Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

One episode in on City of Ghosts and Last Chance U: Basketball and both are excellent

Also quickly knocked out Pui Pui Molcar (brought to my attention by our esteemed Whiney) and it's twenty minutes of squeaky fun

Yeah The Irregulars was very middling YA - I quite liked the lead actress, tarot murderer episode was kind of fun, but the rest of it was just meh. And despite the colour-blind casting, somehow they still managed to have a magical Black man character from Louisiana. yikes.

Also by the end of it I felt like there was absolutely no reason for Sherlock/Watson to exist in this other than being an audience hook. They’re barely recognisable as Conan Doyle’s creations and could’ve been replaced by pretty much any random characters.

If I watch Behind Her Eyes with the explicit warning that it's extremely stupid, will my other half be annoyed at wasting valuable TV-viewing time on it?
I'm skating close to the edge after deciding LaLa Land might be "worth a watch" the other day. (There's not much on at the moment so working our way through things we recorded last year)

i kind of liked that Behind Her Eyes went full stupid, for what it's worth.

It's very...Shyamalanesque. It's not what you think it is, in a way that is baffling but not in a way that is interesting or good. But someone who actually sat and watched it should probably comment on whether it's worthwhile.

watch the good things i just posted that are good instead of the bad things that everyone says are bad!

The Back to the Future episode of Pui Pui Molcar is the greatest thing I have seen on TV this year.

i thought behind her eyes was absolutely terrible and ridiculous but not much worse than a lot of netflix fare. definitely stupider, but not neccesarily worse.

absolutely shocking scottish accents really annoyed me but should be fine if you're not scottish and have a massive chip on your shoulder

Love piu piu molcar

Pui Pui Molcar (Japanese: PUI PUI モルカー, Hepburn: Pui Pui Morukā, "Pui Pui Cavy-Car") is a Japanese stop-motion short anime series produced by Shin-Ei Animation and Japan Green Hearts in cooperation with Bandai Namco Entertainment. The series is directed and written by Tomoki Misato, with Misato and the staff in Japan Green Hearts designing the characters and models and Shota Kowatsu composing the music. It aired in Japan on TV Tokyo through its Kinder TV children's variety program on January 5, 2021. The series' title is a play on the words Molmot (モルモット, morumotto, Japanese name for guinea pig) and car, which reflects the main characters.
The series is aired as a two-minute-plus short animation segment on the children's variety program Kinder TV. Each short focuses on a world where people drive sentient vehicles that are hybrids between guinea pigs and motor vehicles. Though each episode's story varies, the core focus of the series focuses on the Molcars' antics and sometimes a bit of solving problems for their friends and their drivers. Episodes sometimes include parodies of famous movie genres for comedic effect.

Kinder TV sounds excellent

I showed both of my kids some of the guinea pig show. One, not really sure it's for (little) kids; like, in the first one a crying guinea pig gets carjacked at gunpoint! Two, both kids (mine are older) said it made them uncomfortable.

"It's very...Shyamalanesque. It's not what you think it is, in a way that is baffling but not in a way that is interesting or good. "

Servant, on AppleTV, is actually produced by Syamalan (and he directed some of it as well) and it's baffling and terrible but in a way that is somehow interesting and ok.

don't bother with The One.
watched to end with my teenage lad just cos once i start something i normally have to see it to the end.
will not be bothering with season 2.

So I binged through Behind Her Eyes, yeah it was awful, and wasn't quite as batshit as I was expecting (I did even expect zombies at some point) and after a decent start it was a LOT of padding while they wait to drop the weird stuff on you. But the final episode was sort of worth it, and I did figure out the final-final twist immediately after the penultimate 'twist' so that was kind of fun. That's my fill of trash for now I think!

Louise and the kid were great actors. Did you know that Adele was Bono's daughter? She also kept sounding like she was channeling Lindsey Denton (from Line of Duty) at times.

I watched This Is A Robbery docuseries today about the Gardner museum heist in 1991. Really good, lots of interesting interview subjects, reporters, lawyers, FBI guys. Not draggy at all. Makes you feel like it could be solved.

(Also there’s SO much Boston mob content in the later episodes with wiretaps & whatnot i was like, you could totally do a Boston version of Sopranos)

Thoughts about Call My Agent? First 2 episodes were very good. I like the conceit of having actors / actresses playing themselves even if I have no idea who they are IRL.

Loved the first three seasons of CMA. Energy and quality drops in the writing dept with Season 4 - new writing team and the main creative forces had split - but the cast still gave it their all.

