Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Also enjoyed The Vault, a B-movie about a bank robbery gone wrong... because the vault they're robbing is haunted. It lives down to its premise

Recently watched and enjoyed:

I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore
Season 4 of Black Mirror
Planet Earth II

Thought these were OK, but ymmv:
Raw
Gerald's Game
Blue Jay
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Watched Icarus, what a fascinating movie. What was supposed to be a Supersize Me becomes a Citizenfour

Icarus is amazing. Extra amazing that just a few days ago the IOC decision was twisted to allow 100+ Russian players to compete. What the doc didn't convey really well (unless I missed it) was whether any of the athletes were in on it, or if they were secretly dosed. There is something about putting the drugs in drinks, but it's not clear if they knew what they were drinking. Similarly, they show his very detailed dosing regiment. I know Russians drink a lot, but how could you administer a measured regiment of PEDs without the players knowing? For that matter, were any of them forced?

Either way, it's so fucked up that cheating in the Olympics could in any way be connected to people getting killed.

I don't think they talk about that in Icarus but I have to imagine most athletes were aware of it. There was a Russian athlete whistleblower a couple years ago. The director also mentions in the movie how he can feel the difference with doping. I saw a recent interview with him where he said he still does that kind of doping himself!

Isn't there a scene, as he struggles with his bike race, when he says the drugs made no difference? That was unclear, too. No difference because his bike broke or no difference physically?

He cleared it up in an interview, it was slightly confusing in the movie. He felt much different with the drugs. One difference he mentioned was that after the first race he was out of commission for like a month, but not so the second time

Why am I trying to remember this interview, let me just link it for ya, it's well worth a read: http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/icarus-bryan-fogel-russia-doping-scandal-olympics-netflix.html

give me the athlete drugs

"Episodes is a low-key joy, and it stays pretty funny for most of its run"

i love the cast. the actress who plays carol could be really really amazing at times. don't remember seeing her in anything before. and her whole character arc was insane too. i liked all five seasons. i can't believe myra is british.

and i have seen black books but i didn't recognize her from that. its a very clever show. and i loved how believable matt's game show was.

also, this show had the best character names. Merc Lapidus, Andy Button, Castor Sotto, Elliot Salad.

if anyone here hasn't seen it and is looking for some primo binging...only 7 or 8 episodes a season. so, not the rest of your life.

the sex therapist scene made me laugh harder than i have in a long time.

maybe its my old LOST habit kicking back up, but i really enjoyed DARK, even if it did unravel a bit in the final ep

also, loved this part so much:

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

i want to try Dark

i didnt know fran from Black Books was in Episodes -i’ll give it a look!!

episodes video there is basically adult swim in a nutshell

Myra's face is classic

it really is. so crazy to have to play that character for that long and make that face the whole time.

ok i’m in
that clip was hilarious

episodes was great! totally worth it

okay, i have to post this since its online. i'm going to watch this whenever i'm down in the dumps. just kills me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8knZMHuTg_8

omg

one more because Matt is so good in this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4JTU5lRTOg

Also enjoyed The Vault, a B-movie about a bank robbery gone wrong... because the vault they're robbing is haunted. It lives down to its premise

― Evan R, Monday, January 22, 2018 1:18 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this sounds like extremely my shit

my wife and i have been ploughing through neo-a-team series scorpion which is total, total garbage but oddly watchable

ohhh yeah that is primo velveeta tv
terrible but great if you don’t have too much too often

we watched National Treasure the other night & i said to mr veg it plays like a really long episode of scorpion

i need to add a recommendation for good quality A+ movie

Tracks - 2013 Australian movie starring Mia Wasikowska & Adam Driver, directed by John Curran. - true story of a woman who walked 1700 km solo (with camels) across the Australian desert in 1977. It’s SO good.
If you were kinda meh about “Wild” but love shit like Kontiki etc this is your movie. (I love ppl vs nature stories)

i kinda want happy to get her own show tho, she’s def the best character xp

otm

ok so The Vault was kind of a fun way to spend part of an evening

Boy, Gerald's Game sure was some rough stuff, and one two minute sequence in particular is perhaps the most difficult to watch scene I've ever squirmed through, but the leads are great (Bruce Greenwood is always good, Carla Gugino under the radar for too long, for no good reason) and the story very timely, in its way.

The End of The F***king World is pretty brilliant imo

Kind of done with serial killer things, tbh.

Like, even when Natural Born Killers was first out I was kind of done with them.

It's not really a serial killer thing

I didn't think it added up to much though tbh. Started off strongly, but never really came together for me, and it felt overstretched even at eight short episodes. Great soundtrack though

xpost

it’s better than that, tho granted i say that as someone who isnt done w serial killers

the serial killer stuff is a framing device & drives the story but it’s more about being a teenager & being surrounded by adults who disappoint and or hurt you

i didnt know fran from Black Books was in Episodes -i’ll give it a look!!

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, January 23, 2018 4:43 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tamsin Grieg is also in Green Wing from a few years ago and was in The Archers for years.
I got o see her playing a Conservative PM live on stage about 10 years ago too

nice!!!

I really enjoyed the End of the Fucking World, too. I loved what it did to the English landscape - making it seem like the landscape of my childhood, i.e. empty and monumental. And Sheppey, where it ends, is, basically the end of the world. I have family who've settled there and it's like nowhere else I've ever been. It was perfect.

Does anyone know where it was filmed?

Like the suburban parts.

The bus station was in Guildford, apparently.

the two kids were perfectly cast, great performances from the two of them

I want to thank everyone in here who recommended Episodes, specifically because I have now experienced the joy of Daisy Haggard as "head of comedy" Myra Licht. I could watch her grimace and wince and talk with a ridiculous nasal vocal fry for hours. She's my favorite actor now, in anything.

i was kinda surprised there wasn't a thread for it when i brought it up here. i thought it might have been one of those old hat things that people had talked about a bunch on ile but i couldn't find anything. but maybe its not monumental enough for that. i thought it was great. and the perfect Brit-length for a series too with a beginning, a middle, and an end. i'm glad showtime didn't make them film a zillion episodes. it would have ruined that.

I had to bail on Episodes... I got to the 3rd episode with all the stuff about Leblanc’s huge hog & i just couldn’t. it’s funny in places but it’s just not for me

Tracks is so good. The book it's based on is also very good!

https://www.amazon.com/Tracks-Womans-Across-Australian-Outback/dp/0679762876/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

i put it on my wishlist, definitely want to read!

Which of you goofballs recommended The Vault, even as a distraction? It's weirdly well directed and acted, but it's so stupid and incoherent and inert.

like your face

Did you see it? None of it made any sense! At least my face makes sense!