Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

― Jeff, Sunday, August 23, 2015 7:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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!

I'm ok watching everything a year after everyone else.

narcos seems p good so far. in a kind of mindless way. the odd bit of bad writing or cringey line in the voiceover, but enjoyable.

I am 3/4 way through it now and it doesn't get much better - but like you say mindless + enjoyable and Pedro Pascal is as reliably good as usual. The voiceover is a pain at times and it seems overdone to counter the Spanish language segments..

shows/movies like that always make me want to do coke really bad. and i don't have any!

feel like narcos is pretty good overall but there are one or two lines that are just horrendous.

like in the voiceover, and they repeat this one even though it's so awful, something like: "one thing you learn in columbia is that good and bad are just... relative concepts"

hah!

started watching Person Of Interest. so far so ridiculous. but i dig it. in a comic book way. whatshisface really does sound like he's auditioning for Batman.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/02/beasts-of-no-nation-review-brutal-epic-opens-awards-season-in-style

haven't watched it yet & it's prob not revelatory or anything but I see they added larry clarks Marfa girl fyi which was previously p much completely unavailable iirc

i've never even heard of the tea leoni show that is on netflix now. sounds action-packed:

Elizabeth and Dalton scramble to save face when a former U.S. Treasury secretary undermines their negotiation of the Greek debt crisis.

i always forget it exists until i'm reminded. there are a stunning number of shows that i'll have never heard of that are in like their fifth season. and i don't just mean reality shows.

enjoyed grace and frankie but whoo boy is it schlocky. there's literally a flashback episode spurred by the characters getting stuck in an elevator.

Really liked the Bob Weir documentary, which led to the Muscle Shoals documentary, which led to I Dream Of Wires, which led to Spinal Tap. Haven't finished Wires yet because my wife wasn't into it as it focused too little on people and was just about "the blip blap machines".

The Muscle Shoals one kind of blew my mind a couple of times - I had no idea Donna Jean Godchaux sang backup on "When a Man Loves a Woman" and "Suspicious Minds", nor that the Swampers played on "Sitting In Limbo" (which of course makes sense when I listen to it again).

I also dug the Antarctica: A Year On Ice documentary, at least for the visuals. As someone who grew up on in cold and remote location I had a real feeling that you know, I could totally live there over the winter...

this is old news for most people, but the Wrecking Crew documentary is oh so good.

Studio 4°C put up a bunch of movies this week: the kinda Ghibli-esque Princess Arete, the two Genius Party anthologies which are hit or miss but each has at least one killer short (Masaaki Yuasa's "Happy Machine," Koji Morimoto's "Dimension Bomb") and most importantly MIND GAME, which is one of the best goddamn animated films ever.

oooh sounds good

haven't watched it yet & it's prob not revelatory or anything but I see they added larry clarks Marfa girl fyi which was previously p much completely unavailable iirc

― johnny crunch, Friday, September 4, 2015 9:29 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i watched this, not bad, larry clark is always out in front of trends w the blue waffle refs circa 2012 when this was made

The Guest was bonkers- loved it.