Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

So, new Chef's Table! (I didn't mean to make not having a huge tv a thing, because I have a huge tv right now that is on at night to watch netflix or while rowing. But it's just me where I don't like tvs being the focal point of a room or being on all the time. This probably comes from growing up around family who were hard of hearing or socially stupid and they can't be around people without having the tv on at full blast all day long.)

Makes sense, I'm pretty much planted in front of the TV all day, but we have it set up in a side room so that it isn't in the middle of the main living room, and guests don't have to deal with obnoxious TV.

Started watching Hilda, it is very much my shit. I love her chill world. Almost seems inspired by platform games, at times.

I remember when growing up the stats showed that the typical american watched something like 6 hours of tv a day or something?

Almost seems inspired by platform games, at times.

I haven’t seen the series, but the albums* are lovely

*big thin children’s hardcover comics

Ahh, I didn't realize that. I took a look at some samples of the comics, and can say the series is very, very similar. Same plots, even same color palettes.

When I finally buy a house I’m going to put the tv in a cabinet behind doors like my grandparents used to have. It looks like the 2001 monolith when it is not on.

what a waste of cabinet space though

agree

i get it if you dont watch much tv but i feel like it’s for ppl who entertain & want to pretend to ppl that they dont watch tv (oh that old thing, no we play board games & do sudoku) when they do

new jeremy saulnier is barely comprehensible

netflix marque is a kiss of death

I guess we should poll this, but if we have company I’d rather have the AppleTV screensavers on than the blank screen and it seems no drama to put a door in front of it.

Also it won’t be quite like my grandparents Tv as it won’t have a very old jar of sugared almonds on top.

Ed yr talkin nonsense dawg

I like the cabinets where the TV raises up on a rail of the hidden solutions.

"new jeremy saulnier is barely comprehensible"

That too bad the book is pretty good.

new jeremy saulnier is barely comprehensible

sad but true

It doesn’t really attempt to be much more than brutal and atmospheric and succeeds in both. There is no real attempt made at explaining why anyone is doing anything.

take it to mubi, saulnier

the Cristina Martinez episode of Chef's table was sweet af! or bittersweet af! (if something can be that)

wow, i've just started watching the Turkish one and it is even better. really deep. i love middle eastern food so much.

flatbread with labneh, tomatoes. fried egg, sprinkled with harissa. for breakfast!

and Za'atar!

with regard to the Thai episode i'm not sure how these people aren't constantly existing in a painful red-hot fire over a toilet bowl.

Was getting into Maniac but then episode 4 was one entire dream sequence, it looks like the rest of the series is going the same way and apparently I care about the real lives of fictional characters but not the fictional lives of fictional characters.

Yeah, we just finished episode 4 and I was a bit disappointed to discover the same. Can anyone who's finished the series tell how long the fantasy bits will continue? I didn't find anything wrong with the 80s fantasy stuff per se, but I just found the actual setting and characters of the series more interesting than this "overcoming your issues through VR roleplay" type of story-within-a-story, which has been way overdone in speculative fiction.

Did u guys just shit out a massive spoiler for maniac

Cuz i think u did i mean i can smell it and i just washed my face and showered so it’s not my upper lip

U guys didnt even wipe

no they didn't

also, ewww

I've been watching 'The Haunting of Hill House', and it's pretty good! By coincidence I rewatched the 1963 film yesterday, which I love. This is different, but the acting is good - and Russ Tamblyn has a cameo in this (though not the same part as in 1963).

i am watching it too. don’t love the constant flashback and forth but it’s good & spooky

Nice to see Monty Python reruns finally available

i'm really loving maniac (episode 5). dr. fujita is particularly great -- the bangs, the chainsmoking, the unplaceable accent, the programming an AI to love, the overall shadiness. but the leads turn in good performances as well. this is sci-fi at its best for me -- atmosphere over concept

i want to trust dr. fujita -- that she just wants the project do succeed out of altruism -- but i do not

ok -- did not like that scene with the drill

yeah hill house is surprisingly (it’s netflix) not bad

And my expectations were low after the 1999 version...

Hmm. That ending though...

Loving Hill House so far -- I'm treating it more as a network-narrative melodrama a la This Is Us except with horror elements thrown in rather than a horror series proper, and I know that sounds horrible but it's really working for me 6 episodes in. Often gorgeous, too.

The Kindergarten Teacher is excellent, as I assumed it would be when I first read about it earlier this year. Maybe deserved a theatrical release since I think this removes Maggie Gyllenhall from oscar consideration but I think she certainly deserves some kind of nomination.

We're 8 episodes into The Haunting of the Hill House, and yeah, it makes sense to treat it like Simon H. says: a drama taking place in two different time periods about a family that's torn apart by mental illness and suicide. It does beg the question, though, whether the horror part of it was even necessary, though, especially since it seems to rely a bit too much on cheap jump scares as much?

Maybe this would've worked better as a non-horror drama, or at least with the horror elements being more toned down and ambiguous? I jokingly said to my wife that maybe the whole family just suffered from mold poisoning while living in the the house, and that's what causing them to hallucinate... But now I'm kinda thinking maybe that wouldn't be such a bad resolution after all? ☺️ I'm hoping they won't overdo the horror towards the end.

A great deal of horror deals with that stuff though. This year's 'Hereditary', for example, is kind of explicitly about the nature of mental illness.

Has anyone watched 'The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell'? Who is the target audience for it? The puppet stuff is so childish, yet blue, and it's a craft show. i'm just perplexed by it.

Yeah I got the first episode of that curious creations yesterday and wondered..
& she's cooking with alcohol or at least using vodka as a base for food colour paint.

Not come across her before so wondered if she was somebody who had a following from anything else.

Weird like couldn't tell if it was adult or child orientated though did seem a bit too adult.

Is there a bronie like sub-culture of overgrown goth children or vice versa.

New Schitt's Creek is delightful as ever

finished watching love

it was actually really good

i'm caught up with pretty much everything i wanted to watch

don't know what i'll be into next but i might try mandy

i heard jonah hill has changed a lot

Anyone who loves the book watched The Haunting of Hill House? I'm interested but not wanting to get pissed off.

most shows/movies are better than the book

i say go for it dawg

I love the book - but this is a different story, so there isn't much to get pissed off by.

Yeah I got the first episode of that curious creations yesterday and wondered..
& she's cooking with alcohol or at least using vodka as a base for food colour paint.

Not come across her before so wondered if she was somebody who had a following from anything else.

A few years ago one of her haunted house decorations went viral via Boing Boing and she picked up a lot of Instagram traffic. Martha Stewart-meets-Tim Burton seems on point.

The Kindergarten Teacher is excellent, as I assumed it would be when I first read about it earlier this year. Maybe deserved a theatrical release since I think this removes Maggie Gyllenhall from oscar consideration but I think she certainly deserves some kind of nomination.

Caught the Israeli original a few months back, and based on the trailer this seems to be a v faithful remake. I can def see MG being great in it.

Anyone who loves the book watched The Haunting of Hill House? I'm interested but not wanting to get pissed off.

Fair warning that the show does some weird meta shit with the concept of adaptation you might find annoying. (It didn't bug me at all)

Apostle is about two thirds of the way to being quite good but never really gets there. It is fairly well directed and has obviously had money spent on it but kind of runs out of plot.

I finished watching The Innocents so you don't have to. Shit sandwich. How far Mike from Neighbours hath fallen.