Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I wouldn't say UKS gets better necessarily, but then I really enjoyed the first one anyway, Jane Krakowski is basically just playing Jenna Maroney again, and I can do without the step-daughter sub-plot, but the Kimmy/Titus/Lillian scenes are pretty much always really good.

Only watched first ep. I am high on 21st century Martin Short after watching "Inherent Vice" so if he's coming up I'll give it a shot.

OK ep 2 substantially superior to ep 1 and there wasn't even any landlady or Martin Short in it!

episode three had ma laughing and laughing.

had ME laughing and laughing...

there was one line where she talks about seeing a monkey in the zoo and she says something like: yes, that's right, the monkey was female - women can be anything these days!

and i just kept laughing and laughing every time i thought of it.

Martin Short's character in this is one of the craziest, funniest things he's ever done I think.

it's up there for sure.

i discovered that Il Sorpasso is on Hulu now, one of my all time faves

Baz Luhrman + "a ragtag crew of South Bronx teens":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEbRXzKu__8

excited about that. but 2016?

man that's gonna be so bad

Moulin Rouge meets 80 Blocks From Tiffanys.

not going to damn it from a 20 sec trailer just yet

damning it by the mix of director and subject matter.

forks otm

Les Demoiselles de Rochfort is now on Netflix USA, Hard Target is now on Netflix UK. Would struggle to pick a favourite there.

Let me help you out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STL7nx3zg40

the rattle bite is so classic

I only know the soundtrack album of demoiselles but those songs are killllerrrrr

Why does everyone love this Unbreakable show so much? The jokes are snappy but the acting is terrible, the delivery is terrible, and everything between the jokes is terrible and over acted or broad or whatever the technical term is.

did you watch 30 Rock? it was equally cartoonish in style.

No.

you should, it's funny.

i watched two episodes of unbreakable, i'm done now.
Force Majeure just went up.

just binge-watched all of broad city up to its current episode, and i tried the unbreakable kimmy schmidt tonight and it seemed so try-hard and not-funny in comparison. i think broad city has ruined me for all other comedies.

everyone should really just start with episode 3 of kimmy. the first two are not great. it gets way better. this is the last time i will say this on here, i promise!

i watched the french Point Blank last night. really dug that. although i couldn't help think about who they were gonna get for an american version. liam neeson probably a little old to be playing a student nurse. they could make him a doctor though...

but anyway if you like good lean & mean action movies, that one is a good one.

staying away from the kimmy thread until i've finished the series but omg martin short

id recommend staying away from the kimmy thread period, it is basically half "i enjoyed this show" and half "if you enjoyed this show you are an irredeemable racist" which i now realize is kind of a recurring theme across much of ilx so i guess post retracted

ok yes that sounds like good advice

I watched almost all of Kimmy Schmidt last night and I like it but I don't think I ever actually had a real, deep laugh while watching it. It's amusing. I'm also jaded.

it helps if you have a big pot brownie. i thought i was gonna die the night i watched 8 in a row.

i watched a horrible nic cage movie last night. i guess i was feeling masochistic. i mean, i watched Salesman and F For Fake on Hulu a couple of days ago, so maybe i thought i was watching too many good movies. anyway, this movie was kinda like a movie that usually stars a professional wrestler or a mixed martial arts fighter, but it had nic cage in it instead. and danny glover! poor danny glover...the "surprise" in this movie was not a surprise if you have ever watched more than one episode of Law & Order, but the "surprise" made everything that happened in the movie completely senseless and pointless. like the movie! which is kind of a meta-take on a movie like this. in a way. i just kept starring at nic's hair. and hairline. and his face. his weird lumpy face. he screamed and cried so much in this movie. it was like a liam neeson revenge movie without the subtlety. peter stormare plays a gangster in a wheelchair and in five minutes his accent goes from russian to irish to bronx to marbles and it is really something to see.

"staring" not "starring". but his hair is kinda the star these days.

Kimmy is no Broad City, but I enjoy it in a comfort giggle tomato soup kind of way.

I laughed atypically hard at Kimmy Schmidt.

I really didn't like the pilot of broad city, should I have persevered? is it on netflix? unbreakable is making my gf LOL on the reg, and she is obsessed with the theme song

holy shit that theme song gets stuck in my head all day

broad city is on hulu - highly recommend it

broad city is good if you don't like workaholics or girls or one of the dozen brit lad shows. or the new girl.

am i the only person who liked the wrong mans? can't remember it being mentioned on ilx but i never searched for it on here...

i like girls, and love the first couple of seasons of new girl.

i didn't get past the Broad City pilot either. maybe i'll give it another chance someday, it's on amazon prime

everyone should really just start with episode 3 of .... the first two are not great. it gets way better.

This seems like a recurring theme with so much TV. "Skip the first couple of episodes! Skip the entire first season!" Etc.

rectify s. 2 is up

Don't skip the first season.

It's a recurring theme because all but a very few shows take a few episodes or an entire season to get cast/writers/etc to gel

I don't believe in skipping. You should just tough it out - incredibly few shows (sitcoms especially) are good straight out of the gate and take several eps to find their footing
xp yeah

yea. Early episodes have to do a lot of explaining and introducing. this makes them worse, but they are important.