Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

It makes me so hungry!

was rooting for Martha tbh

i have baked 2 weekends in a row bc of this show, lol

is there anything more than just that one season of the British Baking Show? NEED MORE.

i think the one netflix has isn't even the first season, it's the third or fourth. maybe they'll get more?

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It seems impossible to find the first few seasons in the US, which is unacceptable.

baking gal giving me a Phyliis Diller vibe

mary berry is like a mecha version of my grandmother & her friends

prim proper ladies who are very serious about spongecake

i love the old scottish feller who recited robert burns

british desserts are the most alien thing, "today you're going to make a multi-tiered honeycomb fruit biscuit but you must incorporate a design using blackberry mincemeat pudding, and it must be in the shape and color of the boathouse at westminster abbey"

euro desserts in general are crazy

i've noticed a lot more bakeries selling kouign amann after it was featured on that show

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034dy9k

like sue perkins, can't stand mary berry's other sidekick

british desserts are the most alien thing, "today you're going to make a multi-tiered honeycomb fruit biscuit but you must incorporate a design using blackberry mincemeat pudding, and it must be in the shape and color of the boathouse at westminster abbey"

in our defence literally nobody eats anything like this, its just to make the challenges harder i think.

i wish there was more than one bread round, but that's just my own personal baking preference at play.

trace, do you mean paul hollywood? i've warmed to his curmudgeonness as the series has progressed but his own series on bread was p bad, and i think he's quite charmless outside of bake-off.

no he's a necessary cowell figure, i mean the other woman

i find the one with specs annoying in her constant bad punning, but ultimately she's endearing.

yes that's sue perkins

it appears i'm talking about Mel Giedroyc

My sister kept talking about the great British baking show, which at the time dominated British life with insane "MASH"-like ratings. So we watched the first few eps of the first season, and apparently it gets slicker as it goes on, because the first few eps were basically like watching a dry documentary about baking bread. My kids were all wtf and made me put something else on, all the while with my sister insisting that it gets better.

netflix has attenborough's:

frozen planet

frozen planet: on thin ice

frozen planet: the epic journey

the making of frozen planet

should i watch them all?

Better Call Saul s1 is up.

apparently s2 of Saul will air on Netflix the day after it airs on tv

Really enjoyed a few docs I've seen on Netflix about the film industry:

Electric Boogaloo - about the studio who released a bunch of infamous b-movies back in the 80s (Masters of the Universe, Death Wish, etc).

Lost Soul - About the making of the Island of Dr. Moreau and all its craziness. I highly recommend this one. So entertaining throughout.

three hannibal buress specials i haven't seen up...

UK people, that electric boogaloo documentary is on film 4 next Friday

Better Call Saul is not enjoyable at all. At all! Alternately slow and painful, each making you wish for the other in turn. Starting ep 3 against my better judgement.

i think that, as is the custom, the season gets more enjoyable as it goes on. i loved it from the jump though.

I just finished Better Call Saul season 1 and liked it a lot, but it was definitely much darker than I was expecting. In many ways, I think Breaking Bad was a generally broader, wackier show, although often very grim as well.

everyone i've talked to lately likes BCS better than BB because it's funnier, subtler, and has deeper characterization.

yeah i'm well into the first season, having just started last week, and i was also surprised by the darkness, and also like it better

feels stylistically/aesthetically very much a continuation of the later BB seasons --- in BB it was sorta obvious that the show took a turn and, while gracefully done in the main, you could tell that someone had said "maybe let's take this in a different direction". BCS has been a lot more coherent in tone, which imo has worked in its favor

Loved BCS, probably more than BB. Very subtle, very patient, great acting/writing/direction. It's as if they learned from the one major mistake BB made, which is to make Walt pretty much instantly malevolent/malignant. He's great and a great character, but not unlike the Nicholson character in "The Shining." If you start out over the top, there are not a lot of places to bring the character. Iirc, by episode 2 he's already dissolving bodies in chemicals. Whereas BCS, it takes its sweet time, intentionally, to make the most of each character beat and development. Like a really good movie.

not worth a new thread and it was mentioned earlier in here - Billions is so, so awful. I bailed when episode 2 introduced a lesbians doing coke off each other blackmail plot.

Eh, Disagree overall, but I'll concede the plot is hacky and obvious. But Giamatti is so good.

And I'll watch pretty much anything with Maggie siff.

i couldnt even make it thru ep 1 of billions

actually, tbh i cant even stomach the commercial for it (saw ~8 seconds of the "metallica" ad)

Loved BCS, probably more than BB. Very subtle, very patient, great acting/writing/direction. It's as if they learned from the one major mistake BB made, which is to make Walt pretty much instantly malevolent/malignant. He's great and a great character, but not unlike the Nicholson character in "The Shining." If you start out over the top, there are not a lot of places to bring the character. Iirc, by episode 2 he's already dissolving bodies in chemicals. Whereas BCS, it takes its sweet time, intentionally, to make the most of each character beat and development. Like a really good movie.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, February 8, 2016 6:52 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same!

they're doing a pretty deft job of making jimmy's transformation subtle and always in character. his worst choices are made impulsively or by some fingers-crossed i think i'm doing the right thing motivation, and not obviously due to some latent mean-streak/capacity for evil (like it was for walt). his slowly piling up merely not as bad choices flow naturally from his general comportment, and would be less consequential if the stakes weren't getting higher and higher.

it's certainly making the platonic everyman lawyer saul of BB more plausible --- tacky but successful and almost certainly shady criminal defense lawyer with a heart of gold and who can somehow make you feel like he honestly just kept getting mixed up with the wrong crowd and making do because isn't that what you would've done c'mon

Billions is kinda like Dynasty or something. i mean it's that level of camp/OTT.

i have a problem with whatshisface's face. the rich guy. hard to watch. and then i got depressed cuz i was totally gonna watch Homeland on Showtime and forgot he is also in that.

harry and tonto is streaming and its the best movie

i have a problem with whatshisface's face. the rich guy. hard to watch. and then i got depressed cuz i was totally gonna watch Homeland on Showtime and forgot he is also in that.

I thought he was great in Band of Brothers (like 15 years ago, shit) but now it's like he had a stroke and one half of his mouth is permanently clenched.

he's british too, right? the brits have stolen all the best american asshole roles. trump should look into that. build a wall or something.

Ooh I really don't like that guy either! I had to bail on Homeland early on because I kept wanting to punch him in the head. And I thought that would make him a tolerable heavy in Billions but nope.

Also I know Paul Giamatti is supposed to be Laurence Olivier or whatever but jesus can he occasionally dial it down a little. Guy's intensity is unmodulated, all the way up. I can't take him seriously anymore.

"I'm an act-or!"

all his guys are the same guy.

surprised he hasn't done waiting for godot with kevin spacey yet.

i do want to keep my good memories of american splendor though.

He was good in Win Win