Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

y’all are crazy it’s great

seriously wtf is wrong with the two of you

Liked S1, I tried the first few eps of season 2 and was turned off since they seemed to make Maron even more of a douche bag for the sake of plot. But I'll get back to it eventually

Slight side step, but did someone (Shakey?) in another thread say The Terror was streaming somewhere now? Not on Netflix but elsewhere.

glow is awesome wtf

The Terror is on amazon prime - I’m diggin it

If anything Maron is made way *more* sympathetic in GLOW season 2 (maybe too much so!)

kinda along the lines of the new rolling last x movies thread, is it time to start a new one for this?

Probably worth making a new thread often, considering that we gain/lose stuff on Netflix every week

I liked Glow in the end. It's clumsy and Maron's character does tend to flip-flop according to the needs of the plot, but it's got a good heart. And Alison Brie.

having loved the first season a LOT, we had to turn off american vandal s2 after about 90 seconds because it revolves around something tt is phobic of. way to go folks

Started the first ep of Maniac but wasn't really getting into it so switched over after about 10 min. and watched Land of Steady Habits instead, which is more my speed. And it had a Maniac actor in it! Plus the long-haired kid from Ozark. Lots of crossover in Netflix world. Really liked LoSH, Mendelsohn great as always and nice to see Edie Falco again.

I get a real Wild Palms vibe from Maniac.

having loved the first season a LOT, we had to turn off american vandal s2 after about 90 seconds because it revolves around something tt is phobic of. way to go folks

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yeah i was warned ahead of time and i can never watch it unfortunately

Season 2 is definitely gross.

And hilarious.

On the Netflix kid show tip, Hilda (adapted from Luke Pearson’s awesome Moomin meets Chris Ware style comic) is fantastic.

American Vandal s2 was so good. On par with s1 for sure.

Yeah Hilda is good

Just got Netflix but the app on my Samsung Smart TV doesn't work (iPlayer and Prime ones work fine). It's apparently a common problem - anyone else experienced it or know how to solve it? The ones I've found online so far haven't worked.

It's not a massive ballache as it works perfectly on the PS4 but it would be easier if we could just use the Smart TV app instead.

Land of Steady Habits was unsurprisingly great. Holofcener is remarkably consistent. Covers a lot of the same ground as the Meyerowitz Stories, for instance, but with better writing and acting.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before was ok--not as good as Love, Simon but as roughly good as Alex Strangelove and Every Day, as far as this year's (generally solid) crop of teen flicks go. I was actually surprised at how little the movie did with the premise; I wondered why they even bothered to contrive something so elaborate when the plot was a pretty basic "will she choose this guy or this guy" thing. The lead and Corbett were both charming, but the two guys were a bit too interchangeable (it took me a good half an hour to tell them apart; sorry Veg) and the girl who played the older sister was frankly awful, though thankfully not onscreen much. I liked that the best friend was hot for Justin Trudeau, and the implication that no one owns a television anymore: the kids in this movie watch The Golden Girls and Sixteen Candles on their laptops.

u_u

Nicole Holofcener has a new movie on Netflix for a month and I'm on hearing about it now?

yeah well, it's easily her worst movie so don't worry about it.

not on netflix but on amazon prime: Forever is really good. it's weird to be watching this concurrently with Kidding and see Catherine Keener on two shows at the same time (Kidding is also pretty good)

I am reading the book series of To All the Boys right now. They are fine. I am going to finish them. Unless one has a family I don't know why anyone would buy a tv anymore xpost. I get super annoyed when someone starts flipping through channels looking for something to watch but that is my peeve.

Unless one has a family I don't know why anyone would buy a tv anymore xpost.

to watch Netflix or Amazon Prime or iView or Filmstruck or Kanopy or Shudder or SBS On Demand or youtube or Vimeo or Hulu or DVDs or blu-rays or byNWR or iPlayer or Twitch or VOD or mp4s or mkvs on?

or play video games ?

Yeah, I do most of that on my computer. Although I don't even know what a couple of those listed above are ^^^. We do have a large tv though, it came with the place. I have a rowing machine in front of it that I watch stuff while exercising with the closed captioning on.

I don't think I could ever adapt to watching movies on my 15" laptop screen, even with Apple's decent enough speakers for a laptop.

I really like watching stuff on my computer. I don't know. Probably because I haven't had cable in over a decade and I am just used to it now and I don't have to be bound by someone's crappy tv selections. We also have a projector we use to project certain movies from our computer.

I have the attention span of a squirrel now, so when I watch a movie alone I have to black out my living room and actually turn off all my devices or I'll start pulling up IMDB profiles of performers who look familiar or looking up a song. Viewing anything on a computer just feeds into that.

My 2nd favorite way to watch Netflix/Plex is the iPad Pro in bed with good headphones.

Probably because I haven't had cable in over a decade

I have seen cable TV on two occasions in my life, both in the '90s (once for five minutes, once for a few hours). This does not mean that cinematography looks good on a 10" screen.

for clarification, I don't associate watching stuff with watching it on a tv. It's just easier and I am more accustomed to watching things on my computer. Which I assume is the point someone was making above about the teens in the movie.

funny i associate watching tv with watching anything on a screen

so if someone says papa what were u doin this weekend i say o watchin tv (sometimes i say netflix)

tv is best. i hate watching on computer or phone

that is tru tho

if that tv isn't at least a 50 inch i'm bailing

gimme a tv & surround sound any day over a laptop screen

I've proselytized on other threads - getting a projector and being able to show movies on the side of a wall has improved things 1000%. Plus you don't have to commit to a flat-screen that you have to adjust your furniture for.

veg otm

ive been itchin like i got crabs to buy a stereo surround system

I saw that motion smoothing effect that tvs now have for the first time 2 years? ago. It drives me crazy. It makes everything look like a reality show/soap opera.

i always see it in bar TVs. it drives this friend of mine so crazy that he takes it upon himself to ask for the remote so he can fix it for 'em when he sees it.

Surround sound drives me crazy too but that is probably just another weird sensitivity.

I’m all about a 3.1 sound setup

xpost, seriously that motion smoothing thing looks like complete crap. I had to read up on why anyone thought it was a good idea just to understand what was going on and how to turn it off.

anything with bass and clarity, not too loud, some popcorn, and i'm gucci

My in-laws LOVE that motion smoothing thing and it makes watching movies with them v v painful

I moved the couch a foot closer to the TV, now I am living the dream

i want a setup like soarin at disneyland where u can smell whats on tv

or the one where there were screens all around you and you sat down and things were coming from all angles, i dont think they have that anymore

It's completely reasonable to hate motion smoothing, and completely baffling that most new TVs come with it turned on. I nearly had a heart attack when I bought my TV, put on a favorite movie,cand it looked like utter shit. Then I turned off motion smoothing, and everything looked amazing.

The moral of the story is, a new, large screen TV is absolutely wonderful to watch movies,TV shows. YouTube videos, live streams, etc. Just remember to turn off the motion smoothing when you are first setting up your TV.