It’s Friday! Time to kick back and enjoy the weekend. Looking for something to watch this weekend? Here is the full list of Netflix recommendations from everyone here at French Toast Sunday. Enjoy Nick’s Edition of the Top Picks for 9/17/10:
Watch it Now (all 3!!!):
Red Riding Trilogy  (2009)
Netflix trilogy synopsis: Through a series of delicately interconnected story lines that span several years, this sweeping trilogy traces the agonizingly protracted search for the mysterious Yorkshire Ripper and the rampant police corruption impeding the investigation. Inspired by actual events and adapted from David Peace’s Red Riding series of novels, this neo-noir epic stars Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey, Rebecca Hall and Peter Mullan.

Part 1: 1974


Netflix synopsis: Loosely based on the facts surrounding Britain’s notorious Yorkshire Ripper case, this grim thriller, Part 1 in the television adaptation of David Peace’s novels, uncovers rampant police and civil corruption in mid-1970s Northern England. Girls are disappearing, the Yorkshire community is abuzz with gossip and fear, and a young reporter (Andrew Garfield) is suspicious when a mentally handicapped immigrant is fingered for the heinous crimes.
Part 2: 1980
 
Netflix synopsis:After six years of vicious unsolved murders, Manchester policeman Peter Hunter (Paddy Considine) arrives in West Yorkshire to supervise the Yorkshire Ripper investigation, along with a copycat killer case, in this second installment of the Red Riding trilogy. Meanwhile, he must also deal with local police corruption and his struggle to remain faithful to his wife while working closely with his ex, fellow investigator Helen Marshall 
(Maxine Peake).

Part 3: 1983

Netflix synopsis: When the current case of a missing 10-year-old becomes linked to the abduction and murder of Clare Kemplay in 1974, investigators torture the man who found Clare’s body in an effort to learn more in this final installment of the Red Riding trilogy. Meanwhile, solicitor John Piggott’s (Mark Addy) conversations with the man found guilty of the old abduction points to a wrongful conviction and a search for the real murderer.