Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

they gilded the lily on a lot of heinous shit from the book and/or left out tons of other heinous shit. so it’s become “a light romp with lots of tits & a facepunching lets be cool”. which is really the worst thing about it

but the first season wasn't that strong...

That's what I mean, the Order isn't exactly good the way Buffy got, but it has personality and zing, the way Buffy did from the start.

gotcha eephus

Turn Up Charlie ended really abruptly.

I remember someone else was posting how much they liked Kantaro. I watched two-three episodes but it didn't hold me.

What makes the book good is Strauss finding a way to write each member’s voice in a very distinct and personable way. Nearly everything they do is heinous, and we all know the music is 97% worthless, so it’s him writing their charisma or self-belief onto the page that makes it fun. That’s not going to exist in any live-action adaptation, especially a DTV quickie made by nobodies.

i just remembered that i read the book right before 9/11

sic otm

also the band being involved in the production of the movie guarantees eliding the heinous stuffin the book

I’ve never read the book but it’s notable that the anecdotes shared in reviews closer to the time it came out were gross but in a funny way, but the reviews of the movie mention the omission of the nastier things.. that weren’t mentioned in the book reviews!

I think it’s a fairer lens overall

it was definitely the way Strauss captured their insane self-delusion in the book that made it readable

the delusion in the movie is a whole other level

anecdotes shared in reviews closer to the time it came out were gross but in a funny way

I gotta give this to Strauss as well: he gets you onside and laughing with the band early on when they're buying takeaway burritos on the way home and fucking them in the back of the van so their girfriends don't smell the unprotected sex with groupies that they've previously had in the van on their dicks, or snorting live ants with Ozzy. By the time they're raping unconscious women, manslaughtering their friends, and working out by lifting garbage bags full of water while in prison for beating their wives, you've bought in to the characters. These depradations thus seem like a dark dip in their funtime fortunes, rather than the obvious next step in a straight line for these three idiot monsters (while Mick Mars is off having painful surgery and practicing guitar).

According to his wiki page, Vince Neil has had 2 DUI's since the crash which killed his friend. How the fuck has he evaded jail?

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This book has always sounded like someone I would rather die than read and Strauss should be metoo’d by the neck until dead, can’t even imagine giving time to a Netflix version

*someTHING

first two crüe records are awesome btw. after that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

first 2 albums rule
(i have unsupportable enjoyment of Dr Feelgood that we won’t get into)

I'm enjoying The Sinner, a clever and atmospheric crime drama. Like a less pretentious True Detective.

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I think it has been. I didn’t have high expectations but season 1 of the sinner might be my favorite crime type show of the last few years.

I regret watching the first episode of 'You,' I want a shower now.

Watched the final season of Longmire (I'd seen seasons 1-5 via Amazon). It was a good show the whole way along and then MASSIVELY shit the bed in its final 15 minutes.

Sinner S1 is surprisingly good, pretty stoked to see the Carrie Coon-starring second season.

S2 is really really good

I'm waiting impatiently for Netflix to add the damn thing.

Three episodes into S2, it's a little more pulpy and lurid than the first but still pretty good. Coon is excellent, Pullman continues to be excellent.

I ended up watching the whole of You for some reason. More or less garbage.

Watched all of After Life this weekend because I had the flu and was dependant on the kindness of others. Those who bailed early missed the repeated lectures on the moral and intellectual superiority of atheism, the fat jokes, the murder of a heroin addict portrayed as an act of mercy by a superior being, and an entire episode devoted to everyone on the show telling fuckface what a lovely, lovely man he is. The only redeeming quality of this tribute to a fascist's ego: they didn't kill the dog.

I watched ep1, thought the premise was good but otherwise it was just nasty. Thought I'd try another ep or two to see where it goes but might not bother now. all the 'jokes' are just shitty things he says iirc

The Sinner was that mad Jessica Biel thing, wasn't it? is s2 similar?

There were clearly people involved with the show who cared about other aspects of the experience than Gervais' ego and there were affecting moments because of it -- but ultimately, it was looking at a guy looking at himself in the mirror and liking what he sees way more than I could.

is s2 similar?

