Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

it is good, but that's fair. it does become a full-on lecture at a certain point

Not on Netflix, but we just started Killing Eve. Props to everyone who recommended it. This is soooo good.

yeah it's great and weird and at times highly implausible but never anything less than flamboyantly entertaining

is that pheobe w-b's thing?

I'm re-watching Arrested Development from the beginning and I love Portia De Rossi but the change in her face between season 3 and 4 is incredibly jarring when you don't have the luxury of 6 years in between episodes. Why did you ruin your beautiful face, Portia :(

xpost, yeah Phoebe WB. It was immediately addictive. Sandra Oh is so great to watch.

Like a lot of crime shows are such a chore, this one is highly entertaining right off and good music.

"Why did you ruin your beautiful face, Portia :("

probably because if she had done nothing people would have responded too? like... cmon man

Am partway through KILLING EVE. "Your husband has an excellent moo-stache."

I was getting into Limitless but ditched out when it looked like they were going Big Conspiracy route rather than the crime of the week.

Has anyone watched the Hannah Gadsby - Nanette special? Kinda emotionally devastating

this has been built up to impossible heights over the past year, but it completely lives up to all the hype

thanks thread - watching hannah gadsby - great stuff

The Hannah Gadsby thing is a stand up routine?

Ok, it is. For some weird reason I thought it was a movie. Looks good.

Queer Eye makes me cry all the time. I’m not sure if that a good thing or a bad thing. The new sitcom from the Wayan dynasty is fine - I love bog standard sitcoms, and this did the job (i.e did don’t make me cry).

I watched In Living Color when it was on but for some reason stayed away from Wayan stuff because I assumed it was always worse than White Chicks level. It's better than that?

Xposts to Maura. I’m not shaming her but it was only 6 years so I doubt anyone would be all like ‘OMG SHE’S SO OLD!!!!’

Xposts to Maura. I’m not shaming her but it was only 6 years so I doubt anyone would be all like ‘OMG SHE’S SO OLD!!!!’

Cannabis cookery show? rly?

Yeah, someone watch that and report back. I got irrationally/rationally angry when I saw it pop up.

Has it been mentioned that the Ken Burns Vietnam doc is up? Not sure how long it’s been there, but just recently noticed it. Pretty much been my whole weekend.

highly recommend. it’s excellent!!

gutwrenching & horrific too obv

I def can’t stop watching it

Damn, not in the UK

That Hannah Gadsby show is interesting at times but not very good. I'm not sure it's something you can pick apart without causing offence to people, though. I liked her, she seems like a great woman but it's just not funny (in the funny section, i think i laughed once) nor that wise, really. There are some good bits in the latter serious section but because I hadn't laughed before that it didn't have the impact that was built up. She kept referring in the last minutes to her story but I didn't actually feel that she'd told me it. That's fine if it was too difficult to tell but it left me confused.

nonplussed, I guess. I wanted to like it, to feel moved or just to laugh more than once. Her delivery is very weird/learned but unnatural. I wish her all the best obv.

I thought it was great. It’s deeply personal & comes from a place of unfiltered anger which is hard to “craft” that into a palatable story that’ll appeal to everyone or you lose the sharpened edge. The whole point is catharsis so if yr not into that then it might leave u cold i guess

I havent stopped thinking about it since I watched it

I feel good about her doing it, for sure.

question for you: if it hadn’t been promoted as stand up comedy would you feel differently about it?
ie removing the expectation that it would be funny?

The weed cooking show is sub-Viceland bad.

I was out of town for the weekend and the grad student who watched our dog also watched 9 episodes of the weed cooking show according to the “continue watching” thing

veg otm, nanette is very much a slightly witty lecture dressed up as comedy to disarm the audience

Any of your stash missing, joygoat?

Yeah, the Gadsby thing shouldn't have been categorized as stand up. But I still enjoyed it.

isn't this her big thing after announcing she was retiring from standup?

she does it in the special more/less. it's a bit of a work - she's actually been fine-tuning this performance for almost two years - but honest enough at the core

The Ranch is truly awful. Most incongruous laugh track I've heard in a while.

I saw Nanette last year live, and walked out of it stunned. My partner at the time and I could barely figure out what to say to one another on the way home. It was during the month of the postal survey on SSM here last year which gave the whole evening a particular charge.

I watched on Netflix over the weekend and even though I knew exactly what was coming and what to expect, I was still left a weeping mess.

I'm not sure what's next for Hannah and I worry about her having to relive her trauma over and over again by doing this show for well over a year. But I'm glad it seems to be resonating, and I'm happy to see her have success and tell her story in her own way.

she's actually been fine-tuning this performance for almost two years -

yeah, I haven't seen her for about four years, but iirc she announced this at the start of last year as being the last tour-y [not-really-]comedy thing, or first tour-y non-comedy thing, before switching to the art stuff full-time

It was during the month of the postal survey on SSM

oh fuck, that would have been completely devastating

i get it, i know what it is. it's just not clever enough to not be funny (which it isn't).

Whut? It isn't not clever enough to not be funny?

I don't think it's clever enough to make up for the fact that it's not funny, since it's actually a comedy show as it's presented. However, I'm definitely not here to shit on anyone's enthusiasm for this or for HG in general so I'll stop.

*NOT actually a comedy show*

I binged season two of Marcella this weekend, and goddamn did that go to some dark, dark places.

xxp got it, thanks

Set It Up, yet another comedy about how horrible bosses are actually spiky but redeemable lost souls and not, actually, weapons-grade savages responsible for 95% of the world's human misery

The woman lead in set it up was very charming.

Has it been mentioned that the Ken Burns Vietnam doc is up?

shh. we don't want somebody up in here posting about "good faith" all the time