Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Has anyone watched Suburra the film? I haven't watched it yet but Instantwacher says its available to stream. Netflix is making a series of it apparently. The book just came out in the US which I'm looking forward to. Modern mafia/political corruption thriller set in/near Rome.

― ian, Sunday, August 27, 2017 11:04 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i finished the book (excellent!) and just watched the film last night. i wasn't a huge fan, it completely removed several lead characters and storylines from the book and completely altered the storylines for other characters (basically made up new characters and slapped names from the book on them.) it made the story a lot more pedestrian and less ambitious and yet somehow more confusing. it downplayed the political angle so much that the stakes were entirely missing, in favor of random gang-on-gang ultraviolence. i mean it has nothing in common with the book except for a couple of violent events that set things off, the basic premise of a major coastal project underway, and the character names. it's pretty mediocre.

I am so late to the game (prolly because I read one bad review early on) but I just finished season 1 of Better Call Saul. So, so good.

And it gets even better!

the netflix world we live in is kinda hard to keep up with, on AVClub i just saw a post titled "Watch the trailer for season 4 of Netflix's Black Mirror" right below a post titled "Black Mirror ends its fourth season with a dud"

Bright was not. It was, however, not nearly as bad as a lot of other things that critics neglected to anoint as the worst film of the year. It's a Harry Potter buddy cop movie with Will Smith playing his character from the Bad Boys movies. It's fine, it doesn't sell itself as anything else other than exactly what's on the label.

I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore is like a quirky, tense AMC crime drama condensed into a film, and is a blast. Casting is all good, even with Frodo - I especially loved Melanie Lynskey in the lead.

Should there be a separate thread for Netflix's in-house movie productions? I feel like it's due.

I feel like the previous post doesn't recommend I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore as strongly as it should have. I highly recommend IDFAHITWA. IDFAHITWA for all. For all, IDFAHITWA.

here's to 90 years of netflix and chill:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSdhmxpW4AA14sO.jpg

I agree with the sentiment at the end of this LA Times review, though I don’t think watching it in a crowd of only two diminished our experience all that much.

And also, too, its rooting interest — its ability to take familiar material and mine from it the kind of bracingly pulpy narrative pleasures that are best appreciated in the company of a crowd.

I say this having first seen “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore” less than a month ago at Sundance, where it won the grand jury prize in the U.S. dramatic competition. Admittedly, the excitement of seeing Blair’s movie with about 1,200 other eagerly attentive festival-goers would be tough to replicate even in the grandest commercial venue, which doesn’t make it any less of a shame that this Netflix original production — an audience picture through and through — isn’t even getting the chance.

Oh and if it hasn’t been mentioned yet, ICARUS is fucking amazing. Fucking Russians, man.

I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore is like a quirky, tense AMC crime drama condensed into a film, and is a blast. Casting is all good, even with Frodo - I especially loved Melanie Lynskey in the lead.

really really enjoyed that film.

i finished up GOMORRA and season 2 got better as it went along. Boy, that sure took a dark turn in the last couple episodes! I guess I'm a little weirded out by the fact that Don Pietro is portrayed by an actor only a couple years older than i am. i also was a little weirded out by his relationship w/Patrizia, since i didn't believe she'd go for him for one second.

SUBURRA: BLOOD ON ROME is thus far a lot better than the film. the latter felt like a watered-down version of a very dense novel, the show feels more like the novel. odd to see some of the same characters from the film pop up here, knowing how some of them wind up.

The Invisible Guest is a fun one.

Icarus is a pretty amazing story, I finally watched it last night. As with ARD drama on this issue, all I can think now is- "there are people and families still in real danger RIGHT NOW and I hope they get through," regardless of flaws or culpability.

To Walk Invisible: Bronte Sisters is on Amazon Prime & guys it’s so good I bawled my eyes out
Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley) wrote & directed it and god bless her for giving the sisters such a worthy telling of their story
It’s really great
*blows nose loudly into another kleenex*

Man I would watch that
I hate being too poor to afford multiple streaming services

Discovery's back, the same old combination of immense watchability and poor storytelling

i don't feel at home in the world anymore is really cool, thanks for the recommendation

mentioned this on the rolling comic thread but the well received series adaptation of the Fantagraphics comic book 'The End of the F***ing World' by Charles Forsman (which i liked pretty well as the comic book 'TEOTFW' tho it is unsurprisingly hella nihilist) is now on US netflix. Have not yet watched, would love a push if anybody wants to try and reply?
https://www.netflix.com/title/80175722
http://www.tcj.com/reviews/the-end-of-the-fucking-world/
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-end-of-the-fing-world-review-netflix/549656/

fantagraphics fucking rule

I watched The End of the F... this weekend. I didn't know anything about it but enjoyed it. I thought the two leads did very well. Where is it supposed to be set? I was trying to look up filming locations but couldn't find anything.

