Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

It is not good.

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apparently it gets better (and is likely to improve over years like its predecessors) but i couldn't get through 10 minutes of the first episode.

https://news.avclub.com/netflix-is-breaking-it-off-with-michelle-wolfs-the-brea-1828430766

the break was terrible on the whole (utterly utterly obsessed with its own country on an international platform) but the joel mchale show was really well done. pretty disappointed about this.

Aw man, I was wondering if that was going to happen. Both shows seemed a bit sloppy/lackadaisical but I loved watching stuff on Sunday.

I didn't finish most of the Joel McHale show, it didn't have the zing of The Soup. In the Youtube age I think that would work a lot better as a tight 5-10 minute clip show.

I watched all episodes of both. There was a lot of filler gathering near the end. On one of the last episodes of The Break she did two opening standups and I was like ouch...did they run our of material?

We got through 2 episodes of disenchanted and it really suffers from not being a tight 20 minutes like the simpsons or Futurama. The pacing is terrible and there aren’t enough good gags to sustain it.

agreed

the character intros were kind of perfunctory and I have no idea why these people are together. the demon thing is a complete misfire, waste of Eric Andre and a whole lot of “this will make sense later” junk

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before is delightful

Great romcom with good storytelling & charming characters. makes me want to check out the book.

Also the kid who plays Peter is cute af

it was so lovely - a perfect film! note also that the actor that plays peter is going to be in another teen romcom with shannon purser, which is out on netflix in about a month's time

i found out he was born in 1996 so i’m pretty sure i’m going to jail

i am rewatching it today <3

I am very excited to watch the above. I thought Kissing Booth had a certain rewatchability almost on par with Teen Witch.

Samurai Gourmet - elderly Japanese man eats in restaurants and reminisces about his life before retirement. Sometimes he imagines a samurai appearing to help him out of sticky social situations

Tokyo Diner: Midnight Stories - little chamber dramas that mostly take place in a Diner. Like Jim Jarmusch.

Casa de los Flores - glossy Mexican cross between rote telenovela, Six Feet Under, and Almodovar in the ‘90. Gorgeous cast, silly and melodramatic.

The first two are great, not seen the latter.

I wish Netflix would spring for the other three series and 3 movies of Midnight Diner, I’d hapiliy buy the DVDs but I’d also have the buy a DVD player.

I watched about half of The Red Pill, a “documentary” by a “feminist” about the MRA movement. Figured out pretty quickly it was a setup but still sort of enjoyed analyzing it as propaganda before finally giving up.

Trailer for the second season of American Vandal is out. I'm sure it's going to be good, but the trailer is so gross and gut-churning (you've been warned) I bet it could go either way. You've been warned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwrr6aIWeus

new one from Jeremy Saulnier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFAwDO6b5KI

Halfway through "To all the Boys I've Loved Before" and wondering why I'm watching this banal underwritten nonsense. What's good about it?

the guy who's hot (and he is) looks the same as the other guy who's supposed to be naff. I can barely tell them apart.

WHY MUST YOU VEX ME?!?

*painting my nails emoji*

I wanted to like it and i watched all of it, and I’ve only watched probably 5 movies in their entirety this year, so i was trying

But ya, it’s pretty shallow entertainment

Everyone is a stereotype/one-dimensional and archetype except for how peter reacts to a couple things about lana jean

Also the beginning reminded me too much of can’t buy me love

I haven't even watched it yet. I love shallow movies. Watch The Kissing Booth.