Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Inventor, I think.

First episode of Shrill was indeed well-acted and well-made and probably worthwhile but reminded me of every mid-'90s indie movie, from the way it was shot to the score. Bryant is great in it, though it's a peev that it's yet another story whose protagonist works at an only-thriving-in-tv-and-movies alt-weekly with a cartoonish eccentric boss.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:18 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in fairness it's loosely based on lindy west's actual life and the boss is a dan savage stand-in

Going Clear was on Sky Atlantic, kinder, so if it turns up anywhere it'll probably be there

I didn't think it added much at all if you've read the book though (MC Hammer dance sequence apart)

Gonna definitely watch OAs2 just because I cannot for the life of me imagine what a season 2 of it would be. A while back I was sort of remembering bits of pieces of season 1 and thinking it was a dream I had and then I was like, wait, no, that was an ACTUAL TV SHOW SOMEONE MADE.

S1 seemed like an extended Actor’s workshop routine

Cheers nn, will be getting Now Tv for GoT anyway so will check

wow y’all watching a different Shrill than the one I saw. love Lindy West but after 1 episode I am done.

shoutout to the POC supporting characters who unfailingly big-up our hero for no obvious reason except I guess it’s her story not theirs.

The OA was, I know, divisive but it was probably also my favorite new show since Enlightened so I'm excited. Nyah to the naysayers.

xpost tbf I haven't made it past the first episode so I'm not ready to say which characters do what wrong.

My Husband Won't Fit / Season 1 2019 3.0 TV-MA SD Play Queue Series Netflix Page
Kumiko and Kenichi meet in college and build a happy marriage together. But over time, an unusual problem threatens to destroy their relationship.
Mar 20, 2019 10 episodes

so, yes, this is in fact about what you think it's about, and it has TEN episodes

I guess Dragged Across Concrete drops on Friday?

still angry i watched the entire first season of The OA lol. life is too short for white people discovering the power of interpretive dance.

Yeah, gotta admit, didn't like what I saw of Shrill's second episode just now. Her character is kind of this off-putting naif.

Hold on, is the Theranos doc on netflix? I read the book but wanna hear her deep voice. Lol

HBO and subscription partners.

you can hear her croaking here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiNFXcI9Rb8

I viscerally hated the OA.

Ha same

Tried an episode of Luke Cage (Season 1 premiere) last night. Man, that sucked.

I liked the first season of Luke Cage but the pacing was a bit too slow for me.

I looked up the creator of The OA to see if she was either super christian or a scientologist. Her wiki just has a lot about freegans.

she has a sort of creative partnership with the brother of one of the vampire weekend dudes and some other person? been a while since i looked into it, ended up watching some cult-type movie they did

nobody who is an actual scientologist or christian type is that breathlessly demonstrative imo

I forgot all about The OA. I don't think we made it past a couple of episodes? I did look her up on wikipedia, and yeah, her creative partner is the bro of the ex Vampire Weekend guy. But I also learned her sister is dating some director, Francesca Gregorini, whose formal name is Countess Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna, the daughter of one Count Augusto Gregorini and Barbara Bach, the latter the longtime spouse of Gregorini's now stepfather Ringo. Buncha fancy pants people of privilege.

Not sure I've ever hated a show as much as I hate Bodyguard.

The OA is very much in line with Sound of My Voice, the first movie collaboration with Marling/Batmanglij. The East, the other movie they collaborated on, is also culty!

It's kind of their topic, I guess.

I watched The Dirt (the Mötley Crüe movie).

...the verdict?

I hated Another Earth so much that I will never engage with another Brit Marling Joint.

I haven't seen that one! Different director collaborator on that one, although he's also done cult-type things (producer on The Path, that Hulu series)

Feelin' kinda punk rock rn for being into a show so many people apparently virulently despise.

The person I watched it with loved it. But he also usually just watches sealife attacks and korean plastic surgery videos.

More than once, Mars glares at us and tells us that the events being depicted didn’t actually happen that way, which when combined with the people and events that have been cut out, makes the viewer wonder if any of it’s true,

This should have been Howard Devoto in a Mick Mars wig

Not Netflix, but Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski) hit Bezos-Prime today.

Here's one to recommend to your mother:
https://www.hulu.com/movie/tea-with-the-dames-9cb07ffd-77d0-405c-9367-1aa118dd0e7a

Cold War is lovely.

God, The OA. What a trash fire.

I started Turn Up Charlie. I like it except the kid in it is terrible. She's like petite Lena Dunham.

OA is OAmazing

OATMFM

The Dirt was about as good as those VH1 biopics so not very.

Aside from everything, everyone looked so showered & healthy! And everyone’s hair was TOO FLAT

my favorite thing was the DLR scene where they said THATS DAVID LEE ROTH like 9 times to make sure you got it because dude looked ~nothing~ like DLR

Yeah The Dirt is somehow even dumber than I expected. Quality about equivalent to the band though.

The Dirt was okay for the first half, shitty production values fit the material. When they started the everybody gets sober plot point it went off the rails.

so to speak...

you can hear her croaking here:
📹

I wish the fact that I have no doubts that The Dirt is as shitty as unperson says would prevent me from watching it but I'm helpless

^ oh for sure better shitty than mediocre

Netflix original programming in general "barely not shitty"

I can't get through a single episode of almost anything discussed itt. Psyched for the Dylan Rolling Thunder doc though!

The Dirt is not shitty in an entertaining way. It's just tedious and unpleasant

something is def wrong w me because you just pushed it to the top of my list

I mean I watched it, so who am I to judge?