Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

It makes me want CSI: Stars Hollow

ooh yes

Luke Perry and Skeet Ulrich and Madchen Amick were so good

I really like the Betty actress too

Yeah, Betty does a lot of good acting without great material. Apparently (according to my students) Jughead's "I'm weird speech" is a well-known meme. As it should be, though, because

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He was great too obv

New(ish) Joe Swanberg movie w/ Jake Johnson and Keegan-Michael Key looks like it might be worth a watch

can recommend! it's good, way less aimlessly improv-ed than Drinking Buddies etc. I enjoyed it

Yeah it's v enjoyable

Finished season 4 of The 100. So many lols.

seasons 3 and 4 are the best. octavia power.

I started watching The 100 again with Maria. She's never watched it. They were such babies.

End of season 4 definitely has me anticipating already! hope it comes back. i don't even know if it is.

Man I can't wait to start 100.4

raven and octavia are my role models. they inspire me to be a better person.

From way back in the thread but yeah i thought the new Sarah Silverman special was great. Better than the new Louie imo

otm!

Never paid much attention to Silverman, but yeah that special was worthwhile.

The John McAfee documentary is a bit hack-y but it's such a bizarre story it doesn't really matter

Finished The Keepers last night. It was a great story, in parts, and it was a very good example of the shameless way the Catholic Church covers for the rapists it breeds, but I'm not sure it covered the murder very well. It raised a lot of questions, and I guess in the end pointed to that necklace guy?

I found myself losing a bit of patience with the way it signposted some events as conclusions or proofs. I also felt, understandably I guess, that it never really investigated the merits or demerits of suppressed memory evidence.

I don't doubt the abuse for a second, nor the scale of it, but it does seem like someone who's had such a vile and traumatic experience which their memory appeared to wipe for years presents a problem when it comes to their being a major solo witness in another crime, ie witnessing the body of Sister Cathy in the woods. The maggots thing I guess added credence but it didn't prove her story was true in the way the documentary attempted to show.

Be curious to know how others felt but it left me a bit confused in the end. It was hard to tell what the documentary makers thought happened. I also didn't like the sort of religious/seer feeling to "who knows when I'll remember something else" etc in the last episode, but again I don't know enough about the psychiatry of suppressed memory to know, the show touched on it but only in a highly personalised way about the evil hateful state doctor with some random AN Other saying "we should never ignore our blind spots"

It was a nicely made doc and it had some really sensitive interviews, it suffered a bit from the story having no conclusion to it.

Watched "Under The Shadow" the other night. V good, enjoyed having a ghost story in a non traditional setting

Got the feeling that the setting did a lot of the heavy lifting and in the end there wasn't much to it. Still good tho.

loved Mr. Gaga. had never heard of him. know nothing about dance. would watch again. so beautiful.

h, hello on broadway

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"the police? that's who YOU are!!!"

not sure if I was into On Hello, but watched the whole thing anyway. Don't think these guys are my cup of tea

i was a huge Kroll Show fan so it's like an early xmas gift

i thought it was hilarious but i like both those guys

I admit I'm kinda drunk but I'm watching it right now and can barely breathe

def found some of the lines pretty hilarious

xpost "Too Much Tuna" had that effect on me tho when I first saw it

The only new stuff appearing on Netflix Australia recently is a barrage of dodgy Bollywood barrel scrapings

stuff from korea and taiwan too. guessing they want to get a foot in the door of a wider range of households and/or netflix's local content deals in those countries confer broader global rights.

they've always done that here. lots and lots of Korean and Turkish and Indian programming on U.S. Netflix. it's smart!

and it usually is a deluge. just tons of programming from one place/region in one day.

oh, hello on broadway was hilarious though I was disappointed that Dog Giamatti didn't make an appearance.

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Orange is the New Black was good again.
Wonder how long until the next season. Want to know what happens after the end.

Meanwhile there was a trailer for GLOW which appears to be somehow related.

same producer iirc

Is that a simultaneous release of all episodes as well. Is that a standard thing for Netflix anyway?

yep

netflix only staggers releases for chelsea and shows it buys from networks (riverdale, izombie)

netflix's binge strategy seems like a way to hook people into watching a possibly mediocre show without the possibility of them tuning out if they had a week to come back (ala cable TV).

Their quality control is all over the place

I don't like to binge for the same reasons I can't be an avid gamer - any time more than 2 hours pass with me sitting in one place doing the same thing I feel like I'm being wasteful and cease to enjoy it.

(that's my own baggage tho, not a judgment)

The Netflix release method leaves me with more series unfinished - that lack of a weekly gap highlights annoying things (like parts of Master of None) and once I'm just bothered enough to be out I don't think to go back and get into it again.

I do love being able to choose when I start and stop but I can rarely watch just one series in a straight shot like my friends do. I usually take a two day break even when I jump in and often struggle to get past the middle episodes (even with good shows).

Neanderthal, I commend you - sounds like you don't waste as much time as me

:-)

I did rewatch almost 3 seasons of Breaking Bad w/ a girl one weekend but it's cos I was trying to get laid

(did not happen). but idk when it's with someone else I have an easier time doing it - I live alone tho so that rarely happens.

trigger warning: in the middle of the new rory scovel special there is a skit with him and jack white. i had to turn it off last night and missed the end of his special. but it wasn't that hot anyway. it was okay.

i feel like i have been amuuuuuuuuuuused by a lot of recent specials but not a lot of LOLing going on. maybe i'm just jaded. i mean the occasional LOL. but no sustained hilarity. everyone is so technical now. like comedy grad students. hope live comedy doesn't turn into the iowa writers workshop.

the impact of the internet has to count for something. all of a sudden people can study every comedian ever at length.

lots of these Netflix shows (and a lot of "golden age" tv shows) are complete trash, i think the AV Clubbing/Sepinwalling of tv shows gives the impression for a lot of them that they possess a quality and usefulness that's non-existent. i try with a lot of these shows, really. i guess one good thing about this new era is that the seasons are 10-13 episodes long. i tried watching Miami Vice recently and i like it still (cornier than i remember), but jeez those network shows...the seasons were a million years long.

cyrus and i started watching every episode of Friends and it has taken us months of occasional binging. i don't think i remembered that it was on for 10 seasons. we are on season 9. the dermot mulroney era.

Long long Holiday, nice french animated miniseries about WW2

It seems quite historically accurate, doesn't avoid the difficulties,but still manages to be uplifting at times

scott have you seen Neal Brennan's 3 Microphones? I really enjoyed that ine

i thought it was pretty good! also the very definition of technical. i actually liked the serious stories the best probably.

i mean i liked the bamford special too and that was all about concept. i'm not anti-concept. people get to have an actual budget and try things. which is cool. but the comedy itself feels like its never been as meta. like sarah silverman taking a long pause to talk about the joke she just did. these are obviously very talented people. but i guess i'd like to see one that is more of a visceral force of nature kinda thing. someone who has them rolling in the aisles. i guess that's just up to kevin hart now.