Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

To be fair, deej is ilxs grand master of inane beef so

Forks and I disagree about everything, knowing that how can this even be perceived as a diss

i have never noticed when i've disagreed with forks. anyway you're the worst is great regardless, "lcd soundsystem" was the best episode of tv i saw last year, maybe one of the best i've ever seen. i'll check out love as i generally enjoy things that "invert the dynamic of what i think it's about"

Agree w ppl above who say you need to make it to episode 4 to really enjoy "love"

Also think certain scenes could have used editing but whayyagonnado

I totally agree here - like, it's audacious and funny that the two main characters don't even meet until the very end of an overlong pilot episode, but it's also one of the things that made me not want to continue with this show, which doesn't really find its feet, its premise or its rhythm until the fourth episode. From then on, its really, really great, but it takes such a long wind-up to get there, and I think that's indicative of a kind of self-indulgence baked into the Netflix/Amazon original series format - that it doesn't have to compete in a rigid time-slot like a network show would have, that it is freer to be whatever it is or will become. But I feel only Transparent has really made a virtue of that so far, and much of the other series of that kind could have done with more discipline in the editing room, in the writing room, at the drawing board stage, whether its The Man In The High Castle spunking its budget on set design but not getting any decent actors, or Mr Robot's creator never being challenged on his slavish devotion to Fight Club, or Master Of None, which is not funny enough, certainly not dramatic enough, packed with shallow and uninteresting 'types' rather than characters ("Hello I am the streetwise lesbian here to give you advice from the streetwise lesbian perspective") and included that heinous and insulting 'feminism' episode, which should really have been drowned at birth.

Love is an immeasurably better series than Master Of None - it doesn't have that show's juvenile need to be cute and belief that that cuteness can help it escape any of the interesting corners the plots occasionally paint themselves into - but you wouldn't necessarily know that from the first three episodes. And I think its interesting that, at the end of the series, you realise the show is about something completely different than it seemed at first (it's much less rom-com than observation of addictive and unhealthy behavioural patterns), but I worry that many viewers wouldn't get that far.

i actually like how it's a switcheroo, like it draws you in w/ the standard will they or wont they and then flips it unexpectedly and subtly

watching now s2 is a huge step up for 'you're the worst' i will agree. i get why these two shows are compared, but while thematically similar in structure 'you're the worst' is way way closer to a sitcom and part of me wants to argue they're apples & oranges

"You're The Worst" is super sitcommy but has actually interesting things to say about how people behave, whereas "Love" presents as a realistic-ish drama even though it's character are basicially dumb TV trope stereotypes.

But both shows are fun.

"You're the Worst" is great, especially when their abrasives personalities gives way to the real feelings of inadequacy and loneliness they're suppressing.

So happy Finding Vivian Meyer is there. The story gets more and more complicated as it goes along. Last I heard the powers that be were seeking out some obscure second-cousin guy in France who may be her last surviving relative.

I think the proper route to go with these streaming service-exclusive shows is to treat the individual episodes less like standard TV episodes (because that's generally not the way they're consumed anymore) and more like chapters in a novel. So I definitely support the tendency to avoid tying up each installment in a tidy bow.

even though it's character are basicially dumb TV trope stereotypes.

― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, March 2, 2016 7:06 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmm i feel like the show goes out of its way to undermine this

Like how? Felt to me a bit like they were just substituting one set of tropes for another.

i watched more Love last night. i definitely dig it. i was stoned though, so, your mileage may vary. which is why the smoking pot part when he says "wow, you're really good at that. it's like watching my dad change a tire." made me laugh so hard.

Casual sucks because as far as bad people acting bad shows go the characters are just really gross and if you saw them in real life you would hate them. also i kept waiting for the sibling main characters to have sex. cuz they are icky like that.

everyone is gonna have their favorite one of these shows, i guess. if you like broad and buffoonish like trailer park boys and workaholics you probably won't like Love. but if you like Love you'll probably like You're The Worst. Broad City kinda beats them all in my opinion. but Love DOES get better after that first episode. you don't have to watch like FIVE episodes for it to get good. you can even skip the first episode and not miss anything!

wait, did you guys like Scrotal Recall? i only watched one episode.

ugh FINE you guys I will watch Love, geez

Broad City beats everything tbh

i just said that. stop copying me. mom, stevie's copying me!

yeah, but watch Love, Nhex. it's worth watching.

i did actually feel bad for the ex-girlfriend in the stoned episode. you could definitely see her point of view about him. especially when he starts whining. some really good lines in that show though. "they all look like the kids from the movie Kids all grown up."

