Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Although cheers isn't on Netflix uk :/

Yeah that’s weird, all the ones I mentioned were on the mobile app earlier and now they’ve gone

They seem to have some kind of technical problem today. Site was down earlier for a little while.

And I have a much greater appreciation for Diane now I'm an adult (and more Diane-like).

OTM, we are just a few episodes into a traversal of season 1 and Diane is really great. Obv I couldn't stand her as a child.

Also, how lucky were these guys to have Rhea Perlman, holy crap

West Wing seasons 1-4 rule the school who wants to fite me ( s6 & 7 are very watchable , season 5 is not good & hard to watch. But non-Sorkin WW generally mishandles Toby in a way that still irks me)

:D

Fauda

The West Wing's handling of female characters is so bad and the politics (or lack thereof, more accurately) are lame but it's still watchable.

"Thanks for the HACF recommendation above. It's still heavy-handed but much improved about six episodes in."

i don't usually do that thing that people do like: "no really it gets way better after the first 10 episodes!" because that just seems like work and life is -kinda- short but that show gets WAY better after the first season. but the first season sets all the gears in motion.

also: KUNG FU YOGA was a hoot last night! one of the best recent jackie chan movies i've seen. he is not a young man anymore but he's still got it. also: full tilt jackie chan bollywood dance number at the end! kinda made me deliriously happy to see that.

loving a lot of these later in life fuck hollywood chan/yun-fat/li movies. they get the royal treatment instead of having to make timecop 6 or some shitty thing like that.

I'm sure I said this already but I completely skipped s1 of H&CF and never regretted the move, it's actually kind of neat to work out the backstory shit on your own

Just finished American Vandal, I think it might be the best thing Netflix has done.

2nd only to Bojack. Really sharply written and acted, and also weirdly disturbing at the end?

Was really excited about diving into American Vandal, but now I am torn, since I am not a fan of Bojack.

yeah i've tried to get into bojack so many times - i can't pay attention to it.

they're nothing alike afaik?

It was a somewhat facetious comment on my part in response to anyone saying any show is second to Bojack, which I really don't like. I know Vandal is totally different.

3 episodes into American Vandal. It's hilarious and extremely well-done :D

i should watch american vandal with maria. i stopped after a couple of episodes.

Monster Hunt is excellent by the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRXTOw1InAE

if you like quiet movies that are like plays and basically set in one room i recommend Warehoused. Mexican movie. i liked it a lot. watch it when you can be quiet. just two actors. they are both really good.

holy shit American Vandal expands into something incredible and way, way beyond its initial premise

the final episode is incredibly troubling & haunting, but also contains 2017's funniest tv moment. a pause-for-ninety-seconds-while-laughing moment

I wish it existed when I was in high school, because I feel like it’s a work where you can return to it and have a different understanding of the characters

this Atypical show is alright. kind of cliched and stupid but the daughter saves it

I don't think anyone's mentioned Dark Matter] yet? Production values aren't great, but it grows into its campiness and then actually becomes great.

this sounds like my shit but 3 seasons my god

Finally watched Force Majeure, something I'd been meaning to watch for a while. The buzz about the director's new film helped motivate me. By focusing very closely on seemingly minor events, the film gently reminds us of some bigger truths, such as: what does it mean to be a good father? Some great acting too. I'm now eagerly looking forward to seeing The Square.

for sure.

i love force majeure so much. i think i watched it three times.

My Own Swordsman is great by the way. so entertaining and cool. if you are looking for a really funny Chinese movie to watch.

Gonna throw my hat in on American Vandal too after finishing it up tonight. Really smart and well done. Funny too of course, but that didn’t seem like the driving force. Not at all what you’d expect from a mockumentary about a dopey teen accused of spray painting dicks on cars.

i finished it today too because of the talk here and i kinda feel like i didn't need to watch the whole thing. i have a lot of movies to watch. but it's okay.

it should have been shorter. but it was glorious.

it was never really about who did the dicks

it was about ethics in dicks journalism

no movie I've ever watched with my folks has ever made them angrier than Force Majeure

score one for force majeure!

you should have seen how disgusted my mother-in-law got when i was drunk one christmas and decided that dario argento's inferno was going to be our annual holiday movie to watch together as a family.

watched grizzly man with my parents one christmas night - they were kind of into it tho annoyed/bemused by poor timmy.

this sounds like my shit but 3 seasons my god

Dark Matter starts off slowly, but the plotting gets lean and fast within a few episodes and is humming from there on out.

It's also been cancelled so there won't be a 4th season which means it basically ends mid-story.

finally started Halt and Catch Fire and am about 3/4ths of the way through the first season

all of these people are relatively insane, I have to remind myself it's just a show so I don't get anxious!

anybody mentioned the Judah Friedlander special? 12 minutes in and I'm all about this guy

I've been bingeing H&CF all week and loving it, just made it to the start of season 3. Everyone's right, it does massively improve in the 2nd season, although the last few of the first season are pretty good too.

Anyway I love all the cast (even Lee Pace!). I've binged a lot of very watchable shows, but nothing for a while that's invested me so much in the characters.

Also I wasn't aware of Toby Huss's previous work, so his sudden outing as the comic relief in season 2 was a nice surprise.

I dunno if he still does it but he used to a live cabaret-style show in LA as a Sinatra-inspired character called Rudi Casoni

https://laughingsquid.com/actor-toby-huss-croons-california-uber-alles-as-rudi-casoni-frank-sinatras-bastard-son/

only other thing I've seen him in is a bit part in the movie The Invitation. He's amazing throughout this show in any case.

oh hey i remember huss from his mtv commercials in the '90s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3veAHvjRpFk

"we live in an oligarchy. but with the humidity it feels like a dictatorship"

To me he'll always be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1AAEtH4Rzo

The Coltrane documentary is on Netflix now. Dubious about it, but will have to give it a watch.

With Halt and Catch Fire, what is the best strategy: Make it through the first season but let my wife know that apparently it gets better, risking that she might not want to see the second season if she doesn't like the first? Or skip right to the second?

tbh it’s a ten episode season, I’d recommend she just pay half attention and you can fill her in on any gaps