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koa said:
Don't forget Bojack Horseman. Really funny.
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Agreed - I checked it out a few days ago just to see how crappy it would be: it pretty much immediately became one of my favorite shows. 😛 Most of the jokes are funny and fresh, and the drama is engaging and tense without being over the top. The two elements play very with each other.
 
Moyank24 said:
Binge watched Making a Murderer last week and it was amazingly well done. That is one screwed up story, though.

I highly recommend it!
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Great series! I recommended it on Facebook about a week ago and got about 5 people to watch it - everyone loved it. Very compelling and extremely well put together documentary.
 
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Just started this, thumbs up! Netflix Series: The Crown (2016)- Historical Drama focusing on the young Queen Elizabeth II. Not as warm and fuzzy as Downton Abbey, but excellent and well done! John Lithgow as Churchill. 🙂

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Travelers- The last surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back in time to the 21st century. Inhabiting seemingly random people, the "travelers" work together to try to save the human race.

I'm into the second episode, and the premise is interesting, but I'm not yet hooked.

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Huntn said:
Travelers- The last surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back in time to the 21st century. Inhabiting seemingly random people, the "travelers" work together to try to save the human race.

I'm into the second episode, and the premise is interesting, but I'm not yet hooked.

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My son just recommended this along with The OA. I'm binging through the OA first. It's about a woman who had been missing for seven years. She suddenly reappears, but where she was blind when she disappeared, she now can see.
 
netflix is to the point its so bad with movie offerings that the only reason i still pay for it is for the netflix originals

i saw a stat that the average person spends 18 minutes looking for a movie to watch and i have to say thats about right. nothing you want to watch is ever on there and i usually get frustrated and go to itunes, where in the first ten seconds i see five movies i want to watch that arent on netflix and never will be.

oh well, cant wait for season 3 of bloodline
 
AlliFlowers said:
My son just recommended this along with The OA. I'm binging through the OA first. It's about a woman who had been missing for seven years. She suddenly reappears, but where she was blind when she disappeared, she now can see.
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OA? I may not return to Travelers. When I compare the film quality of this show compared to Sense 8 it is night and day. I'm talking about the visual quality of the show. I'm not sure if you can go cheap when it comes to filming? It looks like some old show that needs to be remastered. And the music is tedious and overbearing for me, a constant drone of noise. Also I don't get a certain mechanic that is displayed in the show.

This maybe considered a spoiler, but I think slight if any...


These travelers send their consciousness back through time to occupy the body of someone who just died. However, in at least one case, they prevent the person from dieing, such as from falling down an elevator shaft, but he dies anyway? And there is another inconsistency as far as I can tell. One of the girls on team, occupies the person who was brain injured/handicapped, then killed traumatically, yet the person who came back can basically function with minimal dysfunction in that person's body. Maybe I'm putting too much thought into it. 😛

puma1552 said:
netflix is to the point its so bad with movie offerings that the only reason i still pay for it is for the netflix originals

i saw a stat that the average person spends 18 minutes looking for a movie to watch and i have to say thats about right. nothing you want to watch is ever on there and i usually get frustrated and go to itunes, where in the first ten seconds i see five movies i want to watch that arent on netflix and never will be.

oh well, cant wait for season 3 of bloodline
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All movie subscription services: HBO, Showtime, etc SUCK for movies. My wife and I have decided it's just better to stream and pay for what we want to watch. Now, I am watching Game of Thrones on HBO, but what I do for the 10 episode season, I let the first couple of episodes air before I subscribe to HBO Now, so I can cut an extra month off my subscription. 🙂
 
Huntn said:
OA? I may not return to Travelers. When I compare the film quality of this show compared to Sense 8 it is night and day. I'm talking about the visual quality of the show. I'm not sure if you can go cheap when it comes to filming? It looks like some old show that needs to be remastered. And the music is tedious and overbearing for me, a constant drone of noise. Also I don't get a certain mechanic that is displayed in the show.

This maybe considered a spoiler, but I think slight if any...


These travelers send their consciousness back through time to occupy the body of someone who just died. However, in at least one case, they prevent the person from dieing, such as from falling down an elevator shaft, but he dies anyway? And there is another inconsistency as far as I can tell. One of the girls on team, occupies the person who was brain injured/handicapped, then killed traumatically, yet the person who came back can basically function with minimal dysfunction in that person's body. Maybe I'm putting too much thought into it. 😛



All movie subscription services: HBO, Showtime, etc SUCK for movies. My wife and I have decided it's just better to stream and pay for what we want to watch. Now, I am watching Game of Thrones on HBO, but what I do for the 10 episode season, I let the first couple of episodes air before I subscribe to HBO Now, so I can cut an extra month off my subscription. 🙂
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I don't know, between HBO and Showtime and Starz and Cinemax most of the time they have quite a few movies that have been on theaters not too long ago, and a decent collection going back a bit further (a year or two) as well as beyond that. Amazon has some here and there and Netflix has a few here and there too, but the cable premium channels have considerably more and more recent ones often enough.
 
