Movies/TV shows that don't suck on Netflix

[Mean salto]

People were quiet on the Regime, but is anyone watching The Sympathizer?

Its being released weekly here. I think I've watched 3 or 4 but can't decide how much I like it yet. I think Robert downy Jr is actually detracting a bit for me like if there's parts that should be a bit more serious/tense then he's doing some character that's probably better suited for a sketch comedy.

[Atiba Applebum]

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People were quiet on the Regime, but is anyone watching The Sympathizer?

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Its being released weekly here. I think I've watched 3 or 4 but can't decide how much I like it yet. I think Robert downy Jr is actually detracting a bit for me like if there's parts that should be a bit more serious/tense then he's doing some character that's probably better suited for a sketch comedy.

Yeahhh it’s weird for me too, but because I read both books and that’s not really a concept that’s in the books (the white men or that all the white men I guess look alike).  The college professor was the only one who was really a white character in the book, but other than, it’s fairly faithful

[Atiba Applebum]

Fun little look at some famous Heath ledges at UCI at the beginning of Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted

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Plowed through Tokyo Vice last week. I'm on the hype train!  Hoping enough latecomers skew the numbers up and they decide to renew and so some promo for season 3. Probably never would have gotten to it if it wasn't for this thread.

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Which season did you like better?

I've thought about it for a minute and I can't honestly say I noticed a huge difference between the two seasons, maybe because I binged it. Season 2 has a couple of diversionary storylines that wind up being critical eg. The Motorbike Gang or the return trip to Missouri that at first felt like they were going for a one and done story but of course we know how those wound up. I particularly like how Maruyama's relationship with her brother echoes Jake's relationship with his sister. On one hand, we want him to go do the right thing. On the other hand, we see how that has worked out for Maruyama. I think we only got those side stories because they expanded the episode count from 8-10. I dunno...I was into it all!

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Plowed through Tokyo Vice last week. I'm on the hype train!  Hoping enough latecomers skew the numbers up and they decide to renew and so some promo for season 3. Probably never would have gotten to it if it wasn't for this thread.

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Which season did you like better?

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I've thought about it for a minute and I can't honestly say I noticed a huge difference between the two seasons, maybe because I binged it. Season 2 has a couple of diversionary storylines that wind up being critical eg. The Motorbike Gang or the return trip to Missouri that at first felt like they were going for a one and done story but of course we know how those wound up. I particularly like how Maruyama's relationship with her brother echoes Jake's relationship with his sister. On one hand, we want him to go do the right thing. On the other hand, we see how that has worked out for Maruyama. I think we only got those side stories because they expanded the episode count from 8-10. I dunno...I was into it all!

I thought the pacing was excellent over the entire show, the whole thing felt like a building dynamic and complete story. Early on, character development and setting were the focus, once the stakes were clear for all the main characters, the action felt necessary. I can't see this having a third season, felt pretty complete, no?
Does anyone know hiw closely the show follows the memoir?
Sato was my fav character, acting was great.

[Atiba Applebum]

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Plowed through Tokyo Vice last week. I'm on the hype train!  Hoping enough latecomers skew the numbers up and they decide to renew and so some promo for season 3. Probably never would have gotten to it if it wasn't for this thread.

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Which season did you like better?

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I've thought about it for a minute and I can't honestly say I noticed a huge difference between the two seasons, maybe because I binged it. Season 2 has a couple of diversionary storylines that wind up being critical eg. The Motorbike Gang or the return trip to Missouri that at first felt like they were going for a one and done story but of course we know how those wound up. I particularly like how Maruyama's relationship with her brother echoes Jake's relationship with his sister. On one hand, we want him to go do the right thing. On the other hand, we see how that has worked out for Maruyama. I think we only got those side stories because they expanded the episode count from 8-10. I dunno...I was into it all!

