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Netflix - recommendations???

I guess I'm getting picky because I'm not finding anything that appeals to me.  I'm asking for recommendations, but I don't like things that are all about wars, extreme spy things that are so complicated, soapy love stories, things with overt se*, not a lot of gore, etc.  I like a good story which has some mystery to it. I like stories which are seemingly about regular people.  I don't like stories about glam people, teeny boppers, or 20 somethings who are dating tons of people and climbing the corporate ladder.  See -- I am picky!  And I don't mind foreign series, but they have to have the English subtitles.  Thanks!  

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Re: Netflix - recommendations???

@AngelPuppy1 

I am watching the 5 seasons of S.W.A.T. on Netflix and enjoying it, i have never watched this series on CBS which I understand is now cancelled, the episodes are about 45 min long, I usually watch about 2 episodes before going to bed if you like this type of TV cop drama.

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Re: Netflix - recommendations???

New Amsterdam is very good.  It's a hospital drama.

Also, Lincoln Lawyer is enjoyable, from Michael Connelley

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Re: Netflix - recommendations???

I’m wondering if you would like Lupin? Maybe read up about it, as, although it’s not about spies, maybe it would fall under that category for you? (In an aside to any fans reading this, just googled and apparently season 3 is set to come out in October.)
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I agree with Lincoln Lawyer, can't wait for season 2 to begin.

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Re: Netflix - recommendations???

Night Agent is a spy series, but its not overly complicated.  

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I find a lot of Nflix stuff boring too slow and too long

 

just watched 2 eps of the ARnold  S series interesting 

and the  Full Swing series

 

 

the Harlen Coben stories are well done 

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I loved Ozark and Dead To Me on Netflix.

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The Queen's Gambit

The Sinner, especially Season 1

Anne With an E

Extraordinary Attorney Woo ( I loved this)

TheKominskyy Method
The Age of Adaline

 

Wormwood

The Staircase

Behind Her Eyes

My Octopus Teacher

Unsolved Mysteries (They are all new stories)

 

Midnight Mass

The Lincoln Lawyer (Series version. There's a good movie with this title too)

Stay Close

Ozark
Mr. Harrigan's Phone

 

The Call   Halle Berry movie. There is another film with the same name)

The Good Nurse

The Watcher

The Woman in the Window

An Inspector Calls (2015 version. Currently might be on Amazon Prime. LOVED THIS

 

Brazen

The Chalk Line

Emily the Criminal

Side Effects

The Aviator

 

TheImmitationn Game

The Power of the Dog

Enola Holmes (Geared for a young audience, but I liked it) There are two movies.

Stranger Things (Same comment as Enola))

The Unexplained with WilliamShatner

The Keepers

 

Girl in the Picture

The Fall (It's currently not on. It will probably be back)

Unbelievable

It Follows

Don't Look Up

 

Maid

Molly's Game

The Innocence Files

Mindhunterr

Alias Grace

 

The Bleeding Edge

 Flower of Evil

New Amsterdam

Queen Charlotte.  My recent favorite. 

SUITS. Once you get past the first few episodes it gets much better. 
The Night Agent

Flight

 

 

 

 

To get an idea what each is about and see how each is rated, you might want to look at IMBD. I added a shortcut to my desk top for this site and I rely on it. Stranger Things has teens in it, so it probably isn't for you. The Night Agent is about spies, so it's out for you. 

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Re: Netflix - recommendations???


@AngelPuppy1 wrote:

I guess I'm getting picky because I'm not finding anything that appeals to me.  I'm asking for recommendations, but I don't like things that are all about wars, extreme spy things that are so complicated, soapy love stories, things with overt se*, not a lot of gore, etc.  I like a good story which has some mystery to it. I like stories which are seemingly about regular people.  I don't like stories about glam people, teeny boppers, or 20 somethings who are dating tons of people and climbing the corporate ladder.  See -- I am picky!  And I don't mind foreign series, but they have to have the English subtitles.  Thanks!  


 

 

@AngelPuppy1 ...I've made a list of some of my very favorite Series & Movies that I have enjoyed...You may have seen some of them already....Here goes...

 

 

Series...

 

The Lincoln Lawyer

Designated Survivor

Anatomy of a Scandal

Bodyguard

House of Cards

The Staircase (real life documentary series)

Last Tango In Halifax (excellent British Family Series that covers three generations)

Virgin River

Grace & Frankie

The Kominsky Method

Everwood (great family series to binge on)

 

 

Movies...

 

Pieces of A Woman

The Age of Adaline

Penguin Bloom

Philomena

Our Souls at Night

 

 

 

 

~~Formerly known as "WildFlowers"~~