Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

ha, yeah - like there are some good tips and stuff in there but ultimately a lot of it comes down to 'put stuff in clear plastic boxes and stack foldable stuff upright'

i do find it weirdly soothing, tho

I wanted more sorting, folding segments to be soothed. Like how people watch videos of storm drains being unclogged.

joke's on marie kondo, nothing sparks joy

— anaïs e-m (@anaees) January 6, 2019

the bodyguard was terrible and richard madden is bad in it.

xp hah, I tweeted something like that a month or so back. some seasonal anhedonia and marie kondo and boom, empty house

richard madden is one of those rare talents whose natural scottish accent somehow nevertheless seems fake onscreen (see also: mcgregor, ewan and hannah, john)

the bodyguard was soo bad, really can't fathom why it became such a big deal.

Joe Goldberg in You is both wayyy less competent and less sympathetic than Dexter - dexter at least knows he's a monster, joe is straight toxic Nice GuyTM. That's partly what makes the show so funny though - even though it's mostly his narration we hear, it makes us laugh AT him as much as he mocks everyone else.

I kept expecting Mooney to namecheck his "dark passenger" in those flashback scenes

finished ozark s2 and am still on board, despite standing by my earlier criticism that it is wearying. as a resident of arkansas, a "right to work state," i find it hilarious that it becomes a major plot point. hell, might've introduced some people to the term "right to work state." dunno. also funny that, the way they present it, there's absolutely no middle ground. the only alternative to right-to-work is the mob (i.e. the union).

I probably just took that for granted :/

I finished ozark s2 as couple of weeks ago. I think I probably won't continue.

I haven't seen You and never will but still laughed at this thread

YOU is shot so lushly like a classic melodrama which is only part of the reason I can’t stop watching it

— Ira (@ira) January 6, 2019

bodyguard was fine. pretty good for a bbc drama. richard madden is v handsome, but a wee bit short for my tastes

I watched the first episode of You. It is soooooo ridiculous. I will keep watching.

I will say the shot of Badgley's warped face through her broken window was effectively unsettling

This guy they cast as Benji is some middle aged spin doctors looking mofo.

Ok, I don't know anything about this actor (though I guess I had seen two of his movies) but my bad that it looks like the actor was beaten up pretty bad at one point. His styling for the show though is too mid 90s.

That Ira thread is exactly me watching this dumb show lol

I watched all of Tidying Up and then folded all of my and my kid’s in-drawer clothes into small file-able squares. It feels pretty good tbh. I guess I will watch You now and probably feel not-good!

protip: do not put your kids in cages after watching you

February 1st

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHcKoAMGGvY

that looks pretty good, even if adventure time did it better first

I confess I'm going to watch Mads Mikkelsen in Johann Wick; I'm powerless against that sort of trash.

Yeah I'm gonna watch that trash too.

I just found out that You was a Lifetime show. This makes sense now.

My wife and one of my kids were watching Tidying Up last night. It looked like the stupidest show in the world, where the consultant basically comes in and tells people to put their trash in the trash, flush the toilet, make their bed, and everybody is oh my fucking God, it's like we're living in a different house!

She has magic powers of tricking people into not being so American.

I mean, I wish sometimes that I could let go a little of tidying up my living spaces and letting it ramble more, but I just can't relax when stuff is in disarray or I can't go to bed if the kitchen isn't straightened.

Tidying Up is therapeutic fantasy for me.

xp Best way I found of letting go was to have a couple of kids

yeah, that is probably 35% of the reason I don't have kids.

I watched the first ep of You but it was painful. I kinda want to know what happens but I’m not sure I can get past the cringeing. It’s weird seeing Lou Pucci playing the cool hipster bf and penn badgely playing the dorky creep. Has anyone read the book?

Xps i haven’t actually konmari’d my own house, but if you read her book you’ll see it’s much more than make your bed, take out your trash. Ppl like to make fun of how whimsical she is (which is really just part of her culture), or act like she’s a hardcore minimalist, but that’s a deliberate misreading of her ideas.

