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Collateral posted:There are so many! I was curious about Prime Suspect because Helen Mirren was in it so it's gotta be good, but it's nice to have someone other than a review site say it's worth it. I've already seen and loved Life on Mars, but then after pulling it up on IMDB I realize that was a US production of it, so I'll watch the UK original gladly. I started watching something called Line of Duty and I just didn't click with it. It's a little too heavy and depressing, I don't regret seeing season 1 because it had Lennie James (Morgan from Walking Dead), and he's always amazing, but I'm a fan of shows with happier endings. But yay, thank you so much for the suggestions! Everything you mentioned sounds like they're right up my alley.
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raven77 posted:I have always been a British detective show watcher. It started when I was a kid and would watch Poirot with my mom, and it's been true ever since. I've watched all of Midsummer Murders, Luther, Father Brown, Grantchester, The Fall, Shetland, Death in Paradise, Grace, The Tower, and recently I finished a binge of every episode of Inspector Morse. I tried Lewis, but it just didn't hook me after a couple episodes, I tried Inspector Frost but bowed out mid episode 1. So I'm asking are there any British detective shows that are just so good you'd be stupid to not watch? I have pretty much every standard streaming service, I recently picked up Britbox, but I think I might have exhausted the usual suspects. The two that came to mind that aren't on your list are Foyle's War and (this is actually Australian) Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
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My plan of only watching the final episode of Hijacked worked out fine! solid 7/10
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raven77 posted:I have always been a British detective show watcher. It started when I was a kid and would watch Poirot with my mom, and it's been true ever since. I've watched all of Midsummer Murders, Luther, Father Brown, Grantchester, The Fall, Shetland, Death in Paradise, Grace, The Tower, and recently I finished a binge of every episode of Inspector Morse. I tried Lewis, but it just didn't hook me after a couple episodes, I tried Inspector Frost but bowed out mid episode 1. So I'm asking are there any British detective shows that are just so good you'd be stupid to not watch? I have pretty much every standard streaming service, I recently picked up Britbox, but I think I might have exhausted the usual suspects. I recommend Vera as top tier, then next tier Unforgotten. Anything with Nicola Walker really. Recommend Happy Valley as top tier too, but it isn't really a mystery show, rather more like small town cop vibes. There's one season of a show called River with Stellan Skarsgård, pretty solid. Hinterland was decent too for most of the run. Edit: Also we just started George Gently and I think it's probably up your alley. Thunderlips fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/disney-plus-price-increase-hulu-espn-plus-1235692057/quote:
The Disney Bundle that includes ESPN+ goes up from $19.99 to $24.99. Also no annual plans for the bundles. This is great!
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Enshitification hitting streaming hard.
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mcmagic posted:Enshitification hitting streaming hard. No kidding. Hulu is mostly filled with garbage and is no way worth that much a month. I don't really know what Disney+ has. Just the old cartoons plus Marvel/Star Wars?
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1glitch0 posted:No kidding. Hulu is mostly filled with garbage and is no way worth that much a month. It has a decent catalog of Disney Tv shows, movies, tv movies, animated shorts.
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Luckily both Disney and Hulu are services I get from friends/family...only use the former for old episodes of The Simpsons. Hulu has some decent/interesting movies rotating in from time to time (like the most recent Quentin Dupieux movie) and some fun crap TV (like new episodes of The Simpsons) but it's not worth paying for no.
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Hulu has the funny vampire show and Reservation Dogs.
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Wonder how many blu rays I could buy a month for all my tv subscription fees
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If Hulu isn’t worth paying for I’m not sure what is. All of the services get a baseline flood of junk to pad the numbers along with some TV exclusives & occasional higher-tier movies. Hulu certainly felt better than Paramount Plus and I can’t imagine Peacock amounts to much. I don’t think any single streaming platform is good enough to be a sole provider, that’s why I rotate through them. Paying for multiple at the same time (other than maybe a few specialty services like Shudder, Criterion, etc) feels like a waste to me because there’s no way I can consume that much content.
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Hulu has a lot of good shows on it. D+ is pretty anemic when it comes to new content. We just keep it around for all the old stuff our kids watch a lot.
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From my perspective, Disney+ is: * Marvel movies: still usually watch the new ones * Marvel series: nope, I’m out * Star Wars series: Andor was good * Star Wars movies: are these still a thing? * Pixar movies: all seem the same * Disney movies: are these all remakes now?
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Every week Hulu adds another smaller indie movie that I have been dying to see: Spin Me Round, Infinity Pool, Swallow, which is great because the indie theater near me closed down during Covid. That plus the FX shows are more than enough for me to keep the service.
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We just get the free trial for Hulu every few months by adding periods into our gmail accounts Like johnsmith@gmail.com john.smith@gmail.com j.ohnsmith@gmail.com etc
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I watched No Naked CGI Jennifer Lawrence beating up kids was one of the most bizarre things I've seen in a movie. Uncanny valley breached. mcmagic fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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mcmagic posted:I watched No Strings Attached Wow! The same thing happened in No Hard Feelings! 
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Medullah posted:Wow! The same thing happened in No Hard Feelings! lol god drat it
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mcmagic posted:I watched No I haven’t seen it but when it came out didn’t she do a bunch of interviews talking about filming it naked and it was pretty clear it’s not CGI?
