Binge Watching Series Recommendations

[choke]

Bordertown - From Finland

The Break - From Belgium

Both are on Netflix and just released the 2nd season.

[dgaddis]

We're watching Murder Mountain on Netflix right now. I don't smoke weed, so maybe I'm way off base here, but:

According to the show Humbolt Co provides 80% of the weed for the US market. No way, right?

If these guys and gals are making so much money, where is it?? These folks all look like they're broke AF, living in shit, surrounded by shit, with piles of shit just all over the place.

Frankly, most of these people look like losers who are barely getting by and just like getting high all the time.

[Octave]

Probably worthy of another thread entirely, as it's a pretty interesting market, but...

According to the show Humbolt Co provides 80% of the weed for the US market. No way, right?

Not even close. Actually the largest producer in the country is Los Sueños farms in Colorado, which has nearly 1.5 million sqft of growth, mostly outdoor, of cannabis.

In terms of overall production, California is still the top which by recent statistics provided about 39% of the cannabis consumed in the US (that's the whole state, not just the famed "emerald triangle" which includes Humboldt). Tennessee and Kentucky each do about 13%.

If these guys and gals are making so much money, where is it?? These folks all look like they're broke AF, living in shit, surrounded by shit, with piles of shit just all over the place.

Frankly, most of these people look like losers who are barely getting by and just like getting high all the time.

Outside of the proper operations like Los Sueños, cannabis has not traditionally been a big money maker. First, as you note, most people who grow also consume. Having lived up there and in other heavy cannabis-use places, my impression is that most growers consume the majority of their profit. They end up making a pretty average wage but they smoke for free, which is the reason a lot of them get into it in the first place. Compared to other drugs it's not a terribly profitable thing to produce. The chemistry behind something like methamphetamine is so dirt cheap compared to the street price, whereas growing good cannabis is pretty costly. Being a bulky product it's also not cheap to move, package, process..etc. so the overhead is pretty high.

The final piece in the puzzle is that since it's still federally illegal a lot of growers can't handle their money the way a business should. How do you put your profits into an FDIC insured bank if they came from a federally outlawed practice? The whole system is totally f*ed at the moment in my opinion and is being very, very slowly reformed - but the patchwork of laws at multiple levels with all sorts of differences between states and even counties within a state are making it very difficult for people to make a proper living out of this.

[mnoble485]

Before I go down a rabbit hole, is Ray Donovan binge worthy?

Mike

[false_aesthetic]

I'm really digging the Australian shows on Netflix.
Just watched all of Pine Gap on the plain to Taiwan. I'll watch season 2 if there is one.

[htwoopup]

If you are looking for something humorous as a change up from all of the procedurals, mysteries, etc...Schitt’s Creek. A funny Canadian show 4 seasons about to be 5 streaming on Netflix in the US. Great characters/ character development, good writing, production values good for a comedy, cast is very experienced Second City actors.

[j44ke]

I read some reviews for Sex Education on Netflix and thought huh well sounds like they did a good job but I don't need to see another "Short Bus". Then a friend mentioned it and said it was funny and not a "Short Bus" at all, so I watched a few episodes. Actually pretty good and other than a few gratuitous moments, there really isn't a lot of sex - definitely not porn disguised as an intellectual discussion. More about anxiety and identity, relationships and figuring those out. I hesitate to say it is excellent, because somehow I couldn't get over the concept of actors who were obviously in their 20's playing high school students, and some of the characters become caricatures, but Gillian Anderson is great, the actor who plays her son is good and his best pal is also good. Their relationship as friends is actually very interesting.

I wouldn't watch this with your kids but if I had teenage kids, I might want them to watch it and give me a review. I think there is a lot in the show that would probably be going through their brains (hypothetically since that's the only kind of kids we have.) But discussion required I'd say. It is pretty frank about a lot of things. In fact, that frankness is part of complications in the relationship between Gillian Anderson's character and her son.

[dgaddis]

^^Along those lines (sorta...kinda)...check out Big Mouth, the birth child of John Mulaney and Nick Kroll. It's both hilarious and a kinda horrific.

Don't watch it with your kids!

This will give you a taste. Headphones!!!

[j44ke]

^^Along those lines (sorta...kinda)...

No. Not really.

[dgaddis]

...More about anxiety and identity, relationships and figuring those out...

No. Not really.

That's a big part of Big Mouth. They just take it really, really, really far. It's not for everyone. And even though it makes me laugh hard at times, there's also times when I'm ashamed to be watching it lol.

[davids]

That's a big part of Big Mouth. They just take it really, really, really far. It's not for everyone. And even though it makes me laugh hard at times, there's also times when I'm ashamed to be watching it lol.

Yeah.

I didn't like Big Mouth at first, but I returned to it and, after a few episode, began to care about the characters. Which made the wildly filthy subject matter, uh, matter.

[dgaddis]

Yeah.

I didn't like Big Mouth at first, but I returned to it and, after a few episode, began to care about the characters. Which made the wildly filthy subject matter, uh, matter.

I made my wife sit through an episode. When it was over:
HER: "This is so horrible."
ME: "Yeah. Wanna keep going?"
HER: "........" *sigh* "...yeah...."

[JoB]

I got an unusual one:

Master Windsor chairmaker Curtis Bunchanan's youtube series on building a comb-back Windsor chair almost entirely from hand tools. He starts with a tree log and ends up with an amazing display of craftsmanship. It's mesmerizing and fascinating.

Curtis Buchanan
- YouTube

[bdaghisallo]

I'm really digging the Australian shows on Netflix.
Just watched all of Pine Gap on the plain to Taiwan. I'll watch season 2 if there is one.

If you haven't seen it yet, I cannot recommend Rake highly enough. It is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. I love it. My wife loves it. My 69 year old Dad loves it. It is good!

[savine]

Dogs of Berlin

[rwsaunders]

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has just signed for a 3rd season. My daughter asked us to watch an episode with her over the Christmas holiday and my wife and I turned into fans. Every damn actor in that show stands out. Vertical Doug mentioned Endeavor. If you’re a Morse and Inspector Lewis fan of years gone by, Endeavor takes British murder mystery to another level. We hate when a season ends.

[bdaghisallo]

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has just signed for a 3rd season. My daughter asked us to watch an episode with her over the Christmas holiday and my wife and I turned into fans. Every damn actor in that show stands out. Vertical Doug mentioned Endeavor. If you’re a Morse and Inspector Lewis fan of years gone by, Endeavor takes British murder mystery to another level. We hate when a season ends.

Endeavour is a good one. Have you checked out these other BBC detective series - Shetland, Hinterland and Happy Valley?

[vertical_doug]

Endeavour Season 5 which is the Inspector Morris prequel is out (it's 1968 now) and it fits me like a warm blanket for the classic Whodunit. I am sure it will start shortly on PBS, so best to binge season 1-4 now.

Now Endeavour Season 6 has started.

Trapped Season 2 with Olafur Olafsson is also out on BBC.

And for the darker stuff, we have Shetland Season 5.

[atw]

Bodyguard - with Richard Madden (from GOT) and Keeley Hawes

Strike - 3 seasons, BBC series, the detective C.B Strike, based on the books by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)

Durrells in Corfu - 3 seasons, based on written work of Gerard Durrell, family moves from UK to Corfu in 1935,

[davids]

Russian Doll. That is all.

Yes yes yes!

I just finished it, and am so impressed. It takes full advantage of the episodic format and just keeps climbing, twisting, surprising, and deepening.

Wow.