Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I guess LaBute only got cancelled as a playwright...

I started s6 of Orange Is The New Black but I realised I couldn't remember anything that had happened in the last season and kind of don't care enough to put up with watching that level of cruelty.

yup

Mutt is such a bad actor it is astonishing

he is like a human spray beard

Toys That Made Us s3 on Nov 15, yay
https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/282741/the-toys-that-made-us-season-3-what-to-expect
anybody who was raised in the 80s or 90s should try this out

I was bored so I gave the i-land a good go but it is laughably awful. Literally everything about it. Worst thing I've watched in a while, and I watched I Love You, Man the other day.

It's kind of crazy right? Like the dialogue, the acting, the laziness of what is going on.

I thought the same thing about that Birdbox/Quiet Place ripoff with Stanley Tucci in it. I couldn't believe how awful it was.

wow, i-land is getting some amazing reviews

we watched another episode last night. We have two episodes left if we choose to finish. I don't know why we are doing this to ourselves besides it's the first option right now on our netflix.

Otm Yerac, it's sooooo lazy! There's a great/terrible bit involving someone trying to escape from prison and it's just laughable, the actor involved literally looks likes she's already tired of this shit. I admire yr perseverance but, having now skipped to the end, I feel obligated to warn you - it doesn't get any better.

The first episode, I kept saying why would you try to rape someone on your first day after waking up on an island without your memory? Your first day!

yeah, give it 24 hours at least!

god that sounds fucking awful, I'll probably watch it. I watched the stupid similar one where all the kids were transported to a town that looked just like their own but with no adults....The Society. It's awful. This sounds worse.

The Great Hack is a fine documentary even if I think it overstates CA's actual effectiveness.

Anyone else seen any of Marianne? I watched an episode last night (as per a recommendation from Andrew Male who has a pretty flawless hit rate) and found it generic and hokey but pretty unsettling in places. The premise is pretty much a Stephen King short (horror writer starts writing to stop nightmares; finishes series of books and the nightmares return but it seems the nightmare has invaded reality...) but with a nice folk-horror edge - almost like something out of Robert Aickman.

I Land is way worse than The Society (which we watched all of).

I like the Two Ferns movie.

Marianne was fine - I enjoyed it, nothing mind blowing.

Started watching The Innocents. First episode was intriguing (TM Netflix) but assuming it turns to shit fairly rapidly as I don't know a single person who watched it.

I don't generally like or find police dramas interesting but we watched Unbelievable and it was pretty good. Partly because of Merritt Wever being insanely watchable.

6 eps in... it's harrowing

Big Mouth's back on Friday!

Avatar the Last Airbender is available now - if anyone hasn't seen it, it's good.

akm xpost. I set up my netflix in Chile so the fees are 4,990; 5,990; and 8,990clp for the 3 tiers. There is currency fluctuation of course but it's been in the $8 range at least for the last year (I just checked) regardless if I am using it in the US or Europe.

"Think of your favorite movie and I’ll bet you think of a vivid and memorable setting," said Horowitz, a correspondent for MTV News. "This series brings those iconic locations back to life with the participants themselves. As a film lover, I'm honored to be the guy to bring viewers along for the ride."

How is this not verbatim Turkington?

oh shit for On Cinema thread

oh damn wrong thread.

Yerac take my hand

let me moisturize first.

Thoughts on The Politician? Getting terrible reviews but I found it enjoyable, even if it lost the plot completely 3/4 of the way through like almost every other Ryan Murphy series I've seen (well, mainly, most AHS series). There were some annoying characters and weirdly dropped or truncated storylines, but on the whole I liked it. I didn't realize it was intended to run into a second season until the last episode which did a lot to course correct where it went wrong toward the end so I'm looking forward to season 2.

also, I'm Sorry is still funny even though Andrea Savage grates after about 15 minutes. She wiggles her shoulders less in the second season, thankfully. She is a funny writer though.

first episode of unbelievable before bed was a bad idea.
great writing, great acting, what a phenomenally sad story.

It's not out yet but Sion Sono has a new movie coming through Netflix! Forest of Love (not the Nicolas Cage project Prisoners of the Ghostland, sadly)

This sounds incredible:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tell-me-who-i-am-inside-the-most-jaw-dropping-documentary-of-the-year

cool, thanks; will bookmark that

Carmen Sandiego is pretty fun! I like the art and character designs a lot, and the characters are well fleshed out, and some of the plot points pack a real punch. Can't wait for the third season.

I enjoyed the first season! Haven't watched the second - too busy watching crappy horror films on Prime.

Daybreak: post-apocalyptic teen D&D fantasy live action.
https://www.netflix.com/title/80197462

hey Schitt's Creek is really great. hilarious and almost weirdly utopian. it's astonishing how well the Rose family overcomes the cliches in terms of being fish-out-of-water, maybe not so much by avoiding them but going all-in quite specifically where it works.

I'm watching Outlander (or should I say OOTLANDER), beautiful locations plus my newfound appreciation of Scottish accents with a dash of time travel makes this a lot of fun so far.

One more ep left of Unbelievable — I was apprehensive and it was grueling BUT very very good. Super glad it exists and bless Toni Collette for existing as well.

Would like to talk about that last episode when you are done

yeah, I am really glad I watched it and that it treated women like completely normal people.

my gf watched outlander over a very short period of time and any time i was in the room someone was about to be raped or something similar. too damn stressful.

also very historically inaccurate god damn it the jacobite rebellion wasn't nationalist for the love of god

i am halfway through the epic spanish language "The Heist" thing.
i was seriously thinking of giving up during S1 due to the never ending incredible twists and turns, but now i am totally loving the insanity of it.
after an excess of scanda noir it's so much fun.

oh it's so good and so ridiculous.

yup.
its like a pantomime version of a bank robbery.
i am absolutely loving it.

also very historically inaccurate god damn it the jacobite rebellion wasn't nationalist for the love of god

Haven't a clue about someone else's history but I did hear a character say "OK" and that's a 19th-century Americanism!

Outlander got super-rapey and lost me and my wife in the second season (I think).

Uh oh
I’m almost done but right now Duvall’s husband is singing “Mack the Knife”???

Is this supposed to be funny?