Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

i want to watch all the 1313 movies eventually. really looking forward to Cougar Cult.

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"WONDERFULLY FUNNY" - Dummy Quote

"the fall" is so depressing and good

I started it but couldn't take the coldness/anxiety.

So I went for Terriers based on someone's rec and it's really charming! Also I love the theme song, I should find out who/what it is. At some point tho you can see how it's all going to go wrong, and instead of thinking, "Oooh, how are they going to sink or almost sink this ship and overcome it, blah blah human nature blah" I'm like, "WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE MADE BETTER CHOICES IN EPISODE 3, NOW THIS HAPPENS."

show just gets better too, almost definitely the one 'one and done' show i most wish had been renewed (even more than freaks and geeks).

As much as I wish Terriers had been renewed I do like where it ended.

We made it through three seasons of Damages. First season was pretty ace, second one was kind of meh, third one was decent. Started 4 and sort of felt burnt out on the show's schtick, but overall I recommend the show. Close is incredible in it.

Suspension of disbelief as mentioned upthread is def a necessity. Danson is pretty great as the S1 bad guy as well.

lol, Danson resurfacing in that show is one of the better recurring character bits

Yeah, the way they bring him back after S1 is over feels kind of forced, but I didn't really care because he's the greatest joy in the show.

it's funny, I saw a little bit of him on CSI and thought, wow, this is awkward, then watched all of Damages and decided that it was more the fault of CSI's writers than Danson by far. he shows some good range.

I love the theme song, I should find out who/what it is.

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Could only take one season of Damages. Rose Byrne makes me angry.

I love her! She has a great face.

I could only take 3 seasons of that show though-- too campy after a while.

A great face that has the same expression on it the entire time. And her head is always cocked the same way.

can't you see she is THINKING CAREFULLY

she's not amazing but she's fine, and also I kind of crush on her

we loved season 1 of damages and then just couldn't get into season 2. season 1 was just too insane i think. everything else kinda has to be a letdown.

and nabisco dare i say was otm about terriers. i loved it. excruciating in all the right ways.

the lawyer in me wishes they upped the legal game of the show a little more -- some scenes bear a sort of resemblance to actual law practice (and I don't expect total verisimilitude since it's a kind of unreal drama thriller), but sometimes it's like they don't even try. The business stuff is also sometimes painfully unsophisticated. E.g. the whole thing where the energy company was "manipulating the markets" using that trader dude never made sense, and they got really sloppy with the writing, sometimes saying he was trading stocks and other times energy futures.

And there are a lot of plot twists for plot twists sake that are complete headscratchers.

loved damages but it definitely takes a big step down with each season (though the campbell scott/martin short/lily tomlin season was pretty good), i also find rose byrne vaguely annoying though she was good in bridesmaids

i kinda loved how they fucked with you in season 1. so much stuff i never saw coming. and then season 2 just seemed more of the same only less so. the surprise element gone, i guess. but season 1 is just a great crazy t.v. show season. really cool.

season 1 was great. it got WAY ott/clowny for me by season 3 and i had to take a break. then i never watched it again and haven't really missed it. i don't think i care enough about the frobisher case or any of it.

i do still remember the sister -- she was my favorite character iirc

xpost -- Yup, that was exactly my deal with Damages. Like, the format/conceit/gimmick of the first season is all-out manipulative in a great way, purposefully maddening and fun to tear through. Awesome. Turn on season two. Same thing. No. Not doing this again. Definitely not doing it five times, if that's where this is headed. It is a really cool set-up ... once.

i would say it's worth watching any of the seasons or at least episodes with danson in them bc he's so good and i like what they do with his character

really irritated by S4's casting of this guy as an ex-marine
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Chris Messina Appreciation Thread

s4 is the only one that i thought was bad

he has a cowardly face

he is clearly land based

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^^ At first I didn't like the full-length but I have grown to love it. I have been known to put it on repeat and listen to it like literally 8 or 9 times in a row.

i'm almost done with season one of Revolution. WHICH I WILL NOT RECOMMEND TO ANYONE. but i like it okay. and i get to see the many faces of Juliet from Lost. Bemused, pensive, anguished, frustrated. all variations on a theme.

i've never seen Supernatural. created by the guy who created Revolution. its on netflix. maybe i'll check it out.

