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Post by auntieannie on Apr 2, 2020 14:44:52 GMT 2
the only recommendation I can make (I don't have netflix) is that nobody wants the "chills" with their serving of Netflix...
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Post by Netsuke on Apr 2, 2020 15:06:29 GMT 2
Netsuke, A Suitable Girl - don't know if you know of it but there is a famous book called A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth which I suspect influenced the title. Anyway, I've just watched it. Fascinating but strikes me as a little sad. Nevertheless, enjoyable - and this is speaking as a person who was Best Man at a three day Indian wedding. I agree about sad, but I was more filled with an anger because the women have no life of their own after marriage, it's as though they suddenly become an appendage of their husbands. It's so 19th century. There is s television series called A Suitable Boy filmed last year in Lucknow, due to be released later this year. June or July. Unfortunately it's in Hindi. I hope it's been dubbed.
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Post by Scrubb on Apr 4, 2020 6:14:23 GMT 2
I binged on "The Stranger", yet another limited series based on a Harlan Coben novel. I've come to realize there's a sort of formula to the plots (this one has more than a few similarities to "Safe"), but I enjoy them anyway. Each episode delivers at least one shocking revelation, answers a few questions, and leaves many unanswered, so what's to be done except watch the next one? "The Stranger" stars Richard Armitage, and at the core of the story is a stranger (a young woman) who shows up at the sides of people to reveal some big secret about someone close to them. These aren't small tidbits like "your best mate is in the top 10 users at PornHub", but stunning secrets. Jennifer Saunders is also in it, and I found it rather odd to see her in a serious role. I enjoyed "The STranger", although I found the first couple of episodes the best. It kept me watching - we saw 3 episodes and then I had to go to work for 2 weeks, but we watched the other 3 as soon as I got back.
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Post by rikita on Apr 10, 2020 11:14:23 GMT 2
the last things i watched on netflix (not new, i just watched them recently) were "chilling adventures of sabrina", the third season of "anne with an e", and now started "sex education". found all of them mainly enjoyable.
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Post by trentt on Aug 4, 2020 1:31:12 GMT 2
I'm addicted to "Ozark" now, as well as the documentary series "The Keepers", about a cold case murder of a nun in 1969 that opens up a huge can of worms involving Catholic clergy's abuse of students at an all-girls high school. It's both engrossing and hard to watch.
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Post by rikita on Aug 7, 2020 19:38:03 GMT 2
still watching older shows i hadn't finished before - currently "modern family" (had watched until season 5 before, now continuing) and the last season of "orange is the new black".
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Post by wikki on Aug 9, 2020 8:04:55 GMT 2
I am watching "New Legends of Monkey" Very entertaining.
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Post by trentt on Aug 27, 2020 7:28:03 GMT 2
A friend remarked that "Ozark" reminded him of "Breaking Bad", so I started watching that. It's great, and I can understand the comparison. It is full of action and drama, deep character development, and has a dose of humor absent from "Ozark".
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Post by tzarine on Feb 21, 2021 21:31:10 GMT 2
trentt
miss your recommendations
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Post by trentt on Mar 2, 2021 1:55:44 GMT 2
I don't know that I'm watching anything new on Netflix. Maybe I haven't mentioned "Marcella", a British crime procedural. I'm on season 3 of "Ozark" and "GBBS", also "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Killing Eve"(on Hulu, not Netflix), 2nd season of "The Crown". I just started watching "Harlots", which seems to have possibilities.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 8, 2021 23:09:03 GMT 2
trentt
we enjoyed the crown
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Post by rikita on Mar 16, 2021 23:42:34 GMT 2
last thing i watched was the last season of chilling adventures of sabrina, and now watching the last season of jane the virgin.
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Post by trentt on Mar 19, 2021 2:37:34 GMT 2
Now watching season 3 of "The Crown", where Olivia Colman replaces Clair Foy as Elizabeth, and Helena Bonham-Carter is Margaret. I'll keep watching this through to the Meghan Markle/Piers Morgan/Sharon Osborne episodes, with Nicole Kidman playing both Meghan and Sharon.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 21, 2021 22:22:43 GMT 2
I don't know that I'm watching anything new on Netflix. Maybe I haven't mentioned "Marcella", a British crime procedural. I'm on season 3 of "Ozark" and "GBBS", also "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Killing Eve"(on Hulu, not Netflix), 2nd season of "The Crown". I just started watching "Harlots", which seems to have possibilities. trentt so harlots is worth a view?
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Post by Voy on Mar 22, 2021 1:19:58 GMT 2
tzarine /trentt - have you been watching the one on Aretha Franklin?
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Post by trentt on Mar 23, 2021 2:04:09 GMT 2
Not watching that one, Voy, but Netflix seems to have zillions of shows dropping weekly, so it's not out of lack of interest. I really try to limit my series to a digestible number.
