Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

it’s not one of the greatest series, but I love trash and middlebrow stuff (although H&CF never aims at the middle, quite) and I support all viewers to move on to that series’ thread because it’s short, relatively spoiler free, and now a viewing club

i'd never seen nirvanna the band the show until the shout out in this thread. funniest show i've seen in a good while

anyone watch 1922? another king adaptation. it was p schlocky but i enjoyed it. good performance by the main actor. i think there's good scope for netflix to make more interesting short story type movies, almost like freedom from massive budget and the associated pressure and compromise.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, November 17, 2017 8:38 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I liked this but it was on the meh side. I agree that Netflix is particularly good for these kind of small-scale adaptations.

Gerald's Game, the other King adaptation though! My god, that was an intense watch. It does kinda fall apart a bit in the last five minutes or so, but I mostly blame the book for that. Carla Gugino is awesome in it too.

Godless is really good. Jeff Daniels is a proper villain. Plus, Scoot McNairy for you Halt & Catch Fire fans. It's 7+ hours long and incredibly bingeable.

i am getting good at spotting Brits now in American period t.v. I could tell that Alice, Roy, and Whitey were Brits even though i didn't know who they were.

also, i love Denise from the Walking Dead in this and i hated her on the Walking Dead. it's nice to know that she is just a really good actor who made me hate her on the Walking Dead. she should definitely get bigger/better roles just for her part in this.

Friday theyre putting out a doc on that nyer gay talese voyeur motel thing

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7588790/?ref_=nv_sr_5

I watched a trailer for the new Black Mirror thing, and was amused to see a comment under it saying "This is the dumbest show on earth." I thought, this person must not have seen Len Goodman's Partners in Rhyme.

Is anyone watching USA's Damnation? I'm intrigued by the premise.

/anyone watch 1922? another king adaptation. it was p schlocky but i enjoyed it. good performance by the main actor. i think there's good scope for netflix to make more interesting short story type movies, almost like freedom from massive budget and the associated pressure and compromise.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, November 17, 2017 8:38 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink/

I liked this but it was on the meh side. I agree that Netflix is particularly good for these kind of small-scale adaptations.

Gerald's Game, the other King adaptation though! My god, that was an intense watch. It does kinda fall apart a bit in the last five minutes or so, but I mostly blame the book for that. Carla Gugino is awesome in it too.

American President Biography: Benjamin Harrison Documentary From Early Childhood to After Office

can i really be the only person watching LA REINA DEL SUR?

^^^

I watched a trailer for the new Black Mirror thing, and was amused to see a comment under it saying "This is the dumbest show on earth." I thought, this person must not have seen Len Goodman's Partners in Rhyme.

To the Ends of the Earth is pretty good. Cumberbatch looks 14 in it. It's also fun to watch Sam Neill and Jared Harris giving him shit.

We started Godless last night, seems like a good time.

wow that Gay Talese bio on the Voyeur

i want to see that! good?

Joan Didion doc is good

NYT review of Voyeur was very dismissive; would love to hear other opinions.

The Talese / Voyeur thingy left me pretty puzzled. It felt like it was setting up a twist that never came, before ending quite abruptly (when they realized no twist would come)

watched the first few eps of "dark" last night, german supernatural type thing. i'd read good reviews but i thought it was extremely derivative, parts of the french "the returned", the killing, all those terrible uk copycats of the killing etc. some nice music and cinematography, i guess i'll watch the other 7/8 episodes but i won't feel proud of myself after and there's always the likelihood it just makes me stop watching it via overload of stupid scenes. a LOT of terrible exposition so far too.

Kantaro Salaryman is both one of the most delightfully ridiculous shows whilst at the same time being a usefully guilds the traditional desert shops of Tokyo.

recalling the New Yorker article as best I can, the twist is that the guy likely made most of it up

theres no way to know, gay actually visiting & watching on one occasion is enough that theres some truth. the holes & the last fact that made gay initially disavow the bk doesn't make me think "most" of it is fiction

yeah my impression from the article was that the guy spent literally years in his creeper attic, saw a bit of boning but otherwise discovered that ppl are actually super boring so made a bunch of stuff up. I’m def curious abt the doc, will watch this week

As a documentary, it's about 20 minutes too long. The premise is, of course, outstanding and I loved the excerpted article in the New Yorker. But I wouldn't buy the book.

It's definitely worth watching IMO.

it's worth watching for all the stuff in talese's basement alone

"Kantaro Salaryman is both one of the most delightfully ridiculous shows whilst at the same time being a usefully guilds the traditional desert shops of Tokyo."

everyone on this thread needs to see this. sheesh, just the first episode alone. and break out the 4K 55 inch screen for it. so beautiful to look at.

the last installment of Godless - which a 120 minute movie all on its own - wasn't QUITE as epic as i had hoped? but still good. that was a very satisfying entertainment. i hope jeff daniels gets another part like that very soon.

yeah i did not like the finale. some really great individual scenes tho.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-04/netflix-wants-adult-viewers-to-choose-their-own-adventures

Didn't Steven Soderberg do something like this already this year

First two episodes of "American Vandal" were pitch perfect, can't wait to watch more.

into the jim and andy documentary about Jim Carrey's portrayal of andy kaufman in "man on the moon"

i liked it but it feels more like a Zmuda-inspired long con/Carrey performace art piece than a real story about how he “lost himself” in the role which is how it’s been received

i think way more ppl were in on that on-set footage than anyone is led to believe

do you think? the documentary would have benifitted from other people besides Jim talking to the camera.

i found jim's whole act cringey and unbearable. judd hirsch's side-eye while jim is "channelling" andy says it all

Carrey's "secret genius painter" video was so grating and awful I can't watch him in anything anymore

Veg think you're OTM. Best admission from carrey was how he is a slave to the audience, but that makes his new pseudo spiritual crackpot persona even more tiresome. He's clearly the same attention seeking guy, albeit his claims that carrey no longer exists. Can't bullshit the bullshitter...

watching The Break. it's like a lot of moody Netflix crime shows. dark secrets! in French. in Belgium.

i don't know if i'll finish Marcella. though it was nice to see to see Lee Adama again. love you, Apollo!

Marcella was good but it’s very unrelenting & bleak

watched the first few eps of "dark" last night, german supernatural type thing. i'd read good reviews but i thought it was extremely derivative, parts of the french "the returned", the killing, all those terrible uk copycats of the killing etc. some nice music and cinematography, i guess i'll watch the other 7/8 episodes but i won't feel proud of myself after and there's always the likelihood it just makes me stop watching it via overload of stupid scenes. a LOT of terrible exposition so far too.

Make me drop this.

i started watching ash -vs- dead and i like it but i don't remember ash in the movies being the same character as BC's character in burn notice. but maybe that's just BC's default character now.

(Dark is also available with subtitles apparently. It might be a setting.)

Errol Morris's new miniseries about MKUltra and a murder is kind of meh. I miss the Interrotron style.

Watching Terrace House's neverending episodes has been the most therapeutic thing this year.

xpost Ha, I just started Ash vs. as well. Gorier than I expected, and the Ash character stupider/more of an asshole than I remembered, but it seems fun.

weird to me that netflix commissioned two prestige period dramas this year about cutting edge criminal forensics techniques with hunter in the title

Watching Terrace House's neverending episodes has been the most therapeutic thing this year.

― Yerac, Sunday, December 17, 2017 7:19 AM (yesterday)

If you have VPN, the new season started today ("Terrace House: Open New Doors") set in the mountains near Nagano. Also VPN-able is the first season ("Boys & Girls Next Door") set at the beach in Shonan.