Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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yup, it is free with commercials and also shows up as a “channel” or as selections in the amazon apps since amazon owns imdb

is prime required?

No I don’t think so

I only discovered it because I was looking to rewatch It Follows, and that’s the only place it’s streaming for free

US only though (even though it used to be the cardiff internet movie database).

Good god, Hall in Safe. That British accent is major fail.

one blessing in disguise is that E.R. seems to be left behind

Isn't there a friends episode that crosses over with this, with George Clooney's character going on a date with Rachel or Monica?

Sort of. Some of the ER guys (Clooney, Wylie, and ?) played New York doctors who went on a triple date w/the Friends ladies.

Actually just Clooney & Wyle

https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/george-clooney_0.jpg?w=612

It's quite funny to see so much chat on my Twitter timeline about The Last Czars, as if it in some way compared to The Crown. In fact it's a pretty cheap dramatized documentary of the type that BBCs Two and Four have been slinging for years, complete with actors from Casualty, Corrie, and Still Game.

And a Rasputin who apparently spent a lot of his life living in Sheffield

i imagine pushing that docudrama thing by netflix was a delayed response to the Romanoffs on Prime which really didn't generate all that much buzz (I liked most of it)

I had to give it up after the second instance of Simon Geebag Montefiore voicing over Rasputin fingering someone.

Finally got around to a handful of I Think You Should Leave episodes. I love it! A bunch of it is obviously inspired by Tim & Eric and Mr. Show depending on the sketch in question, but I like the fact that they generally unfold in weird unpredictable ways. To the point that you wonder how they wrote it (unless there are varying degrees of improv), because otherwise there would probably have to be a lot of trust in Tim to make it work beyond the base premise/script.

i watched a couple of episodes of that too and was perplexed by the abundant usage of the term "mud pie"
wtf

That seems to dissipate after the first episode or two.

I Think You Should Leave made me seek out Detroiters which is maybe better and definitely...sweeter? for lack of a better word

i watched a couple of episodes of that too and was perplexed by the abundant usage of the term "mud pie"
wtf

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, July 8, 2019 10:44 AM (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

See this falls under Tim & Eric. They had certain recurring names for things in their universe that would show up in multiple sketches like "pep-pep".

Mud pie seemed a little forced for sure.

Loved the Tim Heidecker sketch. I've definitely met people like that before. They just expect everyone to have a niche knowledge base or they pretend that just to fabricate situations where they appear more intellectual and superior. Maybe I'm thinking of certain ilxor conversations!

Best thing about this show is the way they have the "straight man" characters suddenly buy into the crazy somewhere along the line.

Oh! I remembered which sketch I had in mind- the one about the ideas for car features... I mean that must have looked terrible on paper, but I feel like they pulled it off! So odd though.

I guess as someone who's proposed unconventional ideas for things that conceivably work as imagined in my head but are really hard to sell when described and are therefore scrapped, I'm very impressed.

please feel free to discuss the show on this thread i made for it: i think you should leave with tim robinson

it is probably the richest most rewatchable sketch comedy show i've seen since mr. show (admittedly i have yet to watch detroiters)

also

Loved the Tim Heidecker sketch. I've definitely met people like that before. They just expect everyone to have a niche knowledge base or they pretend that just to fabricate situations where they appear more intellectual and superior. Maybe I'm thinking of certain ilxor conversations!

yep!!!!

oh, thanks! Will bring it there.

detroiters is a sitcom, not sketch, brad, but you should definitely watch. lots of the weirdo energy of ITYSL shows up in the local news segments and ads in detroiters.

it's the best show I've ever seen. Somewhere between The Wire and Deadwood.

detroiters is a sitcom, not sketch, brad, but you should definitely watch. lots of the weirdo energy of ITYSL shows up in the local news segments and ads in detroiters.

― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Monday, July 8, 2019 9:32 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol i looked it up afterward and nearly corrected myself. also my friends from michigan were raving about those segments and ads when it was on the air

The serie on Versace is pretty ace if you realize half it is made up. 🙄

watching the Korean palace intrigue + zombies series Kingdom and it's very good, looks amazing and has some interesting twists on the usual zombie genre tropes. also it's only 6 episodes long (w/a second season coming at some point) so it doesn't overstay its welcome and stretch the story too thin.

Yeah, surprisingly good, that one

I just watched Booksmart not knowing anything about it. I really liked it.

I kind of liked that Thom Yorke thing, despite not really being a Radiohead guy. Sort of reminded me of Holy Motors?

Is "Booksmart" streaming anywhere yet? Thought it was still in theaters.

the world is not the united states of america fyi

(it's been on netflix in France for about a fortnight. Shaft 5 went on euro netflix about a week after it lurched awkwardly into US cinemas too)

^^^It's showing up as a netflix presents in france xpost. Is Shaft also a new movie? It is also on netflix in Chile. I thought it was a weird new netflix series.

Shaft is the fifth movie in the Shaft Cinematic Universe, and the third to be called Shaft, despite there still being several unused titles from the novels. It is still in theatres in the US, came out a few weeks ago.

This was a timely article on why so many people watch Friends.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-revealing-reasons-that-people-visit-the-friends-building?fbclid=IwAR290_cnuk_iYJhb_sVEk0Gi5JN7CtHD47fa_EnqXX6l6HddpUpGWdCFPgs

The new Shaft movie got an extremely brief UK cinema release recently, as well as some extremely negative reviews:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/13/shaft-review-samuel-l-jackson-jessie-t-usher

Can anyone recommend any good kids shows?

Mine are working their way through the dubbed "Go! Live Your Way" at the moment and it's driving me insane.

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you're making it worse

“It’s just nice for younger people to see what life was like,” she said, as if describing Pompeii. “Before we just had, like, devices all the time, and we were always on iPads and stuff.”

Feel like this article pretty much cracks the code re: the popularity of Friends among the younger set. Something in that arena, anyway. Imagine never knowing a time before people were constantly absorbed in some handheld device or another. Depressing af.

yeah before that we were just regular old self-absorbed

Meeeemories

I feel like Shaft hasn't even come out in the the US yet. Or maybe it did last week? Anyway, digital release anywhere in the world means it's now on the bay of pirates.

It came out June 14th and flopped so hard it wasn't even around for the July 4th weekend in a lot of areas

Oh y'know I think I totally conflated the new Shaft with that Superfly remake that I remember seeing advertised but about whose actual release I have no memory whatsoever.

superfly was last year

Can anyone recommend any good kids shows?

Hilda is fantastic