Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Huh. That is very weird information you've just related. Like...how on earth did people in their early 20s even discover or see the original?

I guess really there are zero sitcoms I remember from young childhood that I have fond memories of so maybe I'm the weird one here.

I watched the original and didn't think much of it

reruns/syndication I think

I remember a handful of shows in syndication I only ever watched when I was on summer vacation as a kid. We didn't have cable tv, but a local channel would play Bonanza/Little House on the Prairie/Matlock in the mornings (lol)

btw I will rep for Maaaaaaatloooooock

One day at a time was definitely one of my main shows as a kid

Okay, I'm now six episodes into this, and so far I think it's great! Without spoiling too much, in one episode they address veterans' PTSD in a way that made me cry, and another one turns from a goofy hijinks comedy into a big pro-immigration rant, which may be a bit jarring story-wise, but considering when and by whom the series is made, it's totally justified.

There's still plenty of funny jokes and gags, but I like how the writers aren't afraid to go all serious and discard all humor when the plot calls for it. Not every episode deals with such serious issues though, so it doesn't feel like it's all soapboxing.

xp to tuomas, "live studio audience" is not much different than laugh track these days tbh.

i watched the first ep & it's very enjoyable

My favourite character is the brash feminist teen daughter, it'd be sooo easy to make her into a caricature, but they don't, and I'm loving that. Plus the actor portraying her is great at adding some credible insecurity in her performance, so she feels like a real teen and not just a mouthpiece.

is valerie bertanelli in it? if not, dont care

The finale of One Day at a Time made me cry twice within five minutes, and this is supposed to be comedy! It's not subtle at all with its morals, but I don't think it needs to be. The first season was pretty much best traditional sitcom I've seen since the early seasons of How I Met Your Mother. IMO everyone who appreciates this kind of stuff and not just more postmodern/cynical sitcoms like Arrested Development should watch it.

Hopefully Netflix will make more of it, if corny and safe nostalgia food like Fuller House gets a second season, so should this.

i might try it. i don't get why it has to be based on ODAAT either. netflix can show whatever it wants. it doesn't really need a gimmick. the original show had some good moments early on but mackenzie got really bad/sad and ann romano could be one of the most annoying scolds/wet blankets on t.v. most people don't remember that it ran forever and had lots of choice jump the shark moments in its later days. it became completely terrible with the teen kid and endless boring schneider sub-plots. valerie was the only reason to watch it. she should have had her own early 80's working girl sitcom.

it was always weird when a show that started in the 70's ended up in the 80's.

it ended with schneider and circus people which was going to be a spin-off where schneider joins the circus. which, if it had been successful, might have changed the course of young corey feldman's life.

it had the EXACT same trajectory as Alice. single mom show that started at the same time and had some 70's realness to it that became some bizarre cartoon that went on way too long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM2frSIqhIw

does a tuomas watch Black-ish? kinda feel like Black-ish and Bob's Burgers are the best sitcoms on american t.v. at the moment. if Bob's Burgers counts as a sitcom.

i finally gave bob's burgers another chance and i love it!

kinda scary, but i looked to see what was on when One Day At A Time premiered and these are the shows I watched regularly or semi-regularly that year. apparently, i did not need a computer or iphone to get my screen time. this also doesn't count the saturday and sunday morning/daytime t.v. i watched.

the muppet show
hardy boys/nancy drew mysteries
six million dollar man (ruled my world)
the sonny and cher show (last hurrah for them, i think)
rhoda
phyllis
the captain and tenille (never missed it)
the feather and father gang (actually sad when this got cancelled!)
the jeffersons
maude
shields and yarnell (never missed it)
little house on the prairie
happy days
laverne & shirley
eight is enough
mash
one day at a time
family
the bionic woman
baretta
charlie's angels
holmes & yo-yo
mr. t and tina
blansky's beauties
fish
starsky and hutch
the mary tyler moore show (last year, i think)
the bob newhart show
the carol burnett show
emergency!
good times
all in the family
alice
c.p.o. sharkey
the life and times of grizzly adams
welcome back, kotter
barney miller
what's happening
three's company
the waltons
donny & marie
sanford and son
chico and the man
rockford files
quincy, m.e.

finished watching Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and I BLOODY LOVED IT!

