Any good Netflix watches?

[BSR]

On 10/25/2021 at 8:12 PM, E.T.Bass said:

I watched Operation Hyacinth, a newer movie on Netflix getting some buzz. 

Enjoyed it.

Story takes place 30+ years ago, in Communist Poland.

 

 

 

I've been on another losing streak on Netflix.  The Minions of Midas, a thriller based on a Jack London short story, would have made a great 2-hour movie.  Unfortunately, Netflix stretched it out to a 4.5-hour limited series.  I normally read the IMDB reviews before watching a Netflix series, but just jumped right into Santo, a story of 2 detectives (1 Brazilian, 1 Spanish) hunting down a serial killer.  Zoinks, did I regret it!  Stay away!!

Operation Hyacinth got great IMDB reviews, but I didn't enjoy it that much.  It's about a young detective in 1985 Poland who goes rogue investigating a series of murders of gay men.  The powers-that-be want to close all the cases even though they're all unsolved.  Yeah, what the protagonist discovers is dark & ugly.  Maybe I was in the mood for something less cynical and depressing, but if you know what to expect, you'll probably enjoy it more than I did.

[+ Lucky]

Physical:100 is great especially if you like Asian muscle. Episodes 2 and 3 are the best.

[Marc in Calif]

On 2/24/2023 at 7:40 AM, Lucky said:

Physical:100 is great especially if you like Asian muscle. Episodes 2 and 3 are the best.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81587446

[+ MysticMenace]

On 7/3/2021 at 7:22 PM, JoeMendoza said:

I haven't been on Netflix for a while, but good lord, Adam Demos from Sex/Life is making me binge watch the series...or maybe just keep time marker 19:50 in episode 3 on repeat.

and... his pink and seemingly wet tip made a poppin' appearance in the recently released season 2!

[liubit]

Sex/Life

22 hours ago, JoeMendoza said:

and... his pink and seemingly wet tip made a poppin' appearance in the recently released season 2!

@JoeMendoza: In the last (or second to last) episode of season 2, there is prolonged frontal nudity of the other character (Jonathan Sadowski, I think), and boy, is the dude hung. Very hot views of a very hot dick. 

[+ MysticMenace]

On 3/9/2023 at 6:59 AM, JoeMendoza said:

and... his pink and seemingly wet tip made a poppin' appearance in the recently released season 2!

[BSR]

I really enjoyed The Patients of Dr. Garcia, a 10-episode series on Netflix.  I was wary going into it because it deals with a loaded subject, the Spanish Civil War, a conflict in which there are no good guys.  If you favor one side in the slightest, you enrage the other side, yet somehow the series manages to tell its story without venturing into politics.

The first 4 episodes are a bit slow, gotta be patient, because they're more history lesson than drama.  But the story kicks into gear in Episode 5 and really engages you.  Dr. Garcia gets branded a communist, even though he's really just a doctor trying to save the life of a man who happened to be on that side.  The men form a bond that deepens when the former red discovers a scheme to transport former Nazis to Argentina and give them new identities.

Great storytelling and 2 really strong actors make Dr. Garcia really worth seeing.  I highly recommend.

[+ tassojunior]

Netflix and HBO had such wonderful pieces that got me through the lockdown but for the past year both are just blah. Succession last season was it's worse and where is the last Crown? Between those two I'm paying $30-something a month and the best thing I've found the last year was the Japanese series about the egg-yolk looking for it's mother on Netflix. 

 

[BSR]

I can't believe I'm recommending this series, but if you want a guilty pleasure, watch Fake Profile on Netflix.  OMG, total trash, I almost felt dirty after finishing it, but only on an anonymous Internet forum can I admit I really enjoyed it *facepalmofshame*

A Las Vegas "erotic dancer" (the ultra-high-end erotic cabaret where she dances doesn't exist in the real world, or at least not in Las Vegas) hooks up via Tinder with a Colombian doctor who visits Vegas regularly.  After 4 months of dating, she decides to surprise him by visiting him in Cartagena and discovers he totally lied on his Tinder profile (oh, shock!).  The single doctor turns out to be a married real estate developer with 2 kids.

Instead of crying all the way back to Vegas, the dancer decides to piss her fake profile boyfriend off by renting the house directly across from his.  The telenovela unfolds with betrayals, lies, corporate sabotage, hidden cameras, bribes, blackmail, and of course lots & lots of sex.

