Amazon Prime Original Series and Netflix Original Series
 

Hey, guys. I really enjoy watching the original series on these sites. However, it is good to know if something is worth it before I pick it.

This is the place to ask others if certain series are good and to share the ones you love!

I am ready to start a new original series on either Amazon or Netflix. I seem to prefer the Amazon series to the Netflix ones.

Has anyone seen Hand of God (on Amazon)? What did you think of it?

Other series you recommend?

I just saw the two seasons of Fortitude. I would rate it as a B. Worth watching.

Have you seen Goliath with Billy Bob Thornton? It's really good.

Bosch, based on Harry Bosch book series-I have liked all 3 seasons.

The series based on the Phillip K. Dick story, Man in the High Castle. Very well-done.

If you want comedy, Catastrophe is truly funny. I binged 3 seasons in a weekend. Of course, the seasons were only 6 episodes each. :)

I am sure you probably have already watched Transparent, the Golden Globe winner.

I tried Sneaky Pete with Giovanni Ribisi but I could not get into it. It had good reviews.

Those come to mind.

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Thank you! I was wondering about many that you mentioned.

Harlots is on Hulu if you get that Dapper.

Irish, is it also on Amazon?

One Mississippi
 

One Mississippi, season 2 with Tig Notaro streaming now.

Emmy winners in streaming
 

>. The Handmaid’s Tale wins Outstanding Drama at the Emmys (Hulu)

> Elisabeth Moss wins Outstanding Lead Actress Emmy for The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)

> The Handmaid’s Tale wins the Emmy for Best Directing for a Drama Series (Hulu)

> Black Mirror wins Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series (Netflix)

> Master of None wins Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (Netflix)

Good Behavior .... an original TNT series is coming out soon.
My BFF is going to dvr it for me so.i can watch it later, next time I go hang out with her. It's new season premiers this fall, maybe in October or November. We saw a trailer for the new season and it's really good!

http://tvline.com/2017/07/27/good-be...premiere-date/

i was not a fan of this one.

I really enjoyed season 1 and am so glad to hear it is coming back!

Have you seen Sense8?

I have plowed on through most of it.

I love how beautifully it is filmed. I love the diversity of the cast and I love all of the filming locales around the world.

All of that being said: half the time, I don't understand or get what the hell is going on.

I understand that they share a consciousness (or something) but I really just lose the train of thought or process way too frequently. It ceases to be enjoyable for me each time I say WTF is happening now?

It was cancelled but I read that pornhub or xhamster offered to do another season but there is no word on Netflix responding in any way...

They're doing a 2-hour special to wrap things up. There are also a lot of people trying to fight for a 3rd season, but the shooting was just so expensive.

I also loved how beautiful it was!

Mindhunter
 

Not easy to watch, if listening to Ed Kemper or Richard Speck would be difficult for you, it might be tough to watch.

That said, it is really, really, well done.

It is the story of the beginning of the Behavioral Science unit at the FBI.

10 episodes.

This is timely Anya because i am going to house sit the first week.of November, and I am adding this to my list of shows to watch!

I also looked into the back story on the series and discovered that's it's based loosely off the book of the same name, written by John Douglas, whose career was as an behaviour analyst (profiler) with the FBI.

Here's an interesting article as well, which talks a bit about the show, too. The article actually covers how behavior analysts arrive at identifying psycho/sociopaths. Very interesting reading.


http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/holde...sychopath.html

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I enjoyed Atypical (Netflix)

Godless
 

A very enjoyable western series on Netflix.

I just read Netflix may greenlight season 2.

I hope that it does:

Frank Griffin, an outlaw terrorizing the 1880s American West, hunts down Roy Goode, his partner turned enemy. Roy hides out at a ranch as Frank's chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico - a town made up entirely of women.:thud:

The series Trapped on Amazon. Holy crap it is good!

Oh hey, Anya, I know it's not Netflix, but your recent post about an Netflix series getting the Green light for a second season reminds me that I recently read about Big Little Lies on HBO getting ready to film season 2!

Next fall,,,,,,,, I can hardly wait!!! :cheer:

Cuba and the Cameraman
 

I really loved this documentary.

It shows the heart and soul of the people of Cuba reflected by a journalist/cameraman that returned to Cuba over a 45-year period.

I LOVED this. I thought it was very well done, too.

Dark
 

I kept seeing reviews for Dark but did not really read what it was about. I am glad that I didn't because it was so absorbing to watch it unfold. It is German but a Netflix original. I just looked at a trailer on YouTube that was subtitled but I am watching an English version that came up automatically. It must be dubbed but if it is, very quickly, I stopped even thinking about it. It has been compared to Stranger Things but for me, that comparison did not last long.

It is really, really good. I was going to watch one episode this morning and now I am on number 8 :watereyes: . I read season 2 was just given the green light by Netflix and I am really glad! I am only including the teaser trailer here in case you want to find out for yourselves...



