Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I have some weird compulsion to watch american horror story. i think it's leftover stockholm syndrome from being taken to broadway musicals.

just watched season two of bosch on amazon when i was sick over the weekend, pretty enjoyable if a little weak. surprise matthew lillard casting!

gave up on SoA after that Ireland season, looks like i dropped out at the right time

totally agree on Burn Notice, lost too much of the fun. i forget exactly when I gave up, but it was probably around the second or third time Michael was allowed to come back to the CIA but everything went wrong again

something about Suits and White Collar just really turned me off. they seemed like fine above-mediocre shows, i just didn't enjoy them

also def. on board with that self destructive impulse to sit down and watch all of American Horror Story and Supernatural, someday

sons of anarchy is unredeemably bad and i feel bad for having watched it

burn notice has greatly diminishing returns but if you view it as an extended car commercial, it delivers more laughs

"when you're trying to make a getaway, you want a car that isn't too flashy but can make it around tight turns and can really accelerate"

*camera zooms in on back of car with hyundai logo*

Suits is my USA network guilty pleasure but not for either of the two lead dudes

I'm trying to remember what the name of this other cable detective show was in the last couple years. Just watched the first season and it was really boring, but the two detectives were very attractive. I think I just called it "attractive detective show" and I could kind of zone out and drink a couple beers
looked it up: "Murder in the First" with Kathleen Robertson and Taye Diggs. lol

oh yeah, I will also admit to watching Bates Motel. it's ok! probably going to completely jump the shark this season

Ah I might watch that.

Hahaa Supernatural... I watched 6 episodes too! now it sits in My List with all the rest of the things I don't want to watch but was like maaaybe...

I started reading books again

so none of you guys watched that movie about the gender-confused alcoholic former child star who pretends he's a guidance counselor and gets a job in a canadian high school? i liked that one. on netflix.

lilyhammer?

season two of Happy Valley!

i loved burn notice so much, it was so dumb & fun. got super boring in the end :/

soa was a guilty pleasure too, p much unsupportable but still <3

season 2 of happy valley v good! and as happy as ever

very excited about season 2 of happy valley. season 1 was some of the of the best tv i've ever seen.

i watched Headhunters tonight. the Norwegian movie. i enjoyed that. based on a jo nesbo book.

New Will Arnett show is unwatchable dreck, even worse than Love

Any of y'all watch Nikita? Some stuff I read suggested that the show just got better as it went on and ramped up to awesome in the final season. But I'd still like more input before committing to multiple seasons of a show I know very little about.

LOVE is mostly pretty good, but i get why people might not like it.

i started You're the Worst while working from home the other day. now THAT is fucking dreck. i still watched most of the season, but it's bad. ppl say good things about season 2 though. will see if i can hate-watch that far.

Casual is still worse than any of them. to me anyway. i just find the people in it icky.

the thing that bugs me about Love is the dude who co-created the show gets to live out his woody allen fantasies or whatever by starring in it and its a little gross but that's what comedy writers do when they get to act in stuff that they make.

i'm just glad eric schaeffer came and went decades before streaming networks were around, he'd have a show right now

Casual was unwatchable, love would be great if it were just about Mickey and her Australian roommate and wannabe-Woody was killed by an asteroid or something

p stoked for happy valley 2, i generally think uk dramas are total shit most of the time, nowadays often ineptly trying to ape golden age of tv american prestige cable programming but coming off amateur and try-hard but i just thought the first season was superbly acted, tense, beautifully shot etc. (one criticism: underclass psychopath villain was too handsome)

I watched all of Nikita a few years ago because action + spies
xp

i'm curious about Happy Valley!

Has French drama Les Revenants/The Returned been mentioned yet? I watched the first season a couple of years ago, very intriguing stuff. It's on Netflix Canada right now.

just showed up on netflix here, too

i bailed on the returned after one episode. with so much to watch i can be arbitrarily picky though. i can take all kinds of supernatural hijinx on t.v. but the reaction of the parents of the girl on that show made no sense to me and neither did the murder later. probably the first murder in that town in 500 years. like i said, arbitrary!

is the premise basically the inverse of The Leftovers? seems like there's crossover potential

dead people wake up and aren't dead anymore. and they don't know that they were dead. and they go about their business. and wonder what all the fuss is about. and there is this one creepy kid...

but then i stopped. i dunno, it's suitably moody. i just didn't feel like investing in it. there is an american version too.

The Returned was awesome and yes has a lot of weird similarities to The Leftovers, mostly an elk.

The american version, I watched 4 minutes. It was terrible.

is season 2 good?

Yeah it was good. But we were hooked already. I can't remember if we were satisfied though! They rushed some revelations, but also kept a good deal of mystery (and layered onto that mystery). If you like the first season you should definitely watch the second.

yeah i liked s1 a lot, gonna check this out

wait, did a VEGEMITEGRRL see the movie Headhunters? cuz now i'm thinking it's something you might dig. it's clever and fun and moves fast.

Headhunters completely rules.

yr description caught my interest, i like jo nesbo a lot!

i will check it out for sure

i'd watch Headhunters too.
the one Nesbo I read was "the redbreast" and I enjoyed it but it was a bit bogged down by having dual full-time plots.

w/e tho. scandicrime is like candy to me, i want to watch it all

otm

In other Canadiana on Netflix: I finally gave Schitt's Creek a chance and it's better than I expected and pretty funny, or at least Catherine O'Hara is

i watched In The Loop last night. i enjoyed it though it seemed funnier in the first half. the 2nd half had me drifting a bit. also seemed like the shape of television to come. though maybe television was already like that in 2009, i can't remember.

definitely gonna watch the new pee wee movie tonight.

Just watched Dope -- fun flick. Some of it was a little on the nose but overall didn't take itself too seriously.

Yeah, I liked Dope. I also liked Pee-Wee.

The whole time I was watching Dope, I was thinking "jeez, this girl reeeeeally reminds me of Lisa Bonet!" and then I saw in the credits that it's Zoë Kravitz. lol

lol I had the exact same thought and did not see the credits. In fact I thought "Man, kinda cliche to go for the Lisa Bonet type in this role"

Dope was really good!

Also noticed that that Tessa Thompson in Creed was styled and played kind of similarly.

Yeah, Dope was great.

Pee Wee movie was fine but it might have helped if i had known who that dude Pee Wee was in love with was. That tree house scene was super-romantic!

you would have to pay me fifty dollars to watch this movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMtNpu6xBvU

$100

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyWralJ2pkk