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19yr ago (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=41809#post41809)

I just recently rejoined Netflix and was pleased to see they have added a "Watch Instantly" feature where you can stream a movie over the internet. The selection of movies/shows is subpar, but it's free baby! Well, free as in no extra charge. You can watch 1 hour for every dollar/month your subscription is and it doesn't affect your queued/shipped movies at all. Minuses are that you have to be running Windows and Internet Explorer, but the quality is great! I have a garbage laptop, but it looks the same as a DVD to me and it hasn't skipped/paused/hiccuped once so far.

Bitconned on Netflix is great. 1.5 hour documentary about some guys that created a crypto, wallet and fake debit card/app (Centra Tech), used random pic for CEO on website, etc. So much crazy stuff happens.

by parisron m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58396120#post58396120)

Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer is on Netflix now. Did not disappoint.

I haven’t really enjoyed his specials in awhile. I feel like him & a lot of Rogan’s crew just complain about cancel culture. I find it as tired as airplane humor. I want jokes/funny stories not to be lectured at. Maybe his new one is better, but that’s the vibe I got from his recent stuff.

by AzOther1 m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58384747#post58384747)

Reacher S2 release schedule, for those of us waiting impatiently for the next episode... Reacher Season 2, Episode 5: Thursday, December 28 at 8:00 p.m. ET Reacher Season 2, Episode 6: Thursday, January 4 at 8:00 p.m. ET Reacher Season 2, Episode 7: Thursday, January 11 at 8:00 p.m. ET Reacher Season 2, Episode 8: Thursday, January 18 at 8:00 p.m. ET

I'm waiting impatiently for all episodes to be in so I can binge it. I just can't watch stuff weekly anymore. I lose interest or forget about it. If I can't watch it all now I am not interested. Loved season one of this and really want to see the new season.

by hansmolman m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58400122#post58400122)

I haven’t really enjoyed his specials in awhile. I feel like him & a lot of Rogan’s crew just complain about cancel culture. I find it as tired as airplane humor. I want jokes/funny stories not to be lectured at. Maybe his new one is better, but that’s the vibe I got from his recent stuff.

How to say you are 'leftie', without saying you are a 'leftie'...

by parisron m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58400072#post58400072)

Bitconned on Netflix is great. 1.5 hour documentary about some guys that created a crypto, wallet and fake debit card/app (Centra Tech), used random pic for CEO on website, etc. So much crazy stuff happens.

I remember watching a Star Trek - The Next Generation episode titled "Darmok" in which Picard is stranded on a planet with another person. Picard ends up telling the other person an ancient Mesopotamian myth about Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Those two names somehow stuck with me after that episode. Years later, I use to read a cryptocurrency web page touting the seemingly endless creation of new crap coins. I nearly fell out of my chair laughing when one day I saw a Gilgamesh crap coin and a Enkidu crap coin. There were dudes continuously rolling out new crap coins hoping something moons out of dumb luck or false hype.

I stopped watching A Murder at the End of the World after 3 or 4 episodes, but after seeing ads for it at the end of commercial breaks while watching Fargo and seeing reviews ranging from great to boring decided to give another go. I just finished it, and I am going with boring, if you never watched this, you will have missed nothing. It could have been better, but just too drawn out.

Also finished Obliterated on Netflix, It's a solid 7 for mindless entertainment. Nothing special .

Slow Horses good or nah?

I finished Slow Horses, it's good, I don't like as much as some on here, but it's good. It's renewed for 2 more seasons.

by razorbacker m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58401773#post58401773)

Slow Horses good or nah?

getting insanely good reviews in the other tv threads - have not seen myself

Slow Horses S3 was fine. Some really good high spots (usually when Gary Oldman was on screen) undermined by shoot outs and action sequences that were as dumb as something you'd see in The Expendables, without the irony.

by razorbacker m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58401773#post58401773)

Slow Horses good or nah?

Season 3 is a bit simpler?, with fewer twist/turns type things and more set action pieces that it could easily lose. Still a cut well above. If you are just starting the series, it's a rare treat. Enjoy.

Watched the first 2 episodes of The Brothers Sun on Netflix. It's good. Only part of it is foreign language. It's Brad Falchuk on his own without Ryan Murphy. No sign of gay/trans yet, I guess that is all Murphy.

by Elrazor m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58401948#post58401948)

Slow Horses S3 was fine. Some really good high spots (usually when Gary Oldman was on screen) undermined by shoot outs and action sequences that were as dumb as something you'd see in The Expendables, without the irony.

+1 This is essentially what I was about to write. I'll watch anything with Gary Oldman. He has been around a long time with a lot of films under his belt. Some films were hits and some were straight up bad, but the good was real good right from the beginning like "Leon: The Professional" and a damn good performance in "State of Grace" with Sean Penn and Ed Harris almost 35 damn years ago.

by parisron m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58400072#post58400072)

Bitconned on Netflix is great. 1.5 hour documentary about some guys that created a crypto, wallet and fake debit card/app (Centra Tech), used random pic for CEO on website, etc. So much crazy stuff happens.

