Wtf happened to netflix - Im back on after 10 mo. hiatus and I find that

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

there is NOTHING, but nothing, that I want to watch. I do see some things that I watched and enjoyed year or 2 ago, but nothing new. Just mile after mile of various grisly, grotesque, dark, crime ridden, murderous, demonic, evill, monstrous grade Z flicks that Ive never heard of before.

I do not mind darkness or crime or gore in my TV &movies, but it has to be done reasonably well done and be in context of a satisfying storyline - Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Wire are some of my all time faves.

Any suggestions before I pull the plug on my membership?

Or is there a way you can get the DVD membership but without the "basic" streaming membership which Im finding utterly useless?

thx!

EDTA - Just found season 3 of Schitt's Creek - all righty! Thats more like it - let the binging commence.

[samnsara]

1. Peaky Blinders and The Ranch are two great ones.

...don't know what you like but all of Doc Martin will keep you busy too.

[Roland99]

8. The Ranch, to me, is painful to watch. Horrible writing. Bad jokes. Bad acting.

It's like a newer disney channel show or something.

[TexasBushwhacker]

75. I agree. I really wanted to like it

because I love Sam Elliott, but the laugh track is overwhelming.

[Lochloosa]

17. Doc Martin is great. Can't wait for the next season.

[CurtEastPoint]

19. The next season I just finished on Acorn. yes, another streaming service

It's like $5/mon. I also watched Love, Lies and Records (GREAT show!) on Acorn, as well as Shetland (murder mysteries in Scotland, on the Shetland Islands.)

[Lochloosa]

22. I'll have to check out Acorn

[elfin]

23. Acorn fan here as well

Agatha Raisin also great fun. Wish they had more.

[still_one]

51. Acorn is great. You can also get Acorn through Amazon Prime at 5 dollars a month.

[klook]

54. Shetland is a great series!

Last I checked Netflix had all (three?) seasons so far. Takes about an hour and a half to watch a one-hour episode, with all the rewinding to decipher the Scaw-ish dialect, but we'll worth it.

[CurtEastPoint]

56. Oh, I gotta have captions on!

[klook]

61. Couldn't get them to work on Netflix.

Maybe Acorn is a different story.

I heard "Oop-helly-ah" about 8 times before I figured out what the hell they were talking about!

Many other pronunciations and expressions are just funny or charming, but it was quite an exercise in alternative English!

[CurtEastPoint]

62. On my Roku I hit the * button.

[SammyWinstonJack]

47. Call the Midwife, Shetland, Bloodline, Hinterland. Just a few. Doc Martin is great.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. we left due to what you said - and now find we are through Amazon Prime with what we wish to watch

We are back using Netflix DVDs just to catch a few decent things...but we also realize the kind of things we love to watch don't really get made any more.

[samnsara]

3. also Godless (altho its pretty violent) and Fortitude

...anything on BBC is on my watch list..

[Squinch]

11. I love Fortitude! Wish they would get that first season of Trapped.

[True Dough]

26. My wife and I enjoyed Godless very much

If there's no second season, that's just fine. It works well as a mini series. Incredible cinematography. Great acting.

[klook]

55. Godless was amazing. We were really immersed in it for a few days there.

Jeff Daniels was riveting as Frank Griffin. Many interesting characters and plot threads. Yes, it's a violent story, but there's a lot of space given to character development, and surprising tenderness in a bleak and unforgiving territory.

[True Dough]

59. All good points

What I appreciated about the character of Frank Griffin, in addition to Daniels' superb acting, was that he wasn't one-dimensional. He was a monster, but one who showed moments of sympathy among his many acts of cruelty.

[WhiteTara]

4. You might want to cross post in

TV chat.

[mainstreetonce]

5. Ozark

Try that.

[Heartstrings]

15. Good one! Nt

[RKP5637]

33. Yep, Ozark is great, watching now. n/t

[madaboutharry]

6. Grace and Frankie is great.

Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen, and Sam Waterson. Wonderful chemistry all the way around.

Also Bonus Family, it's a Swedish show with subtitles. It is very enjoyable.

[dhol82]

30. I will second Grace and Frankie

Only watched season one (dropped the subscription) but really enjoyed that show.
Great writing and wonderful chemistry in the cast.

[yellowdogintexas]

48. Season 3 coming soon!!!

[Fla Dem]

53. Love Grace & Frankie. Season 4 premieres Friday, January 19th.

[Blues Heron]

7. Scorcese's George Harrison Doc. is pretty good

Very comprehensive, puts you right back in the swingin sixties with the lads

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

64. Thx - watching part 1 now - it good except the editting is just atrocious the way they just chop off

music so abruptly in midsentence. Youre enjoying music and the visuals then sudden its chopped off to show some guy talking. Very jarring. More than once Ive screamed and thrown things at the TV. Youd think a fancy-pants director like Socrcese c ould have done a better job weaving the music + interviews together.

