Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Eh, Disagree overall, but I'll concede the plot is hacky and obvious. But Giamatti is so good.

And I'll watch pretty much anything with Maggie siff.

i couldnt even make it thru ep 1 of billions

actually, tbh i cant even stomach the commercial for it (saw ~8 seconds of the "metallica" ad)

Loved BCS, probably more than BB. Very subtle, very patient, great acting/writing/direction. It's as if they learned from the one major mistake BB made, which is to make Walt pretty much instantly malevolent/malignant. He's great and a great character, but not unlike the Nicholson character in "The Shining." If you start out over the top, there are not a lot of places to bring the character. Iirc, by episode 2 he's already dissolving bodies in chemicals. Whereas BCS, it takes its sweet time, intentionally, to make the most of each character beat and development. Like a really good movie.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, February 8, 2016 6:52 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same!

they're doing a pretty deft job of making jimmy's transformation subtle and always in character. his worst choices are made impulsively or by some fingers-crossed i think i'm doing the right thing motivation, and not obviously due to some latent mean-streak/capacity for evil (like it was for walt). his slowly piling up merely not as bad choices flow naturally from his general comportment, and would be less consequential if the stakes weren't getting higher and higher.

it's certainly making the platonic everyman lawyer saul of BB more plausible --- tacky but successful and almost certainly shady criminal defense lawyer with a heart of gold and who can somehow make you feel like he honestly just kept getting mixed up with the wrong crowd and making do because isn't that what you would've done c'mon

Billions is kinda like Dynasty or something. i mean it's that level of camp/OTT.

i have a problem with whatshisface's face. the rich guy. hard to watch. and then i got depressed cuz i was totally gonna watch Homeland on Showtime and forgot he is also in that.

harry and tonto is streaming and its the best movie

i have a problem with whatshisface's face. the rich guy. hard to watch. and then i got depressed cuz i was totally gonna watch Homeland on Showtime and forgot he is also in that.

I thought he was great in Band of Brothers (like 15 years ago, shit) but now it's like he had a stroke and one half of his mouth is permanently clenched.

he's british too, right? the brits have stolen all the best american asshole roles. trump should look into that. build a wall or something.

Ooh I really don't like that guy either! I had to bail on Homeland early on because I kept wanting to punch him in the head. And I thought that would make him a tolerable heavy in Billions but nope.

Also I know Paul Giamatti is supposed to be Laurence Olivier or whatever but jesus can he occasionally dial it down a little. Guy's intensity is unmodulated, all the way up. I can't take him seriously anymore.

"I'm an act-or!"

all his guys are the same guy.

surprised he hasn't done waiting for godot with kevin spacey yet.

i do want to keep my good memories of american splendor though.

He was good in Win Win

So I finally got to the end of the man in the high castle and this actually gets really good in the last 3 episodes. Good enough so that it should probably get its own thread that I won't start.

I couldn't even get into Breaking Bad, but I'm really enjoying BCS. I started watching it on the laptop two days ago and am already on E7. It's fun to listen Bob Odenkirk talk. What year is it supposed to be set in?

late 90s early 2000s iirc

Wikipedia says 2002

Xpost We saw the first ep of High Castle, and man does the production design account for like 80% of the praise. Because after so much A+ TV acting it was jarring to watch a show anchored to maybe B- acting. Haven't watched beyond ep one yet, but a friend told me they do a poor job picking where to end each episode. Also that it only gets really good toward the end.

My issue with it is the volume difference is so extreme with soft talking and then loud special effects. I have to turn it way down and just put CC on. General pet peeve with shows/movies.

You kind of get used to the acting on Man in the High Castle after a while. I also kind of like how all the bad actors are American and they somehow managed to get mostly good actors for all the Japanese and Nazi roles. Somehow feels right for a Philip K Dick adaptation.

I couldn't even get into Breaking Bad, but I'm really enjoying BCS. I started watching it on the laptop two days ago and am already on E7. It's fun to listen Bob Odenkirk talk. What year is it supposed to be set in?

― Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Sunday, February 14, 2016 10:09 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

breaking bad was fairly one note until saul goodman showed up. I try to rewatch BB every few months or so but cant make it past a couple of episodes. Id probably have better luck start with the first saul episode.

also rewatching S1 of BCS but crazy excited for S2 tonight!

oh also, thanks to whomever recommend the the Great British Baking Show. I was hooked from the start and ended up watching the whole season over the weekend.

big baking crush on chetna.

http://images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/117/photos/943000/143943.jpg

she had the best expressions. hung out with my mom the last three days and finished that season at her house.

wish there were more seasons on netflix.

has her own youtube channel if you are a chetnamaniac.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQA_Di4tqU

Chetna! yes! also just crazy for Martha.

Woah...just googled and found all of season 2 for free on pbs.org: http://www.pbs.org/show/great-british-baking-show/episodes/

they all had great shoes too....luis' blue suede adidas orginals (Gazelles I think), chetna's tangerine chucks, etc.

Has anyone watched Mozart in the Jungle on Amazon?

i started better call saul. i do love bob. i am a little burnt out on shows based on damage control after watching three seasons of ray donovan. and watching fargo. so many messes to clean up so quickly. i got good wife fatigue after however many seasons. so many fires to put out. i blame breaking bad. or the sopranos. they make me edgy. kinda make me want to clean the house too. but usually i just keep watching t.v. (i realize that cliffhangers are as old as time. i'd just like something to go smoothly one in a while. i end up thinking that the good wife lawyers are actually the WORST lawyers. and the sons of anarchy are definitely the worst criminals. they can't shoplift a pack of gum without a body count.)

Trophy Kids

half way through and already hate pretty much all these parents, except the hippie new age mother, she's pretty hilarious

Love is... not impressive, 2 eps in. Cast are good, but it feels a little perfunctory and overlong and not funny enough, like mediocre Apatow.

i don't like the main guy. i kinda want bad things to happen to him. i stopped watching and went and read a book. talking about Love...

the volume difference is so extreme with soft talking and then loud special effects

This is a serious problem we've also had watching Netflix on the big teevee. Mixing which sounds okay on the laptop comes across as completely bad and insane on a real screen with real speakers. You know what productions don't have this problem, ever? Disney properties.

ours defaults to 5:1 but we only have stereo. I always have to reselect stereo rather than 5:1, and it rarely cures the loudness issues.

Love is short on really funny parts in the first three episodes, and it fundamentally bothers me that the show is largely about a scrawny low-achieving spineless dweeb in his early thirties who goes from one ridiculously attractive woman to another (stopping over in between to be propositioned for a threesome by foxy college students).

But I'll still watch the whole thing, because I'm a sucker and because I want to see what happens with Mickey's roommate.

It gets better with episode 4, tbh. I'm warming to the dweeb too. Episode 5 has a great premise. But like a lot of this Netflix/Amazon stuff, it seems as if it needs a good edit.

watched the first episode of the returned. the french show. like air were the french band. don't know if i want to keep going. but nicely moody.

the hannibal buress netflix special was...kinda meh?

watched the first episode of the returned. the french show. like air were the french band. don't know if i want to keep going. but nicely moody.

It keeps getting better and better...until is gets drastically worse.

Guys I don't know if it has been mentioned upthread but has anyone seen MAD DOGS on Amazon yet? Oh my god this show, it's like quicksand. Ten episodes with weird murderer's row of veteran supporting-role bro's (Micheal Imperioli, Steve Zahn, Ben Chaplin). Somebody please watch this.

It says a lot about how much tv people watch that service providers can generate content like this w/ zero advertising—just throw it at the wall and see if it sticks. This was one of the dozen or so pilots Amazon put up to subscriber vote last year or the year before, Man in the High Castle was another....

yea ive been interested in that since it dropped but just haven't gotten to it

i laughed a lot @ the hannibal special fwiw

good, run do not walk

word thx

yeah, I thought it was pretty funny

"It keeps getting better and better...until is gets drastically worse."

argh! i hate when that happens...