Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

christ was disjointed bad, made me want to smoke an ounce to forget that shit.

Netflix at their worst is when they force their watered down millenial PC values into what is their version of acceptable comedy.

there's WAY too much pot and prostitution on netflix, but i have to imagine that's what people are watching

good fuck there is a lot of netflix original programming now, I wouldn't even know where to start. just watching things I already watched these days. I detest their UI now.

the autoplaying trailers for everything is very offputting, i fkn hate browsing now

cosine, it makes me anxious when i start it up now, finger hovering over an arrow button to get in before the audio starts playing

i really wish that function could be disabled

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.

― calzino, Friday, September 1, 2017 3:49 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But... murderous sociopaths are often likeable, that's how they get away with it

I think narcos is great, give or take some silly moments, a well done dramatization of history. First season is def the iffiest, Pablo carries the second season, they do a god job in the third by following cali cartel's security guy who's also a great actor and putting prince oberyn at the center on the other side was a smart move

i think w/film and tv depictions of sociopaths but it's an easy way out to make them avuncular (which was the right adjective for Moura's admittedly vv good performance.) i think w/a lot of these types there's a constant undercurrent of danger and fear that they put out along w/the likability. or i guess "charm" and "charisma" might be better in this case; some of the people i've known who were possibly (probably?) sociopaths have a lot in common: they draw you into their orbit, they like being at the center of attention, they wilt in certain situations where they are not at the center, people like them but they do not really possess qualities that--charisma and charm removed--make them admirable or worthy of liking. and there's always an undercurrent of something.

Escobar in Narcos came off as a pop-culture version of sociopathic behavior, and what's weird is he became more likable as the show continued on (and everyone around him got more unlikable.) it's like in Heat when Mann figured a decent way to make McCauley more sympathetic was to have a literal double-crossing criminal + serial killer as his adversary, which helped downplay some of the unsavory elements of the former's character.

idk, i still enjoy the show and i thought this past season was vv good. lots of excellent performances, though the show's treatment of women is still a bit hackneyed, to put it charitably.

Mentioned elsewhere but heads up to UK sci-fi fans that Season 2 of The Expanse is now available on Netflix over here

bummer, not over here in the US.

Good post nomar

thanks D. also damn @ the death of that Narcos location scout in Mexico:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/truth-endangers-fiction-netflix-narcos-location-scout-murdered-in-mexicos-cartel-country

i wanted to agree re: Narcos that I think Pedro Pascal being at the center is a lot more interesting than Boyd Holbrook. they're both good actors but flawed/desperate Pena vs "damn I can't believe this shit"/eye rolling Murphy is no contest.

i held out watching Broadchurch s2, i was warned... but i was bored. So my question is basically just: What fresh bollocks is this rubbish?