[Blues Heron]

70. I know I thought the same until i realized

it was scorcese doing his thing, then I was like ok

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

71. Well I thought at first it was my cat lying on the keyboard - which makes video jump around - so

Last edited Tue Jan 2, 2018, 05:36 PM - Edit history (1)

I guess I wasnt terribly impressed.,,,,, by the editting I mean. George is/was great - he was my favest Beatle - I thought he was much cuter more soulful than Paul. The old footage is a hoot, had not seen most of it before.

[GoneOffShore]

9. Check out 'The Crown' part two.

Also search for 'Rake' - starring Richard Roxburgh - Australian, well written, high production values, great performances.
It's funny and moving. https://www.netflix.com/title/70301553

You might also want to check out The Big Family Cooking Showdown - absolutely fun and although one of the female hosts is intensely annoying in a distinctly English way, a really good show with some great dishes.
https://www.netflix.com/title/80186090

And a really good crime drama - Broadchurch - https://www.netflix.com/title/70302484

And I just started watching 'The Windsors' - send up of the Royals. The bit where Camilla decides to get pregnant is amazingly dark and funny - https://www.netflix.com/title/80216651

[Cirque du So-What]

10. A new season of Black Mirror is available

Like a Twilight Zone for the digital age.

[petronius]

12. I was going to argue that there are tons of good stuff available,

but "grisly, grotesque, dark, crime ridden, murderous, demonic, evill, monstrous grade Z" is what I'm in the mood for these days...

[Binkie The Clown]

13. I cancelled Netflix for that very reason.

I had a list of things I'd like to watch before I signed up, but not one single thing on my list was available on Netflix streaming.

Here's what I considered: I'd buy the movie I'd like to watch, used on Amazon. Then if I really like it I'd keep it. If It's not worth keeping, I'd list it for sale on Amazon and make back what I paid for it. That means I'd get to watch the movie for free. (The Amazon shipping allowance is way too much for what it costs to slip the dvd into an envelope and send it first class, so the rest is profit.) I have sold books on Amazon, but I haven't tried this yet. It's probably not worth the trouble, but it probably could be done. hehe

[Lochloosa]

21. Didn't know you could tell the movies. Thx for the idea.

[CrispyQ]

14. The DVD only membership isn't so hot anymore either.

Periodically they put out a list of titles they're no longer going to carry. Also, I don't think they ship on Saturdays anymore.

[dlk]

16. It's Competition Making America Great Again

[Generic Brad]

18. Try mixing it up with Amazon Prime

Between the two services, there is never a shortage of things to watch.

[CherokeeDem]

20. Midsomer Murders....

and the other British shows.... too good....

A lot of trash on it but occasionally a decent Netflix series... and they gave us the last season of Longmire, thankfully....

[bikebloke]

24. I was receiving a string of bad movies week after week.

I'm on DVD disc only. Over the years my queue had grown to 211. So in preperation to dumping Netflix and watching DVD's from the public library and those I own, I started winnowing the queue using Roger Ebert's review site and IMDB. Down to around 40, I began receiving better films again. So I'll stick with it a while longer.

[GeorgeHayduke]

50. You, sir

Are da real MVP.

For using your public library.

[Archae]

25. If you don't mind kids' fare at times...

"Skylanders Academy" is good, and it has a lot of humor for the adults too.

[MaryMagdaline]

27. I am new to Netflix and find it very hard to find

Good movies. I have been disappointed.

[CousinIT]

28. Grey's Anatomy, Parenthood, The Fosters, Grace & Frankie, Heartland, NCIS, Doc Martin, The Good Wife

....all great Netflix bingeable stuff IMO. Now that I'm through all that -- I'm also having issues finding ANYTHING not full of tired crime storylines, drugs, gore for the sake of it (not medical), stupid (not funny) dramedy/comedy, prison/lockup crap (which I HATE), etc.

On PBS / Amazon Prime: Mr. Selfridge, Downton Abbey (there are others I like but that's all I can think of now).

[jberryhill]

29. You forgot Nazis

There's a second season of Broadchurch.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

65. So there's Nazis in that? actually during my first stint with netflix I saw a large no. of

European flix re: WW2, nazis, etc. SOME REALLY GOOD STUFF - there is a frankness now that didnt used to exist in the overly-heroic WW2 movies of the past - eg how everyday citizens were complicit and enabled nazism to happen - that sort of thing. Very timely. And now they are so much more emotionally honest to the point of being devastating - eg the BBC version of Anne Franke - so much better and intense than that 1950s version (that portrayed her as kind of a ditz.)

