Netflix's share price is ~$300p/s with a market cap of ~$130B. It's all absurd. That said it's the only regular tv/movies I've paid for in 15 years.
― Yerac, Thursday, 25 October 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
this is why i was on board with Moviepass this past year. i think without the relentless negative press, they would've been able to keep bilking new investors for years on their way to profitability like every other internet company more or less
― Nhex, Friday, 26 October 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link
Loved season 1 of Lady Dynamite, bailed out on season 2 after a couple of minutes. Couldn't manage the surreal awfulness (which probably says more about my tastes now than earlier).
Right now, I'm loving the non-US shows Netflix has licensed: Occupied, Suburra, Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories, Cable Girls, Gomorrah, and Fallet (a must for everyone who's burned out on Scandinavian noir)
Anyone watch any of 3% yet? It's a Brazilian show that sounds reminiscent of The Hunger Games but it's directed by César Charlone - probably best known as the cinematographer of City Of God which gets me interested.
Might start A Very Secret Service next, but waiting for reports first.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 October 2018 02:41 (five years ago) link
i need to check all of those out. confession: I almost always watch tv high (so I can sleep through the night) and hence have a tendency to fall asleep halfway through things, and also have a hard time reading and comprehending.
― akm, Friday, 26 October 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
I think A Very Secret Service is terrific, it acknowledges France's absurdity of thinking of itself as a world power and has some great jokes about French social attitudes.
Season 2 doesn't start particularly brightly but is well worth sticking with.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 26 October 2018 05:45 (five years ago) link
Has there been anything really, really excellent in the last few years, or just a lot of stuff that's pretty good?― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 25 October 2018 16:53 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no
― ||||||||, Friday, 26 October 2018 06:27 (five years ago) link
I would contend that Bojack Horseman is truly excellent.
Also Terrace House.
― tangenttangent, Friday, 26 October 2018 07:06 (five years ago) link
Latest Bojack season not truly excellent I think
― imago, Friday, 26 October 2018 07:32 (five years ago) link
Biggest crime is probably that ep11 is telegraphed so doesn't have the shock value of previous ep11s. The run of 'Free Churro', 'INT. SUB' and 'Mr Peanutbutter's Boos' is tremendous though and Henry Fondle is a great character.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 26 October 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
Those three episodes are the obvious pinnacle yes
― imago, Friday, 26 October 2018 10:30 (five years ago) link
s4e11 makes my head rattle, it’s one of the cleverest things i have ever seen
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 26 October 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link
yeah and it set an impossible standard to follow tbh - maybe the creative team should just make a full-blown transhistorical epic next
― imago, Friday, 26 October 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
I love Trerrace House so much.
― Yerac, Friday, 26 October 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
and also Terrace House.
OMG, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina starring Kiernan Shipka, I kind of want to watch this.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 26 October 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
That has been a much anticipated show at my workplace
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 26 October 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
Checking out the first episode. Probably not for me, but it warms my heart that Shipka has a leading role.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 26 October 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
Two episodes into Sabrina and really not feeling it.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 26 October 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
I hear the cat doesn't even talk
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 26 October 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
you have to be open to watching something made for young people, but Hilda is legit one of the best netflix originals I've seen
― rob, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
is it? it looked interesting and def like the kind of thing we normally like (a little 'over the garden wall'esque)
― Mordy, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Hilda is just great! Beautiful hand-drawn animation, and all around this wonderful sensibility where nature bleeds into tangible mythology. Kinda like Totoro, if Totoro was informed by Nordic folklore instead of Japanese.
― Tuomas, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
It takes a couple episodes to really come together, and it is for sure a kid's show (though idk what age would be appropriate), but if the aesthetic appeals at all, def check it out. I thought it was pretty, funny, and dreamy.
"Kinda like Totoro, if Totoro was informed by Nordic folklore instead of Japanese" and Kevin Huizenga worked on it too
― rob, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
think sabrina is fine
― ||||||||, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
Another vote for Hilda,although I didn't manage to get through the whole thing.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 26 October 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
Decided to try ep 3. Sabrina's constant wokeness is beginning to wear me down.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 26 October 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
it is for sure a kid's show (though idk what age would be appropriate)
I'm sure the books sell to as many adult readers as children
― Eight-Tenths Bigamy (sic), Friday, 26 October 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
Oh I'm sure, and the show is entirely enjoyable. I'm just aware some people are allergic to anything pitched at kids, and I'm largely aware of that due to ilx.
tbc, if you're an adult but can get into Pixar, for ex, you could watch this.
― rob, Friday, 26 October 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
oh no American Vandal was just cancelled :(
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Friday, 26 October 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
Boo.
― DJI, Friday, 26 October 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
I love that show, but at least it's self contained by season.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 October 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
Is Sabrina OK to watch with a 9 year old? Thinking about watching w/my daughter.
― Darin, Friday, 26 October 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
Hilda is great. books are great too
― Οὖτις, Friday, 26 October 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
AV2 was a dud :/AV1 owned
― ||||||||, Saturday, 27 October 2018 05:56 (five years ago) link
xxpost I would say it’s a little bit too scary & grownup for a 9 year old. The scary parts are pretty full-on for a kid that age imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 October 2018 06:02 (five years ago) link
in other news I love Sabrina
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 October 2018 06:03 (five years ago) link
I'm enjoying it.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 27 October 2018 08:19 (five years ago) link
Plus Bronson Pinchot!
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 27 October 2018 08:28 (five years ago) link
And the Castlevania animation is fine, po-faced, hokum.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 27 October 2018 11:45 (five years ago) link
Thanks! We got through about 5 minutes last night and she said it was freaking her out. We went ended up watching the first two episodes of Hilda (which we both loved).
― Darin, Saturday, 27 October 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
aw <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 October 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
omg I didn’t realize the school principal was played by Bronson Pinchot until this thread - and I’m on ep 3! It’s a pretty fun show! Though i think a top-notch comedy writer could elevate it to tv greatness. I watched The Dark Crystal last night and boy does it hold up! (Not going to traumatize my kid with it yet though, maybe in a few years)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 27 October 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
Hmm - don't care for the 'shining' knock off in ep 7. Seems...unpleasant.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 27 October 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
really looking forward to the DArk Crystal prequel which is coming to netflix at some point. maybe next year or 2020?
― akm, Saturday, 27 October 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
Next year some time, yeah!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 27 October 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
I love the first two Transporters, but replacing Jim Henson and Frank Oz and David Odell and Brian Froud with the director of Clash Of The Titans and the writer of some Annihilation comics for Marvel doesn't seem like a recipe for improvement
― It bit the shaggy men. (sic), Saturday, 27 October 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
I don't know if this thread is only about series or Netflix originals, but the film-geeks should check out 'Dovlatov' by Aleksei German Jr, which for some reason is on there. Not the best film in the world, but a different kind of experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coos41slD1I
― Frederik B, Saturday, 27 October 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
I am expecting the dark crystal reboot to be soul-crushingly bad, so if it’s even halfway decent that’ll be ok #netflixstandards
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 27 October 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
i am really loving the cinematography in Sabrina, esp the phosphorescent greens & yellows & rich dark colors, and the weird blurred lens when magic is going on, the textures of the costumes, and i love the score too...it’s all been great for me so far. agree w rrrobyn that a good comedy writer could really make it.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
they're using only puppetry in dark crystal so that's something.
― akm, Saturday, 27 October 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link