Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

(It doesn't really, I'm, just drunk.)

Watched recently:

The Babysitters Club

The Babysitters Club, along with Sweet Valley High, was much of my childhood reading material (before I got into my teens and graduated to more age-appropriate fare like Vampire Chronicles fic and Stephen King books).

This show was actually recommended to me by a fellow ilxor and it’s incredible. I’ve watched it twice over now. The updated material makes sense, the kids are very true to their book characters without coming across as cloying or irritating, and ofc my fave Claudia Kishi is INCREDIBLE.

Seriously, I’m not sure it’s possible to watch Claudia and Mean Janine without tearing up at least a little.

Strongly recommend, for a wholesome watch that’s not saccharine and does the things the books did well.

Selling Sunset

Currently watching this and it’s great. You could say trash - the clothes, the heels, the copious amount of plastic surgery - but if you don’t like looking at enormous tasteless houses and cringing at how awful the rich are, who even are you?

Obviously selling high priced property, all the women are tough, and watching how they work together and bump off each other is the best part of the show. (It’s not the damn owners, who never add anything to a single scene). I love Christine, even though (or because?) she’s awful, and Mary (even though she’s fooling herself). A good easy watch.

I need to get around to checking out BSC - I loved those books too and haven't heard a single bad thing about the series. And yessss Claudia Kishi, style queen and rare Asian character in 90s kid lit, was my hero growing up. <3

However good you think Claudia will be, she’s better. Also, her and Mimi? The cutest.

The Society & I Am Not Okay With This cancelled due to Covid-19 production issues.

https://deadline.com/2020/08/the-society-i-am-not-okay-with-this-canceled-netflix-covid-related-no-season-2-1203020036/

Dang, I liked I Am Not Okay With This a lot.

Is The Society s1 worth watching?

hope Netflix's no-residuals policy worked out for Chuck Forsman here

baby sitters club is indeed INCREDIBLE

We watched the first part of Babysitters Club - it was a bit slow at the start. So we flipped over to Teenage Bounty Hunters. That was quite the shift in tone & content.

if I never read Babysitters Club would I still enjoy it?

(I was more of a Sweet Valley High gal, lol)

Yes. First and last episodes aren’t as good as the test, but they’re still good.

Shame about I Am Not Okay With This, which I liked a lot. Was putting these shows on hiatus not an option?

Never read BsC or SVH, but those who did might wanna check this out: https://www.amazon.ca/Paperback-Crush-Totally-Radical-History/dp/1683690788

if I never read Babysitters Club would I still enjoy it?

(I was more of a Sweet Valley High gal, lol)

Teenage Bounty Hunters was good I thought - a bit all over the place plot- and tone-wise but pretty enjoyable and the actresses who play the lead twins are both excellent. A solid B+ kinda teen show.

My bar for entertainment sunk pretty low, I watched "Sleepover" (kind of) and enjoyed it (what I saw of it through my stoned haze).

To correct this I watched some documentaries which are great:

"John was trying to contact aliens" this is a 16 minute documentary that is utterly fascinating, but the 'reveal' halfway through, though touching, wasn't the most interesting thing to me. I'd have liked a full hour so we could learn more about the weird shit John built, how it worked, and of course, I'd have been into more of his DJ sets for aliens which centered around 70's space rock.

"Without Gorky" - shamefully we knew nothing about Arshile Gorky other than that he was Armenian (My wife is half). This is a pretty intense doc focused on his widow and their two daughters who revisit the area where he hung himself. It's really, really good.

"Kingdom of Us" - I liked this less than Without Gorky, it ostensibly is the same type of doc: how does this family process and relate to the suicide of their father? There are so many kids I had a hard time keeping a few of them straight (it's also filmed over a period of three years and is loose with chronology so that didn't help). But it's worth watching.

"The Society & I Am Not Okay With This cancelled due to Covid-19 production issues"

ugh this fucking blows! I thought a second season of stupid Society was in the can already! I am not okay with this decision!

Netflix decisions are pretty inscrutable. So, these get cancelled due to covid, allegedly, but a David Lynch Wild at Heart show gets a green light? And I'm pretty sure, say, Stranger Things won't be cancelled due to covid. Netflix seems to cancel all sorts of shit for unknown reasons.

Must be some hiccups in the global money laundering machine

the wild at heart thing is not real xp

Thank goodness.

I was going to ask, hadn't heard anything about that

teenage bounty hunters is tremendous -- the all-over-the-place leaps sideways are part of the point i think (anyway they're a good part why i enjoyed it so if they're not #whocare)

#Alive - another good addition to the Korean zombie genre as well as a pretty effective quarantine thriller

Yeah, liked that quite a lot.

idk what this says about me but I am keen to watch the new Ryan Murphy series “Ratched” this Friday

I might give it a whirl. Sharon Stone being in it was the deciding factor.

Cobra Kai is, against all odds, actually, kinda good?
What can I say, it's got heart.

it’s the fkn best - pure joy imo

Zabka can act, who knew

Larusso daughter gives me strong Disney Channel vibes

Zabka kills it; he gets some great lines

Yeah I 'm enjoying that; great one to squeeze in just before bed.

My Octopus Teacher is a must watch

Oh man, i did NOT like that.

OH WTF NETFLIX: https://io9.gizmodo.com/dark-crystal-age-of-resistance-has-been-canceled-by-ne-1845132612

Boooooo

BOOOOOOO

WHAT THE FK

THEY JUST WON A GODDAMN EMMY YOU JERKS

The Devil All the Time has all the depth of the "Crazy Christians" sketch from Studio 60. Tom Holland acts circles around Pattinson, embarrassingly.

yeah this movie was so dull. the only thing I enjoyed about it was Pattinson's terrible accent - I was cracking up every time he was onscreen

Admittedly I’m not an MCU fan, so I’m missing a key chunk of his filmography, but I have yet to figure out why I’m supposed to care about Tom Holland.

I haven’t been on Netflix in months and am annoyed to discover instantwatcher is no longer able to provide a list of recently-added

That is Netflix's fault, from what I understand.

i love octopuses and octopeople but i did not understand the octopus movie. it was pretty, and passably interesting as a pbs special. but i thought the narration was dreadful. it felt very first-semester of film school.

started Ratched last night, one episode in and it's good though extremely AHS in tone and I'm expecting it to turn into some other show after four episodes and loose interest entirely like everything else Ryan Murphy does these days.

Cobra Kai on Netflix now...what happened to YouTube's streaming channel, whatever the fuck it was called?

http://www.youtube.com/premium

iirc they gave up on scripted content entirely; combined it with their Google's streaming music service

Glow and Teenage Bounty Hunters both cancelled this week. Absurd. I realize Covid is impacting filming for things (though Law and Order: SVU appears to be shooting it's new season? how?) but you'd think they could hold out a bit before making these calls (if covid is actually the reason behind it)

I never got into GLOW but I'd have to assume that after three seasons it's mostly run its course both narratively and culturally. Tell me I'm wrong!