Netflix tips
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 1:01 pm
After 21 years of not having cable tv,
I had to look for a new internet provider when my old one got taken over by some other company,
and found out it was fucking cheaper taking a package with cable tv included than just internet/phone by itself.
Anyway... I was smart enough to get myself Netflix, and hell...
I don't think I switched on normal tv for maybe 3x in the past few months...
Even my kids never turn on normal tv, they just always watch Netflix instead.
So, since there's a lot on offer, and our time is limited,
how about recommending some Netflix stuff ?
My biggest discovery, without a single doubt, was "Trailer Park Boys".
I can't believe how I never even heard about this series before.
A google taught me it's still going on today, but the quality has obviously gone down through the years,
so I wouldn't recommend the extra films (I watched parts of one of them, it was pretty disappointing)
But I'm still just at season 5 at the moment, and I haven't seen a single episode which was disappointing.
What can I say ? Life in a trailer park.
Main characters are Julian, who looks like a slightly overweighted slick Canadian version of an 80's Italian macho, and is constantly holding a rum/coke glass in his hand wherever he goes, and Ricky, who can't say a single sentence without swearing, and is dumb as fuck and is always having a smoke everywhere possible.
Bubbles is the 3rd main character, some goofy, slightly retarded guy with huge glasses, but he's not half as funny as Ricky and Julian.
Then there's the wonderful extra characters, like Mr. Lahey, who's the trailer park supervisor, but who's always drunk, and his lover, Randy, who is always without a shirt, unless forced to wear one, the "assistant weekend trailer park supervisor", or J-Roc, a white guy who thinks he's black and says "know what I'm sayin'?" every 5 seconds, and the many, many others who make this show so great.
I haven't laughed this hard since I saw the Fast Show for the 1st time...
These guys make the people in Mad Max look like they won a nobel prize for quantum physics and fashion design... And the car Ricky lives in must be the shabbiest vehicle I ever saw still able to drive around.
They deal with squirrels eating their weed plants (what else do you have guns for!), a mountain lion eating the hamburgers which Randy just stuffed a viagra pill in, make a driveway from the huge pile of hash they just stole,... or simple hilarious shit like Ricky and his 8 year old daughter, trying to cut smoking at the same time.
All done in some mockumentary style... (some times a person from the camera crew gets shot as well)
You can tell it was made pretty low budget, but the people behind this must have had so much fun making this... In fact, according to wiki, the main actors later on bought the rights to the series after they stopped the original seasons, just to be able to continue with the show. I guess that says a lot about the fun they have playing these white trash cunts.
It's the salt of the earth guys (and wimmin S.),
but not as we usually know it...
In flemish we would say "marginal white trash", but mostly "marginal" all the way...
Highly recommended.
I had to look for a new internet provider when my old one got taken over by some other company,
and found out it was fucking cheaper taking a package with cable tv included than just internet/phone by itself.
Anyway... I was smart enough to get myself Netflix, and hell...
I don't think I switched on normal tv for maybe 3x in the past few months...
Even my kids never turn on normal tv, they just always watch Netflix instead.
So, since there's a lot on offer, and our time is limited,
how about recommending some Netflix stuff ?
My biggest discovery, without a single doubt, was "Trailer Park Boys".
I can't believe how I never even heard about this series before.
A google taught me it's still going on today, but the quality has obviously gone down through the years,
so I wouldn't recommend the extra films (I watched parts of one of them, it was pretty disappointing)
But I'm still just at season 5 at the moment, and I haven't seen a single episode which was disappointing.
What can I say ? Life in a trailer park.
Main characters are Julian, who looks like a slightly overweighted slick Canadian version of an 80's Italian macho, and is constantly holding a rum/coke glass in his hand wherever he goes, and Ricky, who can't say a single sentence without swearing, and is dumb as fuck and is always having a smoke everywhere possible.
Bubbles is the 3rd main character, some goofy, slightly retarded guy with huge glasses, but he's not half as funny as Ricky and Julian.
Then there's the wonderful extra characters, like Mr. Lahey, who's the trailer park supervisor, but who's always drunk, and his lover, Randy, who is always without a shirt, unless forced to wear one, the "assistant weekend trailer park supervisor", or J-Roc, a white guy who thinks he's black and says "know what I'm sayin'?" every 5 seconds, and the many, many others who make this show so great.
I haven't laughed this hard since I saw the Fast Show for the 1st time...
These guys make the people in Mad Max look like they won a nobel prize for quantum physics and fashion design... And the car Ricky lives in must be the shabbiest vehicle I ever saw still able to drive around.
They deal with squirrels eating their weed plants (what else do you have guns for!), a mountain lion eating the hamburgers which Randy just stuffed a viagra pill in, make a driveway from the huge pile of hash they just stole,... or simple hilarious shit like Ricky and his 8 year old daughter, trying to cut smoking at the same time.
All done in some mockumentary style... (some times a person from the camera crew gets shot as well)
You can tell it was made pretty low budget, but the people behind this must have had so much fun making this... In fact, according to wiki, the main actors later on bought the rights to the series after they stopped the original seasons, just to be able to continue with the show. I guess that says a lot about the fun they have playing these white trash cunts.
It's the salt of the earth guys (and wimmin S.),
but not as we usually know it...
In flemish we would say "marginal white trash", but mostly "marginal" all the way...
Highly recommended.