Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

showtime shows seem to start strong and then devolve into a string of unlikely sex scenarios by season 2. I enjoyed Happyish, though.

oh yeah i was thinking of watching happyish too.

i got excited when i saw the ad for the showtime show Billions cuz i thought lizzy caplan was in it but it turns out it was just tara from sons of anarchy.

that has brody from homeland in it? or at least it looked like him. i'd prob watch it for him + tara from SoA

<3 lizzy

Anyone seen Occupied? Near-future Norway "quietly" taken over by Russia in oil-related shenanigans. looks interesting, but haven't had time to try it out yet.

Moved into a new house and we got netflix. What are we watching? THE CANYONS. So bad.

Just started Billions, shit is bananas. There's something about the tone of Showtime shows, the amped up soapiness.

We Need To Talk About Kevin takes a deeply unpleasant but marvellously written novel and turns it into a deeply unpleasant and horribly directed (and laughably soundtracked) film. I've heard good things about Lynne Ramsay, but the experience of watching this film makes it highly unlikely that I'll ever bother finding out what those good things are.

no really, her two preceding films (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar) are nothing like this shit.

i still can't take the book seriously enough to read it. the horrendous title, the subject matter, the general daily mail feeling of it. not helped by shriver writing a dire short story for the guardian a few years ago.

She is also bizarrely obsessed with her characters' weight at all times

have a read of this if you want a laugh - it's hilariously shit:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/21/repossession-by-lionel-shriver

i started occupied last night and it's scando-trash but it's great

xpost i started a couple of paragraphs and then scrolled to see how long it was. my god. it just goes on and on like that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK3psQmIdnU

The Kevin book is a piece of shit too. Nowhere near the film tho

was watching the british baking show with rufus and he said it was so quaint that it was actually making him uncomfortable! i like how soothing it is...

it's so lovely!

It makes me so hungry!

was rooting for Martha tbh

i have baked 2 weekends in a row bc of this show, lol

is there anything more than just that one season of the British Baking Show? NEED MORE.

i think the one netflix has isn't even the first season, it's the third or fourth. maybe they'll get more?

http://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2015/08/19/10/maryberry1908a.jpg

It seems impossible to find the first few seasons in the US, which is unacceptable.

baking gal giving me a Phyliis Diller vibe

mary berry is like a mecha version of my grandmother & her friends

prim proper ladies who are very serious about spongecake

i love the old scottish feller who recited robert burns

british desserts are the most alien thing, "today you're going to make a multi-tiered honeycomb fruit biscuit but you must incorporate a design using blackberry mincemeat pudding, and it must be in the shape and color of the boathouse at westminster abbey"

euro desserts in general are crazy

i've noticed a lot more bakeries selling kouign amann after it was featured on that show

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034dy9k

like sue perkins, can't stand mary berry's other sidekick

british desserts are the most alien thing, "today you're going to make a multi-tiered honeycomb fruit biscuit but you must incorporate a design using blackberry mincemeat pudding, and it must be in the shape and color of the boathouse at westminster abbey"

in our defence literally nobody eats anything like this, its just to make the challenges harder i think.

i wish there was more than one bread round, but that's just my own personal baking preference at play.

trace, do you mean paul hollywood? i've warmed to his curmudgeonness as the series has progressed but his own series on bread was p bad, and i think he's quite charmless outside of bake-off.

no he's a necessary cowell figure, i mean the other woman

i find the one with specs annoying in her constant bad punning, but ultimately she's endearing.

yes that's sue perkins

it appears i'm talking about Mel Giedroyc

My sister kept talking about the great British baking show, which at the time dominated British life with insane "MASH"-like ratings. So we watched the first few eps of the first season, and apparently it gets slicker as it goes on, because the first few eps were basically like watching a dry documentary about baking bread. My kids were all wtf and made me put something else on, all the while with my sister insisting that it gets better.

netflix has attenborough's:

frozen planet

frozen planet: on thin ice

frozen planet: the epic journey

the making of frozen planet

should i watch them all?

Better Call Saul s1 is up.

apparently s2 of Saul will air on Netflix the day after it airs on tv

Really enjoyed a few docs I've seen on Netflix about the film industry:

Electric Boogaloo - about the studio who released a bunch of infamous b-movies back in the 80s (Masters of the Universe, Death Wish, etc).

Lost Soul - About the making of the Island of Dr. Moreau and all its craziness. I highly recommend this one. So entertaining throughout.

three hannibal buress specials i haven't seen up...

UK people, that electric boogaloo documentary is on film 4 next Friday

Better Call Saul is not enjoyable at all. At all! Alternately slow and painful, each making you wish for the other in turn. Starting ep 3 against my better judgement.

i think that, as is the custom, the season gets more enjoyable as it goes on. i loved it from the jump though.

I just finished Better Call Saul season 1 and liked it a lot, but it was definitely much darker than I was expecting. In many ways, I think Breaking Bad was a generally broader, wackier show, although often very grim as well.

everyone i've talked to lately likes BCS better than BB because it's funnier, subtler, and has deeper characterization.