Recommend me some decent netflix series?

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I keep experiencing bad luck with the algorithm I think. A lot of what I begin watching cruises quickly into gross violence. No idea why as i can't stand it.
If I can't get out of that loop soon i feel like dropping the subscription.

Can anyone recommend how to get it to quit offering me stuff that looks cerebral but ends up really violent? For example i began watching a European drama series last week that was described as 'emotional ' 'cerebral' with imagery that looked fairly interesting. 5 mins in a guy tied a cow to a tree and exploded it. I am so effing sick of this shit.

I want cerebral, deep, intelligent - like crime dramas (but more like morse, vera or midsomer than gritty blood & guts), I also love mysteries, supernatural, UK and international drama...not so much US stuff.

Do I give up, or is there a way to solve the problem?
Any great series recommendations welcome, thanks! :)

Oh i am also a prime video subscriber and never suffer this issue there!

Clique - British and very good.

You - first 2 series excellent, haven't watched series 3 yet.

Glitch - series 1 excellent, series 2 not so good.

Guaranteed no exploding cows

If it helps, the stuff i have loved on netflix includes:

Requiem - ghostly bbc drama.
The Rain - Danish/Swedish apocalypse series.
The OA - US drama.
Glitch - Australian spooky series.
Black Mirror - futuristic thingy.
Inside No9 - UK black comedy.
Dark - German fantasy series.
Some Scandi crime stuff that isn't explicitly violent.

@LaBellaTrix

Clique - British and very good.

You - first 2 series excellent, haven't watched series 3 yet.

Glitch - series 1 excellent, series 2 not so good.

Guaranteed no exploding cows

Thank you! Am taking notes!

I loved scorpion!+++

Also down thumb the things you don't like.

The Queens Gambit

You may like The Gift if you liked the OA, obviously it’s not in the OA league but then little is.

To the Lake.

@TwigletsAddict

Also down thumb the things you don't like.

crikey that is a good idea, what a numpty i am never honestly bothered considering that, thanks!

Have you tried the more like this option on Netflix?

Thanks so much so far, these look good, am going to try 'clique' this eve!

I will definitely be downvoting, etc from now on. It seems i have unwittingly started watching things, seen people getting beaten to a pulp in first 5 mins then clicked off. The algorithm might have thought i liked it!

@CrimbleCrumble1

Have you tried the more like this option on Netflix?

I have done that, but sometimes a crime drama just presumes you will be ok with another crime drama, and that might be a fairly grim one!

Not Netflix but Dalglish on channel 5 is a great little retro detective series that isn't overly gruesome (although there is an unpleasant force feeding medical procedure in episode 1).

These aren’t crime dramas but are good foreign dramas.
Ethos
Shtisel (no violence, sex, just brilliant viewing).

You can downthumb?!

I like violent and gory stuff....can you let me know what you've been trying to watch recently (esp the exploding cow one)?

Borgen
second the Queen's Gambit
Unbelievable (warning - it is about rape but isn't gruesome)
mindhunter (it does feature serial killers but is more about their thought processes than actually showing them killing)

Mare of Easttown but I don't think it is on prime/netflix atm - on Now TV/sky if you have those? Same for Chernobyl.

The Chippendale's is good. I knew there was some scandal about them some years ago, but not quite the jaw dropping stuff that this series revealed.
Murders and all kinds of argie bargies going on 😯

@ApocalypseNowt

I like violent and gory stuff....can you let me know what you've been trying to watch recently (esp the exploding cow one)?

😁 I wanted to ask too.

Just watched Maid.

Loved it.

Handmaids tale

@ApocalypseNowt

I like violent and gory stuff....can you let me know what you've been trying to watch recently (esp the exploding cow one)?

think it was called 'elves'

I can't recall some titles, but the worst was a Russian apolcalypse drama in which a guy and his gf were brutally beaten with clubs - graphic- she was raped, etc. Other stuff included violence to animals or kids.

I don't mind violence unless it is painfully gratuitous and not helpful to the plot. For instance, i am not upset by the violence in the scandi noir 'the bridge', if that makes sense.

Thanks for more suggestions, am looking forward to seeing something new!
I have started to up and down vote :)

ooh recently seen anya taylor joy (queen's gambit) in the miniaturist, i enjoyed that!

Have you watched Lupin?

I also like Dérapages, which has Eric Cantona in it.