So I ponied up for that showtime subscription via amazon and I actually really like Billions -- it's nice to watch a show like this that isn't about cops and/or people beating each other up a lot for a change.

i did actually feel bad for the ex-girlfriend in the stoned episode. you could definitely see her point of view about him. especially when he starts whining.

yeah, she's by no means the villain he portrays her to be.

broad city is ok but it still feels really sitcommy and upright citizens brigade to me, all these smart oddballs just tryin to catch a break in manhattan

broad city is awesome.

people tell me how great broad city is but every time i watch its filled with cringy youtube comedy and weird dubstep montages.

Broad City is amazing.

I am checking out Norwegian series Okkupert tonight, it's set in a fictional near future where the Norwegians elect The Green Party whose policies cause a Russian invasion to restore their oil production. I've not heard a thing about it other than it is quite high budget and has been sold to most of the world and netflix.

i need a streaming show, preferably more than one season available, that's pretty light dramedy or something. gilmore girls was good for this, so was bob's burgers, but now we're watching sex and the city for lack of anything better we can think of, and holy shit has that show dated badly.

i tell ya it seemed like science fiction to many nonrich people who lived in NYC at the time (eg, me)

yeah the money thing is a big wtf, but a lot of the sex stuff is really kind of prudish compared to now

possibly the influence of Ms Parker there

also peak AIDS was fairly fresh in mind

(and since the show was created and run by gay men they wanted to be 'responsible')

Hmmm. They're not on Netflix but Men Of A Certain Age and Bunheads and especially Enlightened filled that dramedy hole nicely. Better Call Saul is along those same lines (in no way requires that you've watched Breaking Bad and it's sooooooooo much more mellow than the former show). The UK Office if you haven't seen it yet. I'd say friggin' Roseanne (which I concluded on my most recent runthrough is probably one of the top five series ever through the first five or so seasons) but they only have some weird 'best of' thing on Netflix. Switched At Birth is pretty good in the Gilmore Girls mode but not terribly comedic.

Oh! I'd highly recommend Parks and Recreation if you haven't seen it yet.

didn't like switched at birth, done bunheads and parks&rec, enlightened must have gone right over my head bc i watched a few eps and did not get what all my friends were raving about. roseanne would actually be ideal!

Cheers. It is all on Netflix, it is all awesome.

Enlightened took me a while to get into but I think it's one of the greatest shows ever made

Enlightened is excellent. Getting into Comedy Bang Bang evening chat show surrealism atm.

UMS OTM. It takes a bit to find it's footing, but Enlightened is absolutely the best new show I've seen in the last five years.

Michael, it isn't streaming, but if you haven't seen The Eric Andre Show, you really need to get on that.

It's on Hulu. I think.

Oh yeah Ive seen bits of Eric Andre's show. Its incredible

dammit unblock-us has stopped working for me- guess netflix followed through on their promise to crack down on proxies. i'll miss the delights of mexican netflix most of all :(

if you like "britcoms" Black Books is on streaming.

black books is a++++

bizarro, there are tons of Mexican offerings on regular US Netflix.

I've already seen black books!

People have been saying good things about Detectorists on the UK dramedy series front. The first ep was pretty good.

I went into deep browse mode on Netflix's TV selections last night. Soooooo many things that never pop up in their home screen recommendations of the same fourteen shows. They have Rab C. Nesbitt! In the US!

every search term i put into Netflix brings up nothing but Peaky Blinders

I finally realized that, aside from Instantwatcher, the easiest way to see everything is to pull up the Netflix site on my PC, pick a category, and just scroll down ad infinitum. Every other route of ingress seems to just show you a random sampling of what they have (presumably based on prior viewing habits).

any further news on unblock.us? I struggled with it a little this afternoon, trying to watch UK stuff ironically, but then got it going on the US version. I've been waiting for that shoe to drop for a while, to be honest. Their twitter feed was full of people complaining about error messages this afternoon, and every response was a cut'n'paste "here is our customer services" link. Funnily enough, they are now unable to accept PayPal payments, so I wonder if the legality of their business model is becoming an issue...