Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Still wanna punch Jan's parents.

ENBB, I’m in love w Derry Girls & I’m only 10 minutes in. I had two Irish roommates back when I first left uni and everything abt these girls is reminding me of them (so they are) :D

I'd say Velvet Buzzsaw was properly rubbish rather than merely underwhelming. A shame given those involved.

Erin and the bossy one w dark hair strongly remind of two people I have to work with irl that I absolutely loathe--in a school that's supposed to be resolving our reputation for bullying among students, they ARE the bullies. They lash out, preferring to solve problems with force and threat. It's causing me serious mental health problems to be in this environment.

Show-wise, the only person who seems reasonable/logical is the English cousin, who was the butt of every senseless cruelty in ep 1. No can do.

Velvet Buzzsaw was so confusing to me. Like all that talent, time, and money funneled into... this? Just as utterly silly and pointless as the trailer and synopsis suggest. Jake was kinda fun in that role, but it all adds up to nothing.

Brand new 46 minute episode of Big Mouth!!

Xpost yeah agree totally. Even my 13 yo was underwhelmed.

Abducted in Plain Sight: me saying “what?!?” every ten seconds for an hour and a half

Yup lol

The ongoing fear of the parents that their social cohort would reject them for admitting things they did personally that were, all things considered, trivial compared to the safety of their kid. But the perception that tragedy happened to them, even if they had to remain unbelievably naive to feel they had little agency in what was going on, kept the events going. On in other words: what?!?

Hadn't read anything about Beverley Luff Linn, stuck it on tonight and 30 seconds in realised it was by yer Greasy Strangler man.

Far more conventional and mainstream film than that was, arguably the better for it.

A few episodes into Umbrella Academy, which has that perfect Netflix-series quality where it's very watchable and yet obviously not very good? The soundtrack choices and dialog are especially disappointing. Still, there's something refreshing about a comic adaptation that neither takes itself hyper-seriously nor as a Whedon-y smirkfest.

I'm having that classic streaming dilemma where I'm just piqued enough to find out what happens and I have to decide whether it's worth the time investment or if I should just head to wikipedia.

Good background material while doing the dishes imo

**def the quality level we're talking about here

always happy to see homegirl get paid tho

very watchable and yet obviously not very good

this should be the tagline for netflix originals

the kid and the monkey are the obvious stars which is....not a great sign

Kinda funny how similar the set-up is to The Haunting of Hill House

Algorithm-guided no doubt

Not sure, might be taken verbatim from the comics? But I see what you mean.

Went the "skip to the spoilers" route, stopped even being passably entertaining by the midway point.

I've been watching a lot of trailer park boys

It had some funny moments, but The Breaker Upperers felt like half a film stretched rather thin. Needed slightly more of an actual plot.

hasan minhaj’s show is about prescription drug prices this week. there’s a gag about supreme getting into insulin that is largely funny because of how plausible it is

Dragon Prince is so much better in its second season! Some really mature storytelling, both in subject matter and narrative choices.

Amanda Knox doc was very interesting. Less the whodunit side, more the awfulness of the Italian detective and Nick Pisa

Is anybody watching One Strange Rock?

It is spectacular.

Dragon Prince is so much better in its second season! Some really mature storytelling, both in subject matter and narrative choices.

Yes, big step up from S1 on many fronts. The animation seemed noticeably better too. I hope they can keep up the pace of a new season every few months

Re One Strange Rock, the combo of Darren Aronofsky & Will Smith is not a promising one, but I will give it a go.

For a popular science documentary abt life on our planet it's as elucidating as any I've seen. Neatly organized and creatively edited and full of whoa! moments

Netflix destroy instantly

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

Cor blimey that Ricky Gervais and his dark twisted sense of humour, eh?

lol

he says what we're all thinking!

lol again

Third season of The Magicians is a big improvement on an already-decent-enough show. When I finish I've got to figure out a way to watch S4.

So we watched the first season and it was just such a troubling show (using rape and molestation in gratuitous cheap ways) we stopped there. Does it actually get better? Bc misanthropic Harry Potter really does feel a little shallow as a premise

When I finish I've got to figure out a way to watch S4.

The internet?

S4 has been excellent so far too

not netflix but hulu: PEN15 is ok. not hysterically funny but I liked the three episodes I watched last night.

Just finished Umbrella Academy. It was kind of fun. Some of the casting was bad and some special effects, especially at the end, were really cringey. I didn't realize until after that this was a Gerard Butler graphic novel so more of the stylization made sense.

gerard way! his tone is evident from the moment ellen page starts playing phantom of the opera songs on violin

hahahaha! Gerard Butler has so many surprising hobbies!

I was never a fan of his band so I only was going by surface visuals.

you can def feel it immediately even with an only passing familiarity with mcr

yeah, all those heavily stylized, emo-adjacent bands from that era completely passed me by.

I liked the entire UA although the last episode was really bad.

Gerard Way, isn't it? Unless you're all just making a terrible joke

Yeah, it was a mistake that I was laughing at while envisioning gerard butler's mcr side project.

2nd season of Suburra is up.. i'm gonna rewatch the first seasons so i'm refreshed.

ian, there's going to be a new season of money heist. bella ciao bella ciao

NICE. DETECTIVE PIRAS IS BAE

oops,not Piras, she's the detective in a book I read. Raquel!