Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

(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?

― scott seward, Saturday, 21 January 2017 22:35 (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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!

i finally finished watching Hell On Wheels and i love it and i don't expect anyone here to watch the whole thing but i give them tons of credit for doing a 5 season show that has an honest to god beginning, middle, and satisfying end! they said it couldn't be done. in some ways, it's like the world's longest mini-series. seasons 3 to 5 are kinda the best seasons.

i stopped a while back at the start of the 3rd season. glad i went back to it. the Common bear killer episode alone is worth watching. so scary. and dandy johnny shea is without a doubt one of the scariest and most real people on any fictional t.v. show. i've known people like him. so scary.

also, i kinda hate real-life people in fiction in general, but badass Brigham Young and lovable Ulysses S. Grant were two of my favorite characters.

i just started hell on wheels - corny but good, i'm in!

i love grant so i'm excited

it's definitely worth hanging in there. so many great later episodes. i am perfectly happy with the mythological fact/fiction elements.

and they never did any of that dumb: "say, who was that young man?" " why that's young Thomas Edison, he'll never amount to anything..."

little bit toward the end like that with Custer but it was kinda funny. not really a spoiler.

it also has a truly great - and mythological or archetypal or whatever - yin/yang good/evil relationship with the swede and bohannon. it gets really real.

also colm meaney should win every award. he's so much better than almost anything on t.v. when it comes to that character. endless depth over five seasons. which is pretty amazing given the fact that it is a little corny when you get right down to it.

i was kinda bummed that their fictional Theodore Judah got bumped off so quickly in episode 1, had hoped he'd get some more love but since it's more central focused i get it - but imo dude was a genius & got super shafted by the big 3! never has gotten a big enough due in books or movies for what he dreamed up ie transcontinental railroad

Didn't watch Hell on Wheels but I heard about the Chinese angle for the last season, it got me curious

it helps if you don't let any knowledge of history that you might have get in the way when watching. it is filled with alternative facts. and, coincidentally, a wonderful illustration of the rise of Trumpism in American history. the actual historical figure of Thomas Durant has some definite Trump parallels. though Durant was more complex and more interesting.

the california/chinese angles are good.

I was totally grossed out by the trailer for the Sant Clarita Diet and didn't even make it to the end of the trailer. They should warn you about that stuff. I was as grossed by the cynicism, shit humour and corny acting as by the flesh eating. Kinda depressing that this stuff gets funded.

Yeah, the trailer makes it look woodenly unfunny

it definitely made me not want to watch it. the trailer.

and i like drew but the trailer makes her look so lame.

a wonderful illustration of the rise of Trumpism in American history.

The actor who plays Bohannon grew up in Tennessee -- I looked it up after one of the episodes where he did a fair amount of talking and his accent reminded me of my friend Josh's, who grew up in Tennessee, and I felt like I won something. Anyway, I finally watched the last half of the last season. The romantic subplot was annoying. I really liked the show overall, but whenever they were together in those last 5-6 episodes, David Bowie's version of "China Girl" kept going through my head, (probably because it was the same time as all the Year End Best ofs and Bowie came up a lot) and I just wished that she could have been an awesome character and not a love interest. That was probably the weakest part. I wanted more history stuff: building challenges, robber barons and corruption, the experiences of different cultural groups, not cheesy romantic stuff.

When Trump pitched his wall idea, Hell on Wheels and the Trans. Railroad was the first thing I thought of, in terms of how much graft and cronyism would go into the thing.

i read that Le Bureau Des Légendes is on UK Netflix!!

Guys it is GREAT. French spy shit, taking in Syria, Iran, Paris

stars Kassovitz, Darroussin..

Ah I see it is just called "The Bureau" in English

excellent, it is on the t0rrents now as well. I have been after this for ages.

What t0rrent shoppe did you find it calzino?

scenetime, it's a members one but, lol as a "power user" I have lots invitation codes if you want one.

that would be great kind sir! email: gmdj [at] xs4all [dot] nl

just sent it LBI.

thanks so much man <3

calzino, i wouldn't mind an invite? forksclovetofu at the old gmail dot com

LBdL is ridiculous but yeah it's fun

xp
sent it forks.

unfortunately The Bureau eps on there are lacking subtitles, but season 1 + 2 is on kat with full subs.

thanks!

santa clarita diet is.... sort of 'off' in some way?? i think we're about 4 episodes in. the body-eating is too much for me, i have to cover my eyes. but everything about the show is just... off. drew's acting is bizarrely wooden, it's weird seeing timothy olyphant playing a goofy role (tbh he's the only reason i'm sticking with the show - he's definitely in my top 5 hall-of-fame would-smash), and a lot of the dialogue is really odd and stiff.

this looks cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-eU4B-fnc4

drew's acting is bizarrely wooden

because they catapulted her character into the big premise (and therefore never showed viewers who she was), it's unclear whether the wooden acting is a result of that change or just barrymore's lack of interest.

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didn't watch the trailer but I assume it's a Girls/Lost crossover?

it's about girls who turn into boys. looks weird.

The Bureau sounds interesting but unfortunately its not on Irish netflix yet. The first suggestion was a Norwegian show about Russia and climate change, has anyone seen it?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/02/02/occupied_a_political_thriller_on_climate_change_now_on_netflix_reviewed.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/07/occupied-norwegian-thriller-netflix-donald-trump

damn netflix sucks mad shit lately.

no way, Finding Dory.

damn netflix sucks mad shit lately.

they're all about their own library now. the third party offerings seem to be about bedding down a value proposition rather than being netflix in 2014.

yah i know. 90% of their original content is butt.

just watch The Third Man. The Third Man is an excellent movie.

90% of their original content is butt.

nah