Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

watched Seven Seconds over the weekend it was ok always love Regina King and the lead Clare Ashitey is good too .

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, February 26, 2018 5:44 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm sorry but this show is terrible. Does it want to be The Wire? If so they're going to have to stop being INCREDIBLY SLOPPY about pacing, setting, plot points, everything. The Goodfellas Diner is A QUEENS LANDMARK that everyone knows about and they just pretended it's in Bayonne or something. Newsflash NJ has diners too! Is famous for them in fact! A baby who's just past the 5-month mark is born prematurely and taken home the next day looking like he's 1 month old instead of the reality that he would be in NICU for 4 months. A person drips latex paint on a floor and loses their shit like everyone doesn't know you can just wipe it up with a damp cloth. I have to look again but I'm pretty sure the court house is not the Jersey City court house. Just a hundred shit stupid things.

The most true-to-life thing for me so far is the repulsive social conventions of the bent cops and their wives, who obv have so much stock in their spouses' toxic masculinity. The throw away comment between wives about how a good life is having a new car and a trip to "the islands" every year. (Which islands?) The stupidity, bigotry, and ignorance of their white middle class characters are true to life in my experience.

I'm still going to watch it don't get me wrong.

lol there are all kinds of problems with it but i still watched it and felt it was Ok enough

OH ALSO the set-up shots of the old Jersey City Medical Center complex as the hospital when that shit has been condos for years. CMON.

We started on River with Stellan Skarsgard last night. Not too shabby if you’re into middle aged cops losing their mind.

New season of Voltron this weekend! I’m stoked.

Patriot tip above is a good one, thanks! Perfect mix of dry dark humor. Personally I hit mute on its indie acoustic pap when it comes in nondiegetic moments and that makes the whole tenor of the show much better.

Viceroy's House has a 1-star rating on Netflix but I liked it. Although I turned it on hoping it would go into the affair between Nehru and Lady Mountbatten. But it provides other sordid scurrility plus large-scale tragedy!

Riverdale became available. We binged the first season last weekend. We really liked it.

it's totally enjoyable nonsense

If anybody is watching that Fred Armisen drummer thing the highlight is the look on J Mascis' face btw the NPR and Tito Puente bits

Can I just say that the Seinfeld special was aggressively mediocre. I watch so much trash and could not finish this.

We've seen two episodes of Somebody Feed Phil and I think we like it. Good family viewing and yeah, he's a strange one, but his enthusiasm seems so innocent and goofy.

this is amazing to me. that's a LOT of people.

"Netflix ended 2017 with 117.6 million streaming members worldwide."

http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/netflix-700-original-movies-series-2018-1202711940/

their definition of "original" is pretty loose

I mean they're hyping a two-year-old Derren Brown special at the moment

The new Queer Eye is good, I can barely recall the old one but this seems superior.

yes we have been enjoying that, thanks to this thread I think?

I don't remember me being so critical of the subjects picked for the show, but I am older and it's a different mindset all around now, I guess.

what i remember about the old one was every interior design involved putting horizontal stripes on the wall.

lol they just did that in Ep 2

The QE guys are the most patient saints. They really need to make task forces of these guys.

The first episode with the car show guy! He was such a sweetheart and I absolutely got teary at least 2x.

Oh, I totally teared up multiple times. I was ready to hate on some of the guys but they turned it out.

Yes!

That may have been the only time I have ever heard an active police officer agree that excessive force was used.

And I don't care that Antoni never really cooks. He seems more there to just be likeable.

Jonathan is so fantastic. He has absolutely no shame. Although Antoni is probably the one I fancy and would choose to live with (if you're reading this A, hmu) . I loved about half of the episodes and liked a few more. I was a wreck at the end of the one where the guy was gay.

Really loved River.
I think my next eurocrime series is gonna be Gommorrah.

I just added River, Ian. smooch.

Antoni and Karamo are more like "life coach" than what they are supposed to be (food and, uh, "culture") and they should be designated as so, going forward.

Jonathan is the least groomed of the bunch too. I don't really like the English guy.

Xxp

Aw I like the English guy. I like them all but think JVN is the best and the blond one is kind of boring.

i don't remember the original show being so tear-streaked? but its been a long time since i've seen it. do love the new QE guys. giving the QE treatment to a gay guy seemed radical for the show!

I do love new Queer Eye, although the episode with the Christian dad who has six kids and two jobs, where they told him he should have a herb garden and take time for himself in the morning, was a bit ridiculous. This guy does not have time to take a shit in peace, never mind put product in his hair.
However, even that episode was basically wonderful. I loved that they took the family to Target to shop, because that's a store they're going to be comfortable in.

the christian dad turned into a hunk! looked like ruffalo.

xpost to a black gay! It was awesome.

The Christian dad was cute af

He looked great. And I just loved how warm he was, and how in love he and his wife were.

I am glad they give the QE guys room to editorialize on social issues too. I don't remember that from the original show.

Most of the episodes were designed to make you well up but the episode with AJ, the gay guy, was actually upsetting. He was like hysterically crying then so was I.

Marlon wayans set was pretty funny

oh wow happily surprised to hear the Queer Eye reboot is good

My favorite thing overall about the new QE is that the interior design is really thoughtfully matched to the personality.
It's not an imposition of a new design aesthetic where you have to change your whole lifestyle to live in this place.
Like the firehouse kitchen redesign was so perfectly ON POINT.

The Pakistani Kim Thayil dude really touched my heart, that thing where he said he'd been really badly depressed but hadn't admitted it was just <3

should I start a new QE thread? is it worth it?

I'd revive the old one.

There is one. I just can't search for it on the phone.

ok I'll revive that one, good thinking!

Queer Eye For The Straight Guy WTF

The new David Chang thing is more or less exactly the same as all other David Chang things but it’s good - particularly the taco episode.

Oh man, is it? I watched the David Chang's Chef's Mind and it turned me off so hard on him. He was so overcompensating bro-douche. I have only been to one Milk Bar and had bare minimum at the noodle bar. Like, he's sooooo bro-tastic. I was surprised and wanted to slap him with a pork loin.