Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

I never even watched the 1st season of H&CF

I still have not watched the final two episodes

oh man.

they are really good.

Just finished American Vandal, I think it might be the best thing Netflix has done. Some incredible performances too - the girl in the wayback gang, the crying scene in the last-but-one episode, whoever wardrobed Alex Tromboli - amazing.

it's a good show!

they did a great job of showing the dynamic of high school kids and the pettiness of teachers and administrators. I remember trying to keep my head down during high school but remember hearing about beef between teachers, or between teachers and students, and trying to figure out wtf was wrong with people

there was an insanely irritating and petty science teacher at my high school, and I learned over time that a guy who did more coordination things for the district that I ended up being mentored by for science fair stuff used to be a teacher at my school until his irritation with her interest in teacher politics drove him away. the best/worst part was he ended up being in charge of science curriculum for the district, and ended up butting heads with her yet again

the subplot in Mindhunter on netflix also captured the weird teacher work dynamic pretty well

American Vandal was so superbly cast

re: the didion thing i'm hesitant... what will it give me that reading didion won't

Yeah, as much as I love Didion, I didn't enjoy it that much. If you know her story already, there is not that much to gain

u get to see her making cucumber sandwiches

Looks like a load of decent US series have been added to UK Netflix - The West Wing, The Office, Parks & Rec, Cheers, Frasier

decent US series [...] The West Wing

*narrows eyes*

o_o

Well the first couple of seasons seemed pretty decent to me the first and only time I watched them 17 odd years ago

you haven't been keeping it. the west wing is now responsible for all our ideological troubles.

keeping up*

it's compelling in the really Sorkiny way, has aged really badly imo

actually i do wonder what the west wing looks like from the perspective of 2017 - unbearably quaint, probably

I don’t doubt that

I enjoy lots of television that appears to be men making forceful points in long form dialogue at each other (possibly written by someone who loves coke) but you just have to recognize for what it is

terrible?

i don't think i could ever force myself to watch Frasier again.

that show is a motherfucker with secrets.

Cheers is still good imo

cheers is still good.

frasier is like the original version of The Good Place. everyone is in hell.

cheers is all-time imo

The suits in the West Wing are hilarious. Bradley Whitford looks like the kid from the end of Big half the time.

There was one good story in that Didion doc from a former housemate, about the two of them sitting at the breakfast table, Didion in shades munching on almonds and coca-cola, neither of them speaking.

The first season of Cheers has a few duds but the scripts are amazingly good. Danson and Coach are the best together. And I have a much greater appreciation for Diane now I'm an adult (and more Diane-like).

Thanks for the HACF recommendation above. It's still heavy-handed but much improved about six episodes in.

Although cheers isn't on Netflix uk :/

Yeah that’s weird, all the ones I mentioned were on the mobile app earlier and now they’ve gone

They seem to have some kind of technical problem today. Site was down earlier for a little while.

And I have a much greater appreciation for Diane now I'm an adult (and more Diane-like).

OTM, we are just a few episodes into a traversal of season 1 and Diane is really great. Obv I couldn't stand her as a child.

Also, how lucky were these guys to have Rhea Perlman, holy crap

West Wing seasons 1-4 rule the school who wants to fite me ( s6 & 7 are very watchable , season 5 is not good & hard to watch. But non-Sorkin WW generally mishandles Toby in a way that still irks me)

:D

Fauda

The West Wing's handling of female characters is so bad and the politics (or lack thereof, more accurately) are lame but it's still watchable.

"Thanks for the HACF recommendation above. It's still heavy-handed but much improved about six episodes in."

i don't usually do that thing that people do like: "no really it gets way better after the first 10 episodes!" because that just seems like work and life is -kinda- short but that show gets WAY better after the first season. but the first season sets all the gears in motion.

also: KUNG FU YOGA was a hoot last night! one of the best recent jackie chan movies i've seen. he is not a young man anymore but he's still got it. also: full tilt jackie chan bollywood dance number at the end! kinda made me deliriously happy to see that.

loving a lot of these later in life fuck hollywood chan/yun-fat/li movies. they get the royal treatment instead of having to make timecop 6 or some shitty thing like that.

I'm sure I said this already but I completely skipped s1 of H&CF and never regretted the move, it's actually kind of neat to work out the backstory shit on your own

Just finished American Vandal, I think it might be the best thing Netflix has done.

2nd only to Bojack. Really sharply written and acted, and also weirdly disturbing at the end?

Was really excited about diving into American Vandal, but now I am torn, since I am not a fan of Bojack.

yeah i've tried to get into bojack so many times - i can't pay attention to it.

they're nothing alike afaik?

It was a somewhat facetious comment on my part in response to anyone saying any show is second to Bojack, which I really don't like. I know Vandal is totally different.

3 episodes into American Vandal. It's hilarious and extremely well-done :D

i should watch american vandal with maria. i stopped after a couple of episodes.

Monster Hunt is excellent by the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRXTOw1InAE