It actually pissed me off I mean, the guy was so dumb that he got away with it. "your honor, I was high all the time, I didn't know what I was doing" Rat **** had "loyalty" tattooed on his body.

by ladybruin m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58402841#post58402841)

+1 This is essentially what I was about to write.I'll watch anything with Gary Oldman. He has been around a long time with a lot of films under his belt. Some films were hits and some were straight up bad, but the good was real good right from the beginning like "Leon: The Professional" and a damn good performance in "State of Grace" with Sean Penn and Ed Harris almost 35 dam... See full post

State of Grace is a movie that truly does not get enough love.

by Elrazor m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58401948#post58401948)

Slow Horses S3 was fine. Some really good high spots (usually when Gary Oldman was on screen) undermined by shoot outs and action sequences that were as dumb as something you'd see in The Expendables, without the irony.

Yeah I felt like the plot was silly (and lol at the entire sequence in the records building, which I think took 2 full episodes). I also felt like it needed more of Oldman and Jackson Lamb, felt like almost a cameo for him this season. That being said it's still enjoyable entertainment.

by BadLieutenant m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58403267#post58403267)

It actually pissed me off I mean, the guy was so dumb that he got away with it. "your honor, I was high all the time, I didn't know what I was doing" Rat **** had "loyalty" tattooed on his body.

His smugness came across as unbelievably annoying. He has no head for business, and he has no intelligence, but he did find the infinite money glitch - just start some business with partners, steal everything you can from it, then rat them out and get off scot-free. Did catch a few references to him dropping tons playing poker and at the casino, hopefully some people here benefited.

My favorite was the lawyer they hired. lol

I think I watched it before, but I am really enjoying season one of Loudermilk. Episode 6 was probably the funniest thing I have seen in 6 months.

Slow Horses took a steady dive throughout S3. Oldman was carrying the show entirely by himself. If there's a season 4 I'm not sure if I'll bother watching. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I still think the first 2 seasons were great and highly recommend.

by krunic m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58407911#post58407911)

Slow Horses took a steady dive throughout S3. Oldman was carrying the show entirely by himself. If there's a season 4 I'm not sure if I'll bother watching. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I still think the first 2 seasons were great and highly recommend.

I loved s3!

I liked it but would of definitely preferred more Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas.

by krunic m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58407911#post58407911)

Slow Horses took a steady dive throughout S3. Oldman was carrying the show entirely by himself. If there's a season 4 I'm not sure if I'll bother watching. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I still think the first 2 seasons were great and highly recommend.

I'll still watch it but waiting for the season to be over so I can download all episodes.

by BadLieutenant m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58409561#post58409561)

I'll still watch it but waiting for the season to be over so I can download all episodes.

It is over

by krunic m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58407911#post58407911)

Slow Horses took a steady dive throughout S3. Oldman was carrying the show entirely by himself. If there's a season 4 I'm not sure if I'll bother watching. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I still think the first 2 seasons were great and highly recommend.

I'm just three episodes in. I stopped so I can just binge them all together instead of waiting each week. But I mostly agree with your sentiment. Season 3 plot is all over the place and not nearly as good as 1 or 2, BUT Gary Oldman is so good I'll watch every Slow Horses episode they put out as long as he's on it. The actress who plays Tearney, the actor who plays Duffy and the other guy who's supposed to be a hard, as well as the gambling addict/coke addict duo are laughably bad and cringe. I'm def in for the rest of season 3 though and whatever else they put out as long as Jackson Lamb and Taverner are out here styling Spoiler Show

Really in for the rest because they killed off Webb who I couldn't take much more off and don't know if I could have finished the series if he was dominating screen time

by bobhalford m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58394470#post58394470)

Totems on Amazon Prime. Found this one just browsing the app. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere. I've only watched two episodes but I think it's solid. Cold War spy thriller set in the 60's. Probably a French production.

I started this while I waited for Slow Horses to finish and I'm loving it so. 4 episodes in and I'm definitely finishing this before Slow Horses, even though Slow Horses is done now. Great rec that I would never have found or given a chance otherwise. Thanks for that 👍

by bobhalford m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58394470#post58394470)

Totems on Amazon Prime. Found this one just browsing the app. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere. I've only watched two episodes but I think it's solid. Cold War spy thriller set in the 60's. Probably a French production.

Awesome. Adding this to the list to watch when I'm done The Tourist

3 day/episode doc - TMZ presents: UFO Revolution started today, free on Tubi, it's good. Tonight 6pm PST Criminal Record - Apple (first 2 episodes) Echo - Disney/Hulu (All 5 episodes) Friday Killers of the Flower Moon - Apple (possibly Thursday night) Lift movie - Netflix Sunday True Detective - duh Monsieur Spade - AMC

First episode of Criminal Record was pretty good.

