Re: Streaming Netflix/Hulu/etc. - what's good lately?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 10:04 am
by cakes
True Haunting on Netflix. I love a good ghost story, not the junk TV show kind, like Ghost Hunters. I'll always give a haunting doc a try, but often times they are lame and I turn them off. This one did not disappoint. It's 5 episodes, the first three are about one Haunting in the 80s at a college in New York. The last two episodes are about a house that a couple bought in the mid-2000s near Salt Lake City. The stories themselves are intriguing, but the accounts that people have about what went down plug a lot of holes that often times you see in these types of stories. It left me truly believing in ghosts, which I generally don't. The crazy connection discovered after the fact in the first story is mind-bending. Definitely worth watching. I actually watched it twice.
Re: Streaming Netflix/Hulu/etc. - what's good lately?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 10:08 am
by Dave N.
cakes wrote: Wed Nov 12, 2025 10:04 amTrue Haunting on Netflix. I love a good ghost story, not the junk TV show kind, like Ghost Hunters. I'll always give a haunting doc a try, but often times they are lame and I turn them off. This one did not disappoint. It's 5 episodes, the first three are about one Haunting in the 80s at a college in New York. The last two episodes are about a house that a couple bought in the mid-2000s near Salt Lake City. The stories themselves are intriguing, but the accounts that people have about what went down plug a lot of holes that often times you see in these types of stories. It left me truly believing in ghosts, which I generally don't. The crazy connection discovered after the fact in the first story is mind-bending. Definitely worth watching. I actually watched it twice.
Not a TV show, but have you been listening to the Otherworld podcast? Great firsthand accounts of paranormal activity. It gets pretty creepy at times.
Re: Streaming Netflix/Hulu/etc. - what's good lately?
cakes wrote: Wed Nov 12, 2025 10:04 amTrue Haunting on Netflix. I love a good ghost story, not the junk TV show kind, like Ghost Hunters. I'll always give a haunting doc a try, but often times they are lame and I turn them off. This one did not disappoint. It's 5 episodes, the first three are about one Haunting in the 80s at a college in New York. The last two episodes are about a house that a couple bought in the mid-2000s near Salt Lake City. The stories themselves are intriguing, but the accounts that people have about what went down plug a lot of holes that often times you see in these types of stories. It left me truly believing in ghosts, which I generally don't. The crazy connection discovered after the fact in the first story is mind-bending. Definitely worth watching. I actually watched it twice.
Not a TV show, but have you been listening to the Otherworld podcast? Great firsthand accounts of paranormal activity. It gets pretty creepy at times.
No, but I'll check it out. There's also Spooked!
Re: Streaming Netflix/Hulu/etc. - what's good lately?
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2025 11:04 am
by enframed
penningtron wrote: Sat Nov 08, 2025 8:18 amPluribus is fun so far
Agreed, looking forward to where this goes. Hoping it doesn't get all "Severance" which started out great and now feels like it could just go on forever and never resolve. Pluribus gives us an idea of possible endings already, which is reassuring. I hope it keeps to one season, two tops.
Re: Streaming Netflix/Hulu/etc. - what's good lately?
penningtron wrote: Sat Nov 08, 2025 8:18 amPluribus is fun so far
Agreed, looking forward to where this goes. Hoping it doesn't get all "Severance" which started out great and now feels like it could just go on forever and never resolve. Pluribus gives us an idea of possible endings already, which is reassuring. I hope it keeps to one season, two tops.
But it's Vince Gilligan. He's been knocking out of the park since X Files.
Re: Streaming Netflix/Hulu/etc. - what's good lately?
penningtron wrote: Sat Nov 08, 2025 8:18 amPluribus is fun so far
Agreed, looking forward to where this goes. Hoping it doesn't get all "Severance" which started out great and now feels like it could just go on forever and never resolve. Pluribus gives us an idea of possible endings already, which is reassuring. I hope it keeps to one season, two tops.
But it's Vince Gilligan. He's been knocking out of the park since X Files.
He's had some duds.
Re: Streaming Netflix/Hulu/etc. - what's good lately?
Agreed, looking forward to where this goes. Hoping it doesn't get all "Severance" which started out great and now feels like it could just go on forever and never resolve. Pluribus gives us an idea of possible endings already, which is reassuring. I hope it keeps to one season, two tops.
But it's Vince Gilligan. He's been knocking out of the park since X Files.
He's had some duds.
And this is shaping up to be one of them. I was giving this a shot based on Better Call Saul, but that last episode drove me up the wall. After an incredibly overwrought set-up I'm going to need more than watching people the Stepford Wives restock a grocery store. Too similar to so many lazy sci-fi shows and movies. If Gilligan turns this around, I will be impressed.
Re: Streaming Netflix/Hulu/etc. - what's good lately?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2025 11:09 am
by Frankie99
RE: Pluribus - I am intrigued, but there have been a couple of sequences where I've looked a little cockeyed back at the screen and thought "really?" as the show seems to imply some stoner type intro to existentialism 101 insight.
The Wire took a full season to get itself together. Some things need space to grow. We'll see.
Re: Streaming Netflix/Hulu/etc. - what's good lately?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2025 11:36 am
by enframed
Frankie99 wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 11:09 am
RE: Pluribus - I am intrigued, but there have been a couple of sequences where I've looked a little cockeyed back at the screen and thought "really?" as the show seems to imply some stoner type intro to existentialism 101 insight.
The Wire took a full season to get itself together. Some things need space to grow. We'll see.
Yes, "it feels academic" is a succinct way to put it.
The grocery store restock scene was terrible in a Mike Judge kinda way.
Re: Streaming Netflix/Hulu/etc. - what's good lately?
Nouvelle Vague, coming to Netflix on November 14, 2025 in the U.S. This looks like it'll be worth a watch.
Right now the English subtitles option is giving the "Audio Description" no matter what, which is driving me up the damn wall. I made it 10 minutes in before giving up. Great fucking job, Netflix.