Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

MY HAT IS LIKE A SHARK'S FIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwmqp3GLMc

omg so awesome

Would love to see someone try to make Sphere and Deep Blue Sea into one movie through careful editing anchored on Samuel L. Jackson in underwater environments.

that's a pretty key scene, yes

in the ll biopic i hope there's a scene where you see ll in his trailer on the set of deep blue sea, notepad in hand, frustrated - he's blocked. then he catches sight of his hat and his eyes narrow, then widen, then he smiles. cut to 'deepest bluest'.

lol

The weird thing is that he actually already used the line "my hat is like a shark's fin" in "I'm Bad." It must have been a really cool hat, although I always pictured a novelty hat you might buy in the Tennessee Aquarium gift shop, with a floppy plush shark's fin sticking up off the top. Not discounting the possibility that LL owned one - it just seems a strange thing to repeatedly rap about.

huh, that was kinda renny harlin's last shot at gold. he's been reduced to directing episodes of usa network shows nowadays.

Also, before I wrap up what is clearly an extended recommendation that you all watch Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea on Netflix Watch Instantly, I also want to say that Allmusic used to list that song under the title "Deepest Blues."

deep blue see is awesome

also until just now I always thought it was 'my head is like a shark's fin'

see? sea

LL is vicious with his rhymes. Just like a shark fin poking out of water, he’s ready to attack when he’s wearing his hats.

Early in his career, LL was almost always seen wearing a black or red Kangol. These hat could resemble a shark’s fin when seen from the right angle. Here is a watercolor painting of LL Cool J from Rap Genius editor HaringDMC.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5329/8992509880_312d7ddc95_n.jpg

forget oreos eat cool j cookies

Shut Up and Play the Hits

Had no idea this was on there. Thanks!

xp is there actually a setting in Netflix for "highest image quality"? I've never seen that.

There are options in the settings to limit quality if you have bandwidth caps, but more useful is the wee secret browser menu. Alt-shift-mouse click (on a mac anyway- not sure if it's the same on windows) in the video window will bring up a diagnostic menu, and the stream manager option lets you change bitrate manually. SD videos max out at 1750Kbps and HD at 3000Kbps I think. Netflix generally seems pretty good at working this out though, so trying to second guess it for a higher bitrate might lead to buffering.

Orange is the New Black is great so far.

we miss it already. we want more.

Chicken episode was A+ TV.

So...what will happen to me if I go down this New Girl-shaped black hole that I'm contemplating? Scott?

Man top of the lake is weird and good

Ugh I watched an entire New Girl season because of scott

I preferred the time I watched Longmire due to in orbit, tbh

Okay no I can't do this. She just broke a tv.

I just watched Happy People and it's definitely Lesser Herzog (like barely Herzog) and the music left something to be desired (considering the precedent he sets) but it's a great portrait of human-canine interaction!

i think often of the guy making skis like nbd

I wondered if he made them every year or just when they got old and he needed new ones.

Just finished watching God Bless America. Not as good as advertised, but a decent way to pass time on a Saturday night.

The first three or four New Girls lean too hard on twee Jess behaviors... once they abandon that angle, it's much more fun.

yeah i very deliberately didn't watch that show first season cuz of deschanel, caught a few episodes via watching other fox sitcoms that night (neither of which i watch, one cuz it was canceled the other cuz i got tired of waiting for it to 'find its voice' or whatever), found myself liking it way more than i thought i might, ended up watching all of the second season and when someone (an ilxor i think) called it 'the best sitcom on tv' i couldn't really come up w/ a better contender (at least not that i'd really call a sitcom ie not louie, not girls, not bob's burgers, not um children's hospital i guess)(30 rock had already wrapped and happy endings was all but canceled). decided to watch first season on netflix, watched second episode and thought 'nope, too much deschanel', skipped ahead to episode 10 (which i think is the first one w/ lizzy caplan?) and enjoyed it pretty much from there out. in the episodes i've seen and liked jess is kinda just another character on the show, she's still the protagonist but not nearly as much the focus of the show as say liz lemon was w/ 30 rock (think ted mosby maybe). i've been tempted to check out the first nine episodes but apparently there's a lot of justin long there also so i may never get around to it.

orange is the new black is pretty good, i was superhesitant to check it out cuz 'from the creator of weeds' but i figured if i could stick thru 4 seasons (i think? when did mexico enter the picture?) of weeds i could give this a shot. it's better than weeds. based on this and oz women's prison looks like much much much easier time than men's prison.

