Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

loooove money heist.
i haven't been able to get through the 2nd season of suburra; not sure why.

ian, I've been having the same trouble w/Suburra. i'm not sure if it has anything to do with the journey for the characters being so pre-determined that i can see exactly what's going to occur. i'm also not a huge fan of the Amedeo character, i haven't quite bought into his turn from honest and decent man to being ruthless and utterly compromised. There was no series of incidents that would make him the way he is at present, he just got a little greedy. and the greediness isn't being offset by any palpable sense of inner turmoil. the decency was believable previously.

tried to watch WHAT WE DO IN SHADOWS and i lasted about 40 minutes. kind of like my recent issues w/Mrs Maisel -- it likewise seemed to try to get by on the style and the comedy rhythms rather than actually having really hilarious gags. the one gag i loved was the shockingly messy first kill.

the movie? it's definitely not a hilarious gag type of thing

the tv show has been very close in tone so far but it's stuck to a single topic per half hour episode, which might be more palatable for some

i guess it's one of those movies where the comedy just isn't hitting me like it's supposed to. it coasts a bit on the mockumentary style. i realize this might be a me thing vs a WWDIS thing; other than Spinal Tap I've never really been a huge fan of that type of thing.

i love the movie

Love the movie, love the show.

i feel like the lex

What we Do in the Shadows in on netflix ?

amazon prime iirc

it’s on Kanopy

(Eagle vs Shark and Thor: Ragnarok are on Netflix; WWDIS, Boy and Hunt For The Wilderpeople are all on Kanopy)

Bonding _might_ be worth a look?
https://www.netflix.com/title/81004814

(and, incidentally, what's on kanopy varies depending on your local library system; one size does not fit all)

I Think You Should Leave is so good. Hardly any shows make me laugh hard lately and this one did.

I Think You Should Leave is so good. Hardly any shows make me laugh hard lately and this one did.

Yep, Conner O’Malley is so great. All the more famous comedians are perfectly integrated with their cameos.

incidentally, what's on kanopy varies depending on your local library system

What’s on Netflix varies depending on yr territory too

Loved WWDITS. Agree it's not completely hilarious all the way through but there are plenty of genuine laugh out loud moments (the first kill, the werewolves etc).

Show has been pretty good so far.

Also, three episodes in to Black Summer. Enjoying it but also exasperated by some of the dumb decisions the characters keep making (which seems to be a common theme in post apocalyptic zombie shows). I've never seen Z Nation - is it just a tenuous link to that show? And is it worth watching?

Intrigued by I Think You Should Leave, so I watched the trailer and it ... seemed like a lot of yelling and Tim & Eric styled OTT comedy? I'll give it a shot, esp. if it's funny, but I'm worried if I set it up as good and show my wife and it turns out it's ... a lot of yelling and Tim & Eric styled OTT comedy, she'll immediately give up on it.

i don’t really know tim and eric but i do think it gets better as it goes along

also the episodes are short

Why must every show get better as it goes along? Why can't they just be good right out of the gate? Assuming we don't hate something right away (I gonged "The Romanoffs" pretty fast), we have about a two episode margin of tolerance. Though lately my wife has had no problem suddenly dropping shows after several seasons! She watched the previous six seasons of Veep, but refuses to watch the new one, and after three seasons of Better Call Saul, which she loved, she oddly had no interest in season 4. Weird.

I'm trying to get my wife to watch 30 rock and two episodes in even I'm sceptical and I'm already a convert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMcDOE13AN8

lol perfectly apropos clip!!!

Wasn't 30 Rock, like Parks and The (American) Office, one of those shows with more or less expendable first seasons?

Damnit, that's why I never stuck with Parks.

I also like but still gave up on Better Call Saul. The pacing is so laborious you have to really gear up for a whole season of it.

Why must every show get better as it goes along? Why can't they just be good right out of the gate? Assuming we don't hate something right away (I gonged "The Romanoffs" pretty fast), we have about a two episode margin of tolerance. Though lately my wife has had no problem suddenly dropping shows after several seasons! She watched the previous six seasons of Veep, but refuses to watch the new one, and after three seasons of Better Call Saul, which she loved, she oddly had no interest in season 4. Weird.

lol. I never watched the absolute last two episodes of True Blood and I don't feel bad about it.

I gave up on the Sopranos after half a season because it was too whiney.

I'm pretty chill, it's only TV ...

think about your life pippin

Think of all the poor souls who couldn't give up on a show before it ended and suffered through the ending of Lost

Wasn't 30 Rock, like Parks and The (American) Office, one of those shows with more or less expendable first seasons?

No, 30 Rock was incredible from the first episode, and had their back nine picked up after the first six (of 13) had aired. The Office and Parks only had 6-episode commissions.

(30 Rock got even better as it went along, but that doesn’t make those first 21 disposable.)


Damnit, that's why I never stuck with Parks.

You can jump to episode six and then pick up with S2, that’s all the context you need - it’s all uphill from there, for years. (I used to say just watch the deleted scenes from S1, maybe they’re on youtube?)

yeah I've never seen s1 and never felt like I was missing much

more controversially I also endorse this strategy for Halt and Catch Fire

30 Rock jumps up notably after The Rur(al) Jur(or) episode ime which is only a few into s1.

echoing the I Think You Should Leave love, so far my fav sketches have been the toupee sketch, the scrooge sketch, and the office prank.

anyone who hasn't seen it yet should watch Tim Robinson's episode of The Characters.

Baby of the year too omg

So was the histrionic all-screaming trailer not indicative?

Did you watch Mr Show? Cause the yelling percentage seemed similar to Mr Show

Yeah, I also was going to pass on this because the trailer was all screaming.

I'm an OG Mr Show fan. They made judicious use of screaming outbursts, especially from Bob Odenkirk. I'll give this one a shot, because it is short, but yeah, that trailer was literally all screaming.

just watched the trailer for the first time--all those moments are a lot less obnoxious and jarring in context

xp mr show was probably a bit screamier than you recall, i mean if you think of their best-known sketches--story of everest, pre-taped call-in, 24 is the highest number--there's a lot of yelling.

xpost Ok, good to know. That's why I brought up Tim and Eric, I know that show has it fans and moments, but they also seemed prone to sketches that would just be somebody screaming monotonously for a couple of uncomfortable minutes.

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There's yelling in all sketch shows, that's how people can be heard over each other and the audience while they are improvising, afaict. I've been listening to the How Did This Get Made podcast, and the volume difference between the studio recordings and live audience recordings is pretty astounding.

The live ones are practically unlistenable and I think it kinda says everything about that podcast that they pretty much only do live ones these days (or that was certainly the case when I stopped listening)

I think either they only do live ones or at least studio ones are behind a paywall?

I think the last one I listened to mantzoukas got it into his head at one point that saying “put her in a bra” over and over was comedy gold and I was oh ok that’ll be the next 20 minutes of this then *smashes 30 second skip*

Why yes this has everything to do with Netflix actually