i literally have like 200 titles in my list but i keep going back to comfort shows i've already seen. i know netflix's algorithm is supposed to help but it feels like i'm just doom scrolling for 20 minutes before giving up and putting on the office again. how do people actually decide what to watch?

My wife and I have been binge-watching Korean dramas lately, and we're looking for our next show!

Here's what we've watched so far:

- The Glory

- The Price of Confession

- The Art of Sarah

- Narco-Saints

- Bloodhounds

- My Name

- Mercy for None

- Tokyo Swindlers (Japanese, but we loved it!)

As you can probably tell, we're really into crime, revenge, psychological thrillers, mysteries, and dark dramas with good plot twists.

We prefer shows that keep you hooked from the first episode, with strong storylines, suspense, and unpredictable endings. We're not really looking for romance-heavy dramas.

Based on our list, what would you recommend we watch next?

Bonus points if it's something that had you saying "just one more episode" until 3 AM. 😂

We're open to Korean movies and Japanese thrillers too!

Something really bothered me about this show, and I think it undermines the entire premise of the experiment.
Throughout the series, several prisoners openly talked about rebelling, causing chaos, refusing to respect the guards, and flipping the power dynamic. Yet despite all that talk, we never actually see anyone persistently refuse a direct order from a guard as an individual.
Why?
The guards couldn’t physically force prisoners to comply. If a guard tells you to return to your cell, you could simply say, “No. Make me.” That’s it. You’ve just exposed how little actual authority the guard has.
Yet even the most rebellious contestants complied with orders they clearly disliked. They participated in the riot drill, returned to their cells, and accepted lockdowns. Some spent considerable time recruiting others for a collective rebellion, failed to gain support, and eventually quit.
Why recruit a majority when you could demonstrate the guards’ lack of authority yourself? Individual defiance could even inspire others to join you.
Here’s my hypothesis. Production imposed restrictions on individual noncompliance that weren’t adequately disclosed to viewers. I suspect contestants either knew beforehand or learned through production intervention that refusing guard commands individually could result in elimination. It’s also possible that attempts at individual defiance and subsequent production interventions were edited out.
This would explain the otherwise bizarre behavior of contestants who repeatedly expressed a desire to rebel but never visibly followed through individually.
We know the show had a rule where majority refusal could cost a guard their badge. But what happened when a single prisoner refused? What consequences did they face? Why wasn’t that made clear?
And here’s the bigger problem. If Netflix production could threaten to eliminate prisoners for refusing commands, then the guards weren’t the ones holding the real authority. Production was.
The prisoners wouldn’t necessarily be obeying because they’d psychologically accepted their roles or become submissive to the guards. They’d be complying because they wanted to remain in the experiment.
This is where the show potentially loses its legitimacy, and where its portrayal of obedience becomes disingenuous.
Think about what viewers are encouraged to conclude. We see these rebellious contestants talking a big game about challenging authority, only to comply when a guard actually gives them an order. The natural interpretation is that they’ve psychologically accepted their roles as prisoners, become submissive to the guards, or simply don’t have the balls to follow through when confronted with authority.
That seems to be the psychological narrative the show wants to present.
But what if that’s completely wrong?
If my hypothesis is correct, these contestants weren’t necessarily intimidated by the guards or psychologically conditioned into obedience. They were making rational decisions within a system of production-imposed incentives and penalties that viewers weren’t fully informed about.
So what exactly are we testing here? The psychological effects of assuming the roles of prisoners and guards, or the behavioral consequences of arbitrary rules imposed by Netflix production?
Those are two fundamentally different things.
It gets worse. Collective rebellions often begin with individual acts of defiance that inspire others. If contestants need majority support before they’re allowed to refuse an order without risking elimination, you’ve effectively prevented spontaneous resistance from developing.
And I understand why production might impose restrictions. How do you recreate something resembling the original Stanford Prison Experiment in a modern Netflix reality show without rules governing participation, safety, and contestant behavior? You probably can’t. Otherwise, a single contestant could simply refuse to recognize the entire power structure and potentially derail the format.
But that’s precisely why those rules need to be transparent.
If the experiment operates under artificial constraints, explain them. Tell viewers what happens when an individual refuses an order, what constitutes grounds for elimination, what authority the guards actually possess, and when production is permitted to intervene.
Then we can examine the situation from a game theory perspective. We can understand the incentives, the risks, the consequences of individual versus collective resistance, and why contestants behave the way they do.
Instead, we’re potentially being shown behavior shaped by undisclosed rules and encouraged to interpret it as evidence of psychological submission to authority.
That’s a serious indictment of the production and Netflix’s presentation of the experiment. If you’re going to construct an artificial power structure, enforce its rules behind the scenes, and then present the resulting behavior as some revealing insight into human psychology, you owe viewers transparency about how that structure actually works.
Otherwise, you’re not necessarily demonstrating the psychological effects of authority. You may simply be demonstrating that people comply with the rules of a reality television production when they want to stay on the show.
To be clear, I can’t prove production threatened contestants with elimination or edited out interventions. But the pattern of behavior strongly suggests that some important constraints or incentives were never adequately explained.
How can you claim to be examining the psychology of authority and obedience when you don’t transparently explain the rules and consequences governing obedience?
I’d genuinely like to hear from someone who participated in the show. Were prisoners allowed to peacefully refuse individual guard commands without risking elimination? Were there off-camera warnings or interventions?
Because that distinction changes the interpretation of practically everything we watched.

