Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

been watching You and have to keep stopping it. not cos it's bad but because hard for me to watch someone get stalked so aggressively.

somewhat tired of the people differentiating him from Dexter ("well Dexter had a CODE!") because people seem to think that 'code' made Dexter not a monster when he absolutely was one. Just like Joe on this show.

Also the comments on the FB page of the show is full of people romanticizing Joe which is...all kinds of wrong.

but it's well done so I'll keep watching.

Badgley has actually taken to Twitter to respond to fans to tell them to stop seeing his character as a "good" guy.

they literally spell out the intended premise in a late-season episode! I was kind of appreciative of the moment because you've gotta spoonfeed your audience sometimes

I'm only on ep 3, lol. so kinda makes these alternative readings even more sad then!

enjoyed leguizamo's latin history tbh, laudable commitment/ambition and anyway just love leguizamo

yeah, total ride.

I have never like Leguizamo but watched it when it came out and it was pretty good.

I'm only on ep 3, lol. so kinda makes these alternative readings even more sad then!

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oh yeah there's no way you finish this season thinking joe is "good" ffs. they give him just enough dimension where you can understand why he's a monster, but the writers also don't let him off the hook at all. show walks a fine line

Everyone on the show is pretty terrible (except Ethan so far and maybe Blythe), but he is the one that is definitely a stalker/murderer.

I am really surprised that Kondo speaks mostly Japanese—this seems so much more like a Japanese television show to me. Not what I was expecting,

some of Penn Badgley's responses to women romanticizing his character are hilarious:

But you’re supposed to see past my face TO the crazy shit! It’s the other way! The other wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyhhyyyyggg :)

— Penn Badgley (@PennBadgley) January 9, 2019

This young gay couple lives in a nicer apartment than I’ve ever lived in and they are so afraid of being judged for their perceived dorm-like lifestyle.

just on a cursory look around, all of the people in the maria kondo thing are really terrible people

"Leave No Trace" is streaming on Amazon. What a great movie, and I was extra pleasantly surprised that despite handling some pretty heavy themes there was no violence or profanity or sex or anything, That's a neat trick, to make a (relatively) family-friendly film about serious PTSD.

guys, you should stop watching marie kondo and watch blue planet ii instead.

I might honestly watch some of YOU s2 just to see how they respond to ppl being idiots about it

guys, you should stop watching marie kondo and watch blue planet ii instead.

Blue Planet proves that nature is tidiest of them all.

i tried watching Friends From College, i made it 2 episodes. it’s dumb. seeing Nat Faxon just makes me wish his show Married was still on the air :(

Really terrible show with a good cast

saw two amazing films last night:
The Rider (on Starz via Amazon) is definitely one of the best movies of 2018; total knockout and well worth a trial subscription month just to see
Support the Girls (on Hulu) is not what you think it is and it's better than you're hoping it is.

ALSO:
Hulu just added four seasons of Letterkenny. Pitter patter.

for those unfamilar, Letterkenny is "It's Always Sunny in Ontario"

Just watched “Without a Trace” - Josh in Chicago otm, this movie does so much with so little. I loved it.

how great is Ben Foster. goddamn i love him as an actor.

Definitely a worthy follow-up to Winter's Bone, I was a big fan of Leave No Trace as well.

one of my coworkers was talking about Future Man (on hulu) so I gave season one a spin. the premise wears kind of thin as they cycle through all the different time travel cliche references but the casting is an amazing mishmash of “who can we get to show up?”

Do they get Bela Fleck's drummer?

Lol, would totally watch a buddy cop show starring Bela Fleck's drummer and Andrew Wilson's character from Bottle Rocket.

hmm well the dad is Ed Begley Jr. and that pulled me in past the first couple episodes

watched the first episode of the pitch black British comedy series "Flowers" with Olivia Colman (who really deserves a second place oscar behind toni collette) and Julian Barrett (who was great in Sally4Ever) and it was so abundantly and hatefully morbid that my gal noted the credits rolling with a declaration that we would NOT be binge-watching this for fear of self-harm

The backlash against Marie Kondo is really weird and ugly* to me and I almost wonder if people who are doing it have watched the show?

*and feels kinda racist in a way i can't really articulate?

I haven't watched the show but I've gleaned that she tells people to get rid of their books. I can see why that may cause a backlash.

There is a backlash against her? I thought it was more either making fun of the subjects on the show or making fun of some degree of obviousness of her methods.

yeah Twitter has been really knives out lately esp because I think (maybe inaccurately anyway) people think she says you should get rid of all your books

Overall, a lot of people who haven't either seen the show or read the book seem to have big opinions

I'm not like a huge convert but I thought the show was good, I never knew how to fold clothes very well.
She's overall very respectful of people which is the thing people on Twitter seem to be missing.

wonder if the writers of any of the parody books of the time are getting pitched netflix shows now

when a coworker went kondo crazy a few years ago i jokingly bought one with a title like "the joy of leaving your shit all over the place" as a gift

I was going to bail on the show but was bored last night so finished it. I did learn that I should fold my socks instead of doing the other method that stretches out the elastic.

Yeah, she is super respectful of people's feelings for their belongings. Most of the people on the show are actively trying to move forward in their life, make room for something, join lives with a partner so it's not just people being totally happy that they have shitloads of books and her telling them to trash their yearbooks.

Which I have totally trashed all my yearbooks ages ago and got rid of almost all my books ages ago.

I watched the first episode and it immediately sent me on a cleaning spree. A few hours later I'd filled up two garbage bags and rearranged all of my books.

I've also been eyeing my CD collection with malevolent intent: "How can I turn you into money?"

if I found the book relatively good and somewhat of a personal indictment re: possessions and psychological detritus -- but I never really was able to follow through -- do you think it'd be a good motivator to move forward in the new year?

excellent timing on the release by netflix, imo

fwiw I've been getting rid of at least a couple of boxes worth of things per month for the past year!

It's an easy watch, you should just give it a go. I managed to watch 3 episodes while just making dinner one night.
I think it's been in the last 5 years or so where I am in the frame of mind that I don't need to own any of these things. Something I like or think is great, I can usually visit it if I really want to, check it out from the library, see pictures of it online. I don't need to be an owner of it.

I did learn that I should fold my socks instead of doing the other method that stretches out the elastic.

I've been doing this since catching an episode of Homicide where someone makes fun of Frank (iirc?) for it

on topic: Samurai Gourmet has really grown on me. I like its absolute gentleness a lot more than I did the somewhat similar Midnight Diner or Kintaro, though I also feel like I'm lacking a significant amount of cultural context.

xpost jmm, I probably sold ~300 cds online 10 years ago, all the ones that I could make a decent amount for the effort. The last time I moved I just set the rest along with 4 huge case logic binders outside for people to take. I have not regretted not having cds anymore at all. I didn't even have a cd player.

How does a sock get stretched more by fitting over another sock than by fitting over a foot/ankle?

I am guessing just from more repetitions of the stretching and right after the laundering/drying of it has weakened the elastic?

and also possibly remaining in that stretched state for weeks

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61hepcv%2BvML._UX342_.jpg

sock suspenders or gtfo

Generally I wear a hole in the heel of the sock before the elastic goes, so it’s a nonissue for me. xp