Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

But regardless I would totally watch this. The guests are a serious upgrade on Murder In Successville

It seems like there's a lot of comic spins on the murder mystery genre either already out (Only Murders in the Building) or coming out soon. I'm assuming we can credit the success of Knives Out for this, and while I didn't love KO as much as others did, I'm happy with this development.

Ugh that looks terrible to me. Reminds me of that 30 Rock episode where Tracy realizes that people think breaking character is funny and starts doing it deliberately.

Looks fun for the actors though.

I'm enjoying Mobeen btw, very well written! I should prob have subs on tho.

Three episodes in and Archive 81 is pretty good so far - definitely quite unsettling/scary at times

Archive 81 felt like there was one element too many in it for me, although I couldn't tell you which one I'd drop.

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Feeling like Archive81 could have been a better 105 minute movie than series.

I'm five episodes in now and still enjoying the pervading sense of dread

Just watched the first two episodes of All of Us Are Dead, the latest South Korean zombie offering, this time with an outbreak that starts at a high school.

They really are very good at these over there - nothing too original, but still really gripping and fun and incredibly well-made.

Yeah I started Silent Sea last night and it's just really well made, makes you wonder what's going to happen, the characters are all really clearly drawn and not always predictable. The main character is this mopey, cut-the-bullshit female scientist who you just instantly love.

No spoilers but I was disappointed with Silent Sea after the promising start

Starting All of Us Are Dead later. Does look fun

finished All of Us Are Dead - around the middle it starts to get bogged down by tedious teen soap drama which we ended up fast-fwding through a lot, but otherwise I thought it was good, if overstuffed. appreciate that they were trying to use the zombie outbreak to say something about teen bullying, the pressures of the SK education system, and all the myriad ways that adults inevitably disappoint, but I don't think they managed more than just surface criticism ("Extracurricular", another violent teen K-drama on Netflix, does this much better).

still fun watching the characters figure out 1001 ways to get past zombies within the confines of the school though

Yeah, I was surprised by how long it was. Was expecting maybe 6 episodes not 12

Holy shit this is like a parody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTI6T5M8Fj0

For something designed to build hype, I couldn't even make it the full two minutes.

Didn't realise Knives Out 2 was going to be a Netflix film

knives out 3 will be too

Liking Murderville. It's cool to see a partially improvised show shot and edited like a drama, and there's some good laughs each episode. The guests handle the show in pretty different ways - Conan handled his episode so smoothly, you'd think he read the script!

Yeah it's very funny, although I kind of miss the weird/bad celebrity impressions of the original.

Original?

It's a remake of Murder in Successville, a british TV show.

It's cool to see a partially improvised show shot and edited like a drama

Did anyone else watch Bad Trip? I've never seen any of the Jackass movies so maybe this isn't as original as it seemed to me, but it's a hidden camera prank comedy movie (w/ Eric André, Lil Rel Howery, and Tiffany Haddish) where the prank scenes are part of an overarching narrative, and they never show the camera reveal to the participants bit. It's funny, def gets kinda gross, but it's almost worth watching just for the formal qualities

are today's biggest movie stars the ones who get comic book roles or the ones created by comic book roles

i liked the conan episode of murderville. series doesn't seem to be getting good reviews though.

Murderville was good. It wasn't life-changing but it was good.

I kept getting more and more agitated with Archive 81 because one of the protagonists is a nerdy Black man named Dan and I kept saying over and over "dude wtf I would never do that" to the TV

lol

Hmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-sWlgFhUGo

I guessed that was jeunet in the first few seconds.

i'm not a fan of retrofuturism or of sexbot revenge stories.

iirc there's a Love, Death & Robots episode that has a very similar plot but is less than 15 mins long. watch that instead imo - you don't even have to switch streaming services

Inventing Anna is too goddamn long by half … i wouldnt call it “good”? … more like a trashy watchable soap opera that pretends to be true

lol yeah it's terrible but I can't stop watching. making Anna out into some kind of girlboss hero is a bizarre take but not surprising coming from Shonda Rhimes, I guess.

also the "journalism" scenes are hilariously bad, it's hard to believe that Jessica Pressler - who wrote the original Anna story and is exec producer on the show - allowed this version of herself to be portrayed this way i.e. doing some deeply unethical things like paying a source, accepting expensive gifts from a source, convincing Anna to change her plea, and literally begging the defence lawyer to part of his team?? wtf

yeah its really weird how they center the journo character & basically throw aside all but the barest bones of the actual story

As soon as I realized Shonda Rhimes was involved, I realized this was going to be about 85% nonsense with some good one-liners scattered through it

The accent is the worst I’ve heard in years. And I saw house of gucci

I've only seen one episode of the show but it's meant to be dodgy fake accent, no?

The big problem I have is that they are trying to thread the line between the audience knowing she's full of shit but not all the characters realizing it, but she's hamming up the unconvincing side so much that it is incredibly difficult to believe that she could convince anyone of anything.

That accent is a monstruosity. That charachter in general is tedious. Some funny moments with Anna Chlumsky and others though

tbh the accent is the least made up thing in the show. her irl accent is almost identical, its SO weird

heres an irl comparison

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

I mean, it's overdone but not by much

finished it :/ this show is wayyyyy too long, could've done without the final two or three episodes entirely.

And I'm reminded of why I dislike Shonda Rhimes shows - ultimately, they're always about characters who take their jobs way too fucking seriously and are constantly yelling at other people about it.

i just finished ep 4 & i’m like HOW are there five more episodes !!??? 😩

the article was fine; it's hard to imagine wanting to think any further about her

It's very easy to imagine wanting to imitate that accent though

And I'm reminded of why I dislike Shonda Rhimes shows - ultimately, they're always about characters who take their jobs way too fucking seriously and are constantly yelling at other people about it.

At least Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder complimented this with a lot of entertainingly batshit murder

as with most things in life, adding viola davis ups the enjoyment factor considerably

Did anyone else watch Bad Trip?

yeah it's totally fun.

Anyone recommend The Woman in the House...? I'm halfway through and while I find the mystery mildly interesting, it isn't the least bit funny to me.

i didnt like the first one so i skipped this one altogether

Watched them all as was fairly short but it's not great. The tone is all over the place and, as you say, it's not particularly funny so that when they do try an absurdist joke it's just really jarring.

Most of the time it just plays as a straight whodunnit.

i watched some of the first ep and got the strong feeling that the script was written as a comedy - it's full of jokes - but was shot and directed as a straight TV mystery. which, you know, is a choice - you could argue that SUCCESSION (2018-) is essentially veep or the thick of it just executed as a prestige drama - but succession allows the comedic beats to land, lets us just roll in the deliciousness of it, where with this, it's like, these carefully written jokes are just buried