Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

Something to do with how the character dynamics are developed I would say

Also your familiarity with those dynamics

I guess a lot of comedy comes from the audience having certain expectations so if it relies on anything other than the most generic expectations it's gonna take a while to establish them before they can play with them.

I don't think this nec applies to Parks and Rec (which mainly needed to lose Mark our whatever that guy was called) or The Good Place though.

think there is some Giri/Haji chat on the iPlayer thread

gonna give this Schitt's Creek a whirl. AD was one of my favourite ever shows (s1-3) but I could not get into it at all first time round.

watching Shrill (s1) at the moment, although not on Netflix. It seems much gentler than i was expecting.

those of you with kids might want to try out Inbestigators - it's fantastic.

Sitcoms depends on characters much more than dramas, which can get by on a good plot. So it's easier to write the first season of a drama. Sometimes, even on the best dramas, the characters only really come alive after a while as well. Mad Men is much more plot heavy in the first season, then it can just be character vignettes for several episodes in a row.

I think solid characters are pretty important for dramas, but having likeable characters is maybe more important for comedies(*) and it takes more time to warm to someone.

(*) Please don't confront me with your counterexamples, I have not forgotten them.

My nine year old (and me) love that xps

Also Little Lunch by the same people

the good bits of giri/haji are really really good. there are a few too many coincedences one of which particularly unbelievable, but then the entire set up is not too plausible to start with. has some great performances too and even a little ballet/interpretive dance in the final episode!(which works better than it really should)

i don't know where the AD/SC comparisons came in but they're very different shows. SC is much more a trad sitcom elevated by very good lead actors and sweetness.

Major Cheer development (for those who have watched through it all) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7U9H8VFDan/

30 Rock is funny from the start, though the humor and some of the characters change between the first and second seasons.

Medical Police

AD is really aggressively comical and cynical and referential and busy; SC is way more low-key and humane and wholesome and charming and they feel like total opposites in many ways. My wife loves Schitts Creek and I don't hate it but it rarely makes me laugh exuberantly.

Yerac please give Derry girls another chance. It is so good once it gets going.

Derry Girls is pretty funny and enjoyable.

Dan Levy's expressions of horror and disgust in Schitt's Creek are worth the price of admission alone. Somebody needs to do a supercut of them. They're incredible.

I compared SC and AD because of similar themes. They feel close to me at least.

I also was one that thought of Community and Parks & Rec where I didn't invest time to get past a couple of episodes but hear both shows are good. I don't know about Derry Girls, I know some people love it but I know some people who also hated it. I thought it was the accents but then again I finished all of Top Boy really fast recently.

Dan Levy is so amazing in the show. I love how characters look like they are about to laugh before some lines and I question whether that is just a choice to make the character amused by themselves. I know there is a supercut of Alexis saying 'Daavid-uh."

David, John, and Alexis are walking reaction gifs. And Moira's pronunciations are worth the cost of a Netflix subscription.

I just googled and yeah there are a bunch of articles comparing SC and AD that I am not going to read.

What you did was impulsive, capricious and melodramatic, but it was also wrong.

sorry, dumb question
what is AD?

i cant keep up with the abbreviations lol

Arrested development?

yeah, i think we all got tired of writing it out.

Xps I saw that Lexi update on Twitter this morning and am SO happy for her

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She’s back at Navarro

So how many years can they stay at a 2-year JuCo?

I started watching Cheer and found the first couple episodes suprisingly drama-free. Does it stay like that? Like, we get it for the hundredth time, it's not your mother's cheerleading, its a legit sport, these are real athletes! etc.

For juco culture clash and intense drama Last Chance U might have raised the bar too high for me...plus it was so beautifully shot and edited. If you're watching Cheer and haven't seen it yet you really should.

(FWIW I'm not the least bit intersted in football, college or otherwise, but it didn't matter)

Cheer was the same producers at Last Chance U.

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A'ight, I had been a skeptic about Schitt's Creek because it's on some no-name cable channel and because, as much as I love them, Levy and O'Hara have done their share of garbage and...that name. Started it last night, kinda ehhhhhh for a couple episodes there, not really feelin' it, but I'd come around by the end of the evening when we probably rewatched that goddamn fruit wine commercial three or four times and died every time. Seems like a pretty great ensemble, already loving Levy's son.