If you’re looking for something to stream but have no desire to watch the latest two-star Netflix Original or rewatch something on iPlayer you’ve seen 150 times already, it’s time to delve deeper into the streaming pool...
Here are three recommendations for the best hidden gems that you need to swim around for before they jump out at you. There’s a rough, tough revenge flick; a movie that legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino often cites as one of his favourite ever. Plus an elite neo-noir murder-mystery headed up by the incomparable Jack Nicholson.
But our first streaming recommendation is a shockingly underseen thriller series about a Vietnam vet getting drawn into a life of crime...
Television viewers have been spoilt for choice when it comes to prestige crime dramas to enjoy over the past decade. There’s been Hannibal, True Detective, Fargo, Narcos, City on a Hill, Better Call Saul, Mare of Easttown, Ozark, the list literally goes on and on and on (and on). It’s almost impossible to have watched and enjoyed them all.
Some will naturally have just escaped your attention. But to escape almost everyone’s attention? Well, now that’s just strange. What exactly happened with the undeniably excellent (but not recommissioned Quarry) is anyone’s guess.
.. Alright, no one has to actually guess – we know the answer: viewing figures were initially quite poor, production costs were relatively high and Cinemax were apparently shifting their focus to other types of pr.
