Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Ha, me too. Loved the stilted formal to the point of surreal dialogue. "Mr Smith, would you please retrieve the flask jammed inside the cage of my ribs?"

tbh when Bone Tomahawk went to full gore I about puked

It's pretty eye-poppingly gross!

Guys, "Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films" is a blast.

― circa1916, Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:12 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seconded

― Are you fondeling the computer. (stevie), Friday, December 18, 2015 3:21 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was so much fun

I "watched" Bone Tomahawk, i.e. I fast forwarded through the gross stuff. I don't understand people.

tbh when Bone Tomahawk went to full gore I about puked

― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, January 8, 2016 10:07 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i was pretty blindsided by it

well u guys are making me feel great about seeing this at MoMA next week; i wonder how their 87-year-old patrons will react.

I fast forwarded through the gross stuff.

not permitted btw

'gross stuff' was one scene tbf, but good luck!

heartily rec 'adult world,' now up

better Cusack than the B.Wilson movie anyhoo

What Happened Miss Simone? was a revelation for me. Wonderful film.

Was sort of disappointed with Queen of Earth.

Best of Enemies and the Cannon doc were both entertaining.

did you guys watch Slow Learners or Guidance yet? who am i supposed to talk to about these things?

I watched Slow Learners. Chuckled a few times.

you had to have laughed at the very beginning when he asks the bad date what his problem was? in the restaurant? that kinda killed me.

seemed like a very improv-y movie. in a good way.

Could have used less improv-ing and more improving

i should always remember what a tough crowd you guys are...

Liked Bone Tomahawk although Patrick Wilson was totally ridiculous and it's pretty deeply albeit slightly hilariously offensive.

Uh, they had the scene with a Native American saying "these monsters aren't representative of us. They are monsters."

and P Wilson has Fargo cred so

you had to have laughed at the very beginning when he asks the bad date what his problem was? in the restaurant? that kinda killed me.

― scott seward, Saturday, January 9, 2016 8:23 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh god yes that brought back some painful first date memories

Uh, they had the scene with a Native American saying "these monsters aren't representative of us. They are monsters."

― Sorkinspeak coaxed out Oscar begging near the tabs of Link Wray (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, January 9, 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Claiming they're just some bad apple tribe seems like a weak balm for the racist craziness to follow.

Well, some of the characters are more or less racist. But they don't even really call them a bad apple tribe, just these weird freaks of nature. They call them Troglodytes. They eat people and roar.

Detectorists!!!!! Best dramedy I've seen in ages.

Yes.

yeah, that's a fun one.

have watched a couple raw meat episodes. i dig it.

it's on Hulu but if you like Germany before the wall fell and intrigue and Reagan nostalgia and wall to wall synth-pop and Nena then you might like Deutschland 83.

only 8 episodes too so not endless.

Detectorists, yes!
"Is he allowed to talk?"

In the Basement
http://www.netflix.com/title/80016415
haven't seen it yet, but i love this director

New series in French coming in May:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseille_(TV_series)

I watched S1 of the Great British Baking Show in like less than 2 days

Damn that show is lovely

Could not agree more! My bf and I very much enjoyed watching this slowly only when we were together, which stretched it out. Pleasantly paced, not crazy, not extremely competitive, nice slow shots. My only complaint is WHO was putting ENORMOUS JEANS on all the female presenters???!

re jeans -- i said p much the exact same thing to my sis (who recommended the show to me) and she said that they have been wearing the same outfits for every season of the show so maybe it's their own thing??

yeah i enjoyed that one a lot too, wish they had more seasons up

omg yes enormous jeans. wtf

also i love how mary berry pronounces layers as "lairs"

i forgot how ott european baking is. some of the cakes they made in the technical challenges were nuts!

Clear up sleepy jeans

Bake-off is one of the best things on UK TV. So gentle, and also baking is fascinating.

i know you'll kill me for saying this, stevie, but i can't separate the rise in popularity of baking with the rise in popularity of the tories

one is due to yeast, the other due to self-interest

got showtime via hulu so i will be off of netflix for a while. watching ray donovan. which is very watchable. then probably watch homeland. after that i dunno. don't think i need to watch the american shameless. might just watch ray and homeland and get rid of showtime.

(then i'll probably get hbo go for PS4 for awhile....)

( i might get a little overloaded if i do the hbo thing. been thinking about watching sopranos again...and the wire....and then there are all the other hbo shows i've never seen....)

We Need To Talk About Kevin was good stuff. Never have kids IMO

i watched some ultraviolent salma hayek movie the other night. i wouldn't recommend it. i watched basically to see salma kick ass but it's one of those post-hostel/grindhouse torture-y things that are all the rage now. she does kick a lot of ass though. it's all set in one apartment. someone should take it to broadway.

enjoyed Bone Tomahawk as its dialogue cogently expressed the problem with the West. "NOT Indians! IDIOTS!"

Saw it on the big screen at MoMA though, authentic Manhattan patrons running for the exits can't be beat.

We Need To Talk About Kevin was one of the worst things ever filmed (at least the first half hour, bcz i'm old and sick).

It's absolutely awful and it boggles the mind that Lynne Ramsay made it.

also watched welcome to me and i wanted to like it more but the tone and execution was not good. they could have gone a lot darker and they kinda kept one foot in frothy wiig comedy land. i saw the potential. also people doing phony crazy people bugs me sometimes.

got showtime via hulu so i will be off of netflix for a while. watching ray donovan. which is very watchable. then probably watch homeland. after that i dunno. don't think i need to watch the american shameless. might just watch ray and homeland and get rid of showtime.

― scott seward, Monday, January 18, 2016 9:37 AM (2 hours ago)

Jon Voigt is so great in it! I've watched all the ray donovan seasons and all the homeland seasons, and yeah, not sure what else there is on showtime i want to see.

showtime shows seem to start strong and then devolve into a string of unlikely sex scenarios by season 2. I enjoyed Happyish, though.