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

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I watched the first two episodes of Candy (Hulu - miniseries, new episode will drop everyday this week) last night and overall, it’s pretty decently done so far. I have been pleasantly surprised at Jessica Biel’s performance - she’s come a long way since her 7th Heaven days (although TBF, that wouldn’t take much ?).

The one criticism I have so far is that it looks a bit too predictable about how the rest of the series will go - but I’ll keep watching to see.
 
ilovepaydays said:
I watched the first two episodes of Candy (Hulu - miniseries, new episode will drop everyday this week) last night and overall, it’s pretty decently done so far. I have been pleasantly surprised at Jessica Biel’s performance - she’s come a long way since her 7th Heaven days (although TBF, that wouldn’t take much ?).

The one criticism I have so far is that it looks a bit too predictable about how the rest of the series will go - but I’ll keep watching to see.
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I remember the movie with Barbara Hershey. And apparently another service is making this series as well. True crime....
 
I watched a Roku Original, limited series called "Swimming with Sharks" recently. Just six episodes, so it's not a huge time commitment. It was dark as hell, but I love stories about Hollywood behind the scenes, and the acting was pretty damn good. Donald Sutherland is, as always, the quintessential villain, but Kiernan Shipka was a revelation. IMO she should get an acting nomination or two for this one. I don't get girl crushes very often, but... she was riveting. Pure evil with the face of an angel.
 
I laughed when I saw an article that said HBOMAX is ruining Mr. Darcys as Matthew Macfadyen and Colin Firth are playing unsympathetic characters on HBO series. Colin Firth is freaking me out a bit with his spot-on impression and mannerisms of Michael Peterson in "The Staircase." He is so easy to dislike in this.

Hey it looks little like the two Mr. Darcy’s are starring together in “Operation Mincemeat” which opened on Netflix today. Hope it is good ?.
 
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We just watched the fifth & final season of Better Things. Definitely recommend it if you enjoy this series. It’s a tad more serious than past seasons, I think because they were trying to wrap up storylines. But there were still so many funny moments. This show has probably made me laugh more than any show I can recently recall. It’s just so crazy-true at times about the reality of a woman’s life. Love it.

We also watched the most recent season of Call the Midwife. I thought it was good, but not as good as the previous season. I think I wanted more time spent on Trixie’s new relationship, but this was hampered by the actress’s real-life pregnancy. And I was a little sad to see Lucille’s natural joyousness tamped down by events. Still lots of good moments though, and I hope we see more of Timothy Turner now that he’s more grown up, I enjoyed his story in the last few episodes.

We tried out a couple episodes of In My Skin, which is about a Welsh teenager, but found it too dreary to want to go on. Also, the accents were really strong, so it was hard to understand the dialogue.
 
I am currently binging "The Good Place." I have to say that the previews I saw that made me not want to watch the show when it first came out were extremely misleading! Now I wish I had watched it early as it's exactly my cup of tea.
 
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MacMadame said:
I am currently binging "The Good Place." I have to say that the previews I saw that made me not want to watch the show when it first came out, were extremely misleading! Now I wish I had watched it early as it's exactly my cup of tea.
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I like Ted Danson in this as much as I liked him in "Cheers." He is such a comedic talent.
 
I had watched the first two episodes when the show premiered and didn't like them, so I didn't continue.

Then a few years later I read a lot of enthusiastic posts from FSUers that I went back and gave it another try, and enjoyed it quite a bit.

So I would say, watch at least 4 or 5 episodes before giving up.
 
I watched Operation Mincemeat on Netflix. I typically avoid WW2 movies but this one was more true and bizarre spy story that included Ian Fleming, the James Bond creator, among many other espionage authors and inspired Hitchcock's North by Northwest. This strange but true story helped the British troops take control over Sicily and undoubtedly saved many lives by diverting German attention to Greece. It also led to the Germans discounting a real planned invasion of Holland 14 months later (Operation Market-Garden) when a courier left real documents about the plans on an airship. They thought it was another hoax by the British.

I would like to take a moment to point out the top user reviews on IMDB take great pains to point out how the movie would have been better without all the unnecessary subplots (i.e. romance) for no reason whatsoever and that I completely agree with their assessments. :saint:

I think I might look for the book by Ben Macintyre to see if there is more plot without the subplots.
 
Cachoo said:
I like Ted Danson in this as much as I liked him in "Cheers." He is such a comedic talent.
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Allskate said:
ITA. I thought he was great in "The Good Place." I loved that series. It was creative, well-written, and well acted.
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TanithandBenFan said:
I almost didn’t watch it because I hadn’t liked Ted Danson in other shows, but I loved him in this. The first season was my favorite, but it’s a good watch overall.
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Cachoo said:
I did like Danson a lot in “Bored To Death.” I thought the show was silly fun: https://youtu.be/er88JTcdy4E
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As much as I love Cheers (the first three seasons were heaven to me and many episodes in follow-up seasons are masterclasses in sitcom production), Ted Danson has become a much better actor in both comedy and drama after the show ended. Anybody who has seen him in Damages will see a totally different side of him I didn't know he had. He even was quite scary. Before he started that show, Glenn Close suggested he go to her acting teacher/coach, Harold Guskin, to prepare for the role, and at first he resisted, but then he relented and was happy he did.

