Help. Tell what I have not watched on Netflix that I should have.

[Lochloosa]

Movies. TV shows. Any genre.

Thanks.

[MattP]

1. I binged altered carbon I loved it was confused for the first episode or 2 but settled down and was

Glow was excellent Stranger Things

[Bleacher Creature]

2. I just watched season 1 of "The Good Place"

Very quick, but hilarious.

If you want action, all the the Marvel shows are great, with the exception of Iron Fist.

[Upthevibe]

41. I second your suggestion of "The Good Place"

And I've heard that Season 2 is even better.......

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

83. It is.

Season 2 of "The Good Place" is on Hulu.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

3. Let's see

The Crown, Bloodline, Marco Polo, Cosmos with Neil Degrasse Tyson. Black Sails definitely if you like historical fiction with pirates. Just a couple off the top of my head.

[brewens]

4. Fargo. Movie and series if you haven't seen them. n/t

[shenmue]

5. "The Tudors"

[brucefan]

6. I Loved

Bloodline

[Zoonart]

7. In no particular order..

Ozark, Peaky Blinders, Versailles, Schitt's Creek, Sense 8, The O/A, David Letterman- My next guest needs no introduction.
Detectorists.

Don't know your taste, but I think there's a little bit of something for everyone in this list.
Just started with Altered Carbon,- straight noiri-sh sci-fy. Set direction is heavily Blade Runner. Interesting with a little bit of the ultra-V.

[Lochloosa]

8. Thanks everyone. Lot's I have not seen.

[lunasun]

9. Someone here rec'd Dirty Money the Trump episode earlier today . Iwill check it out when I get home

So I can not rec it to you myself yet but check it out also

[Sophia4]

55. I have not watched it yet, but I think I read that it will be Episode 6.

[logosoco]

62. I have watched this and can second your rec.

But have something lined up that is more cheerful for afterward!

[klook]

79. Yes, Preet Bharara had Alex Gibney, exec. producer of the series, on his podcast.

Fascinating interview (Jan. 18) that made me want to watch the series. I've only seen the Trump one so far, and it's great, but they all look pretty interesting.

[frazzled]

10. Mudbound

Trailer here:

https://m.

[Lochloosa]

11. Great movie.

[Clarity2]

15. That looks really good

I dont know how I missed that one. So much to watch, so little time...

[frazzled]

22. Its up for 4 Oscars, so good to catch beforehand

Best Supporting actress (Mary J. Blige)

Best Cinematography (Rachel Morrison) — first woman director of photography to be nominated, ever!

Best Adapted Screenplay (Dee Rees and Virgil Williams) — first black woman ever in this category!

Best Song

I doubt it will win most of these, but great that they are nominated

[WhiteTara]

12. Grace and Frankie.

I binged 2 seasons...I'm still trying to catch up with my life! Then I get up to date for the next season. I love it.

[GoCubsGo]

17. Yes!

I just started watching it recently. It's excellent! I'm not very far into it, but I'll probably do a little binging tonight, since I am not interested in the Concussion Bowl, other than the half-time show.

[WhiteTara]

23. What makes it easy to binge is that it just moves from one

episode to the next almost seamlessly.

[mr_lebowski]

26. Really want to like that show for so many reasons but find it cringe-worthy ...

Lily Tomlin's character is just INCREDIBLY annoying to me (and I like both HER, and that 'sort of person' Frankie is a sort of archetype of, believe me, but just not Frankie).

I don't buy them as vibrator enterpreneurs, and I dislike most of their Kids characters as well.

Oh, and Sheen and Watterston (sp?) are COMPLETELY unbelievable to me as a gay couple.

And Fonda is kinda annoying as well but a little less than the other 3.

I love all them, I really do ... and I'm not saying it's 'bad' per se, but I just cannot get into that show.

It bugs me.

YMMV.

[Lochloosa]

32. I feel the same way. I really tried to like it.

[WhiteTara]

43. Well, it is deeply funny to women.

And it is very plausible they could invent and sell vibrators for older women.

