Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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)

yes at length in one of these many streaming threads

i noticed the "first edition don quixote" had faux gilded edges, very common for 17th century publishers

midnight gospel discussion:

Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Thanks sic. I agree with some of the earlier posters that the interviews themselves can be kind of cringe, but I find it easy to let them drift by the background and enjoy the wonderful animation. Also it's possible that thre is a comment being made on the narcissism of a particular kind of new agey spiritualism, disappearing up one's anus while the world ends, but maybe I'm projecting.

warrior nun is kind of amazing in a super-trash kind of way. there’s a real made-for-TV basic-bitch flatness underlying it that i both have an affection for but which also puts me to sleep. which it shares with so much of the filler on netflix. have you guys ever typed “doctor” into netflix search, and seen the number of south korean surgeon dramas? they’ll be like, 1.5 hours per episode, 16 episodes in a season. sometimes i think netflix must just tender ideas against a brief and then just commission them all.

like surely warrior nun was borne of roughly the same set of tickboxes that Old Guard was.

cursed also features a supernatural quasi-immortal woman fight for survival but it was unwatchable to me. i never got around to see what peter mullan had to do with anything.

Enjoyed Warrior Nun but was left with the feeling it could have been so much better (which I know you could level at most netflix shows but this one felt like it wouldn't have taken much tweaking).

Was certainly more fun than The Old Guard

I'm several years late on this but I just got into Bates Motel and I'm very much enjoying it, particularly the fact that it, so far at least, uses Psycho only as a general template and it's not slavish in it's prequel-ness, and none of the protagonists are 'good' or 'bad'

although it certainly pulls at credibility all the time, like when Sherif Eyeliner from Lost lets them all go after they explain why they killed a COP; my wife was like "that's some white privilege right there"

Sherrif, that is. Not Omar Sherif.

I think I watched the whole thing and it is a ridiculous character drama that’s anchored by good actors

Hollywood starts out kinda fun, and then gets progressively more unbearable as it goes on. By the time racism, homophobia, sexism and Harvey Weinstein are all solved at the 1948 Oscars, I was ready to throw a brick through my TV.

sounds skippable

it’s good and infuriating in equal measure

Excited for/dreading "Immigration Nation."

I really liked the first two seasons of The Sinner but this third season is so bad, so very very bad.

― Roz, Thursday, 2 July 2020 17:25 (one month ago)

Yes, shockingly bad! I was mainly hatewatching for the second half of the season. Particularly reprehensible to present the prettyboy sociopath's banal sixth form nihilism as worthy of anything but instant dismissal. Really disappointing.

watched 2 eps of that and was done

pullman couldnt save that one

didn't bother with that; I loved the first one, second one was only alright. feel like I've had enough

Watched The Speed Cubers last night, a short (40 min) and genuinely sweet documentary about the two best competitive rubik's cube solvers, one of whom is autistic.

Anyone checked out Ares?

Season 2 of Umbrella Academy was weird - the plot was almost identical to the first season except it’s a lot funnier and more action-packed and takes place entirely in the 60s. Very enjoyable but pointless at the same time? Ending suggests the third season could be more interesting though.

five screaming "I'm the daddy here!" in the middle of the street is the energy i need to sustain me for the rest of this year pic.twitter.com/OzpPF4mQTs

— NX (@NXOnNetflix) August 4, 2020

that was lol yeah

new Charlie Kaufman!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDTg62vsV4U

Big fan of Jessie Buckley.

will watch anything with jesse plemons and/or toni collette of course

Hmm. Interested, but the book that comes from is not great.

David Thewlis going full Emo Philips in that preview.

Has anyone else watched Cursed?

Done the first episode and not sure I can take another 9 episodes of bad acting and sub-Merlin production values

it's really bad. i couldn't get past like the first 10 minutes.

re: the kaufman trailer, love the way the dog shaking noise goes on long after the dog has gone from view and the scene has changed. very unnerving.

Enjoyed Speed Cubers a lot. I really felt for Max's parents - they've put so much into supporting him.

Yeah, I liked Speed Cubers too. I appreciate that there may be an awareness of the camera to play to slightly, but thought that Feliks seemed such a genuinely lovely and super balanced guy! I appreciated that the documentary was kept short too, it felt just about right when dealing with the focused subject of just the two players.

Thanks for the tip upthread ledge.

you're welcome! those evenings spent scrolling through every list on the netflix home screen aren't completely a waste of time. maybe 95% waste.

I thought the Speed Cubers doc was nice enough but surprised it didn't get into just a brief history of the cube, the 80s craze, explaining organized competetion, etc...it seemed like there was a beat about 20 or 30 minutes in where they could have done that and deepened interest a little.

Despite the title, I thought it came across as more of a documentary on autism based around cubing, rather than a documentary about cubing per se. Though a bit more information on the cubing scene could have been interesting. As someone involved briefly in boardgame competitions years ago, the types of competitions seemed instantly recognisable,

I think you could see that Feliks was having a growing realisation of how lucky he was to be balanced and be able to develop a finance career/move town/develop a wider life.

*types of competitors

He kinda went down in my estimation after he talked about going into finance. (In other words I learned about him, grew to like him, and cancelled him all in the space of 40 minutes. Wild times!)

new Charlie Kaufman!

this isn't really fair but I read the wiki synopsis of the book and between that and the 135-minute runtime I'll be shocked if this movie doesn't turn out to be completely insufferable, especially at 135 mins

I love mentioning runtimes apparently

if a grindhouse ex machina sounds like it might be your cup of tea then watch upgrade. "grindhouse" is overdoing it a bit obv, netflix production values but it's fairly violent, one v brutal moment.

Is that the one with fake Tom Hardy turning into a killer cyborg? If so, it's enjoyable.

Upgrade isn't a Netflix production. it's just a two year old low budget sci fi that Netflix are now showing xp

And yes, it's pretty enjoyable.

ok, i thought it looked pretty netflix but i guess that's just standard modern low budget style, probably there's no such thing as a netflix look. and yes, low budget tom hardy!