Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Eurovision movie is stupid, silly & I enjoyed it immensely

:D

The “Monty Python Almost the Truth” doc is really good. May have been up there for years but my first time seeing it. Just make it past the horrific intro.

Okay I'm only going to say it once but...Warrior Nun. If anyone wants to talk about it, come sit over here by me because I AM HERE FOR THIS CHEESY SHOW.

sorry, i noped out of the trailer

I mean if the sentence "secret sect of warrior sisters loyal to each other unto death training to kill demons and save humanity" does nothing for you I can't help you with that.

I'm trying to wrap my head around how everyone's favorite show is not that good. Guess I'll have to try it

only 11 of the 12 seasons of Big Bang Theory are on there, if you want to hold off

As the guy on here who steadfastly stans for cheesy supernatural warfare shows on Netflix (cf my Hemlock Grove thread) I am 100% satisfied by The Order (warlocks and werewolves on campus) and recommend it to one and all

Actually, definitely not one and all, just one and all who like this kind of thing

there is a show streaming somehwere (hulu?) that is post-apocalyptic YA but they are dancers and they discover hip-hop in the archives and I guarantee, without watching it beyond the trailer, or any of these other probably terrible shows like the Order and Warrior Nun, that this show is worse than them.

the order is so much weirder than it has to be, lots of unusual and kinda compelling performances too.

we've been doing one episode of the order a night, followed with an episode of (netflix streamable) bravo con artist dramedy impostors, which is very competent and generally well cast. great uma thurman role.

The first episode of the Middleditch and Schwartz show was pretty funny, if you like improv.

the order is so much weirder than it has to be

YES -- this is exactly the quality I look for in these shows (Hemlock Grove too!)

I'm about halfway through the first season of the Order. It's very watchable and better than I thought it'd be but not something I'd recommend as a must watch (so far anyway)

the order isn't like "good" in a vulture thinkpiece way which is where the charm comes from imo. it's just fuckin stupid which is all i want in a tv show.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/fucking-stupid-is-all-you-want-in-this-tv-show.html

I'm 3 episodes into WARRIOR NUN and I wish it had more action, but nothing about it has been a dealbreaker (though some of the stuff about the Crusades is problematic).

did they change the name because Netflix execs thought it sounded like areola and were afraid the whole show would get me too'd

I was unaware it was based on a manga called Warrior Nun Areala, but I feel like names in the title is more of a manga thing?

it's an American comic fwiw (by a Taiwan-born manga fan), but I'm pretty sure that I've seen other American comics with names in the title. can't be sure though

The construction of putting a description before the name (“Battle Angel Alita” versus “Alita: Battle Angel” is what I was thinking of

Son Of Thunder, Arak

Floor is Lava is just the kind of dumb game show brain requires. I’m already awaiting the oral history of how that show got made 5 years from now.

Old Guard - not bad, some of the fights were a little over-choreographed

Wish this was the ‘90s and it was a syndicated show about the characters through history, though. Immortal Xena

the comic has more of the through-history stuff aiui

I'm sure they intend to get to it, and I hope they get the chance. I really enjoyed it.

Warrior Nun is finally shaping up -- took about 7 episodes but I'm digging it now.

OMG that Charlize Theron immortals thing was some trash.

it was pretty bad! so dour!

i really enjoyed it! shrug

halfway through Season 2 of The Politician and I just now found out this is the same person behind Nip/Tuck, makes so much more sense now

the show is bonkers but pretty entertaining. Bette Midler is really great in it

I appreciated that The Old Guard zipped right along, it didn't feel like a 2 hour movie

I really enjoyed the Spanish movie “the platform.” Kind of like one of the cube movies if it were a bit over obvious parable about distribution of wealth.

I liked that one too. For those who thought parable in Snowpiercer was way too opaque.

The Platform was good violent fun and didn't take its ridiculous concept too seriously

anyone with MUBI should check out Bertrand Bonello's latest Zombi Child. At least I think it's on there, I got it from a torrent. Not as good as Nocturama but still an excellent mix of of horror and not very subtle Empire allegory set in a fraternity group in a posh French girls school. Probably selling it a bit short there, but i'm tired!

it has recurring flashbacks to a voodoo zombi slave plot in the Haiti of 1962 and the granddaughter to that character in a modern Paris and maybe isn't as good as his last movie, but beats the hell of most crap out there right now!

re The Old Guard

“a first edition Don Quixote!” lmao

First editions are always hilarious in US shows/films. Culminating in Johnny Depp's antiquarian book dealer in The Ninth Gate, who smoked and drank red wine while flicking through his piles of extremely valuable old books.

ok finished The Politician, gotta say that is a pretty lazy ending, must not have thought it was getting picked up for Season 3

lol did Charlize Theron not bother learning French in the last few hundred years??

Just popping on to reiterate how totally shit The Old Guard is.

Complete dearth of imagination re concept, deathly dull characters, zero stakes, pathetically non-threatening villain who actually was kind of in the right, no better than serviceable action scenes.

I don't think most of us are on board with torturing people for as long as it takes to mine their genetic code tbh

If the subject's already been alive for a couple of millennia and it's for the good of society I'll give it a 'maybe'?

It was for the good of the pharma CEO's profits, even if you start getting on board with utilitarianism.

The villain was Elizabeth Holmes mashed up with Elon Musk

Yes, I'm being flippant. But the right thing for them to do would be to cooperate with scientists and benevolent governments to discover the secret of immortality rather than going on random killing sprees.

i wound up really disliking the first season of the Politician (for the same reason I get annoyed by about half of Ryan Murphy's shows, because he has like one good idea and then abandons it five episodes in and does something dumb), is the second one better? the last episode of season 1 made it look like it would be.

Has The Midnight Gospel been discussed here? Because, fucking hell! (in a good way)