Binge Watching Series Recommendations

[dgaddis]

Warning on a previously binge worthy show....Amazon’s Mrs Maisal season one and two were/are fabulously produced, written, directed, acted, designed, best production values ever.

That said, do NOT bother with season 3...from the first episode on it is awful. I have to say that I have never seen a show jump the shark so hard in my life. In fact, this jump is even worse than the original Happy Days episode that the cliche was started by. The production values are still good but it is unwatchable.

Eh, disagree. We're still enjoying it.

[davids]

I'm kind of between you two. The first several episodes were pretty weak. And the Abe & Rose story line? Sheesh. But the plot accelerated and, by the end, I was pretty caught up in the drama.

Of course, it's hardly great literature. It's an entertainment!

[theflashunc]

Cheer is an excellent documentary series on Netflix.

[colker]

Cheer is an excellent documentary series on Netflix.

Excellent indeed! Maybe the best insight of the complexity of America, it´s values, ideology and most of all.. tolerance. It´s an important film and debunks many easy categorizations/reductions of the US.
The way the film let the audience make up it´s own conclusions is brilliant. It presents the characters and their pain.. while you connect the dots and make the big picture.

[colker]

Cheer is an excellent documentary series on Netflix.

It´s a brilliant tragic metaphor: those less fortunate, those set on the margins, those who suffer the most.. are the ones who cheer.

[vertical_doug]

Endeavour season 7 is back. Young Morse is back to form after the disappointing previous season.

[slwrnu]

It you search for Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing it is about two old friends, now successful UK comedians who go fishing on various UK rivers, often with no success. It is not a comedy show just fishing and banter.

[dgaddis]

It´s a brilliant tragic metaphor: those less fortunate, those set on the margins, those who suffer the most.. are the ones who cheer.

Some of them. There's 40 kids on the team, the documentary seems to focus on about 5 of them, the handful that make the most compelling story. The others I imagine are mostly more fortunate and come from upper middle class or higher economic backgrounds. Like many other less mainstream sports it's expensive and tends to draw kids who's parents can afford it - no different than cycling.

We're two episodes in and it's a great documentary, those kids are all amazing athletes. I was disheartened to see them slamming their heads and getting concussions and being told to take a day off. I don't know a lot about the brain but I think it takes longer than a day to recover from a concussion.

[colker]

Some of them. There's 40 kids on the team, the documentary seems to focus on about 5 of them, the handful that make the most compelling story. The others I imagine are mostly more fortunate and come from upper middle class or higher economic backgrounds. Like many other less mainstream sports it's expensive and tends to draw kids who's parents can afford it - no different than cycling.

We're two episodes in and it's a great documentary, those kids are all amazing athletes. I was disheartened to see them slamming their heads and getting concussions and being told to take a day off. I don't know a lot about the brain but I think it takes longer than a day to recover from a concussion.

It took me 2 weeks at least on every concussion i had.
Yes.. the doc searched for the extraordinary to find the paradoxx; but i think most narratives that pretend to describe human or social condition have focused on the exception to find the rule. The documentary is somehow about american democracy and democracy must be judged by the space and respect allowed to minorities. Recently the extreme right wing president of my country said "democracy is the will of the majority and minorities have to bend/ obbey/disappear". That is the spirit of our dark times and is wrong.

[colker]

It you search for Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing it is about two old friends, now successful UK comedians who go fishing on various UK rivers, often with no success. It is not a comedy show just fishing and banter.

British perfection.

[giordana93]

we spent the weekend watching some old Star Trek next Generation episodes which are now readily available everywhere it seems, owing perhaps in part to the new Picard show that I haven't seen. anyway, lots of too-easy resolution of conflict with 5 minutes to go type endings, but the 80s-90s hair and sensibilities are fun to relive and they more than occasionally ask some interesting questions and the science isn't always awful. we caught one from season 2 that was literally the quandary of space junkies and their symbiotic/parasitic (blonde!) pushers. can't wait to get to the season of Borgs. we missed a couple of those back then

[Saab2000]

Bringing this to the top because I have been watching a couple of guilty pleasures lately - 30 Rock and Burn Notice. Burn Notice is absolutely a guilty pleasure whereas 30 Rock remains funny and never gets old.

But I just read the CBS All Access will be free for a month and as a lifelong Star Trek junkie, I am tempted to dip into the Picard franchise. Anyone else here see this?

Lots of time to waste at the moment and some of these shows are still fun to watch.

[rec head]

My wife keeps bugging me to start watching Picard. I think tonight is her lucky night.

[dgaddis]

Tiger King. Netflix. Watch it NOW. Wildest true story I’ve ever seen. It’s got:
-a gay polygamous man who breeds tigers and lions and also cut a few country albums
-a guy that could be/sorta already is a cult leader
-a woman who almost certainly fed her ex husband to her tigers
-a former drug dealer
-a murder for hire plot
-swingers
-a suicide
-a woman who gets her arm torn off by a tiger
-quite a few meth heads
-the largest “cast” of white trash that’s ever been in the same documentary series.

[mzilliox]

Tiger King. Netflix. Watch it NOW. Wildest true story I’ve ever seen. It’s got:
-a gay polygamous man who breeds tigers and lions and also cut a few country albums
-a guy that could be/sorta already is a cult leader
-a woman who almost certainly fed her ex husband to her tigers
-a former drug dealer
-a murder for hire plot
-swingers
-a suicide
-a woman who gets her arm torn off by a tiger
-quite a few meth heads
-the largest “cast” of white trash that’s ever been in the same documentary series.

we started it last night, i cant even believe its true. insanity. this country has some of the weirdest people...

[j44ke]

Valhalla on Netflix was pretty good. Finnish murder mystery with a strong story, but with a few weak moments in the telling. Like actors who don't know how to hold a gun.

Ragnarok on Netflix. Strange Norse legend meets high school drama meets Greenpeace. But I kind of hope they do another season. With more lightning.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is now on Netflix. I've watched this several times and the puzzle solving is quite good. There are pieces to the puzzle you will miss on the 1st 2nd or even 3rd viewing. Very nice use of no dialogue.

[PaMtbRider]

I signed up for a week of free CBS all access about a month ago to check out the first few episodes of Picard. It was ok, but slow moving to start. I didn't like it enough to pay to continue watching it.

[Scott G.]

I've had 'Wolf Hall' parked on the dvr for over year,
watched #1 today, good writing is my favorite special effect.

[72gmc]

I've had 'Wolf Hall' parked on the dvr for over year,
watched #1 today, good writing is my favorite special effect.

She just came out with the third book. It's already on my kindle but I haven't started it yet.

[davids]

I've had 'Wolf Hall' parked on the dvr for over year,
watched #1 today, good writing is my favorite special effect.

Yeah, but I'm re-reading the first two books so I can read the third. The book is so, so good.
So good.