Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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— The Hubris Guy (@Frail_Old_Woman) October 31, 2021

lool!

The documentary about the Sparks Brothers is now on Netflix in the US

:D

Should I watch more than 2 eps of Bly Manor?

I think so? Honestly I can't remember what all happened in that but I have decided Mike Flanagan is great. Also I appear to be in love with his wife (Kate Siegel). But do not watch Hypnotic, the new netflix movie she is in (that he didn't write or direct), it is stupid beyond belief even though she is good in it as always.

Hah okay

Bly Manor is good imo, apart from the ending. My take is almost everything Mike Flanagan does is great except his endings lol (Midnight Mass and Hush being the exceptions so far).

Hypnotic was the dumbest movie I saw this year.

Finally getting around to the new season of Sex Education and after a wobbly ep 1 (imo) it has totally hit its stride in ep 2

Interested to know what others here think. I think it’s still one of the very best things they’ve ever done

Loved season 3

S3E1 of Sex Education had me worried they'd lost the magic. But rest of season was great. It benefited from continuing to expand the character pool and exploring the lives of the many major characters.

Yeah I thought it ended up being really good, especially the Nigeria bit.

i have forgotten much of sex education's first two series, I really need to find some recap or something before I do season 3.

Ahem,

"I looked at some cheese and got an erection.": SEX EDUCATION on Netflix

ty ^

Anybody tried the Black western, The Harder They Fall?

S5 of Bigmouth is out!

^^Wasn't quite ready for the accidental self-harm stuff in EP 2.

Anybody tried the Black western, The Harder They Fall?

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Thursday, November 4, 2021

it's good! takes itself just the right amount of serious. anachronisms abound but it's aiming for dramatic accuracy, not historic. lakeith stanfield just keeps getting better.

To no surprise, I guess: https://www.nme.com/news/tv/squid-game-creator-confirms-second-season-3091182

New Narcos season extremely boring or am I just really tired.

Maya and the Three is so good. Obviously it looks very colorful but that extends to the writing and the story too. And at least thru the first three episodes it unfolds itself like a video game (not a criticism, just very tickled at the metatextual influences at play nowadays).

I stopped watching Squid Game after episode 8. Meant to get back to it but have had no desire.

lol there's only one more episode. you don't want to see how it ends?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbIxYm3mKzI

Anybody watching Arcane?

I just finished, it’s handsome and well made but mostly grim, hopeless, and humorless.

I just started it tonight because first I started the blade runner cartoon and it seemed really dumb and cheap and I read tons of terrible review of it many of which said "look at Arcane for what you can do" so I did and didn't even know it was based on a video game or whatever and while I'm not sure I'll keep watching it and if I'm interested in the story, it is pretty beautifully made and miles better animated than the blade runner one. And has that iranian actress from the Expanse which is kinda funny.

ugh yes the bladerunner cartoon was v boring, like watching extra characters wander around GTA or something

I’m about halfway thru Arcane. Came into it without any knowledge of the lore - I’m not really sure how Arcane relates to league of legends. Anyway the animation is excellent, story so far B maybe B+. I’ll keep watching.

I'm on my third HiGH&LOW film - they're all on netflix, Japanese franchise featuring assorted J Pop idols playing the different factions of youth gangs in a fictional shanty town district of Tokyo (I think?). Real live action anime bullshit, but very compelling in that "trying to keep tabs on a frankly excessive amount of different characters and organisations" way, reminds me of the Yakuza Papers in that regard. The action is pretty good, with some real "how did they do that?" camera work and the first two films both end with epic LOTR style battles featuring scores of extras instead of CGI so that's great. Some absolutely insane outfits as well, this last one had a dude sporting an awesome "MEMBERS AND NON MEMBERS ONLY" shirt. Very compelling.

reading some good things about Yeon Sang-ho's Hellbound.

yeah that sounds insane

Watched the first episode last night.

If you thought Squid Game was gory, this is not the show for you.

it's good fun!

although I did post this just before a character's elderly mother was beaten half to death by some Arrowhead disciples.

Did not expect BLACK SUMMER to be anything other than trashy cash-in, but it turned out to be a really well done, exceedingly terse clever little thing with a whole lot of astonishingly choreographed extensive one-shot scenes.

i was surprised to see MAN LIKE MOBEEN on netflix since it’s a BBC show (and is still on iPlayer).. is it available in the US? if so all you guys should watch it, it’s v v good

I love the premise of this show:

Each episode sees Arnett play Detective Terry Seattle, who appears, for the most part, to just be Will Arnett in a mustache. Seattle is teamed up in each episode with a celebrity partner (with this initial season naming Annie Murphy, Conan O’Brien, Ken Jeong, Kumail Nanjiani, Marshawn Lynch, and Sharon Stone as its roster of guest-gumshoes) to solve a murder. The twist is that, while the show is, for the most part scripted—with different scenarios pre-written, and a pre-determined solution to the crime—the celebrity actor doesn’t get the script, and must instead improvise along with Arnett, and, ultimately, name who they think the culprit is at the end of the episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBi7gN2THE

Has potential, given how often the celebrity guest on SNL breaking is the funniest part of *that* show.

ok i will def watch that

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_Successville

They've added Phantom Thread.

sic otm - surely they needed to license the idea from Endemol or whoever!

But regardless I would totally watch this. The guests are a serious upgrade on Murder In Successville

It seems like there's a lot of comic spins on the murder mystery genre either already out (Only Murders in the Building) or coming out soon. I'm assuming we can credit the success of Knives Out for this, and while I didn't love KO as much as others did, I'm happy with this development.

Ugh that looks terrible to me. Reminds me of that 30 Rock episode where Tracy realizes that people think breaking character is funny and starts doing it deliberately.

Looks fun for the actors though.

I'm enjoying Mobeen btw, very well written! I should prob have subs on tho.

Three episodes in and Archive 81 is pretty good so far - definitely quite unsettling/scary at times

Archive 81 felt like there was one element too many in it for me, although I couldn't tell you which one I'd drop.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that every show you watched on Netflix that had a 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Feeling like Archive81 could have been a better 105 minute movie than series.