Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Though possibly not a suitable alternative to Pingu.

watched that wes anderson movie with rufus this morning. the moon one. we enjoyed it. in a low-key way. i did love the look of the whole thing.

it doesn't really require much in the way of an emotional response from the viewer. which i appreciated because it was early and i was groggy.

it's great! it was the best Anderson movie in a long time by my count. the kids in it gave good fun performances

Wait does that mean you didn't like Fantastic Mr Fox?!?!

That's his best movie imo and the run after it is all pretty good. Before FMF I only really like Royal Tennenbaums.

I didn't like FMF except the actual animation & modelling. moonrise is my favorite of recent years

i admire how much effort he puts into things. i get all the twee salinger criticisms of his stuff, and he has probably inspired a lot of bad ukulele covers of french ye-ye songs but that's not his fault. i didn't like the one on the train. but i remember liking bottle rocket and rushmore and tennenbaums when they were out. i never saw the aquatic one or the hotel one. but i would totally watch them if they were on netflix. they work better if you just look at them as an art project. instead of great drama/storytelling/acting/etc. it is weird how the moonrise movie was so often on the VERGE of being funny, but then pulled back at the last second. very measured. seems like it should have been more madcap than it was. it did remind me of a weird old kid's book sorta. those kid's book covers in the movie were inspired.

the 4 yr old is obsessed with Puffin Rock, an Irish animated show. Puffins with Irish accents hanging out on an island having various chill adventures. thumbs up!

What seems bizarre is that Netflix's predictions of what star ratings I'd give things are usually very accurate, to within half a star, and yet its recommendation engine just keep shovelling up crap to me that it fully expects me to give 2 stars to, and that I'd only watch with a gun to my head.

There's another Irish animated show your kid might like then, nomar: http://www.jakers.co.uk/parentsteachers/program/images/slide_1.jpg

That Puffin Rock thing is made by the same animation studio that made Song of the Sea and Secret of the Kells! Neat.

"Piggly winks" just seems to be the cutest possible combination of syllables.

Watched 'The One I Love' tonight, really liked it. Mark Duplass was just okay but Elisabeth Moss was outstanding. Did a great job of ratcheting up the tension.

started watching Person Of Interest. so far so ridiculous. but i dig it. in a comic book way. whatshisface really does sound like he's auditioning for Batman.

― scott seward, Friday, September 4, 2015 5:32 AM (1 month ago)

haha i've been watching this now ... he totally does this Clint Eastwood as Batman thing with his voice ... otm.

thanks for that recommendation, James!

Beasts Of No Nation is alright, quite moving at times and some brilliant young actors in it. I felt like it could have been more powerful if it was a bit more historically specific. Elba's performance was charismatic enough but I didn't find his character one iota convincing. Abraham Attah on the other hand, this kid was brilliant.

Watched Your Sister's Sister last night - Mark Duplass is just meh everyman as usual but Rosemarie DeWitt and Emily Blunt are quite good.

I still don't understand Mark Duplass is.. a thing

I want to like him, he used to be funny on The League and his WTF/Maron interview pointed to him having good intentions as a writer/director/performer, but he's terribly limited.

For sure, just goes as a sort of wide-eyed dude. Gotta imagine he's different in "Creep," though.

Love him on Mindy and that movie e Elizabeth Moss.

pretty much the same guy in that movie and Your Sister's Sister (and from what I gather most of his own films)

turns out that mumblecore-y (Joe Swanberg, Lynn Shelton, etc.) stuff is right up my alley when it looks half decent.

last week, i really enjoyed the 'bloodline' series.

anyone know if it has been signed up for a second season ?

i think he's great in togetherness xp

Have watched 4 lynn shelton movies in the last 2 weeks. Shes really good!

xxp from what i hear yes. still need to get around to Bloodline myself, was a huge fan of Damages

not a netflix rec, but amazon prime if you have it: 'catastrophe'. so so hilarious that i ended up buying sharon hogan's other show, 'pulling', which is also amazing.

so i'm back on this ish because now i switch/choose from all the different stuff that is on all 22 countries, which basically is just about everything.

the only bad thing is the japanese shows don't have subtitles, but it's still enjoyable

have you guys watched Scrotal Recall? i watched one episode. not bad as far as brits behaving badly shows go.

the duplass brothers suck real bad.

yeah

i ctrl+f'd hola and i'm pretty surprised i couldn't find any talk of it

anyway the hola extension can get you access to every country's netflix content. that's my rec!

on amazon prime, i recommend 'nameless gangster', which is a really good Korean gangster flick and has a great central performance by choi min-sik.

(Catastrophe about to start series 2 this week)

(Proper TV though, not Netflix)

curious as to when that's on Amazon... hopefully not after the full brit run

xpost Huh. Is that the first show to make the jump from original programming on a streaming service to TV proper?

Oh, wait. I didn't realize it was already an actual TV show on actual TV.

both seasons are on amazon but only the first is prime. i loved it so much that i paid for season 2.

it's the kind of thing i totally wouldn't look twice at, since i'm not really into sitcom episode formatting and it also didn't sound all that interesting, but we were looking for an easy show to watch and just happened upon it bc amazon was doing those big banner ads.

the only show i've watched that literally makes me lol multiple times is broad city.

is 'love soup' available anywhere? slightly high-concept romcom thing. series one was particularly groundbreaking - hour long episodes... some people might like it...

(one of the freeview channels is trailing a rerun and a quick search just finds me gushing about it)

Carastrophe is so good

I think Netflix's Alias Jessica Jones and the Amazon Man In The High Castle are both releasing the same day, the week before Thanksgiving. Hurray for a reason to avoid family.

finally watching black books. thanks, netflix!

also which of these t.v. shows are good to watch:

last tango in halifax

laid

midsomer murders

still game

top boy

utopia

crikey, 16 seasons of midsomer murders.

that's a lot of murders

have heard great things about still game.

i finished season 2 of The 100 last night. i'm probably the only one here who likes it. the heart wants what the heart wants. is clarke from the 100 a big deal in Australia? Neighbours is a huge deal there, right? i've heard of it and it's an australian soap opera so it must be pretty huge.