It reminds me of that old Joanie Mitchell song lyrics...you don't like weak women, they make you sick and you don't like strong women cause they're hip to your tricks....

[TexasBushwhacker]

46. I'm a woman and I don't find it funny at all

I really wanted to like it, but I just find it painful to watch.

[WhiteTara]

47. Sorry.

[Hortensis]

65. My husband and I both have enjoyed it a lot.

All characters well cast, well done. It's the purplish-haze makeover of the beach house in the third season I can't stand, but I just squint my eyes and pretend it isn't happening.

Inevitably, the first season was the best, but I'll take even an excessively emotionally vulnerable character gladly if played by Tomlin, and those usually irritate the hell out of me.

[WhiteTara]

68. Rather than focus on the cast, etc

I find the themes of the show are so spot on. Everything women of a certain age think funny or not. I loved the churchie women looking down their noses at the vibrator and then calling it "god's work"

[Hortensis]

69. Lol. That was good. I loved the edge of the women

dealing with the long-term betrayals of their husbands and trying to imagine starting a new life in their 70s the most. I want to see more of that, fewer gorgeous romantic men showing up out of nowhere, immediately finding them irresistible and trying to sweep them off into some adolescent fantasy of happily ever after.

Just remembered! My charming MIL said a flat no to trading her freedom for wifehood all over again to an eager millionaire at around that same age. Good heavens. Wish she could have seen this.

For something else somewhat less than believable, it's Jane Fonda or Tomlin becoming "invisible" with age the way less charismatic women do, at least if they don't choose to, but it's real for most, so I appreciated Fonda screaming about it for everyone else.

[WhiteTara]

70. Yes, that's what I'm talking about! Those

themes and the one where they're not being taken seriously by bankers and investors...that was a searing reminder of some of my past as a woman business owner.

Yes, the issue of betrayal runs through the whole show. How everyone let's everyone else down and how they deal with it. Good stuff.

I had to stop at season 3. I'll pick it back up soon. It's hard to give that many days to watching a tv show for several hours each day.

[Hortensis]

71. Binge watching has its limited, in pleasure especially.

Remember the delight and anticipation of watching a show you loved and looking forward to the next week?

That said, something brought LA Law to mind, I went looking for it and am streaming season 1, episode 15 now, something I almost never do. Same old social problems. We haven't advanced much since 1986 Los Angeles.

So agree about the issues. I'd like a little more of my MIL in those women. See them coming to terms with unwilling independence and the realities of being vital, fun, sophisticated, but divorced "old women." Without being anxious to leap back into the roles they lived for 50 years.

I use that term because this morning someone here did. "Just what we need, more old women ... forced to keep working longer." He was talking about women at typical retirement age, i.e., mid 60s! I couldn't help thinking that by choosing to work longer { "forced" ) those "old women" would also be keeping jobs others would like to have and not taking themselves off out of sight to wherever old women go.

I've enjoyed sharing with someone who knows what I mean.

[Skittles]

73. same

I lasted 1.5 episodes

[mr_lebowski]

50. I love their strength and independence and all and love their little business ...

It's just that I can't BUY these characters ... they all just feel like obvious archetypes unimaginatively 'brought to life' and I don't like how that Frankie is such a ditz ... and I don't buy the guys as gay OR a couple ... and I'm constantly shaking my head why they've broke up their lives with their wives when their wives ... seem so much better matched for them. And it's NOT at all that I'm uncomfortable with the notion in general, it's just with these characters ... It feels heavy-handed and awkward to me and I don't feel like any of the actors really inhabit their characters (Fonda I feel like is the best though) all that well, nor are they all that well-written.

I'm sorry to mention it, and honestly I'm very happy that some people love it ... I love all the actors I really do ... but I don't care much for these roles and I don't find the writing inspired. I think they're so great ... they deserve a 'better show' is what it comes down to ...

Peace

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

84. I'm also a woman and didn't care for it.

The first half season was pretty good, and then it became more of a cartoon. So I won't be watching subsequent seasons.