So yeah Im up for Nazis.

[jberryhill]

67. You can watch Nazis for days on end on Netflix

I just finished "Hitler's Cousin's Neighbor's Dog", about a dog that belonged to one of the neighbors of one of Hitler's cousins.

[dhol82]

31. I have a Hulu account that I really enjoy.

They have a tremendous number of old series that I enjoy bingeing on.

[OhioBlue]

32. Whenever I have an hour to watch tv and decide

To turn on Netflix, I spend an hour looking for something to watch.

[Nictuku]

34. Here are a few

I lean towards Sci-Fi an historical dramas a bit, but I dislike gory violence just for the sake of Gory violence, here are some from my watch list:
The Americans
Sense8
The OA
The Last Kingdom
Bloodline
Marco Polo
Orange is the New Black
Wentworth
Call the Midwife
The Magicians
Travelers
Versailles
Land Girls
Redroad (Jason Momoa!)
Frontier (Jason Momoa!)
Jane the Virgin (light comedy)
Glitch (Australian)
The Crown
Anne with an E
Alias Grace
Stranger Things
The Originals (best Vampire series ever)

[lapfog_1]

42. recently streamed all of the DC comic and Marvel shows

mostly a bunch of drek... Soap operas with everyone constantly sacrificing themselves for their friends (and lovers) only to be resurrected (somehow) in the next episode (doubles from other dimensions or fairy tale lands, etc)

I liked Ozark (sort of like Breaking Bad).
I liked Stranger Things (Goonies mixed with X Files)

Didn't care at all for The Magicians (shameless ripoff of Narnia)
Will try some of the other shows on your list

[Nictuku]

43. The Magicians

I was a huge CS Lewis (Narnia) fan, as well as Lord of the Rings, and the reason I kind of liked The Magicians was the obvious tongue-in-cheek ripoff of some of those tales, (and the nerds that knew the story lines like the back of their hands), it kind of endeared the The Magicians to me a bit.

[lapfog_1]

44. Waay too many characters running in and out

Storylines were confused.. and the TV show cast people that looked too similar and then had them weave in and out of similar stories.

Not to mention that everytime a "main evil" character is defeated, a new one appears who is more powerful.

[virgogal]

35. "Broadchurch"---3 seasons----is marvelous.

[CurtEastPoint]

41. I so hated to see that end. David Tennant and Olivia Colman were splendid.

I can't wait to see her next year in the Crown as QEII.

If you get a chance to watch 'Beautiful People' she plays the Mom to a gay boy and loose daughter and it is hilarious.

[virgogal]

49. Thanks----my daghter also recommended "Beautiful People".

She will be perfect as an older Queen Elizabeth.

[CurtEastPoint]

63. Oh it is hilarious. I can watch it over and over.

[tymorial]

36. I still have Netflix but honestly I get more use out of Hulu and Amazon Prime.

[procon]

37. Netflix doesn't show their full catalog, but you can use their Secret Search Codes

to suss out thousands of hidden films and TV shows. Netflix, like Amazon, uses complex, personalized algorithms to show you titles based on your viewing habits, and with all the subgenres could number in the tens of thousands, but you generally only see the most popular. Netflix categorizes titles by numbered subgenres, but not all numbers will have entries as their algorithms are always in flux and titles are constantly added and removed.

I use a website, Netflix Secret Categories, that displays clickable links that will redirect you to the various categories on Netflix. You can also add the specific subgenre code directly to the end of the Netflix URL. The link below explains how to do that and also lists the codes for the main genres:

http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-netflix-codes-reveal-a-list-of-hidden-films-and-tv-shows-2017-10

[Clarity2]

39. Never knew that

Thats incredible, but why wouldnt they show their full catalogue?!

[dixiegrrrrl]

45. Best tip I have heard all year!!!

Many thanks.

[Betty88]

57. Thanks for this link

I filled up my watch list with just 2 of the categories, so many things I had never seen pop up. I really don't like the interface they use now, like so many others they want to pick what I like. Sometimes it works most of the time I see the same movies over and over just in a different category

[lunasun]

58. Thank you for posting this info

[Clarity2]

38. Ditto

To Grace & Frankie. Love that show.
The Crown is good.
All episodes of twilight zone
Narcos
Bloodline
West wing
Stranger things
Lost (if you havent seen it yet)
Houdini
Madmen
Diana in her own words
The Tudors

[GentryDixon]

40. If you like foreign series, there are many.

I am currently watching Netflix original "La Mante". PREMISE: In Paris, police search for a psychopath whose murders are inspired by Jeanne Deber, known as "The Mantis", a famous serial killer who terrorized the country 20 years ago. Believing it takes one to know one, the police ask Jeanne Deber to help hunt the copycat. Placed in solitary confinement since her arrest, "The Mantis" agrees on one condition: to deal only with Detective Damien Carrot, her estranged son. Damien has no choice, for a serial killer is on the loose and could strike anytime, anywhere in Paris.