OITNB had the best developed female characters on television. My biggest complaint might be that the tertiary characters are more interesting than the main one.

I sort of like that. They've said flat-out that the and her friends/family are basically the Trojan Horse to get into the lives of all the other characters, since a prison show about a poor black ugly female prisoner never would have been made. I wonder if it's a coincidence or mild subversion that the lead character and her circle on the outside are often depicted as buffoons. For sure the flashback origins of her fellow prisoners just make her seem that much more lame. "I went through a stage when I was younger, being a lesbian, running drugs and staying the four-star hotels! We've got an artisanal soap line launching!" Meanwhile, everyone else had horrible lives and backgrounds and went through some real shit.

"My biggest complaint might be that the tertiary characters are more interesting than the main one."

Feel like this is almost sort of the point of the show.

its a not uncommon way to tie ensembles together eg luke skywalker

also i havent watched the whole thing yet but i find her interesting

She's not bad. Her friends and family are insufferable, though. The Jason Biggs character is a big dud, and I still can't tell five or six in if it's an intentional choice. And his parents? And her mom? Total sitcom characters, with none of the depth or contradictions (yet) of her cellmates.

"Ugh I watched an entire New Girl season because of scott"

i am the destroyer!

i dunno, i thought it was entertaining enough.

i'm hooked on terriers now cuzza nabisco and i'm sad it only lasted 13 episodes. almost done. and i miss orange is the new black. maria started watching prison break just to get a prison fix.

terriers is the best!

do i have to watch this orange is the new black?

yeah i think so

imo they have to cartoon it up early so we can see them (the cartoony characters) "grow" (and/or not-grow, to have someone to reflect piper's growth)
same with pipes -- she's a selfish master cleansing artisan soap artist OH WAIT now she is (i have no idea what she turns out like at the end of the series but i'm assuming she grows thanks to her exposure to the colorful cast of characters in her women's prison experience) i don't really like the idea that the only place we can get a diverse female ensemble cast is in prison but so be it. lots of the ladies remind me of my students.

that's not to say that i haven't been enjoying it -- i have! -- but i wish it were less vignette/more throughline story. i guess if it's based on a true story there's not going to be a lot of that though.

one thing i really really like about orange is the new black is that sky blue title card that let's me know exactly when to stop fast forwarding thru that fucking regina spektor song.

i kinda like it
i like the opening sequence with the faces too

when jason biggs got the script w/ him masturbating did he get sad and think 'this is my life, this is who i am, this will always be who i am' or did he smile and think 'I GOT THIS'?

ha!

but i wish it were less vignette/more throughline story.

It becomes less vignettey by the final quarter of the season, but I'm with you. I sort of get the feeling that the flashbacks are more for establishing characters than a long-term plot device.

i'm really enjoying OITNB but a lot of the supporting characters are pretty cartoony too. i mean i know we aren't supposed to care about the evil guard but he's an EVIL GUARD who's SO EVIL and has a big mustache and is basically out of reno 911. and the one other evil-ish prison administrator has a mustache too, so basically a mustache means you're evil.

haha another contrast w/ oz - flashbacks (so far) on orange are all 'they were led astray by love' and almost every character is nice once you get to know them. meanwhile on oz you get:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXLq8Bi1uRY

I enjoyed the scene with two of the women pretending to be white NPR liberal types but it really just sounded like the writers taking the actors out of character to deliver a routine

Ha n/a I had a similar reaction upthread, but as you get further in the series you'll realize those are the only 2 characters that code evil, there's way more subtle evil waiting to happen.

I pretty much loved everything about orange is the new black with the notable exception of 100% hating the entire terrible love story between guard and prisoner arc.

t really just sounded like the writers taking the actors out of character to deliver a routine
there's a lot of this sort of writerly stuff coming through -- i've even learned to forget about that (and this is a classic thing that would bother me)

The prison guard/inmate romance is dumb, but it's gotta be in there.

I don't mind the Regina Spektor song, having somehow avoided her for as long as she's been steadily getting popular.

also yael stone/morello's accent is amazing, she's australian!

I mean the black-haired Laura Prepon wearing glasses is not hurting my enjoyment of this series either