Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

i get crippled by criterion hulu sometimes. i can't make up my mind. do i feel like japanese tonight or italian? it's best when i don't overthink it and go random.

LAST CHANCE U

― self-clowning cozen of ILX (cozen), Friday, 2 September 2016 18:49 (yesterday) Permalink

^^ so good!

― schwantz, Friday, 2 September 2016 19:23 (yesterday) Permalink

i can't bring myself to watch that milk carton kid documentary even though john waters likes it a lot. just not in the mood for missing kid grief...

what's the title? (though i do agree with you)

I still do disc service, as I have a 500 title queue of which only <10% is also streamable.

i probably won't watch it since i've had to hear about it my whole life and that ordeal is of the main reasons my parents didn't let me stray very far as a kid

"what's the title? (though i do agree with you)"

WHO TOOK JOHNNY

that movie is awful. not in a good way. like it's stupid.

do i really need to watch the u.s. shameless? people were talking about how good it was on facebook today. i kinda got tired of the u.k. one and stopped watching it. i briefly had showtime via hulu and didn't watch it then. but now its up on netflix.

well, no, i think i talked about this on some other thread. it's good in the way that the suburban mom is so perfect.

xp thanks for the save

like a lot of people i love watching people do hard stuff that i would never ever do in a million years. so, this was fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQmoxlUy33A

Good doc.

oh boy i am sooooo watching London Has Fallen. i loved that first movie where things fell.

The Wheelchair President is rubbish. I don't know what I was expecting - an FDR documentary with some weight or authority, I guess - but this spends way too much time with the annoying presenter, who keeps dropping wheelchair-related puns into the script. I wish they'd given it to a Ken Burns who, while dry, at least has a fair sense of tone and, for the most part, a lot of substance to his work.

Didn't Burns do an FDR doc or a tandem one with Teddy?

who keeps dropping wheelchair-related puns into the script

this sounds like something that'd be in a parody trailer for a FDR documentary!

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harbl i have been on the fence about watching, yr the first person i sorta trust who has said it's bad.

because i honestly feel like the mom is batshit bonkers nuts & there is so much conspiracy theory vs actual things that happened in this story that i sort of hate every retelling of it that accepts her ideas as facts

i watched Marcella last week. if u thought Happy Valley was a bummer, holy shit
it's great if you are a morbid saddo like me tho

sounds like my kinda show

srsly its so good

Has anyone watched Twinsters?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1txduZwL2Yg

As a twin, it probably affected me more than it should have but my wife was really touched and engaged with it as well.

It's a completely unbelievable story at any rate. Kudos to the one sister for having the foresight to begin documenting from the beginning.

http://www.netflix.com/watch/80047635

Been loving Chef's Table

We just watched Twinsters the other day. It began sort of cute and insufferable, all the on-screen texting and stuff, but then it got deeper and weirdly fascinating, though it never goes full nature-nurture. Like the way the two girls were so similar in many regards but so different socially, and how they had such different feelings about their adoption. Psychologically there are all sorts of things going on, but I found it really touching how the one sister felt wanted, because she was the third child and the first adopted kid, which made her feel like a choice, but the other sister felt like a runner up, that not only did her birth mother not want her, her adopted parents only chose her because they could not have kids of their own.

My wife told me (don't know where she heard this) that there is apparently a large subculture of adopted Korean-American kids rediscovering their roots and moving back to Korea, despite not speaking the language, etc.

please ask her where she heard that

Will do! It was certainly the first I'd heard of it.

Yeah, really enjoyed Twinsters

VG, I liked Marcella.

I haven't see Happy Valley yet.

please ask her where she heard that

What an insane memory she has:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/magazine/why-a-generation-of-adoptees-is-returning-to-south-korea.html

BTW, like I said when I first started the doc I thought it a tad insufferable, not least because it was lead/co-directed by an actor in Hollywood, which gave it a bit of a self-promotional reality show vibe. Obviously the doc gets better/deeper, but now, to no one's surprise, it's been leveraged into a sitcom:

http://www.avclub.com/article/abcs-newest-bundle-joy-twins-comedy-happy-endings--242649

i feel like there was a POV film on the korean adoptee migration as well?

re: Twinsters
I think the cutesy/immaturity aspect between the 2 girls was perhaps tied to the fact that they never experienced their childhoods together so it was a bit of a regression. They immediately began coding twin words, calling each other pet names like "fish", "snail"... but then they began using "pop" first as a symbol/shadow of their technological based communication, but soon evolved into an endearment and then almost a longing, melancholic codeword (again as a twin, this could be my own projection, but it still stood out).

