Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

"Easy" just feels like it ropes in every millennial cue and trope possible. It was enjoyable to watch at times but laughably on the nose.

i think todd solondz and neil labute still have a LOT to answer for.

i cant even think of specific reasons but this feels v much like a truth bomb

Neil LaBute has a post-apocalyptic vampire show coming out on SyFy

is something I just found out the other day

13TH is on Netflix, yes?

yes.

i think one of the bleakest shows i've seen recently is The Super. so bleak. bleaker than Hoarders. just misery with no redneck comic relief a la Cops. or at least the ones i saw didn't have it. The Super himself is some sort of psychological terrorist. He's every authority figure ever in one guy. i couldn't take too many episodes. if you like artless and sad cinema verite reality t.v. i highly recommend it.

seriously might be one of the worst and most abusive shows i've ever seen. which is saying something. just one guy yelling at people with all kinds of problems episode after episode. and its all about how HE is the one suffering.

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

every super has a fucking martyr complex

if you like artless and sad cinema verite reality t.v. i highly recommend it.

― scott seward, Wednesday, October 12, 2016 4:29 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ty this is amazing

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.

― scott seward, Wednesday, October 12, 2016 11:03 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i got the same vibe and could only stomach about 12 minutes of this. reminded me a bit of megachurch preachers too, so broad and well-drilled. when the third hashtag was put up as a subtitle to a gag i had to check out. can see why she fills big rooms tho. like @girlposts has 6M followers, that kind of thing.

it does get better. but i guess you will just have to take my word for it. she sets up her girly girl routine to lead into a long thing about feminism, etc, and its actually pretty cool.

i watched an earlier special called War Paint on Youtube and i liked it even more. there are some really crazy bits in that one.

i tried an earlier one too, maybe that one?

she just gave me the feeling of like expertly executing the form of standup w/o generating any laughter at all

i gotta say i thought the john mulaney specials were hilarious

"she just gave me the feeling of like expertly executing the form of standup w/o generating any laughter at all"

see i totally laughed when she did a routine about the sarah mclachlan spca commercial and then brought her dog out onstage and sang the sarah mclachlan song. i like her funny voices too. plus, she does this weird long bit about wanting to be a witch pharmacist at cvs and its not typical stand-up at all. more like creative writing. so, i give her an A for effort.

she writes a LOT for one show. must be pages and pages of material.

i will check out john mulaney too though.

"Easy" makes Chicago look so lame I really hate it

it makes it look like a semi-suburban college town.

chicago, that sleepy little town

tbf whole swathes of chicago do kinda look and feel like a semi-suburban college town

f u expat

that's part of its appeal!

The criticisms of "Easy" are all valid. I kinda like it though

it's watchable. i like the format best.

i thought the episode w/ the rape was actually quite good albeit extremely sad & upsetting because it was about something & i thought had a kind of purposefulness the other ones lacked but i might be giving it too much credit just for that

maybe its an elementary point, though

I watched the first Iliza Shlesinger special, War Paint. I remember her leaning extremely hard on her airhead-woman voice and her ability to convincingly imitate a goat. If you took those parts out I think there would be about five minutes left over.