Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

Someone mentioned in this thread (or another Netflix one) BBQ Pitmasters which was OK, but played too much at inter-state trash talk and the cooks seemed always to be surprised by the food. I'd watch other seasons but they're not available.

But watching that led me to a "you might also like" which was Deep Fry Masters. This was a whole different kettle of turducken with three rounds that made far more sense and a definite focus on 'you could make money selling this'. Weirdly though, towards the end of the season it seemed to suffer from GBBO-style fake drama - people's fryers mysteriously not being on or not getting to temperature, and various other electrical problems - so maybe it was really unpopular and was chasing the viewers, hence through why it never seems to have been renewed.

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Friends from College has some funny shit, at least. "Fun Ethan" vs. Mad Dog Rogen dance off/disaster had me chucklin.

Ozark is very watchable, through all ten eps.

I'm enjoying Ozark. Yes, it's a bit trashy but high-end trashy!

joe mande special v funny

anyone seen 'The Keepers?' Kind of a true crime creepy documentary thing. co-workers can't shut up about it.

The keepers is fantastic!

Mr Veg & I just started watching S1 of Last Chance U. Goddamn it's addictive

Like Friday Night Lights Hard Knocks. I am on board

has anyone else watched the Russian tv show Silver Spoon? (no Ricky Schroeder connection)

somehow girlboss was 50% hilarity and 50% total garbage

as a euro, or for other reasons, i think last chance u is amazing. saw the first season when it was out, now watching the second. part of it is just this whole vision of america a foreigner can't ordinarily understand, but also it's just so deeply put together, such a detailed look at this weird world. the characters are so brilliantly established. it's amazing.

i did not like girl boss at all, bailed after 1 episode.

anyone watched Bordertown? I am a sucker for Scandi crime tv.

Last chance U is so, so good

yeah i'm obsessed

i love queen of the south. i'm actually not binging and watching slowly because there aren't a zillion episodes.

Xps there were some truly lol scenes/lines (and I don't really lol at movies/tv tbh) but so much cliche and fake ness and bad acting and corniness and played-out tropes. And the show seemed confused about whether it was drama or cartoon.

finished s1 of Last Chance U, man so good.
that coach though. jeeezus. dude is like the lovechild of rex ryan and a spittoon

has anyone else watched the Russian tv show Silver Spoon? (no Ricky Schroeder connection)

― sansa riff (sarahell), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 07:39 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I started but got distracted by something else, I think. Is it worth sticking with?

Silver Spoon is good enough as a crime thriller/cop show. I was describing it to a friend of mine who emigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine as a kid about 20 years ago, and he was amazed that a show critical of oligarchs and police corruption got made in Russia.

xp Veg - Bordertown was great!!! I watched it after I ran out of seasons of The Bridge (Swedish/Danish original)

ooh good to know!

And here's the kind of bullshit that will ruin streaming the way everything else gets ruined:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-pull-movies-netflix-launch-streaming-service-1027793

People go to streaming as a cable alternative, streaming services splinter, major companies start to set up their own streaming services, suddenly there are a dozen overlapping streaming services and nothing comprehensive, resulting in essentially a cable package where every single channel must be paid for individually. Netflix exclusives, Amazon exclusives, Disney exclusives, HBO exclusives, Criterion exclusives, NBC exclusives ...

Yeah this sucks. Don't forget the stupid CBS service to milk Star Trek fans...

eh, yes and no

I think we're getting close to a la carte providers for television, although the content exclusive to Hulu and Amazon are in that boat. Via Sling, Playstation Vue, and that Direct TV direct thing we have what's basically streaming cable, including the ability to add/remove content either via packages or by the channel. The packages are still too large, in that they tend to have a basic, sports, movie package like cable providers but they don't have the stupid service discount negotiation garbage that cable has.

I have PS Vue and have added/remove HBO, Showtime, and Starz for a couple months at a time fairly seamlessly. And even though there's a single app (on my PS or on Apple TV) for live tv and a "dvr" function that's really just on-demand streaming, I have the apps for all of the individual channels (USA/TNT/NBC/ABC/etc) on Apple TV and can go directly to them and stream individual episodes because the sign-in info is linked to Vue and is single sign-on.

So, how I view most tv is by going to that channel's app, then selecting a show or movie or whatever. The unifying thing is they're all on the home screen and equally available.

Now, Netflix is also on that screen, and Hulu, and supposedly Amazon Video will be. The only difference is the billing is from different sources.

So long-term, either a device maker is going to give you single-billing and you manage subscriptions that way, and other providers of exclusive content will give you a plug-in app/channel thing.

The only difference between that and cable with add-on channels is I'm paying multiple people at this point because Hulu, Netflix (and some of the others, like that one that has Criterion, etc) see themselves as stand-alone and don't license via package providers.

oh yeah, and CBS is trying to be stand-alone, too. I think eventually it's going to be a value break between losing subscribers they'd get via a bundling service and the slim profit margin of running their own

Message from the King was very good. If anyone is looking for a dark crime/revenge film that is not like every other dark crime/revenge film. very compelling!

Unlike Donald Trump, Lady Bloodfight TOTALLY lives up to its title. 150% truth in advertising. 5 stars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Y-f2OdMis

So, how I view most tv is by going to that channel's app, then selecting a show or movie or whatever. The unifying thing is they're all on the home screen and equally available.

this is how roku works. it even has a search function where it'll show you which channels have the thing you are looking for! Technology is great! Even the forever unavailable Costa-Gavras State of Siege is available now!

Superman Punches are way too prevalent these days
also all-lady Bloodsport remake? ok i'm kinda curious

Lady Bloodfight is surprisingly touching. plus, lots of bloodfighting. i'm already anticipating the sequel.

That looks awesome.

lol "The Kumite"

"I'm going to Hong Kong to compete in the infamous life-or-death tournament, The Sparring!"

the infamous life or death tournament that Frank W Dux invented