I find reality so very interesting, that I often despair when shows that (for me) start out well, then go off into (in my opinion) stupid tangents.

[WhiteTara]

92. May I ask

how old are you? If you are a younger woman, these themes may not apply so much to you.

I'm 70 and so many of these themes are those of my generation, which I find both hilarious and depressing as hell, but that is what makes gallows humor, right?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

96. I'm 69. Not a younger woman. (Long Post)

My essential problem with a lot of TV shows and movies is that they stray so far from the way the real world works that it's maddening. Or they'll get fundamental things wrong. Since I watched the first season of that show when it came out, maybe watched the first episode of the second and then stopped, I'm forgetting too many specifics to say very much, other than the Frankie character is too much of a ditz to be believed, and the Grace character is simply a typical Jane Fonda role that we've seen a lot of times. And the sad thing for me is that both of those women are fine actresses, and so I went into it with high hopes. Not to mention that Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston are like wise amazing actors. And I think, at least in what I watched, that they did a good job of showing that they are in love with each other and had just finally come to the point where they didn't want to live a lie any more. That was well done.

Absurd exaggerations and straying a very long way from the truth/real world is a huge problem in TV and movies.

Another example: "The Americans", which I think I've been watching on Netflix, is for the most part excellent. In case you don't know it, it's about a pair of deep undercover Soviet spies who live and work in Washington DC during the 1980's. They present as a normal American couple with two children and they own a travel agency to earn money. Except that they almost never go in to work, and they are constantly taking off at odd hours to do their spy thing. In the first season their two kids are still pretty young, to the point where the taking off at odd hours would be a huge problem that is just ignored. And then they are using someone who works at (if I'm recalling correctly) a Boeing plant supposedly in the DC area. Huh?

That last is simply unnecessary. They're in DC. Practically everyone works for the government there. Lots and lots of opportunities to do their spy thing. Sticking much closer to the real world of DC would be just as interesting and have plenty of plot possibilities. I'll continue watching that show because I like the characters and find them sufficiently interesting and close enough to people I know (not that I know any spies that I'm aware of, but you get what I mean) that I'll simply roll my eyes and complain a bit at the flaws.

With Grace and Frankie, these women are so far removed from reality that I'm not willing to let them into my life any more.

"Travelers", which I've been enjoying may lose me because of a plot twist at the end of the second season, but I will certainly start watching the third when it's available. That one is about people who are from several hundred years in the future. Their consciousness is sent back and overrides someone else immediately before that person was to die. Nice concept. Once the future people, the travelers are here, they form up in groups of five and carry out various missions intended to fix the future. Excellent. One of the travelers inhabits an intellectually challenged woman named Marcie, and because the traveler isn't intellectually challenged, Marcie rather quickly has normal, indeed well above average intelligence. Nice, because there are lots of things to be dealt with on the personal level for "Marcie". But all of a sudden in the middle of the second season she's an x-ray technician, as if people can walk off the street and get that job. No, you go to school for that. Takes at least six months, maybe a year or more. Oh, and an episode or two later she's apparently a nurse because (for purposes of the plot) she gives someone her vaccinations. Aaargghhh!

The other huge problem with that show is that the travelers keep on having to leave their jobs or normal lives (one is a high school student, another a stay at home mom) to do their missions. Those with jobs would have been fired within a couple of months for taking off the way they do. At least our characters in "The Americans" have a cover job that is reasonably believable in providing them the opportunity to not show up at work for days on end. Although they never take fam trips, familiarization trips which are one of the great perks of the travel agency business. They'd go off for a weekend or longer, stay in different hotels and sample the delights of a particular destination so that they can better serve their clients, that they now know that specific destination personally.

On the other hand, I've watched much of "Two and a half Men" and have no trouble with the silliness and non logical things there simply because the Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer characters are so over the top from the beginning. Oh, and I love Conchetta Ferrell as Berta the housekeeper. She's a hoot. All of the minor characters in that series are well cast and are well written, which helps a lot.

