Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

reading hill house now. it's wavy

I guess they could do a second season of THoHH as a sort of a semi-anthology, so that it's set in the Hill House but has a completely new set of characters. I do agree that it would pointless to do anything more with the characters of season 1 though.

I guess they could do a second season of THoHH as a sort of a semi-anthology, so that it's set in the Hill House but has a completely new set of characters.

yeah, I did think about this option.
time will tell what happens.

Lots of laffs on the new season of Schitt's Creek.

Honestly, the ending of Hill House felt so wrong to me that I've had to come up with a totally-unsupported-by-the-text reading to rationalize it.

Season 2 of Big Mouth is fucking hilarious.

came here just to post that

I think I just watched the first episode or two when it came out, but it was just scatalogical - does it really get any better than that?

Big Mouth s1 was really funny. I just kind of hated the animation.

s1 was really funny, s2 is astonishingly funny

It’s totally scatalogical but also funny in a bunch of other ways, and even kinda touching and sweet.

yeah it nails that balance very well. i missed the relative lack of jordan peele's duke ellington, but other than that s2 was a massive improvement over s1, which i liked a lot.

if you were offended by a show that is explicitly about puberty using words that refer to the body in the early episodes, you're probably not going to like S2 any better, though

I wasn't offended, I just don't get a lot out of transgressive humour. No matter.

the point of the show is that it's not transgressive - we all (or 99.999% of people) go through these experiences, and it's discussing them in ways that are recognisable and hilarious for adults, but empathetic to, and reflecting of, the confusion and fear that changing bodies and secretions and hand-holding and kissing and neglectful parenting and adult behaviour and compulsive jizzing and making new friends can cause for young teens.

hill house is definitely netflix good (not got to the supposedly flubbed ending yet tho.) the book, though, is genuinely good good.

Salt Fat Acid Heat is very good.

The trailer put me off because Nosrat seems very Manic Pixie Dream Chef in it, but the reviews are all so good I will check it out.

it's more like a food travelogue than a learn to cook show and the acid episode isn't the most engrossing but yeah it's good.

I wasn't that taken with Salt Fat Acid Heat to be truthful. The theming was a pretty good idea, and tying it to location works, but the last episode just ignores it all and could be from a totally different show - which considering there's only four episodes shouldn't be the case.

Season 2 of Making A Murderer was a shitshow.

Season 2 of Norsemen is great, 2 episodes in.

i have zero desire to watch s2 of making a murderer

same, the first series (while good) was hardly objective at all, more a lobbying effort

yeah totally. and the fact that they never explored the details of The Actual Murder for anything more than as a jumping off point to spend an entire season on the suspect/s was lazy & kinda bullshit imo.

yeah, if it were a 45 minute documentary you could justify the narrow focus, but 10 hours is some generous breathing space

About the only saving grace is the absurdity of Avery's lawyer. She storms in talking about how brilliant she is, and ultimately her plan amounts to throwing Brendan Dassey's brother and mother's boyfriend under the bus.

i have zero desire to watch s2 of making a murderer

same, the first series (while good) was hardly objective at all, more a lobbying effort

I can't even think back to the specifics of it to draw out the example I'm thinking of but about halfway through S1 of it it was clear that the defence attorney's had had an own-goal, a gaping hole, in the prosecution that they failed to spot. This is a pretty pointless comment though because I can't recall specifically what it was but, holy shit, that was a 90-120 minute documentary at the very most.

specifically recall*

the whole thing was so sordid and depressing that ten hours (now twenty) of your time is actually something that you would invest yourself in if you were being paid for it rather than... actually paying for it.

This is possibly due to low/shifting expectations, but I actually liked the ending of Hill House. There were one too many long monologues (though I get this is a Mike Flanagan thing) but I felt the ending more or less made sense for every character involved.

It's nice and unusual to have a horror story where characters behaved like actual people whose interactions and reactions are informed by their past, and who are changed by what they went through. And agree it works to think of the horror elements more as a metaphor for mental illness/family trauma.

Couldn't get through the first seasons of Making a Murderer.

Generally not a fan of these Serial-like true crime shows... I think the only one I ever really got into was The Jinx, and that was because the documentary makers not only had a genuinely fascinating subject but also managed to unearth crucial new evidence. And even then there was something morally/ethically iffy about how they chose to treat that evidence.

season*

yeah i agree

Without spoiling too much, bye ending to hill house completely changes the nature of the house, and the spirits there.

And it sucks

Went back and watched Maniac after giving up at first (thanks to Shakey for giving me the nudge), and it was great! It was weird, but just grounded enough to still resonate with me.

Maniac was good

My only real complaint was the exoticism of japanese culture, which at times seemed out of place and done for its own sake

We should do a Hill House thread tbh

there's something about the font that norsemen uses which means every time it shows up on my netflix i can only read it as 'NOR SEMEN'

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The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix (Spoilers)

Has there been anything really, really excellent in the last few years, or just a lot of stuff that's pretty good? What are the outstanding shows since say 2015?

on Netflix or just in general?

really, really excellent imo:

Better Call Saul
Insecure
Maniac
The Terror
GLOW

better call saul and insecure are not netflix original programming though

for NF originals I'd say Glow, the OA, Stranger Things, Gilmore Girls reunion, Ozark, Godless, HIll House, Love, are all excellent post-2015 series. Still haven't seen Narcos. Bloodline was pretty good but just shy of excellent. And still haven't seen a bunch of the animated stuff or other comedies (like One Day at a Time). There are only a few things I've really disliked; Atypical for one, Gypsy was another.

I kind of like House of Flowers but only got three episodes in before I got distracted.

would submit the last two seasons of kimmy schmidt

gilmore girls reunion was actively terrible (i'm a fan, i still watched it twice)

for me Mindhunter has been the best original NF show, followed by GLOW.

Narcos is good too, some cliched bits and when they veer from the facts and into fiction it's pretty obvious but it's a good drug war thriller.

haven't been able to bring myself to watch the second season yet, but american vandal deserves to be on any list of the best shows of the last three years