# Let's discuss under-the-radar streaming channel movies we've watched recently

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-discuss-under-the-radar-streaming-channel-movies-weve-watched-recently/914943>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 10, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-discuss-under-the-radar-streaming-channel-movies-weve-watched-recently/914943 "2020-07-10T14:46:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-discuss-under-the-radar-streaming-channel-movies-weve-watched-recently/914943/41 "2020-07-31T23:48:08Z")

</div>

> [@solost](#):
>
> Watched _Vivarium_ last night. Amazon Prime. I gotta say, Prime has been coming up big with the weird, offbeat movies. Vivarium is about a young couple (Jesse Eisenberg and Imogene Poots) who are shown a house in a new housing development by a strange real estate agent. Then the agent disappears and they find they’re trapped in the mazelike development. Much weirdness ensues. I would classify it as a sci-fi / horror combo. It’s a very strange trip, but the actual plot is pretty straightforward-- if you’re paying attention (minor spoiler):
> 
> the very first scene foreshadows what will happen to the couple.

The title foreshadows what will happen.

I signed up for a Peacock trial so I could watch Brave New World (staring Alden “Han Solo” Ehrenreich, Harry “Game of Thrones, Counterpart” Lloyd, and Demi “apparently I still exist” Moore). I enjoyed it and the first season ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. I believe they delve into the class structure a lot more deeply than the book or any previous adaptation I’ve seen. Not just the whole Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Epsilon thing, but also the “Savage Lands” / “New Londoners” dynamic.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-discuss-under-the-radar-streaming-channel-movies-weve-watched-recently/914943/42 "2020-08-06T03:04:43Z")

</div>

“Perpetual Grace Ltd” is my current addiction-of-choice. Apparently quite underwatched in the US due to being on a niche streaming service called Epix. Featuring Ben Kingsley (being FABULOUS) and Jacqui Weaver (possibly unknown to most on this board but A Major Big Deal in Oz TV terms) as a shady old couple running a church in small town USA which may possibly have been scamming innocent people out of their life savings. Also Damon Herriman of Justified/Dewey Crowe fame as their loser son who has a complicated and probably doomed plot to scam them out of it, via a depressed ex-firefighter named James who’s supposed to entice them down to Mexico, declare them dead, and get them locked away somewhere while their bank account is drained.

It does not go well.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-discuss-under-the-radar-streaming-channel-movies-weve-watched-recently/914943.md?page=2)