I can't begin to count how many times I said to myself, "omg, this is so awful!" as I clicked on the next episode to keep binging.  Oh, and the Tinder liar takes his clothes off a lot, which might have been an eensy motivating factor for continuing to watch this trashfest.

[liubit]

4 hours ago, BSR said:

I can't believe I'm recommending this series, but if you want a guilty pleasure, watch Fake Profile on Netflix.  OMG, total trash, I almost felt dirty after finishing it, but only on an anonymous Internet forum can I admit I really enjoyed it *facepalmofshame*

Guilty as charged here too, @BSR  The very abundant eye candy kept me going until the end 😇

[BSR]

I found a hidden gem on Netflix, The Crimes That Bind, a movie about a well-to-do woman whose live-in housekeeper commits a heinous crime.  Of course, things are not as they appear.  Terrific actors and a strong script, I really enjoyed it.

[BSR]

Cable Girls is a series (42 45-minute episodes) about 5 phone operators who start out as friends and end up closer than family.  I actually finished it a month or so ago but had my doubts about recommending it.  It's a bit too "messagey," and like all messagey projects, it too often gets so wrapped up in pounding the message (feminism, in this case) that it ignores what should be its primary objective:  telling a great story.

That said, the series does have its strengths:  a really strong cast, a villain you love to hate, a great feel for the era (Spain 1928-40), and when it's not being too messagey, some very engaging plot lines.

Another con:  I hated the ending.   But then I had to remind myself of the brutality of the Spanish civil war -- no "happily ever afters" in post-war Spain.  Hope that's not too much of a spoiler. All things considered, however, I do recommend Cable Girls.

Edited September 18, 2023 by BSR
Accidentally hit "send" before finishing

[BSR]

Has anyone watched Season 7 of Élite yet?  Half of me wants to cue it up because I was such a fan for the first 5 seasons; the other half of me is a-scared because Season 6 was so awful.

[Ali Gator]

"Old Dads" is very funny if you like an old fashioned comedy.

[+ EVdude]

On 10/24/2023 at 5:40 AM, BSR said:

Has anyone watched Season 7 of Élite yet?  Half of me wants to cue it up because I was such a fan for the first 5 seasons; the other half of me is a-scared because Season 6 was so awful.

I couldn’t get through season 6. Think I’m done.

[liubit]

On 10/24/2023 at 5:40 PM, BSR said:

Has anyone watched Season 7 of Élite yet?  Half of me wants to cue it up because I was such a fan for the first 5 seasons; the other half of me is a-scared because Season 6 was so awful.

Just like @BSR, I found Season 6 quite painful: basically the only thing that kept me watching it to the bitter end was my fascination with Patrick (Manu Rios). Well, the first episode of Season 7 goes well beyond awful, and Patrick is not even there anymore. I called it quits. 

[MikeBiDude]

OK so Elite season 7 had some weak episodes. I don't think anyone went to class as Las Encinas🤷🏻‍♂️ Joel made a pretty good eye candy replacement for Patrick. And there was plenty of r-rated soft core gay porn an shirtless hotties.

I found it worth slogging through and episode 8 was very well done with a surprise twist at the end.

[liubit]

Thanks for the input ☝️☝️, @MikeBiDude. I will try my eyes again at Elite 7, I might have been too quick in dismissing it. 

[MikeBiDude]

Fernando Lindez play "Joel", the new eye candy for season 8.

 

[handiacefailure]

I watched the first two episodes of Tore tonight.   I'll probably binge watch it this weekend since there are only six thirty-minute episodes.   Some nice eye candy and in episode one there is a small scene showing Tore's entire ass and him getting rimmed, surprised netflix showed that.   It's in Swedish though and the dubbing drives me nuts.   

[liubit]

On 11/1/2023 at 8:18 AM, handiacefailure said:

in episode one there is a small scene showing Tore's entire ass and him getting rimmed, surprised netflix showed that.

The rimming is very “sanitized”, quite vanilla, but just like you, @handiacefailure, I was very surprised to see it. Otherwise, I watched a couple of episodes, and Tore didn’t really appeal to me. 

[samhexum]

‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ review: Another happy meal

By Johnny Oleksinski  101 minutes.    Rated PG                   On Netflix Dec. 15

https://nypost.com/2023/12/13/entertainment/chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget-review-another-happy-meal/

Those chatty British chickens have been supersized. 

