Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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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.

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^^^^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

lads

the scene is feeding us lads?

Thx for the Homecoming rec (starting tonight). I barely look at Amazon Prime videos so would have missed it.

love how 70s lots of homecoming is

lots of the shots are right out of the conversation / columbo playbook

show is really good and probably deserves its own thread

yeah, no spoilers in the general purpose streaming thread ya dummies

Homecoming, a good show on Amazon Prime

so Narcos season 4 is technically a companion series and not a sequel. If you know anything about the real story behind the season it promises to be potentially quite a bit darker than 1-3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBLcYJ7C4F0

Halfway through season 2 of Big Mouth. This is hilarious.

new Narcos looks fun tbh.

hell yah

I like Hasan Minaj's show. Yeah his delivery gets tiring after a while and yeah it's a bit like brown john oliver, but he's funny, what he's discussed, though hardly groundbreaking, has been good, and I think that Amazon ad sealed the deal.

yeah I am enjoying it

it's surprisingly well-thought out and well-written; he's currently the best of the educomedy talk shows. his nonstop wild gesticulating is a bit exhausting but he's almost immediately toning it down so i'm willing to be patient.

On board with new narcos
I don’t seem to get tired of this same story over and over again

Brainchild is good - or at least, appeals to my pedagogic nature. I can see the right hating it - as they always do; it has a minority girl as a presenter, is honest about climate change etc. There are things for the left to hate too - I didn't like the inclusion of marines alongside firefighters etc. as people whose job is to help. It's not necessarily wrong, it just struck me as odd.

But it's a lot of fun for kids who are interested in science - and maybe for those who aren't.

new Mexican Cartel Narcos series delivers the usual lurid entertainment values set by previous seasons (up to ep4). A bit heavy heavy handed the way the only apprentice Cartel underling who get's to be repeatedly called by his name is Chapo, again and again - yeah I got it the first time!

Trailer for mex narcos was great but I bailed 15 minutes into episode 1

Wow quick trigger!

Ain’t nobody got time for that

the scumbag fed voice-over is quite grating, but it is just as much as fun previous seasons as long as you don't take it too seriously.

but in this era of netflix hegemony I'm totally pro quick triggers!

I'm watching The Terror vis a recommendation upthread - thanks! although it's not streaming, i torrented it hence this may not be the best thread for this - but, as a brit, I'm finding it impossible to work out what on earth anyone is saying. I had to turn on the subtitles but watching english language things with EL subtitles takes you out of the thing and makes it weird to watch. Very frustrating.

Amazon and not Netflix, but I think the Romanoffs is quite good, better that some reviews had lead me to suspect. The first one in particular stands as a good indie film completely on it's own. I've been about five; second favorite one is the third with Christina Hendricks co-written by Mary Sweeney. Goofy but entertaining.

Great News really scratches an itch for people hankering after more 30 Rock.

Lol i totally needed subtitles for the Terror too fwiw

Xp

great news is incredibly good. only 23 episodes will exist ever, so it's easy to knock over.

Ha - audio on The Terror was indeed maddening. I'd always watch it after my wife went to sleep and was constantly toggling the volume up and down between the muffled dialogue and loud action scenes. Apparently, I'm not smart enough to turn on subtitles.

watched the girl with all the gifts (2017) on amazon video yesterday and was way more impressed with it than i expected to be - been thinking about it ever since

the setup is almost identical to the videogame the last of us - a troubled girl who may hold the cure to a catastrophic fungus outbreak which has turned most of the world's population into violent zombie-like creatures is transported across dangerous terrain by a ragtag group of survivors - and it borrows from a lot of postapocalyptic fiction but it leads somewhere quite poignant and unexpected

the similarities between the game and the movie are apparently down to the game producers and mike carey, the movie's writer, both seeing a documentary on the brain-controlling cordyceps fungus at the same time and having similar ideas

has a great central performance from newcomer sennia nanua, who plays a very believable mix of sweet vulnerability and unexpected rage, and solid supporting performances from glenn close, paddy considine and gemma arterton

it does an amazing amount of impressive visual effects work for a budget of just £4m, too

anyone else seen it?

it ends like one scene too late, though

I started watching it, but I was just wanting something to half watch while I played a game, and I realized it was going to take more attention than that. Will try agin.

this Dogs show is some tear jerky shit. Is Zeus a celebrity in Berlin now? I think I'd lose my fucking mind if I ran across Ayham and Zeus in the wild.

also...how did they get footage of Ayham's friend crossing the border? Was that a re-enactment? Because I can't imagine it would have been safe to even put one other person there with a camera.

https://i.imgur.com/loqqwrF.jpg

MANIAC

Wait a new season or what??

No, I just watched it. I always end up watching this shit when everyone else has already moved on. I loved it

Also love Dogs

Maniac was great. Trippy, and ultimately warm and humanist.

i was surprised there wasn't a thread for it! but yeah, other than a couple luke-warm episodes in the middle, it was consistently great from start to finish, and i can see myself rewatching it sometime soon.