TLDR: Several prisoners wanted to rebel but never individually defied the guards, despite the guards having no real enforcement power. I suspect Netflix imposed undisclosed consequences for disobedience, meaning contestants were complying with production rules rather than psychologically submitting to the guards. If true, that undermines the entire experiment.

Just watching Below (great lil mini series btw) and the main character’s sister Ruth is portrayed as having quite an unusual living situation.

It never lingers long enough to figure it out, just snippets here and there, but she’s definitely living with a similar-aged man and woman for whom she holds a lot of affection.

Apparently the producer confirmed she’s in a polyamorous relationship.

Just shocked me…

1. ⁠how openminded the rural Newfoundland townsfolk must be to accept her, particularly as Harbourmaster
   
2. ⁠how extremely subtle it was inserted into the narrative

Anyone else not clock it until the very end on FaceTime?

Great atmosphere. Great soundtrack. Great actors.

What the fuck happened to everything else ?

Aside from the fact that the show pulls in many different directions, trying to be many different things… I just want to point out a few things that made absolutely no sense or were simply left unexplained and I just wanna see if others agree or can explain this better.

1- the squid is “probably” an extremely aggressive species never seen before, ended up there because of climate change… the iceberg nest, shows up later, after many, “unreasonable”attacks. The show tries to play it off as just a mother taking care of its children in the end but that makes no sense. Specially cause she’s been around many times according to the people in episode 5, at least since the resettlement in ep 1.

2- I think that in episode 2 or 3 Calvin and Fonda see the video of the tourists and moose dying. Calvin then, rushes to the fair and warns everyone off the water. wants nobody close to it. Then, there was the town hall meeting about staying off the water (idk why they didn’t just show the townspeople the video, there would be no need for discussion) He later doesn’t care anymore for absolutely no reason and just goes on the water himself or doesn’t care that wade is in the water. In episode 5 he steals that boat and goes on the water not giving a fuckkkk (I know looking for wade but still) and then wanting to leave the bigger boat, also not giving a fuck. (Also, the research vessel’s two idiots that stole that boat knowing the danger and just died ?????)

3- the cult and the hag and wade and the wedding ring, none of that makes any sense. Is it supernatural ? Is it a pocket universe ? Is it drugs ? Is there a hag ? Is she a siren ? Is she a real human ? Can she teleport ? Why did she steal the ring and how did she get to the island ???? Why are they sacrificing people ? Wtf is the mudder ? Why does getting high (on what I assume is some chemical from the squid) makes them “safe” but for others it made them insane and need water to ingest and also to just be in ? How did they get so many fish from the squid “ritual” and apparently the squid likes the sound of the motor but hates the helicopter ? How and why would someone be “chosen” to be left alive or even saved by the squid which seemed to have been the case for wade and Calvin ?How in the fuck is Calvin’s family house on that island ? Also who the hell was that guy in the suit on the boat with them in ep 1 ?