I'm also curious about how much the caucasian suburbs of Paris created a different environment than the caucasian suburbs of NYC as Sam never felt singled out for appearing different (although that could be the product of having 2 older brothers as protection), whereas Anais mentioned a couple times that she was singled out for looking different growing up.

Also fascinating to me was, as we later learn at the Twins research center that the primary differences between them is that Sam is the extrovert and Anais is the moody one... but looking back at their first meeting in London, Anais was the extrovert, poking Sam a couple times, whereas Sam's initial impulse was to hide behind furniture and general high anxiety.

Yeah, but she is also an actor and the co-director and therefore very camera-aware, which is another psychological component.

xxpost Happy Valley is great!

LAST CHANCE U

― self-clowning cozen of ILX (cozen), Friday, 2 September 2016 18:49 (yesterday) Permalink

^^ so good!

― schwantz, Friday, 2 September 2016 19:23 (yesterday) Permalink

― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Saturday, September 3, 2016 8:58 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the result of watching chef's table before lunch:

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14449990_1670525443261101_7467732875862615989_n.jpg?oh=0c2129857b6cc0e9add6f4d0c851522c&oe=586E4EA3

that show doesn't actually make me want to go to a fancy restaurant. i just want to stand around in a barn smelling wheels of parmesan and be all rustic and cool.

just gave that picture a thumbs-up here

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harbl i have been on the fence about watching, yr the first person i sorta trust who has said it's bad.

because i honestly feel like the mom is batshit bonkers nuts & there is so much conspiracy theory vs actual things that happened in this story that i sort of hate every retelling of it that accepts her ideas as facts

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, September 14, 2016 9:00 PM (two weeks ago)

what didn't help is that i saw this at a film festival where the directors spoke afterward and it was like "we want to raise awareness about child sexual exploitation" or something else pro-stranger danger

I am vaguely interested in whether it sticks to facts, the ramping up of awareness and the whole missing child alert system (which tbh the amber alert stuff is a million times more timely and useful than a milk carton picture) but there is a close to 0% chance I will watch it

I grew up in the same metro area as the abducted kid and, although the entire sensational but the children! media blitz that was so central in the 80s (whole lot of synergy with the satanic ritual abuse shit) tapered off over the years, even as of a few years ago there was at least one local news station willing to cater to the mom's perpetually ongoing delusions about what happened to her kid. A second similar abduction a couple years later got less press and there was a lot of wondering whether that was due to classism or news fatigue or who even knows. It seemed like a long way away when I was a kid, but the second abduction was two or three miles away from where I lived.

So unless my mom was keeping a close eye, I never really played in the front yard until I was older. there was all kinds of paranoia about kids even walking to school, so much weirdness all punctuated by this unstable mom popping up every few years because some scammer approached her and said that her missing son was alive in a child smuggling ring in south africa or something.

ugh, I don't even like typing things about it, but it put such a weird undercurrent in local culture when I was a kid

I kind of like Easy through three eps.

xpost almost everyone i have seen/heard talking about the doc are completely on board with the Mom as parent-hero in a John Walsh way and I'm like, no...hers is a very weird tinfoil hat borderline vigilantism & it really disturbs me

oh god really? they completely missed the reality if that's how she's portrayed :/

I mean, I also associate John Walsh with this tendency to paint criminals, especially those involved in crimes against children, as otherworldly deviants who are barely recognizable as human. Which makes it really difficult to recognize most abusers seem relatively within norms to the majority of people.

yeah I have the same misgivings abt Walsh

but yeah, from what I know about the case the documentary doesn't exactly interrogate her claims which seems to heighten the potential for drawing dangerous & very very misleading conclusions

ARQ

looks like it was made for me

yet it's gritty green-black.. peopled by hyperbeautiful actors.. i dunno.. think i'm goin in. alert someone if i don't post on this thread again

ooh based on a script by one of the Orphan Black writers? intrigued!

lemme know, i haven't been able to make the leap. same with that other new SF one about the "hairies".

you know what I freakin loved? THE EXPANSE. That was good.

On SyFy though.

Expanse was so good