Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Oh we're doing this? :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkOguZfNJUo

it's another way Netflix rorts writers, along with no residuals and cancelling shows after 3 seasons - pay rates are basically set at "web video" levels, not "tv episode" levels, when they're that short

it could be this is true i have no expertise in this area except to note that a) Netflix has green lit plenty of 30m + 60m length shows and b) 15m programming has been done to tremendous affect before (adult swim uses this format a lot) and there are great reasons to use it that have nothing to do with trying to screw writer.

I said I totally endorse it creatively

I finished all of I Think You Should Leave. There were a few good sketches but overall not my thing. A friend's gf was in one of the worst segments and I felt really bad.

I feel like I often agree with the recs here especially the comedic ones but I got through 4 sketches and had to turn that shit off. If that guy said "mudpie" one more time I was going to throw something at the damn TV.

Yeah, that's about as far as I made it too. I guess it's not for me.

idk if you guys are charitable and wanna give it another shot, i'd skip to episode 5, which has 2 or 3 of the best sketches in the show.

The third episode was my absolute favourite. The car pitching sketch was inspired and very weird.

Also, though I loathe toilet humour, the insistence of using the word ‘mudpie’ throughout the entire show somehow built into something almost endearingly desperate.

I didn’t love the whole thing, but the two or three good sketches every episode made it watchable.

I hate toilet humor, but I love Tim Robinson, so it's a tough haul for me.

life in general I mean, because Tim's always all about toilet humor, but I'm not going anywhere.

well, the good news is there was no way of ethically watching Netflix-owned content on Netflix streaming in the first place

That is... good news?
Anyhow, thanks for all that info. V interesting.

sorry if this was mentioned already but the excellent 2018 Korean movie Burning (loosely based on a Murakami short story) is up on Netflix. all three stars are amazing, including Steven Yeun from The Walking Dead (and the gift receipt sketch in I Think You Should Leave). highly recommended, especially if you don't mind leisurely-paced movies.

Steven Yeun from The Walking Dead (and the gift receipt sketch in I Think You Should Leave)

lol, I hope historians remember Steven Yuen as the guy from the gift receipt sketch.

Here lies Steven Yuen, he did the mud pie.

Burning is great, yes.

i think you should leave seemed extremely variable. episode two was fifteen minutes i want back, episode three was pretty great. but i haven't much desire to see episode four. *shrug*

i watched burning last night! It's fucking amazing.

Just started KINGDOM, the Korean historical zombie thing, surprisingly beautiful cinematography in parts, overall promising

And hats

Steven Yeun from The Walking Dead (and the gift receipt sketch in I Think You Should Leave)

He also voices Speckles in Tuca & Bertie

THE WANDERING EARTH (流浪地球)

outlaw / king was *pret-t-ty* deece(nt) ... better than modern day GoT, even

Took me a few episodes to get into Tuca and Bertie but it hits its stride and is really funny by the middle of the series.

Easy is like Rohmer catnip for me, so I'm really looking forward to the new season.

Tuca & Bertie is pretty great

yeah it really picks up. as much a follow-up to broad city as bojack. also reminded me of mtv's downtown

I enjoyed all of Wine Country except the awful, awful, green-screened inspirational scene on the hill, which made me retrospectively dislike the rest of the film.

The trailer for that looked insufferable, like an improv-heavy Nancy Myers movie.

I thought it was better than the trailer. But hey, I am a 49-year-old woman who has been away on a lot of booze-heavy girls' weekends, so I am definitely the target market for it.

Wine Country was not very funny which was weird considering how many incredibly funny people are in it and wrote it. It's def not terrible, just more serious and less funny than I hoped.

I only saw it the one time but I was of the opinion that "Bridesmaids" would have been a much better drama, but instead it felt like all these jokes were just sort of shoved in there to will it into a comedy. Is this like that? Forcing in broad jokes, whether pratfalls or poop humor, doesn't always work imo when the material calls for a subtler approach.

Only got about half way into wine country, akm otm.

I just rewatched Bridesmaids again a couple of weeks ago for the first time since it came out. It was funnier than I remember, the mass food poisoning in fancy dresses still a winner. I would've hated for it to be a serious drama. Mostly because everything about bridal party rituals is farcical

Maybe my perspective is one of the half-empty variety in this case, because I thought in that movie Wiig gives a really impressive dramatic performance, but set pieces like the food poisoning seemed to be shoehorned in from a more standard comedy.

The entire movie has really silly parts. I forgot a lot of people were in it like Ellie Kemper and Melissa McCarthy.

I am halfway through Wine Country and it's reminding me of all those I think Adam Sandler? + Friends movies that were all set in tropical destinations, an excuse to make money while in a holiday location in exchange for a presentable movie. Add in the netflix handicap.

I did forget Ellie Kemper is in it, but not Melissa McCarthy, she has some of the most memorable scenes

Was a star-making performance. Shame she squanders her talents in all those terrible movies directed by her husband

And the food poisoning scene is excellent.

The only reason I am glad I finished Wine Country was for the bar wifi password joke.

There’s a documentary on there about a guy who appeared on The Price Is Right a whole bunch and I’d be completely unsurprised if he had any financing in that.

I kinda liked Wine Country. It’s flat & undercooked but there’s a lot of things in it that I liked, the types of women that they were & the way they didnt deal w their feelings was kinda relatable for me. plus I am ovulating so my antenna is up for any kind of emotional journey, good bad or average.
And Paula Pell is the best.

i liked it a lot.

i it went a bit deeper than movies like that tend to go which i liked, like it wasnt just a total improv yukfest

I kind of liked it - it was looser and more "here is a truthbomb"y than I expected - but it wasn't that funny. tarot scene was a bit of a waste/ cliche. that said I liked the early calling on our assumptions (mainly by Tina Fey) that the trip was gonna be a bitchfest.
also i have been that dozy irritable person on the last part of a wine country bus tour, lol.

I also really enjoyed the Fran Fine part.

Interesting marketing fail: my wife assumed it was a theatrical release.

i did not get the Fran thing at all but I still liked it the best

Interesting marketing fail: my wife assumed it was a theatrical release.

It came out two days earlier in limited release, and is showing in South Barrington.

Where is that, Australia?

South Barrington is a wealthy suburb of Chicago and the location of the famous megachurch Willow Creek Community Church. The Arboretum of South Barrington is a lifestyle center (shopping center) located within the village limits.

Huh. And they show Netflix movies? Why there?