Hey guys,
Now that i have Amazon Prime, can you guys recommend any shows/movies that I can watch for free? I'm open to just about anything. I like comedy, drama, documentaries, sci-fi, almost anything.
Hey guys,
Now that i have Amazon Prime, can you guys recommend any shows/movies that I can watch for free? I'm open to just about anything. I like comedy, drama, documentaries, sci-fi, almost anything.
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Alpha House!
Javelin wrote: Alpha House!
Seconded.
Also, The Man in The High Castle.
Amazon Prime Video has everything HBO.
I am a giant fan of The Wire. If you like cop dramas like Law and Order, etc, this is those but oh so much better!
Drug dealers vs the cop in Baltimore.
Ex Machina
The Connection
Grimm
The Wire is excellent. Enjoy Bosch as well. Loved Transparent.
JohnRW1621 wrote: Amazon Prime Video has everything HBO. I am a giant fan of The Wire. If you like cop dramas like Law and Order, etc, this is those but oh so much better! Drug dealers vs the cop in Baltimore. Trailer
Third for The Wire. We're watching the final episode right now...
They also had (not sure if it's still available 'cause we finished it a while back) The Sopranos which was very good.
Board walk empire.
Man in the high castle is a good one. So is boardwalk empire.
As mentioned.
If you want something less intellectual and more adult humor then Californication.
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The Wife and I just finished The Wire also, maybe the best series I've watched. Bosch was very good as well.
The Wire is the best ever!
Though the name is derived from wire taps, I think the name should have been, The Game.
Key phrase, "it's all part of the game."
The game as in, the scam, the hustle, the racket.
As you discover, the drug dealers have their game. The cops have their game. The dock workers have a game. The school kids have a game. The politicians have a game. The newspaper reporters have a game....
If you like noir ish horror, Penny Dreadful is cool. Takes itself very seriously though.
Bosch is excellent, full stop.
I was really looking forward to The Man in the High Castle, but it wasn't quite what I expected. I was hoping for something like Red Dawn against Nazis, and it was more cloak and dagger stuff. And then at the end it gets really weird.
Penny Dreadful is more Steampunk/ League of Extraordinary Gentleman than it is noir. The Wire gets another vote from me, probably the best series ever.
+1 for Californication. I loved it. You also can't go wrong with the Sopranos, although its a little slow to binge watch.
There is a lot of good stuff to watch, but I think the browsing is a little rough.
The Wire demands (and keeps) your full attention to intellectually think through the characters. It is smart TV that doesn't spoon feed you all the details. Hour long shows.
On the other, Californication is a half hour and though witty it is simple, easy and quick.
Another of sophomoric, adult humor is East Bound and Down.
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Kenny f'ing Powers. A washed up baseball player who doesn't see that he's a has-been.
Will wrote: I was really looking forward to The Man in the High Castle, but it wasn't quite what I expected. I was hoping for something like Red Dawn against Nazis, and it was more cloak and dagger stuff. And then at the end it gets really weird.
I agree with your assessment of TMITHC, but the concept is so freaking cool I still enjoyed it. As for it getting weird, you must remember it was written by a science fiction author.
As an ex Amazonian. I am surprised when I find people who do not have a prime account.
Justified will keep you busy for a while. US Marshal in rural KY getting sucked into all sorts of fun stuff.
James Mays: Cars of the People was a good watch.
Like others have said. The Wire is amazing, and will really make you think about all our effed up situations from different aspects.
My wife got me hooked on Downton Abbey, very British, very much a guilty pleasure.
There's not as much as choice for movies as Netflix or shows, but it's got some good ones here and there
JohnRW1621 wrote: The Wire is the best ever! Though the name is derived from wire taps, I think the name should have been, The Game. Key phrase, "it's all part of the game." The game as in, the scam, the hustle, the racket. As you discover, the drug dealers have their game. The cops have their game. The dock workers have a game. The school kids have a game. The politicians have a game. The newspaper reporters have a game....
My favorite game was Bubbles, the most honest person in that whole city. I worried about him more than I've worried about most of my family.
The incredible aspect is how ridiculously accurate the wire is regarding Baltimore political environment, police and media structure. And of course the hustle, which honestly is cultivated from those powers. David Simon is working on a short series of features regarding elements similar to those shown in the wire leading up to the riots in April 2015 and the inappropriate response and failures in the weeks afterwards regarding reform.
In reply to captdownshift: I can't wait to see it. I became a fan of his with the series Homicide. My friends would make fun of me but I was addicted to it. We'd go somewhere with the stock car and when they were hitting a bar on a Friday night I'd bring food up to our hotel room and watch it by myself.
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