Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

two truths

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
:(
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

Only if you have hulu + live TV

right. Which I'm arguing for! I just cut the cable and here's the breakdown for anyone considering doing the same:
Hulu + Live TV with no ads + 200 hour Cloud DVR is $61; this covers basic cable pretty neatly
Standard Netflix is $12
HBO is $15, Showtime is $11
Prime Membership is $120 a year
Mubi is $100 a year
Criterion is $100 a year
Kanopy is free, as is PBS
Hi speed internet is about $70 monthly
$250 gets you a reasonable smart tv to watch it all on via an ethernet connection. I'm pretty happy so far.

(fed that paragraph into talk to transformer and was not disappointed)

We cut the cord last year. Was paying over £70 a month with Sky for Broadband but now paying £30 a month with BT for Super Fast Fibre plus BT Sport.

Bought a Freesat box to cover the record/pause live TV option and already had Netflix/Prime.

Anything else is via internet.

Just finished Dead to Me. It was fucking fantastic. Hope it's just 1 season though. Roles of a lifetime for the two leads.

I only have had netflix and prime for the last couple of years. I pay for student prime that they gave me ($59?) because they seem to think I am a student because I used to ship things to university addresses.

I haven't paid for cable since i was in college. The internet served every purpose.

‘Always be my maybe’ was fun for a romcom and features Keanu Reeves getting punched in the face. Fun for all the family.

;_; keanu ;_;

but yes v excited for that movie i love ali wong

A ''what's your streaming setup?" thread would be great. Or do we already have that somewhere?

Keanu was a gd delight in that movie.

(there was a weird amount of screentime for that Nest thermostat though.)

I've been watching The Society, halfway through and I still can't tell most people apart. I laugh every time my spouse identifies one as Clark or Grizz. I don't like this Corey Feldman/tall Jonathan Lipnicki looking mofo though.

omg ok keanu was awesome & the fight was hysterical. really love this movie, ali & randall are great

It was a fun film, and I liked the songs very much.

yeah those Hello Peril songs were really decent. Love the Keanu song

I was entirely too happy during the entire Keanu arc in the movie.

Watched ABMM last night. Are you guys serious? That was the most lazily-written movie I've seen in a long time and I just saw John Wick 3. The whole band subplot was stupid (they only play at one bar on one side of SF? They play multiple times per week and their friends show up for every show?), and their music was weak.

Keanu was the only good thing in the movie (and he was hilarious), but he couldn't save it.

I mean it follows a basic rom-com outline but there were some definite fresh things in it and some pretty tight jokes. I didn't realize I had been missing all the asian parent trope jokes all my life.

Also liked it as credibly the last vestiage of middle-class life in San Francisco.

when does marie kondo get to books? (i am on ep 4, the one where the husband had died)

lol, i kinda thought this was a game of thrones reference for a second.

clothes
books
paper
komono
sentimental items
stabbed bodies

Just watched The Endless. Kind of like a really effective Blair Witch with kind of M N Shyamalan nonsense, but like the total opposite of how bad that sounds. By which I mean it's good and I liked it. The lens distortion effects really unsettled me.

moorhead and benson are supposed to be coming out with a film with a budget shortly; feel like they'll be given a franchise shot before too very long. Would love to see them do any of marvel's "horror" line... maybe Dr. Morbius or Daimon Hellstrom

https://deadline.com/2018/09/anthony-mackie-jamie-dornan-synchronic-1202465856/

Lucifer is pleasant background viewing.

Had a friend just recommend that as good, self-aware fun.

It’s from the producer of Californication and feels like they flipped the main character from a boozing writer to the actual devil, lost some of the more troublesome sexual dynamics in the transition to broadcast tv, and somehow made the central plot device a buddy cop drama