Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

it's a really good show but there's a weird disconnect bw the realism of the setting and how TV the characters are. but that's more of a problem with TV in general than OITNB specifically.

dramedy is tricky

haitian old lady my fave i think, character and performance. i haven't finished the season yet though. if this thing goes more than two seasons i'd like season two to wrap up artisanal soap girl's story and then maybe season 3 or even part of season 2 do the same format w/ a more representative of prison experience type character. show either needs to wrap quickly and have it be the story of this white chick's book or whatever or go pretty long and get at how bleak and genuinely life consuming prison is, characters continually getting hopes up to have them broken, characters cycling in and out.

Also, Oz was straight fiction, but Orange is based on someone's memoir.
Yeah, a memoir where she had a druggy ex-boyfriend, not an ex-girlfriend who could conveniently show up in jail with her.

lagoon, you are a treat

"Didn't the Washington Post or some paper do a piece on how Orange gets prison remarkably right, supposedly?"

i posted a link to it somewhere on this thread. good article!

man I guess I should watch this huh

at least two of Netflix's "originals" are orange-themed (Arrested Development, OITNB)

curious orange (netflix)

this chicken ep lmao

i actually haven't seen oz, seems like a miserable show, so i'm just going off wikipedia here but oz is short for "oswald maximum security penitentiary". i guess it takes place in an experimental unit but it's still all prisoners who would be in a maximum security prison. a minimum security facility like the one in oitnb just isn't gonna be full of violent offenders. a maximum security women's prison might not be as bad as a maximum security men's prison but the diff is probably not as stark as the diff between oitnb and oz. anyway yeah, oitnb is great

"Yeah, a memoir where she had a druggy ex-boyfriend, not an ex-girlfriend who could conveniently show up in jail with her."

Wait what? I thought the fiction here was that they were assigned to the same prison not that it was a druggy ex-girlfriend?

Piper Kerman is an American memoirist whose experiences in prison provided the basis for the comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black.

Kerman graduated from Smith College, in 1992. In 1993, she became entangled with Vauess, a woman who dealt heroin for a West African kingpin.[1][2] She laundered money for the operation.[1]

She moved to San Francisco, where she met Larry Smith; they moved to New York City. In 1998, she was indicted for money laundering and drug trafficking and subsequently pled guilty.[1] Beginning in 2004, she served 13 months of a 15 month sentence at FCI Danbury, a minimum security prison located in Danbury, Connecticut.[3]

Real happy couple picture, taken in prison visiting rom:
http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/2010/03/20100325_piper2_250x375.jpg

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2010/03/piper_kerman.html

To digress for a second, I started watching a UK series called Hit & Miss, with Chloe Sevigny as a transsexual contract killer who becomes the guardian of a bunch of kids. It is excellent except for Chloe Sevigny.

oh i was wrong

To digress for a second, I started watching a UK series called Hit & Miss, with Chloe Sevigny as a transsexual contract killer who becomes the guardian of a bunch of kids. It is excellent except for Chloe Sevigny.

― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, August 5, 2013 7:37 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yeah? i avoided it because the scenario was kind of like

Pitch TV drama ideas that involve Dean Gaffney

Arbitrage is pretty good

House I Live In is very good. Even though the material is largely old hat for me (prison-industrial complex, mandatory minimums, powder-crack ratios, etc.) there was still stuff to learn -- in particular the stuff about how meth is changing the racial dynamics of the drug war -- and it's well done and moving.

i hadn't heard of that but i will watch it. thanks hurting

Also it has kind of a unified theory of race and the drug war that I've never heard put together before. Hard to say whether the theory is 100% on point or not, but was pretty interesting.

Been watching Murder in Suburbia, which has a bizarre comedic tone for a show about police who investigate murders, but is strangely compelling. And To the Ends of the Earth, mostly because it has a lot of Benedict Cumberbatch, but also takes place entirely at sea. Holding off on Orange is the New Black for now.

after years, it seems, of just offering the xmas special or whatever it was, the full league of gentlemen is up now. been happily rewatching.