Slow Horses looks like they only bring Oldman in for a day or two to shoot some cameos then finish the season with the rest of the cast. He is great in limited screen time but the plot lines and writers are pretty weak, the 'action' sequences are laughable. Feels like it wanted to be much more but its really formulaic. Fans of shows like The Blacklist will probably love it until the weak plotlines wear them down.

by bobhalford m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58394470#post58394470)

Totems on Amazon Prime. Found this one just browsing the app. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere. I've only watched two episodes but I think it's solid. Cold War spy thriller set in the 60's. Probably a French production.

Started on this but gave up about 3 episodes in. Can't say its bad it just didn't compel us to start a new episode after one ended. Wife didn't care for it and she will watch damn near any procedural series set in Europe for the scenery alone. Anyone interested in a French spy series should pivot to Le Bureau. I think its still on AMC+

by parisron m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58400072#post58400072)

Bitconned on Netflix is great. 1.5 hour documentary about some guys that created a crypto, wallet and fake debit card/app (Centra Tech), used random pic for CEO on website, etc. So much crazy stuff happens.

Highly recommend this. What a crazy story. And yes, the main dude in this story is pretty hateable.

by boscoboy m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58411322#post58411322)

Started on this but gave up about 3 episodes in. Can't say its bad it just didn't compel us to start a new episode after one ended. Wife didn't care for it and she will watch damn near any procedural series set in Europe for the scenery alone. Anyone interested in a French spy series should pivot to Le Bureau. I think its still on AMC+

I did 2.5 seasons of this. Solid show but lost interest too. Should prob go back and finish. Got a little redundant if I remember

Wife and I liked the new Bribiglia special. Clean humor can be pretty relaxing when it’s funny. Has some heart too. Pretty sure the Untold docs have come up in this thread but worth a watch for sports fans. I’d probably rank them as: Manti Teo, Johnny Manziel, Trash Pandas, then And1. Liked them all.

Through 8 episodes of fargo s5 and it's surprisingly good given that the writers set themselves the task of writing a script where every woman is a badass and every man is either despicable or pathetic. It could have been far better if they'd been allowed to add some nuance but i guess that wasn't acceptable.

Just finished Killers of the Flower Moon. It was good but not that good, especially for 3.5 hours. lol Lift on Netflix sucks. Finished most of Echo, liking it so far and I am not a big MCU fan. Criminal record is good so far. I am liking the new Ted series on Peacock. Finished Monarch, I never really liked it, not sure why I kept watching. lol

anyone stick it out with The Curse? finale was bonkers and (imo) exceptional

by smartDFS m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58414640#post58414640)

anyone stick it out with The Curse? finale was bonkers and (imo) exceptional

I swore this show off but there have been so many 3 letter descriptions of the finale that I’m gonna give it a shot! I’m completely over cringe work, but I might have one more in me haha

Can you watch the finale if you only watched the 1st episode and then quit?

That finale was one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen. I watched every episode, but I'm still just sitting here trying to figure out what this series was even about and whether it was good or bad.

by razorbacker m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58414821#post58414821)

Can you watch the finale if you only watched the 1st episode and then quit?

i guess so, but imagine you'll think it's terrible and feel fully justified having quit after ep1 😀

I’ll give it 2 episodes since next week is fairly chill for me. I’ll look for a comprehensive video just to know what the deal is lol

I watched ep.1 when it came out and didn't really like it and quit the series. Then last week I decided to binge episodes 2-9 and while not great, I did kinda like story threads that were developing and some of the random moments of awkwardness. For me, the finale was terrible though and now I'm wishing I had just left it alone after ep. 1.

Over the last several days I binge re-watched The Haunting of Hill House. It was a nice trip down memory lane after recently watching The Fall of the House of Usher. The next stop is revisiting Midnight Mass. I agree with several in this thread that group is probably the best trifecta from Mike Flanagan.

Really good short film. God I love short films. https://smallscreenings.org/mast/ninety-... (https://smallscreenings.org/mast/ninety-five-senses/film)

by parisron m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58414632#post58414632)

I am liking the new Ted series on Peacock.

It’s not nearly as bad as I thought it would be, but after 3 episodes, I’m annoyed that there’s no “series” in this “mini-series”. It’s just a season 1 if there ends up being a 2nd. The lack of an actual arc knocks it down an additional * or 2.

by hansmolman m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58415381#post58415381)

Really good short film. God I love short films. https://smallscreenings.org/mast/ninety-... (https://smallscreenings.org/mast/ninety-five-senses/film)

This was good. I also enjoy short films. And as I was watching I kept thinking that I know that voice of the narrator, which was Tim Blake Nelson. A couple of years back I saw a trailer of a low budget film with Tim Blake Nelson called "Old Henry" but I never did end up seeing it. Has anyone seen the film "Old Henry" with an opinion on if it is work a bag of popcorn?

Old Henry is a good watch. Tim Blake Nelson is great. Loved him in the ballad of buster scruggs too.