Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I had no desire to watch that one but finished and and was rethinking going back. Chang seems to be trying so hard to fill the Bourdain gap but serious misstep in having the first episode with Rogan.

i want to watch his shows but i can never get past the “just hanging out shooting the shit” vibes

He has more interesting people on epis 2, 3, 4 and tries to provide more cultural depth now.

Daybreak - i love apocalyptic, teenage movies with scenes in a mall, questionable acting and random but funny oneliners. It has surprisingly good music too.

Yeah Mountain Goats at end of ep 2 made me grin. Its not a bad show - a little tooooo aware of itself/its metaness but good fun anyway. Also agree 16 year old me would have loved it.

I did like when, after 10 mins of blatant "Ferris Bueller" action, he sat down on front of his new principal who actually is Matthew Broderick and just ... has this look, but doesnt say anything, they never underline the pun, just left it hanging.

RZA episode was great!

Agree with |||||||| about the new David Change. Just a really poor choice of guests, on the whole, and you have to wonder if anyone actually did any work on the show before the cameras started rolling. They are so underprepared. If it was intentional, it doesn’t work, it just comes across aimless. Rogan is unbearable (that laugh!) Kate McKinnon, who I like well enough otherwise is annoyingly performery, like some irritating acquaintance that talks in funny voices all the time. It’s almost pathological. No idea who Chrissy Teigan is and the crew clearly had no idea why they were in Marrakesh or what to do there.

BUT the Lena Waithe is really great because she’s so smart and interesting. She seems to have to intention of trying to please the viewer other than being incredibly sincere. Even how polite she is to waiting staff is touching. It’s strange mix of coolness and guilelessness, which is fairly rare for TV people.

I like David Chang and always have but this is 3/4 trash.

*Seems to have no intention, that should say.

Loads of typos there. Apols.

can't get past Rogen's voice, almost 100% of the time. that weed resin mucus phlegm filter sound is too much.

agree

Daybreak is really dumb but I enjoyed it more or less. It does seem like it was written by an AI bot fed all the characteristics of a successful cable/streaming exclusive show: apocalypse, teens, the jock is gay.

Girlfriend in A Coma.

YOU REALLY *DO* HAVE TIME, SNOWFLAKE

https://uproxx.com/tv/netflix-feature-binge-high-speed/

yeah, was waiting for that to happen.

If there were any remaining doubt that Netflix thinks solely in terms of "content", surely this will remove that.

apparently listening to podcasts sped up is common? people are weird

I'll admit to listening to the first fifteen minutes of WTF sped up to get to the guest.

i watched a bunch of movies sped up on dvd when i was in college in an attempt to fast-feed some canonical stuff. there's a type that would watch any/everything this way all the time because they process fast.
similarly, i know some people that would happily watch most of their movies at 85% speed so they could keep up as long as they didn't lose coherence of speech.

Definitely heard of a lot of people who swear by the podcast speed listen.

I could see podcast or audio book listening a little faster tbh. Depends on your listening speed and how much fluff there is.

Definitely heard of a lot of people who swear by the podcast speed listen.

this is the only way i listen to podcasts. speed between 1.7x and 2.5x depending on accent/nationality (e.g. americans tends to speak relatively slowly).

I was aware of this but cannot comprehend it - 1.25 or so, possibly.

Does it pitch up or is there an algorithm that keeps the pitch at a more normal level?

all normal pitch. we have the technology!

amused by the slow-talking american stereotype tbh. that’s just out radio/podcast voices, I swear! (it is not)

yep, so: normal pitch + ~2x speed + trimming silence/gaps = knocking over a 45 minute podcast in 20 minutes

the future is now

If a podcast has that much dead air and pointless content... I'll just not listen to it.

https://www.blinkist.com/
this would be the most offensive version of "save time consuming as much content as possible" if it wasn't all business and self-help garbage

you gotta remember australians live much faster

(autocorrect changed it to ‘love’ and I can’t comment but am intrigued)

most australians talk way too quickly, even as a native i find it ridiculous

narwefugindontwhatchatalkinboutman

But yeah I had no idea sped up podcasts were a thing til I saw... some recent show or movie where one of the characters was listening to a sped up podcast to cheer themselves up. Fuck if I can remember what it was now. I watch too much TV.

you have all outlined several reasons why i can't enjoy podcasts
and yes people are savages for playing movies at 1.xx speed, wtf

My bf's podcast is full of broad ockerisms and a LOT of swearing. Its grate!

The DVD software on my old laptop would sometimes start playing stuff slightly faster after I did a slow rewind to catch a missed line or something. Always a little disorienting although I can see the appeal if you wanted to blast through something.

I listened to Chris Hayes’ recent podcast on Kashmir at normal speed while walking the other day and I still had to concentrate super hard to follow all the information. I’m reporting you 2.5 freaks to the FBI

i listened to all of ‘the testaments’ at 2.5, it was the perfect speed

I listen to all my lps at 45, for the same reason.

Better to go the opposite so you have the Satanic Alvin & The Chipmunks experience all the time.

But yeah I had no idea sped up podcasts were a thing til I saw... some recent show or movie where one of the characters was listening to a sped up podcast to cheer themselves up. Fuck if I can remember what it was now. I watch too much TV.

Think that may have been Fear The Walking Dead but not 100% sure.

It was definitely a show that I watch on 1.2x speed (using VLC) so the podcast bit sounded even faster

Yeah it was FTWD

enjoying Ferris Bueller Beyond Thunderdome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XvFO83LXBE

interested to see how they manage to continue this story after the way season 1 ended

Finally finished Daybreak. I am very surprised Gregg Araki didn't do some episodes; it seems totally his thing & with the netflix affiliation. I said above it was so stupid but I liked it. I think I ended up really liking it. It felt heavy handed at times but those times are the things I most remember, like the latina morrissey cover band sing your life I am a monster episode. The last episode I kept yelling KNEEL JOSH W*******.

and the music is also so heavy handed but I loved it too much also...

I don't suppose "The End of the F***** World" could be described as a fun viewing?

I thought the first season was fun.

Forgot about that show! I didnt finish S1, I found the female lead a bit annoying.

was the ending of the show different to the comic?

yeah it was fun, I forgot about that. That's another show that looked like it was thrown into the netflix AI blender that spit out Daybreak. All of these things are kind of blurred together in my head now.

Watching Haunting of H House (again) w my 13 yo. She:”Nell is her own trauma.” Damn