The Voyeur was pretty interesting but had so many gaps. Like what was the deal with the murder he supposedly witnessed? The only thing the fact checkers could find was a similar murder around the same time - but occurred at a different motel?? And there was a v brief mention of Gerald’s drug addict son but what did his kids - and Anita’s kids - think about all this shit?

The dude claimed to be a researcher (lol) and kept all these notes, but he had 3 yrs of notes regarding the spying before he even bought the motel - his claim that he simply inverted the 9 when referring to when he purchased the place makes no sense.

Anyone watched Dark?

I've heard a few people say it's very good.

some discussion over on the non-English Netflix thread iirc

Enjoyed the hell out of The Bar, a ridiculously entertaining Spanish horror/thriller set in a Madrid pub. It does a great job making some wild twists and reveals feel organic.

Oh, I watched that too. I kind of was disappointed though that they weren't stuck in the bar for the entire duration of the movie.

The Seinfeld show, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, is on Netflix now. Started watching a couple episodes. Julia Louis-Dreyfus was unsurprisingly very funny.

I watched The End of the F... this weekend. I didn't know anything about it but enjoyed it. I thought the two leads did very well. Where is it supposed to be set? I was trying to look up filming locations but couldn't find anything.

― Yerac, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 12:46 AM (nine hours ago)

I likes this too primarily because of the performance by the kids

jim carrey a mess on seinfeld's new netflix show

carrey's *

Yeah he’s gone deep into New Age-y shit in a way that signals “looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets”. That creepy shroud surrounding his young ex-gf killing herself a few years ago certainly feeding that impression.

cleanse definitely not helping his psychosis

Macon Blair (director of I Don't Feel at Home in this World Anymore) plays the lead dude in Mustang Island. I thought it was excellent, reminded me of Stranger Than Paradise. Between these two and Blue Ruin, which was also great, I'm thinking this Macon Blair dude is not a bad dude.

the end of the f***ing world is great, thanks for the rec

Polka King is pretty great

watched the documentary last night, there wasn't enough polka

lol

i should watch the doc, i never knew any of the story.

tbh the movie makes it a bit more lighthearted than i think it should have been.

xp yeah, i'm liking TEOTFW too.

the "toys that made us" doc series is kinda too perfect for me unfortunately

"Toys..." is actually pretty interesting once you successfully hold your nose through the opening credit sequence.

yeah "Toys" somehow smuggles a pretty damning exposé of toy companies' sleazy corporate practices and gross channelling of children's imaginations into irrational consumerism under chipper "I <3 the 80s" breezily glib narration. The obligatory final minutes of hagiography read as deeply ironic in each case, though I have genuinely no clue what the creators were actually trying to achieve. A friend got me to watch it by describing the He-Man episode as "chilling." Recommended if you are 39 years old.

the sexism and xenophobia of the guys who started the lines is blatant as hell too

a fact i did not know until last night: the star wars toys have made more money than the movies and lucas approached the creation of the films with primary interest as a toy line. i had NO idea he got a direct cut of sales off the toys; that's got to be unprecedented.

lucas approached the creation of the films with primary interest as a toy line. i had NO idea he got a direct cut of sales off the toys; that's got to be unprecdented

I don't think the first part is true but yes, the merchandising deal was unusual

The Barbie one has a lot of sleaze too! One of the creators was fired from her own company for fraud; the other got a Star Wars-size royalty agreement, married Zsa Zsa Gabor and built a castle with 150 telephones and a railway and orgies.

life aspirations

Started watching Lovesick this morning
already blown through 1st season
it’s very good - reminds me a lot of late 90’s shows like Cold Feet or This Life. Def resembles This Life the most tho - Dylan definitely has Egg qualities ie terminally cute. It’s very well written. Lots of layers

I've been watching SUBURRA: BLOOD ON ROME, and it's a lot better than the film. I'm still a little weirded out how they turned the novel's primary antagonist "Samurai" from a guy who--as written in the book--seems more like a slightly effete version of David Carradine in Kill Bill than he did this sort of professorial sociopath. The recast of the role works wonders though; in the film the character seemed a bit more worried all the time rather than a guy people should worry about, whereas here he seems as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Nothing in the series quite jibes with the simplistic and easy manner in which the characters shared with the film come to their fates, which makes me wish they'd never made the damn movie in the first place because everyone in the series is more interesting, even the same characters played by the same actors.

Claudia Gerini is exceptionally good, probably the best out of a great cast overall (aside from the guy who plays Spadino maybe.)

yeah i liked him

just getting started with the gomorrah series

alyssa bringing to mind sheryl lee when she changes her hair in the show

I'm enjoying Voltron: Legendary Defender way too much, on the basis of 1. Rhys Darby, 2. Chunk's dialogue and 3. I kinda married Pidge IRL

"I'M A LEG!"