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Finished up Utopia on Prime. It was pretty batshit crazy but still quite enjoyable. Warning though that it is about a deadly pandemic sweeping through America so if you are not in the mood for something like right now then maybe give it a few months (years?).
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Tainen posted:Finished up Utopia on Prime. It was pretty batshit crazy but still quite enjoyable. Warning though that it is about a deadly pandemic sweeping through America so if you are not in the mood for something like right now then maybe give it a few months (years?). Everyone keeps saying that it's pretty good, but based on the previews, the lead actor looks like he has absolutely zero personality, and I don't understand how he could possibly be funny.
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Oct 13, 2020 23:39
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Just watch the original Utopia which is a masterpiece
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:it has Thor in it
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The Guest is great and made me realize Dan Stevens was completely wasted on Downtown Abbey. Legion confirmed that later on too.
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Weaponized Cum posted:Just watch the original Utopia which is a masterpiece I saw it and I dunno if masterpiece but I'm forced to compare the two in my head and the redux is coming up lacking in a few areas. And is the Brit one even streaming? I think the new one is worth watching either way.
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eighty-four merc posted:Thanks for the heads up. Saw this in theatres and watched it again last night  Perfect description. I showed it to a friend last night after having built it up for awhile, and I think she was much more into the soundtrack than the other stuff.
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Today my buddy told me about the 2018 redlettermedia interview with the guest's writer Simon Barrett about the guest and it's really good: https://youtu.be/oAQe1NEeXBc e: wtf do YouTube links always embed like that? eighty-four merc fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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Oct 14, 2020 07:57
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I prefer the British Utopia as well
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Starks posted:Shudder is an underrated service. Nightingale, Tigers Are Not Afraid, The Beach House, and La Llorona are all better than any movies Netflix has put out the past two years. Is there a shudder thread somewhere on here? Well thank you so much for mentioning The Nightingale because I went and watched it having no memory of it coming out and holy poo poo that blew me away. I was NOT emotionally prepared for that rollercoaster and was a sobbing mess by the end.
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Oct 14, 2020 19:46
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I actually would have liked Bly more if the black and white episode that explained everything had happened earlier in the season. I'd have liked it more if that episode hadn't been in the show, tbh. The biggest sin horror stories can do IMO is to over-explain things, and "here's an hour explaining exactly what the main ghost is, why she's a ghost and how everything works is a good hop, skip and jump over the line. I also could have done without the very ending of the last episode. It was 100% obvious the bride was Flora grown up long before the, "you know, it's quite strange. My middle name is actually Flora" and oh look here are all the main characters younger again scene. Maybe they were going for something else, but it just felt so pandering. I thought Bly Manor was good overall. Not as good as Hill House, perhaps, but then they were both quite different shows. I loved the melancholy atmosphere again, and some of the plot elements were truly horrifying, such as Hannah trying to finally take Owen up on his invitation too late, desperately trying to bargain for a chance at a new life after she was already doomed to drift through Bly Manor. E: oh and a lot of the acting was excellent. Rahul Kohli and T'Nia Miller were especially excellent IMO. As were the kids, which is pretty god drat rare for child actors! Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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Starks posted:Shudder is an underrated service. Nightingale, Tigers Are Not Afraid, The Beach House, and La Llorona are all better than any movies Netflix has put out the past two years. Is there a shudder thread somewhere on here? Fade to Black and Daniel Isn’t Real were pretty great. The Cleansing Hour wasn’t necessarily good but it has an interesting premise, it’s entertaining, and the last ten minutes make up for some of its shortcomings.
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James Spader plays such a great character on Blacklist, but over the course of this first season I can't figure out if it's good or formulaic; there's episodes that seem like forced 24 fan fiction, and then some episodes/arcs that unfold perfectly. Alan Alda was scary as poo poo while I wrote this. e and seven ~20 episode seasons? It either goes somewhere or absolutely nowhere Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 15:52
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"Alan Alda was scary as poo poo" is the most interesting thing I've ever heard about that show.
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Inspector Hound posted:James Spader plays such a great character on Blacklist, but over the course of this first season I can't figure out if it's good or formulaic; there's episodes that seem like forced 24 fan fiction, and then some episodes/arcs that unfold perfectly. Alan Alda was scary as poo poo while I wrote this. James Spader's character is great and it has a couple really stand out episodes and arcs, but the show is trashy as hell and most of the characters are dumb as rocks at the best of times. I wanna say I made it to midway in season 5 before I gave up but kinda want to pick it back up because it is kind of fun. Pretty sure 7 seasons later they (kind of big spoiler I guess?) still haven't revealed whether Red is Elizabeth's actual dad or not? and so by that measure it has gone nowhere! And RIP Clark Middleton 
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Sir Kodiak posted:"Alan Alda was scary as poo poo" is the most interesting thing I've ever heard about that show. It's worth watching at least his first scene honestly, season 1 episode 11 I think? James Bond meets Frasier, with torture. I'll probably keep watching e and I'm not reading that spoiler, I'm strong enough Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 16:34
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Sirotan posted:
Ahh goddamn I had not heard this. I like the Blacklist for what it is. I don't know if I'd call later seasons good, but still entertaining and watchable. And IIRC the Red/Liz relationship does get sort of cleared up in season 5-ish but I guess in 6/7 it gets more unclear? I haven't watched that far yet. Now that season 7 is on Netflix, I need to get around to finishing it so I watch the infamous finale.
