Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

yeah the rare horror movie where showing what the monster looked like didn't make it any less creepy.

i like this flint town show, though the production value may be more than the city's budget o_o

I started watching Case Histories, tv-version of Kate Atkinson's great books.
So far it's ok. Jason Isaacs isn't a bad Jackson but it all feels a bit paint by number somehow. His daughter is rad tho.
And lots of good guest actors, like Ygritte from Game of Thrones!

not on netflix, but enjoying hard sun on hulu. end of the world cop show by neil cross.

i'd never actually watched luther and started it last week on netflix but luther freaking out was actually freaking me out a little so i stopped watching. i love idris though.

I don't love Luther as much as a lot of people, but it's fine.

I am in the middle of Fargo (not sure how I ignored it this long) and just finished Allred. I was hoping to find some real evidence of why these random people (men) always seem to impugne her character since I don't know that much about her. Just the regular sexism/misogyny.

I like idris well enough but obviously not as much as he likes being idris elba, which is his main stumbling block as an actor, that he likes himself a lot, is very aware of how "sexy" he is etc.

thought hard sun was v stupid and ugly

Stringer Bell is an amazing, unselfconscious performance, but imo he's been wooden in everything else he's done.

Oh man, that is exactly how I think about Idris Elba. People love Luther so much, but he's so "look, I am acting very hard" and it makes it too soapy. Agreed on Stringer Bell.

i kinda just like looking at him...

the anger thing was kinda trigger-y for me on Luther. that's why i stopped watching Marcella too.

he's such a corny + shite actor, they should make him the James Bond - it'd probably work

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"thought hard sun was v stupid and ugly"

i like it okay. but i can definitely see why someone wouldn't like it. i was in the mood on a snowy day. still have to watch the last episode. i like the woman who looks like the woman from Savages. her jawline should get a supporting credit. such a bony performance. i see that she was a model in real life. that makes sense. best name too: Agyness Deyn. great sci-fi name.

"he's such a corny + shite actor"

he's just compelling to me. to watch. but i'm a jason statham fan too.

OH Agyness Deyn is in it! That makes it seem more interesting. She was an "it" girl for a while until she grew out her hair and admitted to subtracting like 5 years from her age or something. I like her.

she has Savages hair in this show.

The Agyness Deyn and Albert Hammond Jr. era was the best.

i am such a sucker for the ian curtis hairdo...

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i resented that hard sun promised sci-fi but served up helping after helping of underlit teal abductions, shootings, burnings etc

but i'm a jason statham fan too

i stand with scott

Savages.. the Oliver Stone movie? I think scott's talking about Blake Lively but I'm trying to connect the dots here

also defining BL as "the woman from Savages" is killing me, very good description

this is probably the complete wrong reference but I'm running with it

no, the band Savages!

be still my grizzled heart...

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that makes 100% more sense

is hap & leonard good?

first season is way over the top violent but also quite entertaining and the two leads are wonderful together.

the 2nd season's plot is really bumming me out and i'm not so eager to watch. its just so sad. though, again, the two leads are great and there are great characters.

i like the cast a lot maybe i'll give it a go

also season one has red bombshell from mad men if you are a fan of her. she makes for a good olde-tyme noir bombshell.

I watched the first episode of H&L and enjoyed the performers but found it indescribably cheesey. Does it improve?

Hard Sun was AWFUL

Season 3 of Love is up. I'm excited to binge that tonight. Also, Jessisca Jones but saving that for the weekend.

is jessica jones cool even if i'm pretty exhausted by the marvel universe?

can't say for sure about the second season, but the first is a pretty tight psychological thriller that doesn't really have much to do with the marvel universe

Yeah, the entire marvel universe is meh for me but I really liked Jessica Jones. Love is pretty great too. It's the only thing that has ever made me think living in LA could be ok.

Same. I don't care about Marvel at all but I loved JJ. And lol re LA. It does actually make it seem not entirely terrible.

any love for jack taylor 'round here? i'm a sucker for it! and iain glen. the plots can be pretty silly. like gruesome crimes thought up by goth teens. and some of them involve goth teens, go figure! but it's a good time.

I thoroughly enjoyed Jack Taylor. Love how he gets the living shit beat out of him at least once per episode. Traveler one and goth teen one were my favorite.

Hard Sun was pretty dire. Would probably have worked as a big, pulpy sci-fi novel but as a show was just odd having these Luther type crime scenarios with an end of the world sci-fi trope bolted on.

Luther was great though. Definitely soapy but had some of the most intense scenes on British TV since those early seasons of Cracker.

tbh it’s a relief to find i’m not the only one to like jessica jones and be bored by/uninterested in every other marvel thing. i’ve not begun s2 but s1 was fantastic.

i liked s1 of Daredevil a lot, and I loved Luke Cage perhaps the most, Iron Fist was torturously lame, Defenders I didnt finish bc it was boring & I havent seen Punisher yet but want to.

JJ is great, v excited for this new season

these shows really rise and fall on the charisma of the leads, Krysten Ritter has that kind of presence and humor and likability to sell it. haven't seen Punisher either but i love Jon Bernthal. I enjoyed Daredevil but something about it made me lose interest pretty fast. I did like Cox in the lead role.

Finn Jones....i couldn't get past Ser Loras enough to give it a shot.

I couldn't make it into Punisher. Just super-cynical and violent. I know that's his thing but it feels anachronistic.

i finally started watching High Maintenance due to ILX, I didn't even know this existed as a series, so fucking good. but on HBO.

I may be missing one of the recent Marvel netflix/or whatever shows but I would rank them (not having seen JJ 2 yet).
Jessica Jones
Luke Cage
Punisher
Defenders
Daredevil
Runaways
Iron Fist ( I actually have not watched this, it looks like Teenage Mutant Ninjas meets Bojack Horseman show within a show live action)

damn yerac i never knew you loved super heroes so much!

we are two eps into Hard Sun (i keep wanting to call it Cold Sun) and it seems.. ok? but are we gonna have weird crime-of-the-week scenarios each time?
i like hap & leonard. just re-watched the first season over the weekend (with Pat) and enjoyed it a ton. kinda forgot how violent it got at the end. 2nd season is pretty dark but i am only a couple episodes in.

I don't, I hate super hero things but they are always on (this is what I get for not having cable-tv for a dozen years and only having netflix/streaming).

just watch star trek instead