Amazon Prime Film/TV Series Recommendations

khalessi · 28-09-2020 3:02pm

Halt and Catch fire is one of the few shows that have remained compelling viewing all the way through the 4 series. Fabulous show

Sugarlumps · 29-09-2020 9:14am

Thanks to whomever recommended Halt and Catch Fire.

p to the e · 29-09-2020 9:58am

homerun_homer wrote: »

You're in for a treat with S4. It's brilliant. If you think the directing work has been fantastic up to now then prepare for it to up the ante.

Season 4 was fantastic. Some great new characters and they kept the tension running throughout. And a nice little sub plot. I've been listening to M83's "Outro" ever since. A well deserved ending to a great series.

homerun_homer · 01-10-2020 10:24am

I finished H&CF last night and I'm gutted it's over. I'll miss the characters. I binged the 4 seasons in 11 days, often finishing work and watching the bones of half a season some days. I've not done that in an age!

The music & soundtrack throughout in the series is great but the last series

being set in he early-mid 90s

was savage. I'll miss seeing those opening credits, it's now one of my favourites.

jill_valentine · 01-10-2020 11:24am

Out of interest, Kerry Bishé is actually in a fairly unusual indie game on Steam for less than 20 quid, Telling Lies. Very much dependant on her performance, so if you enjoyed her in HCF, could be worth a go. From what I hear the overall concept is better than execution though.

Mackenzie Davis is in Gears of War as her Terminator character, but they body scanned her for it and then gave her Gears of War proportions which turns out to look quite weird if you do it with somebody tall and slender. Looks okay in motion, strange in still images.

naughto · 01-10-2020 11:30am

homerun_homer wrote: »

I finished H&CF last night and I'm gutted it's over. I'll miss the characters. I binged the 4 seasons in 11 days, often finishing work and watching the bones of half a season some days. I've not done that in an age!

The music & soundtrack throughout in the series is great but the last series
being set in he early-mid 90s
was savage. I'll miss seeing those opening credits, it's now one of my favourites.

Am at the same craic on ep 7 only started a few days ago

facehugger99 · 01-10-2020 1:42pm

I thought there was a bit of a dip in HCF in season 4 TBH.

First 3 seasons excellent - 4th pretty good.

Like when your man's daughter invented a search engine

- that was kinda stupid.

Plus there was a big fast-forward between season 3 and 4 where the 2 main characters are now divorced,

that was very discombobulating I thought.

killbillvol2 · 01-10-2020 3:47pm

facehugger99 wrote: »

I thought there was a bit of a dip in HCF in season 4 TBH.

First 3 seasons excellent - 4th pretty good.
Like when your man's daughter invented a search engine
- that was kinda stupid.

Yeah, sure kids never came up with killer ideas in tech. :rolleyes:

facehugger99 wrote: »

Plus there was a big fast-forward between season 3 and 4 where the 2 main characters are now divorced,
that was very discombobulating I thought.

They got divorced in Season 3

02-10-2020 9:42pm

Four episodes into halt and catch fire...love it. Will have it binge watched in no time!!

Mickeroo · 03-10-2020 12:20am

Jameson Unimportant Teenager wrote: »

Four episodes into halt and catch fire...love it. Will have it binge watched in no time!!

We finished season 1 this evening, it's great.

Apparently it's all leaving Prime on the 15th though so pressure is on to get the rest watched.

Hurrache · 03-10-2020 12:22am

Jameson Unimportant Teenager wrote: »

Four episodes into halt and catch fire...love it. Will have it binge watched in no time!!

Bugged me as to how I knew one of the main characters. He was a long haired blonde in middle earth.

Beardy guy was great in Narcos Mexico.

Mickeroo · 03-10-2020 12:24am

Hurrache wrote: »

Bugged me as to how I knew one of the main characters. He was a long haired blonde in middle earth.

He's the bad guy in Guardians of the Galaxy 1 too.

khalessi · 03-10-2020 12:25am

Lee Pace fantastic actor

Hurrache · 03-10-2020 12:26am

Mickeroo wrote: »

He's the bad guy in Guardians of the Galaxy 1 too.

