Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

it's really good

SUBURRA: BLOOD OF ROME aka sex, drugs, violence and ZONING (and the wickedest of these is zoning, my son)

(mild spoilers in thread, mostly by me)

I tried to watch the "It Was Fifty Years Ago Today!" documentary, hoping it was an updated version of the wonderful and similarly titled Sgt Pepper doc that came out in the 80s. Unfortunately, this new one is terrible. Two hours of 70 year old music critics saying nothing new or interesting, and somehow they didnt have budget or permissions to include any actual music of the time.

i haven't watched Suburra yet, since I'm doing book --> movie ---> show, and i just started the book. but i started watching GOMORRA and holy shit is that a good show. Loving the characters and setting thus far. my favorite aspect is just how hellish Naples looks, everywhere it's so blocky and industrial. even the camorra don lives in a depressing-looking blasted out area, hermetically sealed off inside with his terrible son and the worst furniture in the world.

How OTT is the violence on Suburra? Been debating whether to watch it with my rather squeamish wife

Please let's talk about the furniture and the giant gold frames around every wall-mounted tv.

thanks to netflix i got to witness the globe-spanning golden age of 21st century international cinema. holy smokes, so many great movies from so many places. they make mincemeat out of most u.s. movies that i see these days. could an american making movies now ever make a movie like stray dogs? i doubt it. started watching The Ornithologist last night. have to go back to it tonight. have about an hour left. so very cool. and if it were made here it would be, like, ryan gosling in the ozarks and be completely lame.

Please let's talk about the furniture and the giant gold frames around every wall-mounted tv.

― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Thursday, October 26, 2017 2:15 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's amazing

https://img-www.tf-cdn.com/show/2/gomorrah.jpeg?_v=20160614074424&fit=crop&crop=faces%20top&w=1200&h=630

only in america

http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/Gomorrah.jpg

there is so much rich imagery in Gomorrah.

oh, also, i did enjoy The Babysitter. it's fun for the holiday season.

How OTT is the violence on Suburra? Been debating whether to watch it with my rather squeamish wife

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, October 26, 2017 5:43 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's infrequent but not very restrained

S3 of Gomorra finally starts next month

yesssss

seriously, if you are nostalgic for the euro-weirdness of yesteryear, you have to see The Ornithologist. top notch WTF! so pretty to watch too.

i missed it in the theaters, kinda looking forward to seeing it on tape.
scott, you're aware that it's a reworking of the St Anthony myth?
http://www.epgn.com/arts-and-culture/arts/12253-reimagining-portuguese-culture-mythology-in-the-ornithologist

it's clear pretty early on that there is a biblical thing going on. and even jesus resurrected! but i just liked it for the journey and the visuals. and i liked not knowing where it was going to go. there are so many 70's euro films i love - bunuel, etc - that are fulla Xian myths/symbols and not growing up Xian it's a little lost on me but my lack of knowledge never really hindered my enjoyment.

suburra the series >>> suburra the film imo

omg, that movie by the district 9 guy...i felt so dumb watching it. short circuit + robocop in the corniest way possible. felt so bad for sigourney weaver. she deserves a place on mount rushmore not a role in this movie! and i really only watched it for die antwoord. THEY deserve to be the stars of the greatest and most violent action movies of all time. so sad.

i only made it about 20 minutes in though....

Chappie? Yeah..i can’t bring myself to watch it

I've watched it! All of it! It's terrible. It's maybe not quite as mawkish as you fear it's going to be, but that doesn't make it any better.

robot looks too much like Johnny 5

Has anyone watched Tig Notaro's One Mississippi on Amazon? I heard her talking about it on the radio a few days so I decided to have a watch (I know of her, but I don't really watch standup so I haven't seen her) and wow it is an amazing show.

All of the short films he (the district 9 guy) have done recently are also rubbish; some nice effects, but awful scripts, and a real relish taken in human degradation

Any recommendations for good stuff on Amazon Prime? I just watched Fleabag, which was excellent, but there's pretty much nothing else I can see worth watching, just an endless sea of Tom Cruise movies.

season 1 + 2 of Gomorrah is A P.

on season 2 of Gomorra -- it's still good but it's a little tough going at this point. Ciro isn't a *great* character, since his unlikable qualities are virtually all he has left, and it's unbelievable that anyone would follow him or trust a word he says since he's the most obvious Iago on the planet (which is more problematic than him being unlikable.) i think the Salvatore Conte-focused episode i just finished cemented that for me, so much depended on things going exactly as he foresaw and everything was very much telegraphed. but i'm going to continue on, the good stuff is very good.

also going back to early in S1, i feel like there were some hints dropped that he was the police informant but nothing explicit iirc?

I overlook a lot of Ciro's character flaws because he carries male-pattern baldness with such pizzazz.

I think he’s a good snake

i really enjoyed the Don Pietro/Gennaro stuff, after they had to escape from that assassination on their contact. Gennaro roaming around trying to get to Don Pietro was great, all of those rides to German gas stations, loved it.

trying out Halt & Catch Fire

one mississippi is great, get on it

H&CF I never got past ep1--the "hilarious" armadillo killing, the stupid sex scene... it felt like a show trying so hard to be edgy that it forgot to be good

I will investigate one mississippi and gamorrah, cheers!

Argh, neither of those are on Prime in Australia. Fucking thing.

H&CF rewards ploughing through ime

I agree, it's not an edgy show at all and it improves pretty quickly, though I don't think it really figures everything out until s2.

thats what i’ve heard

I really want to watch H&CF, should I plow through it and then appreciate season two more gradually, or start with two?

This has been up for a few days and is worth the watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99NaRJQzXiM

plow through, s1 is pretty good too

H+CF is among the best shows I've ever seen, even if the first season is sub mad men early 80s retro. Just binge the first season, which has it's moments, and enjoy the next 3 because the next 3 are truly fantastic.

thank you, trusted associates

i love H&CF! would watch the whole thing again.

I love Toby Huff is a lot if what is getting me through these early eps. Also the music.

it really does get better and better.

Toby Huss's arc is great on the show

man i love the engineer that is the wife of the shlub engineer

ok ep 6 things are finally loosening up, this is becoming v watchable.

Alias Grace was pretty meh

so funny that i've been watching W1A and then a big ad comes on netflix for the inclusive Big Family Cooking Showdown. so close to Britain's Top Family!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2P0QoejVT8

my family has absolutely no time for W1A. i could watch those staff meetings all day long.