The TV you like thread - The Bear and Badger

LivDiv

I struggle with Prime tbh.
If we are just comparing Prime Video to Netflix then Netflix wins hands down.

All of Amazon's interfaces are absolute shite as well.
Even sorting by free to me still ends up with a lot of repetition and trawling through garbage.

Moot_Geeza

I'm at the same place with similar thoughts. A lot of it is great but I could do without the

Spoiler:

Just the participants/games would be enough for me I think.

Mrs. Moot loving the whole shebang.

Edit: Squid Games

Raiziel

I discovered February (also known as The Blackcoat’s Daughter) and other rare treats through Prime that I never might even have known about were it not for Prime. There’s an awful lot of rubbish on there to trawl through, sure, but there’s gold there too.

poprock

Rival streaming services are the new console wars. You heard it here first lads. It’s all about whose exclusives you want to watch, innit?

LivDiv

poprock wrote:

Rival streaming services are the new console wars. You heard it here first lads. It’s all about whose exclusives you want to watch, innit?

Sounds like something a Prime-ape would say.

EvilRedEye

It actually annoys me that Netflix subtitle and language settings are so much better than the other ones. I think the first time I watched an anime years and years ago I had to switch it to Japanese dub with sub and now basically all foreign language shows just magically work.

At the weekend I watched one of the Evangelion movies on Prime then started Clarkson's Farm the next day and had Jeremy Clarkson screaming at me in Japanese. I've also had issues with Star Wars Visions on Disney+ plus (hoho?) it's impossible to stop subtitles looking ugly as fuck on there.

Blocks100

I've just caught the first episode of Watchmen last night (on Now TV which I think has an OKish interface) and I liked it. I swerved it at the time (as I don't like extended universe things taken from films e.g. Fargo) I thought people here said it was shit? That put me off it too. I should have known better.

Dark Soldier

Moot_Geeza wrote:

I'm at the same place with similar thoughts. A lot of it is great but I could do without the

Spoiler:

undercover Playstation guard looking for his brother.

Just the participants/games would be enough for me I think.

Mrs. Moot loving the whole shebang.

Edit: Squid Games

I'm in the same bag as you mate. Too much fluff around the meat of the thing.

poprock

Blocks100 wrote:

I've just caught the first episode of Watchmen last night (on Now TV which I think has an OKish interface) and I liked it. I swerved it at the time (as I don't like extended universe things taken from films e.g. Fargo) I thought people here said it was shit? That put me off it too. I should have known better.

It’s great. And it gets better with each episode, so if you liked the first one you’re in for a treat.

davyK

I don't think it's appropriate to compare Prime with anything - the TV content is decent. But you also have the next day free delivery and the Amazon Music service which is also pretty good. For £8 a month I consider it good value. But if I was into TV/film more it wouldn't meet my needs.

nick_md

You can get prime video and prime delivery separately can't you? Or at least, I have the video but not the delivery. Maybe I'm being shafted.

davyK

@nick_mid Wasn't aware of that....how much are you paying?

tin_robot

poprock wrote:

Blocks100 wrote:

I've just caught the first episode of Watchmen last night (on Now TV which I think has an OKish interface) and I liked it. I swerved it at the time (as I don't like extended universe things taken from films e.g. Fargo) I thought people here said it was shit? That put me off it too. I should have known better.

It’s great. And it gets better with each episode, so if you liked the first one you’re in for a treat.

I thought it was brilliant. Which was a surprise as I was confidently expecting to hate it.

nick_md

davyK wrote:

@nick_mid Wasn't aware of that....how much are you paying?

£4.99 pcm through EE. I should cancel that and go full moran prime probably for the extra £3.

Gremill

tin_robot wrote:

poprock wrote:

Blocks100 wrote:

I've just caught the first episode of Watchmen last night (on Now TV which I think has an OKish interface) and I liked it. I swerved it at the time (as I don't like extended universe things taken from films e.g. Fargo) I thought people here said it was shit? That put me off it too. I should have known better.

It’s great. And it gets better with each episode, so if you liked the first one you’re in for a treat.

I thought it was brilliant. Which was a surprise as I was confidently expecting to hate it.

I loved it too, I was desperate for more of it when it finished.

Cue Kow: "It was shit"

mk64

Liked squid games

Gremill

mk64 wrote:

Liked squid games

I'm enjoying it too. I just love the oddness of Korean film making.

LivDiv

I really liked it.
The only two things I would pick holes in. Spoilers for whole series.

Spoiler:

Kow

It was shit. @everyone

tigersgogrrr

LivDiv wrote:

I really liked it.
The only two things I would pick holes in. Spoilers for whole series.

Spoiler:

1. The detective's storyline never really felt like it went anywhere other than as a tool to help explain the inner workings a bit.

Spoiler:

2. The English dialogue for the VIPs was just terrible, awful stuff.

I loved it but these two things are absolutely true.

tigersgogrrr

Dark Soldier wrote:

Onto Episode 6 of Squid Game. Has some stellar moments but also some sub-soap shite.

Not getting the insane hype for it, it's decent but not much more.

The soap stuff is fair of it doesn't float your boat, but it is pretty much a Thing in Korean TV/film. Love a bit of ludicrously OTT drama.

Most enjoyable TV I've seen for some time. Not that I watch much TV.

EvilRedEye

I'm gonna associate Korean children's games with extreme stress for the rest of my life now.

Dark Soldier

tigersgogrrr wrote:

Dark Soldier wrote:

Onto Episode 6 of Squid Game. Has some stellar moments but also some sub-soap shite.

Not getting the insane hype for it, it's decent but not much more.

The soap stuff is fair of it doesn't float your boat, but it is pretty much a Thing in Korean TV/film.

I've watched a lot of Korean film. In good Korean film it isn't.

However I'll give ya that with TV, first Korean TV thing ive watched. Three episodes too long and those last 3 are just shit.

Has some stellar moments, particularly the first 3 games, and that first episode is a banger, but not something I'll be remembering a couple years from now.

Episode 7 in particular is hilariously, stunningly bad.

tigersgogrrr

I DON'T AGREE.

Dark Soldier

OKAY. WELL THEN. HMMPH.

superflyninja

Finished 9 perfect strangers. Hmmm not fully sure where I sit with this one. By the end I was just wishing it would end. Final couple of episodes went in a somewhat interesting direction but overall.....hmmmm I'm a bit iffy on it

yourfavouriteuncle

Nine Perfect Strangers land looks exactly like my perfect retreat. Stunning architecture in nicely grounded surroundings with mushrooms supplied by a crazy, rich hippy. Haven’t got to the last episode yet so don’t know how it all ends but up to where I am it’s a place I’d happily live - psychosis and all.

Facewon

Finished s1 of his dark materials. Pretty darn cool. But ropey on dialogue and motivations in the last ep I reckon, but whatevs.

poprock

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

Nine Perfect Strangers land looks exactly like my perfect retreat. Stunning architecture in nicely grounded surroundings with mushrooms supplied by a crazy, rich hippy. Haven’t got to the last episode yet so don’t know how it all ends but up to where I am it’s a place I’d happily live - psychosis and all.

Likewise. Apparently the setting is the biggest change from the original book. In the book it’s not a beautiful Modernist dream house with impeccably turned out interiors, but a bit of a crusty hippie glamping vibe in yurts.

poprock

There’s a new (and final) series of Goliath up on Amazon. Looking forward to that.

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