Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

See the New Girl thread. It is quite easily the best sitcom on TV right now and will be a total classic. People still sleeping on it though.

i love the many faces of nick. like how he can be schlubby/demented/handsome all in the space of a few seconds.

i was also worried that i was gonna think winston was unfunny forever or that they were gonna give him the unfunniest bits forever, but he's growing on me. the goofier he gets, the better he gets.

He was underwritten at first. He was a last minute addition to the show, replacing Damon Wayans Jr who (probably stupidly) returned to Happy Endings when it got picked up again after being cancelled (for the first time). So I think they were like "now we've got a different black guy into sports actor but he has to be different from the other one".

Anyway, he's great and just gets better and better.

hey now, Happy Endings was awesome and got another two seasons somehow so it wasn't a bad decision

but yeah, Winston is a real trooper, they gotta keep giving him better stuff

best actor of the three male roommates, imo

I like over-the-top comedies like Always Sunny, or even the occasional Wilfred over trad sitcom stuff, though

I don't think I get high often enough to appreciate Wilfred.

I don't really get high?

maybe you're thinking of Tim and Eric or Wonder Showzen or something

winston is great

and so is zooey d. they figured out that to make her work and not seem precious or twee they just have to make her character a total loser.

wayans is supposedly coming back for 4 episodes

Damon Wayans Jr who (probably stupidly) returned to Happy Endings when it got picked up again

his return was contractual

lots of actors make pilots when it looks like their current show is on the outs, but the old show usually has first dibs if it comes back

what's it called - second position?

yup

Didn't know that. I didn't mean he was being stupid, there was no way to know one show would get cancelled again while the other would become a hit.

Speaking of Happy Endings, one of those guys just got added to the Mindy Project. It's funny seeing all these sitcom orphans popping up. Two Office people on New Girl, as well as Don't Trust the B woman, as Jess's co-workers.

We just watched the first few episodes of New Girl, and the actor change between the pilot and the second episode totally baffled. Like, the other plot threads from the pilot continued from the pilot, but all of a sudden the black sporty roommate is replaced by a new black sporty roommate with no explanation. At first I was like, "is this supposed to be the same character?", but it was said he's just returning from Latvia, where's he's been playing basketball for the last two years. Couldn't they have just added one bit of dialogue, where one of the two other guys says something like, "Since Coach moved to Chicago, we thought Winston could take his room", to explain it?

i thought they did explain it?

i thought i remembered some tossed off thing about the other guy leaving and the new guy showing up.

New terrible movie discovery of the weekend -- Solar Crisis!

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Solar_Crisis/60001494?locale=en-US

As I put it last night:

So back in 1990 a film called _Solar Crisis_ about blowing up a solar flare with an asteroid or something, filmed with a bunch of generoactors plus Tim Matheson, Peter Boyle, Charlton Heston and Jack Palance, was made for $55 million and barely released. But joy! It's on Netflix! It also pretty much predicted every last original movie SyFy has ever released, and includes a Salvation Army band of THE FUTURE playing in front of IXL Headquarters, located in Las Vegas. So, a documentary.

And it's ALMOST ILX as the evil company, so.

The Wikipedia details of the plot really don't do it justice. Palance essentially does a riff on Crazy Dennis Hopper in the Desert.

and obviously the wayans guy would have been nick's childhood friend too if he had stuck around. i just went with it. i'm used to that happening from pilot to first episode anyway.

i thought i remembered some tossed off thing about the other guy leaving and the new guy showing up.

There was no explanation to what happened to old guy, that's why I was so baffled. At first I was like, is this supposed to be the same character, only they changed the actor, since I know that can sometimes happen in TV series.... But when it turned out the new guy's name and background were different to the old guy, I figured it must be a new character, the old character had just mysteriously disappeared.

no, they did have a line in the second episode about Coach (Wayans) having to move away blah blah blah

it does happen a lot-- I remember in the pilot episode of "Raising Hope" they had a cousin living at the house, then in the second episode they mention that the cousin joined a cult and moved away.

Don't Trust the B woman, as Jess's co-workers

oh yeah, thanks for reminding me that i have to give The Mindy Project... another chance... for Adam Pally

A character vanished after the Weeds pilot, banished offhandedly to "boarding school in Mexico". Happens all the time.

I guess no one has repped for Ice-T's doc the Art of Rap yet? It's surprisingly great. Just rappers talking about their craft and rapping acapella.

I've been waiting to see that, the stuff I'd read about sounded like it was going to be p cool

more like the cart of crap

Watched Crips and Bloods: Made in America the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4pP-1NWoA

It was decent. I watched an independent, very low-budget documentary on them a really long time ago on YouTube that was grittier and really placed you into their world. I forgot the name of it, but it was better.

I'll probably watch World's Most Dangerous Gangs next, which is about MS-13.

But I really want to see Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2GY1H6tbnY

wanna watch something with the kids tonight and i have a hard time finding stuff that i wanna watch and that they would like. we watched war games last week. that was fun.

time bandits?

looove time bandits