Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

many xposts

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

expanse was fun, we have a whole thread for it!

ARQ -- ooh yeah that looks like my jam

HAS ANYONE SEEN HOLY HELL IS IT GOOD

yeah it's good! super weird & unintenionally funny at times. a little bit too "inside" maybe, but the sheer amount of footage makes it worth a look

ty ty!

tried first 2 episodes of this Designated Survivor thing: good ideas but some serious cardboard and cliches; not sure if I'll bother with going on

I like Easy. It's good. Only watched 4 of them, but definitely worth watching. I like the anthology format too. Plus, there are only 8 episodes, so, no big commitment or anything.

Tell me more about this Expanse thing

TV seasons that only last 6 or 8 or 10 episodes might be England's greatest cultural contribution.

^^^^

i'm having fun with luke cage and all, but it could definitely stand to be a few eps shorter (and i've still got like four to go!)

they could have TOTALLY cut like four episodes of Luke Cage.

editing...the forgotten art.

yeah wtf america

we just never know when to stop

It's not complete until it's boring.

there can be no doubt, every plot detail must be explained, no blood must be left in the corpse

it's like people don't know when to quit

they just find one point and hammer it home repeatedly until it's past clear and obvious and it's just beating a dead horse relentlessly and pointlessly

just over and over without any real reason or pertinent message to make

ceaseless and endless dumb repetition of a prior statement as if stuck in a loop. Sad!

I mean, have you seen what kind of tools they have for blood removal these days? Used to just tilt them upside down, now there's a pump and everything.

the Amanda Knox documentary is great and maddening

one of the worst cases of slut-shaming ever. prosecutor is so frustrating.

he also pops up in Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi's book The Monster of Florence peddling a similarly nutso satanic cult-based "theory"

he actually had Spezi (who was the most prominent journalist covering the Monster case for decades) arrested at one point as a co-conspirator

I'm guessing not all of Italy's criminal justice system is as messed up but everything about those cases is fucked

she is guilty tho, just sayin

according to the daily mail, sure

come, come with me down the bonkers rabbit hole of kercher murder obsessives... http://truejustice.org/perugia/powerpoints/Kermit14WithJamesRaperOnEvidence.pps

Tell me more about this Expanse thing

Based on the pulpy but fun popcorn space opera books.

Starts off a bit ropey but ends up being one of the best sci-fi shows since Battlestar Galactica.

Although typically of America, they've expanded the second season to 13 episodes from 10.

where is the expanse streaming?

looks like amazon prime. which i don't have.

Me neither.

Freaks and Geeks!

wtf why is that a power point

protip for Expanse fans: say it out loud as "X Pants"

super fun

ex panz