Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

tracer, yeah, it's supposed to give access to all regions as far as I can tell. i've tried mexico as well as the us and it seemed to work fine.

borderless also works.

I love how all these guys have changed their marketing to be about security: "take your privacy back by proxying all your dns traffic through a server in barbados owned by a company with a po box address and no phone number who can't accept paypal!"

(lets me watch frasier tho, so.)

lol

three volume Arabian Nights is up and i might dig in. it's only 6 hours so after Out 1 it will feel like a breeze.

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

"1971" abt the break in at a Media, PA FBI office makes a nice companion to that PBS doc about the camden 28...

(two individuals participated in both actions)

The Twisted Sister documentary is great, whether you like the band or not. Excellent story of the work they put in and the popularity they achieved before getting a record contract.

Agreed, I couldn't care less about TS or metal/hard rock in general, but this doc was really entertaining to watch. Some dodgy apologism is included (apparently during their "disco sucks" era they used to lynch an effigy of Barry White on stage, and they claim they didn't realize the implications of such act until some racist club owner commended them for "hanging a n*gg*r"), but mostly the band members came off as interesting and eloquent characters. It was also a good choice by the documentary makers to focus only on a certain period in the band's history instead of the usual full biography, because it allowed them to give a proper theme (the long, hard work TS went through to finally make their breakthrough) for the movie.

Did you guys see the Quiet Riot doc? That was pretty good too.

i can't remember the last time i watched a behind the music kinda thing. i didn't even watch that nina simone one. i watched the rick springfield one. that was more my speed. all about his crazy fans.

Twisted Sister were always playing near me growing up. in bars. i would see their name in the paper all the time at like a bar in Brewster, New York. them and the Good Rats. long before i ever heard them.

I'm really enjoying Easy Living! I'm not that far along, so i don't know if it stays good, but it's good so far. Finnish dissatisfaction and petty crime was never so entertaining. 3 seasons on Netflix. In the U.S. anyway.

Just in case you need a new t.v. show to watch...

Listening to people speak Finnish kinda its own reward too. It never quite resembles anything else on earth. I swear sometimes it sounds like a blend of Russian, German, Swedish, and Chinese.

i think mark s had a theory that it was actually literally the same language as chinese

Always reminds me the most of Japanese. With the accent always on the first syllable and stuff.

My wife and I grew up in a place where a ton of Finns ended up 100 years ago and our parents and grandparents grew up speaking it or at least hearing it spoken a lot. It's also dramatically influenced the local accent and dialect so hearing it spoken by real Finns is oddly comforting to me.

Duluth?

i seem to remember hearing somewhere that, linguistically, finnish was most closely related to japanese (which, iirc, is also very much estranged from the other languages in its geographic area).

xp Upper Michigan, about four hours east of Duluth.

Hungarian is the language that is from another planet though, right?

I've just been watching a lot of Chinese martial arts movies, so Chinese was the first thing I thought of when listening to Finnish. those inflections I only hear from Asian countries. It's cool!

the subtitling is not the greatest on Easy Living, but it's not too distracting.

Finnish and hungarian are related and unlike anything else. There's a Finnish saying about their own speech: It's not a language, it's a throat infection.

i don't know if they have Easy Living on Australian Rules Netflix, James, but if they do, check it out.

I had a Hungarian friend in high school and listening to her talk to her parents was SO much fun. oh man, could have listened to them all day.

Finnish and hungarian are related and unlike anything else

Very distantly related (both in the Uralic family, which has supplanted the old Finno-Ugric classification) but Finnish has a handful of related languages such as Estonian and even Hungarian kind of has a couple. Compare to Basque, which is a true isolate with no living relatives.

Twisted Sister highly entertaining. Love entire bands accents.

Hazel is otm, Hungarian is related to Finnish, but the only similarities are in the grammar, there are barely any shared words in the two languages. Estonian is much closer to Finnish, to the point that someone who knows of those languages can often understand basic sentences in the other.

I don't really know any Japanese, but the intonation of it does indeed sound kinda similar to Finnish... Though of course it's not related to Finnish at all, and grammatically it's way diffferent.

i did not know that. about Estonian and Finnish being close to each other.

Have you seen this show, Tuomas?

They should have had you translate it for the English subtitles. It's obvious a Finnish person did the translation, but their English wasn't so hot. It's okay though. Still easy to follow.

it's probably hard to find native English speakers who are fluent in Finnish. to do subtitles.

in Maria's job as a Dutch-to-English translator, she gets a lot of work revising the sloppy translation work of Dutch natives who may speak English with the tongue of Shakespeare (most Dutch people I have met put Americans to shame when it comes to speaking English), but who miss a lot when it comes to the written word.

Tuomas should do finnish->english subtitles and workshop it on ilx

Years ago, we literally stumbled into an open house at the EU in Belgium, and they tossed us in an English tour group that was just us and a bunch of Hungarians, because apparently it's really, really hard to find Hungarian translators.

found this in the back room. just need to get the victrola working and i'll be speaking Finnish like a turn of the century pro!

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13221461_10154768352932137_6281191841352190847_n.jpg?oh=7d5f6eafc98cc271707f46aa6cd389e1&oe=57DA66C2

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13220815_10154768354387137_2128457118847234539_n.jpg?oh=e9db3c786bb34df9adf9eb8b446ee02e&oe=57A745AA

And yeah, in the 20th century there were some theories about Finnish and/or Hungarian being related to Japanese (and a bunch of other isolates) but the linguistic evidence is not there. Crackpot theory is an unkind term, but, well... language origins are a very fertile field for crackpot theories. Japanese used to be considered an isolate, but nowadays it is part of the Japonic family along with a dozen or so related Ryukyuan languages (all spoken in Japan, most of them moribund).

Pumping Iron is weird and fascinating - I didn't expect it to be so placidly verité, I do wish they'd gone into the audience a bit more because it didn't look like many aspiring bodybuilders were cheering them on. What drives you to become a fan of bodybuilding if you don't participate in it at all?

I have some theories

Deborah Winger and Sam Elliot are so wasted on The Ranch

I mean their talents are wasted, although I guess they are in a bar a lot

i would never watch that but i'm glad they are getting a paycheck.

i wish one of you guys would watch Easy Living. i don't know anyone who watches it. doesn't anyone need a new t.v. show to watch?

i love the incremental one-step-forward-one-step-back movement of the bad things that happen to this family. it's very life-like. i like the 2nd season even better than the first too. which is always a good sign.

who's airing?

Color of noise amrep doc, damned doc, and wfmu doc now all up on Amazon prime.

"who's airing?"

easy living? well, three seasons are on netflix. it's on some cable channel in the states, i think. but i don't know about cable.

i will look into it.

watched the first season on your rec, Scott. really like it, though I was concerned that it lost a little momentum towards the end (while agreeing with you on the non-linear path being a strength). glad to hear season 2 is good.

oh good someone watched it!

the 2nd season is cool because both mom and dad have jobs and watching them interact with normal people is almost always awkward and entertaining.

Not Netflix, but Mr Robot will be available to stream on Amazon Prime June 13th. I've been wanting to check that show out.

OOooooohhh thank you!! That is a great tip

I just started season 2 of Gommorah, it is nothing spesh just more violent Naples mafia soap opera, but shot in magnificently real urban desolation locations and wonderfully bloody.

Ok Lady Dynamite is starting to win me over

not til month's end, but that fgti-scored semi-James Dean film Life is coming to N'flix

the kids and i really enjoyed watching angie tribeca on hulu last night. love rashida so much. a sledge hammer! for a new generation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKivuQ4HpF4