Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

The Chicago Manual of Style (which I think is better than AP) says to use italics for complete works (movie, album, book etc) and quotes for individual songs, titles of chapters, etc

I'm also pro Chicago style - italics always look and read way better than quotation marks, especially when you're also quoting any lines in the movie or anyone you've interviewed about it!
gah underlining is the worst (written notes excepted)
I watched Passengers the other day and it is also the worst

AP title style is helpful when you're dealing with a format that doesn't always allow for italic type — for example, a newswire service like AP, or some types of video captions.

guys. what are we doing.

does anyone know how to pronounce missouri

does anyone on the show Ozark ever say it out loud

bringing it all back home, full circle

Glad other folks gave Maniac some love, I really liked it. Not sure which genre exercise/parody was my favorite, maybe the 20s heist/comedy of manners one or the fantasy one. The mafia one definitely went a little overboard with the gore.

mafia was my least favorite. i really enjoyed the one with the lemur...i just kind of assume that was supposed to be Jersey?

Anyone tried '1983', the alternative-history Polish series?

^^ Cosign

Just finished Dark and Netflix is recommending that to me

The Kominsky Method is pretty good. Danny Devoto as the urologist has me LOLing

^^ yes, this was very touching and funny.

we are currently enjoying the hell out of Jane The Virgin

Has anyone watched Happy as Lazzaro yet?

On netflix?

It's licensed to Netflix in North America.

Lucky you!

I'm not in that category.

Unlucky us!

Watching now!

Marcella is a real test of my ability to tell white guys apart but I'm loving it otherwise. So angry, and so not just another bitterly angry man cop.

Bird Box! Feel like there should be a thread because that shit was riveting. I had some issues with it but I have not been on the edge of my seat like that in a while .

Cool! It's getting mixed notices, probably more so in Denmark because everyone hates Susanne Bier. I like her, though.

The trailer for Bird Box looked really meh, but maybe we'll give it try. I just watched Cam. That was really weird.

I liked birdbox a lot!

Bird Box was a heartwarming movie for the holidays.

"You", the show with Penn Badgley playing a deranged version of his Gossip Girl character, is ridiculous and trashy and populated entirely by characters from the quiddities/agonies NYT thread. I LOVE IT.

Took off my blindfold this morning to discover that 45,037,125 Netflix accounts have already watched Bird Box — best first 7 days ever for a Netflix film! pic.twitter.com/uorU3cSzHR

— Netflix Film (@NetflixFilm) December 28, 2018

funny, that's how many people on my social media said it was terrible.

The movie was a lot like Unfriended.

the trailer for birdbox made it look like a shallow Quiet Place rip off but I'm hearing much better things

I thought it was better than Quiet Place but I probably prefer gore over tension.

It was a little bit more like The Mist than the Quiet Place in terms of dynamics (excluding the end).

whatever about their respective quality, it's a little silly to call a movie that came out in the same year as A Quiet Place (and that's based on a novel from 2014) as a rip-off

holy shit A Quiet Place came out this neverending year...

you is hilarious

has anyone else watched Afflicted?? i really wanna talk about it

In the US, that Kino First Women Filmmakers series is on there now. Not sure if it's all of them though.

Bird Box of was very boring

i havent seen it yet. it just seems too gimmicky. maybe this is reductive but movies like this & the quiet ones always make me think of The Village & i fkn hated that movie.

the new Vanity Fair miniseries is on Amazon Prime & it is v good.

I liked BirdBox.

I've finally started watching I'm Sorry which I love and I wasn't surprised to find out she was a writer on Veep.

Are you surprised to now find out that she wasn’t a writer on Veep?

a quiet place managed at least to ratchet the tension, bird box just never seemed to have anything or anyone at stake in a way that wasn't really predictable. the whole thing felt...flat

I also have some inchoate uneasiness about the whole [SPOILER SORTA] angle w/r/t the "mentally ill," it felt a little icky

The first 30 minutes or so were riveting. Everything from when they drive down to the supermarket was boring and predictable. It almost feels like the original writers and director were fired halfway through production and replaced with a new crew under the directive of “just finish the thing, and keep it under budget”. I don’t really watch a lot of horror movies but is it common for a two hour+ movie to leave so much unexplained? Probably does deserve its own dedicated thread, don’t wanna post spoilers here

no one can trick me into watching a suzanne bier movie

Anyone recommend any kids shows?

Mine (10 & 8) currently enjoy the following:

Little Lunch (great)
Victorious/iCarly/Sam & Cat (good)
The Next Step (ok)
Some Assembly Required (not good)
Richie Rich (awful)

How old?

Hilda!

Hilda seconded

no one can trick me into watching a suzanne bier movie

― resident hack (Simon H.), 31. december 2018 05:52 (fifteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You really should watch The One and Only. Danish comedy at it's best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj3V3j4SeZo