Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Icelandic procedural "Case"
Started out good but devolved into predictable stupidity by the end. Hella grim tho

Are there any good Netflix kid shows?

Mine love some of the Amazon ones like Gortimer Gibbons and Just Add Magic so was wondering if Netflix have anything similar.

(They're looking forward to Lemony Snicket in January).

It's almost 100% garbage iirc

Octonauts is good

has anyone watched the OA

i was thinking about it. supposed to be pretty weird.

i'm more excited that horace & pete is on hulu.

i finally watched most of The Wave but after the wave hit i lost interest. i LOVED before the wave hit though. just because of the awesome mountain scenery. so beautiful.

oh and cyrus and i started watching Colony which isn't great but it's watchable. starring whatshisface from Lost. it's a carlton cuse thing.

Tv series:
Occupied is really good.
Also really liked Fauda.

Did anyone watch the Japanese reality show Terrace House? Six people living in a house, going to work, going on dates, etc. Each cast member is free to leave the show whenever they want, and someone new is brought in. It's not great - I couldn't see myself watching an equivalent American or Canadian show - but from a North American perspective I'm finding it interesting just because of its being from Japan. I like not getting the jokes and pop culture references.

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I liked that Okkupert series as well, if you mean the same one. Season 2 isn't coming till Fall '17 which is taking the piss a bit imo.

"the Russian ambassador to Norway, told Russian News Agency TASS that "It is certainly a shame that, in the year of the 70th anniversary of the victory in World War II, the authors have seemingly forgotten the Soviet Army's heroic contribution to the liberation of northern Norway from Nazi occupiers, decided, in the worst traditions of the Cold War, to scare Norwegian spectators with the nonexistent threat from the east."

obv the Russians are not big fans

yes, that one!

The Wailing is great!

the best horror movie of the year for me.

isn't anyone gonna watch Barry?

anyone watching or planning to watch OA?

it looks kinda interesting. I just finished Kettering Incident on Amazon Prime & the OA trailer gives me a similar vibe

Planning to watch OA here :) Anything that divides critics seems worth a shot.

it got some interesting reviews online. that made it sound interesting. and mysterious...

def planning on watching the OA

watched Spectral last night and it definitely hit a "b-list but p entertaining pulp-ish sci-fi" sweetspot for me

Has anyone been able to get through the first episode of the OA? The dialogue is particularly awful.

ok maybe i dont like the OA. dialogue is so bad... can someone else watch more eps and report back

I just noticed it's a Brit Marling joint. I really don't like the other stuff she's written that I've seen.

i liked it okay. although the most exciting part for me was when the opening credits started rolling 60 minutes into the first episode. the end of the first episode is cool. when she starts to tell her story.

xpost yeah i didnt really like The East

I like the Brit Marling stuff quite a bit so I am looking forward to watching it? idk, it's a different head space

VG, maybe you can answer my Kettering Incident question! Are the accents on the show right for that area?

I liked the show (Kettering) itself but thought it took a quick right turn toward the end into very typical science fiction ground. All that build up and then "btw it was this particular weird shit"

yeah the end felt really tacked on & rushed! i was a bit disappointed in the last episode tbh

australia doesn't have as much regionalism with accents, not like in the states . seemed p ok to me but i never spent much time in tasmania

yeah I initially was giving my friend shit because she said it was a BBC show and I was like "you have attempted to fool me, this is Australian with some BBC funding!"

I can't remember, do we have a distinct Hulu thread? That newish Hugh Laurie-as-problematic-psychiatrist show was ridiculous

i recognized quite a few of the actors, lot of legit aussies in it

i watched the first episode of the OA - agree dialogue is kind of bad but the visuals at the end were goddamn stunning. and the sheer audacity of running the opening credits an hour after it begins.

I'll prob watch a few more episodes in the next few days to see if it's worth it.

the OA is fine, you lot. I slammed down like 4 episodes yesterday

The new Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency series is now on Netflix too. I binge-watched it during the weekend and loved it so much I started a thread on it:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=105033#unread

yeah night need to check that out

It's awesome!

the 3rd episode of OA is a good one.

i actually like the fairy tale aspect of OA and i'm not big on modern fairy tale kinda things. the midnight campfire storytelling thing is cool.

ARQ was a p good way to burn a Sunday evening

Dirk Gently apparently not available in US

it's on BBC America in the US, not netflix yet

The OA is intriguing fairy-tale interrupting amateurishly bad dialogue.

i don't mind the dialogue. but you guys probably have higher standards than i do. i have watched every episode of The 100.

OA is passable despite the bad cringey dialogue and generic stock music score. I'm kinda a sucker or anything that delves into psychology, even on a superficial level. Starts to get good on episode 3.

Didn't really notice the bad dialogue, but as Scott says, I'm not sure I'm as alert to stuff like that as some people. Think with that sort of show you're either with it or you're not and I liked the whole idea that it's just far-fetched enough to almost pull it off, but you're still left wondering whether any of the story is true or just 100% made up.
*SPOILERS* - enjoying the fan theory that Riz Ahmed's character was actually an FBI plant, or working for the kidnapper, and planted the (fresh out the Amazon box, unread) books under her bed in order to throw people off the scent. Or that the OA never grew up in Russia and was actually born in the brothel, therefore discrediting whole swathes of her story.

Seems to be a recurring theme in recent sci-fi whereby mystical powers can be attained through rote learning of arcane patterns - see Arrival.

I don't know how you could not notice the terrible dialogue and acting/tone in that first episode of OA. It felt like watching The Room at a couple moments. We turned on French audio and English subtitles for awhile and it kinda helped.

Have I mentioned that I have watched every episode of Jericho?

I watched every episode of Revolution too. I prefer that show to Breaking Bad as far as great Giancarlo Esposito shows go. I miss Allegiance too. 5 episodes! They were robbed. Now everyone is a secret spy on t.v.

I respect your commitment

I mean I even enjoyed the parent teacher conference in OA as far a dialogue goes. I do get a little tired of the walking dead dad. I got tired of him in the walking dead too. he always looks like he's on the verge of tears.