Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

Xpost Crime's the disease, and I'm the cure.

I used that line last as a joke for some reason, and was mystified about why I remembered the tag line from a 31 year old Stallone movie that I've never seen and haven't heard mentioned in forever.

the thing I remember about that movie is that is was based on a book and Stallone wanted to be credited as the book's co-author when it was reissued.

Everything about it is batshit and beautiful (but not on Netflix, sorry folks).

Halfway thru season 2 of Love and it's pretty dece (if you like gentle lols and not much happening).

if it seemed funnier i'd want to watch it more but it seems like kinda serious + maybe a bummer?

Episode with mickeys dad was incredibly well written and depressing.

see that's what i'm trying to avoid when i watch sitcoms

Season 1 of "Into the Badlands" was ~280 minutes well spent. As skot noted on the Iron Fist thread, this series has plenty of film-quality martial arts fights, plus 12 or 14 recurrent characters sufficiently attractive and developed to be kept straight throughout their constant plotting and back-stabbing. The Louisiana interiors and exteriors are also easy on the eyes.

dave chapelle, the 60 million dollar netflix man is up today.

I tried Into the Badlands, and I'd be more into it if the 2nd ep hadn't opened with "sexxxy steam-cyber-punk" for the Widow and her club or wahtever. I didn't stick around for the rest of that scene.

Finally started Jessica Jones last night. It's all right. Why don't I read more?

I'm not sure I made it all the way through any of the Marvel Netflix shows.

I get about halfway, if I start, and then lose interest. That's true of a lot of Netflix series, though - they look fantastic but the rest of it's pretty meh.

xp re Into the Badlands: yes, that scene gets off to a queasy start; it ends with the Widow killing all the men in the room (it's not her club, btw, though I thought so too at the beginning of the scene)

one major plotline is the feminist Widow vs. Quinn the patriarch, though any political content is strictly in the service of ultra-broad comic-book conflict ... there's plenty of dystopian sexism on display, also several different female characters kicking ass in colorful ways

the patriarchal themes are nasty, but I was even more creeped out by the new-look Louisiana plantation slavery

the bad guys are unambiguously eeeeeeevil in this show; in that respect it's like the kung fu movies it imitates

i want to see more of the magic monks which is why i'll be watching season 2.

watched the first chapelle special. some funny stuff. lots of rape material and not all of it cosby-related. liked the 4 O.J. stories.

I made it as far as the camp gay superhero followed by the rapey superhero and then turned it off.

as someone who loves rape jokes let me say you guys are really selling this comedy special