Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

is the book of hill house worth reading? significantly difft to the show?

the book is amazing

and I haven't watched the show but yes it sounds completely different

The book is brilliant and genuinely terrifying in places. Wary of the series; I'm heartened to hear it follows a different narrative.

The book is wonderful and Robert Wise's 1963 adaptation, The Haunting, is perhaps the finest screen ghost story ever

Yeah, Shirley Jackson book and The Turn of the Screw sort of the definitive oft-adapted/imitated American ghost stories.

Apostle wasn't bad at all. Though I can't help think there might have been a great film in there if you took out the supernatural stuff.

read the book a month ago and it's fantastic obv.

On the second episode of the show and am very underwhelmed. I was really looking forward to it. I don't mind the deviation from and meta toying with the book, that's a fun way to revisit it while doing something new. I just find it...not scary. We just finished watching Sharp Objects and I thought that was a thousand times scarier. Hill House is very predictable ghost story tropes, which makes sense because the original story helped invent them, married to the occasional current hollywood horror moves and it's just not doing it for me yet.

Thanks! Sounds as though it's doing interesting stuff without trying to be a pale shadow of the EXCELLENT book. Will try it.

Apostle was bizarre and not really in a good way. They really should have gone full badass with Dan Stevens instead of having moments of total badassitude interspersed with oh he’s a faithless sinner bits.

We finished watching The Haunting of Hill House, and in the end it really makes sense to treat it more like a family drama about mental illness, suicide, and PTSD, than as a horror story. Feels like the main writer/director thought so too, as towards the end the horror elements kept getting more superfluous, and there was barely any of them left in the finale.

Maniac is legit incredible. Just finished. Not brave enough to watch the haunting of hill house.

Season 2 of Big Mouth is fucking hilarious.

I love that show. I've only watched a couple of the new ones. That spa song was insane.

Managed to get through the first two Christine McConnell episodes,not sure if I can stomach the rest.

Season 2 of Big Mouth is fucking hilarious.

cosign

Best line from this season: "when your mom and I first made love I was as hard as it is for me to watch you kids grow up so fast."

I haven't finished Hill House yet, but I just wanted to say Episode 6 might be the best single hour of TV I've seen this year, holy shit. That camera work! Like 15 minutes straight of unrelenting tension.