Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Has Big Mouth been discussed yet? Watched the first two episodes last night and got a kick out of it.

So funny! I think it's been mentioned above, but I never miss a chance to point out how much Jason Mantzoukas rules. He rules.

I liked it, especially Maya Rudolph as the female sex demon, her accent is all-time.

Maya Rudolph is crazy good in this. The sleepover episode was amazing.

i watched Marcella last week. if u thought Happy Valley was a bummer, holy shit

Happy Valley was much tougher than this is. Nothing with Anna Friel and Jamie Bamber can be that bleak imho.

you guys HAVE to see Meru. if you are anything like me the whole movie will have you saying: "AHHHHHH WTF holy shit dude OMG no!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pZ1GzXPEO8

climbers are odd

started LA CASA DE PAPEL which for some reason has been re-titled, in english, MONEY HEIST.
Pretty good so far. Series about a group of ppl who take hostages in the Spanish mint. I have a soft spot for eurocrime tho.

MONEY HEIST
CASH STEALING
WEALTH THEFT
CURRENCY-TAKING CRIME

started LA CASA DE PAPEL which for some reason has been re-titled, in english, MONEY HEIST.
Pretty good so far. Series about a group of ppl who take hostages in the Spanish mint. I have a soft spot for eurocrime tho.

It really starts to drag out towards the end, but otherwise entertaining.

There is a mini-series of the Lawrence 9/11 book The Looming Tower starting in a fortnight. Some of the interesting stuff I recall in the book was about the terrifying sounding al-Jafr prison that acted as a radicalisation incubator for dangerous street thugs like al-Zarqawi and the stuff about Bin Laden's maverick older brother. He liked doing daredevil stunts in light aircraft and he once sent medical video footage of an an anal procedure he had to King Fahd as a joke. Of course there much more to the book, I would bet the tv version will concentrate more on the CIA/FBI pissing each other off.

Meru is indeed awesome

I started Glitch last night & I kinda dig it.
I guess it’s kind of an Aussie take on Les Revenants but i never saw that so idk for sure

posted about this one in the top 5 canadian tv shows thread but back in the 90s we had our version of "COPS" and it was called "to serve and protect"

anyway it's on netflix (us and canada, not sure about the uk and ireland) but they renamed it to "under arrest"

the episodes are condensed but still have some quality stuff from vancouver, calgary and i believe toronto

edmonton too but they might've removed those scenes from this version of the show

chris rock stand up was pretty decent

anybody watched Shot in the Dark? It's about the dudes who make a living filming crime/disaster/death/etc and selling it to news stations. none of them reach the level of jake g's character from Night Crawler but they're all kinda douchey - there's an amazing scene in one of the first eps where one of the dudes actually saves someone's life. NB one of the show's executive producers is one of the cameramen, so it's def not objective at all.

Doc or fiction?

to anyone who's gonna watch the Chris Rock special, good luck paying attention to anything but the saggy fold of t-shirt chest fabric that hangs underneath his crew neck the ENTIRE TIME

if you can afford it, why not buy a properly fitting t-shirt? I don't get it

what an incredibly weird thing to focus on

xps documentary series

Babylon Berlin, guys. It's great
(I think everyone on FB has blocked me because I won't shut up about it)

I'm almost finished the whole season it's BANANAS it's so good also v stressful
Like I loved it so much I even briefly looked into learning German for real lol

I watch / listened to the Chris Rock special and didn't notice his t-sag

I watched half of it so far and totally noticed.

Anyone watching Somebody Feed Phil, the travel/food show starring the producer of Everybody Loves Raymond? Looks charming, gonna watch as a family, I think.

i didn't watch that. his show about bringing Raymond to Russia was kinda boring.

i did watch the first episode of Ugly Delicious, David Chang's new show.

i just noticed that season 2 of Hap and Leonard is up! will definitely watch that.

I didn't really like Somebody Feed Phil, his wide-eyed wonder shtick wore really thin. It's also shot so each episode has a sort of redemption arc build into it; "I didn't know about any of this and look, now I'm evangelising about it!" I'm also sceptical about how many choices are done by convenience and not quality - in Mexico City, for example, all the locations (except for one specific example) were about 500 yards from each other.

Hated Ugly Delicious, started two episodes and failed to finish either of them.

i just noticed that season 2 of Hap and Leonard is up! will definitely watch that.

i like THE JOEL MCHALE SHOW. riyl THE SOUP because it’s pretty much that except joel wears jeans now.

seconded, it’s good

Money Heist shark jump moment is when one of the victims sleeps with one of the robbers but I'm still gonna finsih it.

I also am stoked about the 2nd season of Hap & Leonard! I started the first ep last night but fell asleep.

Joel McHale show I didn't think was that good. But I'll keep watching it cuz I really liked the Soup when we had cable.

Mute was --- uncannily bad. like so close to being good but in the end, not

the only reason I watched it was because William Gibson recommended it on twitter and praised the world building and tbf that was interesting but man as an actual plot it just wasn't good

kinda fun to see Rudd as a baddie tho

anyway dr c should watch it and give the definitive review thx in advance

anybody watched Chewing Gum? it's insanely funny - british tv comedy written by and starring Michaela Coel, who is amazing. it's OTT and ridiculous and absurb. i can't understand about a third of the dialogue and it's still funny as fuck.

i started watching A Week in Watts, but got bad vibes as soon as one of the cops was basically like "yeah the community here didn't want BLM stirring up shit", gave it another 20mins, but it felt v v much like police propaganda.

Chewing Gum is fantastic

^^^ ok just watched the first ep and it destroyed me

Right?!

The Last Kingdom is better than I expected. Never great but never really bad or dull.

Chewing gum is awesome. Best British sitcom in years.

gbx otm, I think the mutual praise online has to do more with personalities and less about the content

I get the whole "simple plot that could take place any time transposed into a science fiction future" premise can be done well, but the whole thing was a stock setting plus half a script :/

I guess it was an interesting exercise in determining if Justin Theroux would be gross if he was a creep with shaggy blonde hair. He was still kind of compelling.

(previous post in reference to the movie Mute)

This thread is too long for me to load all the messages and smugly point out that I brought up how amazing Chewing Gum was months ago ;). I think Ulysses and I talked about it here a little bit at the time but, yes, it's so great. I can't wait for the next season.

Also - I didn't notice anything weird about C Rock's t shirt but I did mourn the fact that he wasn't wearing some fancy-ass shiny suit.

I think we made it through two or three episodes of Chewing Gum but really couldn't take it. It was just so over-the-top, like a human cartoon. We liked Fleabag better, but that's a lot darker.

I saw that Ash Vs the Evil Dead has been on Netflix for a while now, and I wanted to catch up, but I could only make it through a few episodes of that as well. Every episode I saw felt like it was about 15 minutes too long.

x-post - Aw, it is but I somehow I didn't mind and it worked for me. I loved fleabag too though and read yesterday that Pheoebe Ican'trememberherlastname is writing a rom-com thriller movie. Excited for that.

Loved Chewing Gum. We watched all of Altered Carbon and I have absolutely no clue what it was about.

we have a thread for that!

mostly it's about exploitation and never saying the word "capitalism" iirc

finished up Ozark, and while i liked it, the piling on of complications got a bit wearying. and really zero resolutions and a fizzling ending. there were some cool bits though. and some funny ones.