Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Thanks for the tip!

I watched the first season of Freud this past week. It was entertaining, good actors, great sets, a healthy dose of creepy occult shit, A+ facial hair. On the other hand, the premise and plot were fairly ridiculous. Essentially a creepy mystery show set in a 19th century Vienna, in which hypnosis is used like a Marvel superpower. If you are looking for an informative show about the life of Freud, this ain't it. If you want some lurid kicks, and don't care much about realism, this may be for you.

Lurid kicks, I'm on it.

this seems like 100% my jam

theres these books i love about Arthur Conan Doyle & Oscar Wilde solving murders together & it holds ZERO real-life water but is a great time imaginary-wise & so i would definitely be coming into this almost ready to shed what i know of Freud & go forward in life accepting this fictional Freud instead

i will def watch

plus that actor is so handsome my god

theres these books i love about Arthur Conan Doyle & Oscar Wilde solving murders together & it holds ZERO real-life water but is a great time imaginary-wise

These sound fun - what books are these?

Interpretation of Murder has Freud as a detective.

By Jed Rubenfeld

those ACD and OW books are by gyles brandreth. run away!

is it just me or is the Netflix 'family films' selection - with the extremely honourable exception of the Ghibli films - total fuckin trash?

this is like....... a massive need for the world rn

The ones I read were by Vaughn Entwistle

- The Revenant of Thraxton Hall
- The Dead Assassin

They’re really good!

(xposts to Roz)

Thanks VG! Some fun AU mystery fanfic is probably just what I need in these quarantine times.

is it just me or is the Netflix 'family films' selection - with the extremely honourable exception of the Ghibli films - total fuckin trash?

otm

there are three ‘a christmas prince’ movies, what more do you need

Most of the decent family films they had are now on Disney+ No studio ghibli films on Netflix Canada yet, but they do still have paw patrol and peppa pig, sigh. My 5 year old is loving Bluey on Disney+ - apparently it’s a laugh riot!

Bonus episode of Tiger King incoming Sunday

If you like goofy time loop/other shenanigans films then drop everything and watch Time Trap immediately.

I've just got into Rick and Morty for the first time this weekend. Alternate realities, a jellybean paedophile, Cronenberg Rick ... well la di da!

Is Time Trap actually good? It popped up on my Netflix and I spent far too long debating whether to watch it. Went for Breakdown (1997) instead as I hadn't actually seen it. Kevin Wachtell from BCS is the Sheriff.

I recommend seeing Psycho II (1983) but you have to play the Psycho II (1983) drinking game, where each time the character portrayed by Dennis Franz is murdered you raise a foaming glass of beer and cry “so long, DENNIS FRANZ” in a Lenny voice

ymmv of course re: time trap but i went from "hmm this could be annoying" to "ok I've figured it out but I'll stick with it" to "directly into my veins please doc".

also it's less than 90 minutes \o/

It's going on the list

Just started Giri/Haji, I'm into it.

Handy chart for categorising space-based SF films/shows based on posters/thumbnails:

https://jalopnik.com/this-chart-will-tell-you-what-kind-of-space-based-sci-f-1842248368

For the other Kipo fan: https://www.polygon.com/2020/4/20/21227968/kipo-and-the-age-of-wonderbeasts-netflix-watch-party-writers-directors

I've been meaning to check out Unorthodox, anyone have opinions?

If you like goofy time loop/other shenanigans films then drop everything and watch Time Trap immediately.

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YES -- can't believe how satisfying this was (though not "good" in any standard sense)

new alert! the midnight gospel from adventure time's pendleton ward

watched the first ep, it's a blunted podcast with Dr Drew. not good.

thought Time Trap was going to be awful from the first 20 mins or so. it was great in its simple concept though, I enjoyed it.

Unorthodox was pretty good, I thought.

we watched the first ep of midnight gospel last night. i understand why some wouldn't like it but i found the animation charming + amusing and i have fond memories of loveline in my teenage years so dr drew is not an instant turnoff for me. i was also extremely celebratory of the festival yesterday so i may have been in the right mood to hear a blunted podcast about drugs backtracking psychedelic + weird imagery.

unorthodox i probably won't watch but it's worth doing a little independent research since the source material from a number of years ago already was already contentious for not being a fully honest narrative and i hear the show is even worse at flattening the characters + community.

It's true that the orthodox community (and the male members in particular) is portrayed as almost cartoonishly oppressive and clueless. OTOH...

otoh who cares if we stereotype orthodox jewish men bc they're not real people anyway?

OTOH this is a story about an abused woman escaping a shitty situation and I'm willing to allow that maybe her experience was real, and maybe it's ok that she didn't have as much sympathy for her abusers as you seem to think she should.

anyone else watching zerozerozero?

Unorthodox looked bad. Apparently Luzer Twersky (aka the guy from that one episode of High Maintenance) and Moshe Kasher were working on a show with similar themes that would have been more comedic, I wish they would have made that one instead.

(otoh, my experience of the Orthodox community has been on the side of cartoonishly oppressive and clueless, though most of the actual people are good & smart & well-meaning. I don't want to derail the Netflix thread though.)

agree it looks like and from what i've read of it sounds like exploitative crap but u know a woman claimed to be oppressed in a 2012 book and then sold the rights to a media company who made a shallow tv show out of it so we probably shouldn't criticize it too much

Re zerozerozero: I don't think it's for me but C has been praising it for DAYS. He said it's possibly the best tv he's ever seen? Which makes sense to me bc it's a Saviano production iirc? Not that I watched Gomorrah either although I do have the book from like 10 years ago.

what's the thread for other streaming services that are not netflix?! i want to talk about the NIGHT FLIGHT app!!!

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thank u

You didn’t even watch it, Mordy! Didn’t realize you were such an orthodox religion fan. Sorry to offend you.

update yr xls

(Mordy is an Orthodox Jew fyi...so is my mother, though I wasn't raised in it)

I was boosting zerozerozero on the general streaming thread last month, it is fantastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UYGmqsIFIM&feature=youtu.be

unorthodox is quite bad, pedestrian at best, but reasonably even-handed. the husband is a rounded character who is not unsympathetic