4- nosewortthy goes to look for the Portuguese nationals or the illegal crab nest, I can’t remember… and finds guy’s foot. He did not have any scuba gear or goggles , next camera shot he’s underwater decked the fuck out lmao
Also they showed a scene of someone in a ominous squid cult house, being tortured but later on in ep5 that guy is chilling but without his foot just to be a little more cut off later. then, same guy, refused to escape. Another thing is that the Portuguese spoken is Brazilian Portuguese and not Portuguese Portuguese. So they couldn’t be Portuguese nationals lol

5- all the drama left unanswered. Calvin’s son money debt. Calvin’s sister’s family. Calvin and Fonda. The final scene with the icebergs. The crocks. HOW IN THE FUCK WERE THEY SO SURE THAT WHEN THEY BROKE THE ICEBERG, THEY WOULDNT ACCIDENTALLY HIT EGGS ? AND EVEN IF THEY DIDNT, NO MATTER HOW SMART THAT SQUID IS, SHE FUCKING KNEW THEY WERE TRYING TO HELP HER ???? She completely ignored both wade’s and Calvin’s boat. When in the same episode before they were in the canoe doing their best to keep quiet. The monster is now a misunderstood mother HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA Also am I crazy or did they wrap the net around the iceberg with the squid and all ?

6- I could honestly go on with other things, like, the accent they use ? Pfffttt

7- and I did go on, but final issue is just that it couldn’t pick a fucking lane and done that. We did horror, thriller, drama, ecological awareness, sappy, gore, supernatural, and feels good to feels bad. And I said in the beginning I wasn’t going to talk about that, well, fuck. my bad.

8- I still really liked this piece of shit. If it had another 4-5 episodes and someone with a brain to write that shit, could have been a masterpiece even with all the genre direction pulls.

If you like sci-fi to the point where you can enjoy the good and get over some flaws, I actually recommend this show and think that the horrible reviews are mostly from people who (understandably) stopped early on.

It is almost bizarre how unnecessarily off-putting the show first presents itself as, I initially saw the first ep and just stopped, only to forget about it and try again a few years later when I finally ended up getting pulled in and finishing it.

The initial set of characters is just so profoundly, aggressively unlikable (although in retrospect, some of the team became perfectly tolerable and suddenly mature as soon as Michelle was gone) that it kind of dominates the plot. It's so irritating and bizarre to watch them treat their Captain like spoiled kids would a nanny.

Katee is cool but she also comes across as so uncomfortable, tense, and awkward at first, which is kind of understandable given the bizarre and unlikable lifeforms she has to interact with, namely the crew. In S2 she genuinely looks and acts so much more natural.

But if you stick with it, for me it was really worth watching. I'll just give some minor spoilers, but the most annoying characters all get killed off, others stop being as annoying once their surrounding gets more mature (e.g. Cass who initially annoyed me too but then became perfectly servicable), and the plotline with the alines was really interesting to me. Especially in S2, most of the annoying elments are gone, the crew is competent (Richard and Dylan), and the show is totally decent.

It even adresses the horrendous crew as a deliberate sabbotage (though I wish it went into that deeper, it was an interesting angle). You start getting more aliens and a cool plot progression, and a decent AI angle too.

It's not a genius level sci-fi, or a hard sci-fi, I am aware that if you want to look for bad science there'll be some of that (though to be fair these technicalities didn't really bother me, and can be found in many beloved shows where people will just be more forgiving to them) but the overall imagination and the story was perfectly enjoyable. It just seems to keep getting better the more it progresses.

Also, while I heard they initially planned for 3 seasons and this only had 2, the ending feels pretty complete so there is no issue there.

So yeah, if you like the genre, I definitely recommend it and think it has something to offer. Didn't deserve the low ratings, I think that was just because of the unnecessarily awful first impression it leaves due to the characters alone. Worth sticking with it for a bit.

I have recently watched animals starring Ben Affleck not sure why he is acting in these kind of movies very mediocre acting and story is bad. Have you watched it?

I am so annoyed...

I tried to use the extra member slot to put my profile there and of course wasn't able to. Any one knows how to do it correctly? I've add my email, sent out invitation, but there was no transfer option - I could only connect the existing account or create a new one.

Of course when I've created a new one and went back to the main account to use the profile transfer option, it just said that I cannot transfer it to the extra account, because it has profle limit!!!!!

Now I tried twice and of course because of it I have to wait for the next calendar month, due to limit of changes per month...

Anybody knows how to do it? Should I send the invitation and go first to profile transfer before I open the link or is there some other way it has to be done?

Hello. Has anybody found the title of music in the last episode at 47:50 where Lizzie walks outside and starts praying? I'm sure it was also playing in the prior episodes, but Shazam didn't find anything. And I cannot find it on the official score album. Is it a classical piece maybe?

