Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

If it's available in your part of the world, then the Icelandic film 'And Breathe Normally' is very much worth seeing.

finally started bodyguard, it's alright. not sure what the big hubhub was on either side; it's neither the greatest show ever, nor am I finding it 'rife with islamaphobia'. it's just weird to see rob stark in modern london.

Ron Stark is also the "hot dj" in that movie Ibiza.

i've only seen the trailer for 'bodyguard' but did not recognize robb stark at all

Heh "Ron" Stark.

nor am I finding it 'rife with islamaphobia'

Within the current context of British politics, it wasn't great!

it's neither the greatest show ever

Within the context of whatever shit's usually on BBC Sunday evening, it was pretty good!

i just started You and i just want to say I’m glad to see Lou Taylor Pucci looking normal & not playing a terminally ill character

I normally hate things that are narrated and i feel a bit gross about how stalky it is and I am still kinda on the fence but I believe in yall’s power of not steeering me wrong on this stuff so i’m gonna keep going

OH WAIT

yep ok in

Conan’s new show on here is pretty good. Basically his “on location” shtick (best part of his og shows imo) in various countries, different one per episode. Mexico one got me a little choked up.

milennial dexter is funny

finally started bodyguard, it's alright. not sure what the big hubhub was on either side; it's neither the greatest show ever, nor am I finding it 'rife with islamaphobia'.

haha, did that last night and had the same thought. Anyway, it's no Homeland in this department.

i give it a polite applause for a surprise ending regardless.

I keep thinking about starting You, but Page Badgely's (whatever his name is) measured and even orating in the trailer drives me crazy. I might have to give it a go though. I decided to start Pretty Little Liars as the thing to watch while I exercise at home and that show is extreme creepstery.

we watched like 5 episodes of You last night, it's great!

I kept comparing it, in my mind, to last year's film "the only living boy in new york" in that they both have hyper-literary characters; but You handles all of this deftly and amusingly while that film was some ponderous goddamned lit-grad-school showboating that made me want to kick my TV in.

'pretty little liars' is fucking painful; fun for a while and by like season 4 I was ready to kill myself and all the liars. I have no idea if they ever found out who A was and stopped caring.

Yeah, I might switch it out. I am only on episode 3 or 4 and the amount of adult men perving/getting it on with high school girls is really gross.

I keep thinking about starting You, but Page Badgely's (whatever his name is) measured and even orating in the trailer drives me crazy.

the narration is more or less constant, so this will probably be an issue

"the amount of adult men perving/getting it on with high school girls is really gross."

that never stops and indeed increases. though I guess the girls get older.

'pretty little liars' is fucking painful; fun for a while and by like season 4 I was ready to kill myself and all the liars. I have no idea if they ever found out who A was and stopped caring.

― akm, Sunday, January 6, 2019 10:00 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pll is an actively terrible and uninteresting show that i watched all of for some reason lol, not recommended unless you are really dedicated to trash

Yeah, I might switch it out. I am only on episode 3 or 4 and the amount of adult men perving/getting it on with high school girls is really gross.

― Yerac, Sunday, January 6, 2019 10:02 AM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

spoilers: ezra remains a shitty creepy love interest that they try to make seem like legit True Wuv for the entire show, they don't even kill him like they should've

well, 'Ghost Stories' was a perfect way to make a lazy Sunday afternoon a little more interesting.
mk2 even put his phone down and totally got into it.

Yeah, I was like, why can't these pervy men even be a little hot!?! I had higher hopes for the show.

Watching the third season of a Season of Unfortunate events. It really is something special. I can see people watching it for a long time to come.

Though I might be biased by my love of Patrick Warburton....

Mainlined You in a shamefully short timeframe. Tbh though I'm sort of annoyed at how much it wound up cribbing from Dexter

I’ll avoid based on that comment.

dexter meets gossip girl

Yikes

tidying up with marie kondo is way more engrossing than it has any right to be

So Rob Stark won a golden globe for Bodyguard??? Is he good in it?

nope

still bitter that Netflix rejected my pitch for Tidying Up With Jordan Peterson

they still have an option open on attempting a bowel movement with jordan peterson iirc

Did you get through all the Marie Kondo episodes? I bailed on episode 5 I think.

watched the first four, i think? last one we saw was the (totally adorbs) family of four who had downsized to a two-bedroom apartment in l.a.

it's good on-in-the-background fodder but the formula is pretty glaring from episode to episode

It got very very samey. And i had this weird feeling that some people were hoping for a lot of new furniture, renovations instead of...boxes.

ha, yeah - like there are some good tips and stuff in there but ultimately a lot of it comes down to 'put stuff in clear plastic boxes and stack foldable stuff upright'

i do find it weirdly soothing, tho

I wanted more sorting, folding segments to be soothed. Like how people watch videos of storm drains being unclogged.

joke's on marie kondo, nothing sparks joy

— anaïs e-m (@anaees) January 6, 2019

the bodyguard was terrible and richard madden is bad in it.

xp hah, I tweeted something like that a month or so back. some seasonal anhedonia and marie kondo and boom, empty house

richard madden is one of those rare talents whose natural scottish accent somehow nevertheless seems fake onscreen (see also: mcgregor, ewan and hannah, john)

the bodyguard was soo bad, really can't fathom why it became such a big deal.

Joe Goldberg in You is both wayyy less competent and less sympathetic than Dexter - dexter at least knows he's a monster, joe is straight toxic Nice GuyTM. That's partly what makes the show so funny though - even though it's mostly his narration we hear, it makes us laugh AT him as much as he mocks everyone else.

I kept expecting Mooney to namecheck his "dark passenger" in those flashback scenes

finished ozark s2 and am still on board, despite standing by my earlier criticism that it is wearying. as a resident of arkansas, a "right to work state," i find it hilarious that it becomes a major plot point. hell, might've introduced some people to the term "right to work state." dunno. also funny that, the way they present it, there's absolutely no middle ground. the only alternative to right-to-work is the mob (i.e. the union).

I probably just took that for granted :/

I finished ozark s2 as couple of weeks ago. I think I probably won't continue.

I haven't seen You and never will but still laughed at this thread

YOU is shot so lushly like a classic melodrama which is only part of the reason I can’t stop watching it

— Ira (@ira) January 6, 2019

bodyguard was fine. pretty good for a bbc drama. richard madden is v handsome, but a wee bit short for my tastes