Unsurprisingly, this is against Major League Baseball rules (Picture: Cinemax / Everett / REX / Shutterstock)
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…
Quarry (2016), Apple TV+
It’s not a proper meal unless the wine’s wearing wicker trousers (Picture: Cinemax / Everett / REX / Shutterstock)
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…
Damon Herriman and Ann Dowd in a scene that proves how perfectly designed Quarry’s set and production were (Picture: Cinemax / Everett / REX / Shutterstock)
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 production. These things culminated in the cancellation of a series which, given time, space and money, would’ve almost certainly gone on to be mentioned in the same breath as the likes of True Detective and Better Call Saul.
This week is, it appears, Troubled Vietnam Vet Finds Settling Back Home Hard and Ends Up Committing Crime Week. First we recommended the 1977 movie Rolling Thunder and now we’re tipping our hat in the vague direction of the incredible but overlooked 2016 TV crime drama Quarry.
Upgrade’s Logan Marshall-Green is Mac ‘Quarry’ Conway, a Marine marksman who, upon returning home to Memphis from Vietnam in 1972, is rejected by his loved ones and demonised by the public. The disillusioned veteran is quickly recruited into a network of contract murders, corruption and crime that soon gets him involved a little too much with the Dixie Mafia.
‘What is that? Is it a second series?’ ‘Nope‘ (Picture: Cinemax / Everett / REX / Shutterstock)
Quarry is bleak and dark in some places. And violent in almost all others. But it’s also wildly creative, original and distinctive. It’s gritty, it’s engaging, it’s pulpy, it’s full of fascinating characters and packed with top performances by the likes of …read more
Source:: Metro
