I could not get into Easy at all. I tried two episodes. Same with Flake. I did like Love a lot though. Bojack has been really my surprise love this year.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
Easy felt gross and dramatically flaccid like everything else that guy does. The Duplasses too. Perhaps I'm bringing my own baggage to it, but their work always seems weirdly skeezy
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
I like easy. Being a collection of shorts some of them are great and some are annoying.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
xp I just don't understand how the Duplasses are a thing.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
they bring an almost visual degree of slime to everything they work on.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
I’ve been watching American Crime on and off for a couple of weeks and I definitely like the performances a lot but idk if I actually like the show
― I would never REALLY sign your death warrant! You're my-- my DOG! (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
same
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 21 December 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
I note that the new Frank Spotnitz thing The Indian Detective is up on Nextflix now. Can anyone who has seen it confirm whether the plot requires Russell Peters to do racist caricatures of Vietnamese people for 90% of the running time?
The answer, based as much of the first episode as I could sit through, is that it draws heavily on racist Indian stereotypes but doesn’t quite cross the line into being so overtly offensive that your desi uncle stops seeing it as laughing-with, rather than laughing-at. It’s terrible. Peters (in general, but specifically when he’s trying to sort-of act) is terrible. Anupam Kher Is wasted as his father.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 23 December 2017 10:26 (six years ago) link
OKJA!
― Yerac, Saturday, 23 December 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
Duplass's blank everyman-ness works when other people are directing (The One I Love, Your Sister's Sister)
Joe Swanberg's best movie is Drinking Buddies
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
nah Swanberg’s best is Win It All imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 03:34 (six years ago) link
all the light in the sky imo
― Clay, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 03:41 (six years ago) link
I liked Godless a lot, also in generally I liked the format (7/8 episode miniseries) because I think it encourages me to actually want to watch because it's not the huge commitment and also now it's all resolved and I don't have to worry "what are they gonna do next season?" and have something I liked turn into a shitty show
Jeff Daniels was p scary and I liked how his underplayed his menace instead of chewing scenery and I LOVED Merrit Wever, what a great character.
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
I made a thread for godless and only me and scott posted to it 😭
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
it’s kind of a one and done as mentioned, I think my comment would be.. it was pretty good?
― mh, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
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.
― ian, Sunday, August 27, 2017 11:04 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i finished the book (excellent!) and just watched the film last night. i wasn't a huge fan, it completely removed several lead characters and storylines from the book and completely altered the storylines for other characters (basically made up new characters and slapped names from the book on them.) it made the story a lot more pedestrian and less ambitious and yet somehow more confusing. it downplayed the political angle so much that the stakes were entirely missing, in favor of random gang-on-gang ultraviolence. i mean it has nothing in common with the book except for a couple of violent events that set things off, the basic premise of a major coastal project underway, and the character names. it's pretty mediocre.
― omar little, Thursday, 28 December 2017 08:33 (six years ago) link
I am so late to the game (prolly because I read one bad review early on) but I just finished season 1 of Better Call Saul. So, so good.
― Yerac, Thursday, 28 December 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
And it gets even better!
― sleeve, Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
the netflix world we live in is kinda hard to keep up with, on AVClub i just saw a post titled "Watch the trailer for season 4 of Netflix's Black Mirror" right below a post titled "Black Mirror ends its fourth season with a dud"
― omar little, Friday, 29 December 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link
Bright was not. It was, however, not nearly as bad as a lot of other things that critics neglected to anoint as the worst film of the year. It's a Harry Potter buddy cop movie with Will Smith playing his character from the Bad Boys movies. It's fine, it doesn't sell itself as anything else other than exactly what's on the label.
I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore is like a quirky, tense AMC crime drama condensed into a film, and is a blast. Casting is all good, even with Frodo - I especially loved Melanie Lynskey in the lead.
Should there be a separate thread for Netflix's in-house movie productions? I feel like it's due.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 1 January 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
I feel like the previous post doesn't recommend I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore as strongly as it should have. I highly recommend IDFAHITWA. IDFAHITWA for all. For all, IDFAHITWA.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 1 January 2018 04:07 (six years ago) link
here's to 90 years of netflix and chill:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSdhmxpW4AA14sO.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 1 January 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
I agree with the sentiment at the end of this LA Times review, though I don’t think watching it in a crowd of only two diminished our experience all that much.
And also, too, its rooting interest — its ability to take familiar material and mine from it the kind of bracingly pulpy narrative pleasures that are best appreciated in the company of a crowd.I say this having first seen “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore” less than a month ago at Sundance, where it won the grand jury prize in the U.S. dramatic competition. Admittedly, the excitement of seeing Blair’s movie with about 1,200 other eagerly attentive festival-goers would be tough to replicate even in the grandest commercial venue, which doesn’t make it any less of a shame that this Netflix original production — an audience picture through and through — isn’t even getting the chance.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 1 January 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link
Oh and if it hasn’t been mentioned yet, ICARUS is fucking amazing. Fucking Russians, man.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 1 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
really really enjoyed that film.
