Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

via Vulture:

Another big takeaway from Tuesday’s earnings report was that Netflix is not currently planning to change much of its 2020 programming schedule in response to COVID-19. It’s had to shut down most of its scripted productions just like the rest of the global entertainment business. But “one thing that’s maybe not widely understood is we work really far out relative to the industry because we launch our shows all episodes at once,” Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos said. “So our 2020 slate of series and films are largely shot and are in postproduction remotely in locations all over the world. And we’re actually pretty deep into our 2021 slate … So we don’t anticipate moving the schedule around much, and certainly not in 2020.”

Loved Midnight Gospel! Got better as it went along, at first I wasn't sure about it. Definitely not for everyone though.

Loved Midnight Gospel! Got better as it went along, at first I wasn't sure about it. Definitely not for everyone though.

Hurrah! https://io9.gizmodo.com/exclusive-netflixs-excellent-kipo-and-the-age-of-wonde-1843028327?_ga=2.105768967.566665040.1588099343-66200155.1528932709

watched the first 45 minutes of chris hemsworth forearm-definition showcase extraction and while it's pretty boilerplate in plot and dialogue there is a children of men-inspired single-shot action sequence that winds its way through multiple vehicles and buildings for no less than TEN MINUTES and it's pretty amazing

obviously it's not really a single shot but the edits are mostly pretty slick

the director of Extraction is a stunt coordinator who got the gig after writing, choregraphing, training and camera operating a seven minute fake-one-shot fight in Atomic Blonde

aha, that makes sense

it’s a technically impressive sequence, with hemsworth doing lots of fighting with multiple opponents in tight spaces with the camera weaving around them, must have been a bastard to shoot

has anyone done a listicle of all the Netflix tricky action single takes yet

I still think about Haunting of Hill House ep 6 a lot.

in addition to being a stunt coordinator, Hargrave was Chris Evans' stunt double in Winter Soldier
https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a31024424/chris-evans-stunt-double-workout/

hmm I’m going to have to watch Extraction, now

Watched it last night after the zoom session. It's the kind of action trash I always look forward to and then feel bad for watching afterward.

Extraction def sounds like my bag

it's so good and well paced + one tracking shot gives Russian Ark a run for its money.

I'm just not up for that kind of unrelenting terrible violence, it seemed closer to torture porn at times. Like I get in doses but why does anybody need *that* much of it?

yeah, that's the line i don't cross

did you start zerozerozero yet?

xp Are we talking like, "The Raid" or "Escape from Cell Block 99" violence?

I haven't seen either of those but it has to average a decapitation/disembowelment/brain-splattering head shot per minute

xp yeah

i did start zerozerozero... i didn't like it? I got halfway into the second ep and it just missed me.

:(

Yeah at one point in Extraction I was like, Yes I know these are the bad guys, I don't need to see them do (unthinkably cruel, evil thing) to make the point. Who is this for?

zzz was slick and impressive looking but in service of something i really really don't care about. bad dialogue and pretty predictable over two eps and lots of unnecessary glossy violence. dunno, i don't think i'm down for it. NB: I fucking hated Sicario and Traffic.

i have loved Money Heist (who knew it could ever get to a 4th season !).
completely ridiculous, and silly, but very very watchable.

yeah i really enjoyed the new season of Money Heist. just as silly as always. What would your code name be?

creator of Money Heist has a new show on Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj7uyeaJjFQ

yeah i really enjoyed the new season of Money Heist. just as silly as always. What would your code name be?

Scunthorpe.

Godmanchester.

I think I would go with Norfolk. Has the 'fuck' joke already in there.

xp Midnight Gospel is great despite association with things that are dumb

specifically rogan

for teen movies, "The Half of It" was surprisingly very sweet and quiet and wholesome.

Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood series is very good, also kinda bad at times, overall very on-brand w some good performances & a lot of heart

All the classic Hollywood nerds I follow on Twitter are livid about that show, though I haven’t even figured out what it’s about yet

it’s a fantasy of golden age of Hollywood
takes some actual stories (Rock Hudson, Anna May Wong, Peg Entwistle) and gives them a “better” story — what if Rock got to be openly gay, what if Anna May Wong wins her Oscar, and Peg is referenced & inspires a Hollywood movie starring a young black actress who almost jumps off the Hollywood sign but doesnt

there is a lot good about it, but the anachronisms & youthful “what if the olden times but BUT BETTER” is weird & a bit grating

again, it’s Ryan Murphy - he always swings for the fences

I love Hollywood. I read that it was too light but this is exactly the sort of lightness I need right now. Also the clothes and sets are very enticing.

Beautifully designed! and the cinematography is gorgeous

Yeah, the classic Hollywood nerds don't seem to like the fact that it's not historically accurate, but I loved the first episode. It's exactly what I want right now: a rewriting of history to make it a hundred times more gorgeous, and with some space for people who aren't awful.

Lots of great performances too!

It was the most Ryan Murphy Ryan Murphy series yet, and I was good with that.

lol that’s a good description!

my biggest problem was Darren Criss’s character stuck out like a sore thumb by being so “woke”. i didnt enjoy that character at all.

and i know there is full sincerity behind what they do for Rock Hudson by giving him the chance to come out publicly & in one light it’s a nice what-if: but there’s an inherent judgement in that “what-if” that just sat a little wrong with me - i felt defensive somehow, for him & his actual life.

is Hollywood better than his last series which started good, got terrible, then ended in an interesting manner but looked like the next season would be an entirely different show? FWIW this is my reaction to almost all of his series.

yeah, ryan murphy is only good for 3-4 episodes ever for me. it's like he gets tired of his 'great idea' halfway through.

i did finish Pose though. but i had to struggle a little to get through it.

Personally - it’s WAY better than American Horror Story, but not as good as Peopje vs OJ Simpson or Gianni Versace. Maybe a step or two behind Pose? imo

the first series of Pose is great; still haven't watched the second one. Is a third coming or did it end?

the second season was ok. i think there is a third coming out at some point.

i think i also don't like the actors he loves to cast again and again.

oh i did like the people vs OJ a lot.

all this murphy talk is reminding me that i never watched the final episode of feud.

that was a good show!