated series about the globe-trotting master thief Carmen Sandiego.
Corpse Bride (2005) – Tim Burton’s animated
Dennis the Menace (1993) – Family comedy from the early 90s based on the Beano cartoon.
Dolphin Tale 2 (2014) – A family drama about a team that hopes to find a companion to their dolphin friend. Stars Morgan Freeman.
Familiar Wife (Season 1) – Korean drama fantasy series about a man waking up to a different reality.
Generation Revolution (2016) – Documentary on black activists changing the social landscape in London.
Gone Too Far (2013) – British comedy.
Good Morning, Verônica (Season 1) N – Spanish-language crime-thriller.
Into the Storm (2014) – Natural disaster drama starring Richard Armitage.
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) – Fourth installment of the found-footage horror franchise.
Pose (Season 2) – The hit US FX series with producer Ryan Murphy.
Kangaroo Jack (2003) – Comedy starring two childhood friends and a kangaroo
The Conjuring (2013) – Horror from James Wan based on the terrifying tales of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.
The Last Tree (2019) – Small independent drama about a teenager moving to London.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) – Romantic comedy from Ken Kwapis about four best friends hoping to stay connected with each other.
The Three Musketeers (2011) – A modern-day remake of the classic tale that didn’t score great reviews.
The Ugly Truth (2009) – Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl feature in this rom-com from over a decade ago.
Tucked (2018) – Drama about an aging drag queen.

October 2nd
A Go! Go! Cory Carson Halloween (Limited Series) N – Animated Halloween special
Dick Johnson Is Dead! (2020) N – Documentary drama centered around Kristen Johnson preparing her father, Dick Johnson, for the end of his life.
Emily in Paris (Season 1) N – Fish out of water comedy starring Lily Collins as Emily, an American midwest girl who moves to Paris for an exciting job opportunity but cultures soon clash.

Oloture (2019) – A journalist goes undercover in the prostitiuion trade.
Serious Men (2020) N – Indian comedy movie.
Song Exploder (Volume 1) N – Based on the podcast, this new docu-series deconstructs some of your favorite songs.
The Binding (2020) N – Italian demonic horror for Halloween
You’ve Got This / Ahi te Encargo (2020) N – Romantic drama.

October 5th
Line of Duty (Season 5) – Police procedural drama about the AC-12, a controversial police anti-corruption unit.

October 6th
Starbeam: Halloween Hero (2020) N – Kids Halloween animated special

October 7th
Hubie Halloween (2020) N – Adam Sandler’s latest Original comedy takes a stab at Halloween.

October 9th
Deaf U (Season 1) N – Docuseries told through the eyes of deaf students who attend Washington D.C. private college for the deaf and hard of hearing.
The Haunting of Bly Manor (Season 1) N – Horror anthology starring Victoria Pedretti. Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Turn of the Screw.
The 40-Year-Old Version (2020) N – Sundance Award-winning comedy from Radha Blank.

October 10th
Start-Up (Season 1) N – Weekly rom-com K-Drama series.

October 11th
Dr. Suess’ The Grinch (2018) – Illumination Studios brings this modern-day animated update to the classic Dr. Suess book.

Overlord (2018) – J.J. Abrams produced horror where a group of American soldiers finds some horrific Nazi experiments.

October 14th
BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky (2020) N – Behind the scenes documentary on K-Pop group Blackpink.

October 15th
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis (2019) – Documentary that looks into new innovations to help solve the water crisis. Narrated by Jaden Smith.
Tattoo Fixers (Season 5) – The Channel 4 reality series where we follow Tattoo artists cleaning up some right old messes.

October 16th
Grand Army (Season 1) N – Coming-of-Age drama centered around five different students who attend a busy public Brooklyn High School, as they struggle to navigate love, sex, and life.
La Révolution (Season 1) N – French drama based on an alternate take on the French Revolution.

Star Trek: Discovery (Season 3) N – New episodes weekly – the next season of Star Trek Discovery where the crew of the USS Discovery head 930 years into the future.
The Da Vinci Code (2006) – Ron Howards’ excellent mystery thriller starring Tom Hanks.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) N – Historical drama directed by Aaron Sorkin based on the real-life controversial trial of the Chicago 7.

October 18th
Nobody’s Fool (2018) – Tyler Perry comedy.

October 19th
Unsolved Mysteries (Volume 2) N – Docuseries chronicling some of the weirdest and most controversial unsolved crimes and paranormal events.

October 21st
Rebecca (2020) N – Chilling romantic drama starring Lily James and Armie Hammer.

October 22nd
Cadaver (2020) N – Norwegian horror

October 23rd
Over the Moon (2020) N – Family animated adventure about a young Chinese girl who builds her own rocket ship to the moon in search of the goddess that lives there.

The Queen’s Gambit (Limited series) N – Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Beth Harmon, a talented but compulsive chess player who struggles with her drug addiction.

Netflix UK October TBD Releases
Mank (2020) N – David Fincher’s biographical drama about Herman J. Mankiewicz, co-writer of Citizen Kane.
The One (Season 1) N – Sci-Fi drama based on John Marrs’s novel of the same name.
Tiny Pretty Things (Season 1) N – Drama centered around a group of aspiring students of an elite ballet academy.

Masked Man · 22-09-2020 9:18am

Delighted Line of Duty season 5 is being added.

NIMAN · 22-09-2020 9:26am

Finished Schitts Creek last night.

Overall a great show, mild humour at times but quality maintained throughout. Many belly laughs too.

Some superb comedic acting too.

The Raging Bile Duct · 22-09-2020 10:01am

NIMAN wrote: »

Finished Schitts Creek last night.

Overall a great show, mild humour at times but quality maintained throughout. Many belly laughs too.

Some superb comedic acting too.

I thought this was quite sweet...

https://twitter.com/JarettSays/status/1247930496715128837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1247930496715128837%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ftv-and-radio%2F2020%2Fsep%2F21%2Fschitts-creek-the-five-things-that-make-it-such-perfect-emmy-award-winning-tv

peteeeed · 22-09-2020 10:41am

dark crystal age of resistance cancelled

https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a34104149/netflix-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance-cancelled/

Mickeroo · 22-09-2020 10:44am

Ah what, I thought we'd get a second season at least. Season 1 was one of the best shows they've done in the last few years.

iniall · 22-09-2020 10:50am

Good to get a date for season 3 of Star Trek Discovery. But when is Netflix (or Amazon) going to bring us The Lower Decks?

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