I’m very late on catching up to this thread, but I wanted to thank you for the recommendation. I would likely have missed the series entirely otherwise. It’s on my watch list for this week.
The shows up to #2 on the Top 10 list so plenty watching it. It’ll get a second season to resolve cliffhanger.
Talking about Warrior Nun or Into the Night?
Has anyone seen the new Unsolved Mysteries? Why the heck is it so popular? Is it really well done?
The production quality is pretty good and the stories they picked are very interesting/compelling. Well done reboot for the 3 episodes I saw.
My wife and I have watched the first few also. It’s well done however of the 6 released episodes 5 are about missing people so I hope there is more variety in the stories when we get more episodes. It doesn’t really feel any different than watching an episode of Dateline at this point. I also hope they don’t feel like every episode has to be 1 hour about 1 subject. I think there are interesting mysteries that aren’t 1 hours worth of content that instead you could do 2-3 stories in one episode like they did back in the day.
oh, Warrior Nun.
I haven’t checked it out myself yet but it was a popualr show back in the day so I’m sure there’s people who remember it and are curious.
Gendal
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I love The Order. Most of the time I think they are going to annoy me with young adult angst they flip it on it’s head or violently murder someone. Good, messy, fun.
There’s a show on Netflix from 2014 called Monty Python’s best bits (mostly). I’ve been really enjoying it. Each episode has 5 comedians/actors come on who talk about their favorite bits, and then they show the bits in question. It’s a nice format. It gives each sketch some background and some room to breath.
Been watching Deadwind, which is Finland’s attempt at Nordic Noir. The first season was a struggle, as it was far too long for its own good, and I eyerolled as the plot recycled itself a few times. The second season is a lot stronger. It’s also eight episodes, compared to the first season’s 12 episodes. The producers definitely got the message.
I liked both seasons. There is a refreshing sort of realism to the characters in Scandinavian noir TV shows, and to the actors who play them. They seem like real people. They are not overly young, beautiful, charming, hunky, or brilliant.
So as to not further derail the Warrior Nun thread - I’m disappointed with the lack of options available for Netflix streaming, and didn’t really have an issue with it to know it was a problem until changing my setup. I’ve “downgraded” from 5.1 to 2.0 for the time being, replacing my soundbar with some higher quality towers and plan to expand that out when space and budget permit.
Unfortunately, Netflix detects that my receiver is capable of 5.1 content and continues to serve that up by default. Searching through their site, the Roku app, and the internet there’s apparently no way to set Stereo as my default audio stream so every time a new episode starts I have to swap back over (which usually doesn’t happen until I’ve missed some dialog).
There’s also no way to tell Netflix I don’t want them to send me HDR content and their Netflix originals have horrible HDR lighting. Ozark was bad, Warrior Nun was completely unwatchable. The “fix” was to pull up a secret service menu on my TV and completely disable HDR.
I realize these are up there among the most first-world of problems. But man, it’s frustrating that I have to constantly change things on my end when they’re the one who sucks.
In case you missed my rambling, if you have a Samsung it’s going to be an issue because they use incompatible HDR standards. Samsung uses HDR10+, whereas Netflix is using HDR/Dolbyvision.
Tim_N
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Does your receiver have a stereo button? I wonder if that would help.
A good thought but unfortunately it doesn’t help. The most frustrating part is that this isn’t an uncommon issue from what I’ve read and it shouldn’t be that difficult for Netflix to implement a preference setting.
e: Didn’t miss your post @wisefool. My set is a TCL which does Dolby Vision (and supposedly HDR10 as well). One of the few complaints about this set is that it’s dim on HDR content which I’m sure only compounds the issue.
My girlfriend and I binged Ju-On: Origins tonight (6 30 minute episodes, not too much of an ask). On the whole we liked it, but it’s in a lot of ways a very different approach to horror than the movies. The supernatural creeps in increasingly around the edges, and of course there are brief hints in the movies that Kayako and Toshio were victims of domestic abuse that culminated in their dual murder. So the decision of this prequel series to focus heavily on the evils human beings do to one another (including rape, murder-suicides, domestic abuse, etc) isn’t entirely unconnected to the source material. But that is the focus, for sure. And it gets quite dark.
That said, deeper into the show it also starts to get stranger and more nonlinear in a way that echoes similar time weirdness in the movies, and is probably the most original and interesting source of horror in the franchise.
I’m confused how it could not. As I understand it, you have a 5.1 receiver but only a stereo speaker set-up? Surely your receiver can take the 5.1 signal and mux it into a stereo one. It definitely can if it has DTS Virtual-X, because that’s the whole point of it.
It’s 3am and my wife and I finally decided it was time for bed after binging Warrior Nun. What a great show.