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I thought the pacing was excellent over the entire show, the whole thing felt like a building dynamic and complete story. Early on, character development and setting were the focus, once the stakes were clear for all the main characters, the action felt necessary. I can't see this having a third season, felt pretty complete, no?
Does anyone know hiw closely the show follows the memoir?
Sato was my fav character, acting was great.

(Bear in mind it’s been 5+ years) I don’t remember him ever getting that close to the actual Yakuza players so I don’t really recall the blonde girl or her boyfriend being actual people that he had relationships with.  But he did have a cop buddy and the newsroom guys and he reported on yakuza stuff without a personal stake

[Dr-Feelgood]

Well, Sugar sure delivered a hell of a twist.

Ive been going back and forth on whether to start this or not......i do love a twist so i think this convinced me to give it a go

[I_Respect_Wood]

Fun little look at some famous Heath ledges at UCI at the beginning of Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted

I just came here for this, I wasnt sure, I was looking if there was a thread here.

[Atiba Applebum]

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Fun little look at some famous Heath ledges at UCI at the beginning of Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted

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I just came here for this, I wasnt sure, I was looking if there was a thread here.

Forgot to amend it, that those ledges are prominent throughout the whole movie

[ToySanta]

Finally finished Dead To Me.

I love Christina Applegate so much. The show was funny and surprising to the end.

Linda Cardellini crushed it.

[D10S]

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Fun little look at some famous Heath ledges at UCI at the beginning of Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted

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I just came here for this, I wasnt sure, I was looking if there was a thread here.

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Forgot to amend it, that those ledges are prominent throughout the whole movie

I was looking fwd to that movie for weeks, what a disappointment...

[L33Tg33k]

I was digging 3 body problem until the unnecessary gun fight. They also did Nick Frost dirty.

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I was digging 3 body problem until the unnecessary gun fight. They also did Nick Frost dirty.

The acting is ace! but I am not so sure about the story ...at times it was just inconsistent.
without spoilers ...certain people decide to play a VR game that triggered someone to self delete in the first ep and all because "the tech"...enjoyed when they were in the game the most tbh

[Atiba Applebum]

Bodkin on Netflix is fun

Dark Matter (Apple) will give it a chance.   Read the book in 2017 and remember it being fine but didn’t remember any plot points.   Felt ahead of the story in the first two eps but I’m giving the benefit of the doubt

[brycickle]

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Yeah, I'm wondering? Is it that, or is he hallucinating? Guess we'll have to tune in next week to find out! Would explain the inability to get drunk I suppose.

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Yeah it’s weird but I guess it makes that a lot of things make more sense, weirdly

But I hate his name now bc it’s giving me Edgar from MiB vibes

Welp. The twist is the twist.

[Atiba Applebum]

A Man In Full was surprisingly not good.   Kind of ended up being a bunch of storylines that didn’t converge into anything and it’s fairly certainly to be the only season so it makes less sense than Palm Royale’s blatant attempt to stretch things out well past the point

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Plowed through Tokyo Vice last week. I'm on the hype train!  Hoping enough latecomers skew the numbers up and they decide to renew and so some promo for season 3. Probably never would have gotten to it if it wasn't for this thread.

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Which season did you like better?

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I've thought about it for a minute and I can't honestly say I noticed a huge difference between the two seasons, maybe because I binged it. Season 2 has a couple of diversionary storylines that wind up being critical eg. The Motorbike Gang or the return trip to Missouri that at first felt like they were going for a one and done story but of course we know how those wound up. I particularly like how Maruyama's relationship with her brother echoes Jake's relationship with his sister. On one hand, we want him to go do the right thing. On the other hand, we see how that has worked out for Maruyama. I think we only got those side stories because they expanded the episode count from 8-10. I dunno...I was into it all!

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I thought the pacing was excellent over the entire show, the whole thing felt like a building dynamic and complete story. Early on, character development and setting were the focus, once the stakes were clear for all the main characters, the action felt necessary. I can't see this having a third season, felt pretty complete, no?
Does anyone know hiw closely the show follows the memoir?
Sato was my fav character, acting was great.

