Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

question for you: if it hadn’t been promoted as stand up comedy would you feel differently about it?
ie removing the expectation that it would be funny?

The weed cooking show is sub-Viceland bad.

I was out of town for the weekend and the grad student who watched our dog also watched 9 episodes of the weed cooking show according to the “continue watching” thing

veg otm, nanette is very much a slightly witty lecture dressed up as comedy to disarm the audience

Any of your stash missing, joygoat?

Yeah, the Gadsby thing shouldn't have been categorized as stand up. But I still enjoyed it.

isn't this her big thing after announcing she was retiring from standup?

she does it in the special more/less. it's a bit of a work - she's actually been fine-tuning this performance for almost two years - but honest enough at the core

The Ranch is truly awful. Most incongruous laugh track I've heard in a while.

I saw Nanette last year live, and walked out of it stunned. My partner at the time and I could barely figure out what to say to one another on the way home. It was during the month of the postal survey on SSM here last year which gave the whole evening a particular charge.

I watched on Netflix over the weekend and even though I knew exactly what was coming and what to expect, I was still left a weeping mess.

I'm not sure what's next for Hannah and I worry about her having to relive her trauma over and over again by doing this show for well over a year. But I'm glad it seems to be resonating, and I'm happy to see her have success and tell her story in her own way.

she's actually been fine-tuning this performance for almost two years -

yeah, I haven't seen her for about four years, but iirc she announced this at the start of last year as being the last tour-y [not-really-]comedy thing, or first tour-y non-comedy thing, before switching to the art stuff full-time

It was during the month of the postal survey on SSM

oh fuck, that would have been completely devastating

i get it, i know what it is. it's just not clever enough to not be funny (which it isn't).

Whut? It isn't not clever enough to not be funny?

I don't think it's clever enough to make up for the fact that it's not funny, since it's actually a comedy show as it's presented. However, I'm definitely not here to shit on anyone's enthusiasm for this or for HG in general so I'll stop.

*NOT actually a comedy show*

I binged season two of Marcella this weekend, and goddamn did that go to some dark, dark places.

xxp got it, thanks

Set It Up, yet another comedy about how horrible bosses are actually spiky but redeemable lost souls and not, actually, weapons-grade savages responsible for 95% of the world's human misery

The woman lead in set it up was very charming.

Has it been mentioned that the Ken Burns Vietnam doc is up?

shh. we don't want somebody up in here posting about "good faith" all the time

lol

scottish horror/thriller Calibre looks good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6yaSYAk2KU

I'm not sure it's on stateside.

ooh i like that guy!

which one?

Watched W Kamau Bell: Private School Negro but didn't get through it. Dunno, his energy was pretty all over the place and comedy is so subjective, like I can handle that from Bamford or whatever but yeah, he had some good stories and was sincere but the stand up comedy hit to miss ratio on Netflix is pretty off.

the hit/miss ratio on everything on Netflix is whack. You really have to question the judgment of the producers and commissioners.

their largest viewing audience numbers wise is millenials, so they seem to cater to that demographic and lifestyle, but like god was that kathy bates pot show terrible

hit/miss ratio on movies & broadcast n cable tv isn't too good either!

I just watched the hell out of SECRET CITY.

Just watched End of the F***ing World finally and thought it was fantastic.

I binged season two of Marcella this weekend, and goddamn did that go to some dark, dark places.

I'm not quite sure what I think of that ending.

Holy shit. Why did I avoid GLOW for so long???

marcella s2 is definitely pushing things into some questionably lurid territory.

xpost <3 glow is the best! we have a thread for it too

marcella s2 is definitely pushing things into some questionably lurid territory.
― tylerw,

-- spoiler alert --
was that the ending with her being 'rediscovered' as a hobo under the bridge ?
if so, then yeah, we are entering a "Marvel Origins" universe for S3 that I am not sure I will give a shit about.

I got through like 2 episodes of Marcella, winning combo of both unremittingly bleak and howlingly stupid

veg otm, nanette is very much a slightly witty lecture dressed up as comedy to disarm the audience

yup, totally devastating

lol at the end of marcella season 2, geez louise. yes, that's the ending. just stupid. kind of too bad — i generally like the actors, but the whole thing is ridiculous.

new joel mchale season is up!

Anyone else watched/watching The Forest? It's really silly (the wolf!) but diverting all the same,

Also watched Dark which pretty much had me up until the final shot.

Enjoying The Forest now, thanks! Kinda wish the wolf would eat Virginie.

Jeph Loeb cosplayed as Akira Yoshida to promote Iron Fist at SDCC

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DigrWzOUwAAHKxF.jpg

why did I ever wait so long to watch Glow?!

I watched that new movie Extinction last night. Hmmm. At least the big twist explained why everyone was so stupid (and the eye makeup was distracting) in the movie.

I'm watching Glow for the first time, too, although slightly less enamoured. It's fine, but I dunno: a brilliant, idea, but Marron, in all his dishevelment, is kind of indicative of the 'will this do?'sense of a lot of the writing.

it kind of bumps along, plot-wise, but the individual characters and the spectacle were enjoyable enough for me to keep watching

Glow rocks. Just embrace it.

having one of the main characters be a kind of try-hard very normy person who just can’t figure out how to break through, and comes off that way, works pretty well

they over-telegraph it right at the beginning with the “I don’t know if I love or hate you, you’re attractive one moment and repulsive the next” speech but it works

Enjoying Dark Tourist more than I expected, it's more Louis Theroux than Vice

i was a big fan of tickled but couldnt get into dark tourist