Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

read an interview with the creators where they said that stuff was supposed to be an homage to American high school movies

makes sense. still weird though.

it doesn't make sense, though.

As an American, I initially thought that the school was just really modernized and/or progressive using the lol "American" model. But yeah...

Co-sign on everything else. I finished it the other night and am already looking forward to the next season--although if this was it, they picked the perfect (and funniest) way to go out.

read an interview that they wanted to appeal to both uk and us audiences as well as homage classic american teen comedies, so it's a sort of intentional mish-mash of US and UK schools.

How does it compare to Big Mouth, which I have also not seen?

Only watched one episode of SE but I found it exploitive and kinda heartless. Bigmouth FTW.

we're 4 or so episodes into SE, don't find it heartless at all, one of those things where in an early episode you think a character is just a 2d bully but then as the season progresses you get more depth. Bigmouth is amazing though.

i'm with DJI all the way here.

Yeah, that is a weird take on SE. It's totally not exploitive.

well when the first episode starts with a fairly over the top sex scene between two ostensibly underage characters I can see how someone might think that

but I don't think that's representative of the show as a whole

comparing it to Big Mouth is misguided also

When it opens with the sex scene, I just thought "british tv."

That scene is actually pretty important in the larger scheme of things on the show, regarding the way it lays out the soon to be explored dysfunctions of the two characters in it.

Sorry, I really shouldn’t judge it based on one episode. Maybe I’ll try some more at some point. It just felt like a sexed-up Glee episode where everyone has this super transactional approach to sex. Plus, yeah, opening with an underage sex scene was pretty gratuitous.

I'm not done with the series but the whole thing is a healthier look at non-puritanical teenage sexuality and relationships.

Still with DJI! I guess at this point if you don't grab me with the first episode, there's just too much else to potentially watch for me to suffer through to "the good part".

Timely: I just saw a teaser for PEN 15, an upcoming HULU show that looks like a live-action Big Mouth.

It just felt like a sexed-up Glee episode where everyone has this super transactional approach to sex. Plus, yeah, opening with an underage sex scene was pretty gratuitous.

wow this is like a fundamental misreading of the show. The whole point is that all the characters learn that sex is more than just an exchange of bodily fluids - it's about knowing your own body, being emotionally present, being a considerate partner, and learning that what works for one person may not work for another. And also that it's OK to not want to have sex right away or to have less experience than everyone else.

The opening sex scene did feel gratuitous initially yeah but like c.grisso points out, it's a really jumping off point towards exploring the characters' hangups later on. None of the sex scenes on the show are gratuitous at all tbh - they're all depicted as a way for the characters to work through their sexual and relationship dysfunction.

In terms of portraying teenage sexuality, the lingering, male-gazey shots of Kiernan Shipka in a nightie on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina felt way more skeevy than anything shown on SE, even though those didn't involve any nudity at all.

I've never watched Big Mouth.

I’m to the point in life where I see young characters and think “young man/lady, that is a cool outfit, BUT”