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(Bear in mind it’s been 5+ years) I don’t remember him ever getting that close to the actual Yakuza players so I don’t really recall the blonde girl or her boyfriend being actual people that he had relationships with.  But he did have a cop buddy and the newsroom guys and he reported on yakuza stuff without a personal stake

I liked the 1st season the most because of the relationship with japanese cops, I had a run in with cops when I was in Japan (forgot my passport -your supposed to carry it at all times in japan) and they are actually pretty cool with my interactions with them...one dude tried to help me find a hotel my first night.

Also it was actually cool to see modern aikido in that 1st season

Caught up on the sympathizer last night, I am enjoying it and had a few lol moments

[Lifer]

King Richard was sick, motivating story although it looks like that dude was problematic as shit in real life.

[Atiba Applebum]

Joel Edgerton bought his son a complete at Uprise on Dark Matter last night

[Mean salto]

Robert Downey Jr possibly in Nora's Adidas shoe in the sympathiser.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7CsB4HvmS1/?igsh=MXJ4ajdrYWFkc2w=
You can see it better in the actual show. Also it could just be whatever shoe the Nora is based off of

[matt_2993]

The new Tires show by Shane Gillis and his buddies just came out on Netflix. Will be watching it all tonight

[Mean salto]

The new Tires show by Shane Gillis and his buddies just came out on Netflix. Will be watching it all tonight

Thought it was pretty decent. Apparently already got picked up for another season

[Atiba Applebum]

For all the Tokyo Vice heads, just saw the real Jake Adelstein had a recent podcast come out called White Devil

[Painted Baby]

For all the Tokyo Vice heads, just saw the real Jake Adelstein had a recent podcast come out called White Devil

The FYC billboards are up. I back Ken getting best actor for Kataguri. I say that like I've seen everything which is not even close to being true. Maybe it was those contemplative hi-fi jazz sessions?

Paramount Plus has an HD upload of the OG Shogun up now. Seeing all of the names in the credits put me on to the fact that it was AAA TV at the time but the credits still looked like Fantasy Island. Kinda down to check out Toshiro Mifune's Toranaga but he may have been slumming at that point.

[Atiba Applebum]

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For all the Tokyo Vice heads, just saw the real Jake Adelstein had a recent podcast come out called White Devil

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The FYC billboards are up. I back Ken getting best actor for Kataguri. I say that like I've seen everything which is not even close to being true. Maybe it was those contemplative hi-fi jazz sessions?

Paramount Plus has an HD upload of the OG Shogun up now. Seeing all of the names in the credits put me on to the fact that it was AAA TV at the time but the credits still looked like Fantasy Island. Kinda down to check out Toshiro Mifune's Toranaga but he may have been slumming at that point.

I believe it was done for NBCs 50th anniversary.   TV movies used to be hot shit back in the day.   


I think Vice is too niche a show to really get any real wins (it’s a definite iykyk show) but I think Shogun was buzzy enough it should at least get nominated a bunch

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For all the Tokyo Vice heads, just saw the real Jake Adelstein had a recent podcast come out called White Devil

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The FYC billboards are up. I back Ken getting best actor for Kataguri. I say that like I've seen everything which is not even close to being true. Maybe it was those contemplative hi-fi jazz sessions?

Paramount Plus has an HD upload of the OG Shogun up now. Seeing all of the names in the credits put me on to the fact that it was AAA TV at the time but the credits still looked like Fantasy Island. Kinda down to check out Toshiro Mifune's Toranaga but he may have been slumming at that point.

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I believe it was done for NBCs 50th anniversary.   TV movies used to be hot shit back in the day.   


