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I have been watching a netflix show called "3%" about what life is like in modern day Brazil, it's dramatic and fun and pretty good.
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Thanks for the Hinterlands/Y Gwyll recommendation. Watched the first episode, then very quickly watched the rest. It's fantastic. Shame there's only 4 episodes because I could have easily kept watching it. Broadchurch isn't available on UK Netflix anymore unfortunately. Going to try River as that looks like a good crime serial, and well Stellan Skarsgard. 
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Twerk from Home posted:I got a fancy-rear end new Dolby Vision HDR + 4K TV, is there any Netflix 4K content that's also good TV or is it just dreck so far? Narcos
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For anyone like me who discounted Galavant because you thought it'd be too Once Upon a Time, having watched most of it now I'd say a much better comparison is Men in Tights. It's more jokey than Princess Bride though that's also a decent comparison. It's a little mainstream in that it's a bit heavy on the "lol look we're subverting a trope!" but overall I'm finding it enjoyable and the cast is great.
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Dec 4, 2016 02:43
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There's a new original show on Netflix called Pacific Heat; is it just an Aussie ripoff of Archer, or worth watching?
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:There's a new original show on Netflix called Pacific Heat; is it just an Aussie ripoff of Archer, or worth watching? Using IMDB as an indicator, it's either really funny or pretty bad. 4.5 with 59 votes, and people in their forums said the animation is horrible and is more like "a bad cartoon version of NTSF:SD:SUV" however others really like it even if it's a ripoff of Archer. Looks like you might just have to give it a try.
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Dec 4, 2016 02:56
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:There's a new original show on Netflix called Pacific Heat; is it just an Aussie ripoff of Archer, or worth watching? I was wondering same thing. Take one for the team and report back with your opinion.
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Dec 4, 2016 07:37
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Hey the live action Jungle Book is on Netflix and it is pretty good. I really did not expect to like it very much but it's pretty good.
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Mr Holmes is on Amazon Prime. Sherlock is near the end of his life, is suffering from alzheimer's, and tries to remember the case the sent him to retirement. All he knows for sure is that the real ending was different than Watson's story and he assumes that if it sent him into retirement that he was unsuccessful. If you go in expecting to see the genius you will be disappointed, Holmes is a shadow of his former self, but Ian McKellen is outstanding and I was pulled in from the get go.
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Dec 4, 2016 08:21
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:For anyone like me who discounted Galavant because you thought it'd be too Once Upon a Time, having watched most of it now I'd say a much better comparison is Men in Tights. It's more jokey than Princess Bride though that's also a decent comparison. It's a little mainstream in that it's a bit heavy on the "lol look we're subverting a trope!" but overall I'm finding it enjoyable and the cast is great. I keep telling people this!
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Riffrax, the Mystery Science Theater 3000 spiritual successor, just dropped a bunch of their streaming video full length movie riffs on Amazon Prime if anyone still uses that
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wormil posted:Mr Holmes is on Amazon Prime. Sherlock is near the end of his life, is suffering from alzheimer's, and tries to remember the case the sent him to retirement. All he knows for sure is that the real ending was different than Watson's story and he assumes that if it sent him into retirement that he was unsuccessful. If you go in expecting to see the genius you will be disappointed, Holmes is a shadow of his former self, but Ian McKellen is outstanding and I was pulled in from the get go. Saw this in the theater. It was good.
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jodai posted:Hey the live action Jungle Book is on Netflix and it is pretty good. I really did not expect to like it very much but it's pretty good. The new live action jungle book or the old live action jungle book?
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Dec 4, 2016 19:50
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New one. It's pretty good.
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best bale posted:I was wondering same thing. Take one for the team and report back with your opinion. Watched two episodes of Pacific Heat and it really, really feels like an Archer ripoff but much less funny. I'll try watching one or two more just for kicks. Also because I think the character VJ in South African by her accent and I'd like to confirm that. I think their informant is supposed to be Maori, but I don't know all the accents well enough to guess plus the writing is so stilted and delivery so wooden I can't tell what's accent and what's failure. Aside from just not being that funny, and painfully an Archer ripoff, it appears that Australians have a much, much higher tolerance/enjoyment of ethnic humor directed at East Asians. Also, as weird as this sounds, it really seems like they're using some kind of computerized voice generator for some of the characters, like normal people talking but there's this slight auto-tune-esque vibe to it that sounds really unnatural. I guess my overall assessment is it's pretty bad but I'm intrigued enough to sit through another hour or so to see how bad it is.