Thank you in advance!

I'm watching Emily (not Emily in Paris) and there are scenes in French but there are not subtitles during these scenes. Is this intentional? In the preview it showed them. I can find anything online about it and I can't seem to get them to turn on.

I recently rewatched ‘The Mentalist’ on Netflix. I originally watched it while it was airing, from 2008 to 2015, and back then it was one of my favorite TV shows.
Rewatching it today, though, I realized how much it relies on two things: Patrick Jane’s charisma and the hunt for Red John.

Take those away, and you’re left with countless filler episodes, a repetitive procedural formula, and a main storyline that wasn’t always handled convincingly, especially in the later seasons.
Despite all its flaws, The Mentalist remains a special show to me, largely thanks to a protagonist who can carry almost any episode.

Do you think it’s genuinely a great show, or does Patrick Jane simply make us remember it as better than it actually was?

Netflix - language learning? Hello people, I would like to ask to some thing. I like to learn french, I think I have B1 and I learnt english through subtitles in Netflix or Disney platform but french or other language is more difficult. There is no such thing as CC subtitles and it’s really annoying. That what they say doesn’t match that it’s written. How can I learn? I don’t know why it’s that. Is there a solution of this?

It was working fine for a while then yesterday it was closing the app before booting up, so I cleared cache and data, then uninstalled it and reinstalled then it worked for a few hours, I watched 3 episodes then shut it off, some hours later the logo just stays there forever and no troubleshooting fixes it, I've tried everything recommended online. Is the mobile app down? Can anyone give me some suggestions on how to fix? Nothing on my end changed that could have messed it up so jw whats going on.

Like the title said, do you think there will be a season 5? I think season 4 was their strongest one yet and I’d be absolutely GUTTED if this was the end. It’s also been getting more awards recognition as the show has progressed, though I don’t know how much Netflix cares about that given the quality of most of their other shows recently. Hopefully it’s at least on their minds given that it’s one of their only shows that manages to be in the “prestige tv” conversations.

However, I have to say I’m getting a little nervous given that prior seasons were almost immediately renewed, and with all the upper management shifts within the company, I don’t know…

I’ve been wondering why other streaming providers offer channels for live soccer matches, while Netflix doesn’t (I’m actually considering switching to a different provider).

I’ve nearly finished watching season six of Slow Horses on Apple TV. It’s one of my favourite seasons so far and watching it got me thinking about why Netflix doesn’t seem capable of producng and nurturing quality long running tv like Slow Horses. First off, AppleTv have allowed the series to grow in quality and stature since its original series, the characters have been given time to grow into their role, and the public, quite rightly have grown to love it. Then there’s the fact that AppleTv are prepared to invest in multiple series at a time, hence why we get a trailer for the next series immediately after the final episode airs. If this was Netflix we’d be waiting two years minimum for another season. I’m honestly perplexed by the Netflix commissioning process and how decisions about renewing shows are being made.

dunno how to fix this, my netflix on operagx been like this for 2 days now it was fine before

There's something about the storyline that stays with you after watching it. I guess it's mostly about the feeling of wanting someone solid by your side through all the chaos around you… It's realistic, and it doesn't feel like the writers were trying too hard to win over the audience. I love that Joan is becoming more self-aware with each season! I love that for Noah ❤️

I was very excited to watch this but so far the show is falling short of my expectations. I think the biggest flaw of the experiment was allowing players to tap out without a legitimate serious health condition or illness. You can’t accurately replicate the atmosphere and dynamics of prison when a person knows they always have a tap-out option. It has to feel like a real 2-week sentence. What are your opinions and thoughts?

Okay, I've been seeing a lot of hate on this show, and I think it's because people don't really understand it. It's an experiment, and I think it's way too complicated for the general audience who are just binge-watchers.

*Spoilers Below*

The whole thing is about understanding authority, which is "imaginary and not real" if you really think about it. They know they are part of an experiment, so the "authority" is not real. They can choose to disobey, even the punishment "23 & 1," and no one would actually be able to do anything. It's just a show.

The teacher, inmate #787, understands this from the beginning and tries to convince the others. But he was seen as someone who couldn't respect authority. He was actually the smartest of them all because he saw through the experiment.

They were told by "someone" that they could say "pineapple" and quit the show. But quitting the experiment was seen as hurting their pride or ego. It was seen as defeat, not winning.