Yeah, I read that but can't picture him in it, Ill have to watch it again.

He's brilliant though in Halt and Catch Fire.

Mickeroo · 03-10-2020 12:31am

I actually always thought he was British, but that was because I thought him and Matthew MacFadyen were the same person apparently.

jill_valentine · 03-10-2020 1:10am

Himself and Davis are the kind of actors you could have seen in six different things without twigging it was all the one guy or girl. He was also in The Fall, a really gorgeous and very unique looking movie.

The other two, Donna and Gordon, also played husband and wife in Argo.

FunLover18 · 03-10-2020 1:24am

Mickeroo wrote: »

We finished season 1 this evening, it's great.

Apparently it's all leaving Prime on the 15th though so pressure is on to get the rest watched.

Balls! Is it actually? It's been on my list for ages but I've been putting it off.

03-10-2020 7:43am

Undercover Mafia is easy to miss because its not listed when your search it in IMDB and its original name "Solo" i couldn't find either until i googled it and then found the imdb link that way.
Its an N'Dranghetta drama set in Calabria, and having lived down there it really captures the place and the types of people and the aura of that region of Italy. Its not a big budget production but Calabria is a run down dump of place by design anyway so it fits perfectly. Each episode is almost 2 hours long in season 1. Its a pretty damn good drama.

Mickeroo · 03-10-2020 8:23am

FunLover18 wrote: »

Balls! Is it actually? It's been on my list for ages but I've been putting it off.

Yeah it seems to be, if you go into it on the phone app it says "leaving Prime on October 15th"

Mantis Toboggan · 03-10-2020 8:47am

That's a balls, only started watching it. Why are they taking it down? I'm not seeing any message about leaving.

03-10-2020 11:21pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

We finished season 1 this evening, it's great.

Apparently it's all leaving Prime on the 15th though so pressure is on to get the rest watched.

Fin season 1..I’m in a rush now to have it all watched before the 15th!!

It’s so good...I love all the main characters.
It’s what succession wishes it was I feel if that makes sense to anyone.

If it doesn’t just ignore me!!!

04-10-2020 8:13am

Jameson Unimportant Teenager wrote: »

Fin season 1..I’m in a rush now to have it all watched before the 15th!!

It’s so good...I love all the main characters.
It’s what succession wishes it was I feel if that makes sense to anyone.

If it doesn’t just ignore me!!!

Halt and Catch Fire is what Succcession wishes it was? Whaaaa? Chalk and Cheese!

The Raging Bile Duct · 12-10-2020 9:44am

Just finished Halt and Catch Fire last night. The best series I've watched in a long time. How it ended, even though the last two episodes probably could have been just one episode, will stay with me for a good while.

The episodes dealing Gordon's Death and them clearing out the house afterwards absolutely killed me. I had a feeling he was probably going to pass away at some stage but when it happened it was devastating.

facehugger99 wrote: »

I thought there was a bit of a dip in HCF in season 4 TBH.

First 3 seasons excellent - 4th pretty good.
Like when your man's daughter invented a search engine
- that was kinda stupid.

Just in relation to that.

She didn't invent a search engine at all. Joe saw how she was putting up links to websites she liked and thought that curating the web was the way forward by directing people to different websites based on what the different people they had employed liked. They didn't add a search option until much later.

Mickeroo · 12-10-2020 9:50am

Will be watching the last two episodes tonight. S4 episode 8 was emotional.

The Raging Bile Duct · 12-10-2020 9:57am

A very tough watch.

Mantis Toboggan · 12-10-2020 10:12am

Halt and catch fire is grand but nothing ground breaking that's for sure. Alot of the characters are irritating. The storyline is a bit boring to be honest. I'm almost finished season 1 but struggling to stay with it.

