Movies/TV shows that don't suck on Netflix

[Mr. Pickles]

Yea I got it for baseball and basketball, but there has to be another way. I’m almost to the point where I’ll just listen on the radio. Regional sports blackouts are a joke.

[Atiba Applebum]

Yea I got it for baseball and basketball, but there has to be another way. I’m almost to the point where I’ll just listen on the radio. Regional sports blackouts are a joke.

ESPN+ is 11/month or 110/year…unless we’re talking prices outside the US

I’d honestly think to recommend YouTube TV for sports (it’s TV not ad-free YouTube).   I find it easier to watch soccer than on Peacock or whatever app bc you can DVR stuff

[j....soy.....]

Got Apple Plus, Platonic and Shrinking both not good….through the writers strike the conversation of AI writing seemed ridiculous….after watching these shows….they both seemed so basic and mailed in…..just give shit like this to robots…

[Atiba Applebum]

Got Apple Plus, Platonic and Shrinking both not good….through the writers strike the conversation of AI writing seemed ridiculous….after watching these shows….they both seemed so basic and mailed in…..just give shit like this to robots…

Shrinking is pretty popular, esp with the Ted Lasso crowd (similar creative teams).   I liked Platonic.   Some things can just be pleasant without being game changers. 

The issue with AI writing scripts is that they’ll have AI write a piece of shit first draft and have writers fix it, but at the expense of not having any ownership over the script so they’ll get paid peanuts to do all that work. 

[Painted Baby]

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I been watching this show called alone they have to live out in the woods, they get a bow and arrow and knives and shit and they have to eat rats and bunnies to survive. One bloke kills a moose and he eats fuck out of that thing he even eats it’s hooves

One of them burns their shelter down by mistake and another one loses his lighter so no fire but he goes home when that happens. It’s decent

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I’ve got like 2 shows I watch for myself, and Alone is one of them. Love that shit. The last season on there with the Mexican dude was bad though. Great British Baking Show is the other show…

I can’t stand that they’re releasing episodes every Friday for the bake off. Bums me out.

Wheel of time season 2 was way better than season 1.

Goosebumps on Disney+ is good for what it is. My kid and I are watching it every Friday.

Gen V was also great.

I’m getting kind of sick of streaming. I pay so much for all of this crap and I feel like I don’t have time to watch any of it. Prime is a necessity and it sucks. Netflix keeps going up. I’ve got the Disney bundled with live hulu for sports and that shits like $90 a month now. Paramount, peacock. I get hbo from my internet provider, but I feel like I’m paying more than I ever did having cable.

If you're interested, I'm on a Great British Bake Off podcast with my homegirls. Quarter finals time!

[Atiba Applebum]

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I been watching this show called alone they have to live out in the woods, they get a bow and arrow and knives and shit and they have to eat rats and bunnies to survive. One bloke kills a moose and he eats fuck out of that thing he even eats it’s hooves

One of them burns their shelter down by mistake and another one loses his lighter so no fire but he goes home when that happens. It’s decent

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I’ve got like 2 shows I watch for myself, and Alone is one of them. Love that shit. The last season on there with the Mexican dude was bad though. Great British Baking Show is the other show…

I can’t stand that they’re releasing episodes every Friday for the bake off. Bums me out.

Wheel of time season 2 was way better than season 1.

Goosebumps on Disney+ is good for what it is. My kid and I are watching it every Friday.

Gen V was also great.

I’m getting kind of sick of streaming. I pay so much for all of this crap and I feel like I don’t have time to watch any of it. Prime is a necessity and it sucks. Netflix keeps going up. I’ve got the Disney bundled with live hulu for sports and that shits like $90 a month now. Paramount, peacock. I get hbo from my internet provider, but I feel like I’m paying more than I ever did having cable.

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If you're interested, I'm on a Great British Bake Off podcast with my homegirls. Quarter finals time!

Chuffed for Matty to make it this far.   Guys like him don’t tend to make it past the first 3 weeks

[Painted Baby]

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I been watching this show called alone they have to live out in the woods, they get a bow and arrow and knives and shit and they have to eat rats and bunnies to survive. One bloke kills a moose and he eats fuck out of that thing he even eats it’s hooves

One of them burns their shelter down by mistake and another one loses his lighter so no fire but he goes home when that happens. It’s decent

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I’ve got like 2 shows I watch for myself, and Alone is one of them. Love that shit. The last season on there with the Mexican dude was bad though. Great British Baking Show is the other show…

I can’t stand that they’re releasing episodes every Friday for the bake off. Bums me out.

Wheel of time season 2 was way better than season 1.

Goosebumps on Disney+ is good for what it is. My kid and I are watching it every Friday.

Gen V was also great.

