Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

got 2 eps left of Halt & Catch Fire and I've really enjoyed the whole trip and I'm going to be sad when there's none left.

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Hey @PFTompkins, I was inspired by your acapella. Here’s your “Halt and Catch Fire” theme with the music it deserves. pic.twitter.com/ZRLc8g8VHk

— D/A/D (@zachrobinson) January 28, 2018

excellent!

I was kind of enthused by the fact the soundtrack has the theme song, because I thought it'd be an extended version

but it's the exact length of the opening credits!

personally i throw an Ozzy "AY AY AY" ala crazy train in there. i'm probably not the only one.

That final stretch of H&CF is so good. Glad it got to end strong, but I grew to love those characters so much I would have happily taken another three seasons of it spinning its wheels

I can't believe we're only six episodes from the end. I want to stop watching now, so that it's just perfectly preserved forever for me.

(I also can't believe I didn't realise until the middle of season three that Scoot McNairy is the bloke from Monsters. Very poor. Knowing what people were in is normally my forte.)

I don't think we've talked about Dirty Money yet? I'm only two episodes in but it's great. I am somewhat apprehensive about the dramatized scenes, especially with the monkeys in the first episode.

Just caught up with EOTFW, it's a good as everyone says, some amazing performances too - the girl, the Irish dad, the sweet idiot at the garage.

i was allergic to the first 5 minutes

I knew Altered Carbon had the potential to be a guilty pleasure if they didn’t botch it too badly, and I gotta say, enjoying it so far

yeah, same

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Same! It has a lot of "edgy" signifiers. I thought it would be another one of those heartless shows that bullies you into feeling like a square because you can't appreciate its cheap, humourless nihilism. But then it gets better, pretty quickly.

It looked good, but I started to find it difficult to follow half way through (not having read the book and watching whilst smartphone browsing).

the jungle episode of planet earth II has to be seen just for the capybara reaction shot after another animal does a thing (no spoilers)

is altered carbon worth its own thread with spoilers?

it was a decent watch, although the flattening of some of the plot elements from the character backgrounds made flashbacks a little tedious

my coworker attempted to watch it but walked away after "too many f-bombs" which is an interesting take I'm interested in, as far as Netflix being able to do whatever they want with content standards.

he asked if that was a constant throughout the series and I'm thinking, hmm, they don't swear much while they're having sex or killing people soooo

Funny, we quit WestWorld after a couple of episodes, but the non-stop profanity took us out of that one, too. At first we thought it was some sort of satire on ... something, but then we realized, no, it was just bad writing.

i think i am interested in Altered Carbon

do you like recycled cyberpunk tropes, over the top pulp writing, and lots of fight scenes? then it's for you

(with the exception of the flashback bits of the character's past which go on too long)

i’ve enjoyed the first couple of episodes of altered carbon, was thinking about starting a thread for it myself

I'm wondering if I'm desensitized from not being around kids and generally modulating my own language but not really caring about what I hear?

I rewatched some WW recently and outside of Thandie Newton's character (and boy, she can really put some spice on it when she swears) nothing really stood out

here you go, bg:

ALTERED CARBON: a takeshi kovacs netflix series adapting richard k. morgan's cyberpunk pulp novels

It wasn't the robot potty mouth that bugged me, it was the scientists, who sounded as stupid as they were acting.

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Has Big Mouth been discussed yet? Watched the first two episodes last night and got a kick out of it.

So funny! I think it's been mentioned above, but I never miss a chance to point out how much Jason Mantzoukas rules. He rules.

I liked it, especially Maya Rudolph as the female sex demon, her accent is all-time.

Maya Rudolph is crazy good in this. The sleepover episode was amazing.

i watched Marcella last week. if u thought Happy Valley was a bummer, holy shit

Happy Valley was much tougher than this is. Nothing with Anna Friel and Jamie Bamber can be that bleak imho.

you guys HAVE to see Meru. if you are anything like me the whole movie will have you saying: "AHHHHHH WTF holy shit dude OMG no!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pZ1GzXPEO8

climbers are odd

started LA CASA DE PAPEL which for some reason has been re-titled, in english, MONEY HEIST.
Pretty good so far. Series about a group of ppl who take hostages in the Spanish mint. I have a soft spot for eurocrime tho.

MONEY HEIST
CASH STEALING
WEALTH THEFT
CURRENCY-TAKING CRIME

started LA CASA DE PAPEL which for some reason has been re-titled, in english, MONEY HEIST.
Pretty good so far. Series about a group of ppl who take hostages in the Spanish mint. I have a soft spot for eurocrime tho.

It really starts to drag out towards the end, but otherwise entertaining.

There is a mini-series of the Lawrence 9/11 book The Looming Tower starting in a fortnight. Some of the interesting stuff I recall in the book was about the terrifying sounding al-Jafr prison that acted as a radicalisation incubator for dangerous street thugs like al-Zarqawi and the stuff about Bin Laden's maverick older brother. He liked doing daredevil stunts in light aircraft and he once sent medical video footage of an an anal procedure he had to King Fahd as a joke. Of course there much more to the book, I would bet the tv version will concentrate more on the CIA/FBI pissing each other off.

Meru is indeed awesome

I started Glitch last night & I kinda dig it.
I guess it’s kind of an Aussie take on Les Revenants but i never saw that so idk for sure

posted about this one in the top 5 canadian tv shows thread but back in the 90s we had our version of "COPS" and it was called "to serve and protect"

anyway it's on netflix (us and canada, not sure about the uk and ireland) but they renamed it to "under arrest"

the episodes are condensed but still have some quality stuff from vancouver, calgary and i believe toronto

edmonton too but they might've removed those scenes from this version of the show

chris rock stand up was pretty decent

anybody watched Shot in the Dark? It's about the dudes who make a living filming crime/disaster/death/etc and selling it to news stations. none of them reach the level of jake g's character from Night Crawler but they're all kinda douchey - there's an amazing scene in one of the first eps where one of the dudes actually saves someone's life. NB one of the show's executive producers is one of the cameramen, so it's def not objective at all.

Doc or fiction?

to anyone who's gonna watch the Chris Rock special, good luck paying attention to anything but the saggy fold of t-shirt chest fabric that hangs underneath his crew neck the ENTIRE TIME

if you can afford it, why not buy a properly fitting t-shirt? I don't get it

what an incredibly weird thing to focus on

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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 watch / listened to the Chris Rock special and didn't notice his t-sag

I watched half of it so far and totally noticed.

Anyone watching Somebody Feed Phil, the travel/food show starring the producer of Everybody Loves Raymond? Looks charming, gonna watch as a family, I think.

i didn't watch that. his show about bringing Raymond to Russia was kinda boring.

i did watch the first episode of Ugly Delicious, David Chang's new show.

i just noticed that season 2 of Hap and Leonard is up! will definitely watch that.