There's the same starting point of a murder in which the perpertrator is apparent from the start, but in a completely new setting and completely different characters apart from Ambrose.

The whole netflix partnership is super confusing. I watched Isn't It Romantic a couple of weeks ago because it was showing up as a netflix original (and kind of wondered why no one else was talking about it here). But I guess it's an actual theatrical release movie in the US? The same thing happened when Annihilation came out.

I have passed over The SInner so many times (like I did with Hannibal). Maybe I should give it a go.

The Netlix Original tag can be quite confusing.

At least Amazon label things like'Amazon Original' and 'Amazon Exclusive' xp

I think they used to tag things where they had exclusive streaming rights in an area as an "exclusive" and now they're just tagging "Netflix Original" on almost everything.

Annihilation is a weird case because they had exclusive rights for every country other than North America, where Paramount still had movie theater distribution

The Sinner was shockingly good. I was really surprised. There's some stuff about the "troubled" cop that's not overwhelming and definitely the least interesting thing about the show but otherwise I really liked it.

Yeah, most of the glut of 'troubled detective investigates disturbing crimez in shady town where nothing and no one are quite what they seem' procedurals are decidedly not for me, but I dug The Sinner.

It very much subverted the tropes of that subgenre, albeit subtly.

I thought it could have been shorter by maybe one episode, but other than that I really had no complaints

I appreciate that by the end of the second season they've presented the roots of Pullman's pathology and that they opted for a relatively believable tragedy/trauma instead of going for something OTT twisted and televisual.

Turn Up Charlie ended really abruptly.

I liked the first two episodes, mainly because I thought there would be more comedy being mined from his loser position, and because I was pleasantly surprised that he wasn't inept with the kid and she didn't hate him. But then it just stopped being funny and started being a sort-of lighthearted drama about a character I realized I wasn't remotely interested in.

Yeah, I wasn't quite sure what to make out of it. We had it on kind of in the background this weekend and all of a sudden it ended and I was like, that was it?

Just watched ep1 of Polish alternative-history drama, '1983', which was promising. Anyone able to comment?

Not yet, but will have a look-see and get back to you.

Good lad.

Watched it months ago - I enjoyed it but wasn't blown away. I liked the premise and the actors were uniformly good, but it just kind of devolved into your average police mystery/conspiracy drama in a Soviet setting.

It's not on there yet, but 'The Edge of Democracy' by Petra Costa is great. Tells the story of the last few years in Brazil, but more than that, it really makes you feel like you're there in a situation spinning out of control. Made me think of 'Battle of Chile' and 'The Hour of the Furnaces'. Yeah, it's - almost, probably - at that level.

Have been watching a lot of Lemony Snicket the last 2 weeks. It took me a little bit to warm up to it (never read the books and I also don't like Neil Patrick) but it's really really good. Now on 3rd season. That baby is the best baby ever.

The baby is totally the best baby! :D
(Also, my brother worked on this show and said the babies irl are also the best!)

i just about died when i saw the trailer for THE SILENCE

https://diezukunft.de/sites/default/files/styles/shop_schaufenster/public/Redaktion/silence-bg.jpg?itok=QT3wTde1

give me good non-shitty examples of apocalyptic end of the world horror films where there's a subplot involving society's vacuum being filled by a fresh new cult of believers in the new world order.

Hearing actress Kiernan Shipka plays the lead character, a deaf ****** who ******* *******. Shipka learned American Sign Language for the role, and director John R. Leonetti said in an interview, "She learned to sign for the film, and now she's flawless, like she's been signing her entire life. She seems to have an almost innate sense of what it's like being a deaf person." Deaf celebrities Nyle DiMarco and Marlee Matlin and other members of the deaf community criticized Leonetti for saying that Shipka learning to sign was synonymous with knowing the culturally deaf experience and for undermining deaf representation by casting a hearing actor. DiMarco also criticized Shipka's ASL grammar, and others pointed out plot holes related to her character being deaf.