As for "Harlots", I've watched the first two episodes and I remain interested. It has a few familiar faces, most notably (for me) Jessica Brown=Findlay, who played the unfortunate Lady Sybil Crawley Branson on "Downton Abbey".
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Post by tzarine on Mar 23, 2021 21:46:23 GMT 2
trentt
i like jessica brown-findlay
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Post by tzarine on Jun 8, 2021 23:39:34 GMT 2
potters
send some summer recs, sil vous plait
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Post by trentt on Jun 11, 2021 0:08:54 GMT 2
I finished season #3 of "Killing Eve". It is wonderful, perverse, unique, so well done. I guess there will be one more season of it, filming underway now. I will miss it, but its central plot conceit will become ludicrous if it goes on and on, so I'm also relieved they'll quit while they're ahead.
I watched all 8 episodes of "The Serpent", about 1970s serial killer Charles Sobraj, who preyed on hippie tourists in south Asia. It is fascinating, the one distraction for me being the dialogue in Thai, French, and Dutch - for verisimilitude's sake I presume - all in subtitles unreadable to me, so my brother had to read about 3/4 of it aloud to me.
I enjoy "Shrill" with SNL's wonderful Aidy Bryant, though that's on Hulu. I just started watching season #3.
Netflix seems to have axed "Marcella" from its library, so I did not see all of that, and I liked it a lot.
I want to start "Broadchurch" and "Good Omens" at some point.
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Post by tzarine on Jun 11, 2021 0:23:03 GMT 2
trentt
the first season of broachchurch is amazing tenant & coleman work so well together
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Post by trentt on Jun 13, 2021 23:09:24 GMT 2
"Marcella" is still on Netflix after all, but dropped off my Continue Watching ribbon for some reason. It had me at season 3, episode 2, though I was quite sure I'd seen at least 3 episodes of season 3. I thought I'd refresh my memory watching #2, but turns out I had not seen it, nor episode #3. Somehow I got discombobulated in that season so now I'm getting it in the right sequence.
I'm nearly done with "Peaky Blinders" (R.I.P. Helen McCrory), so will begin "Broadchurch" after that's finished.
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Post by Netsuke on Jun 13, 2021 23:45:10 GMT 2
Rewatching “A Man Called God” it’s no longer on Netflix, so watching on YouTube. Quality fair, some episodes less than fair, poor quality, but I loved the series. Story of a young boy who witnesses his father’s murder, then his family burnt to death in the family home. He is adopted at the age of seven, and taken to America. ….Fast forward, the boy is now a man who returns to Korea to extract revenge on his father’s murderers. Good storyline, great muscles, plenty of martial arts and clever hidden gadgets worthy of James Bond. . .
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Post by tzarine on Jun 14, 2021 2:30:13 GMT 2
"Marcella" is still on Netflix after all, but dropped off my Continue Watching ribbon for some reason. It had me at season 3, episode 2, though I was quite sure I'd seen at least 3 episodes of season 3. I thought I'd refresh my memory watching #2, but turns out I had not seen it, nor episode #3. Somehow I got discombobulated in that season so now I'm getting it in the right sequence. I'm nearly done with "Peaky Blinders" (R.I.P. Helen McCrory), so will begin "Broadchurch" after that's finished. i loved helen mccrory! from aunt pol to cherie blair to her stagework
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Post by trentt on Jun 28, 2021 1:04:43 GMT 2
I've just started "Mare of Easttown", with Kate Winslett, Jean Smart, and Guy Pearce. It's on HBO Max, though. It promises to be good - I was engrossed in the first episode. SNL did a spoof of it a few weeks back, though I'd not seen the show so didn't realize it until just now. The Pennsylvania accent was so funny ("Find out who murdered my durder!!").
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Post by tzarine on Jun 28, 2021 1:16:11 GMT 2
I've just started "Mare of Easttown", with Kate Winslett, Jean Smart, and Guy Pearce. It's on HBO Max, though. It promises to be good - I was engrossed in the first episode. SNL did a spoof of it a few weeks back, though I'd not seen the show so didn't realize it until just now. The Pennsylvania accent was so funny ("Find out who murdered my durder!!"). i like guy pearce from priscilla onward tho i thought memento was overrated
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Post by trentt on Jun 29, 2021 2:51:28 GMT 2
I thought "Ravenous" with Pearce was fantastic, but cannibal movies are one of my weaknesses.
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Post by tzarine on Jun 29, 2021 19:21:42 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Jun 30, 2021 5:27:21 GMT 2
rasputin w alan rickman, greta scacchi & ian mckellen rickman is very charismatic
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Post by tzarine on Jul 8, 2021 3:58:00 GMT 2
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Post by trentt on Aug 2, 2021 1:40:21 GMT 2
I watched the first episode of "Broadchurch" and am sure I'll like it. Olivia Colman seems to be the UK's Nicole Kidman, appearing in dozens of series and movies at once.
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