Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Interesting to see that that Alison Brie Russian character was based on a real one from the original series, or at least the wrestling persona was. Ninotchka who was blonde but put on the whole russian domination schtick.

Peter Hook was very enthusiastic. The gist of the story was that I spent his entire set trying to figure out what to open with and as he was playing very "eclectically" I kept recalibrating and freaking out "how am I going to keep the party going" and right near the end he calls me over and says "listen, when I'm done, do you mind waiting a few minutes for the applause before you start?". The joke being that it didn't matter what I played, and also that usually you don't leave space for applause before the next DJ". The joke was on me anyway because everyone was there to just dance to the guy from New Order and soon as he was done I waited the necessary time, opened with Yaz, was thanked by two girls and then watched everybody else leave.

Now imagine me stretching the story out to a 10 minute monologue, hitting all of the moth-suggested narrative beats.

i really like the idea of story nights and spoken word but the stories are often so trite and annoying. like yeah your dad had an accordion, fucking great.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, June 28, 2017 8:55 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You have inspired me to start going to these things and telling the most mundane stories imaginable with max gravitas. 'And that's when I knew...the bread was perfectly toasted.'

lol. "the old shoe i found may have belonged to my grandad, or maybe it didn't. what mattered was that i found it, and it was no longer lost, and that i had a grandad."

Okja dropped today.

Saw Okja in the theater a couple nights ago, it had funny moments, heartwarming moments, some fun action, a couple very hammy performances, and some very sad and shocking moments. Worth watching, but may not be the greatest ever, better than Snowpiercer.

i must confess i didn't make it through Snowpiercer

lol. "the old shoe i found may have belonged to my grandad, or maybe it didn't. what mattered was that i found it, and it was no longer lost, and that i had a grandad."

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, June 28, 2017 10:43 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this reads like old "funny" Grantland posts

sounds like Deep Thoughts.

i watched a comedy special this morning. some white guy live in canada who does a faux-gangsta voice but it sounds like he could be a french language speaker maybe? his accent makes me think that. he says his dad is from the east coast though. he says bitch-ass a lot and bitch. and he does a very long bit about how his straight male friend buying him pants that fit for his birthday is gayer than having sex with a man. that kinda stuff. but it was pretty much ALL stand up comedy and not a monologue. i'd never heard of him.

watched GLOW and i like it ok but i'm a little surprised at how GLOWing lol reviews hav been. i like the performances and agree w/ evol j on the tone, but the writing itself is a little otp goofy. like the bad seasons of Weeds.

liked Maron more than i thought it would. is his IFC show worth the time?

The dialogue doesn't leave much room for ambiguity but I enjoyed it a lot regardless, it's a joyful and compelling milieu to spend time in. xp

I think it's by the same people who did OITNB and it's really like if you took just the most fun elements of that show and made that the whole thing. I'm sure though it's only a matter of time before we start seeing the thinkpieces about how Ruth is the least interesting character because she's the pretty white girl (tbf, maybe the best gag of the entire season was the Welfare Queen).

liked Maron more than i thought it would. is his IFC show worth the time?

― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Wednesday, June 28, 2017 2:58 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

While I liked the whole series, I'll concede that the first few seasons were more or less just dramatizations of stuff he talked about on WTF. If you're on the fence, I'd recommend the last two seasons, where he eventually relapses (immediately after getting his own show) and winds up living in a storage shed. It went out on a high note, for sure.

Maron's acting is actually decent in Glow compared to his own show

Critically acclaimed Brazilian film AQUARIUS is on Netflix atm. Might give it a watch the weekend

Glow is super fun. Alison Brie is basically playing Shelley Long, right? Up for that.

Nastiest p[art of the doc on the original series is showing where the accidents happened. Some really nasty stuff occurred.
Assume a lot would have been avoided if they had a proper wrestling ring set up instead of the ersatz version they used.

Interesting fact about Welfare Queen from GLOW: she's played by Kia Stevens, AKA Awesome Kong AKA Amazing Kong AKA Kharma, the only actual pro wrestler in the show not to be cast as an established pro wrestler. If I hadn't recognized her I would have guessed she was just an actor like the rest of them. She also once punched radio sleazeball/Hulk Hogan associate Bubba the Love Sponge for saying "fuck Haiti" after the earthquake there in 2010.

given how much good press it's getting I would be pretty shocked if it wasn't renewed

I think Netflix shows are given multi-season deals to start with, but who knows.

girlboss got canned after 1. they're more aggressive now.

yeah, they pulled the plug on a handful of things recently. GLOW seems to be pretty buzzy though, i'd say it's got a good chance of sticking around.

snowpiercer kinda sucked, love all the rest of Bong Joon-Ho's work tho so am a little scared to try okja given the advance "will make you not want to eat meat" press

imo Maron's character in GLOW is closer to actual Maron than the one he plays in the show. or it's at least a more honest version of aspects of his personality

the unsympathetic eye helps I think

Girlboss was a bit up itself wasn't it? Underlying message of entitlement. Couldn't find the character very sympathetic, like.

