Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I started watching Cheer and it's very good, but its inherent dangers make the entire sport problematic. I stopped watching football because of its concussion problems, and there's one cheerleader who talks about how she's had 5 of her own.

P&R is def a good comparison for Schitts Creek, including the dramatic stakes being lowered to nearly nothing in later seasons, but by that point you just like spending time with the actors/characters

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Yeah, competitive cheerleading seems like gymnastics but without any care for the athletes (less molestation too, but that's a different issue).

Moira's John Cougar Mellencamp story killed me. her "dark corner dalliance with JCM".

My recent total guffaw moment was when Patrick came back from a coffee run at the store and had gotten a scone (to be safe) and Moira's expression and delivery on "There's nothing wrong with treating yourself, dear."

David, John, and Alexis are walking reaction gifs. And Moira's pronunciations wigs are worth the cost of a Netflix subscription.

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I think that it being low stakes like parks and Rec is spot on. Also like parks and rec (and possibly more so) none of the antagonists are nasty.

s4 of Hip Hop Evolution is up :D

nice

pretty much everyone in SC is operating at the very top of their game and the rest of the show - the writing, the direction - is just getting out of the way enough to allow us to enjoy that

ooooh i LOVE Hip Hop Evolution!!! thanks for the heads up

I worry about Lexi, but I also felt like they were engaging in some 90s-style anti-rave hysteria at the end.

Well the DJ did say, "Let's make some horrible decisions"!

Yeah the Daytona episode is riveting, I had to stop eating during the performance just from the high-wire tension. And I really appreciate how they just had scene with La'Danian's brother without comment, the image spoke so much without words.

Oh and Gabi's mom, ugh, she can at least try to pretend she's not living through her daughter so shamelessly.

There's clearly so much hot mess happening in Gabi's whole family. And the coach is a type of person that I truly loathe--control and authority OBSESSED and taking out her trauma on everyone else.

It bothers me that the kids on the squad are pretty diverse--well, the boys are, altho Coach openly admits that girls are chosen to look a "certain way" which probably explains why there are few-to-no women of any color. But the white savior force is strong with this basket base. "Some of these kids never had anyone give them any standards or structure. I'm the first one to hold them to a higher standard." <--- I've seen this movie before and it sucked the first time.

Awesome news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-51178158

fantastic, no more need for need for my 'torrent every studio ghibli' project i was just about to embark on.

I've only ever watched the subtitled versions but assume some of these will have decent casts for the dubbed version?

(Reckon my nine year old would love some of these but isn't going to cope with subtitles)

There'll be dubs in 20 languages, with subtitles for 28.

the BBC story doesn't mention that they're only scheduled for Australian and Kiwi Netflix at the moment, seven films a month from February

Awesome news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-51178158🕸

The films will be screened in their native Japanese with subtitles, and available globally on Netflix with the exception of the US, Canada and Japan.  xp

boooo

hbo max has the rights in america

ooooh i LOVE Hip Hop Evolution!!! thanks for the heads up

I've tended to really enjoy all the interviews/archival footage. the host/narrator guy is completely worthless tho

I was thinking of re-upping to hbo the other day and remember "oh, they also have that hbo max thing, should look into that instead" only to realize all this hullabaloo is for some service that doesn't come out until May?!

xpost agree. He gets some A+ interviews though, I love seeing all these artists onscreen again.

every episode contains at least 4 shots of him walking around looking at buildings

"So I went to Philadelphia to see if I could talk to Lady B..."

Totally -- seeing all the old timers completely warms my heart. Could take or leave the host but the interviews are really enjoyable.

definitely. the Bay Area one I found really heartwarming tbh - all these old dudes (E-40, Shock G, Too $hort, Hammer etc) all talking about how much they love the others

yes! that episode was so great!

yeah, i might do HBO Max for a month for some of that Ghibli goodness + the new Adventure Time specials

I'm watching KIPO AND THE AGE OF THE WONDERBEASTS and although a better subtitle would be AND THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP AND SONGS, I'm really enjoying it! The animation is unexpectedly wonderful, too.

The host of Hip Hop Evolution is basically Everydork — he always seems kind of wowed and amazed at who he’s talking to and it works to help the viewer feel less nerdy/more included AND make the ppl he’s interviewing seem WAY WAY cooler than him.

I love this show!

lol that is an A+ take!! LL otm

i wish the episodes were longer & there were more of them. Blew through all 4 new eps in one sitting & went back to keep watching the next day to find it was done, like AW MAN :(

I'm watching KIPO AND THE AGE OF THE WONDERBEASTS and although a better subtitle would be AND THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP AND SONGS, I'm really enjoying it! The animation is unexpectedly wonderful, too.

My son has been watching that and the bits I've seen look great

My understanding is that hbo now (their streaming service) will just morph into hbo max.

Doomsday Preppers is ... something.

Just watched the one with the two buddies where one lets off a gun during IED testing and deafness the other one

But they make up over a dinner of goat the guy's son killed and the dad put blood on the kid's face because it was his first kill

I was SUPER into that show for a season but it is a concept with a short shelflife, at least for me.

It could be subtitled 'When Dads Go Mad' or 'All The Gear, No Idea'.

It's mad how these dudes just assume that neither the state apparatus nor any communitarian response would be up to the challenge of ... whatever disaster they're expecting. It's going to be nuclear families in bunkers versus refugees.

It’s all part of the mindset -plus also plays into macho survivalism pride of not relying on anyone else

The films will be screened in their native Japanese with subtitles, and available globally on Netflix with the exception of the US, Canada and Japan.

Huge boo. Kiki's Delivery Service has a charming sound-track that they didn't get the rights for in the Engl lang dub, and they substituted some dumb popular American song. I remember hating it.

not sure why the big fuss about the Ghibli films coming to nyetflix - film4 has had a Ghibli season every six months for the last couple of years and the DVDs are thick on the shelves of fopp / hmv.

(that said, my recording of Yamadas has a 'please retune' message on screen for the entire duration)

(oops, sorry io, that wasn't aimed at you - have just seen a third website trumpeting this as if it's a great new, rare thing when they've been available forever)

No that's okay! I'm not even a Ghibli-stan, I just remember the Engl dub of KDS being terrible.

Huge boo. Kiki's Delivery Service has a charming sound-track that they didn't get the rights for in the Engl lang dub, and they substituted some dumb popular American song. I remember hating it.

― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, January 21, 2020 1:14 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well, the songs are replaced with non-popular english-language songs presumably written for the dub but otherwise the score is intact in the english dub of kiki

the dub isn't horrible, phil hartman (rip) is a mismatch for jiji though

So you should be pleased that the original soundtrack can be heard, not booing about it?

Right, not the score--the soundtrack. Specifically the pop song that plays over the radio when Kiki first flies off on her broom was very very charming and likable (to me) and is not used in the Eng version. Also I didn't like the voices.

since we're talking about Ghibli, is this what I want if I want a DVD collection?

https://www.playtech-asia.com/studio-ghibli-collector-edition-dvd-english-dubbed-hd-version.html