Thank you for hearing me out.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

72. Yeah, I lasted about 1 episode - I like some sitcoms, but that aint one. nt

[llmart]

40. Absolutely loved that show!

I think it only took me two days to watch all of Season 4. Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are great together and the whole story line is so damned funny.

[Clarity2]

13. Ditto

to Bloodline, the Crown and Fargo (first season)
Dirty Money (theres an episode of trump in there)
Grace and Frankie (very funny/uplifting)
Stranger Things
Narcos

[dawg day]

52. The Crown was unexpectedly involving.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Trollhunter.

It's a really funny horror movie about the government trying to hide the fact that trolls are real. In Norwegian with subtitles.

[SonofDonald]

24. Right on!, didn't think I'd see that here

Very well done, not expected, another was "Hanger 10" but it's off the listings right now, alien visitation movie, another goodie is "Man VS" low budget but well acted and filmed.

I'm a sci-fi/horror nut but no slasher/Saw type stuff, not into death porn.

Some great alien visitation non-fiction is "Sirius" and "Unaknowledged"

There's little treasures of all types out there among the thousands of throwaway films.

You just have to dig, deep...

[lapfog_1]

16. ...

halt and catch fire
stranger things
futurama
any documentary on the environment or planetary geography or geology ( well, almost any )

[SonofDonald]

25. Yes, the sciences are well represented on netflix

The new "Cosmos" also, I love history also and there's lots there, factual stuff is always better than period dramas.

[MissMillie]

18. Well, I don't know what you've watched....

but Al and I have been watching "Atypical," a series about an autistic teen.

Al has an autistic son, and an autistic granddaughter... this show has given me a lot of insight. Plus, it's entertaining.

[Paladin]

19. "The Crown"

Multi-season biographical dramatization of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Really high quality---will ruin "Downton Abbey" and other PBS Anglophile costume dramas for you, forever.

[Cirque du So-What]

20. Black Mirror

Like The Outer Limits for the internet era.

[Tikki]

21. I like Travelers...so do about 97% of those who watch it. It is escapism Sci-Fi...

with a winning cast. Sometimes it is exactly what you need.

It is Canadian, also.



Just hoping for Season 3.


Tikki

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

85. I've been watching "Travellers"

and I'm afraid that the turn it has taken at the end of season 2 is going to end my watching of it.

And aside from a fundamental plot twist (which I won't spoil), am I the only person who thinks that most people can't casually leave their jobs for hours at a time to do something totally not job related?

Or that someone can mysteriously, and with no evidence of training, go from working in a library to being an x-ray tech and an episode after that is apparently a nurse because she's giving someone a vaccination in a clinical setting?

[AJT]

27. For a simple, family friendly series there is "Heartland"

About a Canadian ranching family. There are 9 seasons on Netflix.

[procon]

80. You might like "When Calls the Heart"

I don't usually go for this genre, but its and the series was pleasantly funny. It's a love story between an upper-crust young woman who journeys to rural mining town in Canada to take her first teaching job, and a dashing mountie. They have an off again, on again romance with all kinds of disagreements. The mountain scenery is wonderful, the period costumes are lovely, and the sets try to look historically correct. Season 5 is supposed to premiere in February 2018, on Hallmark with ten episodes.episodes.

[C_U_L8R]

28. Schitt's Creek !!

[klook]

77. Been enjoying these like bites of candy

Hilarious series! The writing is tight, and the performances are fun.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

95. Love it - how bout that, a sitcom that is actually funny! I still chuckle thinking of that bit with

David working on the Amish farm. "No, you come here!"

I read somewhere that they improvise in a lot of the scenes.

[jberryhill]

29. Immoral Tales

Surprisingly good French historical drama.

[rownesheck]

30. The IT Crowd!

You have to! It's hilarious!!!! Also watch Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion!!!

