Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

and i love Nancy Silverton so i am excited to watch her episode

I think Alex Atala is my #1 crush of all time, for real. The Niki Nakayama one made me cry, and it felt like they had to try really hard not to make Grant Achatz look like a total fuckin dick (which he still did anyway even w/o being explicitly dickish)

i cannot possibly convey how deeply in love w Alex Atala i am, plz bring him to me

chef's table is like good sci-fi to me or something. some fantasy planet where everything is beautiful.

I am watching Niki Nakayama one now! How much do I love her 😭

Chefs table is so good

honestly the Niki episode I'd prob put in my top 10 documentaries of all time

otm

The episodes are hit or miss but when they are good, they are so good. The Jeong Kwan one made me cry.

i miss when comics were for kids. they were more fun. frank miller ruined the world.

That's why there's Supergirl, and the Flash and stuff like that, right? We saw a Supergirl and it was good!

kind of digging The World's Most Extraordinary Homes

The airplane wing home (the first one) is cool as heck.

underground fancy houses were very cool. and very fancy. the one in greece had the most insane angles/lines/shadows. work of art really. but i kinda wanted to live in the one in switzerland. or maybe the one in new zealand...

started Schitt's Creek, it's very charming! Eugene Levy and Katherine O'Hara are (Canadian) national treasures

been watching that over the last few weeks. think im in the middle of season 3. easy show to like. think the formula is getting a stale for me about now tho.

Watched so much Netflix these last two weeks on vacation

After binging Chewing Gum, we watched Crashing (phoebe whatshername from Flea Bag), which was funny and good but stressful the same way Flea Bag was but even more so.

Followed that with Lovesick (not the Matt Leblanc one) - thanks to vegemite’s recommendation - which was great and funny and sweet. Not as cringe-inducing as Crashing.

Now halfway through Please Like Me, which is Australian but sort of in the same vein as the shows above.

Altered Carbon was fine, entertaining enough.

Oh I also binged The Sinner, since it was on Dutch Netflix. So fucking weird, especially the creepy incest scene. Don’t think I’d recommend it. The coincidences were just too much.

anyone ventured the frankenstein chronicles or whatever it's called starring n3d st4rk?

xpost I didn’t know what to make of the Sinner for a while, but it won me over the way the ending resolved. I was so afraid it was going to culminate in a horrific-incest-ring revelation that the actual ending was a relief. It really layers on the misery though, jeez. Apparently the book is even darker. O_O
My takeaway was that Jessica Biel is v good at crying. So much crying in that show!

‘please like me’ is that rarest of rare things, an australian show that’s good

yall not kidding about season 2 of Hap & Leonard being real depressing huh

Just watched the Jeong Kwan episode of Chefs Table and i’m so in love. Esp in her cute little “going to the city” hat. What a marvel that episode was.

Isn't it so wonderful? When she says (paraphrase) "being alone means you are free" just...tears. You can stay at that temple btw and make food with her.

yeah, beautiful. i love her at the school when she goes “ta daaa” and did a little dance.

starting watching this show last night. equal parts history + oh my god i want to eat that so bad....

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sampler:

Episode 1
Rajasthan's cuisine runs the gamut from rustic foods like panchkuta to complex dishes influenced by Rajput, Marwari, Mughlai and English cooking.

Episode 2
Taste the food traditions of Tamil Nadu, from Tanjore's idli, dosa, rasam and poriyal to the Anglo-Indian fare of Pudukkottai.

Episode 3
Explore the influences of Mughal, Persian and English culture in the cuisine of Delhi and Rampur and learn the delicious origins of chaat.

Episode 4
Sample dishes like nadru palak and ambal and experience a Kashmiri wazwan, an elaborate feast that plays an important role in local culture.

‘please like me’ is that rarest of rare things, an australian show that’s good

― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, March 13, 2018 1:21 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i do enjoy it too!

xpost Do they show them making specific recipes? I just made naan from scratch for the first time this past weekend ( so easy and good) and have been slowly working on adding Indian meals into my rotation.

they do kinda but its fast and looks like magic. not anything you could really follow.

but its inspiring to no end.

Yeah, adding it to my queue, I am sure it will cause me to look up some things.

Yerac, to go back a few pages, I started watching the David Chang episodes of Mind of a Chef and didn't find him bro-ish at all. I liked him a lot by the end of one episode. I found him easy unpretentious TV company, which is fairly rare.

I don't know how many episodes I made it through. I think I watched season 2 first and went back to 1 and something happened where he just really rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe it was just the complete change in tone from the second season. I did watch all of Ugly Delicious and he was better. I guess I kind of understood him a bit more in Ugly D.

Oh, it was actually season 4 I watched first with Gabrielle Hamilton.

i like the guy! i might go off him, who knows?

It might be too close for me since I'm asian american and grew up in virginia and lived in NYC. Like, I know that guy.

i def. get that. I'd have a hard time with a professional Scotsman.

I remember watching it with a farmer/baker friend. The later seasons have more of a "story". Reversing to season 1 I think we stopped watching it because it was just Chang hanging out with his bro friends (this is my memory from like 4 years back.)

I couldn't watch Chef's Table, it was like a Documentary Now! version of foodie TV.

that's what i like. it's like good tv for when you don't care to make a choice so hanging out tv is good for me.

this is actually my overriding problem with the new tv zeitgeist. tv for me is just something that's on, for the most part. as soon as you ask me to choose what to watch it's too much engagement, for me. i'd rather flick through channels and land on something and not care. there's far too much choice.

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Oh, and I am opposite. I never turn it on for it just to be on (probably because I haven't had regular tv/cable for over 10 years). When I watch something, I try to pay attention.

Chef's Table, I think is more interesting if you have a familiarity or interest in the chef or type of food they make. There are definitely some clunker episodes. Like one people mention above (LA sushi chef?) I wasn't into at all.

And I have an erg/rower in front of the tv so some of those types of shows are excellent for being a self contained work out. Also, I'm a certified sommelier and specialist of wine and spirits so I like food/restaurant types of shows.

the guy in berlin was one of the ones that you actually still ended up thinking "what a dick!" which was a rare way to end one of those shows.

Granted, a lot of chefs are dicks. It was surprising how nice Massimo Bottura (1st epi) seems. And Eric Ripert. But maybe because he is Buddhist.

xpost - there's definitely a UK/North America disconnect there. We have less channels to flick through and you can generally just land on something that's good enough.

I like Mind of a Chef for the cooking segments and fewer slow tracking shots with tense music but I'm never going to see the latest season with Mission Chinese because fuck watching a series on Facebook.

like publically funded arts or lifestyle programmes that are v well made and kill some time.

I think North America has a ton of channels and I remember the UK (sky tv when I had it) had a lot on. I just am super frugal and was trying to trick myself into being more useful with my time so I got rid of cable.

tell me more about the rower in front of tv. it’s one of the reasons I am considering keeping my old tv and putting it in a side too
with something to work out