Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I couldnt make it through the Schumer stand up. I guess I have a 'hey im fat and have a whole lot of sex' joke limit. Not hating just kind of done with it.

It also kind of pisses me off the female comedians always have to talk about sex. I know male comedians do too but it seems like a requirement for the ladies.

Do we have a Hulu thread or do we just lump those shows in here?

xpost Bears repeating by me, but like her or not - I generally like her - it's just a bad special.

Similarly, I started that Maria Bamford, but just couldn't make it. I like her and want her to do well, but it's so alt-comedy that I sort of find it alt-funny.

bamford special rules! she makes minced lily liver out of most stand-up specials. its not fall down on the floor funny but i marvel at her all the same. what a good writer. she boldly goes where no man has gone before. so friggin' inventive. she could do 20 minutes on standing in line in an airport in her sleep if she wanted to. good to see someone pushing themselves. makes chappelle look like zzzzzzzzzzzzzz sleeping on the couch. she's older than dave chappelle too.

and she ends it with extended farting noises! yeah, try that mike birbiglia. you wish.

also, i loved that format. starting by doing her act in front of three people on a park bench and ending in a packed hall. again, i appreciate the effort. i mean you get to do whatever you want kinda. might as well go for it.

I loved the format, but maybe I was disoriented because I kept waiting for it to get funny and it never did and I wondered, is this still some sort of introduction? Is it building to something? But then I gave up. She's committed to whatever it is that she is doing, and it is not conventional stand up, but it felt more like spoken word or performance art than jokes. To me, at least.

such an insane amount of writing. i also loved that you could tell she was doing the same show in every location. i'd actually like to see the director's cut with the full hour in each place. there were jokes! she's a storyteller though. not unlike mike birbiglia actually. or richard pryor for that matter. i loved when she brought him up. and it definitely wasn't performance art. though it also was performance art. she actually makes a joke during a part where she is impersonating her mother and her husband's mother where she says she has to stop because its verging on one woman show material. she's a total stand-up. been doing it for decades. and like i said she can do normal stand-up in her sleep. no challenge for her there.

part of finding her funny is finding her mannerisms/voices/etc funny though. its a big part of what she does. and not so much the jokes. more delivery than jokes. vocal dynamics. she is basically speaking in tongues during some of it.

i like her husband's paintings too:

http://scottmarvelcassidy.com/paintings/view/410

she is basically speaking in tongues during some of it.

OTM, for better or for worse.

funny thing was I felt Bamford's delivery slowly improved as more people joined the audience throughout the special.

did you see the special that she did with just her parents as an audience? i think she just likes the awkward situations. a bigger crowd makes a lot of things easier.

yeah, I saw that one, too. I guess she seems more rehearsed to me w/the smaller crowds and less improvisational.

is there anything good on tv right now

there are so many new shows and most of them seem bad

pvmic

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Bamford is my hero! The stand up special with her parents is hilarious

"is there anything good on tv right now"

there is lots of good stuff. Watch Legion. for a start.

if you are gonna be picky and have "standards" and stuff though i can't help you. i watch a lot of t.v. i already want to watch the 3 seasons of halt and catch fire again on netflix and i just watched them.

Legion, American Gods, Leftovers, Riverdale...

The Handmaid's Tale, Fargo, Better Call Saul all ace too

^swap Fargo for The Americans and those would be my three favorite shows right now.

brockmire is very funny (and i have a longstanding amanda peet aversion but "hard drinking baseball team owner who's totally broke and is throwing everything at the wall to remain solvent" suits her well). izombie has been great this season. and if you haven't caught detroiters, it and superstore are my favorite half hour comedies this year.

i don't think i can emotionally handle the handmaids tale at this point.

it's... gruelling

although when maria was watching last night i did think they were going to break into some sort of baz luhrmann dance moves at the end of the episode. we're handmaids, bitches!

cue *single ladies*

yeah that was an odd decision

only watched the first ep of Handmaid's Tale but they sure do love some moooody slow-mo, huh?

seems worth watching though, will follow through.

Also bamford likes Bardo Pond

also she helped make adventure time one of the greatest things that ever happened before the warming storms hit.

handmaids tale is a tough watch. i'm still not fully recovered from reading the book in college tbh, but i'll give this a whirl and see how long I can hang

I'd never read it and started last fall. I was about 2/3 of the way through before the election and I just stopped after that, as there was nothing good coming from reading it at that time. Still want to see the series though, but maybe not until 2020.

Re OJ I just read or watched something on Caitlyn Jenner where she was all 'we knew he did it but Robert (Kardashian) was so loyal he just couldn't grasp it and was having the worst time' (that not an actual quote by the way). Also, something about if he had defended him in the first trial it would have been okay but the fact that he defended him in the second trial people just destroyed him. Jenner had some very sweet thing to say about Rob though.

That's interesting. I have to say watching the drama made me feel more sympathetic to the Kardashians in general, a very weird world they live in.

Baskets on loop

watched Handsome. Jeff Garlin comedy mystery netflix movie that was entertaining. would watch if that became a series. especially for amy sedaris and natasha lyonne lunacy.

finally watched burn after reading. i don't know why avoided it for so long. that was also entertaining. i think i avoided it because the idea of pitt/clooney mugging doesn't thrill me but they were fine.

watched sing street with the kids. we liked it. kinda like a new wave version of The Commitments.

also, do i need to watch The Prestige? i kinda hate magic. and magicians. but i guess its supposed to be good.

i tried to be an adult and watch clouds of sils maria but i got bored. binoche is actually french for boredom.

i also watched half of Nightcrawler which was fine but i stopped watching when Jake was making Rene Russo go out with him because for some reason i didn't want to watch that part. made me sad to see Bill Paxton too.

i still haven't watched magic mike, but might watch it. i still haven't watched boyhood either. or upstream color. or tangerine. or it follows. or the big short. or beasts of no nation. or jiro dreams of sushi. or the overnight. or white god. but i'll get around to them.

Watch the sushi one. Skip the prestige.

I think if you ever want to watch any Nolan movie then The Prestige is probably as good as it gets? imo it does the plot twist thing better than their other stuff because it's not really convoluted, and the performances are pretty good. still, all the women are props in the story :/

definitely watch Jiro, glad you enjoyed Burn After Reading because JK Simmons is +++

there was definitely some old coen magic in burn.

Interstellar is the only Nolan movie i've ever seen. love that movie. never felt like watching Memento.

you did watch it. ten minutes ago.

I liked the Prestige, I think it's worthwhile. As is Memento! Those two are prolly the only Nolan you really need. Plus Dark Knight, I guess. Sushi doc is a beaut.

the prestige is a better movie than dark knight but more shit blows up in dark knight

You can download a fan-cut of the movie that replaces all the explosions with David Bowie.

the prestige is fuckin great!

Not Netflix, but sat down to watch American Gods last night and there were only two eps. I'd thought it was a season release. Grr.

I love the Prestige. Magic Mike is GREAT. Boyhood is pretty good. Upstream Color is good though I had to look up what happened after it was over.

what do people think of american gods? i saw a few mentions upthread. it doesn't have its own thread, right?

i'm two eps in and enjoying it. parts of it feel a bit comic book for my tastes or a bit silly, but it looks incredible and i enjoy how freely surreal it is for a show that's attempting to be a hit.

American Gods is basically Bryan Fuller doing all the stuff NBC didn't let him get away with on Hannibal.

Also, I think that was the first time I've seen an erect penis (twice in one episode!) on TV.