itt: non-english-language netflix series you recommend (or not) and commentary thereon

^ good recommendation imo.

DEADWIND (= finnish)

my trivial pleasure is whenever the cops shout "police" they have to shout "poliisi!" which sounds like "policey!"

deadwind update: the two little girls whose mum died are heartbreaking, esp.the smaller one :(

Oh man, I watched one episode of La Mante and seeing this thread it looks like I should stop right now.

The French also have no french word for 'weekend" and...there are lots of jokes there.

her estranged son DAMIEN CARROT

deadwind update update: a key strand in this story is ZONING

deadline theme is VERY like judy nylon's "information rain" off of pal judy

New season of Money Heist!

Is Trapped (the Icelandic series) on Netflix? I just watched Season 2 on Amazon Prime and it's really good.

fairly sure trapped was originally broadcast on BBC2 in the uk: it is indeed very good

I really enjoyed Babylon Berlin and wish more people watched it.

Friend of mine loved it and has been reading all the books - in German- but I haven’t really latched onto it yet.

Trapped is excellent - sent me down a rabbithole of grim Scandi-et-al crime dramas for a long while after but this one really was one of the best of them for me. Olafur Olafsson is so good!

Loved Babylon Berlin SO much. They’re doing a second season apparently.

Babylon Berlin mostly hooked me for how well-studied the look was. That whole thing of dressing up but still looking sweaty & desperate is very specific & they pulled it off amazingly well. Plus lots of Bryan Ferry Orchestra :D

Trapped is pretty much perfect VG, I agree, and it really is better than most. I've got the second season lined up. Love me some grim Nordic viewing in the summertime.

i have started watching "The Could’ve-Gone-All-the-Way Committee," alternatively translated from the Japanese as "The Almost Got Laid Committee." In each episode, a guy (I think they're all guys) comes before the three-member committee, comprising a karate master, a businesswoman, and a rock star in a floppy hat, and tells them about a time he almost got laid. The committee investigates and rules on whether or not he could've.

okay that sounds like a dream I've had

the only way that could be more ilxor-bait was if it was called The So-Not-Gonna-Happen Committee

I'm sold on it just by the poster

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTdiOWE5ZmMtZTk4MC00ZTMzLWIzYjUtZmY2NjE1NWYzYzJhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjY2OTU0MTg@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,705,1000_AL_.jpg

Money Heist is very good, even though season 2 is approaching Breaking Bad levels of ridiculous brinksmanship. Subtitles are very bad, clearly produced by a non-native speaking robot.

El Ministerio del Tiempo is goofy fun, I'm only 3 episodes in but so far it seems more light soap opera than high stakes drama, even when they were actually plotting to kill Hitler. Doesn't look so good, ep 2 in particular looks like it was shot at ISO 256000.

I watch Money Heist with the subtitles and dub on (I don't know if that is different for everyone) and it's weird how they don't match.

Even with the ridiculousness, I still love it. I want another season.

^ just reached the end of season 3 cliffhanger, noooooooo!

Marianne, the French horror series, is very silly and enjoyable half way through.

I only watched the first ep and it really was terribly silly. Is it worth continuing? Found it hard to take it seriously tbh.

i've started MYTHOMANIAC, abt a small-town french family who are likeable enough (if v neurotic) except they have webbed themselves into a net of mutual lies

3rd series of OCCUPIED is up

for some reason i didn't register FLAVORFUL ORIGINS with this thread last year: second series is now up, 15-min eps, a fabulously filmed and extremely addictive chinese-made guide to regional chinese cuisine and ingredients, with a weirdly written or translated english voice-over, so far set in chaoshan and yunnan provinces

I’ve started watching Gogol on Amazon Prime, which is a deeply silly, but entertaining, cross between Sleepy Hollow and Penny Dreadful.

The Platform (originally 'El Hoyo' in Spanish) is decent if you like dark, dystopian sci-fi/horror type things. Its social commentary may not be the most original, but it's pretty well executed all round and nicely shot and acted.

