Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

"Lost Angels" - good docu narrated by Catherine keener about LA's Skid Row neighborhood, mostly interviews with & footage of ppl who live there and ppl who have come out the other end of living there

did you guys watch Teacher of the Year? i don't know whether to recommend it or not. key of key & peele is so over the top i'm tempted to use that old cliche about someone being in a different movie than everyone else in the movie. and the mix of drama/mockumentary comedy is just....weird.

have you guys watched that series where murderers talk at length about how they murdered people? i think i might be too scared to watch it.

Meet the Press?

a+

ps todd barry's crowdwork is available through this service & it is v funny

i watched the todd barry thing. it was AMUSING. but not really LOL.

i mean he is really good at that thing. no doubt. i loved how most of the people he talked to said they were something and then it turned out they weren't really that thing much. artist/DJ/musician...

standup comedy is a dead medium. there are no funny standups.

disagree but ok

except george wallace of course

http://i.gyazo.com/ca9563b1fcad36e8b7053a26bb01e431.png

george is the best

have you guys watched that series where murderers talk at length about how they murdered people? i think i might be too scared to watch it.

― scott seward, Thursday, July 30, 2015 9:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Meet the Press?

― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Thursday, July 30, 2015 9:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Posts Very Much In Dr Morbius' Character

really loved obvious child btw

I Dream of Wires, for all the analog synth fans out there

Some Shaw Bros. productions are trickling in. Any recommendations?

It's been a while but I remember really liking "Come Drink With Me" and "Heroes of the East".

Both good!
Recommend: The Avenging Eagle, Executioners from Shaolin

Finished Mad Men, I've watched and re-watched all the good HBO series, not interested in rewatching Breaking Bad.

What show should I watch next? The Bridge?

have you seen the shield? it's got some corny 'this ain't network television' extreme aspects and there's a heavy homicide influence in the early seasons but it's pretty great imo and really holds up thru the end and feels it's actually building toward it's conclusion in the same way breaking bad did. it's only streaming on hulu plus though. i'd suggest homicide as well, esp if you liked the wire obv, but it's apparently not streaming nor available for digital purchase anywhere.

Good call on the Shield. I wanted to try that a couple of years ago but it wasn't streaming anywhere at all.

i think the shield might work better streaming, a common complaint i heard of it while it was on the air really didn't come into play as much for me when i could just blow thru it in a few weeks

Shield is one of my top 3 shows of all time.

Shield finale a gold standard serial payoff.

The first ep/pilot is definitely all like trying to hard to SHOCK YOU with all the CRAZY ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN DEATH, but it does get a lot more nuanced after that. Stick with it, right to the end.

Also, events of the very first episode haunt and affect the series right up until the end.

daredevil is fun btw

milo have you seen Carnivale or The Comeback or Oz? they are all HBO and excellent and slightly underrated compared to like The Wire/Sopranos/6FU

the comeback is incredible.

Pretty upset that, after it being on there constantly since probably the whole streaming aspect of Netflix started, Magnum P.I. has been removed. Oh my GOD!* It was my go-to. I could shell three pounds of purplehull peas in an episode. I didn't binge watch or whatever. Just spread em out over a few years there. I was working through season 4 when it happened. It was a shit season so far, to be far. Far too many silly episodes and not enough 'Nam flashbacks or other serious troubles, but still. Pretty bummed. Rockford Files will take over that slot in my life.

*Higgy Baby voice of course

The first ep/pilot is definitely all like trying to hard to SHOCK YOU with all the CRAZY ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN DEATH, but it does get a lot more nuanced after that. Stick with it, right to the end.

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Also, events of the very first episode haunt and affect the series right up until the end.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 23, 2015 10:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i think the death in the pilot was just great storytelling....it's a gunshot to the stomach that all of the main characters slowly bleed out from for the entire series, and it definitely felt like it was planned that way by the writers. i also think the first season is really strong, tense genre fiction and i don't get why it's always dismissed by fans of the show.

I am currently 3 eps into Narcos - the P Escobar series, it is decent so far.

so they're apparently losing a huge chunk of their streaming movie selection and pivoting hard to Original Programming.

These streaming services are clearly gonna have to balkanize themselves into near-nonexistence before they realize that joining forces is the only way to survive.

they've been moving away from films for a while. expensive, model of couple of expensive films+batch of crap inefficient in terms of viewer retention. long haul series, esp exclusive ones, best model for them. self-made presumably cost-efficient for them, tho i find it quite hard to see how. bought stuff usually cheaper idve thought. daredevil and HoC were both fairly set-heavy (compared to the extravagantly expensive GoT or even Sopranos or Breaking Bad or something insanely wanton and decadent like Deadwood). Always feel crap generic theme music/credits for netflix originals is an example of shaving costs.

exclusivity plus revenue on non-subscriber sales must make it worthwhile I guess.

gotta give 'em credit for that ridiculous Kimmy Schmidt opening theme

amazon is stepping up a little better, adding to their movie library, but it's still weak (and annoying due to being mixed in with rent/ppv options)

so they're apparently losing a huge chunk of their streaming movie selection

!?!

oh ok, this clears it up. basically their deal with Epix is expiring, and they're not renewing. i didn't know about this deal, sounds similar to what Netflix used to do with Starz/Encore networks.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-30/netflix-to-drop-epix-channel-in-push-to-develop-original-films

also noted - Epix switched m/l the same deal over to Hulu
http://news.yahoo.com/epix-reaches-multiyear-hulu-deal-ends-netflix-agreement-122208374--finance.html

gotta give 'em credit for that ridiculous Kimmy Schmidt opening theme

amazon is stepping up a little better, adding to their movie library, but it's still weak (and annoying due to being mixed in with rent/ppv options)

haven't seen kimmy schmidt yet - but will be listening out!

otm about amazon.

I have Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBOGO, and am mostly watching HBOGO. They have about 100 movies at a time, but it's a good selection I'm not finding elsewhere. Netflix for me is best for arthouse/documentary movies from the past few years, and with Amazon it's more their streaming music library and free shipping.

Amazon seems to get a lot of the high profile new stuff that Netflix gets--along with shows like Hannibal, The Americans, Justified etc. that Netflix doesn't have

The interface is a little annoying though

But man, Netflix used to at least recommend some stuff I had interest in. Nowadays the recs list is full of Netflix originals and Bill Burr stand up deals

yeah, netflix recs have kinda gone down the tubes. but then again, i haven't put in ratings in a while. i wonder if they even use that data mine anymore

we pay for netflix and hulu and i kinda feel like that's all i need even though i don't get to see hbo stuff. you can pay 8 bucks a month on hulu for showtime but i would only really do that to see ray donovan and i feel like i can live without it.

The most irritating thing about, well, all of them, is the way they encourage bin viewing, but then don't catch up with completed series. So, like, The Americans S1 and S2 are up on Amazon, but not 3 (I'm talking not as PPV streaming). Or Archer on Netflix, there is always a long lag for it to catch up. Very frustrating.

generally the last season doesn't go up until the new season starts

All you have to do is to pay for hundreds of different services so you can watch the shows when they air. Problem solved!

xpost I get that, but I don't get that. I want to catch up *in time* for the new season, dammit!