Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Great News really scratches an itch for people hankering after more 30 Rock.

Lol i totally needed subtitles for the Terror too fwiw

Xp

great news is incredibly good. only 23 episodes will exist ever, so it's easy to knock over.

Ha - audio on The Terror was indeed maddening. I'd always watch it after my wife went to sleep and was constantly toggling the volume up and down between the muffled dialogue and loud action scenes. Apparently, I'm not smart enough to turn on subtitles.

watched the girl with all the gifts (2017) on amazon video yesterday and was way more impressed with it than i expected to be - been thinking about it ever since

the setup is almost identical to the videogame the last of us - a troubled girl who may hold the cure to a catastrophic fungus outbreak which has turned most of the world's population into violent zombie-like creatures is transported across dangerous terrain by a ragtag group of survivors - and it borrows from a lot of postapocalyptic fiction but it leads somewhere quite poignant and unexpected

the similarities between the game and the movie are apparently down to the game producers and mike carey, the movie's writer, both seeing a documentary on the brain-controlling cordyceps fungus at the same time and having similar ideas

has a great central performance from newcomer sennia nanua, who plays a very believable mix of sweet vulnerability and unexpected rage, and solid supporting performances from glenn close, paddy considine and gemma arterton

it does an amazing amount of impressive visual effects work for a budget of just £4m, too

anyone else seen it?

it ends like one scene too late, though

I started watching it, but I was just wanting something to half watch while I played a game, and I realized it was going to take more attention than that. Will try agin.

this Dogs show is some tear jerky shit. Is Zeus a celebrity in Berlin now? I think I'd lose my fucking mind if I ran across Ayham and Zeus in the wild.

also...how did they get footage of Ayham's friend crossing the border? Was that a re-enactment? Because I can't imagine it would have been safe to even put one other person there with a camera.

https://i.imgur.com/loqqwrF.jpg

MANIAC

Wait a new season or what??

No, I just watched it. I always end up watching this shit when everyone else has already moved on. I loved it

Also love Dogs

Maniac was great. Trippy, and ultimately warm and humanist.

i was surprised there wasn't a thread for it! but yeah, other than a couple luke-warm episodes in the middle, it was consistently great from start to finish, and i can see myself rewatching it sometime soon.

Cautiously enjoying “kominsky method” which I keep calling “meyerowitz stories” in my head. Sour Alan Arkin is a pleasure and MD keeps shit moving

i got back on netflix after quite a few years off due to $$$$$

it's surprising how the selection is even shittier now than it was

Trying Travelers, enjoying that it's more of a traditional show than a 13-hour long bad movie.

i was surprised there wasn't a thread for it!

dangit, i'm the worst! i searched for Netflix Maniac, but couldn't find one. do you know the name of it?

it just bugs me because i KNEW there was one! in fact, i'm pretty sure the reason i started watching it is because i recognized the name from seeing the thread pop up every once in a while.

a thread for the show "Maniac"
(curse of the quote marks)

I absolutely loved this show.

ty!

now I need to find the "Maniac Cop 2" thread

why do people keep putting quotes around TV series and movie titles, there is no style guide to which this adheres, gadsarnit!

AP Style tip: Capitalize film titles and put them in quotations: "Lincoln," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Skyfall" and "Argo."

— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) January 9, 2013

Style-Guide-Burn!

whaaat. i was always told it's ALL CAPS or italics

Journalism has its own rules based on readability (IIRC from high school and my one college journalism) above all

I don't know of any style that says ALL CAPS - italics or underlining for everything that adheres to MLA/ALA unless impossible, then you use quotes, or the AP style where you use quotes for everything.

The Chicago Manual of Style (which I think is better than AP) says to use italics for complete works (movie, album, book etc) and quotes for individual songs, titles of chapters, etc

I'm also pro Chicago style - italics always look and read way better than quotation marks, especially when you're also quoting any lines in the movie or anyone you've interviewed about it!
gah underlining is the worst (written notes excepted)
I watched Passengers the other day and it is also the worst

AP title style is helpful when you're dealing with a format that doesn't always allow for italic type — for example, a newswire service like AP, or some types of video captions.

guys. what are we doing.

does anyone know how to pronounce missouri

does anyone on the show Ozark ever say it out loud

bringing it all back home, full circle

Glad other folks gave Maniac some love, I really liked it. Not sure which genre exercise/parody was my favorite, maybe the 20s heist/comedy of manners one or the fantasy one. The mafia one definitely went a little overboard with the gore.

mafia was my least favorite. i really enjoyed the one with the lemur...i just kind of assume that was supposed to be Jersey?

Anyone tried '1983', the alternative-history Polish series?

^^ Cosign

Just finished Dark and Netflix is recommending that to me

The Kominsky Method is pretty good. Danny Devoto as the urologist has me LOLing

^^ yes, this was very touching and funny.

we are currently enjoying the hell out of Jane The Virgin

Has anyone watched Happy as Lazzaro yet?

On netflix?

It's licensed to Netflix in North America.

Lucky you!

I'm not in that category.

Unlucky us!

Watching now!

Marcella is a real test of my ability to tell white guys apart but I'm loving it otherwise. So angry, and so not just another bitterly angry man cop.