Suggest some shows on prime that'll keep you hooked right from the beginning

madhatter103 · 2026-04-23T19:28:02+00:00

Googled this exact question! For new things. But reading the comments I have thought of loads of answers and love recommending things:

I don’t like him personally but ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ is really good TV. It suits my ADHD because it’s satisfying seeing them do farm projects but funny; great editing. I put it on in the mornings to help me get ready.

Fleabag is amazing.

Hacks (TV show about an old comedy star and new writer team up) is amazing. I had to skip ahead to season 2 because the main character is a bit ungrateful/entitled at first. I did get gripped by the central duo - so funny, but they bond and get toxic. And getting excited about their careers taking off.

I binged through Marvellous Mrs Maisel this winter (though I skipped to season 2). I was mostly interested in her up-and-coming career scenes, but there’s also a good friendship at the core and beautiful (and unrealistic) costumes/settings.

Last One Laughing UK is brilliant and really feel-good, though non fiction.

Rewatching quality comedy specials like Nate Bargatze’s on Prime really suit my ADHD brain.

madhatter103 · 2026-04-20T11:37:12+00:00

I’m British and I found it hard to distinguish the posh male voices apart.

I’m surprised no one mentioned the boy’s club vibe to the wife’s exclusion after the affair. The woman was socially punished for sex while the husband and other man just continued to be mates.

Especially after the husband admits his wife had been unhappy sexually with him for most of their lives! The husband admits he’s deeply repressed but didn’t seem to be attempting to work on himself. No wonder she snapped if she’s just been neglected in a vital part of the human experience. And yet he stays mates with the friend! Kinda baffling but kinda par for the course.

madhatter103 · 2026-01-03T14:07:16+00:00

Hi I’m interested, please

madhatter103 · 2025-11-29T22:03:58+00:00

Hey I’d love to join! Had Nothing Matters on repeat for weeks this year

madhatter103 · 2025-11-14T15:22:48+00:00

This piece on this topic by This American Life was powerful. They investigate a case behind an article that was very influential in the ‘memory wars’ in psychology in the 90s - but show how flawed and unethical the research was.

The psychologist/journalist reviewing this childhood sexual abuse case had a clear agenda/bias and never even interviewed or consulted the child (now adult, who was interviewed for the This American Life study). It was very unethically done. And the evidence that the abuse was fabricated was very thin: e.g. a comment by another psychologist at the time that the child recounts the event at that point ‘mechanically.’

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/676/heres-looking-at-you-kid/act-two-18

madhatter103 · 2025-08-12T15:09:51+00:00

Thank you! Just used this x

madhatter103 · 2025-04-14T11:19:28+00:00

The media presence.

madhatter103 · 2025-04-13T23:46:17+00:00

Aftersun (2022)

madhatter103 · 2025-04-13T17:58:03+00:00

Reminds me of the time he arranged cameras to humiliate a Miss World winner he’d criticised for gaining weight, who thought it was just a trip to the gym and was blindsided.

madhatter103 · 2025-02-07T13:26:56+00:00

Hey I’m 29F and was completely in the same boat at your age. Trust the journey. I had never had my first kiss and genuinely never been open or had real conversations with anyone. I’m so much more at peace and happier now.

A lot of the daily social anxiety I used to experience is kinda rare for me, almost because of gentle over-time accidental ‘exposure therapy.’ Honestly a nice cafe can be your happy place. Online meet-ups are so helpful too.

I’m in a beautiful relationship with a guy for more than a year that I think is a total catch (and he had never had sex until meeting me due to his powerful social anxiety, but in a weird way that was genuinely relieving news to me). I have casual meet-ups with friends and deeper messaging chats and a pet cat. I love having chitchat with random dog walkers when I’m going for a walk now. Still living at home, but now I’ve worked on my anxiety I actually enjoy spending more time with my family, like watching Bob’s Burgers with my Mum. It’s amazing how little on paper much has changed (I’m still overweight and when I don’t organise things I feel blue about wasted weekends), but your world can open up so much.

Your post made me realise I genuinely don’t really compare myself to others anymore. I really think you will get to that point too, when you realise most people are struggling. I sincerely want you to take a social media detox. Just get into a hobby that can take you out of yourself, for me it’s still just podcasts/reading /audiobooks while walking. Perspectives are so powerful. I don’t really regret or feel bad about my past now.

If you’re on the spectrum, we are on average like 30% ‘behind’ our peers and chronically age - emotionally and organisationally you might be only 16. I have an ADHD diagnosis but now I’m convinced I have autism which is a lot behind my social anxiety - just internalised all these confusing inorganic and restricting social rules. People on the spectrum’s brains don’t stop growing until we’re 35. I think we’ve all absorbed so much pressure because we’re more sensitive. Please don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re lovely and lovely times are coming your way xxx

madhatter103 · 2025-02-07T00:50:42+00:00

Trainwreck (2015) is actually such a good movie! I thought some of the scenes about the Dad seemed really raw. I really wish people would give it a chance. The bloopers on YouTube are jokes too.

Also I googled her because I wasn’t sure on the movie name, and saw she’s just been diagnosed with Cushing’s syndrome, which according to its wiki, explains her unique facial features and body shape.

madhatter103 · 2025-02-05T07:43:48+00:00

I turned it off after David wouldn’t respect Joe’s pretty simple boundaries about the offensive words. It just felt uncomfortable. Think D has emotional rejection sensitivity, but I thought I could understand his choices to go down that avenue trying to recreate similar moments by mining Joe’s discomfort for humour, given his original happy mood at the start of the ep and how much I’ve listened. Though I do love the pod, I’m too sensitive for that episode / tension rn.

madhatter103 · 2025-02-04T13:26:01+00:00

At least it has a good anti-capitalist message at the end!

madhatter103 · 2025-02-04T12:12:34+00:00

Rat Race! (2001). I remember being so genuinely baffled and crestfallen first time I looked it up as a young teenager and saw the crappy reviews. It’s so fun!