Spanish language read probably best for after you watch it: https://www.espinof.com/criticas/hoyo-que-alegoria-social-mordaz-satira-voracidad-humana

I was wondering about this. I put it on my list to watch but I hadn't heard anything about it. (watching new season of Money Heist.

A friend suggested it, with a not for the squeamish proviso (which I'd reiterate), so my partner & I gave it a go last weekend and both enjoyed it. It's not spectacular, but worth its 90 minutes or so, if you're in the mood for that kind of darker thing.

yeah, i am not squeamish at all. But I don't want to be really disappointed by the ending which is what ends up happening with a lot of things that I have watched recently in that spirit (High-Rise, El Bar).

that weird cam-girl horror? thing on netflix.

i watch quite a lot of k drama but i'm always dubious about the translations. is "punk" really the go to insult in korea? lot of "you rascal" and "gosh" as well.

anyway the lead actress in 'My Love From Another Star' is really good at comedic scenes.

The Platform was pretty fun except for a few short scenes of ultra-violence. Social commentary was both far too on-the-nose and (by the end) confused, it's much more rewarding to just take this things literally, i.e. it's a film about a prison hundreds of storeys high where prisoners can only eat the leftovers from the cells above them - that's it. No other readings required.

Betaal, the new series from the makers of Ghoul / Blumhouse, seems pretty good so far. Fascist Indian police vs the zombie remnants of a imperial British battalion.

the first episode of 'It's Okay To Not Be Okay' really blew me away. beautifully shot, ridiculously stylish lead character, much more serious and i guess ambitious than I was expecting and a couple of lovely animated scenes. kinda bummed that i have to wait for new episodes weekly tbh.

okay episode two is good too. got even grittier and just how over the edge the lead female character is is open to even more question. also features the most incredible office chair I've ever seen plus an a + book signing outfit.

I'm enjoying 'Unit 42'. A belgian cybercrime police prodcedural thing.

i finally and extremely belatedly got round to bingeing ENGRENAGE/SPIRAL, all eight series

just three series if they edited out the words merde, putain and pute

Looks like I'll never get to watch a whole series on the platform

I don't think anyone's surprised by this, and pouring millions into transphobic comedy specials to court controversy was hardly a longterm solution, couple that with the price increases that offer no additional value, and the compounding cancellations that led to viewer apathy... https://t.co/XMHnHQui82

— Sleepy Sloth (@CaseyExplosion) April 20, 2022

be more interested in this off-the-cuff laziest of tweet-takes if it in any way addressed netflix as a platform for non-english-material

(or perhaps less parochially as a successful platform for cross-linguistic consumption)

this thread features a more interesting thesis (material non-english if you stretch a point lol)

from the replies it seems like the main thrust of this criticism is that that one viking show has a woman in it https://t.co/qjmaA7RwuR

— flglmn (@flglmn) April 20, 2022

Would subscribe.

Netflix should have a feature where if you are browsing the menu for more than 10 minutes it just starts showing RoboCop

— rubot (@rubot) April 20, 2022

heres how you fix netflix. if theres a movie that netflix doesnt have you put in a request on the forums and then if someone has the movie, they upload it so that now its available

— suncoast employee in button up flame shirt (@gun_toucher) April 20, 2022

not noticed this thread before.

watched all the bbc4 things except montalbano which never clicked with me.

More 4 has ok to good Walter Presents stuff every week too, currently Crimson Rivers (french)

would always laugh at spiral because they seemingly had one shot a week just designed to shock. dead prostitute in a skip, dead baby, head in fireplace and the scene with the drug mule they gave laxatives to...

Not series, but still.

80% of what I watch on Netflix is non-English-language action trash. I do not give the tiniest fuck about their original content; gimme 90 minutes of Indonesian dudes kicking, stabbing and shooting each other and you've earned my $15 for the month. https://t.co/kympWdiNCT

— burning ambulance (NOW A RECORD LABEL!) (@burn_amb) April 20, 2022

Quite an option interesting piece (though a bit long) on showrunning and how that's changing because of streaming.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epxeze/television-is-in-a-showrunning-crisis

Though it's good that 20+ ep seasons are shortening, in the main..