Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

the jeremy renner biopic is the creepiest fun you can have watching anything to do with Dahmer

okay not fun

but it's p good

I'm not sure how long netflix has had the first 7 seasons of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia but damn that show is funny!

a while, and yes.

I cannot watch The Invisible War tonight, I just can't. I already teared up during at least two sections of A Place at the Table.

yeah i cried through most of The Invisible War, so don't do if you're not ready for it.

Watch it anyway. It's great.

I just solved my problem, there's an Irish dance documentary called JIG that promises to be entrancing.

Alert: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is really something. It's quiet and warm and loving, despite (which I never knew) the portrayal of PI as a failure and abomination, but even if you knew about that, you can't get out of the way of the love. The footage of the slums that people left to move into the then-new and gleaming housing project might be the most striking.

Man.

Sorry, the portrayal of PI as a failure elsewhere in the discourse and history, not in this documentary.

PIM was good.

So is My Cat From Hell, now available!

this things p good, goes a lil hard on the montages but recommend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_(2010_film)

if you wanna get scared by people watch Doomsday Bunkers. yikes! keep thinking i'm gonna see nazi flags in the prepper basements. all about "preppers" and their sad tortured families. kinda like hoarders only everything is neater.

and part of me will always think underground houses are cool.

amazing to me what a science these shows are. the guy who builds bunkers has the EXACT same script as the pawn star guy and the storage guys and all the other reality guys. its a well-oiled machine.

Salinger documentary is streaming. do i need to see it? i don't know if i'm really all that fascinated.

As some other critic pointed out, most of the amusement stems from seeing how often they have to repeat the same few photographs over and over and over.

Salinger documentary is streaming. do i need to see it? i don't know if i'm really all that fascinated.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/harvey-weinsteins-salinger-is-a-master-class-in-spin

I misread that as "harvey weinstein: salinger is a master in spin class." I think I briefly thought I was in the Onion thread.

D Denby hated it so maybe it's worth watching? Idk

eh, i'll skip it. i haven't seen every episode of doomsday bunkers yet. or latest season of parenthood. or new girl. or how i met your mother. this latest season of himym is dragging for me big time though.

scott did you watch rules of engagement?

i used to watch it when we had cable. but haven't watched it in forever. don't really feel the need to see the ones i missed. i kinda had a crush on the one wife. not the blonde wife. she was sexy.

it must have been on cbs before or after something else i watched every week. big bang theory or whatever.

I still feel horrible for watching New Girl, scott, but I feel the newest episodes have something to provide by giving the funniest roommate more material. Also, he gets a cat.

yeah i didn't have cable for the entirety of rule's run and always kinda scoffed at it whenever i found out it was still on the air but then i got cable again and it's in syndication and it was enjoyable enough, i'd guess any average episode is better than an average episode of himym though i doubt there was ever a period you could claim rules was a good show whereas w/ himym those first couple of seasons were actually good. i like patrick warburton though. still hanging in there w/ himym though i might just go back to waiting til i hear if it was a 'good one' or not.

laurel, how was the irish dancing movie? good music? fiddlin?

The music is shockingly bad and in lots of the competition footage is replaced by soundtrack pieces. Watch it for the dance moms and drinking games, not for the fiddlin'.

i think she reminds me of italian-american women i have had crushes on in real life. wikipedia says she is half italian/half slovak. she's probably the most likable person on the show too.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bi9TIyweqxk/UIc6s2wfjXI/AAAAAAAAF-4/Z7z5r7gsfS0/s1600/2-Bianca-Kajlich.jpg

maria used to get mad at the cbs battle of the sexes shows. she liked them okay, but she got mad at them. raymond, king of queens, this show. the stereotype thing. they are pretty much 100% stereotype. which i don't have a problem with cuz to me its just comedy. i am all about the comedy.

i have such a hard time figuring out how old people are now on t.v. shows. are the new girl people, like, 30? and HIMYM cast was like mid-20's when that show started or were they older? they were kinda just starting out except for barney who i guess is supposed to be older.

the ken burns doc about the Central Park 5 is up

and the Morton Downey Jr. doc

i think they were mid-twenties first season. lol i will admit i did google the young hot wife, she's landon donovan's ex, w/ whoever is in the carolla seat on loveline now. very sad. it's weird how all those big cbs sitcoms (and this is probably the smallest offender, and it's a pretty big offender) are mostly ppl doing harsh zingers at their friends and families expense, it's like if every character on cheers was carla. seinfeld influence i guess though i'm sure roseanne is in there too (obv where lorre started w/ it). i liked it on raymond cuz i loved the big family sitcom of the time basically said that marriage is hell and if you have any sanity you almost definitely hate every other member of yr family (plus the kids weren't really developed into characters, they were just kinda these nuisance obligations lurking in the background). w/ king of queens it worked as an explanation for why someone who looked like leah remini could end up w/ kevin james. w/ the later shows though it got overboard.

i liked raymond a lot. i've gone on record here more than once. i wrote long elaborate posts about why i liked that show. and same with king of queens. i thought they were really well done. and you are forgetting 2 & a half men. a zing-fest x 100. and yes i used to watch that every week too.

like if every character on cheers was carla

dang, good point, balls

huge crush of mine melanie lynskey was on that show but thank god i didn't find out until after she left it. i caught one episode once and i wasn't mystified it was a big hit, it was funny enough (better than the one episode of anger management i caught), lorre's a pro, but i was shocked at how vulgar and cynical it was. i'm ok w/ big bang, i don't watch it regularly but it's solid enough as a joke factory and parsons and the 3 girls are good on it. i'd put raymond in a different class (w/ king of queens in a middle ground, though that's purely due to the cast).

chuck lorre is a shitbag, can't stand his sitcoms, don't hold anything particularly against you guys for enjoying it, though

melanie lynskey is pretty cool though

haha it's a very very very passive enjoyment, my 'fandom' of these shows is nothing compared to like monk or something, nevermind breaking bad or whatever. even now w/ the three female characters to balance the male geeks and them making penny a more interesting character sorta there's still this misogynist streak to big bang, can't even imagine what 2.5 men is like.

all my vices are bad dramas, I shouldn't judge

2.5 men was a brutal show. but it could be funny in its brutality. like a punch & judy show. it was so over the top. when sheen was on. didn't watch it after that.

like i love anna faris but haven't bothered to check out moms due to lorre. is it actually called that? do we actually have a show called 'moms' and another show called 'dads' this season?

i watched revenge for the first season and was crazy for it, got kinda bored w/ beginning of second season, started watching scandal (which delivered everything good from an episode of revenge by the first commercial break), never looked back.

never tried revenge, watched a couple episodes of scandal

i will watch pretty much any american sitcom. the format fascinates me. i have watched so many in my life...

my favorite t.v. show might actually be gilmore girls though.

right now on netflix i am alternating between breaking bad, sons of anarchy, himym, new girl, and parenthood.

Had a crush on above hot wife from sitcom when she was Dawson's love interest on the Creek.

man so much happened on dawson's after i dropped it, if it had the music i'd be tempted to watch that again (streaming on netflix iirc).

I'm bummed that I can't stream The OC anywhere.

im pretty addicted to new girl tbqf

i used to be slightly ashamed i was into New Girl but it's fully legimately good by this point