Netflix Instant Watch Recommendations

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 1:59 pm

Paingod wrote:I found Stranger Things while my wife was out of town a couple weeks ago, and chewed through it in record time. Loved it.

Isgrimnur wrote:Not yet a Prime member. Eventually I'll bite the bullet, but not yet.
If you do go to Prime, you probably have my wife to thank for whatever rate hike they sell it to you at. She abuses the hell out of 2-day shipping and we order 80% of the things we need online, hardly ever stepping foot inside stores except for perishables (and even then, we've started experimenting with delivered meal kits, like Hello Fresh and Purple Carrot).

I think there's quite a few of us here guilty of that.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 2:32 pm

Looks like Fringe is leaving next week. I hope it either comes back or pops up somewhere else.

I don't care for the Russian roulette of finding where stuff ends up.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 12:12 pm

Labor Day binge watching:

Spotlight
The Big Short
Season 2 of Narcos

Now I'm depressed about Priests raping children and the banks raping both their customers and taxpayers, but at least there is always coke.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 12:17 pm

Narcos is getting a season 3 and 4, which will be... Different.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:06 pm

Zaxxon wrote:Narcos is getting a season 3 and 4, which will be... Different.

Last I heard, it wasn't confirmed. In search of link.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:09 pm

tjg_marantz wrote:
Zaxxon wrote:Narcos is getting a season 3 and 4, which will be... Different.
Last I heard, it wasn't confirmed. In search of link.

I saw a confirmation this am, but can't find it now. Unless my Feedly sources are failing me.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:11 pm

Independent

Unsurprisingly, the streaming service has confirmed seasons three and four are definitely happening, with José Padilha (Elite Squad, RoboCop) and Eric Newman (Children of Men) staying on as producers. Narcos season three will hit Netflix next year (2017).

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:12 pm

'Narcos' Renewed for Third and Fourth Seasons at Netflix

Spoiler:

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:13 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:Independent

Unsurprisingly, the streaming service has confirmed seasons three and four are definitely happening, with José Padilha (Elite Squad, RoboCop) and Eric Newman (Children of Men) staying on as producers. Narcos season three will hit Netflix next year (2017).

Dammit! One minute faster.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:15 pm

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:23 pm

Bonus points for the timely image.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:23 pm

I'm glad is renewed. I'll take another two season ark but I'm somewhat worried about who they'll pick or the setting. It can't just be the same just without Pablo. Maybe Italy or Spain setting.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:25 pm

Spoiler:

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:28 pm

Zaxxon wrote:Bonus points for the timely image.

Thank you.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:28 pm

Zaxxon wrote:
Spoiler:
Rumor is it'll focus on the Cali cartel.

That's certainly implied with the final scene of season 2.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:33 pm

Haven't gotten there, but figured that *spoiler redacted* was coming, so I let myself confirm that spoiler awhile back. Hopefully I'll finish S2 this week.

sgoldj · Post by **sgoldj** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 8:25 pm

I super believe in you, Tad Cooper! Galavant is up.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 1:21 am

All Work All Play

An interesting documentary about professional gamers.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Sat Sep 17, 2016 5:02 pm

Luther season 4 just added.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Sat Sep 17, 2016 6:22 pm

Woot!

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:20 pm

I am Big Bird: The Carroll Spinney story. It's about the man behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, and features a bunch of fun behind-the-scenes stuff. Very inspiring too.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 4:51 pm

And with a lot fewer child abuse undertones than the Elmo documentary.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:45 pm

Season 6 of The Walking Dead just came available for streaming.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:49 pm

Also, I started watching The White Helmets, a Netflix original documentary about an organization of volunteer first-responders in Aleppo, Syria. They claim to have saved almost 60,000 lives and have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

It's stunning.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:53 pm

What's Aleppo? </Johnson>

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:31 pm

Zaxxon wrote:What's Aleppo? </Johnson>

We BANISH thee to R&P!

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Thu Sep 22, 2016 11:10 pm

Moliere wrote:Luther season 4 just added.

Only two episodes!

MonkeyFinger · Post by **MonkeyFinger** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 8:29 am

Longmire Season 5 is up!

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 8:33 am

Isgrimnur wrote:Looks like Fringe is leaving next week. I hope it either comes back or pops up somewhere else.

I really wanted to like this one, and watched it for a couple seasons, but it started trying to mesh too mush fantasy into the science and it started bugging me a lot. My wife still likes to rib me about the fit I had watching "the tech girl" take a literally "burned and fused" hard drive in Season 1 and connect it to an adapter and be all "I've got an app for that!"

Isgrimnur wrote:I don't care for the Russian roulette of finding where stuff ends up.

The only reason I still buy some things on DVD. I'll be damned if I'll let them take Deadpool from me!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 9:15 am

DVDs?

People still buy those?

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 10:58 am

hepcat wrote:DVDs?

People still buy those?

Only those who care about superior picture and sound quality.

msteelers · Post by **msteelers** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 11:20 am

Wouldn't you buy a blu Ray then?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 11:23 am

what msteelers said.

I rarely buy DVDs anymore. It's all blu ray these days...or high def streaming libraries.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:36 pm

Doh! Reading comprehension fail.

Though apparently, yes, they still buy them. Every time I go to Walmart and see people digging through the clearance disc bins, they swarm around the DVDs but the Blu-ray bin is a ghost town.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:50 pm

I don't have a Blu-ray player yet, so it's all DVDs for me. Will a Blu-ray player read a DVD? I'd really rather not rebuy anything. Of course at this rate, everyone will be using Infrared Micro Gel discs by the time I get around to upgrading.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:28 pm

Ludite. JK. Yes, they'll read DVD discs.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Sat Sep 24, 2016 12:28 am

stessier wrote:I don't have a Blu-ray player yet, so it's all DVDs for me. Will a Blu-ray player read a DVD? I'd really rather not rebuy anything. Of course at this rate, everyone will be using Infrared Micro Gel discs by the time I get around to upgrading.

Actually, most (all?) blu-ray players should be able to up-convert your DVDs. I haven't done research or personal comparisons, but my understanding is that up-conversion involves algorithms that improve the quality of the movie. It's not high-def, but it's better than the default DVD quality.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:21 pm

Squee! All 85 episodes of Robotech materialized on Netflix Canada this week. Time for a jaunt to 1985...

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 5:23 pm

What's the opposite of a recommendation? An anti-recommendation?

Anyway.

I watched The Dwarvenaut the other day. I started cringing in the first minutes of the "documentary", where it showed a group of people playing D&D gathered around a table all wearing costumes with smoke and lighting effects and tortured prose and overly enthusiastic shouts of "Huzzah!" It went downhill from there.

The documentary is about Stefan Pokorny, owner of Dwarven Forge. They make terrain for roleplaying games. I was really looking forward to watching this, because I love the DF terrain and I was hoping that they would get into how it was made. Instead it was a documentary that followed Pokorny around, in overly hyped drama about how if his latest kickstarter didn't raise over $2 million dollars his company would be ruined.

I came away from the documentary not liking Pokorny at all. Still love their product, still regret not getting in on their first kickstarter. I just found him irritating.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:34 pm

For Kasey: