Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Ok Lady Dynamite is starting to win me over

not til month's end, but that fgti-scored semi-James Dean film Life is coming to N'flix

the kids and i really enjoyed watching angie tribeca on hulu last night. love rashida so much. a sledge hammer! for a new generation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKivuQ4HpF4

i tried it but the jokes didn't really bite for me somehow? i dunno i usually love this sort of thing. maybe i just wasn't in the right mood.

scott if you liked that you should really try to, uh, obtain A Touch Of Cloth. unfortunately they only made two of them (or was it three?) but each one is as long as a movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0FDAqS0Wy4

i would watch that. i kinda liked that angie tribeca wasn't non-stop sex jokes and was just silly. though i haven't watched them all yet. i don't want everything to be Airplane humor, but i thought it was a nice homage.

touch of cloth does occasionally veer too far into gross-out sex jokes. but the first one is near-perfect imo.

Touch Of Cloth is the best of its kind since Police Squad

I can't believe none of you folks aren't raving about the stylish Italian organised crime series Gomorra.
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did anyone recommend the Ali Wong special yet? it is funny as fuck

so the italian show is based on the movie? i still haven't watched the movie yet. which is on netflix.

This kicks off in July. The only reason I've known about it for so long is that it filmed in my little Atlanta 'burb (and further out in the boonies). But even if that hadn't been the case, I'd watch the hell out of it. Spooky mystery show starring Winona Ryder!

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

xp

it is a spinoff from the movie, but the only thing it shares with the movie is the theme of organised crime and the criminal hierarchy on the mean streets of Naples. I didn't think the movie was any great shakes tbh, the series however - I'm finding quite addictive.

Stumbled onto Hinterlands - I'm only one ep in but it's good & bleak & basically all i want in a murder mystery detective show

Trophy Kids. Brutal. Parents are assholes.

ok hinterlands took a left turn into pointlesstown, it's not as great as first thought

so i tried Happy Valley instead
YES

Love happy valley

the end of episode 4 / start of episode 5 of the first series of happy valley has stuck with me, the brutality and the way they handled it.

haven't watched season 2 yet but season 1 of happy valley is amazing

yeah it's great

I've watched a few episodes of the new Voltron series:

a) I did not expect to laugh so much at it. Hunk especially is genuinely funny to me.
b) I did not expect Hunk, Pidge and Lance to actually have personalities or to be anything more than background wallpaper, as that's how I remember them from the original show
c) I'm enjoying the hell out of it

Lady Dynamite is something special imo. Not a show you'd binge-watch tho

Comet w/ Justin Long & Emmy Rossum by the guy who created Mr. Robot. Got terrible reviews and I see why (very Eternal Sunshine+500 Days of Summer+mumblecore) but it was strangely compelling.

i keep getting stuck on happy valley. i've started it twice. get a little further each time though. i'll go back to it. kinda reminds me of a laughless fargo.

i still haven't finished lady dynamite either.

i started watching southland on hulu...

i was impressed with the episodes of southland i watched because i actually got nervous/scared watching a stupid california cop show. there is that jittery random violence energy to it.

also they opened the first episode of the first season of Southland with just the intro of "School" by Supertramp and that is something i totally would have done. if i had been in the position to do it.

the morton downey jr. doc is worth a watch. never heard of the guy before, a total piece of shit but fascinating all the same

well consider yrself lucky

you might be lucky to have missed his reign of terror. certainly the genesis of a lot of american t.v. ugliness. i never missed his show.

lucky x-post

Never heard of Morton Downey Jr. before (we never got those kinda shows in Finland), but reading at the Wikipedia description of his show, I was wondering, is that what Weird Al Yankovic was parodying in UHF?

Was it an episode of Morton where racist pos Th0m M3tzger got enjoyably strangled on set?

Geraldo

The era of skinheads on talk shows was a prime period of my life. My sister was friends with one of the SHARP guys, the good skinheads, who were on that geraldo episode immortalized so well by the Beastie Boys.

"you're all mixed up, like pasta primavera. Yo why'd you throw that chair at Geraldo Rivera?"

pablum puker

Aquarius was pretty good, though I am a fan of Manson stuff + Ellroyesque crime fiction

I'm in the middle of Aquarius myself right now. Haven't made up my mind about it yet tbh.

very much has the feel of a 3/4-constructed pulp history series that'll be halfway forgotten in a few years time

duchovny kind of floating through episodes being chill somehow carries it along

Jaco Pastorius doc is solid

Just watched (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies. Nice little pop-psych documentary centred on a lecture by Prof. Dan Ariely about the state between telling ourselves we're good people and still being able to lie in good conscience. It cycles through about 15 different types of lie/liar anecdotes in an hour and a half and still manages to resolve satisfactorily. Maybe the most interesting parts for me were the insider insights to sport corruption and the stuff about how lying over time changes your brain.

Now to watch Pretty Little Liars season 7! Everyone is excited.

Saw that Spotlight is now streaming, but can't remember if it was on Prime or Netflix.

netflix. just watched it. oof.

Guys whoa Happy Valley. This thread is working!

right!?

my gal got into Last Tango In Halifax after we finished the second season of Happy Valley and she seems to be loving it though it's a bit soapy for me.

yay for season 2 of Marco Polo, it is very corny but is visually compelling and completely addictive. and the dude who plays Kublai Khan is total badass!

How hardgoing is Happy Valley? We like non-gorey crime stuff and want something new to watch, but have had a difficult few weeks after a family issue. Will this just make us more depressed? I previewed the first 20 mins of the first episode and it seemed kind of larky.

I don't remember it being especially Corey, but it is definately dark and depressing. I'd say skip it.

no real gore from what i remember, but definitely one (shockingly) violent scene

it's rough

the violence is spread out but pretty full-on when it happens. even the implied stuff is rough. it's more the emotional intensity, lots of family trouble throughout. if you're in a dark place i would leave off for a while

i'm 20 yrs past my family shit & it still triggered me something fierce

fucking great show though. jesus.

Well shit, if course it isnt on netflix australia. Motherfuckers!