Netflix/Prime/Hulu/BritBox Binge Watching: Coronavirus Edition

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Oh my God I came here specifically to find if there was a TV binging thread. OK in less than 12 hours I have watched the first four episodes of the White Lotus (HBO) And I am not a Binger. It took me five whole weeks to watch all of mare of Easttown

Oh my gosh this TV show is uncomfortable. It’s awkward. It’s funny. It’s uncomfortable. It’s awkward…

I guess this Mike white guy who wrote it directed it and all of that is gay. So it’s so interesting to finally see a gay guy that’s not Ryan Murphy do projects such as this. Oh my God the ending of episode four it’s like porn. I’m still trying to digest this all lol

Also Jennifer Coolidge used to be my previous next-door neighbor. Her house was across from ours so I’m always down to watch her. And she’s just like that in real life as well. She’s the same in her every day life.
 
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Finally started watching 'Line of Duty' (BritBox). It is as good as everyone has said. I will try and get my husband watching as well, as we currently don't have a drama series we're watching together.

Have also been watching Star Trek: Enterprise (on Netflix here). I'd say re-watch except I find that apart from the characters I remember nothing about it, even though I know I saw all of season one and part of two when it first came out. I am enjoying it, and hope to finish it this time, but I am very grateful for the 'Skip Intro' function as I still can't stand the theme song - can't hit that button quickly enough. :lol:

[I know a lot of people like the theme, and that's fine. I don't hate it because it's the only ST theme with vocals, I just don't like it. The graphics in the intro are great - it's just them song I don't like. I also don't particularly like the theme from Voyager because it meanders and never gets anywhere (which may be appropriate for the series, now I think about it), so it's not just this particular one that earns my ire]
 
michalle said:
Mike White also did Enlightened on HBO, which was good, but sort of hard to watch sometime, and this movie Chuck and Buck - which is good, and also has sort of adult subject matter. He specializes in awkward moments. He was a contestant on The Amazing Race too - he's done it all.
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I still am just living, I mean LIVING over how the ending scene is in the fourth episode of the white lotus. I just can’t believe it lol
 
Bunny Hop said:
Have also been watching Star Trek: Enterprise (on Netflix here). I'd say re-watch except I find that apart from the characters I remember nothing about it, even though I know I saw all of season one and part of two when it first came out. I am enjoying it, and hope to finish it this time, but I am very grateful for the 'Skip Intro' function as I still can't stand the theme song - can't hit that button quickly enough. :lol:

[I know a lot of people like the theme, and that's fine. I don't hate it because it's the only ST theme with vocals, I just don't like it. The graphics in the intro are great - it's just them song I don't like. I also don't particularly like the theme from Voyager because it meanders and never gets anywhere (which may be appropriate for the series, now I think about it), so it's not just this particular one that earns my ire]
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:lol: I skated to an edit of that song. :lol::lol:
 
My friend and I occasionally get together on the weekend to drink and watch tv/movies. We trade off who picks and she made me watch Love is Blind. I really hate these reality dating shows. They are just creepy. There is a competition aspect and a fake need to feel something real that is just very disturbing.

Jessica is a perfect example of that. It's very obvious she really wanted Matthew and was in competition with Amber. It's all very mean girls. It's also obvious she settled for Mark, felt absolutely nothing for him and just wanted to get to the trip to Mexico anyway possible. They threw the couples together and she was still chasing Matthew in front of her chosen and his. And the show milked that awkwardness for all they could. Amber and Matthew just strike me as pretty couple all about looks, status and how they are perceived by others.

Now having complained about the fakeness of it all I actually really want Lauren and Cameron to stay married for decades. I don't know how much was editing but they did seem to actually find something special between them. It's a strange way to find love but more power to them if they found it. She said she never would have dated Cameron if they hadn't met the way they did in this show. The optimist in me hopes that the "social experiment" aspect really helped them find something in each other they couldn't have found any other way. The pessimist in me is still wondering how much is editing.

I just know that next drink/tv/movie day that she is going to suffer. I am going to watch something I love and she is going to hate it. I feel the need for revenge because she's going to make me watch the animal mask reality dating show next.
 
Happy birthday to the Winter Soldier Sabastian Stan! 🎂

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Anyone watched Marvel’s What If? I liked it but it just seems weird to see things so differently and the constant references to dancing is annoying. LOL
 
Bunny Hop said:
Finally started watching 'Line of Duty' (BritBox). It is as good as everyone has said. I will try and get my husband watching as well, as we currently don't have a drama series we're watching together.

Have also been watching Star Trek: Enterprise (on Netflix here). I'd say re-watch except I find that apart from the characters I remember nothing about it, even though I know I saw all of season one and part of two when it first came out. I am enjoying it, and hope to finish it this time, but I am very grateful for the 'Skip Intro' function as I still can't stand the theme song - can't hit that button quickly enough. :lol:

[I know a lot of people like the theme, and that's fine. I don't hate it because it's the only ST theme with vocals, I just don't like it. The graphics in the intro are great - it's just them song I don't like. I also don't particularly like the theme from Voyager because it meanders and never gets anywhere (which may be appropriate for the series, now I think about it), so it's not just this particular one that earns my ire]
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I'm going to binge the final season of LoD this weekend. And then I keep hearing about an excellent documentary on Formula One on Netflix. What to watch...
 