Now, instead of the quaint country cry of “I don’t want to be a pie!” from the 2000 Claymation classic “Chicken Run,” the fed-up cluckers battle a bigger foe that has more trans fats: a fast-food factory in the silly sequel “Dawn of the Nugget.” 

The ee-i-ee-i-old farmyard charm is missed, I’ll admit, and the pressure put on the film to modernize and amp things up after two decades away is perceptible. Remember, when the original hit theaters, Pixar had only three movies under its belt.

But the second “Chicken Run” grabs you by the giblets anyway, thanks to its terrific returning voice cast of big-personality Brits, such as bubbly Jane Horrocks and Imelda Staunton (who, in the 23 intervening years, has gone from the coop to Buckingham Palace), and earnestly funny writing.

Netflix, to its credit, has not laid an egg.

Rocky the Rooster (Mel Gibson has not come back; he’s instead voiced by Zachary Levi) and Ginger, (Thandie Newton) from the first film, however, have. Their cute baby chick is named Molly (Bella Ramsey from “Game of Thrones”), and she’s been raised on a protective island faraway from the deadly farm her parents bravely escaped from.

Of course, as curious young adults are wont to do, Molly starts to dream of the outside world. The idyllic freedom her parents risked their feathers for is, for her, a prison. And so Molly hightails it to a distant oasis across the water that she spots on a truck — Fun-Land Farms: “Where chickens find their happy endings.”

Uh oh, Molly’s KFC.

Indeed, she winds up stuck in a drive-thru deathtrap with her birdbrained pal Frizzle and, at first, they’re entranced by what looks like a miniature golf course with all the feed they can eat.

This is where director Sam Fell and screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick, John O’Farrell and Rachel Tunnard’s intelligent mischief cranks up. Fun-Land combines Aldous Huxley’s dystopian “Brave New World” — all the chickens are brainwashed into satisfied submission — with the fattening up of “Hansel and Gretel.” It’s Grimm’s Poultry Tales. 

Coming to the rescue, Ginger, Rocky and the rest embark on a complicated mission with plenty of “Mission: Impossible” references.

Despite the newfangled attitude, the Claymation (original director Nick Park also created “Wallace and Gromit” and “Shaun the Sheep”) still has that old school, instantly endearing caveman quality from the 2000 movie. It’s a soulful-looking film, even with the addition of complex machines and an “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” 1960s aesthetic — especially when it comes to resurrected villain Mrs. Tweedy (Miranda Richardson). 

“Dawn of the Nugget” is not the best roast chicken you’ve ever had. But it remains a clever and just-scary-enough good time for kids. Even a Costco rotisserie can really hit the spot.

[samhexum]

On 12/13/2023 at 2:40 PM, samhexum said:

‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ review: Another happy meal

By Johnny Oleksinski  101 minutes.    Rated PG                   On Netflix Dec. 15

Slow at first. Adorable in the middle. Goes on a little bit too long.

[BSR]

Craving another guilty pleasure, I started watching High Heat, a Mexican telenovela about a team of firefighters.  Unfortunately, it failed to match the trashy heights (depths?) of Fake Profile, my fave guilty pleasure to date on Netflix.

Sure, the firefighters are handsome & sexy, but the series came off like it was written & directed by high school students.  The gay storyline in particular annoyed me because it was as predictable as a New Year's Eve countdown.  Even worse, the gay couple was limited to a few kisses, no full-on gay sex scenes (plenty of straight sex scenes, mind you) like you see in quality trash (yes, there is such a thing) like Élite seasons 1-5.  Maybe the writers knew that a Mexican audience would be OK with a gay couple, but not gay sex.

Venezuelan model-turned-actor Antonio Sotillo was my favorite fireman.  This guy needs to do a lot more nude scenes in the future.  But pretty as he is, even he can't make High Heat worth watching.  Well, he does show off his spectacular ass a couple of times, so ...

[pubic_assistance]

On 10/24/2023 at 5:40 AM, BSR said:

Has anyone watched Season 7 of Élite yet?  Half of me wants to cue it up because I was such a fan for the first 5 seasons; the other half of me is a-scared because Season 6 was so awful.

This is an example of where a set "story-arc" is a better format.

So many great programs went on for too long and the popularity actually killed the show.