Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I liked BirdBox.

I've finally started watching I'm Sorry which I love and I wasn't surprised to find out she was a writer on Veep.

Are you surprised to now find out that she wasn’t a writer on Veep?

a quiet place managed at least to ratchet the tension, bird box just never seemed to have anything or anyone at stake in a way that wasn't really predictable. the whole thing felt...flat

I also have some inchoate uneasiness about the whole [SPOILER SORTA] angle w/r/t the "mentally ill," it felt a little icky

The first 30 minutes or so were riveting. Everything from when they drive down to the supermarket was boring and predictable. It almost feels like the original writers and director were fired halfway through production and replaced with a new crew under the directive of “just finish the thing, and keep it under budget”. I don’t really watch a lot of horror movies but is it common for a two hour+ movie to leave so much unexplained? Probably does deserve its own dedicated thread, don’t wanna post spoilers here

no one can trick me into watching a suzanne bier movie

Anyone recommend any kids shows?

Mine (10 & 8) currently enjoy the following:

Little Lunch (great)
Victorious/iCarly/Sam & Cat (good)
The Next Step (ok)
Some Assembly Required (not good)
Richie Rich (awful)

How old?

Hilda!

Hilda seconded

no one can trick me into watching a suzanne bier movie

― resident hack (Simon H.), 31. december 2018 05:52 (fifteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You really should watch The One and Only. Danish comedy at it's best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj3V3j4SeZo

Bird Box was good.

Hilda is just about the only show my 6 year old and I can agree on.

The Taylor Swift Reputation concert film they just put up is magnificent.

I just started the Marie Kondo Tidying Up show. I am already making severe judgements on the clients and loving it. bAbE

Cosign on the Taylor Swift.

Kids enjoyed it too

oh I was wrong. for some reason I thought andrea savage both wrote for and appeared on Veep. I guess she just appeared on it. anyway it's a good show but better in smaller increments as she herself gets pretty annoying after three episodes

Marie Kondo fizzled out after two episodes. Too samey.

‘Legend’ Chrissy Teigen SAVAGES Kim Kardashian for being the last person to watch Netflix's Bird Box - Evening Standard

Just watched murder mountain, bloody hell

Very late to this, but DETECTORISTS was lovely.

The Casketeers is great.

I haven’t watched this marie kondo thing. is there an open casting call for a second season? asking for a guy with lots of stuff

how much do you like folding yr shirts into little envelopes

i've always found it stupid. If you fold your white t-shirts into little envelopes then how do you know that that is the particular white t-shirt that you like the most and want to wear.

and it's all creased now, anyway.

the kondo thing worked for me, actually. i enjoy folding my clothes into little envelopes.

i couldnt get past “only the things that bring you joy” tbh

I was skeptical — and then I did it? Eyebrow raised and all, but I ended up with like maybe 25 total pieces of clothing, all of which I loved.

The best experience of decluttering was culling my home library from several thousand titles to just what would fill three narrow bookcases, which turned out to be about three hundred titles. Having to pick up every book and say “is this still important?” raised important questions about *why* I was keeping the books in the first place. Embarrassingly, many of my answers were along the lines of

- because if I don’t see the title I won’t remember I read it
- because guests can see it and think I’m smart
- because the spine is pretty/cool
- because I like being the kind of person that owns this book
- because I might read it again some day
- because I might read it some day

hmm...

xp ouch that hits a little too close to home re: the record collection

MARIE KONDO: hold this book and see if it sparks joy

ME: wow, it does

MARIE KONDO (removing fake book jacket): that book was mein kampf

— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) January 3, 2019

I really don't understand people who that vocally hate doing laundry. You put clothes in a machine and press a button. Maybe I am doing it wrong.

what if the machine is in a different building 10 minutes away?

You do have to take the washing out of the machine and hang it up. Unless you have a separate dryer (which can be rare in small flats), the washing never quite gets dry from the drying cycle and you have to beware of inadvertently creating the conditions for damp and mold.

oh yeah, that I get, I probably would've used drop off services in NYC more if I hadn't had a washer in my apt (plus drop off services were too fragrant). I was referring to the woman in the first episode. The couple had hired someone to do their laundry.

They totally had a very american washer and dryer in the house. Typically, american dryers have no problems drying clothes ( I usually take mine out way early so they don't get overdried).

oh nice, a series of unfortunate events is back

BREAKING NEWS: Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers is now on @netflix!! https://t.co/WyaaXfXkRr

— Shelley Stamp (@StampShelley) December 30, 2018

nice catch!

Notable streaming arrivals: Leave No Trace, Jane Eyre, Apostasy, Hereditary on Amazon; The Breadwinner on Netflix; Support the Girls and Columbus on Hulu.

Yeah, I was excited to see that Pioneers series added today. Already watched 49-17, notable as the first western to be directed by a woman (it's fine), and am exited to go through the rest.

Leave No Trace kinda slept on last year, highly recommend it, especially if you liked Winter's Bone Support the Girls also solid, and I'm excited to see Columbus.

Columbus is great, i remember it like a dream

"You", the show with Penn Badgley playing a deranged version of his Gossip Girl character, is ridiculous and trashy and populated entirely by characters from the quiddities/agonies NYT thread. I LOVE IT.

― Roz, Thursday, December 27, 2018 11:14 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this show is so incredible

oh nice, a series of unfortunate events is back

i'm really pleased that Netflix allowed the budget to complete the whole series.
me and mk2 finished it off yesterday.
bloody wonderful stuff.
they have done the books justice.

xpost it's bonkers. has any other show ever gotten creative writing MFAs so right?? also John Stamos as a bearded hipster therapist.

you’ve sold me on it, I’m checking it out

If it's available in your part of the world, then the Icelandic film 'And Breathe Normally' is very much worth seeing.

finally started bodyguard, it's alright. not sure what the big hubhub was on either side; it's neither the greatest show ever, nor am I finding it 'rife with islamaphobia'. it's just weird to see rob stark in modern london.