(i really don't feel like going back and watching Fringe for some reason. kinda had enough of it but i know it gets crazier or whatever. just a little sick of the mad scientist and dawson's creek dude. talk about a leap of friggin' faith. that guy above is supposed to be a marine, but the dawson's creek crybaby is supposed to be a top notch gunrunner/con man/international man of mystery? yeah...okay.)

sick of walter?!?

sorta? sorry. i mean he's a good character i just......i dunno. i don't know if i can last through the whole thing. i might not care enough.

i love rose byrne but I bailed on season 4 also and didn't really miss it. 3 seasons was enough.

show just gets better too, almost definitely the one 'one and done' show i most wish had been renewed (even more than freaks and geeks).

― balls, Monday, August 26, 2013 6:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As much as I wish Terriers had been renewed I do like where it ended.

― polyphonic, Monday, August 26, 2013 6:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In both cases, I would've loved to see more episodes, but I'm also happy with how they ended. Cliffhangers are only cool if you've been assured your show is getting another season. I'm looking at you, AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO!

^^ha. I got done with the second (and final) season of Crime Story on disc the other week, which has to be one of the all-time cases of that.

^Re: cliffhangers

did not really enjoy greenberg. though i always love seeing my idol j.j. leigh. kinda couldn't get over how strange ben stiller looked. took me out of the movie a bit. i kept thinking i was watching a michael cera movie 20 years in the future.

also didn't like paul rudd's lebowski movie. just wasn't written very well. good people in it kinda wasted.

i should really just stick to jason statham movies and not bother with sundance stuff. god, that awful adam scott sundance thing that we couldn't watch for more than 20 minutes. same character as greenberg only worse and terribly written. (adam scott wasted in paul rudd lebowski thing too.)

greta gerwig also so meh in greenberg. such a nonsensical character even if she is a judee sill fan. we just watched her in damsels in distress too and she was cool in that in a gilmore girls minor character kinda way. she's no paris. (finally saw damsels! feel bad about that since i love WS and my bro-in-law edited it. i'm slow. maria and i are both slow.)

Sticking to Statham flicks is a solid plan no matter how you look at it.

i should really just stick to jason statham movies and not bother with sundance stuff

there are other films in between, big guy. Sundance has become kind of a catchword for indie films that take no chances but have a reliable niche audience in their sights.

but thank you for being the first person in this thread to watch something besides TV series in about a month.

xp ott otm

i'm gonna watch The Road next probably. still haven't seen it.

my suspension of disbelief powers are fading. its weird. i never cared about reality when watching movies. in that ben stiller movie he supposedly is a carpenter and it seemed like the most ludicrous thing on earth to me. i didn't believe it for a second. there is no way in hell that character learned how to be a carpenter.

speaking of The Road, watching No Country For Old Men on netflix i kinda just set my mind on the task of ignoring the fact that almost everything that happens in the movie is ludicrous and would never happen in a million years in real life.

see, with statham movies i never have to do this because nothing is believable hence everything is fair game.

Blitz is a solid Statham film that's worth it for Paddy Considine.

Dress is up and I rep for that. Gonna try Kiss of the Damned tonight despite misgivings.

scott have you seen parker? i'm sure it's sacrilege, etc but i found it very entertaining, kinda ridiculously loaded cast. it's not streaming on netflix though. i've started watching house of cards, not great and i'm glad i put it off til now so that the newsroom would be out there reminding me of how much worse it could be. at least fundraising is treated as a concern instead of just hilariously ignored like on the west wing. it's no scandal obv. scott do you watch scandal? highly recommended.

i havent seen newsroom but it cant be worse than HOC