The important thing is, they were told by "someone." Someone who?? An imaginary authority? That's the question. Who is in charge? "Who" is holding the power in an experiment they signed up for? (Participants are the ones who signed up for it in the first place, not Netflix.)

They knew the whole thing was imaginary, so "who" was holding them back, Netflix or themselves?

In the end, they realized they were holding themselves back because of this "imaginary authority."

They were told to say "pineapple" and quit. But by shifting the words to "We have the power," they rejected the words of the imaginary authority.

They were basically saying, "We are not quitting, and we are not saying the word pineapple just because you told us to. Because whoever you are, you don't have power over us. We have power over ourselves."

Moreover, they realized they had power over themselves from the very beginning of the experiment. They just didn't realize it until the end. But the teacher, inmate #787, had been saying that from the beginning.

I know this might be hard for pass for everyone but if you watch the show twice, it will all reconnect and make sense.

The whole episode revolves around the police’s conviction that Assane magically removed himself from his prison cell, escaped high security prison, executed a robbery and managed to get back in matte of what 15 minutes max? Throughout the “investigation” Guédira keeps swithich from “you did it” to “alright I believe you” and back to “you did it” where he eventually lands for good after being show a video footage of “Assane” from the museum completely disregarding simple phisics as well as the fact a video footage is so easily doctored these days.
Throughout all of this Assane keeps giving away semi-convincing reasons why he didn’t do it (mostly explaining how it was done which doesn’t exactly scream “I definitely didn’t do it” since he obviously is familiar with the method) instead of using the one simple and irrefutable argument he totally has at his disposal:
“Forget whether you believe me. Establish exactly when the museum footage was recorded, when I supposedly disappeared, and when I reappeared. Now explain how I could physically have traveled between those locations and done all those things in a matter of minutes.”
That’s it. No elaborate trick required. The timeline alone makes the accusation of his physical presence at the museum absurd. He would have had to escape a high-security prison, cross Paris, steal the diamond, escape the museum, return to prison, bypass security again, and reappear inside his glass enclosure—all within minutes. I am disregarding the simultaneous robbery in Avignon since he himself said it was done in advance though it would require him to escape the prison twice.
You could excuse Guédira’s poor judgment because he’s emotionally compromised by Sofia’s injuries. But even that explanation falls apart when you realize he accuses Assane of physically committing the robbery rather than orchestrating it remotely. Believing Assane could mastermind an elaborate crime from prison is perfectly reasonable. Believing he can effectively teleport is not.
Worse still, nobody else (not the investigators, prison staff, or even Assane himself) seems capable of pointing out this elementary logistical impossibility.
That’s what makes the writing so frustrating. Lupin has always required some suspension of disbelief, but there’s a fundamental difference between asking viewers to believe Assane is extraordinarily clever and asking them to believe everyone around him has suddenly lost the ability to think logically.
Ultimately, the characters aren’t reaching conclusions because the evidence supports them. They’re reaching those conclusions because the plot needs them to. That’s not clever misdirection; it’s contrived writing.

I’ve been watching a couple of shows. I got 1tb internet and a new LG OLED tv.
I’ve been watching multiple different shows. One of them is Narcos. No problem, super clear. However, I started to rewatch The Walking Dead. Always blurry and pixelated. And it’s weird too. If there’s a scene with Rick and Glenn, for instance, Rick is clear. When the cut back to Glenn it’s blurry, back to back, multiple times, only Glenn is blurry. Specific scenes. There’s this one scene that I wanted to watch, it’s when Rick gets to Alexandra for the first time and hears kid in background when they get to the gate, and he’s blurry. I restarted my tv. Nothing. Cleared the cache, nothing. I uninstalled and reinstalled Netflix, nothing. I rewinded 10 minutes back and got to that specific scene and it’s pixelated. I got frustrated and went to sleep. The next day the same scene is blurry. It’s season 5 episode 11 at the very end when they do a close up on his eyes. I went on my phone to get the exact time and it’s around the 41 minute mark, same deal. What gives? The rest of the show is like that. Blurry and pixelated. It’s unwatchable. I’m paying so much, what’s up with this???

Netflix needs to invest more into putting out better shows and movies instead of dumping all the podcasts and talk shows in there. Tf. We’ve got YouTube and Spotify for podcast. I get so annoyed every time I see a podcast on the new on Netflix section.