Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Jaco Pastorius doc is solid

Just watched (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies. Nice little pop-psych documentary centred on a lecture by Prof. Dan Ariely about the state between telling ourselves we're good people and still being able to lie in good conscience. It cycles through about 15 different types of lie/liar anecdotes in an hour and a half and still manages to resolve satisfactorily. Maybe the most interesting parts for me were the insider insights to sport corruption and the stuff about how lying over time changes your brain.

Now to watch Pretty Little Liars season 7! Everyone is excited.

Saw that Spotlight is now streaming, but can't remember if it was on Prime or Netflix.

netflix. just watched it. oof.

Guys whoa Happy Valley. This thread is working!

right!?

my gal got into Last Tango In Halifax after we finished the second season of Happy Valley and she seems to be loving it though it's a bit soapy for me.

yay for season 2 of Marco Polo, it is very corny but is visually compelling and completely addictive. and the dude who plays Kublai Khan is total badass!

How hardgoing is Happy Valley? We like non-gorey crime stuff and want something new to watch, but have had a difficult few weeks after a family issue. Will this just make us more depressed? I previewed the first 20 mins of the first episode and it seemed kind of larky.

I don't remember it being especially Corey, but it is definately dark and depressing. I'd say skip it.

no real gore from what i remember, but definitely one (shockingly) violent scene

it's rough

the violence is spread out but pretty full-on when it happens. even the implied stuff is rough. it's more the emotional intensity, lots of family trouble throughout. if you're in a dark place i would leave off for a while

i'm 20 yrs past my family shit & it still triggered me something fierce

fucking great show though. jesus.

Well shit, if course it isnt on netflix australia. Motherfuckers!

It looks like all of the Albert Brooks films are available now.

Just watched the first episode of Happy Valley. I'm in.

Is that the thing with Sarah Lancashire? That was grim af yeah

Her performance is seriously amazing (and covers for some dumb patches), and the pacing is perfect....but yeah a relentless bummer w/ plenty of blood.

Okay we'll give it a few months wait for Happy Valley... gonna try Deadwood again. What could go wrong

Am guessing everyone here will have seen them, but the first three Albert Brooks movies (Real Life, Modern Love, Lost in America) are incredible. The rest have their moments but are pretty skippable.

Interesting that those three Brooks movies all prefigure genres that are pretty out-of-fashion now. Real Life is a Gervais-style reality show cringe comedy. Modern Love is the cynical LA romcom that Judd Apatow keeps failing to make. Lost in America is an indie road movie for the 1%. They're all fantastic, though.

oof, Mustang. the trailer doesn't let on how rough it can get. recommended if you haven't seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABNB3zw5BAo

i kinda hated mustang, thought it was more exploitative than anything
lots of shots of half naked teenage girls rolling around on the floor together

they weren't half naked. and i wouldn't say there were "lots" of shots. they were just being kids. and they were five teenage sisters who basically lived in one bedroom together? i dunno. that's not what i took away from the movie. they were all very pretty though. that's for sure.

felt like the point was to contrast their relative innocence with what was going on around them. wasn't some larry clark scenario or something.

saw it in the theater and felt there was a fair bit of untoward sexing up of young girls.. i can dig it if that didn't seem evident to you; that issue, along with a real lack of character building and engagement left me very cold toward that film.

I think the title of the movie told me everything i needed to know about the director's intent. i mean i guess you could say it was kinda heavy-handed in a way. beautiful youth that should be free to be wild and...uh...free. but mostly i liked how deceptive those scenes of happiness were considering how sad and tragic the movie becomes. also, i don't see too many movies directed by Turkish women.

the latter point is what got me in the theater

The Invitation was great

Present Company Excluded (on Amazon Prime) was pretty good. Some laugh out loud parts, a charismatic lead, and felt emotionally authentic, unlike some indies with offbeat characters.

The Invitation was great

Absolutely. Also, really intrigued at the Spielberg riffing of "Stranger Things." First eight minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKtq-bZgS8I

i don't know who ali wong is and i've never heard of the show she writes for but her stand up special was v funny. thx to whoever rec'd it upthread

yeah, that wasn't bad. her character was annoying at points, but overall more bad than good. i fell off on Fresh Off the Boat but i'm glad she's contributing to that show

Her Marc Maron was pretty great too.

oops, i meant more good than bad

Objectively speaking Stranger Things is absolute fucking dreary pez + cynically targeted derivative cack, but I still thoroughly enjoyed that first ep! Everything is so fucking depressing in the world right now I could do with some escapism.

yeah the ali wong special is excellent. a kind of balls out comedy thats rare these days

intrigued at the Spielberg riffing of "Stranger Things."

it might have its Goonies clothes on but the bones of it feel sorta more like... Fargo actually?

It's too bad Winona Ryder seemingly can't act anymore

the giant cheekbone white kid's real name is "Finn Wolfhard"

lol

i watched the first episode last night. dug it. in a Super 8 kinda way.

ftr: i loved super 8. so i guess i'm cool with faux-spielberg.

same here. maybe i'll give this a shot

i also thought winona was fine once i got used to seeing her as a run-down mom. which takes some getting used to.

Winona is the shining star of drunk history, so Ill give this a shot

I'm 4 episodes deep into Stranger Things now and it's totally riveting. Plus the musical score is phenomenal—all those old thriller/horror synths. I'm almost not even looking for familiar scenery at this point, considering it was at least partly shot in the town I live in.

Also, I just realized there are only 8 episodes and not 13. Sucks to already be at the halfway point!!

Watched all 8 in one go. I may be insane now, but that was fucking fantastic!

NOW I know why I recognize Nancy and Michael's mom. She was Dr. Faye on Mad Men.

Just watched an interview with the producers who say if Netflix grants Stranger Things additional seasons that it's not going to be an anthology series like American Horror Story or Fargo; they're going to base it around the same characters in the same approximate time—which, if you've made it all the way to episode 8, seems hard to believe. But I'm on board.

I finished watching Stranger Things and thought it deserves a thread of its own, so I started one:

A thread for Stranger Things, the "Goonies meets X-Files" new Netflix series (with SPOILERS!)

The Netflix original series “Scrotal Recall” has been renewed for another season, and has been retitled “Lovesick." fyi