I tuned in to what must have been the before-and-after reveal, and I swear to God one before was basically a bunch of slimy takeout containers left on the counter and the after was the bare counter, and the host was all, now the spirit of the kitchen can be free! Or some shit like that. Another before might have been clothes all over the floor and in the after the clothes were in a drawer or hung up. For some reason I thought it was about home organization, not, like, the very basics of cleaning up after yourself. Is there a future episode about using napkins? Throwing out rotten milk? They should send her into a house full of cats or something, set the bar higher. The bit I saw was like a parody of a home makeover show. Even my 11-year old was kind of incredulous and my wife was giggling.

Agreed. To me, KonMarieing speaks in an interesting way to the relationship between environment and emotional state. I think the show is only nominally about tidying, and more about the anthropology of ownership. The environmental changes that some of the families make are underwhelming in the face of the psychological unblocking of the issues that lead to the accumulation of clutter in the first place.

Oh, I don’t agree with Josh - there was an Xpost in there

IME Marie Kondo helps people create an environment in which they “unstick” themselves from various life issues by way of examining their physical possessions. It’s a kind of self-directed occupational therapy, I think.

There might be something more to the show or her philosophy, but again, literally, before and after: trash and then no trash. And everyone was in awe of her witchcraft.

there's definitely something to her philosophy beyond surface level improvements, it also extends to facing a bit of the psychological unease from clutter and dealing with it, clutter both seen and unseen. i'm at present on a months-long project of cutting out extraneous shit from our house, and it's reached the point of being aware of what little is left and how objects we own not having a place to go can be a little annoying at best, anxiety inducing at worst. this project was kind of spurred on by the full-on disaster my FIL is dealing with at 88, having never thrown anything away for the past decade-plus and refusing to part with expired grocery store coupons and what not.

speaking of that issue, this show is not a full on cautionary tale like Hoarders, which is a bit more rubbernecky albeit fascinating, but she gets at certain issues that i think everyone faces.

I hate clutter and am constantly cleaning up after myself and others. A tidy house is definitely more chill. But even I came to the realization long ago that if things are getting messy just, you know, put shit away! Takes like 10 minutes.

This scans like parody, too:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/the-marie-kondo-effect-reaches-beacons-closet

it's not just about putting things away it's about throwing things away instead of just constant accumulation

maybe don't buy so much garbage in the first place, did she ever think of that

I have said this before but I am constantly telling my mom she is a bad buddhist because she won't toss anything. "You are not taking this stuff with you when you die/get reincarnated!" I didn't read the book but isn't it kind of basic japanese mindfulness, living in smaller spaces and being considerate of your surroundings? All the places I have stayed in japan were very purposeful and organized even when there were 3 young children.

it's not just about individual choices but about the culture you live in too. almost every birthday party my kids get invited to they get some little plastic bag full of cheap plastic toys and stickers and crap as a gift bag to be potentially spread out over the house. you have to be constantly vigilant.

There's a moment in the next-to-last episode where an expectant father culls his sneaker collection from just south of two hundred boxes to about forty. That's not interesting on its own, until he off-handedly mentions having racked up 10K debt to buy the shoes over the last decade. Which –– yikes. But as the father's unboxing the shoes on Kondo's instructions, he discovers that some of the pairs are unworn, sealed, and destroyed by age. And it clearly upsets him. Later the context of some family photos, he reveals that he grew up low-income in a working immigrant family. As he goes through the boxes, I think he internalizes the way in which these possessions (which he didn't wear, didn't want to wear, and bought semi-compulsively) helped him feel insulated in a social class different and preferable to the one in which he was raised. When he purges himself of ten dozen shoes, I think he's breaking through his class baggage.

that's OTM, i don't know about you but every single day i find one of those little mini animal erasers lying around the house. xp

Some of my friends think I am crazy because I will deliberate for weeks over buying anything non-consumable no matter if it's only $5 or something. I have to envision how I will use it where I will put it, do I have something like it already, do I think I will toss it the next time I move. It drives me crazy when I go over to a friends' house and they have such nice or expensive things and they keep wanting more but it's so cluttered and dusty that it's like, what's the point.

every time i take the kid to Trader Joe's they ask him, "hey you want some stickers??" and of course he says yes and later i have to surreptitiously toss them in the bin.

she would have a field day with the number of books and LPs in this house. I'm trying, Marie!

lol omar we share the same problems

I am down to 2 white cubes of books and 3 of LPs.