Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

hulu is the fucking worst for that, at least on appletv. we added some shows to 'my stuff'. but we're several seasons in, not at the beginning. it does not make it easy to continue watching from the last place you watched, they keep defaulting to the beginning of the series because we didn't watch those on hulu. they also provide no way to make things as 'watched' so it stops doing that.

also, I'll admit it: i thought Gervais' 'Humanity' special was mostly very funny.

medical police funny stuff

Yeah, Medical Police is a good diversion between The Circle, which idk if I like, but am addicted to now

Need the final four episodes stat

Hulu has a weird thing on my Apple TV where it marks shows as mostly-watched - so when I started rewatching You're The Worst, it would continue each episode on at the last minute unless I backed out and said to start from the beginning.

I got about 10 minutes into medical police before I switched it off and decided stabbing myself repeatedly with a fork would be more pleasurable

Hulu has a weird thing on my Apple TV where it marks shows as mostly-watched - so when I started rewatching You're The Worst, it would continue each episode on at the last minute unless I backed out and said to start from the beginning.

first episode of the new david chang is unwatchable due to stoned seth rogen and his v.annoying reflex laugh

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this was the most watchable episode of this show. just a show full of platitudes and cringeworthy as hell (cambodia ep with kate mckinnon when the both of them just keep talking about how amazing the spirit of the cambodian people is to overcome their painful history and how lucky they are over and over was excruciating to me)

I got about 10 minutes into medical police before I switched it off and decided stabbing myself repeatedly with a fork would be more pleasurable

btw ten minutes in it is still pretending to be Children's Hospital season 8, but literally leaves the hospital and becomes something different (but with a similar tone and by the same people) after that

aw now i miss children's hospital

Bourdain wishing a painful death on Kissinger was the only possible good celebrity take on Cambodia.

bourdain otm

Cheer was pretty great! Competition-level cheerleading is a fricken meat grinder!

I watched the first episode of Schitt's Creek and did not laugh once.

cause you forgot your paddle

Cheer is indeed good

The first episode (Schitts), the entire set up is non memorable. Try to keep watching. It's soooooo good. It took me awhile to warm up to the characters and the whole premise but now it is definitely in my top sitcom of all time list.

I've tried with schitt's creek but can never get into it

Schitt's Creek is one of a long line of sitcoms that takes a while (at least a season) to truly find its footing.

Tried three eps and tapped out

xpost I would agree about the one season to get its footing. I think I like it better than Arrested Development now (similar themes). AD just kind of blew its entire legacy with the new netflix episodes. Also I think I like all the actors and characters more in SC.

Nobody else is watching Cheer? Y'all are missing out!

I have Cheer and Spinning Out (effy from Skins) on my queue. But I finally started Watchmen.

I liked Cheer. I hated Gabi’s parents, I loved sweet Jerry, I’m definitely worried about Lexi’s future. The Daytona performance had me incredibly stressed out.

Oooh didn't know about Cheer till this thread, but this looks promising and will queue it up.

Schitt's Creek def better than AD imo, AD is perhaps funnier at its peak but also i have more time for a show w/SC's philosophy nowadays more than I have time for AD's style, and of course SC is also frequently extremely funny. And it's vv clever in treading the line of poking fun at most of its characters while clearly believing that they're all basically decent people. It's a fish-out-of-water premise that makes you buy how the lead characters change over time in terms of seeing what's important while not losing their own personality, and it's extremely good in how it takes great but subtle care to create relationships among everyone that make perfect sense.

Anyone watching Giri/Haji?

I'm a sucker for Kelly Macdonald so another one goes on the queue.

xposts

The Daytona performance had me sweating! I worry about Lexi, but I also felt like they were engaging in some 90s-style anti-rave hysteria at the end. Like, she's going out with friends! OTOH she has a troubling history, so maybe the concern is warranted.

Jerry rules. Gabi's parents are monsters, and I can't believe those bloodsuckers didn't even go to Daytona! Too busy making money off their daughter to attend, I guess. Yuck.

It was also really moving to see La'Darius' brother watching him perform, even though he was very abusive to La'Darius.

Tried three eps and tapped out

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same exact.

Xp yes, La’darius’s bro with the silent tears rolling down his face was quite lovely.

You could clearly see that Gabi was exhausted- she’s been working non stop since she was a little kid and her parents obviously want to push her even further. Her dad is slimey and her mum is clingy.

First ep of Cheer was great, whole family is watching.

I have Cheer and Spinning Out (effy from Skins) on my queue. But I finally started Watchmen.

Lol same (Watchmen is pretty good so far even if I’m still a little lost three episodes in - never read the comics, Snyder movie bored the hell out of me). I will prob watch Cheer after this and Giri/Haji looks good too.

I don't get people who say there's nothing to watch on Netflix or the like. there is so much shit I can barely keep up with my list, let alone actually watch things.

Does Derry Girls improve after episode 1? It was theoretically amusing but I didn't actually laugh once. Not sure if that's just because it was the scene-establishing opener or if it's all like that.

I have never seen Derry Girls, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say “yes”.

Tbh, I think maybe 15% of shows I end up
liking I’m totally sold on after watching just the pilot.

I couldn't get through an episode of Derry Girls.

xpost, yeah, i supplement netflix with some streaming (or like am in a place with HBO right now so can watch Watchmen (also am a bit confused but I did fall asleep during the movie)) but I never run out of stuff on netflix or feel a need to pay for other shit. I would just stop watching tv and wait or more stuff to rotate in. Also, one day I will finish Roma.

I don't see how you can watch Watchmen without having read the comic. Seems crucial to me. Since we're talking about HBO though, halfway through S2 of Succession and it's so incredibly great.

I’ve never read the comic and really enjoyed Watchmen

same. and i am super cooled on marvel/dc stuff.

xps yeah imo Derry Girls is worth 3-4 episodes to see whether you want to keep going, I like it just fine

Spent today watching that Nisman documentary series (about the Argentinian prosecutor who said he had evidence the Kirchner government was covering up for Iran in the Buenos Aires bombing in 1994, and who then mysteriously and bloodily died a few days later). Good watch -- there's a house style to murky documentaries about murky situations these days (attractively portentous ominous music, slow drone shots of cityscapes, etc.), but this really was/is as murky as fuck and I appreciate anything that ends on a 'who the fuck knows' note. Lots of amazing footage of Argentinian news/politics shows though, of which there appear to be eight million and probably all aiming to undercut every other one.

I get how you can enjoy it...but like, there's back-story to these characters that I think impact who they are and how they act now. Not just talking about easter egg stuff.

on the other hand, anyone who cares about the comic wouldn’t watch the show

gonna have to disagree with that.

*sic takes a deep breath*

I just read the wiki about watchmen and then tried to match up who they were in the movie with who they are in the show. Jeremy Irons should've just been a new character named Jeremy Irons who needs his thighs rubbed to power up.

This is also reminding me that the movie was cast on a pile of crazy (though the Breaking Away guy was good in it).

> Anyone watching Giri/Haji?

I have it recorded, will watch it soon (start of the year always seems to be deathly quiet in TV land, so I'm catching up with my backlog)

Schitt's Creek is one of a long line of sitcoms that takes a while (at least a season) to truly find its footing.

I've heard about or experienced this with 30 Rock, The Good Place, Parks and Rec, Community - what is it about comedies that makes this such an issue? I can't think of any dramas where I haven't been sold from the first or second episode.