Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

thanks to asshole pioneers like ricky.

I watched two episodes of the new David Letterman. Holy crap has be fallen out of touch. I just doublechecked to see when he retired, thinking it was 8-10 years ago. It was mid 2015.

Just out of curiosity, what led to the recent boom in Gervais hate?

Ricky Gervais

a handy primer to the decline

https://thebaffler.com/latest/what-happened-to-ricky-gervais-james

pretty much every time someone commented on his tendency to lean on offending people and punching down, he doubled down. presumably his skin is paper thin

FYI, Marcella kinda devalues the stock ominous industrial noise drones employed by the 'damaged British detector of serial killers' genre due to their omnipresence over scenes of people like checking their email and making toast.

anyway, I don't know if I'd called it a recent boom exactly. It's been building throughout his increasingly tired and hateful post-Office TV work and woeful cinematic efforts (not to mention the awards show appearances). There's been a little spike lately because he released an awful, offensive Netflix special

I think anti-Gervais sentiment mostly stems from putting everything he had to offer into his first big project and coasting on fumes forever afterwards.

Like everything after was decreasing levels of 'okay'.

there should be a bbc comedy about a support group for damaged u.k. detectives. who can i pitch that to?

Marcella REALLY strains credulity even by Luther standards.

I made a joke that the killer was in fact her two kids stacked two high and dressed like an adult, but everyone on the show is so damaged that I'm not ruling it out just yet.

(My gf just finished The Fall and detoured directly into Marcella. I mostly do other things while they're on because evidence suggests that these shows about the bucolic mass murder capital of the world are Not My Thing.)

xpost I thought you were going to post "there should be a bbc comedy about a support group for damaged u.k. comedians. who can i pitch that to?

that's basically every panel show

wait even university challenge?

Marcella REALLY strains credulity even by Luther standards.

yeah I had to bail on that after like two eps

You arguably know what you're in for to an extent when the first scene of a television series features the protagonist emerging from a fugue state in a blood-spattered bathroom. Namely: fun times.

Has anyone done a solid parody of these shows yet? Because I might start shopping one around if not.

The final series of A Touch Of Cloth?

is a touch of cloth good? john hannah and the name make me want to like it

john hannah is history’s greatest monster fuiud

lol RS hates him so much which I've never understood

here in the uk we are subjected to smug, prissy john hannah voiceovers at least once every commercial break which has a lot to do with it but he’s also just a terrible actor

The first ToC is pretty good but it gets stupidly meta after the first series (well it is Charlie Brooker).

the fall is one of those shows that would have made a truly gripping single season but was needlessly stretched out to three and thus turned into a dull, credulity-stretching mess

gillian anderson deserves better u monsters

as a teen i made a mask out of a moody portrait of john hannah that appeared in the sunday herald and wore it round the house to jump out and scare my brother

I've long considered Hannah's Monty Python-quoting turn in Sliding Doors to be the most irritating role in modern cinema

I could not get past the first episode of The Fall. Glad to see I am not missing out.

one of the things that drives me crazy about shows like the fall is that the tortured detectives are so often working on these huge high profile serial killer cases ALONE. they are alone so much. i know, the better to be tortured by evil and childhood memories. but i highly doubt these people would be allowed to just brood in rooms filled with evidence by themselves in real life. they would be surrounded by frantic cops and feds.

It may just be my netflix but it seems like netflix wants to recommend to me a thousand shows with Kiefer Sutherland.

not gonna lie that

I've long considered Hannah's Monty Python-quoting turn in Sliding Doors to be the most irritating role in modern cinema

pls excuse discarded-post detrius at the start of my previous post

bg otm, I enjoy series that are kind of spare, but that one had so incredibly little going on for so long

kimmy schmidt might end soon, which is absolutely fine.

also, new arrested development won’t be available on netflix in australia because unelected lord of australia and chief oligarch and super-bigoted fuckpiece rupert murdoch is somehow still holding exclusivity rights and will siphon it through his fucking revolting right-wing rip-off cable tv service

I disengaged fairly quickly from the 'moody brooding detective in the homicidal hellscape of the UK' genre after the first season of Broadchurch, whose 'let's say...Moe' resolution still raises my hackles.

i really enjoyed HAPPY!
totally over the top, several WTF moments, and a few chuckles.
almost makes me wish i still bought comics.

i hear you on broadchurch, i still like it somehow

i'm a solid stan of happy valley

jack taylor is dopey but awesome

like so any others i couldn't get past the first episode of the fall

would check out other uk hellscapes

"would check out other uk hellscapes"

The Shadow Line was very good at the time, from memory at least, not re-watched it all and find just about all BBC series unwatchable shit these days.

i wish there was another show like Terriers for me to like. or even something lighter. i couldn't even continue watching season 2 of hap & leonard because it was making me too sad.

i mean there is a place for dark. but i could go for a happy go lucky detective.

aye Terriers was excellent and way too short lived.

on the other hand it didn't go on forever and make me hate it.

someone should do a new series from the nero wolfe books, those are such an awesome antidote to dark & tormented

whatever happened to breezy!?

i mean life can be rough enough...

https://s-i.huffpost.com/gen/1398474/images/n-REMINGTON-STEELE-REBOOT-628x314.jpg

I am trying to watch the Arrested Development remix. It's weird.

now that i think about it, no one has done a hipster hart to hart reboot have they? how has that not happened? It's like money just laying there on the sidewalk

i just thought of the same thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbQCjXo7VF4