Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

My favourite joke in the whole series is the one about witches in the last ep.

Petra Costas 'The Edge of Democracy' was my favorite from the main competition at this years CPH:DOX. Warmly recommended. A great primer on Brazilian politics, with scenes that reminded me of The Battle of Chile or The Hour of the Furnaces.

"Easy" is bizarre. Who is it for, and why did I watch all of it? ... oh no ....

it's like What if "Movie 43' were a drama series

Easy keeps coming up but I watched 2-3 episodes and was like...blech. Most modern relationships are really, really boring/annoying.

I am looking at an episode guide and this summary from an epi in season 2! I want to die. "While the brewery brothers - now dads - grapple with growing pains, their wives launch their own business selling organic dog treats."

is this an accurate portrayal of modern American relationships?? Comments?

I make beer so I've taken those brothers episodes especially hard.

IIRC the brothers don't speak for a year or something because one of them didn't think the other was keeping it real enough

I just looked up who created/wrote Easy and this all makes perfect sense on why I disliked it. I think the last thing I saw of his was Drinking Buddies which was so completely a waste of time.

the artwork for Easy makes it look like a relationships-focused Archer which i honestly would watch the full fuck out of

I'll have to read up a bit about it. it feels like it was written by a 50 year old white dude in New York, in collaboration with an AI of some sort

i watched a couple of eps. they have this couple in an open relationship and literally every woman the dude hooks up with, including his wife, is like ten times more attractive than him, and usually way younger.

also every ep made me feel some kind of not good way. only one i enjoyed was the saddo martial artist security guy going to the fetish party

THAT ONE WAS THE WORST lol

are they supposed to be in NYC? I didn't really notice any particular city, named or not. Basically I had this on "in the background"

hi Jim in Vancouver, I'm Matt in St John's

It's Chicago. The writer is one of those mumblecore dudes. Ugh. Tank of manatees picking from idea balls.

La Treve. I think it’s The Break for the US/UK market? Very belgian. Very good.

I am unclear if Murder Mystery was a movie or if it was a very long ad for Moet & Chandon.

The writer is one of those mumblecore dudes.

Tbf, the writer/director is one of *the* mumblecore guys. True story: I once commissioned a pint of gourmet ice cream from his wife for my wife's birthday. It was ... malted Guinness shortbread? And it was delicious.

Second season of Dark is now up

"every ep made me feel some kind of not good way"

ha, have not and likely will not watch this new season, but this describes my reaction to what i've seen of Easy S1/S2 for sure.

I still recommend episode 3, series 2. I really like Jane Adams’ acting.

Second season of Dark is now up

Took me a while to remember this terrible generic title was actually something I've been waiting for.

my mom asked if I thought she would like dark mirror and i felt compelled to mention the pig fucking so i think she's gonna pass

I’ve always advised ppl not to start with that episode. Tell her to try the Jesse Armstrong one?

start with the one that is about fucking your buddy in street fighter vr

start with Be Right Back

start with San Junipero. stop when it's over

Most charitable take in Easy is that given that we constantly have scenes in film and TV that model how to rape or assault someone, we have few models for a scene about how consent works, or how specific kinds of negotiation work.

I don’t know. I’m a big Rohmer fan and it feels like Rohmer to me.

And the bonus is that the Chicago locations aren’t dressed or renamed. It makes sense that the 90s art-school grads (Maron and his friend) would hang out at Rainbo and Quimby’s, that the unicorn would be a Wiggleworms teacher, that Beverly neighbors would get paranoid about a package thief, and so on. And the details about beer, permits, neighbors, sex work, cartoonists, and so on feel spot-on instead of simplified for the sake of plot.

Didn’t like the third season as much, but really dig most of the rest.

of all the various repeated characters, I have to admit I liked the Maron episodes the best I think.

they have this couple in an open relationship and literally every woman the dude hooks up with, including his wife, is like ten times more attractive than him, and usually way younger.

To be fair, the show starts with her not wanting (understandably) to fuck him anymore.

Yeah - was going to point that out.

Easy really suffers from uneven acting skills. I struggled to watch the episodes with the brewers in particular because the acting was so bad.

This Trinkets show is alright even though almost all the acting outside the lead (Briana Hilldebrand, who was in Deadpool) is terrible.

Aggretsuko season 2 was so good. Somehow, this cartoon about a death metal karaoke-loving red panda managed to be funnier and more relatable than 90 percent of sitcoms about single girl working life in the city.

i just binged both seasons of marcella in a couple of days bc i'm just in that kind of mood but the ending of s2 might have gone a bit wtf. why did she do that thing to her face??? how did that cop dude find her??? "yeah alright you're clearly nuts but come work for us"??? was surprised with how the custody thing played out - thought she was gonna change her mind and help tim against jason. and whyyyyy was mark spying on her???

Rav is a babe btw.

i watched the first season of Dark about a week before the second season came out, and even a 5 day lag was too long and i had trouble following the story. fuck knows how i'll manage when s3 comes out.

This might help.

Then again, it might not.

I liked the first season of Marcella but I had to drop it a couple of episodes in season 2. I was like, wtf is this bullshit.

ohhhh, I was wavering on whether to watch season 2 of Aggretsuko. I should just do it.

Marcella also dresses like I do for work and I kept questioning on whether she was supposed to be frumpy.

netflix is getting rid of the office for your own good, you people have a problem

— Dan Sheehan (@ItsDanSheehan) June 25, 2019

I am always surprised how beloved Friends is all over the world (like how many people watch it over and over). I haven't watched it since it was first on tv. Maybe I should.

no don't do it

yeah, I have never felt the desire. Another person (Italian millennial) was just telling me how he has watched it three times over now.

I find it to be a very effective soporific. I've used it on more than one occasion to send me off to dreamland when I was suffering insomnia.

Sometimes when I am around someone will ask me where I am from and I will say US and then New York and they always go "FRIENDS!" no one says "SEINFELD!" or some other show.
I also had a japanese roommate once who would only watch Friends, baseball and South Park.

I didn't like Friends in its initial run but I've seen a couple partial episodes while on the elliptical machine at the gym this year and it's... ok? I mean, it doesn't have the really insipid laugh track-baiting of Chuck Lorre sitcoms and it's almost quaint to have a show that *does* have a laugh track and isn't cynical

I'm never gonna rep hard for it because it is pretty MOR but I think it holds up, and moreso if you watch it as a serial rather than just disparate episodes.

friends is good when it doesn't lean too hard on schwimmer's schwimmer-iness

imagine if netflix got the rights to newsradio and got everyone to watch newsradio instead of friends. mostly i wish newsradio was streaming somewhere.

I wholeheartedly concur even though I own it. My brother just started watching it recently and got hooked. Would that everyone had the easy opportunity to do so.