Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Jed maybe I'm wrong!! Sorry - it was just something I read

Fake news! Sad!

Raja, Rasoi Aur Anya Kahaniyaan - a documentary series about regional Indian cuisine - seems very interesting from the first couple of episodes.

Ooh, thanks, just added that to my queue.

Ooh yeah, thx.

Schitt's Creek is just delightful, can't believe I didn't know about it until last week.

Canadian netflix just added the Pioneers of African American Cinema collection and it looks amazing

Schitt's Creek is just delightful

I refuse to believe this

I watched it and I don't. It was okay though.

i love schitt's creek. i had no idea the son is eugene's real son. i love the son. and the diner waitress is his real daughter. it's a strangely comforting show. i just love the way everyone speaks.

i couldn't watch girlfriend's day though. sorry, bob! i will watch you in almost anything!

i mean i watched about 35 minutes or so. and its only 70 minutes....

It has Odenkirk in it, right? Still not sure it appeals.

I refuse to believe this

Because of the terrible name?

Canadian netflix just added the Pioneers of African American Cinema collection and it looks amazing

john mulaney's stand up specials are pretty damn funny

neal brennan's 3 Mics special is really good

someone was just telling me about that last night. Cool concept!

korean monk on season 3 of chef's table made me feel so shabby. everything in that episode was so perfect looking and perfect and my house is so messy right now. she was awesome and filled me with aspirational monk chic envy.

feel that. there is (was?) this little magazine, apartamento, that had interviews w/people and showed their own spaces. a lot of cluttered, idiosyncratic, stacked magazine spaces. made me feel normal, like real humans don't live in these weird hgtv expansive spaces and lofts

all the monk clothes were spotless and perfect and they live on top of a mountain. pretty much the healthiest people you've ever seen in your life.

Yes. The Korean Buddhist cook episode was amazing.

Although it made me think wtf am I doing with my life?

I've never seen this show and I couldn't care less about Italian chefs going Jackson Pollock on plates but this was really good.

2 eps of Occupies left, am gripped

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Can't vouch for it, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that Entertainment (the Neil Hamburger movie) is up now.

― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Saturday, March 26, 2016 8:50 PM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ wanted to see that, can't wait to get bleak

― ian, Sunday, March 27, 2016 11:03 AM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not a terrific film, but it did have lots of Neil Hamburger in it, so that was good

― del griffith, Sunday, March 27, 2016 2:08 PM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Randomly came across this in a bit of insomnia last night but holy hell how did nobody inform me that there was a Neil Hamburger movie? I can't say much more other than it cured my insomnia but will take another stab at it soon.

anyone been watching last chance u? really enjoyed it, dunno how it comes across to americans but thought it was really interesting from a euro pov. like, why is sport in america so tied to education? i guess in one way that's good but shouldn't there be a way for these players to just succeed based on ability and not have to exams etc along the way? is it just that college football is a sort of testing ground and nobody is ready for the nfl without it? it just seemed to me like some good athletes who would never be academic enough to pass their exams were being forced to try and get grades, which doesn't really happen in soccer, where people are just directly recruited by clubs at like 13 or younger.

the other thing i found weird in it was the laws of football, like if somebody destroys a guy with a late tackle and that guy then gets up and flicks a teeny punch at him, nothing happens to the first guy but the first is penalised? or is it just in this particular doc the umpires hate this dominant school?

just call me irish tuomas

I am an American and to be honest I don't know much about sports, and I haven't watched this show, but I think the answer to your first question has something to do with the huge amount of money in college football.

wouldn't the nfl be more rich? like i don't understand why they don't have youth academies and stuff, which seems to be the model in most other sports.

but they'd have to pay for that! and manage it! college as the "minor leagues" of pro football is win-win for everyone apart from the student-athletes themselves. they provide the labor that nets colleges literally millions a year (tv rights, tickets, t-shirts etc), and the nfl gets a free farm system. but if a "student" so much as accepts a free pair of shoes in return they're kicked off the team. it's fucking ludicrous.

as far as retaliation goes that's always frowned on, in every sport right ?

i don't know much about football either but there is definitely a lot of controversy about the connections between sports and education.
re: your second paragraph, a late tackle should be penalized (it's against the rules). but tackling is part of the game and lateness is somewhat subjective, while punching is not part of the game or subjective, so the latter is more likely to draw a penalty.

fun fact: in college i took an electronics class that was supposed to be so easy it was nicknamed "shocks for jocks". i got a C.

maybe it's just that the late tackling thing is a particular focus of the doc, cos yeah, all your explanations make sense.

