Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

My local library is too crappy for Kanopy, unfortunately.

aw! FYI for thread tho

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I assigned BPM in my film class, and it was on Kanopy last week. Better be now! Papers due tomorrow.

this is prime and not netflix, but i can’t see a thread so i’m putting it here: homecoming is the best tv drama i’ve seen in years

I'm cool with this being the de facto streaming thread

Thanks! We got through about 5 minutes last night and she said it was freaking her out. We went ended up watching the first two episodes of Hilda (which we both loved).

If you've also got Amazon you should totally watch Gortimer Gibbons with her - amazing kids show.

Hilda is really wonderful

I'm enjoying homecoming. I like the long drawn out endings.

the cinematography is breathtaking. the whole series is properly a work of art.

There are a couple of bits which struck me as very 'Breaking Bad' - though,, of course, Breaking Bad probably wasn't the first show to show the life cycle of drugs as they're manufacturing.

The deflated endings kind of reminded me of some of the stuff Lynch did in the new TP.

yes! a lot of this show felt like the new twin peaks, especially the super-subtle camerawork/effects/focus techniques when things happened changed (especially one highly specific scene which i won’t mention here but is near the end of episode 8)

also i think the presence of julia roberts might have turned off a lot of people, but she’s actually really great and this is in no way a typical julia roberts vehicle

(as in, it’s not a cheesy romcom or a light drama)

The schlubby investigator without much personality is awesome.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Roberts - she's pretty good at kind-of-crying, holding it in, but other than that.

I don't dislike her.

yeah, she’s definitely not the best performer but she still does a fine job, and her casting plays with the audience in a way they couldn’t have done with most other people in that role

you guys are making it sound good, but I don't think I could take another Esmail joint after that last one.

this one’s just over five hours in total, if that helps

I like the DOD guy's magnetic glasses.

is Mr Robot over? I never got past the first season.

I haven't watched any of it! I liked this, though. But I find the ending...problematic (seems to be a trend with me atm).

I'm w calzino on this -- the Sam Esmail involvement gives me pause

I didn't mind because I'm not sure I've seen anything else he's done...

This is interesting. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8482923/homecoming-score-soundtrack-amazon-series-julia-roberts-music

Using existing scores from such films as The French Connection, Body Heat, Capricorn One, The Eiger Sanction and All The President's Men involved clearing the music with the original rights holders and figuring out a fair licensing price. Since these scores were mainly recorded by union musicians, it also meant working with the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) to find the musicians who played on the sessions to make sure they got paid.

Yeah, the soundtrack was often retro/reminiscent of old stuff. Plus Leonard Cohen!

I didn't know anything about this series until you guys started talking about. I loved Season 1 of Mr. Robot (haven't caught up past that yet) so maybe I'll give Homecoming a shot.

Here are my reviews of the first four episodes of Homecoming.

Ep1: Meh
Ep2: huh?
Ep3: ooooooh
Ep4: WOOooOoOOooah?

OUTLAW KING: surprisingly not-bad

chris pine’s penis delivered a creditable performance fwiw

his penis is the talk of the town!

hollywood’s brightest new star: chris pine’s junk

the "pine needle"

more of a pine cone rly cuz it’s designed to deliver seed

TREKKER'S TALLYWACKER IS TOAST OF TINSELTOWN

STICKS NIX DICK PIX

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S06E02/741757.jpg?b64lines=IExJS0UsIE9ILCBJIERPTidUIEtOT1cuCiBjaHJpcyBwaW5lLiByaWNoIHBlbmlzLg==

don’t ruin this for me

rich, oaky penis

pretty sick stuff itt he is a human being

with a human penis

creepy itt

Worth watching the John Leguizamo 'Latin Peoples History for Morons' one off show although there are certainly some 'problematic' moments among the scatter of lols and mostly enervating feelage.

lost me at leguizamo

dowd and AA, did you both realise that there's another (very strange) scene after the end credits of the last episode of Homecoming?

This was great, thanks for recommending. almost everything about it is interesting - the acting, the casting, the cinematography and the production design.

dowd and AA, did you both realise that there's another (very strange) scene after the end credits of the last episode of Homecoming?

yes! and it’s probably the twin-peakiest thing about a vaguely twin-peaky show.

SPOILER REDACTED

^^^^SPOILERS^^^^^

Crap, probably shouldn't have said even that. a mod can delete it if they like.

probably not spoilers to say this show already has a second series on the way, so that scene is clearly feeding us something