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Jerry Seinfeld has moved his series Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee to Netflix........it will start Jan 5th ....:movieguy:

I watched The Keepers....and original Netflix docu-series about the late Sister Catherine Cesnik who was murdered back in the late 1960s. Two of Cesnik's students, trying to figure out how many others were sexually molested by the horrible Baltimore parish priest, created an social media page, where 'Jane Doe' (an victim) revealed herself to thousands of others, and has been an critical in the lay-person investigation of this crime. Very good docu-series.

Last night I found an interesting original HBO series called Crashing.....season 1 has seven episodes and season 2 premiers on the 21st of January (this month)! OMG, I really enjoyed this program. It's about an man who not only fails in his marriage but fails as an stand up comic, but it's incredibly hilarious, LOL :jester:

Eta: Sarah Silverman has an cameo role on this series, and for those of you who enjoy the cooking shoe by Rachel Ray, she's in it too.

Here's an trailer to last year's season, so you can catch an glimpse of this HBO series! :)

Terrific Amazon Prime Series now streaming!

It is an anthology of Philip K. Dick's stories (called appropriately):

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.

I have watched 2 of the 10 so far and they are very good.

I will jump out here and say that the ones I've seen impressed me more than Black Mirror this season!

Amazon
 

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. OMG Freaking awesome. I binge watched in two days.

Netflix......


Trying to get caught up on the current season of Orange is the New Black...

I'm at the beginning of Season 2 of The Crown, and I really like it. I think I have a crush on young Queen Elizabeth.

Absentia
 

Pretty good 10-episode series on Amazon prime.

On occasion, I thought that it defied belief but I did not figure out who-done-it and I usually do, so I appreciated that.

Altered Carbon.....................

Netflix has 54 original series and movies in March:

Streaming March 1st
21 Thunder: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Adel Karam: Live from Beirut — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Streaming March 2nd
B: The Beginning: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Flint Town: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Girls Incarcerated: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Les Affamés — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Malena Pichot: Estupidez compleja — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Natalia Valdebenito: El Especial — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Voltron: Legendary Defender: Season 5 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Streaming March 4th
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Streaming March 5th
The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Streaming March 6th
Borderliner: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Gad Elmaleh: American Dream — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Streaming March 8th
Bad Guys: Vile City: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Ladies First — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Streaming March 9th
A.I.C.O. Incarnation: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Collateral: Limited Series — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Love: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman: Malala Yousafzai — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Nailed It: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Outsider — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Streaming March 13th
Children of the Whales: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Ricky Gervais: Humanity — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Stretch Armstrong: The Breakout — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Terrace House: Opening New Doors: Part 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Streaming March 15th
Tabula Rasa: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Streaming March 16th
Benji — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Edha: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
On My Block: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Spirit Riding Free: Season 4 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Take Your Pills — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Wild Wild Country: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Streaming March 20th
The Standups: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Streaming March 23rd
Alexa & Katie: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Dinotrux Supercharged: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Game Over, Man! — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Layla M.— NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Requiem: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Roxanne Roxanne — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Santa Clarita Diet: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
SWORDGAI The Animation: Part 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Mechanism: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Streaming March 30th
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
First Match — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Happy Anniversary — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Rapture: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Reboot: The Guardian Code: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Sofía Niño de Rivera: Selección natural — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Titan— NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Trailer Park Boys: Season 12 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Trump: An American Dream: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

http://bgr.com/2018/02/23/netflix-mo...l-series-list/

Adding Hulu to this thread: The Looming Tower
 

The first episode is currently streaming on Hulu. Hulu doesn't make all episodes available of their series at once. Each episode is available on Wednesdays.

If the rest of the episodes are as good as the first one is, it will be very worth a watch.

Portion of a review in The Atlantic:

The Gripping History of The Looming Tower

The new Hulu series is a suspenseful, star-studded excavation of the failure to prevent 9/11.

SOPHIE GILBERT MAR 1, 2018
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Produced for television by Lawrence Wright with the Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney and the veteran showrunner Dan Futterman, The Looming Tower is a taut, tense restaging of the internecine squabbles between the FBI and the CIA in the lead-up to 9/11.

Like Wright’s (Pulitzer Prize-winning) book, it makes the case that the failure of U.S. intelligence agencies to share information thwarted any chance they might have had of stopping the attacks. But where the book focused primarily on the people who conspired to orchestrate the worst terrorist attack on American soil, the series reorients itself around the people who failed to stop them.

On one side is John O’Neill (Jeff Daniels), a larger-than-life FBI counterterrorism chief grappling with the increasing threat of al-Qaeda. On the other is Martin Schmidt (Peter Sarsgaard), O’Neill’s CIA counterpart. O’Neill was a real person; Schmidt is reportedly an amalgam, although there are reasons beyond his initials to deduce whom he’s based on.