He is, however, working away from home, “Damages” having been set in New York to accommodate Close, who’d done 13 episodes of FX’s “The Shield” in Los Angeles two years ago and didn’t want to be away from her family that long again.

“A lot of the traps in L.A., for me, is, ‘You are known to do this, and we’re going to hire you to do this, and you better show up with your game,”‘ Danson said.

“In New York, you’re a student forever,” he said. “You can be doing Broadway at night and doing soap opera during the day and a commercial on the weekends. There’s no prejudice or class system. We’re all actors, we’re all just going to dig in there and keep learning and keep working and keep growing. For me, that’s the sense of New York, and that’s really the fun part about it. …

“I actually went to a great acting coach (Harold Guskin, author of “How to Stop Acting”) right before I did this, and he kind of re-excited me about the attitude of … ‘I know there are six lines I have to say – I may not say them all. I’m only interested in the first one, “Kiss my (behind).”‘ Which is a kind of very powerful place to come from, acting-wise.”

The kind of person who’s done what Frobisher’s done with his business, “there’s an arrogance of power, which is, ‘I can do anything I want, whenever I want. I don’t really care what you all think.’ Well, that kind of acting, that’s fun,” he said.

As for Guskin, Danson said, “I will absolutely go to him” again.
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www.ocregister.com

Ted Danson relishes playing the bad guy for a change

Ted Danson knows that Glenn Close scares people. “C’mon, she’s evil!” Danson said jokingly of the actress, who stars in FX’s “Damages” (10 p.m. Tuesdays, F…
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Now I've seen everything. On Hulu you can find 'How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom'. A beleaguered fantasy kingdom summons a hero. He doesn't use a sword to save the kingdom. He uses government planning and administrative reform. :lol:

When civil servants become heroes.
 
mpal2 said:
Now I've seen everything. On Hulu you can find 'How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom'. A beleaguered fantasy kingdom summons a hero. He doesn't use a sword to save the kingdom. He uses government planning and administrative reform. :lol:

When civil servants become heroes.
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That sounds refreshing but also like Parks and Recreation.
 
I have watched "The Offer" week by week on Paramount and have grown to love this series. It is about the making of "The Godfather" and it is a wonder that the film made it to the silver screen. Much love to the writers for giving us some truly interesting characters. The finest performances imho: Matthew Goode as Paramount Chief Robert Evans, Miles Teller as producer Al Ruddy, Juno Temple as his assistant Bettye McCartt, Burn Gorman (the best I've ever seen from him) as Charles Bluhdorn the head of Gulf and Western and everyone's boss and Dan Fogler as Francis Ford Coppola. There are many other good performances in this series but these stand out to me. I especially enjoy Temple's Bettye who I think might be the smartest person in the room.
 
mpal2 said:
I watched Operation Mincemeat on Netflix. I typically avoid WW2 movies but this one was more true and bizarre spy story that included Ian Fleming, the James Bond creator, among many other espionage authors and inspired Hitchcock's North by Northwest. This strange but true story helped the British troops take control over Sicily and undoubtedly saved many lives by diverting German attention to Greece. It also led to the Germans discounting a real planned invasion of Holland 14 months later (Operation Market-Garden) when a courier left real documents about the plans on an airship. They thought it was another hoax by the British.

I would like to take a moment to point out the top user reviews on IMDB take great pains to point out how the movie would have been better without all the unnecessary subplots (i.e. romance) for no reason whatsoever and that I completely agree with their assessments. :saint:

I think I might look for the book by Ben Macintyre to see if there is more plot without the subplots.
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I concur. It was way too obvious that the writers were trying to wedge the romance plot line in because they couldn’t imagine that a story could be interesting enough on its own.
 
I just finished Season 2 of Star Trek Picard. All the way through, I was shaking my head over this or that. The cavalier treatment of their impact on the past. The sloppy writing, when Seven and Raffi are sent off to do the very thing that Picard decided he needed to go to the planet to do. The idiocy of leaving Girardi alone on the ship with the Borg queen.

But then on the other hand, the Borg were still terrifying after all these years…. Until we see that they have a new, gentler, more socially responsible side. And we see that Q has a heart after all. We see that Picard can grow emotionally after all these years. I got a little misty eyed at the hug between Q and Picard. A nice way to end their story, if it is indeed ended.

I was surprised to see Wesley Crusher, but I like Will Wheaton so it didn’t bother me too much.

So I liked the way they wrapped it up, but was not happy through much of the season.

I guess I’ll watch the new one next. There was a novel by the same name, and that’s what I think of when I see the commercials for the new series.
 
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I just finished Season 2 of Star Trek Picard. All the way through, I was shaking my head over this or that.
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Yes, definitely. Though the ending wasn't quite as satisfying for me mostly because I was predicting it all season. :D
 
allezfred said:
Heartstopper is the kind of programme I wish my gay teen self could have seen when I was growing up.
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It has been renewed for 2 more seasons. :cheer: Most of the characters/storylines ended on a happy note, so it would have been ok to end it with one season, but I'm glad they will be able to continue on. The Tao & Elle story was the only one that really didn't have a proper ending so hopefully we will get to see more of that.
 
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