Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

And then since I am asian I had to question whether I was being hard on asian men trying to be douchey bro as a counterpoint to the nerdy/weak asian stereotype. But whatever, he isn't doing me any favours.

he is only moderately broey to me, which... may mean something

you're not asian

I'm half. So i guess i am half douchey apologetic.

His was the worst season of Mind of a Chef but I think maybe they just hadn't gotten the style down.

Like David Chang needs to get a better publicist I cringe when I watch him..

I watched 3 season's the only one that stood out was the Prune restauranteur.

I see it's called The Mind of a Chef. OK>> carry on.

Edward Lee's cookbook is pretty good, his half season made him look like much less of a douchebro than his stint on Top Chef.

Fred Armisen's standup special peaked at mildly amusing.

bro mind, chef body

xp agreed and cringeworthy at several points where it appeared he was actually bombing (?) which is an odd thing to see in a televised special

Fred Armisen's standup special peaked at mildly amusing.

― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 9:24 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Absolutely correct. The funniest thing about it to me was just the audacity of Armisen seeming to not even try to elicit more than a dry chuckle. That appears to be his sole ambition.

Oh man, is it?

Possibly skip the first episode where he and Aziz Ansari go for pizza but the taco one is genuinely very good - there’s a lot of Peter Meehan and Chang in listening mode and it’s as much about immigration and identity as it is about food.

And then since I am asian I had to question whether I was being hard on asian men trying to be douchey bro as a counterpoint to the nerdy/weak asian stereotype. But whatever, he isn't doing me any favours.

The Looming Tower adaptation seems to be out there, will check that out laters.

curious how the hell they will play that
hoping for scene of young OBL riding his horses and watching old US westerns on VHS but ready for disappointment

I'm hoping some dramatisation of OBL's maverick, machine gun toting/daredevil pilot/joker of an older bro Salem, who once sent medical video footage of an an anal procedure he had to King Fahd as a joke.

yeah i remember that bit lol

it's on hulu not netflix but i kinda ended up getting bored with the looming tower. it's a very by the book tv movie kinda thing. almost like an old-fashioned tv movie from the old days. cardboard characters. maybe worth watching if you don't know how it ends...

so i just went back to watching The Unit. #rebeccapidgeon4lyfe

the Fred Armison is morbidly fascinating, so cringey it took me three different nights to get through the whole thing

^ couldn't hack that one

i hate him

all the anti-fred stuff going around is making me not want to watch the portlandias i haven't seen. i did enjoy portlandia on occasion.

I'm probably never going to watch any more of that Aziz Ansari show because Aziz is the most irritating, least interesting part of the show. Maybe if they made a new season without him in it.

I really liked Fred in The Documentary Now! episode "Juan Likes Rice & Chicken"...

you would think that sleater-kinney wouldn't want to hang out with a big jerk if he is the big jerk everyone is saying he is. they are totally anti-jerk.

I have no beef w Fred but that special is a tough ride, again redeemed only by the expression on J Mascis's face immediately after the NPR routine

yeah i wasn't gonna watch that.