I’m getting kind of sick of streaming. I pay so much for all of this crap and I feel like I don’t have time to watch any of it. Prime is a necessity and it sucks. Netflix keeps going up. I’ve got the Disney bundled with live hulu for sports and that shits like $90 a month now. Paramount, peacock. I get hbo from my internet provider, but I feel like I’m paying more than I ever did having cable.

[close]

If you're interested, I'm on a Great British Bake Off podcast with my homegirls. Quarter finals time!

[close]

Chuffed for Matty to make it this far.   Guys like him don’t tend to make it past the first 3 weeks

Oh man I went pretty hard on Matty the last episode we recorded but, in my defense, Josh has been my guy this whole time

[Atiba Applebum]

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I been watching this show called alone they have to live out in the woods, they get a bow and arrow and knives and shit and they have to eat rats and bunnies to survive. One bloke kills a moose and he eats fuck out of that thing he even eats it’s hooves

One of them burns their shelter down by mistake and another one loses his lighter so no fire but he goes home when that happens. It’s decent

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I’ve got like 2 shows I watch for myself, and Alone is one of them. Love that shit. The last season on there with the Mexican dude was bad though. Great British Baking Show is the other show…

I can’t stand that they’re releasing episodes every Friday for the bake off. Bums me out.

Wheel of time season 2 was way better than season 1.

Goosebumps on Disney+ is good for what it is. My kid and I are watching it every Friday.

Gen V was also great.

I’m getting kind of sick of streaming. I pay so much for all of this crap and I feel like I don’t have time to watch any of it. Prime is a necessity and it sucks. Netflix keeps going up. I’ve got the Disney bundled with live hulu for sports and that shits like $90 a month now. Paramount, peacock. I get hbo from my internet provider, but I feel like I’m paying more than I ever did having cable.

[close]

If you're interested, I'm on a Great British Bake Off podcast with my homegirls. Quarter finals time!

[close]

Chuffed for Matty to make it this far.   Guys like him don’t tend to make it past the first 3 weeks

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Oh man I went pretty hard on Matty the last episode we recorded but, in my defense, Josh has been my guy this whole time

My favorite moment in the last ep is at the end of the intro Noel makes a comment about why Paul Hollywood was walking funny and you can tell it was unscripted bc of the face the new co-host (Allison?   Love her inclusion btw) makes at him

[Atiba Applebum]

Intrigued by Murder at the End of the World (Hulu/fx).   

Despite the “Lisbeth Salander meets the Glass Onion” premise, I have high hopes.   

[EdLawndale]

^^^ I saw the commercial for this last night. It looks cool. I didn't used to love Clive Owen but he has grown on me starting with "Children of Men".

I never saw "The Knick". Was that good?

[Atiba Applebum]

^^^ I saw the commercial for this last night. It looks cool. I didn't used to love Clive Owen but he has grown on me starting with "Children of Men".

I never saw "The Knick". Was that good?

I loved the Knick.   Two perfect seasons


The only thing about this show I’m nervous about is I’m not always on board with Brit Marling/Zal Batmangli’s creative choices.   The OA was not my favorite and I couldn’t do s2 despite hearing good things…

[Salad farmer]

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^^^ I saw the commercial for this last night. It looks cool. I didn't used to love Clive Owen but he has grown on me starting with "Children of Men".

I never saw "The Knick". Was that good?

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I loved the Knick.   Two perfect seasons


The only thing about this show I’m nervous about is I’m not always on board with Brit Marling/Zal Batmangli’s creative choices.   The OA was not my favorite and I couldn’t do s2 despite hearing good things…

Completely agree about the Knick and not being able to get into the OA. I've enjoyed For All Mankind on Apple tv so far, progression from season to season is significant enough that at the end of each season I'm looking forward to where it goes from there.

[Atiba Applebum]

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^^^ I saw the commercial for this last night. It looks cool. I didn't used to love Clive Owen but he has grown on me starting with "Children of Men".

I never saw "The Knick". Was that good?

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I loved the Knick.   Two perfect seasons


The only thing about this show I’m nervous about is I’m not always on board with Brit Marling/Zal Batmangli’s creative choices.   The OA was not my favorite and I couldn’t do s2 despite hearing good things…

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Completely agree about the Knick and not being able to get into the OA. I've enjoyed For All Mankind on Apple tv so far, progression from season to season is significant enough that at the end of each season I'm looking forward to where it goes from there.

I haven’t been in love with FAM bc I’m not crazy about Joel Kinnaman, but I’ve stuck with it.    There are some intriguing sparks setting up in this season and I dig Toby Kebbell so it’s nice to see him in the mix



Has anyone watched the Curse yet?  Don’t want to speak too much on it yet

[BallDontLie]

On episode 3 of Loki season 2…. Enjoying it. Clearing the bad taste from secret invasion yeeeesh.

[Atiba Applebum]

On episode 3 of Loki season 2…. Enjoying it. Clearing the bad taste from secret invasion yeeeesh.