From the very first episode, O’Neill and Schmidt are at each other’s throats for reasons that are hard to ascertain. Schmidt guards CIA intelligence with fanaticism, while O’Neill resorts to spewing profanities and epithets when he can’t get what he wants.
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Entire review:

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...w-hulu/554477/

We binged watched 8 Seconds........


Very interesting to say the least, and I hope it's picked-up for another year!

Wow! A much appreciated post! I've made the mistake of getting "into" a new series only to have it cancelled. So now, I won't start watching something until it has (or starting) three seasons! Thanks for the update! :koolaid:

Thank you for posting this. I have wondered how we find out when another season comes out for a show? Can we set up an alert or something on Netflix and/or Amazon?

In 10 years, Flint's PD has gone from 300 officers to 98 for 100,00 people!
 

Dapper, I have not found a source other than Variety and The New York Times. Every month they post the best new show or series.

I just try to remember to check each month.

A very good documentary series that I have been watching on Netflix is called Flint Town.

A partial review:

Flint Town Is an Alarming Portrait of Cops, Politics, and a Reeling City

By Matt Zoller Seitz

Not many TV shows can be as transporting as a well-made, long-form documentary series about a specific time and place. Flint Town is that kind of series. It takes you to a place that you probably wouldn’t visit unless someone you knew already lived there, a place that Hollywood’s fiction makers would likely never go, either, because so much of the dramatic landscape consists of deprivation, disappointment, and constant challenges, none of which will be solved by the arrival of a clever hero who doesn’t play by the rules.

In their Netflix docuseries, director-cinematographers Zackary Canepari, Jessica Dimmock, and Drea Cooper spend a year embedded with the police department of Flint, Michigan, a city reeling from a series of vicious blows to its body politic, sustained over a period of decades.

First, General Motors, the city’s biggest employer, closed plants, laid off workers, and ultimately relocated to the suburbs (a move subsidized by the city of Flint itself). Then came the water crisis, which started when the city changed the source of its drinking water to the Flint River to save money but failed to treat the water properly, exposing more than 100,000 residents to lead contaminants.

The city depicted in Flint Town is a husk of its former self, and so is the police force that provides its focus. Despite its simple yet sweeping title, the series focuses on the day-to-day challenges of the city’s police department. It’s ultimately less of a “portrait of a city” documentary than a Cops-style look at the particulars of police work that just happens to be set in Flint, with artier, more atmospheric filmmaking (lot of tight, abstracted close-ups of objects illuminated by flashing red-and-blue lights), a much more frank assessment of how race and class issues affect community relations, and the kinds of glimpses of the officers’ home lives that the Fox series abandoned early in its run.

The overall erosion of Flint and the cratering of its police department are intertwined, of course: In 2016, one of the African-American officers featured in the series, Brian Willingham, wrote a New York Times editorial that asked, “How can citizens in Flint trust the police to protect them when they can’t even trust their government to provide them with clean water?” But for the most part, Flint Town considers these issues in a universalizing way that could apply to any police department in any city with a diverse population.

As the series tells us, this is an underfunded and understaffed department scrambling just to get by. When the story starts in November 2015, the Flint P.D. has just 98 officers, down from 300 a few years earlier, and daily police work looks and sounds a lot like triage. An early call by Officer Bridgette Balasko sees her responding to a robbery 27 hours after the initial phone call.

The rest of the story sees a change in management at both city hall (the election of Mayor Karen Weaver) and the police department (Tim “Two Guns” Johnson). The latter responds to an unconscionably high crime rate by promising to implement a more aggressive, “broken windows” style of policing that puts the citizenry on edge. The newest batch of 18 recruits includes a pair of officers who’d be criticized as too contrived if they appeared in a fiction series: Dion Reed and his mother Maria.

As intelligent and considerate as it is, the series has a somewhat repetitious feel until the third episode, which jumps ahead to July 2016, six months into the Chief Johnson’s tenure. From here through the end of the story, Flint Town shows how the mentality of American police is shaped by their personal politics, which in turn are shaped by their consistently unpleasant and sometimes fearful experiences on the job, as well as reactionary and sometimes racist attitudes handed down throughout the inception of modern policing.

The series eventually starts weaving community reaction to the police into the story more insistently, in a way that creates dialogue between the officers and the public they’re supposed to protect and serve. Rather than just show how civilians react during traffic stops or at town meetings, the filmmakers have them sit for interviews (framed head-on, in the manner of a mid-period Errol Morris documentary) and go into nonpolice locales, such as Melly’s barbershop, where the predominantly African-American clientele speak freely.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/flint...ix-review.html

Yeah. After years of fighting it. I have slowly, but steadily, made my way through all five seasons effective this morning. I liked it, but dang that was painful. My mind is ready for something else.



I'm tentatively enjoying this one. However, it is not a show you can have running in the background. You (or I and my gf) have to actively watch and listen to get it. But so far it seems pretty cool.



Thanks for the suggestions and thread!

A