Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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
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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

I assume Joe Manerinean was Channing Tatum is an early draft.

Here's his big scene in MMXXL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd8qocJNO7Y

the pee wee movie was great!!

Results - sw0le thread + mumblecore guy directing + Robin from HIMYM + Guy Pearce = meh.

i kept thinking "what movie is he talking about?" when i realized the first "-" should have been an "="

i still watch pee wee's big adventure/playhouse/hbo special all the time and find them joyous and inspiring and i was really bummed out by the new pee wee movie..it felt so uninspired, and it looked cheap and ugly, like watching a bunch of webisodes. paul reubens has lost the chops to sell the weaker jokes like he used to, and he can't really do the voice anymore. it felt like nostalgia of the life-denying type to me and i felt drained and unhappy after i watched it.

Thanks for the minority report.

i warned my 7-y-o: 'he's a lot older now..' - movie comes on, my son says 'he looks exactly the same daddy'

Haven't watched the Pee-Wee movie yet, but slam dunk's reaction sounds like my reaction to the new(er) Muppet movie. I still engage with the classic stuff regularly so the new version felt like a hollow simulacrum.

(I did watch the SNL episode hosted by Pee-Wee this weekend, though, which is classic and highly recommended. The only episode I can think of hosted by a character who stayed in character for every sketch.)

it felt totally 80s, same sweet vibe, same corny jokes

i went in expecting to have slam dunk's reaction but idk it's a blast. it misses the scale of big adventure but nails everything else. I thought I'd be bothered by the voice too but nope

I'll have to watch the SNL episode and maybe the movie. Paul Reubens is great, imo. He's been showing up in a handful of tv shows lately!

I had a more muted version of slam dunk's reaction. Reubens' spirit is willing, but his voice and general energy level just aren't there.

CG Herman

yeah, it didn't feel manic like big adventure, it just felt rushed. kind of empty? still fun to watch. his change in voice didn't really bother me, I always loved the way his face reacts to things way more expressively than anything he says, and he still nails that.

The Pee-Wee SNL episode is from '85, btw, in case that wasn't clear.

i loved the balloon thing with the Amish just cuz it reminded me the most of old pee wee. something annoying/funny that goes on longer than you think it will.