Yeah secret invasion was rough and pointless.    They’ve shut down daredevil bc they realized they need to get some people with tv know how in there and if they fuck up daredevil that’s a bridge too far.   

Honestly, Invincible seems like the only real way to do a superhero type shoe.    Maybe bc I know better, but I can just feel the budget straining on even the Boys when they have to made Canada look like a South America Contra camp.    I’d almost like to see a comics-accurate animated series for the show (and maybe even Preache) like they did in thst Boys spin-off animated series.   

[BallDontLie]

A scifi-y espionage show with Samuel L. And Emilia Clarke i was sold. Ep 1 wasn’t too bad, but the rest was a chore to finish. Guess the marvel fatigue as well…

Ke Huy Quan has been my favorite part of Loki 2. Great addition.

[Abyss1]

Im the same with superhero movies... I thought this was well done and reflects my thought on R rated superhero movies

[Atiba Applebum]

A scifi-y espionage show with Samuel L. And Emilia Clarke i was sold. Ep 1 wasn’t too bad, but the rest was a chore to finish. Guess the marvel fatigue as well…

Ke Huy Quan has been my favorite part of Loki 2. Great addition.

I was sold on the premise too, but I don’t think they ever really committed fully to the espionage part as well as I would have liked.   The shapeshifting reveals didn’t make much sense and I wish it had been seeded better previously the way Hydra had kinda been.   The biggest reveal you just kinda think…well when the fuck did that happen?

I also kept thinking about why the skrulls were having such a hard time while New Asgard was getting along quite swimmingly.    Completely ignoring NA felt like a missed opportunity to comment on immigrant assimilation or something.   

[RoaryMcTwang]

Really enjoyed The Killer. I love Michael Fassbender and Fincher made excellent use of him in this one.

[Atiba Applebum]

Really enjoyed The Killer. I love Michael Fassbender and Fincher made excellent use of him in this one.

My enjoyment grows with the thought of it

It felt almost intentionally like a tv show.   I don’t remember opening production cards, just went straight into the intro montage like a tv show and the obvious episodic nature of the narrative.

[brycickle]

That was a LOT of Morrissey though.

[skippersoldballs]

I liked Pluto a lot but some of the English voice acting was very grating. enjoyed it a lot more with subtitles

[funeral_tuxedo]

If any of you have YouTube premium the movie Moon starring Sam Rockwell is currently available and it’s really good.

[BallDontLie]

If any of you have YouTube premium the movie Moon starring Sam Rockwell is currently available and it’s really good.

Super underrated…. Didn’t even get an Oscar nod, granted 2008 had a lot of competition.

[Abyss1]

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Really enjoyed The Killer. I love Michael Fassbender and Fincher made excellent use of him in this one.

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My enjoyment grows with the thought of it

It felt almost intentionally like a tv show.   I don’t remember opening production cards, just went straight into the intro montage like a tv show and the obvious episodic nature of the narrative.

I liked how it was shot and the acting a lot, but the story was a bit cliche for me found myself correctly guessing the 2nd and 3rd acts all from events in the 1st act

[Atiba Applebum]

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Really enjoyed The Killer. I love Michael Fassbender and Fincher made excellent use of him in this one.

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My enjoyment grows with the thought of it

It felt almost intentionally like a tv show.   I don’t remember opening production cards, just went straight into the intro montage like a tv show and the obvious episodic nature of the narrative.

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I liked how it was shot and the acting a lot, but the story was a bit cliche for me found myself correctly guessing the 2nd and 3rd acts all from events in the 1st act

A “well-structured” script will do that.   The idea is to establish things subtly in your mind so that things don’t seem coincidental, but also not with a bell around its neck.   I think as you become a better movie watcher you just happen to notice these things more and more - but I do agree it wasn’t the most original thing in the world

[Jehoshaphat Augustus]

If any of you have YouTube premium the movie Moon starring Sam Rockwell is currently available and it’s really good.

He is killer show stealer, he was the most important character in Galaxy Quest lol.
 
I loved him in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles handing out cigarettes to kids as part of the Foot Klan

spectacular raaaaange

[Atiba Applebum]

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If any of you have YouTube premium the movie Moon starring Sam Rockwell is currently available and it’s really good.

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He is killer show stealer, he was the most important character in Galaxy Quest lol.
 
I loved him in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles handing out cigarettes to kids as part of the Foot Klan

spectacular raaaaange

Anyone see Safe Men back in the day?   Remember that being a hit with the colllege film crowd in the early 00s but I haven’t seen it years.   Rockwell + Zahn.  Remember it being like Bottle Rocket in spirit

[BallDontLie]

There’s also this one that flew under the radar *edit: with Sam Rockwell… pretty funny

[Painted Baby]

There was a time in my life where I thought the idea of an adaptation of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was impossible but that movie is super good and Sam Rockwell is a big part of that.