Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Netflix's share price is ~$300p/s with a market cap of ~$130B. It's all absurd. That said it's the only regular tv/movies I've paid for in 15 years.

this is why i was on board with Moviepass this past year. i think without the relentless negative press, they would've been able to keep bilking new investors for years on their way to profitability like every other internet company more or less

Loved season 1 of Lady Dynamite, bailed out on season 2 after a couple of minutes. Couldn't manage the surreal awfulness (which probably says more about my tastes now than earlier).

Right now, I'm loving the non-US shows Netflix has licensed: Occupied, Suburra, Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories, Cable Girls, Gomorrah, and Fallet (a must for everyone who's burned out on Scandinavian noir)

Anyone watch any of 3% yet? It's a Brazilian show that sounds reminiscent of The Hunger Games but it's directed by César Charlone - probably best known as the cinematographer of City Of God which gets me interested.

Might start A Very Secret Service next, but waiting for reports first.

i need to check all of those out. confession: I almost always watch tv high (so I can sleep through the night) and hence have a tendency to fall asleep halfway through things, and also have a hard time reading and comprehending.

I think A Very Secret Service is terrific, it acknowledges France's absurdity of thinking of itself as a world power and has some great jokes about French social attitudes.

Season 2 doesn't start particularly brightly but is well worth sticking with.

Has there been anything really, really excellent in the last few years, or just a lot of stuff that's pretty good?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 25 October 2018 16:53 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no

I would contend that Bojack Horseman is truly excellent.

Also Terrace House.

Latest Bojack season not truly excellent I think

Biggest crime is probably that ep11 is telegraphed so doesn't have the shock value of previous ep11s. The run of 'Free Churro', 'INT. SUB' and 'Mr Peanutbutter's Boos' is tremendous though and Henry Fondle is a great character.

Those three episodes are the obvious pinnacle yes

s4e11 makes my head rattle, it’s one of the cleverest things i have ever seen

yeah and it set an impossible standard to follow tbh - maybe the creative team should just make a full-blown transhistorical epic next

I love Trerrace House so much.

and also Terrace House.

OMG, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina starring Kiernan Shipka, I kind of want to watch this.

That has been a much anticipated show at my workplace

Checking out the first episode. Probably not for me, but it warms my heart that Shipka has a leading role.

Two episodes into Sabrina and really not feeling it.

I hear the cat doesn't even talk

you have to be open to watching something made for young people, but Hilda is legit one of the best netflix originals I've seen

is it? it looked interesting and def like the kind of thing we normally like (a little 'over the garden wall'esque)

Yeah, Hilda is just great! Beautiful hand-drawn animation, and all around this wonderful sensibility where nature bleeds into tangible mythology. Kinda like Totoro, if Totoro was informed by Nordic folklore instead of Japanese.

It takes a couple episodes to really come together, and it is for sure a kid's show (though idk what age would be appropriate), but if the aesthetic appeals at all, def check it out. I thought it was pretty, funny, and dreamy.

"Kinda like Totoro, if Totoro was informed by Nordic folklore instead of Japanese" and Kevin Huizenga worked on it too

think sabrina is fine

Another vote for Hilda,although I didn't manage to get through the whole thing.

Decided to try ep 3. Sabrina's constant wokeness is beginning to wear me down.

it is for sure a kid's show (though idk what age would be appropriate)

I'm sure the books sell to as many adult readers as children

Oh I'm sure, and the show is entirely enjoyable. I'm just aware some people are allergic to anything pitched at kids, and I'm largely aware of that due to ilx.

tbc, if you're an adult but can get into Pixar, for ex, you could watch this.

oh no American Vandal was just cancelled :(

Boo.

I love that show, but at least it's self contained by season.

Is Sabrina OK to watch with a 9 year old? Thinking about watching w/my daughter.

Hilda is great. books are great too

AV2 was a dud :/
AV1 owned

xxpost I would say it’s a little bit too scary & grownup for a 9 year old. The scary parts are pretty full-on for a kid that age imo

in other news I love Sabrina

I'm enjoying it.

Plus Bronson Pinchot!

And the Castlevania animation is fine, po-faced, hokum.

xxpost I would say it’s a little bit too scary & grownup for a 9 year old. The scary parts are pretty full-on for a kid that age imo

Thanks! We got through about 5 minutes last night and she said it was freaking her out. We went ended up watching the first two episodes of Hilda (which we both loved).

aw <3

omg I didn’t realize the school principal was played by Bronson Pinchot until this thread - and I’m on ep 3! It’s a pretty fun show! Though i think a top-notch comedy writer could elevate it to tv greatness.

I watched The Dark Crystal last night and boy does it hold up! (Not going to traumatize my kid with it yet though, maybe in a few years)

Hmm - don't care for the 'shining' knock off in ep 7. Seems...unpleasant.

really looking forward to the DArk Crystal prequel which is coming to netflix at some point. maybe next year or 2020?

Next year some time, yeah!

I love the first two Transporters, but replacing Jim Henson and Frank Oz and David Odell and Brian Froud with the director of Clash Of The Titans and the writer of some Annihilation comics for Marvel doesn't seem like a recipe for improvement

I don't know if this thread is only about series or Netflix originals, but the film-geeks should check out 'Dovlatov' by Aleksei German Jr, which for some reason is on there. Not the best film in the world, but a different kind of experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coos41slD1I

I am expecting the dark crystal reboot to be soul-crushingly bad, so if it’s even halfway decent that’ll be ok #netflixstandards

i am really loving the cinematography in Sabrina, esp the phosphorescent greens & yellows & rich dark colors, and the weird blurred lens when magic is going on, the textures of the costumes, and i love the score too...it’s all been great for me so far. agree w rrrobyn that a good comedy writer could really make it.

they're using only puppetry in dark crystal so that's something.