Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

On SyFy though.

Expanse was so good

expanse was fun, we have a whole thread for it!

ARQ -- ooh yeah that looks like my jam

HAS ANYONE SEEN HOLY HELL IS IT GOOD

yeah it's good! super weird & unintenionally funny at times. a little bit too "inside" maybe, but the sheer amount of footage makes it worth a look

ty ty!

tried first 2 episodes of this Designated Survivor thing: good ideas but some serious cardboard and cliches; not sure if I'll bother with going on

I like Easy. It's good. Only watched 4 of them, but definitely worth watching. I like the anthology format too. Plus, there are only 8 episodes, so, no big commitment or anything.

Tell me more about this Expanse thing

TV seasons that only last 6 or 8 or 10 episodes might be England's greatest cultural contribution.

^^^^

i'm having fun with luke cage and all, but it could definitely stand to be a few eps shorter (and i've still got like four to go!)

they could have TOTALLY cut like four episodes of Luke Cage.

editing...the forgotten art.

yeah wtf america

we just never know when to stop

It's not complete until it's boring.

there can be no doubt, every plot detail must be explained, no blood must be left in the corpse

it's like people don't know when to quit

they just find one point and hammer it home repeatedly until it's past clear and obvious and it's just beating a dead horse relentlessly and pointlessly

just over and over without any real reason or pertinent message to make

ceaseless and endless dumb repetition of a prior statement as if stuck in a loop. Sad!

I mean, have you seen what kind of tools they have for blood removal these days? Used to just tilt them upside down, now there's a pump and everything.

the Amanda Knox documentary is great and maddening

one of the worst cases of slut-shaming ever. prosecutor is so frustrating.

he also pops up in Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi's book The Monster of Florence peddling a similarly nutso satanic cult-based "theory"

he actually had Spezi (who was the most prominent journalist covering the Monster case for decades) arrested at one point as a co-conspirator

I'm guessing not all of Italy's criminal justice system is as messed up but everything about those cases is fucked

she is guilty tho, just sayin

according to the daily mail, sure

come, come with me down the bonkers rabbit hole of kercher murder obsessives... http://truejustice.org/perugia/powerpoints/Kermit14WithJamesRaperOnEvidence.pps

Tell me more about this Expanse thing

Based on the pulpy but fun popcorn space opera books.

Starts off a bit ropey but ends up being one of the best sci-fi shows since Battlestar Galactica.

Although typically of America, they've expanded the second season to 13 episodes from 10.

where is the expanse streaming?

looks like amazon prime. which i don't have.

Me neither.

Freaks and Geeks!

wtf why is that a power point

protip for Expanse fans: say it out loud as "X Pants"

super fun

ex panz

First episode of X-Pants was fun, thanks to whoever mentioned it

Detectorists back

watched Iliza Shlesinger stand-up special even though i'd never heard of her but bobcat goldthwait directed it and that's why i watched it. i figure he knows funny. ANYWAY, i laughed at parts of it but mostly i was just so impressed by how she commanded/moved around the stage and how well she expressed herself. she kinda reminded me of a motivational speaker at times or maybe even an old susan powter infomercial. but in a good way! she had so much control over her voice and body and it was impressive.

now you can tell me how horrible she is and the worst stand-up you've ever seen in your life.

the feminism/body image part was the best part. the long shark tank thing at the end was really long but i admired her commitment to it. and it did get gradually more insane and i appreciated that.

meanwhile, the whole special is on youtube.

god, Easy is such a weird show. occasionally compelling, but half of it feels like clumsy product placement for Chicago microbreweries and coffee roasters. and i feel like every episode ends with a close-up of someone's face as they unhappily accept their adult decision to stay in a relationship. i feel like i have a pretty good idea of Joe Swanberg as a guy in his mid-30s who is married and likes craft beer and also would like to sleep with other women.

and that episode with the South American couple had such a weird tone, very rapey.

that was my least favorite one. i still haven't watched the rest.

i think i stopped when i saw the next one start cuz i saw marc maron.

lol all those comments scaring me off

the rest are Maron sleeping with a college student, one half of Garfunkel & Oates having a threesome with Orlando Bloom, a kind of nothing-y one about actors, and Hannibal Buress playing it straight as a journalist writing about Dave Franco's underground brewery (featuring a truly silly amount of product placement for Half Acre/Dark Matter/Revolution/etc). yeah.

I was kind of into the idea of watching it but I think I just lost my motivation

Is ilx's own Jeff visible in the background of any beer-related scenes? Seems essential

i had no idea the businesses in that show were real. my knowledge of chicago is basically...windy...oprah.

the first one made me wince in that "please don't tell me this is what being married to me is like..." kinda way. but i'd like to think that i'm not that bad.

also, just the shlubbo married or dating good looking woman is way too common on netflix. also, all lesbians are really hot.

i dunno, i still kinda liked the slice of life thing. i would tell people to watch the first three episodes anyway.

the wince/cringe thing with straight couples in comedy/drama has kinda ceased to be interesting to me. it's rarely done well. i can take it in a stand-up routine or something blissfully insane like 30 rock. there is some movie on hulu with a million people in it all about texting and the internet and masturbation and its such an unfun cringe-fest. i think todd solondz and neil labute still have a LOT to answer for. it usually just feels like a shortcut/shorthand for universal truth about ennui or dread or frustration. people know what people are like. dig deeper, schlubbo. or write better.