Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

xxp got it, thanks

Set It Up, yet another comedy about how horrible bosses are actually spiky but redeemable lost souls and not, actually, weapons-grade savages responsible for 95% of the world's human misery

The woman lead in set it up was very charming.

Has it been mentioned that the Ken Burns Vietnam doc is up?

shh. we don't want somebody up in here posting about "good faith" all the time

lol

scottish horror/thriller Calibre looks good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6yaSYAk2KU

I'm not sure it's on stateside.

ooh i like that guy!

which one?

Watched W Kamau Bell: Private School Negro but didn't get through it. Dunno, his energy was pretty all over the place and comedy is so subjective, like I can handle that from Bamford or whatever but yeah, he had some good stories and was sincere but the stand up comedy hit to miss ratio on Netflix is pretty off.

the hit/miss ratio on everything on Netflix is whack. You really have to question the judgment of the producers and commissioners.

their largest viewing audience numbers wise is millenials, so they seem to cater to that demographic and lifestyle, but like god was that kathy bates pot show terrible

hit/miss ratio on movies & broadcast n cable tv isn't too good either!

I just watched the hell out of SECRET CITY.

Just watched End of the F***ing World finally and thought it was fantastic.

I binged season two of Marcella this weekend, and goddamn did that go to some dark, dark places.

I'm not quite sure what I think of that ending.

Holy shit. Why did I avoid GLOW for so long???

marcella s2 is definitely pushing things into some questionably lurid territory.

xpost <3 glow is the best! we have a thread for it too

marcella s2 is definitely pushing things into some questionably lurid territory.
― tylerw,

-- spoiler alert --
was that the ending with her being 'rediscovered' as a hobo under the bridge ?
if so, then yeah, we are entering a "Marvel Origins" universe for S3 that I am not sure I will give a shit about.

I got through like 2 episodes of Marcella, winning combo of both unremittingly bleak and howlingly stupid

veg otm, nanette is very much a slightly witty lecture dressed up as comedy to disarm the audience

yup, totally devastating

lol at the end of marcella season 2, geez louise. yes, that's the ending. just stupid. kind of too bad — i generally like the actors, but the whole thing is ridiculous.

new joel mchale season is up!

Anyone else watched/watching The Forest? It's really silly (the wolf!) but diverting all the same,

Also watched Dark which pretty much had me up until the final shot.

Enjoying The Forest now, thanks! Kinda wish the wolf would eat Virginie.

Jeph Loeb cosplayed as Akira Yoshida to promote Iron Fist at SDCC

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DigrWzOUwAAHKxF.jpg

why did I ever wait so long to watch Glow?!

I watched that new movie Extinction last night. Hmmm. At least the big twist explained why everyone was so stupid (and the eye makeup was distracting) in the movie.

I'm watching Glow for the first time, too, although slightly less enamoured. It's fine, but I dunno: a brilliant, idea, but Marron, in all his dishevelment, is kind of indicative of the 'will this do?'sense of a lot of the writing.

it kind of bumps along, plot-wise, but the individual characters and the spectacle were enjoyable enough for me to keep watching

Glow rocks. Just embrace it.

having one of the main characters be a kind of try-hard very normy person who just can’t figure out how to break through, and comes off that way, works pretty well

they over-telegraph it right at the beginning with the “I don’t know if I love or hate you, you’re attractive one moment and repulsive the next” speech but it works

Enjoying Dark Tourist more than I expected, it's more Louis Theroux than Vice

i was a big fan of tickled but couldnt get into dark tourist

but then again, tickled was just such a crazy story

HFS, The Bleeding Edge documentary on the non-testing of medical device tech is body horror that leaves Cronenberg way back in the rear view mirror.

Don not be tempted by Kristen Bell into watching “like father” as I was. It is absolutlely abysmal.

I watched that new movie Extinction last night.

If you were going to watch a try-hard "what is real, man" SF on Netflix I would pick The Signal over Extinction -- it is not "good" per se but just more effectively disorienting -- acting/writing just so-so in both

Been watching The Staircase. Bit of deja vu, until I realized I had seen the original 8 part doc almost 15 years ago, but remembered very little, and what I remembered wasn't in the Netflix series (so far), which I believe is expanded with new episodes (I presume distilled down from two sequels to the original doc series?). Anyway, crazy true crime doc.

neil brennan 3 mics was one of the best stand ups on netflix in awhile

Glow rocks. Just embrace it.

it does, and i did! i think they crammed a whole lot of life into those 32-minute episodes. it flies by, really. super enjoyable. hoping for more.

xpost - yeah i thought it was really good.

I ended up loving Glow (S1) - those last few episodes were kind of beautiful. Looking forward to S2.

disenchantment has dropped, my expectations are middling tbh

It is not good.

So, no one else watched Extraordinary Interiors or whatever it was called?

I just started watching Red Oaks recently on Amazon Prime & its way more enjoyable than it has any right to be imo

Oh, I love Red Oaks. It has a weird feeling to it. Like instead of it just being 80s it feels more like cult 80s, last in nielsen ratings but should've seen better.

Red Oaks is so great!
Comes to such a nice end too, not corny but affectionate, I really love those characters

i could watch wheeler & misty hang out forever, they have such great chemistry

my only mini critique is that Paul Reiser’s character’s daughter ie the not-Molly-Ringwald love interest has all the charm of an ironing board so far. but everyone else is great.

Yeah, the daughter sticks out to me. She kind of reminded me of the female scientist student from Real Genius but lacked any personality.