Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

There's a thread! But you're right. Shares Thirteen Reasons Why's tendency towards the good 70s and 80s. When Ultravox and The The started playing I flipped

(I mean the early, punkish Ultravox!)

So I gotta say, I gave that jawn Ragnarok a try and...it was kinda good? Apart from clearly not being anywhere near being teenagers, the leads seem amazingly well cast in their physicality & presentation. Idk where they found the actor who plays Magne and who has the biggest, block-of-woodiest head I have ever seen. And idk if it's a spoiler alert, but if his brother turns out to *also* be the reincarnation of a Norse god, he's excellently set up for it too.

It's filmed and set in Norway but was written by a Dane, and apparently it wasn't well received in Norway because they thought it was "too Danish"???! lol amazing

Also frankly Norwegian is trippy. Sometimes I can basically almost understand it--thanks, Angles!

From my take post ep 6, Kenny and Kelly is the only relationship with legs

might want to hold off on this one

I read a bit about Happy Valley s.3 and it does seem that the initial delay around it was because of Norton's availability but because the delay grew so long Sally W. changed her ideas around it to focus very heavily on the child and that he had to be older for her idea to make sense. I can't quite remember but the last scene of s.2 seemed to be the characters taking a walk into the moors and then the child saying something very ominous that threw Sarah Lancashire's character off.

― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Thursday, February 20, 2020 3:56 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

if i remember rightly the kid doesn't say anything. but catherine has just been talking to the mother of the the serial/rapist murderer who reveals that she had shielded her son from society to try and stop him becoming like his father (who was also her father, who raped her), but he had ended up taking after his father anyway. so catherine is looking at the wee man with a worried expression, because she is worried he will end up like his dad.

I watched Dirty John this week, clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel but I love Connie Britton, even though here she plays the most naive woman on earth.

Then I started watching The Stranger last night and I seriously have to reconsider how I spend my time.

even though here she plays the most naive woman on earth.

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-dirty-john/

Then I started watching The Stranger last night and I seriously have to reconsider how I spend my time.

ha, exactly!

I've been exposed to enough of the televisual trash Netflix generally traffics in at this point that I need to hear a pretty overwhelming torrent of praise to feel okay about intentionally starting one of these things. I'm still waiting for like another dozen of you to big-up Sex Education before I finally relax my standard side-eye.

Didn't I read that they're dropping something like four new series every Friday? The quality control has to be pretty much nonexistent at this point if that's anywhere near the case.

i thought sex education was terrible if that's any help

you should watch sex education. It's really good and different and Gillian Anderson!

i still think even the bad shows on netflix are better than the trash i've been seeing on regular tv. I just took The Stranger off my list because of the posts above.

but i also like any shows/movies about teens/hs/college. and they treat the adults in the show well.

it does scratch my pet-peeve of being a show set in britain that pretends britain is america

anyone seen Narcos Mexico, Season 2 yet? I love this fed-loving US propaganda shite. What about Hunters as well? Al Pacino playing a nazi hunter! Sounds intriguing.

it does scratch my pet-peeve of being a show set in britain that pretends britain is america

― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 21 February 2020 20:46 (thirty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

to a ludicrous, deliberate and operatic level!

the entire series reeks of there being wall to wall carpet in the bathrooms so there is never a doubt for me that it is in britain.

Lol yeah the house decor is all 1970s UK

Didn't I read that they're dropping something like four new series every Friday?

Does this mean 'dropping' as in 'getting rid of' or as in 'presenting us with'? I'm assuming the latter but you know what they say about assuming

xps 7 or 8 episodes into the new Narcos and it's been pretty good so far and much better than S1

I watched Dirty John this week, clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel but I love Connie Britton, even though here she plays the most naive woman on earth.

Then I started watching The Stranger last night and I seriously have to reconsider how I spend my time.

― akm, Friday, February 21, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

lol yeah Dirty John was p much unwatchable but since it was a true story and I didnt know anything about it or how it ended I decided to finish it.

xxpost The latter. I mean, I haven't kept track on a week-by-week basis myself, but there sure are suddenly hundreds of shows on there I've never heard of before.

A cursory glance at instantwatcher.com and, sure enough, I see images for four new series up today with the big red letter 'N' in the left-hand corner.

Mr. Right has Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick, Ziggy from the Wire and RZA but is nevertheless absolute garbage

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HlmkL65a6QI

The Stranger is tacky in a most incredible way.

I can't believe I just watched all of The Circle. As far as reality gameshows, it was ok, probably because the cast was good.

Starting a rewatch of Babylon Berlin in anticipation of season 3 coming March 3. It's still awesome.

yes! i was thinking of doing that too!
very excited for its return

Also Jakob is a babe.

Also Jakob is a babe.

Also Jakob is a babe.

Well I definitely did not mean to post that three times whoops.

Nor did I mean to even post it itt. Lol. I clearly need coffee.

I can't believe I just watched all of The Circle. As far as reality gameshows, it was ok, probably because the cast was good.

― Yerac, Monday, 24 February 2020 03:14 (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

:D

Which series though? 2 probably beats 1. It's close though

only the first one is on netflix? I was liberally using the 10 second skip ahead button and basically got through it in two days very easily.

I want to go on it next year with my avatar literally a robot

The Netflix version is the US one, not the British one LJ.

Oh god oh no

(Will probably still watch it)

yeah this was season 1 of the US? I thought it was going to be horrible because social media and the US and reality tv... but it was fine. Less trashy than I expected.

it's like 3rd wave reality tv contests. Is that a thing already? they are all so meta aware of the best personalities and relationships and pivots to make but still also really bad at trivia and still too vain.

it looks like that Al Pacino vehicle Hunters is about Tarantino style comic Nazi hunters and has ended up offending some and the wider consensus is mainly that dodgy premise aside it is complete garbage. I'm enjoying the new Narcos. Young El Chapo as innocuous village idiot is quite amusing.

Starting a rewatch of Babylon Berlin in anticipation of season 3 coming March 3. It's still awesome.

OH FINALLY!!!!

xp. my gf is watching it and it seems to be pish. I'm not too offended by it but i don't feel comfortable with the holocaust being used to add emotional heft to workaday tv

Actually Hunters is fantastic and it’s on Prime

Forgot xposts

It’s has it Tarantino moments but Jordan peels def comes through as ep

Peele FFS

So can we talk about the end of The Stranger? With redactions but still possible SPOILERS: obv it was nonsense but I liked the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Only one major plot hole of concern (ignoring ludicrous coincidences and daft behaviours): so they framed [redacted] for the deaths of [redacted] and [redacted]? How would that work? He had no motive for one, no motive and absolutely no opportunity for the other.

Guys

LOVE IS BLIND