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Decided to watch the Netflix original.....Extraction. Who wrote this poo poo? It feels like there has to be more than just a couple of writers. Nothing in it is consistent. It's bad. RestingB1tchFace fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 20:00
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Thundercracker posted:The Guest is great and made me realize Dan Stevens was completely wasted on Downtown Abbey. Legion confirmed that later on too. I see someone hasn't seen "Fire Saga" yet!  
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cA7kwBSUaU I will watch almost anything Rome related, heres hoping this doesnt suck
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clean ayers act posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cA7kwBSUaU Both big budget series I've watched from German Netflix have completely blown me away, high hopes for this.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:29
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AccountSupervisor posted:Well thank you so much for mentioning The Nightingale because I went and watched it having no memory of it coming out and holy poo poo that blew me away. i watched the nightingale once like 6 months ago and it's still fresher in my mind than anything i've watched since. it really hosed me up too.
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Oct 15, 2020 23:03
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Peacock has all the Harry Potter movies this month. 3, 5, and 6 are my favorites.
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Mr. Mercedes is also now apparently on Peacock. I think I remember some goons really liking it and lamenting that it was trapped on a real life WhatTimeIsItRightNow.com. Is it decent?
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I loved S1 of Mr Mercedes, liked S2, and haven't seen S3. It has Brendan Gleeson, who is always worth a watch, and Breeda Wool and Justine Lupe (Lou and Holly respectively) are great too and Holly is definitely a scene stealer even opposite Gleeson. The villain and his mom are sufficiently creepy and weird. S2 goes off the the rails a bit cyber possession! and S3 starts a whole new story line.
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Yeah I loved season 1, enjoyed the other two seasons but definitely wasn't on board with the supernatural poo poo
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clean ayers act posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cA7kwBSUaU Looks rad, love the angle on the story. I'll be catching this unless I hear anything totally dire.
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Started watching The Magicians again and I’m enjoying it even more now. Probably just the right kind of dark, asinine escapism for 2020. Also rewatched Hill House and yeah... it’s still one of my favorite, if not my very favorite, streaming shows of all time. The BNL / Two Storms episode combo just blows me away.
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John Bronco on Hulu is a pretty good way to spend 40 minutes. It's funny enough, but it would've worn out its welcome if it were any longer. Walton Goggins has like six different kinds of facial hair in it and he sings a song. Not as good as Misbehavin', but still catchy in its own way. The weird 80's commercial was my favorite part.
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I wish Netflix had a "my shelf" feature, that's just all the series I've watched half of without finishing. It falls off recently viewed too quickly, and my memory fades...
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clean ayers act posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cA7kwBSUaU Oh hell yes, I have been quite deep into studying Roman history in my freetime during the quarantine so this is perfect.
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AngryBooch posted:Both big budget series I've watched from German Netflix have completely blown me away, high hopes for this. I’m assuming Dark is one of them, and it is a masterpiece. What’s the other one?
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Glottis posted:Also rewatched Hill House and yeah... it’s still one of my favorite, if not my very favorite, streaming shows of all time. The BNL / Two Storms episode combo just blows me away. I got to the penultimate episode of Bly Manor last night, and I realized that I just couldn't do it anymore. I stopped watching halfway through the episode and I think I'm done with the show. I'm so bored out of my mind with this show, just as I was with Hill House. Everyone keeps talking about how much they love these two seasons, and I wanted to like it, I really did. I realized though that I just didn't care what was happening, none of it is scary or creepy, it's just pure misery porn. And it certainly doesn't help that I find the little girl extremely irritating, and that Henry Thomas's English accent is just really really bad. Edit: Just saw that AVclub gave the penultimate episode a D+ Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Oct 16, 2020 |
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martinlutherbling posted:I’m assuming Dark is one of them, and it is a masterpiece. What’s the other one? Yes, Dark is one. And the other one I was thinking of was Babylon Berlin - which is great but isn't actually made by Netflix Germany, it's just carried by Netflix in the US. My mistake!
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But why though https://twitter.com/THR/status/1317151768048971778?s=20
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The promo shot they used perfectly encapsulates the series
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Oct 16, 2020 18:44
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Yeah that is really weird and I like the show.
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The Netflix Moment: when it's finally "time" for that Marx Brothers movie you queued a year ago, and their puzzling search engine only returns Monty Python and Indian action comedies, not even straightforwardly saying, "We have nothing even remotely like the Marx Brothers for you."
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duck soup, well known for being extremely hard to license
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Maybe they'll focus on the criminal cases going forward? The season finale is this week, isn't it? The Vow, the most unexpected Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Superman spinoff.
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