Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

I note that the new Frank Spotnitz thing The Indian Detective is up on Nextflix now. Can anyone who has seen it confirm whether the plot requires Russell Peters to do racist caracatures of Vietnamese people for 90% of the running time?

OMG I knew the new season of Terrace House started. I will find it online.

Watched The Invitation. Suspense/horror set at hollywood dinner party. Very good I thought.

I loved it.

First actually scary scary movie I seen in a while. Thought it was all horribly plausible and that they seemed like Hollywood people but not over-done, believable

love Terrace House. That's pretty much all I watch on Netflix. I still have some Aloha State left to finish.

I am years behind the times but I’m finally watching Easy. Looks like I have two seasons to choose from!

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can i choose an SD subscription?

yeah, there's a 1 screen + SD option for like 8.99 I think?

I could not get into Easy at all. I tried two episodes. Same with Flake. I did like Love a lot though. Bojack has been really my surprise love this year.

Easy felt gross and dramatically flaccid like everything else that guy does. The Duplasses too. Perhaps I'm bringing my own baggage to it, but their work always seems weirdly skeezy

I like easy. Being a collection of shorts some of them are great and some are annoying.

xp I just don't understand how the Duplasses are a thing.

they bring an almost visual degree of slime to everything they work on.

I’ve been watching American Crime on and off for a couple of weeks and I definitely like the performances a lot but idk if I actually like the show

same

I note that the new Frank Spotnitz thing The Indian Detective is up on Nextflix now. Can anyone who has seen it confirm whether the plot requires Russell Peters to do racist caricatures of Vietnamese people for 90% of the running time?

The answer, based as much of the first episode as I could sit through, is that it draws heavily on racist Indian stereotypes but doesn’t quite cross the line into being so overtly offensive that your desi uncle stops seeing it as laughing-with, rather than laughing-at. It’s terrible. Peters (in general, but specifically when he’s trying to sort-of act) is terrible. Anupam Kher Is wasted as his father.

OKJA!

Duplass's blank everyman-ness works when other people are directing (The One I Love, Your Sister's Sister)

Joe Swanberg's best movie is Drinking Buddies

nah Swanberg’s best is Win It All imo

all the light in the sky imo

I liked Godless a lot, also in generally I liked the format (7/8 episode miniseries) because I think it encourages me to actually want to watch because it's not the huge commitment and also now it's all resolved and I don't have to worry "what are they gonna do next season?" and have something I liked turn into a shitty show

Jeff Daniels was p scary and I liked how his underplayed his menace instead of chewing scenery and I LOVED Merrit Wever, what a great character.

I made a thread for godless and only me and scott posted to it 😭

it’s kind of a one and done as mentioned, I think my comment would be.. it was pretty good?

Has anyone watched Suburra the film? I haven't watched it yet but Instantwacher says its available to stream. Netflix is making a series of it apparently. The book just came out in the US which I'm looking forward to. Modern mafia/political corruption thriller set in/near Rome.

― ian, Sunday, August 27, 2017 11:04 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i finished the book (excellent!) and just watched the film last night. i wasn't a huge fan, it completely removed several lead characters and storylines from the book and completely altered the storylines for other characters (basically made up new characters and slapped names from the book on them.) it made the story a lot more pedestrian and less ambitious and yet somehow more confusing. it downplayed the political angle so much that the stakes were entirely missing, in favor of random gang-on-gang ultraviolence. i mean it has nothing in common with the book except for a couple of violent events that set things off, the basic premise of a major coastal project underway, and the character names. it's pretty mediocre.

I am so late to the game (prolly because I read one bad review early on) but I just finished season 1 of Better Call Saul. So, so good.

And it gets even better!