Netflix/Prime/Apple etc TV Streaming - The General Thread

If anyone wants a film that is like watching a play, The Pyramid Texts on Amazon Prime Video really impressed me. A black and while monologue starring James Cosmo as an ageing boxer who bares his soul while sat in the ring, absolutely barnstorming performance.

Has anyone watched Messiah on Netflix?
I am just over half way through it and really undecided whether its good or bad. Part of me wants to give up on it but I think I will stick to the end and just hope I havent wasted my time.
As there is so much choice on TV these days especially with main TV, Catch up, Netflix, Amazon etc I have a policy now that if its a film and I cant get into it within 30 mins then I stop and with a series I give it 2 episodes before giving up.

I really enjoyed The Queens Gambit considering it wouldnt normally be my choice of viewing but it was so well acted.
I also really enjoyed a series about an orthadox Jewish woman who escaped her husband and went to Germany. I cant think of the name of the series at the moment but it was superb.

Want to see Chernobyl -is it on Netflix?
I can only seem to find it on Amazon and you have to pay extra for it

Green Book on Amazon Prime is well worth a watch.

Unorthodox is the series - a difficult watch at points but I thought it was brilliant. Chernobyl is exceptional.

I'm binging The Queen's Gambit this weekend, and watching One Night in Miami tonight I think.

I am looking forward to the return of Blown Away next week. Glass blowing is a strange basis for a TV competition but the first season/series was addictive.

I think we watched the first run in 2 days!

I know it's a biopic but that doesn't mean the story hasn't been dramatised/embellished or doesn't use shorthand to get points across and when the movie portrays Langella as virulently racist as it does then I don't buy his redemption and it treats the topic of racism as the problem of individuals rather than as a systemic and deeply rooted issue of American society which as I said I found reductionist. I also don't know how far I trust the film's accuracy in portraying their relationship, it seemed heavily biased towards Langella's account and Shirley's family were disapproving of the portrayal and claimed that they did not have a long-lasting friendship beyond their working relationship. To me the film just felt more like a feel good film for white people to pat themselves on the back for no longer being as racist as people were back then in a "see how far we've come" kind of way and which leant into tired white saviour tropes. I don't think I've ever seen a black person praise this film beyond its performances which were its most redeeming feature.

As for Blindspotting, yes I did see and thoroughly enjoyed it though I don't think it was by any means perfect.

I really liked One Night in Miami, four really big personalities and leaders of black civil rights. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall that night. Love to know what was discussed. I always thought Malcolm X would have been the dominant personality in the room but that didn't come across in the film

Chernobyl is available via NowTV on the Entertainment package if you want to stream it. You should be able to find a free trial, or some kind of discount code. At the very least, you can sign up and cancel as soon as you've watched what you want as you aren't stuck with a contract as with Sky.

It's one of the best tv shows of the last few years, so well worth a watch. Perhaps check that it's currently available though, as they sometimes put end dates on the availability of some shows - although they tend to bring them back within a couple of months. This is particularly true of the big shows they don't intend to be available via any other streaming services have, such as The Sopranos and Game of Thrones.

Is The Umbrella Academy worth a go?

Yes, very much so, but stick with it (not all of them are good actors and the premise is a bit mad, especially the first 10 minutes of the first episode). I think season 2 is better than season 1.

Have to admit I only watched it at first because Emmy Raver-Lampman was in the original Broadway company of Hamilton and I was intrigued at her transferring to TV, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would given I'm not a comics person normally, and I binged season 2 in a couple of days.

Very much looking forward to season 3 (which they start filming in the next week or so).

I Care A Lot. Rosamund Pike plays a grifter running a con where she finds wealthy old folk with no family and applies to be their legal guardian on the basis that they’re incapable of looking after themselves. Then she slams them in a care home and takes control of their finances. Things go wrong when she picks the wrong little old lady to con! 

streaming now on Prime. Slick and very enjoyable.