Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

they have all of Little House on the Prairie too :D

awesome - how many episodes are there of that?

there are NINE seasons, and these are oldschool 20+ episode seasons so lots

i’ve been watching t0rrentzed eps up til now and am two seasons in. thank god theyre on prime now, much better quality.

it’s fun nostalgia but def prepare yourself for a lotta corny, HEAVY jesus messaging. especially the Landon-directed eps: pure christian cheese
i forgot how bad it was.

me, i’m in for the long haul bcz i am dying to see my childhood faves
1) When Mary goes blind
2) Albert morphine addiction 2 parter

there’s one episode I recall called I believeTHE LEGACY or something which begins with a flash forward to the present day with a woman buying an old piece of furniture and wondering about who made it and then we flash back and at the end of the episode we realize Pa Ingalls made it and then we flash back again to the woman loading up the furniture to take it home. Like that was the only legacy he’d left behind other than his family or something, this one thing he’d made that was around over one hundred years later.

lol that sounds very true to LHOTP

one thing is very clear to me already: Pa Ingalls SUCKS as a farmer

I went to LA and up to Thousand Oaks before Christmas and seeing the landscape kept making me think “it’s walnut grove, Minnesota!” and “it’s Hazzard County!” and “it’s South Korea!”.

haha

I just watched the first episode of Hannibal based on recommendations in this thread from people I trust. Mads is luscious but I can't imagine being able to watch much more of Hugh Jackman Dancy as ripped Det. Goren, does he get killed off pretty soon I hope?

lol that’s a no

would like to see Hettienne Park in more things, after Hannibal she's only appeared in a few shows, mostly in guest roles.

i can more or less assure you that Dancy warms on you over time

idk i find dancy great in hannibal from the jump

same

i like him too. He is a great american pedant because of his inherent britishness. I kept thinking he left a pregnant mary louise parker for claire danes and then realized i confused him with crudup.

I have one episode left in season 2 of Hannibal. I started calling it Wine Face because of the opening credits.

I have the opening credits music stuck in my head now

waaaahhooooooooaaaaawwww

I envy any of you watching Hannibal for the first time.

I started reading the Hannibal thread up to the end of season 2 (finished it last night) and I don't know how I didn't know about this show when it was on, I somehow blocked it out. In the thread people reference Dexter and The Office still being on and I am like, where was I ??? I dunno. I didn't ever have cable or regular tv but I still streamed a lot. I have never watched any of those ncis csi police law and order types of shows so maybe I just lumped it in there.

that's why it got cancelled

Crudup left Mary Louise Parker for Claire Danes. Danes is now married to Dancy.

the ongoing career of billy crudup is one of those unfathomable mysteries, not least because of his personal-life shitheadery

Apparently Dancy is as much an asshole as Billy is.

Finally finished russian doll. This series was written for me. Husband got uncomfortable when I started yapping away ab how fantastic it is. Lol

The network more or less threw Hannibal away after the first season and pretty seriously threw it away for the last season... i think they aired it at like 10pmEST?

well you can't show stuff like that earlier in the night

I think it always aired at that time? 8pm central isn't really a Hannibal time slot

iirc CSI was (nearly?) always a 10 eastern/9 central show and it only approached Hannibal levels of gore on occasion

yeah but it was on a saturday slot! nobody is watching this at 10 on a saturday!

i guess if this was on today it would be on Starz and would be equally inaccessible. it's niche stuff!

if the violence in Hannibal was in a film it would be a hard R, i was pretty surprised the first time i saw it.

yeah pretty much everything that happens to mason verger would rank among the most grotesque violence in any tv show, not just network tv

it's all conveniently shown barely offscreen

our broadcast standards are pretty messed up in that you can do nearly anything as long as it's not directly shown

did hannibal come out around the same time that GoT started really owning television? I think NBC was willing to take a risk with standards and practices to try to compete with pay cable with this and it didn't really pan out so we get This Is Us instead.

it ran 2013 - 2015 and apparently GoT started in 2011, so.. maybe?

objectively this makes sense, but having just started watching GoT a couple months ago, I'm having trouble mentally reconciling it

Supporting evidence:
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/game-of-thrones-hannibal-do-we-need-so-much-shock-and-gore-on-tv-30287064.html

I am constantly surprised at how popular GoT is. I read all the books before the series came out (they were ok) but half of the episodes put me into 20 minute nap mode where I wake up just in time for the ending.

I kinda think Hannibal is just one of those deeply weird things that happens from time to time. Serial killers were in, known properties were in, NBC was in crisis and nobody watched anything anyway, and a tv-show was able to survive if it had a niche audience and a good co-production deal. And all of a sudden you get three seasons of Hannibal. I really think tv is the medium with the biggest amount of crap, and the largest space for weird art to pop up all of a sudden.

I'm kind of tempted. It's 12 quid for the whole thing on Amazon, a pound per disc.

itt i learned about hannibal the series

guess i'll check it out

would highly recommend that, if you have a television or viewing device that's modern era, making sure you watch it in high definition

I have no idea if it was just the imagery of the series that made me pay attention to detail or if more detail was taken in filming (suspecting both) but it looked absolutely amazing in high definition

guessing that someone with a giganic home screen could chime in and complain/praise the 4k transfer if such a thing exists

I kinda think Hannibal is just one of those deeply weird things that happens from time to time. Serial killers were in, known properties were in, NBC was in crisis and nobody watched anything anyway

That reminds me that during the '07-'08 writers strike, CBS (IIRC) was reduced to airing sanitized Dexter reruns as filler programming.

Hannibal, eh? Maybe it's time. I taught Psychology to a girl last year who said that Hannibal was what got her into it. Like others I kind of assumed it was a regular crime thriller show, but I didn't expect to see you all going so crazy about it.

The third season is getting so silly. Delicatessen. Even the snails.

yeah, that first episode is amazing. third season is much more out of control but it pays off.

Just finished Dirty John

i liked the podcast but was kinda lukewarm on the show & didnt finish it. did you like it?

Has anyone who is lamenting the cancellation of One Day At A Time actually watched the last two seasons? Rita Moreno continues to be hilarious, but everyone else is just so cringeworthy, and the relentless, clumsy shoehorning of wokeness (are hoarders really a protected class now?) into every episode got pretty old.

Xp

Never got round to the podcast. I thought the show was ... well, I really enjoyed it. It was pretty low rent and over dramatic, and I think it would have been better to do a more realist take on it, but: the whole story was so fucked up I really liked it anyway and clapped when the younger daughter has her moment of glory at the end.

It was also a vastly better depiction of the stalker trope than 'You', a show which made me feel a bit sick