Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

totally gonna watch parker posey in space. finally, a dr. smith for me! though i don't know why they have to drag out old franchises forever and ever. why bother at this late date? though i guess these things are just owned by people who want to continue to drag them out for one more payday.

Just finished the second season of Money Heist /La Casa de Papel. SOooooo good. A lot of plot holes but whatever. Loads of fun.

Chef's Table pastry edition is up. just 4 episodes.

just 4 episodes.

paltry edition

Milk Bar episode was so good <3

Fastest Car is okay but they have a very different definition of sleeper car than what I grew up with. If you've got a visible blower or drag radials you're not exactly fooling anyone. Would have been cool to see more variety than a quarter mile drag - put a supercar and a Mazda LS swap on a road track and see what happens.

Miata LS swap

The John Mcafee documentary is really good.

"Gringo"

it's really fucking dark

SPOILER ALERT:

Features a woman who worked for him talking about being drugged and raped by him, covers the homicide of a man who poisoned McAfees dogs and who McAfee likely had killed in retribution

Yeah it rivals that Errol Morris doc Tabloid in successive, escalating WAIT, REALLY? moments

yes, i will leave a certain revelation about his proclivities out of this thread because that reveal is wtf in the extreme and deserves not to be spoiled

@Yerac
I'm abt to finish Money Heist part 2, I'm also loving it despite its absurdity.
When I'm done I hope we can talk about it!!!!

Are you watching it dubbed? The translations are so off from what they are saying dubbed. The whole thing is ridiculous but we loved it.

monty python is available now (maybe not in all countries)

It's Amazon Prime, but "What We Do in the Shadows" is recommended for "Flight of the Conchords" fans who don't mind their humor a bit dark.

two things about FASTEST CAR:

1) can't believe they went with FASTEST CAR as a title instead of VROOM VROOM CAR GO FAST

2) https://imgur.com/kH5W2BT

https://i.imgur.com/kH5W2BT.png

Started to get into ugly delicious, which is affable and informative.

I loved loved loved A Series of Unfortunate Events

xp - Samurai sword dude hasn't got shit on the peacocking divorce lawyer in the next episode.

It's Amazon Prime, but "What We Do in the Shadows" is recommended for "Flight of the Conchords" fans who don't mind their humor a bit dark.

From Taika Waititi of Ragnorak and Hunt For The Wilderpeople fame

Prime again (in the UK anyway) but has anyone watched The Looming Tower?

Seems to be getting quite good reviews

It is absolute piffle + isn't really a good representation of the book imo. It's very jingoistic and has too many shots of Jeff Daniels saggy old arse pumping away. Although I think the book was also guilty of trying to canonise John O'Neil, but at least it tried to be broad minded.

I've had Prime for a 6-month cheaparse deal, and the only thing on it worth watching, in Australia at least, was Fleabag. Just as I'm about to bin it, The Terror pops up. Any good?

Loved the book. Three episodes or so into the series and very good so far.

AMC's The Terror

Season 2 of Sneaky Pete was fun and forgettable in the best way

too many shots of Jeff Daniels saggy old arse pumping away

truly the worst consequence of 9/11

new board description imo

how did they work the arse pumping into a pre-9-11 procedural show, exactly?

His character is a lothario with catholic guilt issues. There is one unintentionally hilarious saggy arse pumping scene where he breaks down into tears after the climax, like to show what a deep thinking man of substance he is. Well I lolled loud at it, but ymmv as they say!

i gave up on looming tower. it was strangely tedious. and also hammy in an old time t.v. movie kinda way.

responses have varied but I liked The Man in the High Castle on Prime

watched that christina tosi episode of chef's table and there is the part where they show her jogging and i went: ahhh, okay.

because really i was like what the hell is she just some sort of genetic freak? but she probably burns calories just THINKING of lucky charms cookie recipes. she's a way motivated type a never stop kinda person. wonder how many hours a night she sleeps?

all these people just make me feel like such a slug. i get really motivated when i watch an episode to get to work the next day and give it 125% and live my bliss but then the reality is me getting to work really early and going on the internet for 2 hours and not wanting to vacuum...

she is awesome though. or seems to be. i would need to read interviews with her vast army of sugar chefs. she SEEMS really nice. so does the gelato king in the 2nd episode. he inspired me for 5 minutes too. really wanted to try all this gelato...

i was really happy when christina joined the cast of master chef. love hearing her talk about food and being nice. graham was nice too but she is just so upbeat in a good way.

i haven't watched any food shows forever, been kind of holding off until i can binge and have my kitchen tidied up so i can cook one big meal myself afterward to feel productive

made it to milk bar last year and ended up getting cookies to bring home as gifts

i was onboard with the lovely gelato man until the oyster & almond granita D:

yeah i wasn't going near that thing.

i understood the ~idea~ but the visual? talk about barfo-rama

it's more like a dare than an actual menu item.

def

it would have actually made more sense to me if the granita was on an oyster shell with some oyster on top. on ice. presentation-wise. then you could just slurp it down and get oyster + almond iciness. which....might not be bad? i was totally down with the idea of brioche and granita for breakfast though.

see, something like this makes more sense. even though i don't want to eat it.

http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/oysters-green-apple-and-wasabi-granita

i'm not a big shellfish person though. i like mussels...

Anyone watching Aggretsuko, the Japanese anime about a red panda who's stuck in a dead-end office job by day and is a death metal karaoke singer by night? Feels tailor made for ilxors tbh.

Only two episodes in and I love it already. Really nails the drudgery and pathos of corporate life - shitty boss, annoying co-workers and all.

^^^ I watched 3 episodes last night. Love it. The subtitles are so off from what is being dubbed though, it's funny.

I need to check that out after I get through "lost in space" w/ Parker Posey as evil Dr. Smith, which I'm enjoying thoroughly.

The subtitles are so off from what is being dubbed though, it's funny.

oh in what way? i'm guessing the lyrics aren't generally so on the nose?

i watched the first ep of that last night on my brother's recommendation. he sold it as "it's about heavy metal" and i was like "is it like metalocalypse?" and he said "close enough" but it's really nothing like it but that's fine bc it's really good anyway.

It's Sanrio! I am now realizing that not everyone watches netflix with the closed captioning on (I do because we get a lot of random street noise and I exercise while watching stuff). The lyrics are pretty much right but 60% of the dialogue is off. I can't explain it. Watch one episode with closed captioning on.

Finished all Chef's Table Pastry. If the last episode hadn't been set in Bali it would've been a dud. I couldn't stand that guy.