Streaming Recommendations (Netflix, HBO, Amazon, etc.)

I'm loving Poirot on Nflix. It's a masterpiece.
They have 1935 nailed down. Every scene
is a dream, it's loaded with Art Deco style.
The stories and acting are superb. It's on
the slow side, there is never any violence.
It's Brits being Brits in another era. It's
elegant. I'm not even binging it, too good
for that. One ep a day, there are 13 seasons
with 70 total episodes. This will take awhile.

I've read it changes after the first 50 eps, I
hope they didn't ruin it. It was on for 25 years,
in typical Brit fashion, they skipped a season
here and there.

Smash was fantastic. I ended up buying both seasons, because I will watch it several more times in the next couple decades. Fantastic work by so many people there, all the original music, great casting, a real lock on many of the stage personae I knew when I worked in the industry. If it's reached Netflix, it's worth the journey.

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Smash was fantastic. I ended up buying both seasons, because I will watch it several more times in the next couple decades. Fantastic work by so many people there, all the original music, great casting, a real lock on many of the stage personae I knew when I worked in the industry. If it's reached Netflix, it's worth the journey.

Watched 2 documentaries on Netflix on the same subject
The Prince of Pennsylvania by ESPN 30 for 30
Team FoxCatcher by Netflix

I thought the ESPN was far superior but Netflix had more personal videos shot at the time
This is about the rich John Dupont killing wrestler Dave Schultz
The weird thing
the ESPN documentary, Dave Schultz's brother was a big part of the story
Netflix documentary never mentioned him, Watching the Netflix doc, you would never know Dave had a brother

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Watched 2 documentaries on Netflix on the same subject
The Prince of Pennsylvania by ESPN 30 for 30
Team FoxCatcher by Netflix

I really thought I would like them but I didn't care for either one of them. I am not sure why, maybe I was expecting more of a biography of DuPont or more wrestling material. I attended the U. of Iowa and am a huge wrestling fan so I knew quite a bit already about the Schultz brothers and team Foxcatcher.

Chelsea Handler has a talk show that
debuted today on Nflix. I think this may
be one of the stupidest, most obnoxious
women on TV. Ever.

She brags about being rich and never having
gone to college. She brags about hating kids.
She talks like she never thinks before words
come out of her mouth. Listening to her is
painful.

The first guest on the first show is Obama's
sec of edu. So boring, and Chelsea is so
out of her league with this guy, I had to FF
it. Then she couldn't name all the continents.
She had no idea why there are 365 days in a
year, other than the sun was involved.

I bailed after 20 min. She's 41 and reasonably
attractive. She had that stupid celeb show on
E for years, when she was still hot looking. The
woman is an uneducated airhead who clicks
well with other uneducated airheads, not with
a general audience. If she lasts on Nflix I'll
be shocked and disappointed at the state of
intelligence in the people who watch Nflix.

She doesn't look like this anymore:

At the close of my vacation I streamed the last two seasons of "How I Met Your Mother."

I recommend watching them on a binge, as they make for a rather good, coherent, comedic story. Unlike the previous seasons, there's a focus here on what's been developing previously, with fewer side trips.

The ending, though (SPOILER ALERT), might strike some as disappointing. It was nice to get a look beyond the traditional sitcom finale, but the very end was 1) a reset button and 2) the reveal that the show should have been named "How Ted Pursued Robyn."

Now, as to a spinoff, they should think about developing The Captain.

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Chelsea Handler has a talk show that
debuted today on Nflix. I think this may
be one of the stupidest, most obnoxious
women on TV. Ever.

Her rating on IMDB was 8.9 on Wed, two days
later it's plummeted to 6.7, and it will only go
down from there.

My neighbor highly recommended the following. He said it was one of the best films he has ever seen. I haven't watched it yet.

Michiel de Ruyter is a 2015 Dutch film about the 17th-century admiral Michiel de Ruyter directed by Roel Reiné. The film had its world premiere in the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam on 26 January 2015 and has been released in cinemas in the Netherlands on 29 January 2015. RT gives it 3 good out of 5 reviews.


If you see the location where they are proposing to build a 6 runway airport outside London called the Thames Estuary airport, in 1667 the Admiral Michiel de Ruyter staged a daring attack in that small body of water below the proposed runway. He sank 11 ships and destroyed the naval capabilities of King Charles.

The future William III of England was age 16 at the time, and was then known as William of Orange. Although you would think that the Dutch would be hated in Britain for the wars, it turns out they hated Catholics even more. William married his first cousin Mary, elder surviving daughter of James, Duke of York in 1677. When James became Catholic, and remarried and had a boy, the Protestants in Great Britain asked William and Mary, to rule over Britain in what is called the Glorious Revolution.

William of Orange is the source of the color Orange you see on St. Patrick's Day



On Netflix it is just call ADMIRAL. Don't type in THE ADMIRAL or you will get the movie called MYEONG-RYANG (THE ADMIRAL) (2014) a historical movie about warfare between the Koreans and Japanese.

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My neighbor highly recommended the following. He said it was one of the best films he has ever seen. I haven't watched it yet.

Subtitles?

Quote: Evenbob

Subtitles?

Yes. Unless you speak Dutch and don't need them.