Might have to go back and watch it all over again.

I was watching all of those except for four or five of them. Somehow.

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I apparently missed one and a half seasons of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. There were a few clunky episodes, but overall they're still really drawing this shtick out.

is that over yet? I saw that Sweet Dee stars in her own Fox sitcom now

I guess the new season premiered last week. Still going.

DGHDA was bonkers but brilliant.

Gives me hope that Max Landis won't make a pig's ear of the American Werewolf in London reboot.

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Watched season 3 of Peaky Blinders recently. Almost didn't because I was kinda over it and the music is annoying for the most part, but this was the most enjoyable one. Some pretty clever plotting imo.

im torn between whether its OTT-ness is "goofy and fun" or "exhausting"

I've never seen Peaky Blinders but Taboo (the new Tom Hardy show written by Stephen Knight) provokes similar feelings

love it when Tom Hardy and his creaky voice pop up in PB.

American Werewolf in London reboot

First I had heard of this, am now in a rage

TBF, it's presumably with his dad's blessing.

well I suppose he does feel obliged to support his idiot son's terrible ideas

cyrus and i are watching the new lemony snicket. cyrus loves neil patrick harris to death. it's fun. joan cusack! and robin sparkles!

looked p good from the trailer - but more fun than the movie hopefully?

NPH is funny and good. jim carrey is kinda like mike myers as cat in hat or depp as wonka. not fun. not good.

it's got a cool look. in that whimsical retro kinda way that people seem so fond of. the kids are really good. patrick warburton is the narrator/lemony and that is either good or bad depending on who you are. doesn't bug me too much.

Suitable for eight and six year old or bit too scary?

that's a tough one! might be too much for a six year old? there is a dead body. we haven't watched the whole thing yet. there is nothing too terrible. just a general edward gorey kinda vibe.

maybe watch one on your own first. NPH is genuinely creepy/mean in the first episode. then he gets a little goofier. it's definitely funny too though. there are lots of comedy moments.

but, also, just kudos for including alfre woodard, joan cusack, AND catherine o'hara in the same show. that is like the true holy trinity right there.

In Order of Disappearance was great (favorite scene is Serbian gangsters discussing potential historical significance of a elevation number on a sign a murder victim has been attached to).

the legend is back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RUi0wlpFks

watched first ep of Lemony Snicket, I liked it a lot!

Frontier is the bomb. would watch again. Jason Momoa is totally gonna be the next action superstar, no? nu-Rock. i still haven't seen Game Of Thrones but I liked him a lot in The Red Road. he's gonna have a solo Aquaman movie. he's married to Lisa Bonet. what more do you need?

best look of disgust you've ever seen.

https://i2.wp.com/www.tv-eh.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Alun-Armstrong.jpg?fit=599%2C800

Vegemite, you will dig Frontier if you haven't seen it already.

i knew that Irish kid had to be on some sort of vampire show. i was close. he's a werewolf on a werewolf show.

i'll check it out!

LOVED *Last Knights*. didn't even know it existed until today. if someone had told me this morning that later today i was gonna love a Japanese-style multi-culti Clive Owen knight movie i would have told them to get out of town! I do love Clive though. this is a future classic of the ahistorical world cinema sword and honor genre. i wish every movie just made the past up completely a la sci-fi. without the steampunk. it's fiction, you can just make it up.

anyway, must-see netflix, if you ask me.

(it should be noted that i had no interest in seeing keanu's ronin movie and i am not a purist and i think i fell asleep watching some criterion japanese ronin movie...)

Of the 3 versions of 47 Ronin i've seen (the real life tale which Last Knights is based on) the two japanese versions (Mizoguchi 1941, Ichikawa 1994) are quite historical (ie long, very slow).

and the keanu thing is just an abomination.

i will look out Last Knights (and the Inagaki version from the 60s)

(ha, it's £2 on amazon, ordered)

watched Lemony Snicket's ASOUE over the weekend with 9-yo stepdaughter - it's delightful(ly dark). NPH is a far, far better Count Olaf than Jim Carrey, and I loved that they kept all the silly wordplay from the books.

koogs, hope you take it in the spirit intended. its "inspired" by 47 ronin story and set in some mythical place. i just liked it as a movie experience. i felt swept up. will look forward to what the director does next.