# Netflix: obscure shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-obscure-shows/777179 "2017-01-15T00:54:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-obscure-shows/777179/1 "2017-01-15T00:54:56Z")
Netflix has such a large catalogue, it’s hard to know what you might be missing. Share obscure shows or movies, either on DVD or streaming, that you like from Netflix. I have two that I’ve recently discovered: Canada’s Worst Drivers Curious and Unusual Deaths ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-obscure-shows/777179/2 "2017-01-15T02:23:28Z")
Danger 5. Australia’s answer to (though it predates) Kung Fury. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-obscure-shows/777179/3 "2017-01-15T02:57:27Z")
_Top of the Lake_. Intense mystery series that starts with the discovery of a 12-year-old girl who is pregnant. With Holly Hunter and Elizabeth Moss. _The Fall_. Even more intense. Gillian Anderson is a copy going after a slippery serial killer. Jamie Dorman as the killer (no spoiler – it’s revealed early on). He later played Grey in 50 Shades of, and this role makes that movie even creepier. _Green Wing_. UK comedy set in a hospital, filled with all sort of nutty doctors. Michelle Gomez (now playing the Master on _Doctor Who_) is insanely funny. _Lovesick_. Romantic comedy about a man who has to track down all his sexual partners because he has an STD. And, yes, it’s a charming show despite its premise (the show changed its title; originally it was _Scrotal Recall_). _Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23_. Surprisingly funny show that flopped on network, about a woman who movies to NYC and ends up rooming with a manipulative roommate. James Van Der Beck plays a satirical version of himself, and the show manages to be both funny a daring. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-obscure-shows/777179/4 "2017-01-15T03:16:24Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Danger 5. Australia’s answer to (though it predates) Kung Fury. This. X1000. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-obscure-shows/777179/5 "2017-01-15T03:29:18Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > _The Fall_. Even more intense. Gillian Anderson is a copy going after a slippery serial killer. Jamie Dorman as the killer (no spoiler – it’s revealed early on). He later played Grey in 50 Shades of, and this role makes that movie even creepier. Agree with this one, but bail out after the second season. Third was not necessary (or good). ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-obscure-shows/777179/6 "2017-01-15T03:52:18Z")
I’ve not encountered any obscure series I’ve enjoyed (Van Helsing looked like it had potential, but didn’t really work out), but a few movies…though I can only think of one offhand. Darling is weird as hell, and has production that feels like a student movie (it’s not)…but it’s somehow compellingly so. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-obscure-shows/777179/7 "2017-01-15T03:55:27Z")
_Dark Matter._ _Ripper Street._ _Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell_ ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-obscure-shows/777179/8 "2017-01-15T06:39:19Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > This. X1000. Thees calls for the perfect Fruit Madrid 2 parts grenadine 1 part Chartreuse A pinch of salt A fresh mint ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-obscure-shows/777179/9 "2017-01-15T06:43:33Z")
Call My Agent A Very Secret Service Humsafar ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-obscure-shows/777179/10 "2017-01-15T06:59:14Z")
They’re not obscure, most of these are popular network tv shows, albeit new to USA audiences. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-obscure-shows/777179/11 "2017-01-15T13:06:42Z")
“Long Way Round” and “Long Way Down”, a couple of motorcycle documentaries with Ewan MacGregor and his buddy Charlie Boorman. In the first one they ride east from London around the world to New York. In the second they ride from the northern tip of Scotland to the southern tip of South Africa.