Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

You kind of get used to the acting on Man in the High Castle after a while. I also kind of like how all the bad actors are American and they somehow managed to get mostly good actors for all the Japanese and Nazi roles. Somehow feels right for a Philip K Dick adaptation.

I couldn't even get into Breaking Bad, but I'm really enjoying BCS. I started watching it on the laptop two days ago and am already on E7. It's fun to listen Bob Odenkirk talk. What year is it supposed to be set in?

― Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Sunday, February 14, 2016 10:09 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

breaking bad was fairly one note until saul goodman showed up. I try to rewatch BB every few months or so but cant make it past a couple of episodes. Id probably have better luck start with the first saul episode.

also rewatching S1 of BCS but crazy excited for S2 tonight!

oh also, thanks to whomever recommend the the Great British Baking Show. I was hooked from the start and ended up watching the whole season over the weekend.

big baking crush on chetna.

http://images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/117/photos/943000/143943.jpg

she had the best expressions. hung out with my mom the last three days and finished that season at her house.

wish there were more seasons on netflix.

has her own youtube channel if you are a chetnamaniac.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQA_Di4tqU

Chetna! yes! also just crazy for Martha.

Woah...just googled and found all of season 2 for free on pbs.org: http://www.pbs.org/show/great-british-baking-show/episodes/

they all had great shoes too....luis' blue suede adidas orginals (Gazelles I think), chetna's tangerine chucks, etc.

Has anyone watched Mozart in the Jungle on Amazon?

i started better call saul. i do love bob. i am a little burnt out on shows based on damage control after watching three seasons of ray donovan. and watching fargo. so many messes to clean up so quickly. i got good wife fatigue after however many seasons. so many fires to put out. i blame breaking bad. or the sopranos. they make me edgy. kinda make me want to clean the house too. but usually i just keep watching t.v. (i realize that cliffhangers are as old as time. i'd just like something to go smoothly one in a while. i end up thinking that the good wife lawyers are actually the WORST lawyers. and the sons of anarchy are definitely the worst criminals. they can't shoplift a pack of gum without a body count.)

Trophy Kids

half way through and already hate pretty much all these parents, except the hippie new age mother, she's pretty hilarious

Love is... not impressive, 2 eps in. Cast are good, but it feels a little perfunctory and overlong and not funny enough, like mediocre Apatow.

i don't like the main guy. i kinda want bad things to happen to him. i stopped watching and went and read a book. talking about Love...

the volume difference is so extreme with soft talking and then loud special effects

This is a serious problem we've also had watching Netflix on the big teevee. Mixing which sounds okay on the laptop comes across as completely bad and insane on a real screen with real speakers. You know what productions don't have this problem, ever? Disney properties.

ours defaults to 5:1 but we only have stereo. I always have to reselect stereo rather than 5:1, and it rarely cures the loudness issues.

Love is short on really funny parts in the first three episodes, and it fundamentally bothers me that the show is largely about a scrawny low-achieving spineless dweeb in his early thirties who goes from one ridiculously attractive woman to another (stopping over in between to be propositioned for a threesome by foxy college students).

But I'll still watch the whole thing, because I'm a sucker and because I want to see what happens with Mickey's roommate.

It gets better with episode 4, tbh. I'm warming to the dweeb too. Episode 5 has a great premise. But like a lot of this Netflix/Amazon stuff, it seems as if it needs a good edit.

watched the first episode of the returned. the french show. like air were the french band. don't know if i want to keep going. but nicely moody.

the hannibal buress netflix special was...kinda meh?

watched the first episode of the returned. the french show. like air were the french band. don't know if i want to keep going. but nicely moody.

It keeps getting better and better...until is gets drastically worse.

Guys I don't know if it has been mentioned upthread but has anyone seen MAD DOGS on Amazon yet? Oh my god this show, it's like quicksand. Ten episodes with weird murderer's row of veteran supporting-role bro's (Micheal Imperioli, Steve Zahn, Ben Chaplin). Somebody please watch this.

It says a lot about how much tv people watch that service providers can generate content like this w/ zero advertising—just throw it at the wall and see if it sticks. This was one of the dozen or so pilots Amazon put up to subscriber vote last year or the year before, Man in the High Castle was another....

yea ive been interested in that since it dropped but just haven't gotten to it

i laughed a lot @ the hannibal special fwiw

good, run do not walk

word thx

yeah, I thought it was pretty funny

"It keeps getting better and better...until is gets drastically worse."

argh! i hate when that happens...

i watched like half of all three hannibal specials.

thought second episode of Love was great. blu-ray scene was very cathartic.

It keeps getting better and better...until is gets drastically worse.

this. worth soldiering on till the last throes of the first season though.

Watched Love. Hope in season two a meteorite kills every character except Bertie and Grandpa the cat, and the show focuses on them.

love is ok, disposable. I like the idea of ppl wanting to watch this & pulling up the gaspar noe film by mistake

watched a few mad dogs also, I dig it alright feels a bit like a breaking bad

I remember Tom E wrote about redefining guilty pleasures as (I'm paraphrasing) something that was specifically marketed and created to appeal to you, but you like anyway - that's kind of how I feel about Love. I shouldn't enjoy it but I do. It's very appealing without actually being good.

I fear Mad Dogs because the original John Simm version was so, so bad.

i didn't know what to watch last night and was having prestige t.v. anxiety so i just watched a couple episodes of Supernatural.

not Netflix, but I was excited to see that season 3 of The Americans is now available on amazon prime. Also Chi-Raq and the Amy Winehouse doc.

I half get it, but the late addition of the previous season of a show only a couple of weeks or days before the new season premieres makes me irrationally angry.

I'm guessing the idea is to create hype for the next season, maybe if you see it too far ahead, you'll be less inclined to pay actual money to see new episodes. Personally, I'm just very patient and will wait a full year after something airs to get to see if for free.

yeah, i don't get why they don't add it at least a month ahead of time to build up hype for the next season. a couple days makes you have to burn through a whole season/series in a weekend which is hard to commit to off the bat

Detectorists (mentioned upthread) is great. Mackenzie Crook very against Office-type (and I guess Pirates of the Caribbean type too).

Caught up on Broadchurch. What's next for depressing overseas crime/social rot wallowing? The Fall?

yes! Fall is pretty great

at least the first season of the fall....

I've said it before but it can't be said enough: the ending to the first season of Broadchurch is the worst ending to any season of any show I've ever watched at least one season of.

It was the "and eventually they were rescued by, oh, let's say...Moe" of dramatic denouements.

the original version of The Bridge is pretty good for that (xp Jon)

Caught up on Broadchurch. What's next for depressing overseas crime/social rot wallowing? The Fall?

― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Monday, February 22, 2016 10:39 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

happy valley

Mad Dogs has its moments, there's an A Simple Plan vibe to it, but 3.5 episodes in it's not got any rhythm. Everything situation is just one-upping whatever came before without any kind of release, with dislikable characters that's kind of boring.