Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

xp AMC was definitely dipping their toes in the water with that series, at least there's gonna be a second series now. I should go back and watch it, liked the first two eps and forgot to continue

Can someone confirm that this Netflix original David Brent movie that I didn't know existed is, in fact, shit so I don't feel compelled to watch it and spoil my opinion of an otherwise fantastic character?

it's really really shit

Netflix should have a background noise option that switches between non-fiction/reality TV shows - I don't want to listen to eight episodes of the same crappy low-budget TV in a row while working, but I don't want to have to think about switching either.

season two of angie tribeca on hulu! i know, i know, netflix thread...

also kinda want to watch black sails on hulu...young long john silver!

and season two of fargo is finally coming to hulu...

That netflix original david brent movie got cinema release in aus, was roundly loathed

i made it 15 minutes in. seems to be a vanity project with really shit music that's supposed to come across ironic but is just shit.

also kinda want to watch black sails on hulu...young long john silver!

I binge watched all four seasons of Vikings since the turn of the year and was surprised how good it was (always thought it would be some sub-Spartacus shit).

I'm now watching Black Sails and it's...ok. Struggling to get through the second season at the moment and thinking of switching to Hell On Wheels instead.

i watched the first two episodes of Black Sails today and enjoyed them. we'll see how far i get.

i watched the first two seasons of Vikings and then stopped. i think. something like that.

i'm okay with stopping these days. i'll watch a season or two of something and sometimes i've seen enough. that definitely happened with me and hell on wheels. enjoyed it for 2 or 3 seasons and then just couldn't take watching them be the world's worst criminals anymore. but it was fun for awhile.

there are some things i just have an infinite appetite for. i could watch 400 episodes of The 100. even though it's totally dumb.

for instance i really like longmire and rectify but i watched the first 3 seasons (i think?) of both and i'm good.

(i actually started watching battlestar with maria and cyrus and i don't know if they will watch the whole thing. we'll see. i've always wanted to watch the whole thing with someone but the kids were either too young or maria wasn't feeling it. they already talk way too much during episodes and i have to pause the show 50 times an episode but i try really hard not to be a show nazi about it. i watched that whole show in perfect silence by myself about 5 or 6 years ago. definitely in my top five t.v. shows. top two? i dunno. it inspired me in a big way.)

I love Vikings so much. Plus I think the hair, costume and general production design on that show approaches Game of Thrones levels of excellence.

I tried to watch Last Warrior, but it just makes me sad that I'm not watching Vikings and I keep giving up.

Last Warrior?

Do you mean the Last Kingdom Bernard Cornwell adaptation that BBC did?

The post-Ragnor Vikings is still excellent imo. His ex-wife and his little bickering bastard kids have totally re-energised the show.

Vikings definitely a cooler Hell On Wheels.

oh yeah, Last Kingdom I guess is what I meant. Is it good? Should I persevere?

there are some things i just have an infinite appetite for. i could watch 400 episodes of The 100. even though it's totally dumb.

I'm a total fan of this show now btw

I made a thread for Last Kingdom:

THE LAST KINGDOM

When we started watching Vikings we had the opposite of your problem i.e. we felt weird that we weren't watching The Last Kingdom.

I watched an ep of Ultimate Beastmaster. it was american gladiators without the evil gladiators. they were the best part :( i liked the international supporters, but then you've got terry crews saying generic bullshit over them.

Isn't it basically American Ninja Warrior?

Or I guess International Ninja Warrior..

beastmaster is good for one episode and after that is just a complete snooze.

i'm watching that 80's computer biz show and i like it! i like young kara thrace as a hotshot computer programmer with inner demons. also i liked when she chose who to fire based on who cheated their way out of a cave in an adventure computer game.

I couldn't get into Halt And Catch Fire and I swear that show was MY IDEA

i dig it. i have no idea if its accurate at all. but i didn't care if battlestar was accurate either.

I couldn't get past episode 1, with the ho ho dead armadillo bit and then the awful, badly written sex scene.

it gets better.

it quickly gets better.

we gave up on beastmaster in episode 2 because they were only giving edited highlights of half the contestants. the fun and suspense of these shows is in seeing how everyone gets through the course, not cutting to them having gotten to the middle seconds before they fall off.

each season of Halt has been better than the last.

maybe

I've only seen the first season and a half, but the punk programmer and nerdy guy's wife become great characters, the sleazy dude not so much

american psycho guy is weird because sometimes he's intriguing and sometimes you want him to die. but maybe that's good. or compelling.

but if you've never seen it you don't have to wait years for it to get better. it gets better by like the 2nd or 3rd episode. definitely hit the spot during my day of blizzard viewing. it's binge-y.

Santosh Sivan's ludicrous, brilliant Hindi pop-cinema epic Asoka, with SRK and Kareena Kapoor, is on UK Netflix now.

Sivan is one of the world's great cinematographers IMO and directed the very highly regarded Tamil film The Terrorist before Asoka. The latter was hugely expensive and not particularly popular or critically acclaimed at the time but it's really great.

The White Helmets was of course sad and horrifying but engrossing.

If it hasn't been recommended yet, the documentary "Finders Keepers" is pretty incredible. It's about a man that buys an old grill at auction and finds a human foot in it, and the really weird but ultimately touching events that transpire as its story is told.

Binged 5 eps of Hotel Beau Sejour this arvo, daaaaamn it's addictive. Good dark murder mystery. And motocross, as an added bonus.

finished season 3 of Halt and i kinda love that show. didn't really want it to end. fell for the characters.

Has anyone actually watched Iron Fist?

I don't really want to but wondering if it's needed as a lead in to The Defenders.

Latest entry in the NETFLIX MARVEL GRITVERSE: Iron Fist

Has it's own thread. People seem to hate it.

my kid likes it. he's 11 though. he has watched a lot of pokemon.

imo that's the demographic they've been avoiding but probably need for a team-up show

It's pretty goofy but I binged through a few eps of Samurai Gourmet (weird translation of title "The Lonely Gourmet"), which tells the story of a recently retired 60 year old man rediscovering freedom through tales of food nostalgia in his suburban neighborhood.

Guys, "Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films" is a blast.

― circa1916, Friday, December 18, 2015

Finally watched and totally agree. Immediately went to the Wikipedia list of films and started clicking through all the ones I'd love to see, at least once. Will probably never have a taste for some of the more pure vigilante type stuff. But yeah, loads of wild shit to watch otherwise. They definitely drove home the point about their love of packing movies with T&A. The doc itself at point feels like a supercut of Cannon T&A. A few great anecdotes aside, those interviewed didn't have a lot of insight, I thought. Lots of repetition, lots of saying the same things but in slightly different ways. You can almost just tune them out after a while and let the footage just wash over you.

So embarrassing that I've owned a copy of that thing since pretty much when it came out and haven't seen it yet. And I've probably watched the masterpiece that is Cobra twice since then.

I enjoyed Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! as a kind of lazy-Sunday-evening alternative to Sherlock. It is very silly but evokes 40s Kolkata nicely.

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