― mark e, Monday, 1 January 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
i finished up GOMORRA and season 2 got better as it went along. Boy, that sure took a dark turn in the last couple episodes! I guess I'm a little weirded out by the fact that Don Pietro is portrayed by an actor only a couple years older than i am. i also was a little weirded out by his relationship w/Patrizia, since i didn't believe she'd go for him for one second.
SUBURRA: BLOOD ON ROME is thus far a lot better than the film. the latter felt like a watered-down version of a very dense novel, the show feels more like the novel. odd to see some of the same characters from the film pop up here, knowing how some of them wind up.
― omar little, Monday, 1 January 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
The Invisible Guest is a fun one.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link
Icarus is a pretty amazing story, I finally watched it last night. As with ARD drama on this issue, all I can think now is- "there are people and families still in real danger RIGHT NOW and I hope they get through," regardless of flaws or culpability.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 6 January 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
To Walk Invisible: Bronte Sisters is on Amazon Prime & guys it’s so good I bawled my eyes outSally Wainwright (Happy Valley) wrote & directed it and god bless her for giving the sisters such a worthy telling of their storyIt’s really great*blows nose loudly into another kleenex*
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 January 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
Man I would watch thatI hate being too poor to afford multiple streaming services
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Monday, 8 January 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
Discovery's back, the same old combination of immense watchability and poor storytelling
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 00:03 (six years ago) link
i don't feel at home in the world anymore is really cool, thanks for the recommendation
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 05:33 (six years ago) link
mentioned this on the rolling comic thread but the well received series adaptation of the Fantagraphics comic book 'The End of the F***ing World' by Charles Forsman (which i liked pretty well as the comic book 'TEOTFW' tho it is unsurprisingly hella nihilist) is now on US netflix. Have not yet watched, would love a push if anybody wants to try and reply?https://www.netflix.com/title/80175722http://www.tcj.com/reviews/the-end-of-the-fucking-world/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-end-of-the-fing-world-review-netflix/549656/
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 05:39 (six years ago) link
fantagraphics fucking rule
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 05:41 (six years ago) link
I watched The End of the F... this weekend. I didn't know anything about it but enjoyed it. I thought the two leads did very well. Where is it supposed to be set? I was trying to look up filming locations but couldn't find anything.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 05:46 (six years ago) link
The Voyeur was pretty interesting but had so many gaps. Like what was the deal with the murder he supposedly witnessed? The only thing the fact checkers could find was a similar murder around the same time - but occurred at a different motel?? And there was a v brief mention of Gerald’s drug addict son but what did his kids - and Anita’s kids - think about all this shit?
The dude claimed to be a researcher (lol) and kept all these notes, but he had 3 yrs of notes regarding the spying before he even bought the motel - his claim that he simply inverted the 9 when referring to when he purchased the place makes no sense.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:15 (six years ago) link
Anyone watched Dark?
I've heard a few people say it's very good.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 08:52 (six years ago) link
some discussion over on the non-English Netflix thread iirc
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 11:38 (six years ago) link
Enjoyed the hell out of The Bar, a ridiculously entertaining Spanish horror/thriller set in a Madrid pub. It does a great job making some wild twists and reveals feel organic.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
Oh, I watched that too. I kind of was disappointed though that they weren't stuck in the bar for the entire duration of the movie.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
The Seinfeld show, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, is on Netflix now. Started watching a couple episodes. Julia Louis-Dreyfus was unsurprisingly very funny.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
― Yerac, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 12:46 AM (nine hours ago)
I likes this too primarily because of the performance by the kids
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
jim carrey a mess on seinfeld's new netflix show
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 13 January 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
carrey's *
Yeah he’s gone deep into New Age-y shit in a way that signals “looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets”. That creepy shroud surrounding his young ex-gf killing herself a few years ago certainly feeding that impression.
― circa1916, Saturday, 13 January 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
cleanse definitely not helping his psychosis
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 13 January 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
Macon Blair (director of I Don't Feel at Home in this World Anymore) plays the lead dude in Mustang Island. I thought it was excellent, reminded me of Stranger Than Paradise. Between these two and Blue Ruin, which was also great, I'm thinking this Macon Blair dude is not a bad dude.
― del griffith, Saturday, 13 January 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
the end of the f***ing world is great, thanks for the rec
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 14 January 2018 02:42 (six years ago) link
Polka King is pretty great
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 January 2018 03:07 (six years ago) link
watched the documentary last night, there wasn't enough polka
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link