Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Scott, I reckon your lads would love "Hunt For The Wilderpeople" (its on UK/Ireland Netflix not sure if its on US versh). If I was 10, it would have probably be my favourite movie

maria and cyrus went to see kong island last night at the movies. they didn't really rave about it. cyrus - surprisingly to me - really loved the movie Interstellar. it's on Hulu. i liked it and put it on for him and he flipped out. the space/time/continuum stuff blew his mind. i thought it would be too long or too slow for him. you never know with kids.

kids -- they're just like us!

Interstellar is awesome - cyrus otm

i really liked s1 of fortitude in the end but can't really get into s2.

shhh it's not available here yet

i just want to know is fortitude series 2 in the same secret genre as series 1, or is it just a crime series this time round?

Hunt for the Wilderpeople so good, Top 5 last year for me

Marvelous Mrs Maisel on Amazon Prime is SO GOOD.

It's basically a fictional Joan Rivers & it's excellent. Takes a little bit of setup, but once it hits the top of the rollercoaster it's A+

Amy Sherman Palladino's dad was a standup, she grew up in this world...it *feels* like her wheelhouse

WATCH IT!!!

i mentioned this on the gilmore girls thread but it didn't seem as if anyone....uh, you...had seen it yet.

it's just the pilot though, right?

also, i don't have amazon.

Yep it's just the pilot

Hunt for the Wilderpeople so good, Top 5 last year for me

i couldn't stand this, it was so insufferably twee and indie i had to turn it off after about 10 minutes.

I have no idea if it is a good show or not, but Ingobernable is horrific name.

wait why?

I guess not so bad seeing as it's a common Spanish word. I was reading it as some kind of mangled English neologism when I saw it pop up on my Netflix home screen.

just want to know is fortitude series 2 in the same secret genre as series 1, or is it just a crime series this time round?

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it is as outlandish/bizarre as the wu tang killer not bees series one. crimes happen but not really in a typical crime series let's solve this logically way.

netflix live is far, far better than it has any right to be

Marvelous Mrs Maisel on Amazon Prime is SO GOOD.

It's basically a fictional Joan Rivers & it's excellent. Takes a little bit of setup, but once it hits the top of the rollercoaster it's A+

Amy Sherman Palladino's dad was a standup, she grew up in this world...it *feels* like her wheelhouse

WATCH IT!!!

A friend of mine ordered me to vote for it to be picked up, I guess I'll check it out

I started watching legion knowing nothing about it (nobody spoil it pls) and I'm trying to keep an open mind but I admit my heart sank when someone said "he might be the most powerful mutant we've ever encountered" because I didn't realise it was one of those things. I did really like Fargo and stranger things and I'm enjoying the direction so far, slomo music video shit and all, and of course it's haha wow so trippy

Don't worry, Legion is amazing

I got a few more eps in and I'm hot & cold. I know I shouldn't be so put off by genre trappings but I do die a little every time someone says "powers"

And then the 2nd episode had an irl "what if I told you" and an irl "we've never seen anything like this before" and again I know I shouldn't care but man what can I say I don't read comics

There is def a lot of good stuff (it looks great) and I don't think it will be as much of a waste of time as westworld or any of those other shows where "mystery" means "exposition that hasn't happened yet"

I'm quite averse to all that superheros rinse as well, but damnit, the penultimate episode of Legion was fucking excellent and definitely a notable high amongst recent tv series stuff.

new louis ck better than the 2 chappelles. inmyhumbleinternetopinion. wish he could do a special a month.

opening with abortion is classique.

New series of Chewing Gum just hit today.

S2 of Love isn't bad, but it's taken me a while to settle back into all that awkward dysfunction.

Is anyone else watching 13 Reasons Why? I'm a couple of episodes in and I am enjoying it so far.

Samurai Gournet is an adorable addition to the Japanese food related comedy-drama, not a patch on Midnight Diner so far but good nonetheless.

going through some ah "heavy turbulence" at the moment and this has been about the only thing i can watch. it's charming as you say, and the slight 20 minute episodes are appropriate to the content. not for binge watching tho as his expressions of culinary contemplation, satisfaction and reverie all put together are a bit much, but yes this is good. (oh also the episode with his niece felt a bit off - his relationship with his past is one thing, but this was stuffy and patriarchal on to someone else in a way he usually avoids in other episodes)

will give midnight diner a go.

There is def a lot of good stuff (it looks great) and I don't think it will be as much of a waste of time as westworld or any of those other shows where "mystery" means "exposition that hasn't happened yet"

― a Brazilian professional footballer (wins), Sunday, April 2, 2017

oh man i so hope they make "where 'mystery' means exposition that hasn't happened yet" the tag line for westworld season 2

I've read it, it can't be unread

Season three of iZombie is up. Little could make me happier.

ravi is the best

The Wolfgang Beltracchi doc is flawed but has its moments, worth it for the Vassilieff-alike creation in progress.

ravi is the best

Watched Tickling Giants last night. The story of Bassem Youssef's satirical news show in Egypt a few years back. Thought it was pretty good. Also enjoyed his own web series a couple of weeks back.

Watched about half of the BBC War & Peace which I'd missed last year. Need to finish it.

"The Seven Five"—Bklyn crooked cop doc. Really good.

Kind of wanted to start watching X-Files again (haven't seen it in probably ten years), but their contract with Netflix must've expired. I had that show in my queue for like 8 years.

aw man i was very slowly making my way through them myself. that sucks. who has them now?

aliens iirc

getting v annoyed @ how they keep putting movies up and then taking them down like 2 months later, all w/o announcing them anywhere. Unless you follow some third-party blog's "Here's a list of what's arriving and leaving", you'd never know. You'd think by now they'd have something in-app w/r/t all of this shit???

I've gotten some notifications but they're not consistent

why did I ever taper off on watching iZombie? good lightweight fun

VG - 13 Reasons hooked me at some point and I need to point out the excellent use of "Vienna" in Hannah's final scene. I can't really talk about it yet though - it was really heavy and hard to watch at points.

Been watching Lovesick but find it to be pretty dull and too on the nose. Soundtrack is decent though. Anyone else watch it?

TOWER is on Netflix atm. Probably the best documentary of last year

Love S2 is better than the first, I'd be down for a Bertie spinoff.

just finished watching 13 Reasons Why w/ tt - really excellent and gripping, superbly acted and directed (tt was THRILLED that Gregg Araki did two episodes) with vivid characters and somehow a totally believable plot

also yeah emotionally intense like little i've seen before

Anyone else see/know that the Netflix star system was not an average of user reviews but an algorithm driven suggestion based on how much their system thought you'd like a specific film or show? Same with the new thumbs up/down system, apparently.

yeah, i thought that was common knowledge. for a few years netflix offered a $1 million dollar prize to any researcher who could improve on their recommendation algorithm by 10%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize (the winning algorithm, from 2009, was apparently never actually implemented). here's a nyt magazine article i remember reading at the time: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html

I knew they recommended things, but I had no idea that, say, a movie with five stars didn't mean most voters gave it five stars but that you had a five star chance of liking it or something like that. Just weird to have had a star system that wasn't an average, or even a traditional rating.