Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

more so than a shitty guide book i read ~10 years ago which downplayed it in contrast with iceland and only showed a few photos of paddocks

Visitfaroeislands on instagram has amazing pics

bummed to find out Please LIke Me is not available on US netflix

The US channel that showed it basically fully funded the last two series, as not enough people in Australia watched it to keep it going. However, not enough people in America watched that channel to keep it going, so the local rights are probably still tied up with the parent company. (Who make loads of docos and features, but AFAIK the only TV they've sold are uplifting interstitials, produced by Rainn Wilson's "Soul Pancake", to Oprah's OWN network.)

Ugh that sux. We only got thru two seasons. S3 is available on amazon for $15 but not s4.

Xps Airbnb has lots of cottages in tiny villages, which I recommend over staying in one of the few hotels. Tórshavn is the biggest settlement so I’d also avoid that if you want real peace and quiet. We stayed in Funningur the first visit and Elduvík this last visit. Both are about an hour drive from the airport (there’s a bus system but I’d suggest car rental). Tjørnuvík supposedly has the friendliest people but it’s a long single lane road to get there. Viðareiði is really beautiful as well. I want to stay there next time.

The place we stayed in Elduvík was incredible and had a hot tub and amazing views. Owner is nice. Email me if you would like a link to his Airbnb listing Justine at chance press dot com.

Is Please Like Me actually good? I remember it being really irritating and offensively unfunny, so I gave up early on.

Ha, that's my reaction to most hyped comedies as of late.

ha, i just started looking at flights to the faroe islands from edinburgh, although that's not the first time i have. the first time when when i saw photos of the faroe islands lgbt pride march and my mind was boggled.

holy shit Mindhunters is dull

yr dull

:D

i finished chefs table & started ugly delicious but idk if i like it, it’s a bit too “me and my famous friends”

He was such a little bitch about Dominos.

The delivery part I mean.

Is Please Like Me actually good? I remember it being really irritating and offensively unfunny, so I gave up early on.

I loved Please Like Me and I'm pretty tough on things generally. I thought it found an unusually great tonal balance. Josh Thomas can definitely be a bit much (esp at first) but if you quit early you're missing out on the rather stunning "heavy" episodes that come along a little later. There's one that consists entirely of Josh and his mum on a hike in (I think?) the second season that's one of my favorite television episodes of the last decade. My biggest complaint about it is that it ended very abruptly, and at an inopportune time, plotwise.

Will pop this over to the horror thread, but in the meantime I thought "The Ritual" was really good.

(I do not think highly of Please Like Me, but it wasn't relative to helpful information i knew about it)

The Ritual was super fun.

I'm only one episode in but Wild Wild Country is great so far (6 part doc on 1980's Oregon cult).

i have added wild wild country to my watchlist. the rajneesh story is fkn crazytown bananas - i’m interested to see this one.

Omg v excited to know about wild wild country

the trailer they made for that is so perfectly designed for: jeezus, i gotta see that! kudos to trailer makers.

Just inhaled Wild Wild Country and it does not disappoint. I had only vaguely remembered Rajneesh and his fleet of Rolls Royces, what an incredible story, just one bizarre turn after another.

Wild Wild Country: I don't know why, because it's something I should have been all over, but this was a totally new story to me. And getting towards the end of ep 6, very well told indeed and compelling watching.

As I said, because I knew nothing about it I thought after the first couple of eps that it might be an expose of a stitch up - all the Cult members are pretty convincing, especially when the talk turns to possible offences being the blurring of church and state and their lawyer guy says "hey, nobody ever looks into Utah".

But then there's a point where it tips you and a part in ep 4 sums up my opinion:

<state prosecutor tells a story about a conspiracy to do with water supply> "I don't know whether that's true or not but it was told to me by someone who was there."
<cuts to other talking head>
"Yup, those people are crazy."

At the very end, does Sheela's rest home come off a bit like a Dignitas place that she does as a hobby because she likes it?