The Raging Bile Duct · 12-10-2020 10:41am

I think it's the best thing I've seen in a long time. I loved the complexity that they brought to the characters and how they bring out the best and worst in each other. I raced to get it finished before it leaves Prime this week. I'm going to miss it now its over but glad it had a nicely contained four seasons.

stockshares · 12-10-2020 11:02am

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

I think it's the best thing I've seen in a long time. I loved the complexity that they brought to the characters and how they bring out the best and worst in each other. I raced to get it finished before it leaves Prime this week. I'm going to miss it now its over but glad it had a nicely contained four seasons.

Looks like I'm going to miss out on this.

Where is it moving to or is it being canned?

Mickeroo · 12-10-2020 11:09am

stockshares wrote: »

Looks like I'm going to miss out on this.

Where is it moving to or is it being canned?

The show finished 3 or 4 years ago, it's just leaving prime. Hopefully it will be like Justified and pop back up again after a week or two. i think there's something with licenses where shows leave for a short time and show up again.

I too rushed through all 4 seasons over the last couple of weeks, would agree it's one of the best shows I've watched in a good while.

ozmo · 12-10-2020 11:14am

Lost a whole load of content on Prime over the weekend on Prime- tried tv and fire-stick. Some series that I was half way through. Finally checked on the pc where it says they are now region locked to uk.

They still appear in the firestick main menu screens - but cannot open and not visible at all in the Prime app.

My TV doesn't handle vpns very well - goes too slow so I dont use one.

Annoying.

False Prophet · 12-10-2020 12:05pm

For whats it worth, i also binge watched halt and catch fire in the last week. Agree that its one of the best things ive seen in a long while. I actually have a feeling of loss that the show is over.
For those that are interested there is a a script of 8 pages for during season 1
:
https://twitter.com/ifyoucantwell/status/1251239805259669504

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uuo6863y25xfnr9/ReHello.pdf?dl=0

jill_valentine · 12-10-2020 3:35pm

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Halt and catch fire is grand but nothing ground breaking that's for sure. Alot of the characters are irritating. The storyline is a bit boring to be honest. I'm almost finished season 1 but struggling to stay with it.

Everybody who would have recommended it almost definitely added a "You just have to get through S1!" disclaimer :P

S1 can be hard going because it clearly hasn't found its centre yet and it tries a bit too hard to be Mad Men. Once S2 gets rolling it and it starts standing on its own two feet it starts paying off in a major way.

QikBax · 12-10-2020 3:38pm

Yes Season 1 is a chore aside from the pilot and the last 2 maybe.

Fair play to them for figuring it out and reshaping it into something beautiful.

howamidifferent · 12-10-2020 3:39pm

jill_valentine wrote: »

Everybody who would have recommended it almost definitely added a "You just have to get through S1!" disclaimer :P

S1 can be hard going because it clearly hasn't found its centre yet and it tries a bit too hard to be Mad Men. Once S2 gets rolling it and it starts standing on its own two feet it starts paying off in a major way.

I was hooked from Season 1 Episode 1 because I was messing around with building basic PC's at the same time, taking apart my Apple IIe and trying to build IBM clones also. It hooked me right in.

jill_valentine · 12-10-2020 3:41pm

QikBax wrote: »

Yes Season 1 is a chore aside from the pilot and the last 2 maybe.

Fair play to them for figuring it out and reshaping it into something beautiful.

I saw somebody make the point that even in the relatively short time since HACF was made the landscape has changed so much that might not be possible if it was made now, which is sobering to think about. HACF was only ever a cult/critical darling while it aired and S1 put a lot of people off, but it still got 3 seasons after that and grew into something totally apart from where it started. Post streaming TV increasingly demands an instant blockbuster, or bust. The idea of giving it a second season to dial in on what it wants to do would be mad now.

The Raging Bile Duct · 12-10-2020 3:54pm

I didn't find Season 1 a chore at all. I was hooked from the get-go. I honestly didn't see any 'struggling to find its own feet' during that first season. I wouldn't be what you would call techie in anyway..

Mickeroo · 12-10-2020 3:57pm

I wouldn't have thought season 1 was the weakest at all, if anything it was the most gripping in terms of stakes for me. I would have ear marked the last half of season 2 as the weakest part (at least I think it was season 2..whenever

Cam gets voted out of mutiny and it takes a few time jumps. Felt those few episodes killed them momentum and I wasn't sure where they were headed with it

.

