Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

people tell me how great broad city is but every time i watch its filled with cringy youtube comedy and weird dubstep montages.

Broad City is amazing.

I am checking out Norwegian series Okkupert tonight, it's set in a fictional near future where the Norwegians elect The Green Party whose policies cause a Russian invasion to restore their oil production. I've not heard a thing about it other than it is quite high budget and has been sold to most of the world and netflix.

i need a streaming show, preferably more than one season available, that's pretty light dramedy or something. gilmore girls was good for this, so was bob's burgers, but now we're watching sex and the city for lack of anything better we can think of, and holy shit has that show dated badly.

i tell ya it seemed like science fiction to many nonrich people who lived in NYC at the time (eg, me)

yeah the money thing is a big wtf, but a lot of the sex stuff is really kind of prudish compared to now

possibly the influence of Ms Parker there

also peak AIDS was fairly fresh in mind

(and since the show was created and run by gay men they wanted to be 'responsible')

Hmmm. They're not on Netflix but Men Of A Certain Age and Bunheads and especially Enlightened filled that dramedy hole nicely. Better Call Saul is along those same lines (in no way requires that you've watched Breaking Bad and it's sooooooooo much more mellow than the former show). The UK Office if you haven't seen it yet. I'd say friggin' Roseanne (which I concluded on my most recent runthrough is probably one of the top five series ever through the first five or so seasons) but they only have some weird 'best of' thing on Netflix. Switched At Birth is pretty good in the Gilmore Girls mode but not terribly comedic.

Oh! I'd highly recommend Parks and Recreation if you haven't seen it yet.

didn't like switched at birth, done bunheads and parks&rec, enlightened must have gone right over my head bc i watched a few eps and did not get what all my friends were raving about. roseanne would actually be ideal!

Cheers. It is all on Netflix, it is all awesome.

Enlightened took me a while to get into but I think it's one of the greatest shows ever made

Enlightened is excellent. Getting into Comedy Bang Bang evening chat show surrealism atm.

UMS OTM. It takes a bit to find it's footing, but Enlightened is absolutely the best new show I've seen in the last five years.

Michael, it isn't streaming, but if you haven't seen The Eric Andre Show, you really need to get on that.

It's on Hulu. I think.

Oh yeah Ive seen bits of Eric Andre's show. Its incredible

dammit unblock-us has stopped working for me- guess netflix followed through on their promise to crack down on proxies. i'll miss the delights of mexican netflix most of all :(

if you like "britcoms" Black Books is on streaming.

black books is a++++

bizarro, there are tons of Mexican offerings on regular US Netflix.

I've already seen black books!

People have been saying good things about Detectorists on the UK dramedy series front. The first ep was pretty good.

I went into deep browse mode on Netflix's TV selections last night. Soooooo many things that never pop up in their home screen recommendations of the same fourteen shows. They have Rab C. Nesbitt! In the US!

every search term i put into Netflix brings up nothing but Peaky Blinders

I finally realized that, aside from Instantwatcher, the easiest way to see everything is to pull up the Netflix site on my PC, pick a category, and just scroll down ad infinitum. Every other route of ingress seems to just show you a random sampling of what they have (presumably based on prior viewing habits).

any further news on unblock.us? I struggled with it a little this afternoon, trying to watch UK stuff ironically, but then got it going on the US version. I've been waiting for that shoe to drop for a while, to be honest. Their twitter feed was full of people complaining about error messages this afternoon, and every response was a cut'n'paste "here is our customer services" link. Funnily enough, they are now unable to accept PayPal payments, so I wonder if the legality of their business model is becoming an issue...

I've been using the hula extension for chrome that someone mentioned up thread but haven't used Netflix in a couple days so not sure if it's still working.

i kinda don't want to watch a 2nd season of Love after that table read scene where gus goes nuts. nobody on earth is that dumb.

idk, i guess i just liked the slow realization that gus was kind of a stealth garbageperson all along

when he kisses mickey at the end i wanted her to roll her eyes or punch him in the stomach.

The scene with Gus going nuts was so badly written, so transparently "shit we better do some final act character development now, here goes nuthin"

I guess I like the idea that Gus pretends to be nice but is a secret garbage person, and Britta is the opposite. But I'm not sure if that's what they were going for.

I did like the show, though! Not great but LA looked pretty and it was super watchable and sometimes that's enough.

And I think its interesting that, at the end of the series, you realise the show is about something completely different than it seemed at first (it's much less rom-com than observation of addictive and unhealthy behavioural patterns), but I worry that many viewers wouldn't get that far.

This is completely otm...

I really liked the Andy Dick episode. There was something poignant about seeing someone of around 50 still being self-destructive, and I thought the sassafras trip was done really well - initially fun, and then the grimy and depressing.

agree that from the andy dick ep onward it was an interesting show -- all the stuff abt their degrees of interaction/communication are kinda trite but also really relatable

idk i also liked where apatows daughter playing arya talked abt watching amer horror story and not 'getting' comedy

Not feeling new broad city stuff at all. Borderline unwatchable

I liked arya's line about gus ("he doesn't understand the cheesy aesthetic")

i also finished watching mad dogs - meh not really for me ultimately tho not terrible; wouldnot rec

I still haven't finished it. Reminds me of basic cable USA/TNT dramas of 10 years ago - some good actors, a step above the never-ending procedurals that dominated networks then but never rising above "it's fine, I guess."

she said "campy" not cheesy iirc.

The Andy Dick episode was great.

finished the last 3 or 4 episodes of season 4 of louie that i hadn't seen. enjoyed the science class scale/pot/renner flashbacks. now i'm on episode 3 of season 5. that show is like a comfortable old shoe now.

is Cuckoo any good? that just went up on netflix.

they put the 2nd season of fresh meat up too.

cuckoo is silly. weird to see andy samberg on a bbc show. but he's only on the first season which is weird cuz the show is named after his character. in the 2nd season the werewolf dude from twilight is the star.

which means i'm probably only gonna watch the first season.

we tried to watch The Fall, no thanks, too much sexualized rape stuff, yuck

we watched Chef which was a pretty nice little feel good flick, had some charm & good chemistry with the principal actors

all kinds of surprises on season 5 of louie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80MDKGlgkEI

speaking of chemistry watched half of the sam rockwell better living through chemistry movie the other night and then i fell asleep. okay, fine, i passed out. it was okay.

guy maddin forbidden room thing is on now.

Girls also sucks now & i held out for a long time