Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

There's a fair amount of grown-ups sexing too.

The stupid no-more-trailer-autoplay setting doesn't work. I've done everything. It works for a while, and then it resets itself to playing the trailers again. It's very annoying.

Sour Grapes, a doc about a con man and counterfeiter in high-end wine, moves fast and is compelling/fun.

The New Yorker profile on him ripping off the lesser Koch brother is really good.

Sex Education renewed for a third season.

They'll have to hurry up and film it as the campus where they shoot the school scenes is being turned into a housing estate

Next in Fashion is a tremendously good competition. The stakes felt uncomfortably high at times though.

i just started that last night! I love alexa chung and Tan.

Yes they work very well together. You're in for a treat!

Does anyone know why there’s so much smoking in Netflix shows? I’m assuming big tobacco money is involved somehow? Seems anachronistic and kind of gross

which shows? I haven't noticed this. I was just thinking last night how it's so nice that netflix makes so many things that aren't white dude centric.

speaking of shows with too much smoking, the new season of narcos mexico is pretty good so far except for an awkward Quavo cameo scene

I remember smoking being incredibly prominent in Mindhunter but that's not so anachronistic.

halfway through Next In Fashion. It's so turned up. I love it.

The people coming in with known partners and the banter makes it seem like a Christopher Guest thing.

I'm at the point in the show where they stop being pairs and go single. I like the show fairly well but have a lot of problems with it which essentially boil down to Tan France and how shite his patter is. I can bear him in a show with other people with enjoyable patter but on this is just so exposed and I cringe at everything he says in advance because I know what he's going to say before he says it.

Project Runway regular is doing better now that they revamped it but their casting seems fairly tired comparatively.

Is Tim Gunn still on PR? because NIF needs a frontperson who actually knows how garments are constructed and the ways in which that might be difficult & critique that. I love Tim Gunn.

I found it unfair that some couples had been working together for a decade and others were just two people who'd never met.

I sound like a dick, sorry.

oh it's Karli Kloss and Christian Siriano now and they completely redid the workroom/set. I like Siriano a lot but some of the contestants are kind of dicks to him.

timely, we were just reading this thread and we saw NIF E1 recently. it was fine. maybe even quite good idk.

the main reason we were reading this thread is that we've finally finished Sex Education. it is quite simply the best show, for so many reasons

We have been watching NIF while playing video games (because we don't have to concentrate so much) and Sex Education S2 while we can concentrate.

Alexa Chung the kind of modern style I most covet so I like watching her in anything.

I like her and feel like she doesn't like Tan much either, which makes me like her a bit more. I don't think she used to be that skinny though? It's a bit too much.

I like Tan. I just figure he's pretty cheesy because he doesn't drink and is married to a mormon.

I also finished Cheer. A houseguest was super into it so we finished it while she was here. I liked it but not as much as a lot of people. Worth it for the inspirational quotes found at Bubba Gumps.

I fear that going in on my particular dislike of him would make me look mental tbh.

this episode we are going to meet twins...
- I LOVE a twin

There's a backstory to this
-I LOVE a backstory!

We are dressing this with boots
- I LOVE a boot!

on and on and on.

a boot, not "boots"

yeah... mental.

I've been sucked in to watching The Stranger (Harlan Coben's The Stranger). It's all over the place, it's got Jennifer Saunders and Dervla Kirwan and Giles from Buffy, it has this ITV Drama vibe but seems like it's trying to pull off irreverent psychological caper? Everyone's annoying in it.

Paul Kaye as well! Otm about ITV drama vibe. The child actors are awful and there's loads of stupid coincidences or implausibilities - remotely hacking a car's gps history? Hmm. maaaaybe if you're a pro hacker, not a retired copper. The lead guy is a partner in a law firm but never seems to do any actual work. But there's enough twists and turns (and heebie jeebie bad trip drug scare footage) to keep me interested.

I watched it with my granny, it is incredibly dumb. Literally every character has a Dark Secret, crazy subplots are introduced and then resolved almost immediately because everything has a perfectly reasonable (very stupid) explanation. PCP kid one of the worst performances I’ve seen in a long time. Made me interested to read Harlan Coben.

& yeah it is 100% an itv drama which is interesting - most Netflix originals are about that quality but don’t have the vibe ime

I am watching it as well. Based on the casting, I had expected it to be sort of Line of Duty/The Split quality, but instead it's very trashy. Now that I've lowered my expectations, I'm fine with it.

Re Sex Education, I can't believe how much the actor who plays Adam looks like the actor who plays his father, Mr Groff. They are not related irl.

Absolutely. We looked that up too. Insane casting.
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It’s nuts. I would believe that was his kid in a heartbeat.

I love this show. It took me a few eps but now I’m into it.

Omg omg omg the opening scene of season 2 episode one ahhhhhhhhhhh.

i love all of the styling on the show. Especially Gillian Anderson and the house.

the house has a lot of character!

Love Is Blind, guys.

ah, i see you can rent it soon. boooooo. I like these places to only exist as a place I say I would go to die.

https://www.thechaletsymondsyat.com/

Yeah, if it's still standing. It's at the heart of the floods at the moment.

This is just down the way from it:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1684250301712112&id=451112681692553

The view from the porch is UNREAL.

I only have 2 episodes left and I don't want it to end. I am now also stalking a jumpsuit (in green) G. Anderson wears on the show. I thought I was too short for jumpsuits but she is shorter so I feel better about this decision in my life.

I love the winner of Next in Fashion. I would wear it all.

I love that the winner's killer app was suggested to them by the runner-up, or at least that's how it was portrayed.

in NIF?? I may have missed this.

Re: The Stranger discussion above, it can be assumed that I've 'seen' all shows of this ilk because my gf enjoys them all and I am usually in the room while she's enjoying them and failing to understand what she enjoys about them but oh well I suppose it's tolerable as accompaniment to the cooking of dinner or light reading or what have you. I think the only one of these I actually got into and enjoyed was Happy Valley. The rest are, at minimum, completely looney tunes if not outright anger inducing (looking at you, Broadchurch). This one was about as dumb and forgettable as last year's Coben installment featuring TV's Dexter.

I made it about halfway into the first ep of The Stranger. I was already squirmy with the Novelty Funsys nonsense but once the detectives found a “human bite mark” on the leg of the headless alpaca i was like “ok another Coben journey to dumbtown” and turned it off

i have no patience for him anymore

that being said:, I do worship & adore Richard Armitage & the opening scene of him driving & singing “Dancing in the Dark” to his kids made my liiiife 😍

Fwiw ya’ll are underrating ITV dramas which are typically much better than the stranger was.

Happy Valley is an effing masterpiece (although is BBC not ITV)

happy valley was very good and much better than broadchurch, which was bad enough in the first season, but just got totally fucking shite in the second and third

i understand there's going to be more happy valley, they're waiting for the kid to get a bit older so he can be more evil i guess?

unrelated: this please like me show - my gf watched it - do australian people really speak like this main guy? sounds like an english person doing an american accent which slips into australian occasionally

the most identifiably australian aspect to my ears is that everything he says sounds like a question

They were also waiting for James Norton to be available again too as he got quite big for a while there. There was even James Bond chat around him for a bit.