Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

re: American Vandal: for some reason I watched the first two eps of s2 and haven't been compelled to return. s1 is probably their best season of anything

American Vandal should've been a lot shorter.

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'

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor semen stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Netflix only:

Mindhunter
The Expanse - since they are taking it over form SyFy
American Vandal
Stranger Things season 1 (season 2 was bad imo)
Narcos
Chef's Table
Godless (finale fell flat but I enjoyed it overall)

Is Norseman good? I finally stopped watching Vikings after I realized I was only into it because Ragnar Lodbrok was crazy hot.

if we're expanding beyond netflix, better call saul and good place are the best shows on television. the best show of the past however many years is hannibal, which ended in 2015 so i'm counting it

otm to those three. and I'll add Rectify which is my favorite show if the decade

mindhunter, lady dynamite, GLOW, bojack, big mouth all good

oh yeah both seasons of lady dynamite are wonderful, i forgot

oh man, i have such a strong, visceral dislike of Lady Dynamite. I could not get over thinking Bamford was doing a weird Sedaris impersonation.

... yeah i don't see that at all

in particular i love lady dynamite for how surreal its plot movements are and how often its reality breaks down. and also how funny it is

I guess if you've never seen Maria Bamford before, you might think she was a fake character in LD?

"better call saul and good place are the best shows on television"

absolutely.

is Spartacus still on netflix? starting near the end of s1 it's the best show ever

(pls avoid if you have no tolerance for camp, gore, or cheap digital effects)

Expanse is going to Amazon (not Netflix). But still good!

And Big Mouth may be the best show on Netflix.

favorite Netflix series this year:

Big Mouth
The Haunting of Hill House
Ozark
Wild Wild Country
The End of the Fucking World

non-Netflix

The Terror
Better Call Saul
Difficult People

non netflix totally agree with Good Place, Saul, Difficult People and strongly adding Killing Eve and Mrs. Maisel.

End of the Fucking World def a fave Netflix show. A few episodes into Haunting of HIll House and not feeling it.

non netflix original, but I can't believe how good the first season of The Sinner was.

Yeah, I can't decide whether to continue with Haunting of Hill House or not. Everyone is super annoying on it.

I didn't realize End of the Fing World was netflix. Agree was great.

Is Norseman good?

I really like it. It's not as funny as it thinks it is, or even as good as it thinks it is, but a solid 7/10. And in a world of 2s and 3s that's a real success.

Bojack is the winner though.

End of the Fing World was Channel 4 but Netflix picked it up immediately (or maybe a co-production?).

oh man, i have such a strong, visceral dislike of Lady Dynamite. I could not get over thinking Bamford was doing a weird Sedaris impersonation.

― Yerac, Thursday, October 25, 2018 2:17 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this show had some moments and even whole episodes that were just brilliant, but I ended up dropping out before the end because I just couldn't stand how over-the-top awful some of the people in her life were to her, especially her "best" friend. I mean, I know it's supposed to be "surreal" and all that, but I just kept getting turned off by watching this woman with a best friend who seemed pathologically driven to ruining her life.

I just watched a trailer of season 2 to see if maybe I bailed too early. Nope.

Just checked, yes End of the Fing World was a Netflix co-production.

What I hadn't realised was just how bad a business model Netflix is, with operating losses of $3-4Bn. Despite this it spent $13Bn on content in 2018, or put another way TWICE THE BUDGET OF THE ENTIRE BBC.

is Spartacus still on netflix? starting near the end of s1 it's the best show ever

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, October 25, 2018 11:24 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

best show ever indeed!

twice the budget of the bbc but no live tv, no news operations, no radio stations, no websites

yeah it's mind boggling to me how netflix stays in business.

Netflix's share price is ~$300p/s with a market cap of ~$130B. It's all absurd. That said it's the only regular tv/movies I've paid for in 15 years.

this is why i was on board with Moviepass this past year. i think without the relentless negative press, they would've been able to keep bilking new investors for years on their way to profitability like every other internet company more or less

Loved season 1 of Lady Dynamite, bailed out on season 2 after a couple of minutes. Couldn't manage the surreal awfulness (which probably says more about my tastes now than earlier).

Right now, I'm loving the non-US shows Netflix has licensed: Occupied, Suburra, Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories, Cable Girls, Gomorrah, and Fallet (a must for everyone who's burned out on Scandinavian noir)

Anyone watch any of 3% yet? It's a Brazilian show that sounds reminiscent of The Hunger Games but it's directed by César Charlone - probably best known as the cinematographer of City Of God which gets me interested.

Might start A Very Secret Service next, but waiting for reports first.

i need to check all of those out. confession: I almost always watch tv high (so I can sleep through the night) and hence have a tendency to fall asleep halfway through things, and also have a hard time reading and comprehending.

I think A Very Secret Service is terrific, it acknowledges France's absurdity of thinking of itself as a world power and has some great jokes about French social attitudes.

Season 2 doesn't start particularly brightly but is well worth sticking with.

Has there been anything really, really excellent in the last few years, or just a lot of stuff that's pretty good?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 25 October 2018 16:53 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no

I would contend that Bojack Horseman is truly excellent.

Also Terrace House.

Latest Bojack season not truly excellent I think

Biggest crime is probably that ep11 is telegraphed so doesn't have the shock value of previous ep11s. The run of 'Free Churro', 'INT. SUB' and 'Mr Peanutbutter's Boos' is tremendous though and Henry Fondle is a great character.

Those three episodes are the obvious pinnacle yes

s4e11 makes my head rattle, it’s one of the cleverest things i have ever seen

yeah and it set an impossible standard to follow tbh - maybe the creative team should just make a full-blown transhistorical epic next

I love Trerrace House so much.

and also Terrace House.

OMG, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina starring Kiernan Shipka, I kind of want to watch this.

That has been a much anticipated show at my workplace

Checking out the first episode. Probably not for me, but it warms my heart that Shipka has a leading role.

Two episodes into Sabrina and really not feeling it.

I hear the cat doesn't even talk

you have to be open to watching something made for young people, but Hilda is legit one of the best netflix originals I've seen