What are you watching on Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime?

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I happened across a series called, "Flowers" on Netflix. I loved it. I've finished the first season and I can't decide if it's a comedy or a drama. The cast is a delightful group of quirky characters who are given a great script.

I'm watching Atypical on Netflix. Thought it might be annoying but I actually find it pretty interesting. The way the mother acts out, though, isn't believable to me. That whole storyline with the bartender isn't resonating. Like the sibling relationship on the show.

I'm watching this space drama Another Life. It's awful and badly acted and campy as hell and you wish all the characters would just die. But for some reason it's good television.

The Politician is a glorious, hot mess. But a very entertaining mess.

Ozark is excellent as is Fleabag, both big Emmy winners

I'm loving Jake Manley and Adam Dimarco in The Order. The scene where Adam is teaching Jake how to transform was really hot. Wish they would just make out already. Surprised either doesn't have a thread on DL. Adam has played gay characters before, but only in minor roles.

Carnival Row on amazon prime is great, don’t let the idiots here tell you otherwise. But on the lighter side of things I’ve recently been binge watching It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia on hulu and Elite on netflix.

El Juego de las Llaves on Amazon Prime has a very hot gay storyline. The gay characters are hot as fuck too.

One of the hot scenes from the show. Well worth the watch imo. The gay storyline was well done.

I’ve recently binge watched Breaking Bad after avoiding it for years, and quite honestly it deserves all the hype it got. Possibly the best character study to come out of the 2000’s, the writing and acting definitely deserved awards.

I think I’d give the edge to The Wire on that, r11.

R12 I could never get into the wire. Things never happened, and the lack of action to move the plot forward would have been excusable to me if the characters weren’t such pieces of shit. The only two characters I found likable were Deangelo’s girl and the lesbian cop. Everybody else was an asshole.

Sorry, *The Wire

I got laid off from my job about a month and a half ago. First I watched all three seasons of the Handmaids Tale. Last night I finished Game of Thrones (all 8 seasons). Next up: Chernobyl.

R11, I was also late to that show. I don't like action movies/shows, but I gave the first couple of episodes a try, and I was sucked in by the interesting characters. I don't normally like violence, but some of the most violent scenes in that show were so creatively done, I nearly fell out of my chair. I started watching just a couple of weeks before the finale, so I had to hide out from all the finale spoilers for a few days. Luckily the final season was added to netflix almost immediately, so I could watch the ending without delay.

Amazon Prime: The Boys, Hanna, Too Old to Die Young ( I don't recommend it but visually it's stunning). Netflix: The Umbrella Academy, Special

I'm actually trying this thing called going outside.

R18 Wow, good for you. The long climb down from your high horse must do wonders for your glutes!

Going outside isn't an option for me as it is almost October, 95 degrees and bone dry here with no relief in sight. I stayed in the AC and recently watched Lunatics on Netflix, which was pretty amusing if you like semi-offensive Aussie humor.

No plot to The Wire? If anything the plots were too baroque to allow casual watching.

And if you want to "like" characters...I guess I just never understand that. I am watching Succession on Amazon and it has some dull patches but the great thing is that there is not a single "likable" character on it.

[quote] And if you want to "like" characters...I guess I just never understand that.

I can understand it—sure. But it also informs me about what the person means by “character development.” I think they mean more like the Syd Field screenplay type of character development.

I think human beings are much more complex than good guys and bad guys—than the good guy overcoming adversity to prevail in the end. Often bad people prevail and good people are crushed.

And there’s good and bad in everyone, so I like shades of grey in characters. I actually like most of the characters in The Wire — even a lot of the drug dealers.

But people can get out of entertainment whatever they want.

Carnival Row was pretty good. I was sad that there were no young, attractive gay, male characters. Plus, it’s sad to remember how magnificent Orlando Bloom used to be, when you see his deep wrinkles.

[quote]Plus, it’s sad to remember how magnificent Orlando Bloom used to be, when you see his deep wrinkles.

Time marches on sooner or later you realize it's marchin' across your face.

Another Life is the gayest sci fi I have ever seen. Unfortunately it's not that good.

R21/R22 I don’t think The Wire has no plot, it definitely has one, it’s just too slow moving for my taste. And not even in a gradual GOT way that has an eventual payoff, it just felt sluggish to me. Like getting through each episode was a chore.

Also, as far as liking the characters goes, I typically prefer shows where there aren’t many likable characters (Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, House Of Cards), but The Wire forces you to pretend as if the cops are the people we should be rooting for. The underdogs, the heroes. And absolutely none of them outside for the lesbian (and even she had some questionable moments) were likable. The criminals were well written, each of them felt human and morally ambiguous in a real way. But the problem was we weren’t supposed to root for them. The show made it clear that we were supposed to care about and support the cops, despite the fact that they were all pieces of shit. At worst they were they fat Mark Walberg-esque guy, who was a racist sadist, and at best they were McNulty, who was disturbingly incapable of empathy and toyed with people on the regular to get what he wanted. I don’t have a problem with morally grey characters, but I do have a problem with a show presenting us with anti-hero/villainous characters and insisting that they’re who we should root for.

Memories of the Alhambra. Korean thriller / sci fi / magic realism set in contemporary Grenada Spain.

R27 What a weird combination. I think I’ll check that one out.

I love/hate Cara Delevingne. Is she any fun in Carnival Row?

R29 Luckily, the fact that she shares the spotlight with Bloom comes to the show’s advantage. She’s there just the right amount, not too little that you don’t understand her character and not too much that she ruins the show/becomes a nuisance.

She must be easy to work with. She keeps getting hired and keeps working but has a very limited range. If she were a cunt they wouldn't keep hiring her year after year.

R21, Succession is on HBO, not Amazon.

I started watching Succession out of curiousity since I heard it was based on the Murdochs. Season 2 won some Emmys. So far, it's pretty good. The characters are not that likable but it's interesting tv.

Of course everyone ages but Orlando Bloom is getting hit really, really hard.

I’m watching Cuckoo on Netflix and living me some Taylor Lautner and Friday Night Lights on Prime. K?

MindHunter - the best series on Netflix.

Who "roots for" characters? I guess when you are a kid, but as an adult who does that?

I mean, who do you root for in King Lear? Where are the "likable" characters in Medea?

Amazon has HBO, Showtime and a number of networks available--either individual shows or the whole slate.

For those of us without a television or cable, it is convenient to have it all in one place.

I'm making my way through "Girls" on Prime right now. Somehow, the writers and actors manage to get you to care about these characters even though they're all just slightly different versions of insufferable. I'm on season 4, and it's starting to feel stale as the characters are put in unbelievable situations in an attempt to liven things up. But it's still fun.

Mindhunter is good but a little too drearily slow. If Anna Torv wasn't in it, I don't think I'd keep watching it.

R36, you are a bore. We don't all want to live your lame, unimaginative life.

I've just finished The Path on Hulu. I was obsessed start to finish. I've never seen better world building of a fictional religion before.

Just got done watching The Politician on Netflix, waiting for El Camino (Breaking Bad) to start Friday.

The Politician had potential but I found the main actor too damn irritating.