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

Quote: TheCesspit

Makes sense, you tend to only hear about the good/popular stuff out of any group your not directly in. Plus there's a lot of bad TV made in the UK...just like in the US...

If Midsomer Murders is number 10, there must
be some really dreadful ones below it. Foyle
is in the 40's, I imagine it's not popular with
the Brit millennials..

Quote: Evenbob

If Midsomer Murders is number 10, there must
be some really dreadful ones below it. Foyle
is in the 40's, I imagine it's not popular with
the Brit millennials..

Never understood the love for Midsomer Murders. But your probably right about Millenials not loving Foyle's War.

Course, this is only IMDB rankings, but I suspect Foyle's is lower on a lot of lists.

Stranger Things is the summer Netflix series. It is kind of a deliberate throwback to 80's style movie. Think E.T., but on steroids.

It really sucked me in, all 8 hours of it. But I have to say it is kind of an incoherent mess. A strange collection of movie monsters and sci-fi themes.

"Good News, Everyone!"

Netflix will have the new Trek TV series worldwide, except in the US and Canada. It will also have ALL Trek series to date: TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, and the other one.

They had TNG until recently. I discovered I liked browsing the ep list and watching the eps I'd liked only, rather than watching the whole series. That's good, because Voyager, while not up to the level of its predecessors, has some really good eps ("The Year of Hell" in particular).

Quote: Pacomartin

It really sucked me in, all 8 hours of it. But I have to say it is kind of an incoherent mess. A strange collection of movie monsters and sci-fi themes.

I looked hard at this last week and said no
thanks, thanks to tons of reviews like these
on Nflix and IMDB.




Awful
1/10
Author: zavosatis
16 July 2016

Although it starts quite nice, it gets more awful by the minute. The dialogues appear as if spoken by the Teletubbies, everything is repeated at least twice. Winona Ryder (who used to be wonderful!) acts like a 70 year old lunatic witch with weird gestures and wide eyes, even the rest of the cast is screaming and yelling most of the time. The 3 main kids act completely over the top, including all those movements and slang kids use TODAY, but didn't in the 80s! The Natalia Dyer story line (please give her something to eat! She looks as if she is falling apart any time!) is schmaltzy beyond compare, and contains by far the stupidest acting. What is worst, there is probably not one original thought in the whole series, it is just one big mashup from Poltergeist to E.T., the Goonies, Indiana Jones' sidekick Short Round, even Minority Report. You name any other 80s' flick, it's there. But - and this is a huge big BUT - Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven) is absolutely amazing! Every gesture, every shy gaze rips your heart into pieces. She definitely deserves much better than this crap series.

I've learned how to read reviews. I never
read the positive ones, any idiot can like
something. I look at the negatives and
how many there are, and the degree of
negativity. If there aren't many and they
are mild, the show is probably OK.

If there are a lot, like there are for Stranger
Things, and they are vicious and go on
and on, the show most definitely sucks.
So far this has been a pretty good rule
of thumb.

Not a recommendation, but they have a show called "Mindhunter" which was at least partially filmed not five blocks from my house!

Was weird, saw cops and worried for the worst as there was an early morning shooting a few years back in the same general area. Then I see a truck with several vintage-looking late-70s Novas go by. Then I get on the bus to work and see all the news media. Too bad it was not a last year, I walked the area daily then and would have had the time to scope it all out.

Here is to hoping they pick it up!

Quote: Evenbob

But - and this is a huge big BUT - Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven) is absolutely amazing! Every gesture, every shy gaze rips your heart into pieces. She definitely deserves much better than this crap series.

She was the main reason for the series being as compelling.

Earth 2 has been revived on Netflix after 22 years. A very ambitious series that only lasted 21 episodes, on of the stars was a little girl who sadly died before age 22.

Quote: Pacomartin

Earth 2 has been revived on Netflix after 22 years.

Oh? That's really interesting.

When it ran, I had a hard time getting it. Many episodes trailed off rather than end. It wasn't until I was deep into watching Babylon Five that I realize dit was also an arc show.