I think Vice is too niche a show to really get any real wins (it’s a definite iykyk show) but I think Shogun was buzzy enough it should at least get nominated a bunch

yea the Japanese underworld is a lot different than people would expect...not sure if its most of Hollywood would find the stories that award worthy (I do).  Shogun had a lot of traditional Japanese dialogue and costumes so there's a level of difficulty that is award worthy for people who don't know japan's history.  I liked shogun because Osaka castle was the only castle I got to see when I was in japan, and how they never showed him as a shogun was pretty interesting because the tokugawa era that followed his reign was probably to most significant revolution in japan. seen tons of shows on tokugawa and meiji era japan

[Atiba Applebum]

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For all the Tokyo Vice heads, just saw the real Jake Adelstein had a recent podcast come out called White Devil

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The FYC billboards are up. I back Ken getting best actor for Kataguri. I say that like I've seen everything which is not even close to being true. Maybe it was those contemplative hi-fi jazz sessions?

Paramount Plus has an HD upload of the OG Shogun up now. Seeing all of the names in the credits put me on to the fact that it was AAA TV at the time but the credits still looked like Fantasy Island. Kinda down to check out Toshiro Mifune's Toranaga but he may have been slumming at that point.

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I believe it was done for NBCs 50th anniversary.   TV movies used to be hot shit back in the day.   


I think Vice is too niche a show to really get any real wins (it’s a definite iykyk show) but I think Shogun was buzzy enough it should at least get nominated a bunch

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yea the Japanese underworld is a lot different than people would expect...not sure if its most of Hollywood would find the stories that award worthy (I do).  Shogun had a lot of traditional Japanese dialogue and costumes so there's a level of difficulty that is award worthy for people who don't know japan's history.  I liked shogun because Osaka castle was the only castle I got to see when I was in japan, and how they never showed him as a shogun was pretty interesting because the tokugawa era that followed his reign was probably to most significant revolution in japan. seen tons of shows on tokugawa and meiji era japan

That book Freakanomics had a good story on the sumo underworld and how they throw matches to help each other out

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For all the Tokyo Vice heads, just saw the real Jake Adelstein had a recent podcast come out called White Devil

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The FYC billboards are up. I back Ken getting best actor for Kataguri. I say that like I've seen everything which is not even close to being true. Maybe it was those contemplative hi-fi jazz sessions?

Paramount Plus has an HD upload of the OG Shogun up now. Seeing all of the names in the credits put me on to the fact that it was AAA TV at the time but the credits still looked like Fantasy Island. Kinda down to check out Toshiro Mifune's Toranaga but he may have been slumming at that point.

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I believe it was done for NBCs 50th anniversary.   TV movies used to be hot shit back in the day.   


I think Vice is too niche a show to really get any real wins (it’s a definite iykyk show) but I think Shogun was buzzy enough it should at least get nominated a bunch

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yea the Japanese underworld is a lot different than people would expect...not sure if its most of Hollywood would find the stories that award worthy (I do).  Shogun had a lot of traditional Japanese dialogue and costumes so there's a level of difficulty that is award worthy for people who don't know japan's history.  I liked shogun because Osaka castle was the only castle I got to see when I was in japan, and how they never showed him as a shogun was pretty interesting because the tokugawa era that followed his reign was probably to most significant revolution in japan. seen tons of shows on tokugawa and meiji era japan

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That book Freakanomics had a good story on the sumo underworld and how they throw matches to help each other out

I havent read that but know some stuff about sumo, I could never get into the sport myself but the culture behind sumo is super interesting.  But yea the whole gambling culture in japan in general is super fucked...even heard crazy shit happening with yakuza at those pachinko ball spots. 

Lately i've been more interested in yakuza high school kids and the older bosozoku that was on the show.

[Atiba Applebum]

this Friday - HIT MAN on Netflix has been getting a lot of hype.   It's Richard Linklatter's new film with nü-Iceman from Top Gun 2

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this Friday - HIT MAN on Netflix has been getting a lot of hype.   It's Richard Linklatter's new film with nü-Iceman from Top Gun 2

Was fucking good, loved every minute of it and our boy Austin killed it