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Brocktoon posted:I haven’t seen it but when it came out didn’t she do a bunch of interviews talking about filming it naked and it was pretty clear it’s not CGI? It possible that a small part of it wasn't but it's an action scene and it TOTALLY looks like it's CGI to me.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Just to confirm: this is the one that was on HBO and has topless ladies and sex scenes, right? My kid and I have been doing OG Twilight Zone watches and he generally enjoys it, but we're gonna run out eventually and I want to make sure it's kid appropriate. I just noticed that Amazon Prime has individual ratings for each episode, and it looks like the ones marked 18+ are the episodes with nudity. I'm not sure if 16+ is for violence, but most of them are marked at 13+ which is as low as they go for the series 
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Well thank you very much! That's a helpful find. Alas, it appears that Outer Limits is blocked on Amazon Prime in the USA.
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I'm in the USA, I think this might be a case of Amazon listing the same thing multiple times, there's the Amazon Prime version and then the MGM+ version that you can also get through prime, but you need to have a separate subscription
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It looks like it's just season 1 that is unavailable, 2-7 all look included with Prime for me (in the US).
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I get Hulu with ads for free, but I'm weary of seeing the same ads again and again. The Algorithm finally realized I don't have children or dogs, and only shows me ads for therapy, hair loss treatment, and dick pills. I resent the assumption that I need dick pills.
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raven77 posted:I have always been a British detective show watcher. It started when I was a kid and would watch Poirot with my mom, and it's been true ever since. I've watched all of Midsummer Murders, Luther, Father Brown, Grantchester, The Fall, Shetland, Death in Paradise, Grace, The Tower, and recently I finished a binge of every episode of Inspector Morse. I tried Lewis, but it just didn't hook me after a couple episodes, I tried Inspector Frost but bowed out mid episode 1. So I'm asking are there any British detective shows that are just so good you'd be stupid to not watch? I have pretty much every standard streaming service, I recently picked up Britbox, but I think I might have exhausted the usual suspects. I love 1989-2003 Poirot to this day and liked some Luther but hate the other shows mentioned in your post, so I don’t know if you’ll mesh with my suggestions, but here it goes: Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Alec Guinness Smiley’s People with Alec Guinness Happy Valley S1 Line of Duty Whitechapel S1 Cracker
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The first several seasons of Midsummer Murders is great and particularly charming. Downsides: it's super white, the first episode has someone using a gay slur but getting reprimanded for it, the character in that episode that the slur was directed towards is an absolutely batshit insane stereotype, one of the other early episodes has a character who was crossdressing and the lead investigator is compassionate but also like "they were a transvestite or transexual, I don't really know the difference" in a pretty dismissive way. I mean don't watch it for its politics and watch with the context it's fairly conservative late 90s/early 2000s Britain and it's got a charm. Plus like every other episode has someone who was on game of thrones or downton, or someone who is now way too famous to be doing British procedurals.
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IIRC years ago one of writers of Midsummer Murders said one of the reasons it's so liked is that it's exclusively white and English people enjoy the comfort of that (or words to that effect). That's an especially deranged statement since he would've said that at a time where non-whites on British TV were pretty much non-existent. I personally haven't known anyone who watched and liked Midsummer Murders. It's twee shite.
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Halloween Jack posted:I get Hulu with ads for free, but I'm weary of seeing the same ads again and again. The Algorithm finally realized I don't have children or dogs, and only shows me ads for therapy, hair loss treatment, and dick pills. I resent the assumption that I need dick pills. La, la, lalalala! La, la, laalalala!!
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Rollie Fingers posted:IIRC years ago one of writers of Midsummer Murders said one of the reasons it's so liked is that it's exclusively white and English people enjoy the comfort of that (or words to that effect). Asking the guy with the Colombo avatar, what is the Peter Faulkiest show you would recommend? Halloween Jack posted:I get Hulu with ads for free, but I'm weary of seeing the same ads again and again. The Algorithm finally realized I don't have children or dogs, and only shows me ads for therapy, hair loss treatment, and dick pills. I resent the assumption that I need dick pills. I just came to post how Hulu has so many ads it's like 90's basic cable. It's ruining Reservation Dogs for me.
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I recently started watching some episodes of The Tick on Amazon again and forgot how enjoyable it is. It's almost refreshing to see a show set in a somewhat similar universe to The Boys but lighthearted and without all the violent edginess thrown in (I still enjoy that show, but it's a bit much sometimes). Mostly I just want more Peter Serafinowicz in more stuff.
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raven77 posted:I have always been a British detective show watcher. It started when I was a kid and would watch Poirot with my mom, and it's been true ever since. I've watched all of Midsummer Murders, Luther, Father Brown, Grantchester, The Fall, Shetland, Death in Paradise, Grace, The Tower, and recently I finished a binge of every episode of Inspector Morse. I tried Lewis, but it just didn't hook me after a couple episodes, I tried Inspector Frost but bowed out mid episode 1. So I'm asking are there any British detective shows that are just so good you'd be stupid to not watch? I have pretty much every standard streaming service, I recently picked up Britbox, but I think I might have exhausted the usual suspects. Have you watched “Line of Duty”? Watched this series a while ago and thought it was great. It follows an anti corruption unit that investigates corrupt cops. Seasons are like 5 episodes and the finale is always an intense 45 minute interrogation scene which are always great.
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I'm running out of poo poo to watch so I watched the first episode of Special Ops Lioness.... It's a pretty well made and fast moving 45 mins with a lot of big stars in it but holy military propaganda lol.......
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Line of Duty is less "so good you'd be stupid not to watch" and more "so stupid you'd be good not to watch." I kid, but it gets real dumb and melodramatic. But where else can you find stories about nailing bent coppers?
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I dunno where best to put it but I read this incredible article with an oral history about The Fugitive earlier today and am now rewatching the movie for the 17963th time. Can't wait to pick it up in 4k in a couple months: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/the-fugitive-movie-oral-history-cast-director-1234789685/
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