the college thing is p interesting to me - like i guess there's always a connection between education and sport, but watching this doc it struck me as wrong that you have these talented kids who are being denied a chance to succeed at sport because they don't have the grades. i mean i guess they can still make it anyway, but it seems like your chances of making the nfl etc are much more likely at a big college? surely the quality of the nfl would be way higher if they did their own scouting and were buying up talented kids at 9 years old, like the big soccer clubs seem to do.

also wouldn't the nfl teams want to just go "fuck the grades" and hire a guy if he's awesome at football. i'm guessing that must happen but does it still go via college? are the nfl teams not allowed to just hire some kid and gazump the college before the kid's value goes through the roof after becoming a college star?

i took a geology course that was also supposed to be easy -- rocks for jocks

i dont know a lot about baseball but my understanding is that its closer to euro-style talent grooming, in that young players go into the minor leagues, maybe after university maybe not

i suppose one argument that could be made in favor of tying education to sporting development is that the vast majority of college players never ever make it to the majors, so getting a degree is some measure of insurance. vs like going to an academy, fizzling out, and then not having anything at all to fall back on.

anyway, college players should all be compensated

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bear in mind that there's also a pretty significant incentive on college campuses for suboptimal students to be herded as gently as possible through academics

I haven't watched that doc, but while I was in college I had a coworker at my summer job who was on the football team. I think he's still active in the sport in that he does some commentary for his local news and is an assistant coach for a large high school, but he very much was using the scholarship to get a useful degree. He'd brush off enthusiastic fans who would ask if he was going to try to play in the NFL -- as a college senior he'd already had one knee surgery and said that realistically he might be able to play in that small european league that plays american football but even if he did that, he'd probably be done within a couple years and be barely able to walk by the time he quit

so there's this situation where the players get no money but they're "compensated" with a college education, although half the team doesn't really get much out of that, and there were a fair number of people who were going to be as physically wrecked as him but with no job skills. even those going to the NFL usually only get a couple years of play before they retire.

that's the real career trajectory of most NFL players, though -- a couple years making decent money followed by a lifetime of impaired mobility, so you sure as hell better have a backup plan

yeah one of the coaches in the doc said 1.5 or 2 years. wouldn't be surprised if rugby over here went the same way, it's just not been professional for so long, relatively, but it gets more and more brutal every year as the players get bigger and faster.

It kind of already is. There's been a spate of players dying relatively young from brain diseases like MND, especially amongst those who played for the Springboks in the 90s.

agree to an extent, even the sense each year of fans talking about teams with "lots of injuries" when it seems more and more the case that you have young guys who excel for 2/3 years then get broken down a bit. there are exceptions, the odd indestructible player eg jamie heaslip or someone, but yeah that's true, and the game today could well be more dangerous than the 90s, even if some rules are changing the size and speed of the guys is certainly different.

is there a thread for amazon prime recs? it's hard to find good stuff on there, and instant watcher isn't that good bc amazon adds soooooo much shit every day. the j.t. leroy doc just got added, might watch that tonight.

i always switch between amazon prime & netflix, def good stuff on both

we should probably have an instant streaming thread (or just retitle this one)

Schitt's Creek is just delightful

I was very cynical about it in the beginning, because this small town seems to be absolutely amazing and I can't see why anyone would have a problem selling it. They have full employment, charming places to eat, a locally owned supermarket that hasn't been put out of business by a big-box store, and almost everyone is really attractive and smart and accepting of non-traditional lifestyles. It sounds idyllic.

But once you get past all that, it's really lovely and very funny and all the things that Scott said.

finally more seasons of the great british baking show up!

also lots of kens burns stuff and other PBS stuff that i'm not going to watch. PBS must be getting ready to be Netflix-only after Trump gets through with them.

also the mind of a chef is on but i don't want to get cheffed out. so many chefs. i do like the occasional chef success story because watching them does kinda inspire me to be a better business owner. for like a week.

yaaaaaay more GBBS hooray

The first episode of The OA was so annoying I was grateful, because now we can just scrap the rest. Have been super-bummed (in the wrong way) by both episodes we've seen of Black Mirror thus far, too. (The one with the pig, and the one with the people constantly rating their interactions.) So again, I guess that's a save. The weird thing is, The OA and Black Mirror are both so clearly well made, and the acting is fine. I suppose it's the material, the writing, that's the problem. like the money was spent on production design or something over rewrites.

Well you happened to pick two of the worst Black Mirror eps to watch in my opinion, but definitely your enjoyment of the shows will vary depending on how much the "DO YOU SEE?!?!?!" style of the writing you find personally grating. "The Entire History of You" is genuinely well done and I also liked the "San Junipero" episode quite a bit, but the rest ranges from sub-Twilight Zone to genuinely awful.

There's a real mean-spiritedness to those two.