Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

The baby is totally the best baby! :D
(Also, my brother worked on this show and said the babies irl are also the best!)

i just about died when i saw the trailer for THE SILENCE

https://diezukunft.de/sites/default/files/styles/shop_schaufenster/public/Redaktion/silence-bg.jpg?itok=QT3wTde1

give me good non-shitty examples of apocalyptic end of the world horror films where there's a subplot involving society's vacuum being filled by a fresh new cult of believers in the new world order.

Hearing actress Kiernan Shipka plays the lead character, a deaf ****** who ******* *******. Shipka learned American Sign Language for the role, and director John R. Leonetti said in an interview, "She learned to sign for the film, and now she's flawless, like she's been signing her entire life. She seems to have an almost innate sense of what it's like being a deaf person." Deaf celebrities Nyle DiMarco and Marlee Matlin and other members of the deaf community criticized Leonetti for saying that Shipka learning to sign was synonymous with knowing the culturally deaf experience and for undermining deaf representation by casting a hearing actor. DiMarco also criticized Shipka's ASL grammar, and others pointed out plot holes related to her character being deaf.

thanks everyone who recommended The Sinner - binged the first season over the weekend and thought it was really good. I definitely wouldn't have checked it out otherwise based on the trailer alone.

Don't know how to explain what made it stand out from all the other darkly-lit "troubled cop investigates mysterious murder in a small town" shows, but it was really compelling from start to finish. Jessica Biel was pretty good in it too - never really paid any attention to her before.

Finally watched High Flying Bird and it's so fucking good. The iPhone imagery is just a consistent delight through it all, and the plot, with it's talk of disrupting big organizations through small innovative content, obviously matches it perfectly. It's like a 'Sex Lies and Videotapes' for the streaming-age, makes it seem like Netflix could be a worthwhile creator of movies with their own aesthetic, even.

And then I saw last years winner of the Golden Leopard, 'A Land Imagined' by Yeo Siew Hua, and that's a film that should have been shown on the big screen, but now never will. And that's going to be much more of what they do...

One of the things that makes the sinner stand out is other than some silly scenes it really doesn’t care that much about the detectives dark inner life. And it not a whodunnit filled with red herrings. Both things that made the Killing so annoying.

Also all of those other shows suffer from a chronic lack of Bill Pullman. It's a real problem.

The Shhhhh Silence movie was not good. I almost turned it off but then only 30 minutes were left so I just finished it. I hope everyone got paid well.

xpost Gah, I also loathe cults/religious fanatics popping up in apocalypse movies. My next hatred is a movie suddenly becoming about aliens. I am still angry from seeing Signs in the theater and it turning out to be about aliens.

That's what made you angry about Signs?

Yeah. I distinctly remember becoming super angry that it was becoming about aliens. Maybe I passed out from blind rage because I don't really remember much about the movie besides Mel Gibson being in it.

a movie about crop circles featuring aliens

shocking

It's probably for the best that your rage coma wasn't exacerbated by the knowledge that the aliens were deathly allergic to...water. Sorry for spoilers.

There is a widespread internet theory that it is not about aliens at all, but demons.

And that the water was ... holy water.

Internet giving Shyamalan way too much credit imo.

ugh i remember the thing about the water now. This is my fault for going to movies that I have no clue what they are about. Like, when The Revenant came out I really did think it was just about Leo getting raped by a bear because that is all I kept hearing. Imagine my confusion.

imagine my disappointment when the revenant wasn't just one 156-minute take of a bear using leonardo dicaprio as a fleshlight

Would that more of the pitch-black early Onion material were adapted into major motion pictures.

Oddly enough my friend I went with also thought this is what the movie was about. We kept whispering "when does he get raped by a bear?" Even after he got mauled.

wasn't that one really dumb reviewer who made that assumption based on his own weird sense of projection, then it got turned into a meme?

Yeah, I think it was circulating. It got both our expectations up mistakenly.

so many dejected cinema managers handing out refunds to irate customers who paid their ticket money solely to watch the star of j. edgar be subjected to unwanted ursine advances

what's humping gilbert grape

it was the 2010s equivalent of viewers flocking to Meet Joe Black to catch the Phantom Menace trailer.

the brownbearball diaries

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ha ha

The Burial of Kojo was good - beautiful scenery, great music.

Beyonce's Homecoming is pretty amazing.

this chris lilley show has its moments

of gross racism, and lunatic ego such that no other performer is allowed to contribute anything substantial? because

not racism, no. (he doesn’t portray himself as another race, contrary to the controversy engendered by the trailer.) some of the bits about what being a social media celebrity can do to people are funny.

I haven’t seen the trailer, but that’ll make his first show in 14 years that isn’t dumbfoundingly racist

(I’m giving WCBH a pass that it may not deserve; he definitely yellowfaced in it but may have only reached the level of “well-meaning stereotyping”)

Anyone else tried Black Summer yet? The first few episodes seem promising and I definitely like the very scant use of dialogue.

I really don't know how I feel about Black Summer. I am on episode 7. I was telling miccio that I got aggravated by neverending bad decisions. There are a lot of weird choices too that I don't think are realistic. I really love zombies though.

^^same. enjoyed the action sequences, but yeah some of these characters are super dumb. and while I liked the minimal amount of dialogue, it also meant I couldn't give a shit who lived or died (other than Sun, who will obviously survive everything). another one in the not-terrible-not-great Netflix category.

Interesting. I'd actually been thinking that the regular ineptitudes of the characters was a positive in it, because people do stupid things all the time anyway (myself very much included) and it would be no different in a zombie apocalypse (or probably worse because of stress and pressure etc).

The last zombie thing I've spent much time watching in recent years was The Walking Dead, so it's not surprising how refreshing this feels in comparison. There's infinitely less wretched dialogue, more tension even with fewer overblown grand set-pieces, way more genuine mystery as to what's going on (especially with the structure of the gradually linking vignettes)... More realistic characters would have been another of my positives on this list, personally.

I'm only a couple of episodes in though, so there's plenty of time for it to wear thin.

It has a very video game feel to it. I could not stand how no one has any sort of weapon for the first part. Also that Jaime King dated Kid Rock.

The last zombie thing I watched was Train to Busan, oh and I guess the newest season of Santa Clarita Diet.

I'd actually been thinking that the regular ineptitudes of the characters was a positive in it, because people do stupid things all the time anyway (myself very much included) and it would be no different in a zombie apocalypse (or probably worse because of stress and pressure etc).

I think I could buy this if they also didn't all seem to be magical gun experts. like this ragtag bunch of suburbanites can't swing an axe but they all automatically know how to use assault rifles and shotguns (maybe this is a "lol america" thing idk).

yerac, you might like Kingdom, another Korean zombie thing on Netflix (posted about it way upthread - basically Joseon-era palace drama + braineaters).

I also love Santa Clarita Diet (third season is goofier and gorier than ever).

thx, added it to my queue!

xxp Ah, I haven't got that far.

(maybe this is a "lol america" thing idk).

xpost ahh so sorry krakow - I didn't read your previous post properly to the end. hope that wasn't too much of a spoiler for you!

That's fine, don't worry at all!

Last Tango in Halifax is on NF! I am super psyched. Maybe it's been there for awhile and I never noticed it bc of the terrible interface. I loved Happy Valley and will watch anything that show runner does.

in that case, this starts tonight i think:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/arts/television/review-gentleman-jack-review.html

Happy Valley is truly amazing. LTI Halifax is a more homely affair but still a lovely thing at times. Sally Wainwright is incredible. She has this coming up on UK TV and I'm very much looking forward to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman_Jack_(TV_series)