Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

there is still funny stuff. there is always funny. it is definitely the age of awkwardness though. awkward situations. uncomfortable moments. squirming. worrying. not a lot of pies in the face.

i really liked River; did any of you guys like river? mental ill white man.

i hadn't seen much Workaholics past the first season and i put on a later episode and there was a scene where all three Workaholics guys were masturbating in a car together. it wasn't a pie in the face, but it was uh memorable.

none of these shows are as good at awkward terrible depressed males as Peep Show, it should be said

that show is incredible

feel like everything in comedy nowadays is about fragile males and relationship troubles like the aziz show and love and it absolutely does not connect with me at all and i hate modern comedy basically.

In this vein, I've started DVRing Dawson's Creek and The OC because some channel shows 1 and 3 of each every afternoon. I miss shows being so earnest. Even the teen/twentysomething shows to day are either awkward or jaded.

Freaks and Geeks would be a good antidote to that. (Unless it counts as awkward.)

If i can't stand James Franco, will I be able to enjoy Freaks and Geeks?

I think so, he wasn't really the current version then.
I was a bigger fan of Undeclared but that's a much lighter, goofier comedy.

Freaks and Geeks was wonderful and Franco was wonderful in it.

feel like everything in comedy nowadays is about fragile males and relationship troubles like the aziz show and love and it absolutely does not connect with me at all and i hate modern comedy basically.

Seems to me there are two strains in comedy tv--yeah, these shows featuring stand-ups (Louie, Maron, Aziz, etc.) about their emotions & luv troubles & then the shows coming more out of UCB/Improv scenes (Broad City, Kimmy Schimt, all the Paul Scheer stuff, etc.)

i can't stand either of those strains

Abso Lutely Productions (Tim & Eric, Eric Andre, Review, Nathan For You, etc.) is another strain, I think.

Review def falls in the UCB/Improv realm

Andy Daly is the king of that world

Bad people behaving badly is another strain - You're The Worst, Man Seeking Woman, Casual, etc.

those are in the relationship context, the bad people behaving badly within no main context has Always Sunny in its park

The League has a context but is prob in that ballpark

I wouldn't put Man Seeking Woman in that category at all. It's its own wonderful thing.

and Archer

so Bad People Behaving Badly is p. much FX/FXX

I like MSW (not as much as YTW) but it definitely has an upending the sitcom status quo/'oh no they didn't just do/say that' vibe to it

Wait what do we think about "The Characters"? I watched 1 1/2 of these and kind of loved them.

the last Maron special that was on lolEpix is on Hulu now btw

Haven't watched what the special to know what they cut and left in, but I saw that set and he was magnificent.

what

I love Archer, all of it
Couldn't get into Bojack Horseman
Will Arnett show made me want to punch all the guys in the balls, fuck that show, maybe if it were a cartoon parody of itself it'd work

wow, rrrrrobyn loves archer too? maybe i'll have to watch it. sad that ian's word wasn't good enough, but he's a dodgy brooklynite.

when ppl are not sure about archer i suggest they watch the SKYTANIC episode because it is a neat package of things that Archer does well -- spy movie parody, the hilarity of infidelity, and also history jokes.

or this clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCvBUHMB8ZY

If archer is like always sunny in Philadelphia then I will hate it with a white hot hate. Didn't someone say it was like always sunny?

it's less mean than always sunny, but perhaps more risque.

lol I wondered when rrrobyn was going to show up to divulge her Archer love

I'm not sure why, but I get occasional Sealab 2021 vibes from Archer. Maybe it's the spy uniforms.

Sealab had the same creator, Adam Reed.

oh, duh

have I ever mentioned how much I loved Sealab?

i usually don't like most shows where everyone is mean to each other Archer is just so entertaining to me. I also like that each episode is an ADVENTURE and the jokes are snappy and a mix of highbrow, pop culture and toilet humour. Also I like the illustration style and the actors.

Netflix admissions of shame: I watched all of White Collar (it took a while), partly because each ep is an adventure and partly because it reminded me of a squeaky clean network version of Archer or something, so my mind filled in the show's boring aspects with an imagined Archer background.

xp hahaa robyn save an archer

<3 sealab <3

i enjoyed archer a lot but missed a couple of seasons and haven't felt the urgency to catch up. it's not nearly as much "get a load of these assholes"'as the other "get a load of these assholes" shows which tbh i've kinda had my fill of (unless they bring some else/more to the table like broad city). if you enjoyed koth you'll like bob's burgers a lot i think, lotta warmth underneath it all. i got hulu so i keep meaning to watch more criterion collection but instead i just end up watching agent carter.

also if you don't enjoy the dumb animal jokes and the showbiz humor i don't know if i would recommend keeping on keeping on w/ bojack but that thing is the most surprisingly accurate depiction of depression i can think of right now, really hits you out of left field.

Netflix admissions of shame: I watched all of White Collar (it took a while)

No shame!!! White Collar was a FAR better show than it had any right to be given the channel it was on!! The dialogue was always snappy, the timing was amazing, and Thiessen ALONE was a revelation. Her relationship w hubby Peter Burke made that show live and breathe.

I mainlined that shit up until the latest season, when I swear something had to have happened because everyone started acting totally out of character and just delivering lines all over each other that made no sense. I tried to stick it out but I was so offended and embarrassed for the characters as if they were real people behaving badly.

It really was far better than it had a right to be, yes! There was some great writing/plot developments going on in several episodes in the middle seasons too. Also it's in NYC = bonus points.

I don't know why I called him her "hubby," I hate that word. It's that they are exactly the kind of square couple that would probably call each other that and other stupid names (I think they do actually??) and you still love them. Despite being the "bad" establishment figures compared to the swashbuckler/hero con-man, you just love TAT and Burke so much.

Partly because if you have ever been a boss you probably hate Neal so much.

i watched almost all of burn notice til i checked out in the last season. it went from a breezy romp to a show about feelings and serious things kind of quickly towards the end, that wasn't what i wanted from that show.

i also watched a lot of sons of anarchy, probably the most garbage "acclaimed" cable show of recent years.

I loved the first two seasons of Burn Notice! And then stopped watching

I was watching that terrible show Shadowhunters - genuine Netflix of shame - and my bf yelled out, kind of incredulously, from the other room "It sounds like you're watching total garbage!" Teen tv garbage filmed in Toronto and featuring many vampires etc with Canadian accents! So bad.

Sons of Anarchy was some hot, hot garbage, I'd make it through half the last couple of seasons and give up and then grudgingly watch them when they hit Netflix.

i made it through as much burn notice and SoA as i could but those things go on forever.

also the jim caviezel one with Lost dude. watched a bunch of those but there was no way i could do like 7 seasons.