What's good on Amazon Prime Video

might have been one of those “gets good mid second season” shows tbh

they do kill Frank eventually and keep him offscreen enough before they do lol

The shows I watch or have watched on Amazon are all really high quality imo --- Man In High Castle, Expanse, Red Oak, even the dumb Jack Ryan show is watchable (the dumbness is kind of inherent to Tom Clancy imo)

Goliath, as I seem to be saying into the void, is fucking incredible

I liked the first season of Goliath a lot, the second started strong but was awful by the end, and couldn't make it through the premiere of the third.

Yeah, I'm having trouble finishing the second season. First season was aces.

many xps but yes: undone is also quite good.

S2 of Goliath is absolutely nauseating but also brilliant imo

S3 gets the balance between gonzo batshit and, like, “serious drama” a bit righter but it’s still pulp at heart. I missed the daughter a lot but she gets an extremely satisfying payoff.

Does Man in the H Cast.get better?

No. The show runner left midway through the first season, the second season had no exec producer, and the new one brought in for the third didn't have a clue.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/man-high-castle-renewed-taps-new-showrunner-season-3-960304

It gets worse: PKD's daughter was sexually harassed by Amazon's programming chief.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amazon-tv-producer-goes-public-harassment-claim-top-exec-roy-price-1048060

yikes

I thought it ended... ok-ish, but the rudderless nature of the middle was clear

I really didn't like hunters (the how I met your mother guy hamming it up saying corny as fuck lines = not a good time, macabre fictional holocaust scenarios also not my favourite thing), and only saw about half of it, but the ending was wild and al overacts delightfully

I liked the first season of Goliath a lot, the second started strong but was awful by the end, and couldn't make it through the premiere of the third.

idk if we talked about this already but this was my EXACT trajectory.

third season was fucking great. i guess you really have to like ultra-pulp maybe.

Tracer's enthusiasm is infectious and I agree about season 3

I watched the first ep of Hunters & wow this show is def Not For Me™️

Pacino as the headlining Jewish Person while Saul Rubinek is a minor costar feels so fucking wrong on so many levels.
Also kind of surprised that Rubinek would be on board? idk. the tone of this thing was my biggest problem. that and wtf shit like concentration camp human chess

i understand it from Pacino being a huge draw but still i am very O_o about the whole thing

yeah it looked fuckin’ gross so i skipped it

my parents highly recommended it to me but i couldn't bring myself to watch it glad veggrrl who ime generally has impeccable tv taste has validated my laziness

yeah Mordy i would approach w extreme caution

Anyone seen Tales From The Loop yet? I was surprised to learn it had been made into a TV series.

I’m still watching me some Maisel but I still have the same problems w/it, that it’s trying to force comedy through tone and not content. The show looks incredible and generally is “likable” but it’s kind of astonishing at how there’s nothing particularly hilarious going on, it’s just this constant banter that’s supposed to make you feel like something hilarious is going on. It’s a shame bc i certainly prefer it in theory over yet another “people doing very bad things and caught in a vise-like plot” show.

xp
We watched the first episode last night. Very slow and pretty. Not sure if I liked it enough to go back for ep 2. Probably will at some point since I'm a shut-in now.

Anyone seen Tales From The Loop yet? I was surprised to learn it had been made into a TV series.

No but I am intrigued by the fact that Shane Carruth apparently makes an appearance

best thing on Prime for me continues to be The Expanse (on the tail end of S3 now), which is just phenomenal. My platonic ideal of a sci-fi show (great plot, plenty of mystery, little in the way of soap opera level bad TV acting, zero new agey bullshit the likes of which sank BSG).

