Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Belgian ecstasy-ring thriller "Undercover" is kinda dumb but thoroughly entertaining, ten epsiodes

xp your input is much appreciated!

I've watched 3 time loop (the best genre) films, some mentioned upthread.

ARQ rushes out of the gate, in the first minute you know exactly what you're getting. What it lacks in complexity it makes up for in tension, but there were a couple of totally insignificant but nice touches I noticed: the loop lasts 3 hours 14 minutes and 5 seconds, and there's mention of a 'riverrun' project.

The Endless takes a long time to show its hand but when it does, man. Shit is fucked up.

Synchronicity is rubbish, did not finish.

How do I never know about this kind of stuff. Surely Netflix should be spoonfeeding it to me. Stupid algorithms!

Oh i probably spend as much time dragging right on all those 'sci fi'/'thrilling'/'mind bending' lists and then googling reviews as i do actually watching the things.

this is worth checking out, if you haven't already:
Dark: the German Netflix series that's like an amalgamation of Twin Peaks, Back to the Future, and X-Files (SPOILERS!)

Does happy death day count, that one was a good time

I eagerly anticipate the Happy Death Day sequel hitting streaming

control f "timecrimes"

I think Timecrimes is on netflix, and is personal fave of that best genre.

or Los cronocrímenes as it might be listed.

Timecrimes obv a classic of the genre. I just now started watching See You Yesterday, which appears to be a teen version of this, too early to tell if that's a good or bad thing but holy shit Michael J Fox just turned up, I'm on board...

Triangle is an awesome loopy movie.

I love Timecrimes

groundhog day > los cronocrimenes > happy death day > live die repeat > russian doll > frequently asked questions about time travel > x-files episode "monday" > run lola run > source code

all of these are great

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> Coherence, which is merely very good, > Triangle

Is that the one set on a suburban block where the power goes out or something?

They go to a dinner party, power goes out and then only appears to come back on in their house. They then see another in the distance and go to look, boxes with Polaroids turn up outside.

It's Bruno is an entirely enjoyable series. Helps that each episode is only 15 minutes long so you can watch the entire thing in about 2 hours.

Dead To Me probably the best thing i've seen this year. Applegate in particular just monumental

that said, there appears to be a commissioning requirement for endless real estate porn in Netflix's "female noir thriller" genre

this Renee Zellweger trailer is making me giggle

The Perfection is nasty and dumb.

dead to me is good but so so slow (i’m on ep 3)

I really enjoyed it. Christina Applegate is the greatest.

a show like that, a role like that - it's what actors dream about. I've always liked her but i had no idea she had that in her. her co-star outstanding too of course.

agreed, Christina Applegate is tremendous in it. Enjoyed James Marsden playing against type too.

I particularly enjoyed how they included a lot of the elements of fairly standard women's drama -- breast cancer, troubled teenagers, childlessness -- in a non-standard way.

I keep wondering how far Jen will go to forgive Judy. I assumed she asked Judy to come back so that Judy could pretend to have witnessed Jen asking Steve to leave, so as to provide a casus belli for killing him. Judy will do it, she'll do anything at this point it seems. And I can understand feeling, hey, Judy would have gone back. Steve pressured her into it. Fine. But Judy did all kinds of things in the course of the show that just heaped more pain onto Jen. Incredibly selfish stuff in ever more tortuous attempts at avoidance, almost all of which redounded on Jen. That's the stuff I feel like it's hard to forgive - not the actual hit and run

I watched Synchronicity against my better judgment, it was very very extremely awful although admittedly I liked some of what they were trying to do

Have you guys watched the Bash Brothers thing from the Lonely Island? LMAO.

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disagree about the Perfection, it is nasty for sure, but I thought it was a bit clever.

I watched Bash Brothers. I recommend being high.

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oh shit I watched bash brothers SOOOO high last night and it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen (also the music is really good). my wife was not high and did not grow up in the east bay during the late 80's and therefore it did not resonate with her.

I watched the first ten minutes and had to stop. It was a huge amount of effort for a premise that I couldn't relate to.

it's only 29 minutes long, you were a 1/3 of the way to the end!

It was a looooong 10 minutes, and I was high!

I really did not understand the Joe Montana thing at the end. Which is partly my fault that I was trying to find meaning in it.

This Wanda Sykes stand-up special is excellent.

Enjoying their musical series ReMaster — the docs about Sam Cooke, Victor Jara, and The Lion Sleeps Tonight have all been very informative and needed. Would recommend!

Oh yeah, I watched the Victor Jara one a couple of weeks ago. It was good although some of the interviews made me really mad with the blatant lying.

Lying is par for the course unfortunately
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Just noticed that the one about Johnny Cash is directed by Barbara Koppel! Good series overall!!

i thought wanda's jokes were probably 3/4 kind of generic and obvious political commentary (it doesn' thelp that with people doing topical stuff, for netflix specials, which don't air for another six months or something, the material seems a little stale by the time you see it). her delivery saves it though and some of it (mainly the non topical stuff) was great.

re: stand up on Netflix: the new anthony jeselnik special is pretty funny (maybe not as funny as his first one). iliza shlesinger is fucking dire, why is this lady huge?

i have a deep aversion to Jeselnick but he is v handsome

Jeselnick is pretty much garbage as far as I've ever been able to see

Jeselnik is a fantastic joke writer, but if you can't get on board with the stage character, that's probably never going to work for you

What We Do In The Shadows is ace. Ep 3 with Evie vs Colin!

It gets even better

is that on netflix in some places?

Sorry, no, it was mentioned upthread but think it's on Amazon Prime; also bbc for Britishers

it's on FX in the US.

it's on hulu in US, not on prime/netflix