Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

Finally got around to watching Werner Herzog's Into the Inferno and holy shit, one of the best documentaries I've seen in a long time. It's not just about volcanoes (though there is some insane footage); there's a stretch where Herzog goes to North Korea and gets deeply weirded out

yeah that was really good, one of his best

not netflix but free on the BBC america website, but "Killing Eve" is Phoebe Waller-Bridges' ("Fleabag" and "Crashing") new thing, and is a super fun spy thriller. I love Sandra Oh.

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

― how's life, Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We're about halfway through this (there are 24 episodes) and totally addicted.

There's a dedicated thread for it that I'm avoiding b/c spoilers, but is that Wild Country documentary worth sticking with? Watched the first episode and the story was periodically interesting but the pacing was brutally slow

The pacing continues to be brutally slow, but if you don't know the story, it is fascinating.

The pacing is terrible and most of the people they interview continue to be kind of terrible. It gets better but I barely made it through. They left so many questions unanswered, granted I did fall asleep for a good half hour somewhere in the middle.

Finally watching Money Heist aka La Casa de Papel after having it on my queue for ages. It's good and totally bingeworthy. Too bad we started it on Sunday evening.

lots of great footage in wild wild country but only worth sticking with if you’re gonna use it as a jumping off point to read the Oregonian investigative series and hunt down other sources imo, maybe take Allen (etaeoe) or Aimless out for a drink

I found WWC to be endlessly compelling and not at all slow but think I'm in the minority here.

I’m on episode 5 and totally loving it.

Yeah Wild Wild Country is great. These complaints about it being boring are bananas.

man that Seth Rogen charity special is peak circle jerk. bless Justin Roiland for that animation though which felt like a burn on Rogen

John Mulaney was the only bit we liked.

not netflix but free on the BBC america website, but "Killing Eve" is Phoebe Waller-Bridges' ("Fleabag" and "Crashing") new thing, and is a super fun spy thriller. I love Sandra Oh.

― just1n3, Friday, April 6, 2018 5:51 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is excellent btw. very very good writing and characters. recognisably the same writer as fleabag while also being completely different.

oooh

i don’t think wild wild country is “boring” or “brutally slow” but it is biased and incomplete, to an extent I think it should be taught in media classes as an example of editorial decisions being determined by access to interviewees, including the perceived need to build your documentary around interview content. I’d love to read the Oregonian investigator’s response to the series, if it exists.

Having grown up on the fringes of the Ramtha cult right around the time Rajneeshpuram was at its height I have all kinds of conspiracy theories about the series that may or not be factually correct but are likely correct in spirit. It feels like a lot of evasion around soft power manipulation to me, like the filmmakers found their subject while spending time at the Osho complex in India or something, tracked down the principles, compiled the footage, but never felt an imperative to go any further, due to their own experience and prejudices.