Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

oh weird, i watch it with subtitles but maybe there's a dubbed version?
one thing that annoyed me w the subtitles is that they had lots of mistakes. oh well.

I watch everything with subtitles. I have no clue why. Old?

Like, we watched 6 seasons of RuPaul Drag Race and all of a sudden the 8th season on netflix was in spanish with no english subtitles. it makes no sense.

(I did cry while watching Wonder Woman on the plane during the no man's land scene because that was some basic bitch heartfelt milky milk teardom and it was a 14 hr flight)..

― Yerac, Saturday, 10 March 2018 12:47 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is there’s something about being on a plane that makes one more prone to tearing up (altitude, booze tiredness). I blubbed my way through Selma a few years back and most recently teared up a few times during he Tom of Finland biopic.

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.

yeah I hate how much I always get drawn in enough to check out the other Marvel shows, but almost inevitably end up getting bored halfway through.

I was surprised by how much I liked Punisher though, despite reservations about the level of violence. I can see how it can be a bit much for some, but Jon Bernthal is great at channeling just enough rage and pain to justify the brutality imo. I also like that the show doesn't let him entirely off the hook about the things he does - it's comparatively better written than all the other shows, apart from JJ.

the punisher’s worst excesses were so hyper violent that it seemed less an endorsement of the character’s ethos and more like he was an embodiment of some primal wave of destruction

Hm I am becoming somewhat intrigued

A lot of the Marvel shows would have benefitted from shorter seasons but Netflix seem committed to the 13 episode length (Defenders aside).

We all might have benefitted from them not being made. Just bleak, boring and almost completely and weirdly removed from the broader MCU. Just too much of not good enough, fleeting peaks aside.

i miss when comics were for kids. they were more fun. frank miller ruined the world.

i cringe whenever i think of some little kid out there accidentally trying to watch Daredevil on Netflix. such a nasty and brutal show.

my new obsession is Chef’s Table
part of me rmde @ romanticizing some of these dudes who are clearly manchild garbageppl in everything BUT cooking (hi Francis Mallman, David Barber)
But the exploration of creativity and the journeys to finding your own way of cooking truly fascinates me - (especially since I just finished the new season of Top Chef and it wrestled with these themes too, moreso than recent seasons imo)

and i love Nancy Silverton so i am excited to watch her episode

I think Alex Atala is my #1 crush of all time, for real. The Niki Nakayama one made me cry, and it felt like they had to try really hard not to make Grant Achatz look like a total fuckin dick (which he still did anyway even w/o being explicitly dickish)

i cannot possibly convey how deeply in love w Alex Atala i am, plz bring him to me

chef's table is like good sci-fi to me or something. some fantasy planet where everything is beautiful.

I am watching Niki Nakayama one now! How much do I love her 😭

Chefs table is so good

honestly the Niki episode I'd prob put in my top 10 documentaries of all time

otm

The episodes are hit or miss but when they are good, they are so good. The Jeong Kwan one made me cry.

i miss when comics were for kids. they were more fun. frank miller ruined the world.

That's why there's Supergirl, and the Flash and stuff like that, right? We saw a Supergirl and it was good!

kind of digging The World's Most Extraordinary Homes

The airplane wing home (the first one) is cool as heck.

underground fancy houses were very cool. and very fancy. the one in greece had the most insane angles/lines/shadows. work of art really. but i kinda wanted to live in the one in switzerland. or maybe the one in new zealand...

started Schitt's Creek, it's very charming! Eugene Levy and Katherine O'Hara are (Canadian) national treasures

been watching that over the last few weeks. think im in the middle of season 3. easy show to like. think the formula is getting a stale for me about now tho.

Watched so much Netflix these last two weeks on vacation

After binging Chewing Gum, we watched Crashing (phoebe whatshername from Flea Bag), which was funny and good but stressful the same way Flea Bag was but even more so.

Followed that with Lovesick (not the Matt Leblanc one) - thanks to vegemite’s recommendation - which was great and funny and sweet. Not as cringe-inducing as Crashing.

Now halfway through Please Like Me, which is Australian but sort of in the same vein as the shows above.

Altered Carbon was fine, entertaining enough.

Oh I also binged The Sinner, since it was on Dutch Netflix. So fucking weird, especially the creepy incest scene. Don’t think I’d recommend it. The coincidences were just too much.

anyone ventured the frankenstein chronicles or whatever it's called starring n3d st4rk?

xpost I didn’t know what to make of the Sinner for a while, but it won me over the way the ending resolved. I was so afraid it was going to culminate in a horrific-incest-ring revelation that the actual ending was a relief. It really layers on the misery though, jeez. Apparently the book is even darker. O_O
My takeaway was that Jessica Biel is v good at crying. So much crying in that show!

‘please like me’ is that rarest of rare things, an australian show that’s good

yall not kidding about season 2 of Hap & Leonard being real depressing huh

Just watched the Jeong Kwan episode of Chefs Table and i’m so in love. Esp in her cute little “going to the city” hat. What a marvel that episode was.

Isn't it so wonderful? When she says (paraphrase) "being alone means you are free" just...tears. You can stay at that temple btw and make food with her.

yeah, beautiful. i love her at the school when she goes “ta daaa” and did a little dance.

starting watching this show last night. equal parts history + oh my god i want to eat that so bad....

https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/29196284_10156723305212137_2256387637996889607_n.jpg?oh=75be1e4086552beb83780d1ee1b62300&oe=5B4CE81B

sampler:

Episode 1
Rajasthan's cuisine runs the gamut from rustic foods like panchkuta to complex dishes influenced by Rajput, Marwari, Mughlai and English cooking.

Episode 2
Taste the food traditions of Tamil Nadu, from Tanjore's idli, dosa, rasam and poriyal to the Anglo-Indian fare of Pudukkottai.

Episode 3
Explore the influences of Mughal, Persian and English culture in the cuisine of Delhi and Rampur and learn the delicious origins of chaat.

Episode 4
Sample dishes like nadru palak and ambal and experience a Kashmiri wazwan, an elaborate feast that plays an important role in local culture.

‘please like me’ is that rarest of rare things, an australian show that’s good

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, March 13, 2018 1:21 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i do enjoy it too!

xpost Do they show them making specific recipes? I just made naan from scratch for the first time this past weekend ( so easy and good) and have been slowly working on adding Indian meals into my rotation.

they do kinda but its fast and looks like magic. not anything you could really follow.

but its inspiring to no end.

Yeah, adding it to my queue, I am sure it will cause me to look up some things.

Yerac, to go back a few pages, I started watching the David Chang episodes of Mind of a Chef and didn't find him bro-ish at all. I liked him a lot by the end of one episode. I found him easy unpretentious TV company, which is fairly rare.

I don't know how many episodes I made it through. I think I watched season 2 first and went back to 1 and something happened where he just really rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe it was just the complete change in tone from the second season. I did watch all of Ugly Delicious and he was better. I guess I kind of understood him a bit more in Ugly D.

Oh, it was actually season 4 I watched first with Gabrielle Hamilton.

i like the guy! i might go off him, who knows?

It might be too close for me since I'm asian american and grew up in virginia and lived in NYC. Like, I know that guy.

i def. get that. I'd have a hard time with a professional Scotsman.

I remember watching it with a farmer/baker friend. The later seasons have more of a "story". Reversing to season 1 I think we stopped watching it because it was just Chang hanging out with his bro friends (this is my memory from like 4 years back.)