Just finished binge watching the entire season of The OA. It's very powerful.

I think I can overlook the small inconsistencies in Travelers.
 
Huntn said:
...These travelers send their consciousness back through time to occupy the body of someone who just died. However, in at least one case, they prevent the person from dieing, such as from falling down an elevator shaft, but he dies anyway?...
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You got the gist of it, but the details are slightly wrong. The process of sending someone's consciousness back will always kill the "receptor" (in the sense that their consciousness will be erased and rewritten by the one from the future, kind of erasing the person), so they chose people that were about to die, ensuring they do not kill for no reason. This way, they prevent them from dying just seconds before they were going to, and then they kill them anyway by rewriting their consciousness, and get a functioning body in the process.


Huntn said:
...One of the girls on team, occupies the person who was brain injured/handicapped, then killed traumatically, yet the person who came back can basically function with minimal dysfunction in that person's body...
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Keep watching, several episodes into the season, we see the damaged brain never could function properly, causing seizures and requiring invasive therapy just to keep the person alive and functioning, leading irremissibly to death.


I mean, it is not a perfect show, it has a lot of loose details and drawbacks, but nevertheless, I enjoyed it quite a lot. It's kind of a Quantum-Leap meets 12-monkeys (the movie) meets the matrix (the original) show. And at least these 2 inconsistencies are more of a misunderstanding than errors.
 
cdcastillo said:
You got the gist of it, but the details are slightly wrong. The process of sending someone's consciousness back will always kill the "receptor" (in the sense that their consciousness will be erased and rewritten by the one from the future, kind of erasing the person), so they chose people that were about to die, ensuring they do not kill for no reason. This way, they prevent them from dying just seconds before they were going to, and then they kill them anyway by rewriting their consciousness, and get a functioning body in the process.




Keep watching, several episodes into the season, we see the damaged brain never could function properly, causing seizures and requiring invasive therapy just to keep the person alive and functioning, leading irremissibly to death.


I mean, it is not a perfect show, it has a lot of loose details and drawbacks, but nevertheless, I enjoyed it quite a lot. It's kind of a Quantum-Leap meets 12-monkeys (the movie) meets the matrix (the original) show. And at least these 2 inconsistencies are more of a misunderstanding than errors.
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Thanks for explaining! I'm still undecided, but should watch another episode. 🙂
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AlliFlowers said:
It's the name of the show, The OA.
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I'll check it out. Thanks. 🙂
 
While I haven't watched most of them, Netflix seems to be doubling down on their own programming shows. When I go to the app now, there are quite a few Netflix original shows. Most have been mentioned here! I am glad to see this since their streaming service for movies etc is still sub par in my opinion. But their original programming has been good if not great in most cases!

Also glad to see they have some of the shows from across the pond like the Sherlock Holmes series. That has been a blast to watch!
 
We cut the cord 7 years ago and have been Netflix only. As Sling, and Vue, and now At&T came about for streaming without a box, I have thought about signing up for one of those.

And then I log into Netflix, and see my backlog of 8 shows I still want to watch seasons of, and then see 1 or two new Netflix shows that have been added in that is a full season long..... I see no point in getting anything other than my Netflix currently.

We keep the DVD side active for those movies and shows that aren't there and we have all of our television watching time covered.

I'm really looking forward to Netflix's "Series of Unfortunate Events". It looks really good, and Neil Patrick Harris is playing count Olaf.
 
TheBean75 said:
We cut the cord 7 years ago and have been Netflix only. As Sling, and Vue, and now At&T came about for streaming without a box, I have thought about signing up for one of those.

And then I log into Netflix, and see my backlog of 8 shows I still want to watch seasons of, and then see 1 or two new Netflix shows that have been added in that is a full season long..... I see no point in getting anything other than my Netflix currently.

We keep the DVD side active for those movies and shows that aren't there and we have all of our television watching time covered.

I'm really looking forward to Netflix's "Series of Unfortunate Events". It looks really good, and Neil Patrick Harris is playing count Olaf.
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This has us excited to! We can't wait for this one either. Netflix seems to be producing and putting out some really good content lately and this looks to just as good!
 
I'd originally snuffed at Netflix's original's, but they ain't too bad.

Changes the way i think about original content. however, i'm still trying the see what the difference is... I reckon we will see it go this way for more content.
 
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Waiting impatiently for Iron Fist (and the rest of the Marvel stuff), Voltron season 2, and Stranger Things season 2.

I wasn't sure how much I'd get into The OA, but damn, I loved it.

Probably going to try Travelers this weekend.
 
skottichan said:
Waiting impatiently for Iron Fist (and the rest of the Marvel stuff), Voltron season 2, and Stranger Things season 2.

I wasn't sure how much I'd get into The OA, but damn, I loved it.

Probably going to try Travelers this weekend.
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Travelers so far is slow going (only 2 episodes in). Wife fell asleep during episode 2. Not sure about it yet. I'll at least watch 1 more episode.
 
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