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Recommend good stuff you've seen on Netflix streaming

Hard disagree on my Boys

Watched the Devil all the Time. Amazing cast, but just misery porn.

Also saw the Protege with Sam Jackson, Michael Keaton and Maggie Q. Worth it just to watch Keaton. Decent assassin flick.

And Wrath of Man - wasn't expecting much because Guy Ritchie stuff has sucked lately, but I always enjoy an angry Statham and enjoyed it.
 
I never knew what Barry was and just assumed it was a comedy but holy shit it’s so good. NoHo Hank may be a top 5 all time character for me.
 
First ep of The Old Man was pretty good. I'll keep watching.

It was hard to get through the first 15 min of The Bear. It is a pilot, and I'm sure it improves, but the style is driving me nuts, not to mention they felt the need to pepper the dialogue with an f-bomb every couple of words. I mean, I love my f-bombs, but it seems forced.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
First ep of The Old Man was pretty good. I'll keep watching.

It was hard to get through the first 15 min of The Bear. It is a pilot, and I'm sure it improves, but the style is driving me nuts, not to mention they felt the need to pepper the dialogue with an f-bomb every couple of words. I mean, I love my f-bombs, but it seems forced.
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Have you ever worked in a kitchen?
 
DeaconCav06 said:
Have you ever worked in a kitchen?
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I've waited tables, but more of a corporate environment (Ruby Tuesday restaurant), rather than mom & pop shop like in the show. Also like 25+ years ago, so between that and it being a RT, the f-bombs were not nearly as abundant and much more likely to be uttered in Spanish.
 
stay with the Bear. My wife was ready to bail after first episode but ended up loving it.
 
Season 3 of Blown Away (glassblowing competition) is on Netflix. The episodes are only 30 minutes, and the I find the whole artwork process interesting. It's an uplifting show, too, in that competitors are very supportive (think Great British Baking Show) and there's an obvious strong community underpinning the artform.
 
HailToTheDeacons said:
Season 3 of Blown Away (glassblowing competition) is on Netflix. The episodes are only 30 minutes, and the I find the whole artwork process interesting. It's an uplifting show, too, in that competitors are very supportive (think Great British Baking Show) and there's an obvious strong community underpinning the artform.
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What always entertains me about those reality shows are when the contestants speak so reverently about the expert judges while the audience has no freaking clue who they are. “Oh my god, LaMay Schmidt has been my lifetime inspiration - her work with the Catalan Glass Blowing Gallery is the reason I became a glass blower!!”
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
What always entertains me about those reality shows are when the contestants speak so reverently about the expert judges while the audience has no freaking clue who they are. “Oh my god, LaMay Schmidt has been my lifetime inspiration - her work with the Catalan Glass Blowing Gallery is the reason I became a glass blower!!”
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haha yeah this phenomenon is striking for this show in particular
 
HailToTheDeacons said:
Season 3 of Blown Away (glassblowing competition) is on Netflix. The episodes are only 30 minutes, and the I find the whole artwork process interesting. It's an uplifting show, too, in that competitors are very supportive (think Great British Baking Show) and there's an obvious strong community underpinning the artform.
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my wife and i watch a lot of the artistic competition shows...here are a few others i recommend:

Good with Wood
The Great Pottery Throw Down
Portrait Artist of the Year
 
Good with Wood is about woodworking, right? Just making sure.
 
Finished up the third season of Atlanta and well…. it is a really smart and weird show and i really liked it for the most part except ….. the last episode was maybe the worst, least interesting episode I’ve ever seen of any show ever. Da fuck was that shit?
 
Really? It wasn’t the best ep but Van doing really weird shit was definitely interesting.
 
I find just about everything about Atlanta interesting and thought provoking, but Van pretending that she is French for a whole episode was the opposite of interesting (for me anyways.).
 
Looks like HBO Max is done. A bunch of reports out there saying they're firing a bunch of people and merging with Discovery+.
 
PhDeac said:
Looks like HBO Max is done. A bunch of reports out there saying they're firing a bunch of people and merging with Discovery+.
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I think that's a poor read of what is happening.

Warner Brothers and Discovery merged months ago and are integrating the companies. Of course they are going to cut costs... That's why it makes sense for these streaming platforms to combine. HBO Max has way more subs that Discovery+ and has been relatively successful as the #4 player behind the "big guys" (Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+). On some metrics, they are #2 (behind only Netflix).

The shenanigans with all of these movies they are scrapping is purely a financial decision. I think it's dumb, but I get it. New management dealing with the problems left behind by old management.

But yes, you will likely see 1 streaming service for WBD... No idea what it will be called, but I assume it'll just be HBO Max. We'll likely get a lot of details around that when they announce earnings.

The one that is really in trouble is Comcast/NBCU... Peacock has like 13mil paid subs and they can't seem to grow that number.
 
It's a "poor read" a lot of people seem to share.

I hope you're right, but if that was the case they couldn't be cancelling so many upcoming projects and removing current HBO Max original content.
https://variety.com/2022/digital/ne...er-bros-films-streaming-exclusive-1235332258/

 
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We'll see how it plays out.

HBO Max has ~75mil subs. Discovery+ has ~25mil subs. Discovery+ has a great management team, but it is the (much) smaller entity.

I like Sepinwall, and enjoy what he writes about TV, but he's not somebody who would know these things.

Guys I'd follow would be Rich Greenfield or Andrew Freedman.
 
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