The Dutch & Scandinavian series are very well produced.

I also have a subscription to MHZ Choice. All are foreign, sub-titled, but the availability is endless. It's 7.99 per month. I find I watch it more than Netflix.

[procon]

46. I'm totally hooked on silly Korean dramas. nt

[forgotmylogin]

52. Unless they've changed it, you should be able to go DVD only.

I enjoy a lot of their original standup specials, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmitt, The IT Crowd...

My taste tends to run toward stylish horror and horror comedies, so I'm okay with stuff like Santa Clarita Diet and I Zombie.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

66. The whole thing about mailing stuff back and forth seems so antiquated - why dont they stream it?

[forgotmylogin]

69. Streaming rights are different than physical rental rights.

That's why the streaming catalog does not match the DVD mailer catalog one-to-one. Some things are available to both stream and rent through the mail, but not everything. Some properties are DVD only, some are streaming only.

Netflix has to pay for rights to rent physical DVDs and that's one contract. Streaming rights are another contract. New properties might be too costly to license for streaming rights when they first come out. Also, streaming rights are sometimes exclusive to one service or the other, or might be concurrent. Right now, I can rent the HBO property Westworld on DVD via Netflix, but I cannot stream it because HBO has their own paid streaming service and they want to keep "on demand" viewing of that show exclusive. But they will sell rental DVDs to Netflix. That's also why Netflix will "lose" certain movies and shows, seemingly on a schedule; the license contract will expire, and Netflix will choose not to renew it, or the content owners may choose not to renew with Netflix because they want to sell rights to a different venue.

[hunter]

60. DU has a Netflix/streaming group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1143

As others have mentioned, the Netflix browser defaults to showing television series and movies that are popular on Netflix, apparently a disproportionate amount of horror stuff. It doesn't show everything they have.

The Netflix browser gets a little better (and a little scarier in an Orwellian sense) when it has a history of your viewing habits and ratings.

I hate blood and guts horror movies. I dislike "gritty" legal dramas, police dramas, medical dramas, and mysteries. Have seen more than enough of that shit in real life, thank you.

My favorite movies are what Netflix sometimes calls "quirky;" low and medium budget films and television series from all over the world. I don't mind subtitles. I also watch English language movies with the subtitles on and the volume turned low.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

68. SEASON 3 - Schitt's Creek

Did all 13 eps in 24 hours! Not such a huge accomplishment though when you consider each ep is only 20 mins.

This continues to be a highly enjoyable show - and I say this as someone who usually detests sitcoms. From Gilligans Island up on through Friends and on up to whatever is on now (I dont have a real tv so I dont know) Ive never been able to tolerate the cartoonishness of the characters or the dumbass plots where theyre continually trying to manipulate or deceive each other. I think the secret of this show is they turn all the sitcom conventions sideways. Ex: Johnny (Eugene Levy character) trying to manipulate the golf course owners into giving him a free round of golf. When later Stevie gets this to happen, and Johny asks how she did it, she says "I just asked." Which really is a lot funnier than it might sound - but then I always liked my humor dry and understated, and/or character-driven.

Besides the hysterically funny and absurd scenes (David working on the Amish farm still makes me LOL) there is enough complexity and depth to the characters where you can have moments that are genuinely moving = spoiler alert next paragraph - stop now if you must.

(spoiler alert - the last scene w/ David's new business partner is just plain sweet and funny- and not like anything Ive seen in the whole body of gay TV characters - not that Im any kind of expert. Um correction - I think we established last 2 season that David is metro nonbinary bisexual LOL )

[Orrex]

72. NetFlix has a lot of great stuff to offer, but...

I'm annoyed at how limited their selection really is, when you get right down to it.

I like a lot of their original programming, and they do nab some great tv shows, but their movies are hit or miss. For every film that I want to see, there are like 700,000 that I wouldn't watch if you paid me.

At times it's hard to avoid feeling like you've been baited-and-switched...

[PennyK]

73. No one mentioned Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries?

The most glamorous Jazz Age heroine ever! Yes, she investigates murders, but there is sex, women's rights, religion, and Miss Fisher is brilliant and funny! For women: the clothes! For men: the cars!

[bif]

74. Check out my movie blog...

I post reviews and trailers of good movies I've seen. There are a ton of good ones out there.

http://moviejunkiemark.blogspot.com