Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

plus, my fave guy from the movie Norwegian movie Headhunters is the villain. he's awesome. plus, cliff curtis is in it and i always like seeing him. he goes so well with clive. they should do a buddy movie. speaking of cliff curtis, i can see the Knight director getting offers like Lee Tamahori got after Once Were Warriors. let's hope he isn't offered a new Triple X movie. no offense to Vin Diesel.

(it was £2, and handily took a £19.95 order over the 'free postage' threshold)

The 13th was pretty powerful.

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?

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he did a hitman revenge flick with stallone. flick was fine but this guy is like a force of nature in it. hes gonna be huge.

A new season of Terrace House is up. My sister got me hooked on this show. It's a Japanese reality show in which very little happens, although the last season took some strange turns towards the end. Supposedly it's unscripted. It occasionally cuts to a panel of six hosts whose job is to make fun of the people in the house. One of them, Yu, is recognizable from Koreeda films (the mom in Nobody's Knows). It can be rather addictive.

the new doc on hieronymus bosch (touched by the devil) is pretty great if you just wanna look at bosch's work.

The new season of Terrace House is a trip! Japanese reality show typically set in Japan, now set in Hawai'i for a season featuring a cast of only mixed or non-Japanese. Their house is set in Hawai'i Kai which is rather posh... pretty ironic considering the name of the show. Probably too mundane for people expecting Big Brother or The Hills, but a nice slice of island life to breakup the winter duldrums.

ep 1 of santa clarita diet is... not good. without spoiling it, the actors feel miscast, the performances are wooden, the characters are terrible, the dialogue is stilted, everyone announces what they're doing like it's a radio play (at one point dan says "i'll go and see what's up" while he's going to see what's up, his voice having been dubbed in later for no reason), the jokes don't land (especially the huge one in the first 10 minutes, which leaves long pauses for you to check which year of the '90s this is fall about in hysterics), and no one seems to care all that much about a huge massive horrible incident that a similar light comedy (THIS LINK WILL SPOIL SANTA CLARITA) handled beautifully. even the very last shot (the guy shrugging awkwardly at something that should elicit rather more than an awkward shrug) is tone deaf. nobody reacts to anything the way normal people would react.

having said all that, there's something ultra-disturbing about the premise that's keeping me around long enough to see whether it develops into anything.

it doesn't help that i'm coming to this off the back of the good place which is the unrivalled master of high-concept american sitcom.

at one point dan says

dan joel

Ted Danson's laugh at the end of the last Good Place.

not just the laugh, but the way his entire face transforms and this wide, devilish grin appears

yeah, that was a solid payoff for The Good Place. I actually want to see where they go from there.

I hear santa clarita is better by episode four, may just skip to there.

People vs OJ is up and I'm the last person in the world who hasn't seen it and everything in me tells me it's gonna suck but everyone tells me i'm wrong so i suppose i'll try.

You're wrong, it's great.

so everyone tells me!