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Fumaofthelake posted:Give it 4 or 5 episodes. This turned out to be spot on. By ep 6 it felt like a different show.
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Inzombiac posted:New one. It's pretty good. I liked it. End credits were so great too.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Watched two episodes of Pacific Heat and it really, really feels like an Archer ripoff but much less funny. I'll try watching one or two more just for kicks. Also because I think the character VJ in South African by her accent and I'd like to confirm that. I think their informant is supposed to be Maori, but I don't know all the accents well enough to guess plus the writing is so stilted and delivery so wooden I can't tell what's accent and what's failure. This was a very good write up, I appreciate your sacrifice. Also glad it's "good" enough to keep watching a bit for laughs and not just so bad it makes you angry. I'll file this one away for drinking nights with friends.
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Dec 6, 2016 00:15
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I've been using it as background noise while I eat or dick around with my phone. I honestly like it more than the most recent Archer seasons. Nowhere near as good as early Archer, though.
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Mercenary is really something. It's the story of a young pacific islander who accepts a contract to go to France to play rugby professionally - and then things do not go according to plan at all. It's really bleak for most of the movie and the ending was really something. I went in expecting that the kid would end up joining to French Foreign Legion and becoming Major Badass, but that is not what happened at all. Largely it is about being a minority in a niche career and what sacrifices you have to make. "Come on - show us a haka - just a little one! Why you gotta be such a punk!?" I also saw Supremacy, which is a fictionalized retelling of the window of freedom that Walter Scully Jr experienced before returning to captivity after killing a police officer and taking a family hostage. Danny Glover really kills it, and the cameo by Anson Mount was great - I nearly didn't recognize him until I heard his voice.
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Speaking of shows you avoid watching but then end up getting into, I finally gave Netflix's F is for Family a try. Somehow I thought it'd just be a bad Family Guy ripoff, and I hated the one episode of Brickleberry I watched so was already cartoon-shy. I'm really getting into F now though; it's a dark-but-sweet comedy about lower-middle-class suburban life in the 1970s. If I had to draw a comparison, maybe it's a cross between Rugrats and Bojack?
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Speaking of shows you avoid watching but then end up getting into, I finally gave Netflix's F is for Family a try. Somehow I thought it'd just be a bad Family Guy ripoff, and I hated the one episode of Brickleberry I watched so was already cartoon-shy. You're in charge, if anything happens to her just call me and I'll come right home... and put you through that fuckin wall.
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Just watched a film labeled "The Grip Reaper" on Amazon Prime, turns out to be the US title for the 1980 Italian horror film Antropophagus that I'd scrolled past on YouTube while searching cheesy old slashers. I watched it and found it overall enjoyable since I like the genre, though I was kind of surprised it wasn't very gory. All the more surprised when I glanced at the Wikipedia article and it mentioned it was one of the infamous "video nasties" that was banned in Britain for years. I eventually deduced that what I watched must've been the R-rated cut where they cut out all the extreme gore, most famously the part where the killer pulls a fetus out of his pregnant victim and eats it. I don't know if the version on YouTube is full-gore or partial, but in whatever case it's worth a watch if you liked Bay of Blood and other such Italian slashers.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Speaking of shows you avoid watching but then end up getting into, I finally gave Netflix's F is for Family a try. Somehow I thought it'd just be a bad Family Guy ripoff, and I hated the one episode of Brickleberry I watched so was already cartoon-shy. My sister sent me a snapchat of the sex scene and I immediately started watching it and loved it. If you don't know what scene it is you will when you see it I promise you.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Speaking of shows you avoid watching but then end up getting into, I finally gave Netflix's F is for Family a try. Somehow I thought it'd just be a bad Family Guy ripoff, and I hated the one episode of Brickleberry I watched so was already cartoon-shy. That felt like a show that was better than it had any right to be.