I love all the oth characters in Hit & Miss, and their accents, and the scenery, and the manky old farmhouse, and the mean guy from town, and just everything except them trying to make Sevigny look physically intimidating. The shots of her working a heavy bag are laughable, and the 11-yo kid she's supposed to be "teaching" how to punch should be teaching HER. He seems like a natural, which just makes her look worse.

It has a nice slow pace, too. There are lots of shots of people's faces doing nothing, or just short bits of a person sitting in a room that doesn't directly tell anything abt the plot but just represents their feelings for 4 seconds. It's very un-American.

i enjoyed Erased today. fast-paced aaron eckhart euro-bourne-style doublecrosscat&mouse thing. you know, if you like those movies where someone is running for their life AND they just happen to be an expert killer.

There are lots of shots of people's faces doing nothing, or just short bits of a person sitting in a room

this is really appealing to me but idk abt the rest of what that show looks like. plus i think im getting anxious abt the amt of tv i watch so am really hesitant to watch new things

hey, Fear City is on now. one of my fave lesser-known abel ferrara movies. just in case you haven't seen it and you like that sort of thing.

oh man i tried to watch an adam scott sundance movie and it was too painful. it was so sundance. written by a 17 year old? seemed like it. i don't want to know if it gets better.

Rewatching The Wonder Years from the beginning.

I wonder why they got the rights to keep all the music inside the episodes but replaced the Joe Cocker theme with a lousy soundalike.

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

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

"it's a disaster" is a pretty decent low-key indie comedy if that's what you're in the mood for.

watched a bit of Shut Up And Play The Hits last night -- didn't realize they were such a sick/tight live band and that Murphy was such a strong live vocalist.

Do they just have the interview/concert film version? I honestly have never watched that whole bit but the physical release contained a disc of just the full concert.

yeah it's concert interspliced with interview. He's a pretty decent interview also.

I haven't watched it because lol klosterman, but I should get over myself

Watched the My Amityville Horrordocumentary last night. Focuses on Daniel Lutz who was 10 yrs old at the time his family lived there. Doesn't really support the family's paranormal claims, but is really engrossing/terrifying as a study in child abuse and domestic violence.

i wanna watch that but i'm kinda scared to watch that. i wanna know/i don't wanna know. such a big thing in my childhood. that book.

I was pretty creeped out/jumping at shadows when I went to bed last night! I remember being 8 yrs old in the back of a Pinto during a road trip to my grandma's making my mom read passages of the book to me. Was later convinced Jodie the pig was lurking around my grandmas house for the rest of that summer vacation.

Darin super otm -- there's nothing scary about My Amityville Horror unless emotional wreckage scares you (which it should, really).

I have it on my list to watch, I was so obsessed with that book in high school

The In Search Of doc freaked me out as a kid. The doll with glowing eyes was in my nightmares.

http://youtu.be/vl3iS8rpZKs?t=10m00s

oh man nobody told me that Juliet was on this Revolution show. Lost crushes might just seem sad now...

wait, no, apparently she dies like five minutes into the pilot. oops. that sucks.

I watched My Amityville Horror last night. There's a cameo appearance from Annabelle the doll.

The Good Thief is on Netflix, watching the shit out of that tomorrow night

wait, no, apparently she dies like five minutes into the pilot. oops. that sucks.

she's not really dead

Antiviral by Cronenberg Jr isn't without it's merits.

i started to watch the amityville doc and thought it was funny that one of the first things he says is that he doesn't want to be associated with it or have anything to do with it. but i guess the doc was his wsy of letting go. and yet i don't know if that's really the way to go when so much of the doc is him rolling around the town he lives in. and telling people the name of the town he lives in. he's a great compelling talker though. i was sleepy so i just closed my eyes and listened to him talk. he should read mickey spillane novels on tape. would buy.