Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

ooh into the badlands season two...i got some watching to do.

I’m not really into zombie movies but Here Alone was.. interesting

I am watching Stupid Futile Gesture (the harvard/national lampoon movie). Sigh, so many movies are so ruined now because all you think about is how average white men had it so easy. I am hoping this gets better.

Is that the movie or documentary? I watched the doc and thought it was fine but the doc about the Dana Carvey Show on Hulu was way better

A Futile and Stupid Gesture was... not great.

I think the funniest part was casting Joel McHale as Chevy Chase.

speaking of McHale, if you were wondering what "The Joel McHale Show" is: it's "The Soup." It even has a bunch of Soup's writing staff.

xpost TR Yeah I can't get pver McHale's wig. I mean did no one funny watch the movie before it was put out?

It's a netflix movie. xpost

My least favourite thing about that movie is how lazy they admit it is all the way through. Crappy biopics are only excusable when they're completely heartfelt.

I really like the McHale Show. It's not quite as punch as the old one but I think it'll get there in time.

Xp the doc about national lampoon is on Netflix too. The generally dislike biopics or fictionalized accounts of true stories - is much rather see a documentary about a subject.

Just looked it up - Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is the doc name

i love the mchale show

My wife and I are a few episodes into Tientsin Mystic, a paranormal detective show set about 100 years ago in China. We're finding it very entertaining - great sets and costumes, a lot of humor, some suspense but not laid on too thick. It's a relatable show. Very easy to get along with, which we both kinda need right now (as opposed to something that's overly serious, complicated, or edgy).

I went poking around online for more information about it this morning. There isn't a lot out there (in English at least), but apparently it met with government censorship last month and was removed from a Chinese streaming service due to a "related policy reason".

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1088796.shtml

I know this is a really small gripe in the grand scheme of things, but there's a weird lag on Netflix's activity reporting for me. This morning I had a notification to tell me about new episodes of the Santa Clarita Diet, but I've already started watching it. I know about it. It keeps suggesting I watch new episodes of Love, but I've already watched them. And I had to manually search for the new episode of RPDR because my Continue Watching for Trish section hadn't updated. It bugs me.

xp someone probably didn't get the right bribe

We watched one episode of The Zoo. I don't think we are going to continue.

We watched an episode of Scandal at lunchtime today, just out of curiosity since we kept hearing how Shonda is a big West Wing fan, and I love Josh Malina

Aaaaand we’re already up to ep3 of Season 2 😂
I hear it gets bad later but goddamn this show is like a giant waterslide, it’s so fast paced & fun. And Tony Goldwyn is so normcore hot I cannot stand it. Love.

Watched all of the McHale show last night. I was into it. That Game Over movie was so terrible I fell asleep. how is that lumpy mayo guy getting so many roles recently?

i guess people watch a lot of workaholics on netflix

i am so happy about the joel mchale show though. it feels short but that’s because there are no commercial breaks. and i’m surprised at how subdued the seacrestfreude is. but otherwise im all in and i hope it gets renewed

We watched all of them before I knew what was happening (mchale show). We had some embarrassing snorting/chortling going on.

This is how out of touch I am sometimes. I just looked up Workaholics and never knew about this show. 7 seasons!

i kinda hate most of the skits in the mchale show. think maybe the soup during his run had better writers.

i miss joel's soup outfits the most which is weird because i usually hate suits.

I checked out Workaholics and it's either awful or very much not for me.

Based upon that movie, it's likely awful.

xost yeah but Joel had those gooood James Bond type suits, lots of Tom Ford & whatnot
You cant not suits like that on a guy like him

Speaking of Joel McHale, he's on Santa Clarita Diet season 2, which is actually really good now.

The first season was all over the place tone-wise but they've gotten in a good rhythm balancing the wacky family hijinks and the zombie mystery subplots.

would a fan of IZOMBIE like SANTA CLARITA DIET?

Oh, I am interested in this question too. I keep pausing on Santa Clarita Diet.

This iZombie fan does! SCD is a very different show though, both way more goofy and more gory.

i hadn't seen drew in a long time and when she showed up on joel's netflix show to plug her netflix show she was....someone's mom! i mean i know we all get older. it was just weird. haven't seen her in years. she looked like she just hopped out of the mini-van.

Lol that's how I felt about Winona on Stranger Things.

reminds me of running into someone I've worked with for years but haven't really talked to in person. my first thought wasn't "wow, he's gotten older" though, it was "jesus christ I've got to be old"

Ha, and I was thinking during that segment "Didn't Tim Olyphant use to be kind of hot?"

There's no "used to be" about it. Timothy Olyphant is super hot.

^ Seconded. I think he looks better now than ever!

Oh man, I was not feeling him at all when he was on the McHale show. "That's the same guy from Go???"

But I also sometimes get him confused with the guy that married Fergie.

This same discussion happened on Twitter earlier today. Luckily, it resulted in some nice Olyphant gifs being posted.

sorry but Josh Duhamel is the poor man's Timothy Olyphant pic.twitter.com/m2eiWPA4DM

— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) March 27, 2018

I can find no images of TO's turn as a Macys elf off-Broadway in The Santaland Diaries in '96, in which I saw him wearing candycane-striped tights.

The zeitgeist!

Olyphant doing Santaland Diaries is kind of blowing my mind

I can't find one with the stripey tights, but here he is.

http://timothyolyphantjustified.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tim-santaland-diaries.jpg

awww he looks like a newborn cat

<3

https://previews.123rf.com/images/peachloveu/peachloveu1604/peachloveu160400084/55834279-human-hand-gently-holding-face-of-adorable-newborn-brown-tabby-kitten-on-white-background.jpg

I watched The Wedding Ringer last night, a movie I had never heard of (Kevin Hart, Josh Gad). There were some entirely f'd up moments that did not age well at all. There is a bit about a dog licking peanut butter from Josh Gad's dick while he's tied up at his bachelor party!?!

Is the film God's Own Country on US Netflix? It's on the UK service and I highly recommend it. It's about farming, gay sex and brexit so there's something for everyone.