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3% on Netflix. It's a Portuguese sci-fi show about a yearly contest where anyone who is 20 years-old can attempt to pass a series of trials to gain permanent membership into "The Offshore", a utopia and beacon of hope while the rest of the world has gone to poo poo. I won't say anything more because I like it and you should too! Most of the costumes are dumb as hell but I don't really care.
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Dec 11, 2016 05:54
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Leavemywife posted:That felt like a show that was better than it had any right to be. Bill Burr is awesome and he drew on a lot of his own experiences growing up when he was writing the show. Think it is getting a second season as well.
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Yup second season was confirmed a few months ago. It'll be out mid 2017 I think it said.
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The Search for General Tso on Netflix is a docu about finding the man who created General Tso's Chicken (I believe he just passed away recently), but a larger look at the history of Chinese American cuisine and Chinese restaurants and it's really awesome and will make you hungry. It even has a neat little twist at the end.
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Jane the Virgin is some of the most hilarious TV I've seen in ages. (Netflix) It's a telenovela on steroids, played mostly seriously but clearly meant to ape the genre. Don't be scared off by "telenovela;" it's very accessible if your first language is English and I don't mean in a "just read the subtitles" way. A vast majority of the dialogue is in English and even if you don't speak a word of Spanish, it's clear from the context what the Spanish lines are. I don't want to spoil too much but the premise is laid out in the first seconds of the show--Jane was waiting to have sex until she was married, and during a routine gynecological exam, her doctor confuses her for another patient and artificially inseminates her instead of doing a simple exam. What follows is an amalgamation of every telenovela ever, except with the intensity turned to 11. Betrayals, evil twins, characters disappearing for episodes and then coming back inexplicably, etc., and all of it is narrated by the excessively talented Anthony Mendez in real time. It's amazing.
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Inzombiac posted:3% on Netflix. It's a Portuguese sci-fi show about a yearly contest where anyone who is 20 years-old can attempt to pass a series of trials to gain permanent membership into "The Offshore", a utopia and beacon of hope while the rest of the world has gone to poo poo. Brazilian.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Jane the Virgin is some of the most hilarious TV I've seen in ages. (Netflix) A friend from college works on that show and posts about it on Facebook all the time. It looks good and I hope it does well, he's a cool dude.
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ten_twentyfour posted:Brazilian. Woops. Them speaking Portuguese threw me off. The city looking like a São Paulo slum should have tipped me off. Sources are saying that Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is available but I can't find it.
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Inzombiac posted:Woops. Them speaking Portuguese threw me off. The city looking like a São Paulo slum should have tipped me off. If you're friends with Daniel Torr4nce he has a copy.
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syscall girl posted:If you're friends with Daniel Torr4nce he has a copy. Part of the point of this thread is that you're *not* pirating things, you know
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flatluigi posted:Part of the point of this thread is that you're *not* pirating things, you know I like my netflix and HBO Go accounts but people do use alternatives. Especially when there is no way to pay for something.
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Inzombiac posted:Woops. Them speaking Portuguese threw me off. The city looking like a São Paulo slum should have tipped me off. Definitely available on my Netflix as I binge watched it over the last few days. Think on the US it is BBC America, but Netflix elsewhere. I started off hating it and much preferring the BBC version with Stephen Mangan, then after about three episodes, the plot kept unfurling and really held my interest. It's nothing to do with the books whatsoever, but it is a pretty good take on the interconnectedness-of-all-things theme. Kind of hate the bloke playing Dirk though, he just seems to be doing it as camp with not really any nuance.
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Rolo posted:A friend from college works on that show and posts about it on Facebook all the time. It looks good and I hope it does well, he's a cool dude. Tell your friend from college some guy from the internet said he's a cool dude working on a cool show and wish him well for me Inzombiac posted:3% on Netflix. Thanks for this. We put it on last night and were very impressed. The premise almost makes it sound like a Hunger Games knockoff but it's far from it and well worth watching.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Tell your friend from college some guy from the internet said he's a cool dude working on a cool show and wish him well for me Good  I haven't finished it yet but one thing I love is how there really isn't a big, bad villain. Everyone is just doing their best in an extremely flawed system.
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Watched an episode of Pacific Heat and everyone who said it was terrible wasn't lying.
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