I watched the first ep of Hunters & wow this show is def Not For Me™️

Pacino as the headlining Jewish Person while Saul Rubinek is a minor costar feels so fucking wrong on so many levels.
Also kind of surprised that Rubinek would be on board? idk. the tone of this thing was my biggest problem. that and wtf shit like concentration camp human chess

i understand it from Pacino being a huge draw but still i am very O_o about the whole thing

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I ended up watching about half of this, including the finale, because my gf watched it and I just thought it was horrendous.

watched the first two episodes of ZeroZeroZero and so far it's just OK. very nicely shot but so far I don't give a shit about any of the characters. not sure if I want to carry on with it but I probably will eventually out of sheer boredom.

if ppl forgot abt like i did the series finale of transparent, i recommend it; also the lil peep doc

hunters seems vile i would never

I just watched Dragged Across Concrete and need a shower. Zahler makes me feel grubby as all hell. (This will stay with me and I need to pick apart why - for good and ill.)

stay with ZeroZeroZero! The characters develop imo but most of what they do is not get in the way of a show about systems. It's very well done I think, and yeah, it looks and sounds great esp. by shit streaming-original standards

I just watched Dragged Across Concrete and need a shower. Zahler makes me feel grubby as all hell. (This will stay with me and I need to pick apart why - for good and ill.)

I watched Brawl in Cell Block 99 and washed my hands of that dude for good. He hasn't got the visual or storytelling chops for me to put up with his not-even-really-winking chud politics.

agreed.

I like both of those movies a lot :/

I even started a thread about him

the degenerate nu-pulp movies of S. Craig Zahler

We've been enjoying Tales From The Loop. Have seen first 5 of 8 episodes so far. It's beautifully filmed, interesting storylines, excellent acting, setting is mysterious & not explained (this is good). Pace is slowish & contemplative. Fits really well for the times. We're watching 1 episode per night, not binging.

Hey Joe Dante fans! Explorers and Eerie, India season 1 both free to stream with Prime atm

I think that's understandable with Zahler but I think he's interesting enough to stick with. I have *thoughts* but I'll have them on Simon's thread.

It looks like the Cadfael mysteries are available via Prime without extra subscriptions finally

are they good.

I haven’t seen them in a long time but I have fond memories of them being “Masterpiece Theater Name of the Rose” so take that as you will.

i think i will take that as a yes and now start binge watching.

thanks milo z. (i have no control over these things - you are entirely responsible if i go on a cadfael-induced rampage in a month’s time.

I don't know what day it was added but The Lighthouse is up.

hell yes, going to wait until it gets dark out and spend some time in THE LIGHTHOUSE

A bunch of Soviet films from the Ruscico vaults that appear worth a look have just been added to Prime:

Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase (1970)
Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair (1970)
A Captain at Fifteen (1945)
Commissar (1967)
Evdokiya (1961)
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1962)
The Golden Horns (1972)
Happy Go Lucky (1972 )
Holy Moly! (1988)
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965)
I Am 20 (1964)
Kaschey the Immortal (1944)
Morozko (1965)
Night Witches in the Sky (1981)
Once 20 Years Later (1980)
School Waltz (1978)
Science Fiction Dilogy (1974)
The Secret of the Iron Door (1970)
Through the Thorns to the Stars (1980)

I am asking a Russian friend of mine which of these to see :)

One more that I missed: Father of a Soldier (1964)

That and Commisar, which I've long been wanting to see, are the only ones I've heard of before.

Also added to Prime but not Russian: 10 Rillington Place (1970), true crime thriller with Richard Attenborough playing a creep.

ooh thx! i want to see that Christie movie

Hard to find classic just added to Prime: The Go Between (1971)

The transfer looks good, although the sound could be better.

I haven't checked it out yet, but apparently the original theatrical cut of Altman's California Split was added recently: https://theplaylist.net/california-split-robert-altman-amazon-prime-20200512/

Hard to find classic just added to Prime: The Go Between (1971)

The transfer looks good, although the sound could be better.

Gave the Seberg film a look last night. I bailed about 30 minutes into it after the FBI baddies came on. It seemed to be just another dreary biopic-by-numbers with nice clothes, production design. I was a bit surprised I couldn't find any mention of it on ILX. I don't know, maybe Kristen Stewart's acting makes it worth staying with. I couldn't stop thinking she looked more like a depressed Ellen DeGeneres.

she's quite a depressing actress, imo.

anyone seen True History of the Kelly Gang?