Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

(I'm annoyed because of course in Japan, with smaller living spaces, people need to be "tidier" than in the US. Also hell no when it comes to speaking to my clothing.)

I like Marie Kondo. She is very american in her branding though.

Yeah, she just wants to spark joy, no need to punch her just because you enjoy wallowing in your own filth.

people are really bad these days at just shrugging and thinking “hmm, not for me”

everything has got to have a commentary track

She seems nice, and a bit kooky. not sure what anyone's objection is.

you have to like, dislike, or have a convoluted long-winded opinion on things!

the best day of my life, which the clickbait industry will never have, was when I realized “it’s fine” and “sure, whatever” are actually the best default positions. life’s too short to weigh in with such emphasis

and that's okay

People feeling attacked by innocuous things shocker. She is very cute.

xpost "emotionally supportive relationships based on mutual affection" are really boring and no one wants to hear about them.

whoops wrong thread.

fist bump omar

I thought I was going to hate the Kondo show but it's having a peculiar effect on me - particularly the still moments where she blesses the houses. It's probably an obvious point but what she's really doing is giving people space to contemplate their relationships and actually be together for a bit. Even if it is only an incidental aspect of the 'method', it's a hell of a trick.

And I think I probably fancy her a bit: I like her angles and her posture.

Haha people attacking me for my MK hate. Shrug.

Yeah, she just wants to spark joy, no need to punch her just because you enjoy wallowing in your own filth.

it's not for you, I guess

Heh. True. Shlda smoked some weed while watching.

I think the disconnect between classical "this should be for me due to topic/genre but it ended up disappointing" took a weird route through forums of classic geek crap ("I'm going to watch every star trek series and just criticize the hell out of stuff I don't like, although I still must know every detail of every episode!") to the point where now the default thinkpiece is now something like "I read every article in this issue of Vanity Fair and disagree strongly with how Bono was portrayed (but I don't even like Bono)"

and Bono was only mentioned in a blip about some charity thing in the front part of the magazine

Guys, 'You' is so awful. Just absolute shite.

fine more for us

I quit after 3 episodes, I just found it unpleasant & weird, and well, dumb

in the course of explaining "You" I ended up explaining the plot of Gossip Girl to a friend who had not seen it, revealing that I did watch the entire series

no shame

kinda with veg on "you" though i might muddle through at some point.
backlog of the moment includes some fifteen shows to try though, so maybe not

plus i never did Gossip Girl so i just find Penn Badgely’s character to be a deeply unpleasant birdfaced creep

He's supposed to be...

yeah that's the whole point. after all, he is gossip girl

my wife always watches these kinds of thrillers and usually i find them ridiculous, but this is so ludicrously and - maybe - knowingly ott that i found it amusing instead of stupid.

Penn was good in You. The women in the show all seemed such annoying. Still enjoyed it.

It's totally bad. But it was highly watchable for the absurdity. I watched all of Friends From College. The best part about it were the shots of the dining table and food in the opener. I would like a looping montage of that.

most of the women in the show were a little too young for me to find annoying by ilx rules

Paco was the worst. (ha!)

It was funny that he just showed up on Crazy Ex-GF too.

I quit after 3 episodes, I just found it unpleasant & weird, and well, dumb

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, January 21, 2019 2:49 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agreed and I also quit on the third episode.

plus i never did Gossip Girl so i just find Penn Badgely’s character to be a deeply unpleasant birdfaced creep

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, January 21, 2019 3:21 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol mh!

one of the most frustrating things about Netflix is that clicking on "Newly Added" doesn't actually show you stuff that's been newly added.

Sex Education was so good. I thought it handled a lot of iffy topics (abortion! coming out! consent! masturbation! parental neglect and abuse! same-sex relationships!) really deftly and amusingly without ever being preachy or descending into after-school special territory. Very well paced too.

The only thing that threw me was the school the kids went to - sort of weird to see British teens attending an American style high school, complete with lockers and letterman jackets.

Also Gillian Anderson... still a goddess.