[Cicada]

31. I have the definitive answer, trust me

The most reliable measure of quality of movies and TV is metacritic. If you know someone in the industry, ask them and they will most likely agree. And if you search metacritic ratings Netflix you will find Netflix streaming shows scored. I would provide a link but I am over 70 years old so I am a moron about smart phones, links etc. sorry.

[Lochloosa]

35. Thanks. Here's a link. Very cool

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/now-streaming-on-netflix

[mr_lebowski]

33. Orange is The New Black & House of Cards, of course ...

Stranger Things, also a no-brainer.

Longmire is quite good though frustrating at times due to some dumb actions by certain characters.

Peaky Blinders is kick ass ...

Quite enjoyed Travelers ...

Bloodline is pretty good ... as is The Killing ...

Ozark (only 1 season so far) with Jason Bateman is pretty entertaining.

Dunno if The Tudors is still on NF (Showtime Original) but it's a pretty dang good series (even if pretty inaccurate, historically ... for starters, Henry VIII was certainly no hunky dude).

Similarly, Sons of Anarchy ... not sure if on NF anymore but it was really good esp. like the first 5 seasons ... it drug on a bit though in the end.

These aren't really 'Netflix' shows but they're on there ... Midsomer Murders is a nice relaxing old-school British/Agatha Christie style murder mystery show that's quite well-acted and lots of nice UK scenery. Death In Paradise is also pretty good, as is Ms. Fischer's Mysteries. All these, while murder mystery shows are quite 'tame' and suitable for 12 and up.

Black Mirror is a cool-ass show, modern Twilight Zone, sci-fi anthology ... way more depressing generally than TTZ though.

Not sure if Gotham is still on NF but that was a pretty good show for awhile at least ... it was from a regular cable channel IIRC. Person of Interest and Blacklist I think might also be on NF but not sure, those are decent series, as are Dexter and obviously Breaking Bad ...

[bettyellen]

34. Godless - western about a town w no men, and the villain -Jeff Daniels- who caused that. Fun stuff.

[mr_lebowski]

75. Oh yeah, that one was good ... a few too many characters pointlessly killed

but that was my only real complaint. Lotta Red Shirts given a lotta air time only to have no real point in the story other than a sad end to make you hate the bad guys, but otherwise ... damn good.

[sfwriter]

36. The Get Down, The Crown, Black Mirror

off the top of my head...

[lunamagica]

37. Halt and Catch Fire

[mr_lebowski]

76. We're in the 2nd season,pretty good show esp. for a comp nerd like me who remembers the era

and fondly.

Some really foolish and/or selfish behavior gets on the nerves a bit but it's well acted and told with some reasonably likable characters ...

[hibbing]

38. Master of None

Last edited Mon Feb 5, 2018, 01:16 AM - Edit history (1)

Loved it, I like the star, funny, half hour 2 seasons.

On Edit- There is a Netflix, streaming and dvd group on here, it is good to check out too.


Peace

[Upthevibe]

42. I've really enjoyed "Master of None" too...

I just recently watched it and haven't seen all the shows yet....

[madaboutharry]

39. I love Scandinavian television, they have a few good ones on Netflix.

Bonus Family (Sweden)

Bordertown (Finland)

Rita (Denmark)

Lava Field (Iceland)

They are all excellent.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

49. If they've got the Danish series "Borgen," that's a good one.

It's kind of a Scandinavian "West Wing."

[crazycatlady]

44. The Keepers

Netflix original docuseries.

Focuses on the murder of a Catholic school teacher/nun and the sexual abuse going on within the school (high school).

[crazycatlady]

45. Also not sure if you're a cat person

But if you are-- The Lion in your living room

[Generic Brad]

48. Jessica Jones and then Luke Cage

I'm not a huge Marvel fan. The super hero genre bores me. But those two characters have powers they view as a curse. They are ordinary people with extraordinary problems and do not view themselves as heroes.

[Orrex]

67. Jessica Jones was magnificent.

The first half of Luke Cage was brilliant IMO, but the latter half of the season faltered. Still, I love him in the role, so it's worth watching all the way through.

