Suggestions, please.

Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 9 months ago to Entertainment
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Over dinner, my wife and I like to log into netflix and watch an episode of a television series.

But most series are the same, fair to great episodes at the beginning, then somewhere before the second season the progressive drum comes out and each episode is yet another excursion into social issues pontification land.

I was really getting into "House, M.D.", but then we got to the second season.

Can anyone suggest any television content on Netflix which actually wants to tell a damned story, not beat me over the head with the same tired sermons?

Thanks.


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  • Posted by 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm a big fan of documentaries.
    A couple of great documentary movies are "Man on Wire" and "Jiro Dreams of Sushi".
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  • Posted by 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I really liked 24 in its early seasons.
    I used to joke that my slogan was WWJBD, What would Jack Bauer do?

    But then the execs bent to left pressure and the story lines changed.
    When they had Jeananne Garafalo on the show (don't care if I spelled it right,I could have just said "shrieking Marxist") I wrote the show off.

    <Jack Bauer>DAMN IT!</Jack Bauer>
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  • Posted by 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not sure it's available on Netflix.
    Although it is on my list simply because Nick Searcy's twitter feed is a riot.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not seen it yet, although I will add it to the list.
    I'm not a big fan of the whole Star Trek franchise, way too preachy for my taste.
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 9 years, 9 months ago
    Actually, there may be some choices, and that is fun. "Top Gear" (the British version) is always in trouble for not being PC.
    "Castle" sneaks in remarks about government overstepping or anti-PC, anti-socialism quite frequently. Nathan Fillion is Canadian, and it is usually his character who does the little remarks.
    We always found "NCIS" to be anti-PC, they hug, they snipe, they drive muscle cars, way to go Mark Harmon.
    There are always the reruns of the "Waltons", where kids respected parents and went to church, which must drive the PC crowd crazy.
    I also loved early "House", what a character, but it went down the tubes when the whiney munchkin doctors with their PC views came on and Cuddy got slutty.
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  • Posted by LibertasAutLetum 9 years, 9 months ago
    Breaking Bad. We will never be graced with such a brilliant program again. That one can never be topped.
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  • Posted by $ Maree 9 years, 9 months ago
    Can you access When a City Falls ?
    It is exactly my city's story of 2010/11. It starts just as a doco of the first event. As the story just keeps happening, including the death of one of the team. At the start its a story, in part, of trying to repair the catholic cathedral. But yeah by june 2011 forget it.
    I posted in new year 2013 of my reflections from my Rand-based perspective - as the city fell but i didnt. This doco gets the experience of those 2 years and 11,000 events spot on. According to me.
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  • Posted by martinidick 9 years, 9 months ago
    You can't go wrong with the original Twilight Zone episodes. I keep watching them over and over again. And Seinfeild keeps me laughing as well - perhaps the best comedy series - ever - and so politically incorrect.
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  • Posted by $ EitherOr 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well you missed out :) New Starbuck is badass. I couldn't get through the first episode of male Starbuck - I felt like he was going to stare at himself in every shiny surface he passed.
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  • Posted by Animal 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's also important to note that Kovacs dies owing thousands of dollars in Federal taxes. He felt the tax system was unfair and oppressive and simply refused to pay; not exactly "going Galt," but certainly a variation on that theme.
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