A friend's mother was in that cult for a while and he actually lived there for some period of time when he was a kid, though he didn't really remember much about it. I imagine he's going to want to watch this.

not sure you'd want to find out what kind of sex rituals your mom was probably getting up to when she left you at daycare

xxp yeah, but maybe a combination of her liking it and some kind of penance

it is odd that this story hasn't persisted the Jonestown and others have, it also means that there are spoilers in the discussion, maybe should move to catch-all cults thread if such a thing exists

the *way* others have

s/o to VG for the recommendation of Chef's Table: Jeong Kwan

i'm kinda thru w/chef stuff but that was some serious spiritual vibes and genuine beauty

i wish i could be at peace

otm

Watching this now! So lovely. Thanks for the rec

I remember being aware of the Rajneeshie thing going on while I was in junior high. Specifically, I remember me and my nerds seeing one of his books at b dalton or w/e and being all haha look there’s a book of that weird cult! (‘the orange book’ iirc). And me buying it with my paper route money to be obnoxious. And then we were on the city bus from downtown St. Paul to downtown Minneapolis with that book out and making jokes about it and an older fellow on the bus saw it and delivered a very stern very concerned lecture to us about how we were playing with fire and reading that book was a danger to our souls. And the next day I started getting freaked out about his speech and furtively tossed the Rajneesh book down a storm drain.

s/o to VG for the recommendation of Chef's Table: Jeong Kwan

i'm kinda thru w/chef stuff but that was some serious spiritual vibes and genuine beauty

i wish i could be at peace

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, March 19, 2018 12:46 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm going to watch the hell out of this

it's the best thing I've watched in a while

it really is remarkably therapeutic. It should autoplay once on everyone's netflix account, like that U2 album on Itunes only not unwanted and crap.

it has very little to do with 'chef-ing' really

do we have a thread where we're discussing the Wild Wild Country docuseries yet, because now that I'm a few episodes in, golly

Babylon Berlin, guys. It's great
(I think everyone on FB has blocked me because I won't shut up about it)

I'm almost finished the whole season it's BANANAS it's so good also v stressful
Like I loved it so much I even briefly looked into learning German for real lol

I tried watching some Chef's Table but the eps I saw were just too insufferably bougie. I think my breaking point was the lady chef who met her husband at some sort of horseriding event lol

I lived in The Dalles, OR during this period and it was extremely surreal (straight down to Bill The Cat joining the Rajneeshi). There was a great 99 PI on this so excited for doc.

I lived in The Dalles, OR during this period and it was extremely surreal (straight down to Bill The Cat joining the Rajneeshi). There was a great 99 PI on this so excited for doc.

I tried watching some Chef's Table but the eps I saw were just too insufferably bougie. I think my breaking point was the lady chef who met her husband at some sort of horseriding event lol

― Simon H., Tuesday, March 20, 2018 10:09 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this episode is different as we just described

'Nailed It' is surprisingly fun, it's the polar opposite of Chef's Table (or Chopped). Amateur bakers who are usually very bad forced to make complicated things, but it has a surprisingly loose, positive vibe.

I've been meaning to check it out, looked like a bit of silly fun

I lived in The Dalles, OR during this period and it was extremely surreal (straight down to Bill The Cat joining the Rajneeshi). There was a great 99 PI on this so excited for doc.

Because I live far away and was a clueless teenager while all this was going on, I kind of can't believe it, even though I'm watching it. I keep waiting for it to turn out to be some War of the Worlds type thing, some really clever fakery.

Sheela really gets this increasingly megalomaniacal look in her eye in the archive footage the more episodes I watch

I've been wondering how this story just sort of evaporated after a few years (nationally anyway) and all I can come up w/ is maybe there was some kind of burnout on communes and cults by the end of the 70s?

yup, speaking as someone who was there (commune kid)

Icarus (the netflix doc that won an oscar this year) is really good. I barely care about sports and it was very interesting and timely (Russia).

sorry to anyone who relates to the people in the doc or has a link to anyone in a group like that in the Wild Wild Country doc. I was being flip, but there's a lot to digest there

my favorite interviewee might be the local guy who is wearing coveralls in the interviews who never comes off as completely critical, just wondering why this all happened in his area. the comment toward the end about the christian youth camp that now uses the space being "a different kind of cult" made me think: yeah, this is my guy