Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

xpost 1st season is excellent alright

yeah 'happy valley' is great

that that creepy psycho rapist is the same guy who is the hot priest in Grantchester is v upsetting for me

mh otm regarding you're the worst handling of depression.

Episode in season 2 where she follows the couple and imagines that kind of life is preferable is crushing and truthful.

Happy Valley, the TV series: "laughless fargo" in West Yorkshire

Is POWER worth watching? A bunch of people on my FB feed are raving about it but I suspect they have shit taste.

After a promising start, Ozark ended disappointingly imo

Is anyone else watching Halt and Catch Fire S4? Now they're inventing everything that happened in the 1990s! (Google vs Yahoo! mostly by the look of it)

At this point you either care about the characters or you don't. Joe and Cameron talking on the phone for an entire episode was nice. Wish they would do more with Donna.

i want to see season 4! i don't think its on my netflix yet though.

watched kathy bates pothead show. it's weird.

I watched the Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark doc today. Love him more now than ever.

re disjointed - the laugh track totally kills it for me, just makes it feel so awkward

yeah the laugh track makes it even weirder. its a hodgepodge of stuff.

so this show Gypsy with Naomi Watts is fucking godawful, I watched episodes 6-10 (my wife started it the day before, tired and jetlagged). apparently it started well but by the time I came in it was essentially soft porn and that's the only reason I kept watching it if I'm going to be honest. Not surprised they decided not to do another season though now it nags at me very slightly as I almost want to know what was going to happen next.

I just read the synopsis and it sounds a lot like the recent Hulu-exclusive show where Hugh Laurie was a psychiatrist? These “therapist pushing boundaries” pitches must have landed everywhere

H+CF S4 is on Amazon Prime UK now, not sure how quickly it spreads.

it may be like that Hulu show, yes; also apparently it shares quite a bit with an old showtime series called Huff, down to Blythe Danner playing the mother. Anyway, it is hot garbage but if you want to see Naomi Watts kissing a brunette girl because Mulholland Drive wasn't enough for you, there is plenty of that here, as well as Billy Crudup being smirky and smarmy and also some of the worst dialogue I've ever seen on a tv series with quality actors.

sold lol

some of the worst dialogue I've ever seen on a tv series with quality actors.

i'm always wishing for more straight up genre t.v. on netflix. seems like a lot of stuff always have to be seen through the lens of the sundance channel. stuff like bloodline and ozark. not-quite-prestige-t.v.

would totally watch a reboot of Silk Stalkings with actors I've never heard of. that's probably why i like shows like burn notice. so 90s and they just want to have fun. actually, longmire is a good example too, i guess. and those two shows starring lisa bonet's husband. the one on the indian reservation and the hudson bay fur trapping blood and hatchet one. perfect t.v.! no big deal. i guess that's why i have hulu too.

gypsy is hundreds of times worse than big little lies, which I liked.

Has anyone watched Suburra the film? I haven't watched it yet but Instantwacher says its available to stream. Netflix is making a series of it apparently. The book just came out in the US which I'm looking forward to. Modern mafia/political corruption thriller set in/near Rome.

I didn't last through the cold open of disjointed

as soon as i heard the laugh track i had to turn it off

Icarus seems like vegemitegirrrl-bait? i know nothing about cycling, never watch it or pay attention to it, but i love a good scandal/conspiracy. i kept having to pause it to get my husband to explain stuff but i thought it was pretty good.

xp does big little lies improve past the first episode? Whooo boy that dialogue

xpost i have it on my watchlist :D

The Good Place is finally streaming, I love this show. Reminds me of the late, lamented Better Off Ted.

That's a good comparison, partially because both shows completely rule.

That is a strong recommendation

the good place "twist" absolutely solves the where-can-they-take-this-idea-from-here question; i'm actually looking forward to season 2
liked better off ted more tho

Having totally loved Better off Ted when it came out, I watched it again last time I was in the US. Workplace sexual politics have changed a lot in a short time, is all I'll say.
The show still absolutely kills, though. And the Good Place is the best. I hope it starts streaming over here so I can encourage people to watch it, you know, legally.

I just had a search for it, and it seems to be out in the UK the end of September.

tried first episode of the new live-action The Tick. This is one superhero show that really did not need to be made grim and gritty.

The Tick gets funnier! My wife and I blew through the whole season in one sitting.

Ok, will persist

i liked Kraftidioten. watched it yesterday. a stellar Stellan Skarsgård snow revenge saga. funny too.

Narcos Season 3 is here, sans P Escobar it is now concerned with the Cali Cartel. I liked the first 2 seasons of this watchable shite, which has been perfectly good entertainment as long as you don't take it too seriously, so far. From reviews it seems more of the same, some are saying an improvement on S2.

i should go back to Narcos. i stopped watching during the first season. one problem i had was that i didn't really care what happened to anyone on any side. live, die, who cares. drug stories are all pretty much the same. rags, money, death.

i guess that's why i like queen of the south so much. they made me care about the main character. i really want her to become the biggest drug dealer in the world.

I'm just through the first ep and it is even worse quality than S2 so far. The expository voiceover narration, patiently explaining every damn thing, still goes on for 15 min periods. It's not good at all, yet I still watch it.

did you guys watch this one? pretty wacky. reminded me of a Nordic The Phantom of Liberty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=SRA+Pigeon+Sat+on+a+Branch+Reflecting+on+Existence+movie+2014+trailer&v=JGwGyo5Ywpo

i heard Narcos S3 starts slow but finishes strong. I think i'm intrigued by the lack of a romanticized Pablo Escobar (from everything I know about him, the Narcos depiction is about a hundred times more benevolent and shaded than the real dude) and the shift to the Cali Cartel. it's easier for a show about the drug wars to focus on charismatic figures rather than this cold-blooded reality, bc it fits more easily into gangster iconography w/the former treatment, but the latter would be more interesting. I hope it ends up that way w/this season.

The guy who did Escobar was a pretty good actor, but was too avuncular and likeable. They obv wouldn't dare attempting 2 seasons of something with an unflinching neorealist portrayal of a murderous sociopath, barely more likeable than Hitler. But if you have your Columbian crime history head on, this show might end up doing your head in. If you take it as a violent crime soap opera, it can be fun imo.

i still want to watch the Gomorrah t.v. series. that movie was good. as far as gangsters go.

they put up a ton of stuff today on netflix and the only movie i want to see is The Chase. the Arthur Penn one. which i've already seen more than once.

I enjoyed both seasons of Gomorrah, and s3 is coming in October !! No one safe in that show, everyone gets offed.

I thought the depiction of the reporter in Narcos was totes dodgy, plus having the character wind up like she did (as opposed to her IRL counterpart's fate) felt like a bit of showrunner vigilantism.

yeah that was very ropey bullshit. And I remember getting annoyed that the ruthless, vengeful Carillo character was some ropey fan-fic, and then after they had killed him the character he was based on still showed up. I mean I was saying this stuff doesn't really matter, but I've got my limits!

what about Cannabis? any good?

yeah the Carillo character was so weird. and when he was killed it just felt like the producers were trying to recreate the ambush scene in Clear and Present Danger to diminished effect. i really thought the *actual* Hugo Martinez character in Narcos was a lot more interesting than the Carillo one.

Carillo felt like he belonged in the crime soap opera half of Narcos and Martinez belonged in the cold-eyed realistic half.