Netflix - What gems have you found? (NO SPOILERS) (Vol. 2)

[Yazza54]

carlo996 said:

Sway said:

I've fallen into a rabbit hole of AFL fly on the wall documentaries. Starting to really like it as a game.

Quarterback last year, now Reciever and America's Sweethearts.

It's nice seeing a player focus that isn't the Quarterback, but the partisan in me would have loved to see Tyreek Hill featured.

America's Sweethearts (Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders) - fking hell. Really hard to watch without getting angry. Paid fk all, treated like st - and a routine that is known to have completely physically destroyed everyone who's done it. Yet it's 'tradition' and the girls have spent their whole lives dreaming of it, so it doesn't even begin to get challenged.

If you haven't already seen it 'Last Chance U' is really good.

We enjoyed all these

Now watching the Simon biles doc which is great, I should say, we've watched the first two episodes on Netflix, expecting more to come out as it didn't really end anywhere

[JoshSm]

Exploding Kittens - not bad but sort of anonymous?

I'm not really sure what they were aiming for; they have lots of bits of story & theme but I couldn't really say they managed to put them together into something solid.

Watchable but not memorable.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

JoshSm said:

Exploding Kittens - not bad but sort of anonymous?

I'm not really sure what they were aiming for; they have lots of bits of story & theme but I couldn't really say they managed to put them together into something solid.

Watchable but not memorable.

Exploding Kittens was originally a card game by Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal and then he was commissioned to turn it into an animation. It's not been clear to me as to why.

[fatbutt]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

JoshSm said:

Exploding Kittens - not bad but sort of anonymous?

I'm not really sure what they were aiming for; they have lots of bits of story & theme but I couldn't really say they managed to put them together into something solid.

Watchable but not memorable.

Exploding Kittens was originally a card game by Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal and then he was commissioned to turn it into an animation. It's not been clear to me as to why.

Money.

[C5_Steve]

fatbutt said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

JoshSm said:

Exploding Kittens - not bad but sort of anonymous?

I'm not really sure what they were aiming for; they have lots of bits of story & theme but I couldn't really say they managed to put them together into something solid.

Watchable but not memorable.

Exploding Kittens was originally a card game by Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal and then he was commissioned to turn it into an animation. It's not been clear to me as to why.

Money.

I watched the first episode, it did make me chuckle a few times and I love Tom Ellis as God (funny how he can do both God and Satan just as easily). Won't be rushing to finish it though.

[lornemalvo]

Doofus said:

lornemalvo said:

Vikings - Valhalla - I just re watched some of season 2 before starting season 3. It's pretty good, although I can't watch any Viking show without thinking of Norsemen, possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen on TV. It doesn't help that one of the leading characters, Olaf, bears a striking resemblance to Orm, in Norsemen, one of the funniest characters I've ever seen.

Norsemen = very funny
Tony Curtis = not very Nordic

Tony Curtis 's character Erik the slave was of mixed heritage, his mother was English

[SlimJim16v]

Just finished Vikings: Valhalla, very good, better than I remember the previous series.

[Mars]

I'm halfway through and finding it a little hard to follow all the characters and stories so I keep stopping to check out some of their wiki pages. All I can say is... there's a lot of Harolds and Haralds.

[lornemalvo]

SlimJim16v said:

Just finished Vikings: Valhalla, very good, better than I remember the previous series.

No third series to come, I believe, which is a shame. They could do a good spinoff series around Leif Eriksson and his exploration, I think

[Hippea]

Do you need to have watched the previous series to follow this one?

[Mars]

Hippea said:

Do you need to have watched the previous series to follow this one?

I have and still only have a partial idea. I don't really know if that's helpful or not though.

[lauda]

Skywalkers: A Love Story. A documentary about a couple of extreme climbers who illegally scale skyscrapers. It’s part climbing documentary and part love story (as the title suggests) but it’s really interesting to see their relationship developing and how their attitudes to taking risks change.

My ahole was twitching like a rabbit’s nose most of the way through but it’s well worth a watch.

[C5_Steve]

Mars said:

Hippea said:

Do you need to have watched the previous series to follow this one?

I have and still only have a partial idea. I don't really know if that's helpful or not though.

Assume you mean the original Vikings series? If so, I watched them all and that actually put me off Valhalla. It's set a long time after it so you really don't need to have seen them but for me the massive shift in tone and time period was really jarring and I just didn't enjoy it.

I'd highly recommend you watch Vikings anyway as for the most part it's truly excellent (it's on Prime). The later seasons are a bit up and down in terms of quality but overall I still really enjoyed all of it. It's fantastic.

If looking on Netflix, The Last Kingdom is also really good and I found that to be much closer to the original Vikings show than Valhalla. Set about 100 years after Vikings so there's a little overlap in events as well which is interesting.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Doofus said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Has anyone watched Ripley? I watched Ep 1 last night but gave up half way through Ep 2. Is it worth persevering?

It's beautifully directed and shot. The cinematography is really compelling. I think the series is better than the Matt Damon / Jude Law film. It feels a little slow from time to time, but IMO it's well worth sticking with.

There are lots of stairs.

I have stuck with it and have now watched 4 or 5. It is still pretty slow but is growing on me. Nicely shot and very well-acted.

[redrabbit29]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Has anyone watched Ripley? I watched Ep 1 last night but gave up half way through Ep 2. Is it worth persevering?

Ripley is one of the best things i have seen in ages. It's amazingly well filmed, I loved the way the plot thickens and develops over time.

I also loved listening to the Italian in there - particularly as I have loosely been learning for a while.

I watched it twice as my GF wanted to watch it too

[fasimew]

Just started season 2 of Legion. Was a bit of a mindfk at first, but I'm well into it now. Enjoyable if you can get through the first 3 episodes of season 1.

On the other hand, Kingstown was a bit meh. Season 1 was good, but it went tits up after that. I had to stop watching near the end of season 2 as it was so badly written.

[C5_Steve]

fasimew said:

Just started season 2 of Legion. Was a bit of a mindfk at first, but I'm well into it now. Enjoyable if you can get through the first 3 episodes of season 1.

On the other hand, Kingstown was a bit meh. Season 1 was good, but it went tits up after that. I had to stop watching near the end of season 2 as it was so badly written.

Wrong thread I think, those are Disney+ shows (you're quite right about Legion though, amazing show).

[fasimew]

My mistake, I thought this was a general streaming thread.

[macp]

Anatomy of a scandal. Both swmbo and I are enjoying it. It seems to have received some poor reviews. But we have found it very watchable. Also Unstable with Rob Lowe and his actual son. Its witty and an easy watch whilst having dinner on your lap.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

fasimew said:

My mistake, I thought this was a general streaming thread.

How? How did you read the thread title and conclude that?