[dawg day]

51. Mr. Robot?

Grace and Frankie.

[samnsara]

53. Fortitude,Doc Martin, Peaky Blinders,Bomb Girls,CallThe Midwife

[FM123]

54. End of the F'ing World

[Lochloosa]

56. Thanks again everyone. Y'all are great.

[brokephibroke]

57. Patriot and Peaky Blinders.

[JDC]

59. Patriot is great

[procon]

58. Netflix is premiering The Cloverfield Paradox after Super Bowl Tonight

It is billed as found video footage shot with a home camcorder about a group of NY residents fleeing from a gigantic monster from outer space. Don't know anything about it except the trailer looks interesting.

[rickford66]

60. Dirty Money

[SchrodingersCatbox]

61. Mindhunter & Altered Carbon n/t

[Laffy Kat]

63. I've enjoyed the French murder mysteries.

"Frozen Dead" (not the zombie movie), "La Mantis", and there's another one I can't remember. I went on a French binge and even started to remember some of my French again!

[jberryhill]

90. Les Temoins - witnesses

A good one.

[Laffy Kat]

91. Oh, I haven't seen that one.

I'll look for it. Thanks.

[PennyK]

64. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Really fun 1920s lady detective in Australia.

[Lochloosa]

66. Huge fan of Essie Davis. Great actor.

[IrishEyes]

74. Yes, it is a great show.

[Adsos Letter]

78. Planet Earth 2 is out on Netflix.

I've not yet seen it, but I can't imagine being it anything less than spectacular.

[klook]

81. Wormwood

is an interesting mix of documentary and drama, directed by Errol Morris, about a CIA scientist (Frank Olson) who was unwittingly dosed with LSD in the 1950s and subsequently died.

I've seen only the first three episodes, but it's gripping and tragic. The interviews with his son, as well as footage of him from 40+ years ago, are riveting.

[JenniferJuniper]

82. Dark

awesome science fiction with well done time travel.

It's German. Do not watch the dubbed version. Go with the English subtitles.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

86. I don't have anything else to add as a recommendation,

but I do want to say that no matter what your standards or taste, there is an awful lot out there to watch.

I don't have a regular TV, but I have Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. Even as picky as I am, there is plenty to watch.

[yonder]

87. not a series, but a movie and an older one at that:

"John Dies at the End"

I recently saw it. A quirky, funny, sci-fi/horror? flick. It started kind of slow and I wasn't going to continue but the scene in the basement with the doorknob sealed the deal. "Well, I guess we ain't getting out of here now" was a great sight gag. I'm still laughing.

[TalenaGor]

88. Merlin, the Shannara Chronicles, the 100, frontier, the last kingdom

[sakabatou]

89. Full Metal Alchemist/Brotherhood

Start with FMA episodes: 1-9
then start with FMA: B episodes: (1-3, 6-52)

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

93. Many excellent WW2 movies, Freaks And Geeks, Breaking Bad + Better Call Saul

Esp. the European WW2 films - have an honesty and realism to them that can be quite powerful - the things people did to survive. There was one (Generation War - a German TV series) that was of a group of young friends (1 Jewish, the rest non-Jews) and the different paths and moral choices they made. Never excuses the complicity in nazism but just shows how it can happen.

Also - the BBC version of Anne Frank - totally devestating, so much better than the horrible 1950s hollywood version. Downfall - Hitlers last days. Secrets of War - from perspective of 3 young Dutch children. Many more I cant remember - you can search on WW2 movies, I guess its its own genre.

Freaks and Geeks - had never seen it before. So well done - writing, acting, everything. Only one season but I think it stands on its own very well - loved the ending!

Schitt's Creek - that rare gem, a sitcom that is actually LOL funny - but with unexpected moments of true heart. Great cast incl Eugene Levy and his son Daniel, Catherine Ohara - its Canadian tv series so that might tell you something!

[Lochloosa]

94. Thanks for those. Sounds good.

I wish this list would get 5 recs to get on the greatest page. There's some good stuff here.