Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

it’s a movie fyi :)

cyrano = cyrano de bergerac ie ugly person uses attractive person to woo similarly attractive person

or the movie Roxanne if the literary reference still doesnt track

oh my bad

i thought the trailer looked terrible tbh, but was curious cause... Noah Centineo.

apart from the fat=unattractive message, it's also about catfishing?

well, cyrano is basically about that too.

yep

i watched a teen romcom, called alex strangelove, about a high school kid that was in the closet. i wouldn't recommend it highly but it has good things about it, notably one actress (the girlfriend) who i thought was great, she reminded me of alison brie. her name is madeleine weinstein and her imdb bio ends:

She would also like everyone to know she is not related to Harvey Weinstein.

The 100 is hardcore for a CW show. Five episodes in and there's a 20 minute torture scene.

I simply love the 100. Skot isn’t here right now to back me up. I love how it gets right to the point in a very unscreenwriterly way, I love how casually gay and matriarchal it is, I forgive it readily for its many idiocies.

speaking of terrible trailers... I really want to check out Maniac cause I love Emma Stone and Cary Fukunaga is involved but god, it looks like some horribly pretentious crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9OzG53VwIk

why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yha-GOvM_6c
Because

^Great trailer

Hill House, btw, is being handled by Mike Flanagan, who knows what he is doing. And Gugino is awesome.

Maniac is apparently pretty good. will watch when high.

i'll watch hill house. The source material has already been desecrated by what's his name so it's not like there's anywhere to go but up

Just started Maniac. Who else is in on this?

tapped out after three episodes. Felt like warmed over Charlie Kaufmann and I don't like looking at Jonah Hill's face

i’m going to give it ago

a go

i hope you enjoy it alot

I loved the recent season of Atypical. Very heartwarming and witty. The kids (all of them) stole the show. Not sure how representative it was of life with ASD but thoroughly enjoyed it nonetheless.

damn Jonah Hill looks 34 like Alex Jones looks 40

I got through one episode of maniac and it just wasn’t v intriguing

Brain Candy, and we definitely noticed the similarities. https://t.co/m4Vi57jN3W

— Kids in the Hall (@KITHOnline) September 24, 2018

I got through one episode of maniac and it just wasn’t v intriguing

― just1n3, Wednesday, September 26, 2018 9:50 AM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

I watched six episodes of GLOW and found it quite bad. Not completely terrible, just not good and not believable and not very interesting in its badness and I think it's probably best to just not continue. I like Alison Brie a lot and she does the absolute best with what she's given.

it's probably worth noting that I've never watched a netflix original that i thought was good.

Oh, I thought Bloodline was fairly good for 3/4 of a season.

Godless (7-part series)
The Informant! (comedy)
Son of a Gun (HEAT wannabe)
Cardboard Gangsters
Wind River
Maniac

Godless may be a good call, thanks.

Norm Macdonald new show is worth watching

100% into The 100 now

it took me two seasons and one death to figure out which young white guy was which, though.

My standard apology for posting about Amazon Prime on here, but I just saw they have Theory of Obscurity, a doc about The Residents, and Arise, the classic Sub-Genius video.

Wind River is good but realllly fuckin' grim, as you'd expect given the premise. Like grim enough to deserve a warning imo

yeah agree

i had lowish expectations but it was really affecting & well done

So Sierra Burgess. It started out well but totally fell apart in the last half hour.

i feel like netflix is pumping out entirely too much original content these days. their ratio of hits to misses seems awfully fucking low now.

Their original content has always been largely poor. There's just more of it now

I made it part way through episode 2 of Maniac before punching out. Godspeed to anyone who continues...

think i mentioned it before but a friend of mine who worked with Netflix says they want to premiere a new original series or film every single day of the year. not sure if that includes international distribution of series from foreign territories or strictly Netflix originals but either way it's a ton of new content. i can't even keep up w/it. i usually check out of streaming originals pretty swiftly if they're not really good to great (cf. Mindhunter, GLOW, Bosch, etc), i don't have patience for "kinda okay" or "sorta decent"shows anymore and that's 95% of them.

Anyone else watching the Innocents? It's not very good, but now I've watched 5 (of 8) and feel I should stick with it to the grim death.

xp that's so much TV in general these days - we're spoiled for choice, especially compared to the dreck we were forced to suffer through even 20 years ago. i gave up on trying to watch hour-long shows, too much effort now

I haven't had cable since like 2004, and don't have regular tv, so relying only on netflix I welcome even the mediocre original programming. And I love mediocre rom-coms/teen shows.

xp being spoiled for choice is why i think it's kinda funny that people got very excited about a Full House reboot in 2016! i actually think the best streaming shows (or international shows available to stream in the U.S.) are on par or better than virtually any other shows elsewhere at this point. that's maybe not saying much esp w/r/t network TV. it's bad out there, i mean i witnessed an episode of Big Bang Theory being committed recently.

xp that's so much TV in general these days - we're spoiled for choice,

I disagree with this. we're not spoiled but ruined by more terrible content that there's ever been. i know i'm a curmudgeon but even the supposedly good stuff is about 5-10% of the total (generous) and i think that a very small amount of that is actually good we are being offered a whole load of shit. if you compare that to terrestrial tv then that's an extremely low batting average. even the terrestrial tv is watchable (in the uk) but it serves a completely different function. news, soaps, reality shows, lifestyle shows or whatever. even if it's not good it's not egregiously awful either - you switch over to something else and land on something that can fill the time. hell, you'll even switch over to something actually great and watch that. all of this is by orders of magnitude greater than being presented with an endless wall of shit that the internet says is *four stars* that you have to *choose from* and you can barely make it through an episode of. i know this makes me an old-fashioned consumer and annoying and my cynicism perhaps annoys a fair few of you (with good reason) but so much of this content is so completely terrible and has a negative effect on culture, i think.

this is another thread that, i guess there should be. i keep meaning to make it tbh. it's more about how the delivery method affects us adversely especially when the delivered product is so bad rather than something being played out here (recommendations or whatever). the good to bad ratio now is so so low.

People need to stop paying for unlimited options and just curate their shit. It saves so much time and money. I never am able to mindlessly shuffle through channels already in progress. I have to always make a concerted choice to watch something, whether streaming or on netflix. It makes a world of difference.And I also never ever see commercials, which I guess may be a gap in my cultural knowledge.

i know, from talking to friends, that they very often do exactly the same as me - that is, open the app and look through it for 10-20 minutes then close the app. this seems to be equivalent to flicking through the channels but isn't like it at all, really. it seems like a paralysis of choice but it's really more like an absence.

x-post i guess that tv performs a completely different function for me then. it's an interesting discussion and this thread maybe isn't the place for it, apologies.

when i do make that thread then at least it will help you all! i do think it's a big cultural difference UK/North America. I mean, so much of US TV has been amazing and transformative, culturally but the stuff that isn't that is unbearable whereas UK TV rarely hits those heights but is definitely good to watch, casually.