The Raging Bile Duct · 12-10-2020 3:58pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

I wouldn't have thought season 1 was the weakest at all, would have ear marked the last half of season 2 as the weakest part (at least I think it was season 2..whenever
Cam gets voted out of mutiny and it takes a few time jumps. Felt those few episodes killed them momentum and I wasn't sure where they were headed with it
.

That's close to the end of Season 3. There was still another couple of episodes in Season 3 after that happened.

False Prophet · 12-10-2020 4:06pm

I was gripped from first couple of episodes and really enjoyed season 1. Seems fans are spilt between season 1 being one of strongest or weakest seasons.

marklazarcovic · 12-10-2020 4:40pm

the app is so bad really,ive had it over a year,and never seen halt listed or ,recommended, even though i know of it and watched 2 seasons before.

QikBax · 12-10-2020 5:36pm

The problem I think lies with when you watched Season 1 and if you watched Mad Men.

People who, like me, started it as it aired had problems featuring another show with an enigmatic leading man with a dark and secret past. It was on the same network, in the same time slot and felt derivative. Like a bad photocopy. You could watch it and imagine the executives think "Hmm. What if we had Don Draper but it's computers instead of advertising."

I'm sure if you watch it removed from all that baggage, it would play differently.

I still found on rewatching that Season 1 was infinitely weaker than the rest but that's personal preference. Everyone is different. I still enjoy the pilot and the back end of the season.

False Prophet · 12-10-2020 6:05pm

Aye, its over 3 years since man men ended so it had no impact in me watching it. Plus watching all seasons the first time together means you haven't forgotten any aspects of the story like that can happen with you are waiting a year for a new season.

I think a better name for the series would have helped as well, it was kinda putting me off watching it until so many here was giving it the thumbs up

Something shorter or snappier like mutiny or just catch fire.

Itssoeasy · 13-10-2020 8:44pm

Do not watch the documentary on nasa called nasa: journey through space if you want to actually learn about nasa. Dear Jesus what amateur outfit produced this ? There are basic things that are wrong. Clearly nobody checked the words that the narrator spoke because Neil young didn’t land on the moon on Apollo 11 but apparently he did according to this. That’s the most glaring issue but there are things that annoy me as someone who has a huge interest in this stuff.

mooseknunkle · 14-10-2020 4:32pm

Is Halt and catch fire gone from tomorrow and if it is,is it gone from like just after midnight?,ive 6 episodes left to finish on season 4 and i wont get a chance to watch them until tomorrow evening...

S.M.B. · 14-10-2020 8:26pm

Leaves Prime in 27 hours from what I can see which I assume means midnight tomorrow.

FunLover18 · 15-10-2020 12:00am

Started watching Upload and I'm really enjoying it (although I am only 2 episodes in). It's set in a future where you can upload your consciousness to an digital afterlife.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 15-10-2020 12:18am

FunLover18 wrote: »

Started watching Upload and I'm really enjoying it (although I am only 2 episodes in). It's set in a future where you can upload your consciousness to an digital afterlife.

I watched that a few months back. I really loved it initially but by the end I was a but meh about it.

Drumpot · 15-10-2020 8:57am

S.M.B. wrote: »

Leaves Prime in 27 hours from what I can see which I assume means midnight tomorrow.

Feck sake, I just started watching this, is it popping up on Netflix ?

The Raging Bile Duct · 15-10-2020 9:51am

Drumpot wrote: »

Feck sake, I just started watching this, is it popping up on Netflix ?

I don't think Netflix Ireland has any AMC shows so I wouldn't hold out hope. Stuff is constantly leaving Prime and popping up a couple of weeks later so that might happen...

FunLover18 · 15-10-2020 12:07pm

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

I don't think Netflix Ireland has any AMC shows so I wouldn't hold out hope. Stuff is constantly leaving Prime and popping up a couple of weeks later so that might happen...

Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are AMC, aren't they? And it has had Mad Men in the past as well.

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