Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

Fwiw, my personal OCD cleanup methodology is mostly indistinguishable from Kondo's (though I find the animism of 'saying thank you and goodbye to your shirt' insufferable and the dogma of folding to be overkill) and, after a cursory reading, generally cosign her approach. It's the people she's working with on the shows I watched that I find insufferable: middle class acquisition minded basics lacking aesthetic taste or curiosity, hoping for a magical savior.

yeah, I am aligned with this as well. I don't say thank you to the things I get rid of but I usually have a quick process of acknowledging that the items will exist in another home ( I try to feel out if anyone I know wants it first), that they served their purpose with me and that I don't want to move on with them further/I am no longer a person that needs it. Perhaps it's easier for people in cities where space is limited and moving such a bitch? The couple that wanted a third child almost made me lose my mind with the amount of shit they had in their really lovely house but they pulled it out in the end.

It seems like such a generic reality show, from its format to its "casting" but also beat to beat, that some of the more mundane or quotidian strategies or approaches she brings perhaps come off more glaring in their obviousness. I wish the show itself had a bit more style and novelty. Also, my wife hates her wardrobe.

(though I find the animism of 'saying thank you and goodbye to your shirt' insufferable and the dogma of folding to be overkill)

my 8 yr old was actually the one who got into the show and i kept putting shirts in the donate bag and she would bring it back and say daddy you forgot to say thank you! and it was so goddamn cute i couldn't stand it

She had on a couple of full/bell sleeved blouses that I was really into. I think her wardrobe silhouette is part of her brand. It was actually kind of hard guessing how old she is. I went for early 40s, but I think just based on her clothing and that I knew she had books out awhile ago.

Based on how she dresses I'd say she's around ... 12.

I’m down with the folding stuff, it creates more space in the drawers. The “thank you and goodbye” thing is totally okay too, I would imagine that is a cultural thing and I find it interesting in how it recognizes the attachment we have to physical objects but also gives us an out, and a way to break away from them while giving respect to both that attachment and the object.

Folding is definitely smart, but on the flip side, well, duh.

I know she only wears white, that is her thing.

Lots of people only wear white it’s fine. She’s an adult obviously.

xpost that is so funny that you think she dresses young and i think she dresses old for her age.

Granted what she is wearing is pretty basic/conservative/nice and would work for like anyone.

I haven’t watched the Marie Kondo show yet, but I read the book and I don’t think talking to stuff before getting rid of it is something everyone or even most people need to do, but I do think it addresses a psychological hang-up some people have about getting rid of things.
I also think her target audience is obviously people who want to get rid of stuff but have trouble doing it on their own. The book -backlash comments I have seen seem to be mostly from people who don’t know what it’s really about but don’t seem to care. I am a pack rat and I think people should for the most part keep what they want to even if other people think it’s garbage let alone books, but I also think it’s good if she is encouraging people to be more mindful about not just what they keep but more importantly what they acquire in the first place, which is the bigger problem.

as someone who has very few personal possessions but who has spent the majority of the last decade living in cluttered apartments (i lived consecutively with my brother as a roommate, and then my ex, and now my current partner. all of them have lots of stuff, my brother is a borderline hoarder) i hope this show can have a positive effect in the world

It's all kind of captured too with our parents who grew up during/after the depression or who were immigrants or poor and just never, ever threw anything away, because it might be useful one day or the children might want it when they grow up. I've had to tell my parents a thousand times over the years that I do not need or want anything and they need to maintain and enjoy their house for themselves only.

I think having roommates well into adulthood also made me ocd about my living space now that I have full control of it.

maybe she should get her own thread. I have not watched, but I do think that for ppl who are specifically annoyed with aspects of the show, "you didn't read the books, clearly" is an annoying response (that I have actually seen online)

I do hope that at some point in the series someone flatly refuses to address an inanimate object

there is a marie kondo thread. if people want to take conversation over there

the life-changing magic of tidying up

Back to what I said, I think it's the show and its generic format that's the problem. I'd never heard of her before (though my wife had), but clearly this new series is having a relatively big impact, at least as far as introducing (or reintroducing) her and her ideas to people. Yet it's got such a hackneyed familiar vibe to it that it just feels like any other home makeover sort of show, which undersells what she has to offer. It'd be like if I told someone that "Flip or Flop" would change their life, and then they saw it and it's just another reality show. I can imagine this person's ideas working as a self-help book, but seeing it manifested on screen strikes me as faintly ridiculous, like an infomercial or something, or parody of the same.

Which is to say, it'd be a bad show, imo, no matter her personality or ideas. Just like something you'd flip around to in a hotel room. As opposed to, say, Salt Fat Acid Eat, which is great, and somehow feels fresh despite being yet another cooking/travel show.

I read a great essay recently on how SFAH changes the image of who gets to eat for enjoyment on tv: a woman, moreover a women of color, moreover a not-thin, not domestic woman, and the format of her show is that she really ENJOYS savoring and devouring things.

Oh here it is: https://www.eater.com/2018/10/24/18014782/salt-fat-acid-heat-samin-nosrat-eating-cooking-food-tv-netflix

Sorry if that was already linked here, I forget where I saw things.

Huh. I thought that would be about the news (maybe not news?) that Netflix apparently changes the thumbnail/cover/icon of what you might want to watch based on what you have watched before. For example, if you have watched, say, Atlanta with Donald Glover, it might put him in the icon/cover of a movie he's barely in just to catch your eye.

Two eps in on Sex Education, and a stoned, blonde Gillian Anderson caressing the words "Man Milk" is the hero we need.

Yeah, halfway through Sex Education, really enjoying it.

It's good, yeah. Close to the platonic ideal of an undemanding Netflix watch

I did have to look up where it was shot because that house is amazing.

I want to punch Marie Kondo in the face. (Actually the ones coming up w the show.)

Kid and I are watching Atypical. It's fantastic.