Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.
― dan selzer, Thursday, February 6, 2020 7:43 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

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.

nobody speaks like Josh Thomas, as you can probably tell from every other character in the show (I watched half an episode seven years ago but unseen I guarantee this holds true throughout the series)


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

weird that a show by a good writer would be better than an unrelated show by a terrible writer, yeah

I think the only one of these I actually got into and enjoyed was Happy Valley

NB to OL's GF that the creator / writer / sometime director of Happy Valley had her next not-ITV series do well in Top 77 Television and Streaming Video Series of 2019 , the arbiter of taste for all GF's everywhere

I’m watching Please Like Me as well but I’m not sure whether I like it. There’s a casual cruelty in it which is unpleasant but there are some engaging elements and some good performances as well as nice looking young men. The fact that they all have sexual relations with Josh is ludicrous though.

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.

― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:06 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

seems like a good actor and I've just noticed he was in little women but he's little bit (or a lot) too good-looking to play small-town yorkshire serial rapist/hoodlum. my one criticism of happy valley

I agree with that.

I read a bit about Happy Valley s.3 and it does seem that the initial delay around it was because of Norton's availability but because the delay grew so long Sally W. changed her ideas around it to focus very heavily on the child and that he had to be older for her idea to make sense. I can't quite remember but the last scene of s.2 seemed to be the characters taking a walk into the moors and then the child saying something very ominous that threw Sarah Lancashire's character off.

Love Is Blind, guys.

― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 22:45 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

absolutely horrific in so many ways but tt is watching and i am not not watching

sex education quite manifestly deserves its own thread btw. someone please start it

that's true.

"I looked at some cheese and got an erection.": SEX EDUCATION on Netflix

Just started the second batch of Love Is Blind and Jessica is hideous, compelling viewing.

Yeah, because of you lot we started watching Sex Education and after three episodes we are now completely hooked, so thanks for that.

Jessica is hideous, compelling viewing.

― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Friday, February 21, 2020 8:30 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

she is top five worst reality show contestants ever, a true monster

She's got worse with each new stage.

genuinely, what does that man see in her, is he just determined to love someone, anyone. get out of there! n.b. they are just back from cancun in our timeline

Yeah I've finished the first post-Mexico ep and believe me, she gets worse again.

Jessica/Mark and to a lesser degree Bartlett/Amber totally deserve each other.

Poor Mark just wants to be married to the Chicago Cubs and salt beef. It's true that just when you think Jessica can't get worse, she doubles down. My MVP from this series is really not who I expected it to be at the beginning.

I'm up to episode 9 now, but do I have to wait for more episodes? This show has to be at least in part from the same sadistic minds as Married At First Sight.