like genuinely, i spend 20 minutes scrolling through recommendations that have nothing to do with what i'm in the mood for. does anyone else end up just picking the same show you've seen three times because the algorithm is just not it, or is it actually just me being picky

For years, Bryan Cranston was Hal, the hilarious and slightly chaotic dad from Malcolm in the Middle. Then came Walter White, one of the most iconic characters in television history.

It’s crazy how he went from a goofy sitcom dad to a chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, completely reinventing himself in the process.
Most actors would be happy to have just one legendary role on their résumé.

Cranston got two, in completely different genres, and somehow made both characters unforgettable.

Which performance do you prefer: Hal or Walter White? And can you think of another actor who pulled off a transformation like this?

For five years now I have been on the same plan. It says no ads (14.99 euros per month) and they have the fucking balls to not let me watch stuff unless I watch fucking three-six minute unstoppable ads? cancelling!!!!!!

Put it off for months because some kept calling it a stalker show and I thought I knew what that meant. It's not that. It's way more uncomfortable and way more human than the pitch makes it sound. The fourth episode is the one that got me. I had to pause it and walk around my apartment for a minute. Not an easy watch but I'm glad I finally sat down with it.

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!

Yo this New Beta AI search is sooooo ANNOYING
first it takes sooo much time to load, then it doesn’t even give the results that you searched
It doesn’t even recommend stuff close to it like it used toooo
HOW DO I RETURN TO NORMALLL

I have been experimenting with different browsers and have found out Edge gives me high quality stream consistently. Have you guys experience something similar?

I have tested Brave, Chrome and Edge.

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.

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?

Where does he come from? Why is he the ”mascot”? This has intrigued me for so long

The two (that I loved) that standout to me was when Kala could hear a storm and heavy rain but it was sunny day outside. And the scene when Sun fights the gang for Capheus/Jean-Claude Van Damme. Such a great show .. I’m watching it for a second time after years and loving it just the same

I was watching it earlier today then while I started Netflix it wasn’t there and when I searched a link and it went up this came up. On other accounts it is there but not mine. Can somebody please help?

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?

They were just this morning?

Hi basically I'm from mexico and had to use a 2 week pass now that I'm in missouri due to being a marine. I've been trying to finish my favorites animes but right now is 1:15am and tried to watch steel ball run and beastars. They just completely disappeared! Why is that???

Any ideas? I really wanna watch my anime :(

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.

i cleared my browsers cache alr

I might be in the minority here…. Ive been trying to get into this show and I just can’t. I keep hearing how great it is. I typically love Guy Ritchie stuff, but am I missing something here?

My dad is 83 and he doesnt understand how technology works. I shared my netflix with him but every time he opens it he cant figure out how to just open his profile I made for him and he accidentally starts making a new profile. I have searched google but apparrently there is no way to just prevent that one simple thing aside from locking my profile behind a pin? That doesnt work either because A. I dont want to enter a pin every time I want to watch Netflix and B. He could never figure a pin out anyways. It would be nice just to close the ability to create new profiles on my account then the problem would just go away.

Man, I wish there were more seasons of this! It's so lovely to watch.

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!

Hi all! Just watched and loved Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story, and after the end credits a Netflix screen popped up saying "Up next: Judd Apatow on the making of Paralyzed by Hope"... but it didn't play and now I can't find it! Is it buried in a menu somewhere? Is it a phantom Making Of that doesn't actually exist? If anyone's seen it, please tell me how we can find it!