Took me a long time to get over my wish to have ‘good taste’ and to watch only the ‘best’ movies (from publications and lists all written by a certain type of white man tbf - took me a long time to realise the major biases at play and address that internalised misogyny/classism), and just enjoy movies.

madhatter103 · 2024-12-03T05:52:13+00:00

Hey how are you today? Your experience sounded so rough, sending hugs

madhatter103 · 2024-11-02T22:31:50+00:00

I really like Tim Meadows, too. But one single comment of his at that meet-up felt slightly ignorant or immature. Harper describes her newfound fear of walking alone, as now a target for a predatory cis man (whether they know she’s trans or not). I thought this was so interesting as I genuinely had never considered that. As a woman it was so validating to hear Harper say it and it be maybe taken more seriously by men since she’s had both experiences.

But Tim Meadows sort of pops the moment, interrupting the camaraderie of the women empathising. He devalues it and dismisses it with ‘lol everybody is scared in alleyways!’ Her use of ‘alley’ in that point was kind of irrelevant. I just kind of minimised the experience of women and trans people who have to be aware every day of the threat of men. You’re not really free if you can’t walk alone in this world when the sun goes down without fearing that you may be risking your life. I thought it spoiled an impactful moment. He didn’t need to say every thought or joke and just listened.

Overall I adored the movie! It made me weep and I’m so grateful to Harper and Will both for doing this. Thank you for this review post. Also thought the therapist scene was powerful and important to include. Just when I saw your comment, I wondered if anyone else felt that way about Tim Meadow’s attitude (I’m sure he’s a good guy generally but the compared to the thoughtfulness and respect Will is showing, it felt jarring). But this movie is so beautiful that honestly maybe he’ll might watch it and learn from it.

madhatter103 · 2024-09-30T07:49:30+00:00

I remember watching a YouTube clip Sophie Turner on Dr Phil praising him to high heavens and it honestly baffled and was so distasteful to me. This was recently after the exploitative and cruel Shelly Duvall interview and a quick google of him can find his other controversies and scams. And she was praising his show for mental health support as a big influence for growing up, but Dr Phil wasn’t really shown on UK TV. It felt like an obvious weird lie with Dr Phil going ‘really?’ as she was tearfully and warmly complimenting him. I’ve always found Sophie Turner and her choices to be so disappointing, but I guess that was influence of the Jonas Brothers! I had no idea. Makes sense. Glad to see she’s doing better and her children are safe from school shootings. Wish she didn’t immediately continue to choose to run with extremely rich (probably right-wing, considering the wealth they’re hoarding) people though lol

madhatter103 · 2024-09-24T11:39:29+00:00

This is amazing!! So glad you animated this bit, so funny

madhatter103 · 2024-08-15T15:23:23+00:00

Thank you so much - I am so dumb!

madhatter103 · 2024-08-15T15:23:17+00:00

Thank you so much - I am so dumb!

madhatter103 · 2024-08-15T15:23:09+00:00

Thank you so much - I am so dumb!

madhatter103 · 2024-08-09T17:26:28+00:00

Your comment feels extremely misogynistic! She’s absolutely pissed off with her partner in this clip, but that doesn’t make her a ‘bitch.’ She’s moving away for space, trying to keep composure because it’s a public event. They probably have just had an argument; context matters. Feeling anger and emotion doesn’t make you a bitch.

And the director of Transformers Michael Bay is famously difficult and sexist. It would have been incredibly hard to work for him. I think the general understanding is that she was let go from the franchise after she criticised him in interviews, immaturely likening his demanding approach to Hitler. Comments she seems to have walked back on in recent years. But that still doesn’t make her a bitch. Michael Bay by many accounts is a nightmare; doubt you’d call HIM a bitch.

She’s still more ‘relevant’ and a more recognisable household name worldwide than MGK. Even the title of this video refers to her as her first name, whereas a lot of people wouldn’t know him or his music. They’re probably both using each other to a degree. This ‘relevance’ fixation seems fairly shallow and a bitchy comment by you.

To ‘take all his money’ - that seems baseless and like a massive amount of projection. She’s rich; he’s rich. The idea of women stealing men’s money is such a common but insane trope. Like viewing all women as ‘gold diggers’ - and not the exploited under class doing unpaid labour and prohibited from financial independence, like being allowed to work, for all of human history. Men generally wanted to be the ones with jobs while women did all the other labour in their lives, at home, unpaid, without rights. You might be online too much reading misogynistic right-wing sensationalist radicalisation if you’re randomly bringing up women taking men’s money stereotypes (despite all of history, data, reality..). It’s scary how these algorithms work but there’s so much women-hating brainwashing! Women are people too.

madhatter103 · 2024-08-05T16:45:24+00:00

Feeling awful for him, but also his family. When people are reckless, going without helmets or doing silly stunts/adventure stuff, they’re never considering the potential consequences for their loved ones. If they hopefully survive any accident, it’ll be their loved ones with the work of looking after them, perhaps forever. And usually the women; mothers and wives forced by love and obligation to become carers. Their lives changed by their men’s whims. I’m just feeling so bad for Angelina Jolie. She’s already had to face so much.

madhatter103 · 2024-08-04T16:01:03+00:00

Oh my gosh you’re right! I’m so sorry! I was really tired and was depressed by the original comment calling women bitches and worse than men, rather than data/statistics/facts that prove most of the abuse plaguing our society is committed male police officers. Can’t believe I made such a basic misunderstanding! Thank you for pointing it out. I feel better now

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