We've been watching an oldie-but-goodie on PBS streaming: The Indian Doctor, which stars the same actor, Sanjeev Bhaskar, who also appears in Unforgiven.

The show is a dramedy about an Indian doctor and his wife moving to a Welsh village in 1963. So it's a period piece. It's good--we have enjoyed it. The actress who plays the wife, Ayesha Dharkur, is particularly charming and lively and fun to watch.

We just finished season 2, which is about an outbreak of smallpox in the village. The parallels to our situation right now with CV19 were just so strong that it's hard to believe this season was written 10 years ago. My husband and I kept looking at each other, like, "We cannot believe how timely this is."
 
If anyone is still using Netflix DVD they will donate meals for every disc you add to your queue. No cost to the subscriber and people get food. Win/Win.
 
Cachoo said:
I'm going to binge the final season of LoD this weekend. And then I keep hearing about an excellent documentary on Formula One on Netflix. What to watch...
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Drive to Survive (the Formula One doco) is indeed excellent, but there's three seasons of it, so you can probably rotate it with LoD and still end up with more eps of Drive to Survive to watch.
 
Grace and Frankie dropped four Season 7 surprise episodes on Netflix to give fans a sneak peek at the new season! The rest will debut in 2022.
 
I somehow missed River when it first premiered on Netflix but came across it on Prime and loved it. It's sort of a cross between Professor T and Nordic noir, with Stellan Skarsgard adding the Scandinavian vibe even though it's a British production. His performance was outstanding, and the story was much more moving than a standard police procedural.
 
I had to give up Unforgotten, it was so good but it was just too hard on the characters for me, it put them in really agonizing situations and it was painful to watch.
 
mpal2 said:
I'm watching Glow Up on Netflix. I usually end up fast forwarding through the insufferable judges comments but I do enjoy seeing what people try to create. I can't fast forward through all the judges comments and I am getting extremely tired of hearing Val Garland asking for a conflab with Dominic Skinner. She makes it sound 100000% pretentious. I will be happy if I never hear the word again.
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Completely agree, their comments aren't helpful. And I'm sick of Val and her ding dongs and confab. Please talk like an adult!
 
Buzz said:
Happy birthday to the Winter Soldier Sabastian Stan! 🎂

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Anyone watched Marvel’s What If? I liked it but it just seems weird to see things so differently and the constant references to dancing is annoying. LOL
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I mostly liked it but they were very heavy-handed with the in-jokes. Between Steve and Peggy being seemingly unable to have a single conversation without mentioning dancing and Bucky constantly making jokes about not liking trains/having his arm ripped off, it got a bit wearing. Also, I know it was a short, but I found Bucky's characterisation super weird, like he didn't actually care about Steve at all in this universe?

I also binged Loki on the weekend. I think I could have liked it a bit more in isolation. But...
I'm so done with Marvel's downer endings. Almost every single Marvel ending since Infinity War has been a downer. The only really "up" ending was Falcon and the Winter Solider. Maybe it just hit me extra hard with the snap lockdown, but I don't watch superhero movies/shows for gritty dark realism, I watch them for escapism. I want the good guys to beat up the bad guys and win. And it's not just Marvel, I've noticed this trend more generally. STOP THE DOWNER ENDINGS!
Cachoo said:
I'm going to binge the final season of LoD this weekend. And then I keep hearing about an excellent documentary on Formula One on Netflix. What to watch...
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The first season of Drive to Survive is very good, speaking as an F1 fan. Season two wobbles a little. Season three...a lot of F1 fans turned off it a little because there were a lot of invented narratives, skewed attention between teams, and some whole major events erased altogether. They're filming season four this year, but they will have to really pick it up.
 
If you like true crime documentaries, you might like this one. It is available free on YouTube.

Louise Pietrewicz disappeared in 1966 and her daughter never stopped hoping to find out what happened to her. Two reporters stumbled upon the case and did their own digging. Much of what they found involving local police is truly sad but not surprising.
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Gone: The Disappearance of Louise Pietrewicz

All four chapters of The Suffolk Times newspaper's investigation into the 1966 disappearance of Louise Pietrewicz of Cutchogue, N.Y. In October 2017, the pap...
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misskarne said:
I also binged Loki on the weekend. I think I could have liked it a bit more in isolation. But...
I'm so done with Marvel's downer endings. Almost every single Marvel ending since Infinity War has been a downer. The only really "up" ending was Falcon and the Winter Solider. Maybe it just hit me extra hard with the snap lockdown, but I don't watch superhero movies/shows for gritty dark realism, I watch them for escapism. I want the good guys to beat up the bad guys and win. And it's not just Marvel, I've noticed this trend more generally. STOP THE DOWNER ENDINGS!
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There will be a season 2 for Loki though.

Loki renewed for season 2
 
My supervisor and I both watched the Minnie Driver episode of "Modern Love" last weekend and loved it.
 
misskarne said:
Also, I know it was a short, but I found Bucky's characterisation super weird, like he didn't actually care about Steve at all in this universe?
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I felt the same thing about Peggy. Not that she didn't care about Steve but that her characterization seemed weird. It might have mostly been the voice.
 
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