What's up with Netflix ?

[EmergencyIan]

Mikey,

Did you watch “The Toys That Made Us” doc series on Netflix?

- Ian

[Allie Fox]

For what it's worth, I use an app called JustWatch to find movies. You can choose the providers you subscribe to and enter a program. The app will tell you which providers currently stream, sell and rent that program.

[MRP]

As more and more companies develop their own streaming services and keep content to be exclusive on them, generalized services like Netflix will have less content to choose from (which is why they have gone all in on developing their own content). The same thing happened with HBO-as more premium movie channels ate up available content with exclusive contracts, they had to put more into developing their own content. It's only going to get worse as Disney, Warner Brothers/DC and others launch their own streaming services creating a specialized market where general content providers (like Netflix) are at an extreme disadvantage. That said, the list of things that I want to watch on Netflix is still quite long (and since I only get 2-3 hours a week of TV time until the house redo projects are done and I DVR at least twice that anyways, my list never gets any shorter).

-M

[toothaction]

It's not like the digging most of us did through record bins or toy crates, etc, but the same kind of mentality (and an updated method) has to applied with a vast playground like Netflix - full of gems, most of them hidden under sheets of hype and algorithms.

Myself I have a browser addon that lets you search by all of the hidden categories with just a click. Invaluable!

[cjefferys]

Joel McHale seems to be relaunching "the Soup" on netflix. This brings me joy.

Yep, "The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale" starts Sunday, I'm really looking forward to it! First ep is going to be a Community mini-reunion with Alison Brie and Jim Rash guesting, cool!

[palitoy]

Joel McHale seems to be relaunching "the Soup" on netflix. This brings me joy.

[Mikey]

Watched the remake of Cabin Fever

Stinkeroo

Talk about a cashgrab remake - wow

I've seen better movies made by Sci Fi or Chiller

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Tried Cloverfield Paradox ... got bored with it after a half hour and turned it off .... same with (don't kill me) Rogue One

[Brazoo]

Altered Carbon is a pretty bonkers show - I'm only on episode 2. LOTS of obvious Blade Runner love.

[drquest]

I agree, Cloverfield Paradox wasn't too bad, I didn't find it as bad as it has been labeled. I watched the first episode of Altered Carbon and it has my interest.

[Hector]

I also checked out a documentary, Born Strong. It’s about the The Arnold Strongman Classic...fascinating stuff.

I’m also watching, thanks to my sister bugging me...The 100, a CW show now on Netflix, a bit millenially...but shockingly pretty entertaining...and violent/bloody. This has to be CW’s most mature audiences show ever.

Might check out Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales and Cars 3, ha...

Next? Altered Carbon.

Netflix rules...

[Hector]

Critics were pretty brutal reviewing Cloverfield Paradox. I personally liked it...a bit like Event Horizon but with different twists. The movie had a $40 million budget, a lot for a Netflix movie, pretty impressive special-effects. Not perfect, but I recommend it to all sci-fi fans here...

[Hector]

Watched the Polka King tonight.

I liked it a real lot.

Brought back fond memories --- Back in the day me and my ma went to a lot of his festivals... along with many other Polka greats --- even met Frankie Yankovic

Jack Black did a good job .... His accent was funny though, reminded me of John Candy and Gene Levey as the Happy Wanderers

Glad you liked it, fun movie...

[Brazoo]

I didn't find it offensive, just really bizarre. also, not at all what I was expecting on a show I had heard compared to scifi anthology shows like Twilight Zone

cjefferys's is right - season 1 episode 1 is a bad place to start - strangely enough. I always tell people to start somewhere else. I think that ep had more impact for British viewers. It is like Twilight Zone in that each ep has a different tone. So, some are weirder, some are horror, some are funnier...

The theme of the show is about how modern tech affects us - so most of the eps are sci-fi, but it's not 100% sci-fi. I think maybe only 2 episodes aren't sci-fi, actually. (I think "s3 e3 "Shut up and Dance" is also not a sci-fi.)

I think these are the best ones to start with:

season 1 episode 2 "Fifteen Million Merits"
season 3 episode 1 "Nosedive"
season 4 episode 1 "USS Callister" (especially if you're a Trek fan)

[Nostalgiabuff]

Actually the first episode is not a good one to start with and is not really representative of the show. Give another episode a shot, the rest are better (and much less bizarre and offensive, if that was the problem for you) than the first one.

I didn't find it offensive, just really bizarre. also, not at all what I was expecting on a show I had heard compared to scifi anthology shows like Twilight Zone

[Mikey]

Watched the Polka King tonight.

I liked it a real lot.

Brought back fond memories --- Back in the day me and my ma went to a lot of his festivals... along with many other Polka greats --- even met Frankie Yankovic

Jack Black did a good job .... His accent was funny though, reminded me of John Candy and Gene Levey as the Happy Wanderers