Girlboss was just sort of lame and badly written, and the lead miscast, I'm not sure it had anything to do with sympathy. Unsympathetic got duchovny seven seasons of the worst show ever made.

Maron is fantastic in Glow, but it's like a whole cast of scene-stealers. It's like the apex of a "oh yeah I recognise that one from that thing" kind of show. American Idol! Piz!

the language around netflix 'cancelling' shows (i don't mean specifically in this thread) is a bit strange, since netflix typically waits to see how a show does and then decides whether or not to order more. if you buy one coffee and don't buy a second, you're not cancelling coffee.

although tbh it doesn't help when reed hastings uses the same language

“Our hit ratio is way too high right now,” Hastings said. “So, we’ve canceled very few shows … I’m always pushing the content team: We have to take more risk; you have to try more crazy things. Because we should have a higher cancel rate overall.”

went ahead and finished GLOW thanks you this thread. it got better!

Maron is fantastic in Glow, but it's like a whole cast of scene-stealers. It's like the apex of a "oh yeah I recognise that one from that thing" kind of show. American Idol! Piz!

During the finale and the filming of the show in the ballroom, on spotting one of the cameramen I was excitedly shouting "It's that guy from "I'm Sorry I've Got No Head!"".

Interesting fact about Welfare Queen from GLOW: she's played by Kia Stevens, AKA Awesome Kong AKA Amazing Kong AKA Kharma, the only actual pro wrestler in the show not to be cast as an established pro wrestler. If I hadn't recognized her I would have guessed she was just an actor like the rest of them. She also once punched radio sleazeball/Hulk Hogan associate Bubba the Love Sponge for saying "fuck Haiti" after the earthquake there in 2010.

― JRN, Wednesday, June 28, 2017 5:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is very cool, she's a good actor, which I guess isn't a big surprise since that's so much of what wrestling is.

ok i'm starting a GLOW thread

new GLOW thread here:
Our Style Is Wild And You Know You Can't Tame Us: GLOW on Netflix

i watched No Escape last night and it is de facto racist as hell but also it must be noted that it is also FUCKING TERRIFYING. i'm so used to watching slick action movies where some dude mows down 20 other dudes in like five seconds and i kinda forgot about the movies that just make you cringe for an hour and a half and go AHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOO AHHHHHHHH....

felt like i was gonna have a heart attack.

i kind of like Glow but something bugs me about the way ppl talk & engage w each other on the show, it's like there's this cheeriness underlining stuff that should be sad or angering & everyone on the show speaks to each other as if they're the most reasonable people on earth.

its like, a world without narcissists or sociopaths

people who are mean are immediately humanized

hmm i didn't pick up on that, the tension between Ruth and her friend and between the friend and her estranged husband felt genuine, at least no less so than most television shows.

i guess it's the complete opposite of Veep then, where almost everyone is a narcissist or a sociopath, haha.

don't think twice w/ gillian jacobs, mike birbiglia, kate micucci, keegan-michael key is on netflix + worth a watch esp if u're a fan of jacobs she's great in it.

Aw, for some reason I thought the new series of the Tick started today, but it's not until August 25th.

Good recommendation Mordy - I'm a sucker for these slacker, unfulfilled potential comedy movies

yeah it's so good

and it's kinda the bridge between Community & Love as far as her acting goes, she's so good in Dont Think Twice

Watched Tower last night. One of the best things I've seen in a while - inventive use of scant resources and incredibly moving.

Easy is okay overall, except for the Marc Maron episode.

Seven episodes into Ozark and it's really not very good. It has all the trappings of Quality Drama and Laura Linney / Julia Garner do a decent job but it is slow as treacle, has no sympathetic characters and too many breakdowns in plausibility to retain much interest. Reviews have tended towards the positive though.

Friends From College is so bad.

I have read some rave reviews about the Sci-fi noir, Anti Matter. It hasn't appeared on my version of netflix yet though.

I've been consistently underwhelmed by Netflix Originals SF - the time travel stuff, The 100, etc.

This one is a low budget British independent movie, I think. It is being compared to Primer and Los Cronocrímenes, which is something I'm a bit of a sucker for.

got it. love the latter (have not seen the former why because it sounded too much like hard work)

yeah, the former is possibly overrated and the latter a much superior movie. But I have a fatal weakness for lots of bad movies that play with the same ideas.