Cosmic Kid, by Craig McCracken (Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends) - kid from middle-of-nowhere small town happens upon cosmic rings of power, assembles team including a waitress, a toddler, an old man and a cat to protect the earth. Initially kinda underwhelming, felt like a good kid's show but nothing more, plus much as I love its touchstones (highways n deserts, Fantastic Four, boomer sci-fi) they felt a bit tired, but it's actually starting to have a season-wide arc - all to do with the kid coming to terms with the fact that he's not actually good at heroics. Kept waiting for the big redemptive heroic moment but it never came - now it seems more likely he will redeem himself by embracing the idea that he can be valuable in areas that aren't combat, which is a pretty sweet moral.

Visually I also really like that it replicates the experience of watching stuff on a shitty old tv.

I loved it. If you never watched Wander Over Yonder (CMC's last show), it's on Hulu, and it's goddamn hilarious and sweet and beautiful to look at.

oooh that looks nice!

it did strike me that on demand services don't give cartoons the ubiquity that having them play like twenty times a week on Cartoon Network did, but I'm sure the kids can work it out

I liked Cosmic Kid but, as with most of McCracken's stuff, it's best for me in small doses... not really "For Grown-Ups" per se. YMMV of course.

I've had a lot of trouble staying interested in Kid Cosmic, I think I'm 6 episodes in (and I haven't watched it in a few weeks)? Doesn't have the charm or humor of Powerpuff IMO.

My wife's been into it, but I think I've more or less come around to "Shtisel." It's kind of like an Orthodox Jewish "Parenthood," in Israel.

Watched Stowaway and am more convinced than ever that I really don't want to go to space. It just seems like the negatives outweigh the positives by a lot, you know? High risk, low reward.

*slowly puts golden ticket back in pocket, charlie brown sigh, walks away sadly with chin in chest*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_4PlM85NJo

OK, more on "Shtisel." We just started season 3, and I've got to admit, the season premiere is one of the few episodes of TV I've ever seen that left me completely shocked and near speechless.

Fuck, I forgot to go back to Shtisel after season 1. Must watch it again.

alright Josh, you sold me - i petered out partway through season 2 but i'll get back on the horse to get to season 3 with a lede like that

New season of Call My Agent being filmed atm!

?? what!

they totally wrapped it up though?

Oui! C’est vrai! Plus a film!
https://www.nouveautes-tele.com/147577-dix-pour-cent-saison-5-france2.html

I'm just watching season 2 now. I didn't think I'd like it but I'm pretty well sucked in at this point.

They killed Jean Gabin for nothing, the monsters.

He was my favourite.

related:
https://www.movieofthenight.com/
https://www.vulture.com/article/netflix-play-something-decision-fatigue.html

"play something" user testing lab footage:

https://i.imgur.com/IlMrO7W.jpg

I've had this for months so I guess I was a test user although I've never used it.

Call My Agent is great - just finished season 1. Thanks for hiding the spoilers.

I truly have no idea how it got on my radar, but we watched the first episode of "Crash Landing into You," the Korean comedy-drama, and ... I guess it's completely odd and charming in all the right melodramatic ways? At least we'll keep watching a bit, to see where it goes.

We tried to watch the first episode of Shadow and Bone last night, but our broadband signal is obviously not good enough to handle it, because it kept pixelating and fuzzing over. We even swapped to other programmes, which all seemed fine (Superstore, Below Decks, that kind of thing). I've never had that experience before.

Just finished Shadow & Bone and it's actually pretty decent. Not read the books so it took a couple of episodes to get up to speed with the world mythology but the whole thing is fairly short and packs a lot of story into that small number of episodes.

Hope it gets a second season as I think it has the potential to be very good.

Saw Stowaway tonight and it was a misfire in every way and the very good cast didn't actually have much to do and it was obviously low budget (a practical space travel movie with next to no weightlessness) and the highest stakes imaginable that still felt very low stakes and, yet, I liked it regardless of all that.

Well, until the last 90 or so seconds.

The scenes outside in space were pretty terrifying.

I was really expecting it to be something else, so when it became clear it wasn't, it was a bit dull and depressing. Could barely watch the space high-stakes stuff.

I agree that it was depressing. I also agree that it was good anyway. I couldn't watch the exterior scenes at all. Even listening to the audio made my palms sweat.

5/7/2021, the day I cancelled my Netflix dvd plan

Shadow & Bone seems pretty good so far, certainly helped by how damn pretty the entire cast is.