Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I wan to watch 13 reasons - it's the sort of show folks chat about to me. But I'm thinking I'll find it too triggering? Maybe when I'm more stable.

2 episodes of 13 Reasons Why to go. It's been tough going. The end of Clay's tape made me cry.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, May 12, 2017 4:28 AM

last two tapes get pretty heavy tbh. overall a well done show and quite affecting

Ridiculously it has spawned some kind of self-harm meme propagated on Instagram that schools are frantically trying to deal with. Caused us several days of crisis although no students were harmed in the making of this totally overblown panic.

The tone of it started a bit oddly - like the first two episodes were such minor slights and her voiceover was so measured and almost cheery that you kind of wondered what the deal was, it almost seemed flippant - but it's got steadily more and more affecting.

I'm flabbergasted that the furore around it is about how it might encourage suicidal ideation in teens and not about the casualisation of sexual assault / misogyny.

haven't seen it, don't plan to see it

however, iirc there is a pretty well-established link between vulnerable people seeing representations of suicide in the media and deciding to take their own lives, so a series based around (as i understand it) suicide as revenge on those who wronged you seems potentially... problematic

There are a lot of rules and laws about what responsible adults have to do if a student threatens to harm themselves. As far as I can remember from my own school experience, there are fewer/no set rules about what to do when girls are harassed/threatened/sexually assaulted.

not to be overlooked are some pretty great performances by the kids in this

i have no desire to see 13 reasons why, i spend enough time with actual suicidal teenagers as it is

it's coming back for season 2? ugh should have left it at that

Forgive my ignorance but who is Hannah?

my daughter, who is now apparently known as Hannah Baker to half her friends

there's a lot of things wrong w the bbc but if they commissioned this it would come with a special newsnight devoted to teen suicide, a documentary about rape, a radio 1 surgery about the show where kids call in with questions, etc

Oh god those last two episodes. I've not slept well.

Watched first ep of Anne With An E & i'm on board

bit darker than the original but still has the same tone, if that makes sense

gonna watch that. and season two of master of none.

is it a kindred spirit of the original? Or more of a bosom friend?

it's darker than the 80's version. kinda reads between the lines on the book and adds some more realism to her experiences as an orphan

also the actress is younger, so it feels a little more true to life in that sense

it has a lot of the same lovely tone though. i really like it. the source material is so great it's kinda hard to fuck it up, tbh

witholding final judgement until gilbert shows up. if he's in any way gross or wrong-seeming it could be a dealbreaker

Martin Sheen seems like a bad matthew. Guess sam elliott is tied up with that terrible looking rural football show.

uh martin sheen isnt matthew

Oh ha I was lookong at the imdb of another recent version. Was struggling to see how it could be good

lol

Guess sam elliott is tied up with that terrible looking rural football show.

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i approve of gilbert

we are good to go

season 2 of master of none is excellent so far (I'm halfway through); a big step up from season 1 (which was good). also I am in love with that Italian woman

Wife is a huge Anne fan and says the last 1-2 episodes suddenly introduce much extraneous nonsense

i have no desire to see 13 reasons why, i spendt enough time withbeing an actual suicidal teenagers as it is

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, May 12, 2017 9:23 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey, enemy of the state was kinda prescient! tony scott was a prophet. jon voight's character was even born on 9/11.

hadn't seen that movie post-hysteria world.

oh also i finally watched the big short and enjoyed that. two pitt performances i didn't hate this month! maybe he's growing on me in my old age. or his old age. character work suits him.

i was half asleep watchign the big short and couldn't follow it at all. much like the actual financial crisis in real life. I was like "wtf happened?"

This is how much 13 RW got to me - I was in a good mood but then just read the above and now I'm remembering everything from the last couple episodes and picturing Hannah walking out of the school with Vienna playing and also the actual bathtub scene and holy fuck it was so unsettling but really well done.

I understand why some people wouldnt want to see it but I'm glad i did.

Anyone started in on the second season of Sense8 yet?

Watched the first hour of the opening episode and it was a bit of a mess

i enjoyed the first season then watched that steaming pile of shit christmas special thing and i'm very hesitant to go back

I think the Christmas one is the one I've watched half of.

kimmy schmidt is up

i couldn't believe how bad school for scoundrels was. i only watched about 35 minutes. that's all i could take. one of those movies that is kinda weirdly unfunny. like, how did they get the tone so wrong? billy bob. napoleon dynamite. people acting dumb and getting hit in the balls. what could go wrong? i can't imagine what people thought if they saw this at the movies. people must have walked out.

wait, did you guys talk about The Overnight on here?

EVERYONE on this thread should watch that. so short and sweet. and funny.

don't know if its on non-U.S. Netflix though.

I'm watching a terrible horror movie, Would You Rather.
Starring: Brittany Snow (who is incredibly familiar but I've never seen anything she was in that's listed on her wiki page), a porn star and DeAngelo Barksdale and a character actor doing his best Vincent Price impression.

Props for the appopriate subject matter, though, every game of Would You Rather that I've witnessed has devolved into open sadism.

seriously, watch The Overnight.

ok well i watched ep 1 of The Keepers and it's 100% vg bait

Get Me Roger Stone is pretty essential.

It's on Hulu but the documentary "Batman and Bill" about Bill Finger one of the co-creators of the character is sad but worth checking out.

Get Me Roger Stone was excellent. Shadow Of A Doubt is also good but pretty harrowing

did you guys watch The Overnight yet? curious what people think. i differ with people on ilx about comedy sometimes though....

it's short. did i mention that? like 79 minutes or something....

Silicon Cowboys, basically Halt and Catch Fire S1 the documentary (to the point where they use scenes from H&CF to fill time in between the talking heads spots). The story and the protaganists aren't really that interesting but it did draw my attention to this classic of the corporate rap genre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB6M0dxWDOo

Schitt's Creek has moved up from "Eh, I'll give it a go," to "Score! New episodes!" in my estimation. Also, I watched the Overnight for you, Scott (not true, I'd already seen it). It is surprisingly good.

" i can't imagine what people thought if they saw this at the movies. people must have walked out."

I don't think anyone saw this in a theater at all. in fact I think you may be the only person to have watched any of this movie at all.

ok well i watched ep 1 of The Keepers and it's 100% vg bait

You were the first person I thought of.

My girlfriend (raised Catholic/went to Catholic schools, thus her interest) and I basically just binged it all last night and today. It's quite something.