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In late October I signed up for both Amazon Prime and Netflix.

I started streaming The Boys, at the same time I had a WTF moment with Netflix. I streamed the first five of La Casa di Papei (Money Heist), it was in English - that was unacceptable. It looked like Prime would e the one to go into billing mode. However Netflix has more FX shows, then The Queen's Gambit sealed the deal. I recently returned to Money Heist, I didn't know about the feature where you could switch languages. I switched to Spanish first but they were speaking too fast for me to clue in. So I re-watched the first episode in Italian and it was perfect.

Bill Camp (Mr. Schaubel) set up The Queen's Gambit. Anyone else notice that Pedro Alonso (Berlin) looks very much like veteran character actor James Frain. I thought it was him. Frain list of credits include St:Discovery (Sarek), True Detective, Orphan Black and The White Queen.

 
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If HBO had streamed My Brilliant Friend in English, I wouldn't have cared to watch it.

 
I signed up to Netflix back in the spring of 2020.
Wasn't impressed with it at all.
Ozarks was great. Not impressed with Breaking Bad, had some good moments but not enough.
Documentaries were very good. The Doc on Jordan and the Bulls was great.
Cancelled Netflix about 4 months into it.
First season of Money Heist was good, 2nd season sucked.
Better Call Saul was a great spin off of Breaking Bad. Enjoyed very much.
Maybe I will sign up again when Better Call Saul and Ozarks return.
 
Apple TV and Amazon Prime both have horribly unreliable web interfaces
That alone makes Netflix work better

Netflix has lost majority of their licenses content in past couple of years which is super unfortunate and has resulted in so many docs and Netflix sponsored shows

Hulu has way more content but requires a VPN

YouTube Red (Premium) was dead on arrival (nowhere near enough content to justify cost)

If you are only interested in watching a couple big name movies / tv series a month Android TV has a very compelling model but requires some work
 
I always watch Netflix in their native and read the subtitles. Especially for money heist it made the show magic and it didn’t matter which language. You can feel the emotions, connection and vibes from their tones and sounds so much more and just verify what they are saying reading it. Also tried original to watch it dubbed and was completely horrible.
 
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Apple TV and Amazon Prime both have horribly unreliable web interfaces
That alone makes Netflix work better

Netflix has lost majority of their licenses content in past couple of years which is super unfortunate and has resulted in so many docs and Netflix sponsored shows

Hulu has way more content but requires a VPN

YouTube Red (Premium) was dead on arrival (nowhere near enough content to justify cost)

If you are only interested in watching a couple big name movies / tv series a month Android TV has a very compelling model but requires some work
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I find their international shows are becoming top quality and their new English ones are lacking quality and depth.
 
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I find their international shows are becoming top quality and their new English ones are lacking quality and depth.
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Basically yes
I think thats why so many people use VPN for viewing other regions

I feel Netflix has a couple really good shows but you need to slog through too much trash
Its better to wait until a show is a couple months old and watch whatever got good reviews

Movies on Netflix are mainly trash
By the time a name film shows up its way too late
And of course no Disney anymore, no Fox, no WB etc
 
I've only seen two episodes of Money Heist, is the second season available? I re-watched the first episode in Italian, then I turned off the sub-titles. What was being spoken didn't mesh with the sub-titles and it became confusing. No subtitles required for HBO's My Brilliant Friend. HBO Max is still the preferred choice but you need a VPN to access it, I've had experience with that. Once the code is broken it's permanently lost.

The Queen's Gambit sealed the deal, malata's Toy Joy is a phenom. Very few actors can blend emotion with motion like she does. Her male equivalent is Tom Hardy. There's also Barry where she plays young Barack Obama's college Gf and Thoroughbreds, a dark comedy. Probably Netflix is going to give her the type of contract they gave Adam Sandler. Yes Netflix's film catalogue is limited and not very interesting.

 
I re-worked the subtitles for the Canadian distribution of Dogman. They were ponderous and needed to be simplified to match the Italian syntax. I didn't even attempt to translate it, that would have been futile. Unfortunately Peter Howell trashed the film at TIFF and it bombed. I don't think he understands Matteo Garrone. Btw Canadian Netflix doesn't have Gomorrah, it's available in America.

That's disappointing, Salvatore Esposito plays a Camorra captain in the series, he's also in S4 of Fargo. Btw I would hate it if FX shows were only available on Disney+, they are purveyors of crap. Avengers: End Game and Spiderman: Far From Home both sucked.

 
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Imho the high point of The Queen's Gambit with Andy Serkis's son Louis as Giorgi Girev.

Great psychological battle, Girev uses her resentment of him against her, then he shows her some humanity and she takes advantage.

 
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I have ALL the main streaming channels. I find I watch Netflix maybe once a month for a couple of movies or when they launch a good new show but other then that, I have seen most of the crap they have on there.
 
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I don't have Facebook, Twitter or Netfix...I miss the 70s!
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If you had one of them, you could probably relive some of your 70s by watching shows from that era. Imagine that! LOL

To be honest, I wouldn’t give up the tech we have now to go back to the boring 70s.
 
Ive had Netflix and prime video this whole lockdown and spend 80% of my time on Netflix, and 20% on prime. I find on prime I’ll watch some random documentaries or movies, but not really any shows.

I just resigned up for crave. Already watched Raised by wolves, and plan to watch the Undoing, Picard and all 25 James Bond movies in chronological order, as well as other movies they have on there. I figure I’d better watch the Bond movies now before they decide to remove them again.

After that I may cancel crave again
 
I originally signed up for the basic crave package, but then quickly upgraded to the crave + hbo for an extra $10 since most of the stuff I wanted to watch was on there, including Bond.
 
Dawn Wells is gone but the adorable factor continues with Andrea Bang.

I had no idea that Giancarlo Esposito was in Trading Places. Suprises abound, Janet's suitor to the left looked familiar, it's Andy Yu from S3 of Fargo.

"Janet is full balloon grown woman".

 
Lovely Janet learned the hard way that you don't go to yoga class with your older brother. Jung farts and blames her.

Marvel's latest output has been boring, I fear they will throw Simu Liu under a bus.

 
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Recently started watching Alice in Borderland.

Kingdom is also a nice little surprise that I watched a while back.
Political manoeuvring and zombies! Lots of depth and quality in this series.
 
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Kim's Convenience should achieve the same acclaim as Schitt's Creek at the Emmys. It's available on Netflix USA and the show's profile was increased by Sumi Liu becoming a contributor to the Wong Fu Network. They have become an influencial Oriental/American YT entertainment portal. Which probably helped him become part of the Marvel Universe. Randal Park (The Appointment, Fresh off the Boat) career was bolstered by being part of the troupe.

 
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