Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I started watching Stay Close and I don't quite get what this show is trying to be

Neflix: no more expensive vanity projects, we need to trim the fat, we're cancelling a bunch of stuff, we're going to have a bunch of layoffs, etc.

(a week or two passes)

Netflix: releases new trailers for Guillermo del Toro anthology, Tim Burton Addams Family series, The Sandman, Resident Evil ...

not sure I see the contradiction? Idk what the del Toro thing is, but the other three are adaptations of existing properties (possibly adaptations of adaptations for two of them), they're hardly The Irishman. And I know the Sandman thing has been in the works for years so most of the money is likely spent

yes these will have all been commissioned 1+ years ago

Oh, I know. It's just funny to see the juxtaposition of cutbacks and cancellations with the announcement of several high profile new shows, a couple courtesy auteurs, and, in the specific case of "Sandman," following the epic failure of the similarly long-simmering comics adaptation "Y: The Last Man" elsewhere. Didn't they cancel "Glow" in the middle of filming the third season? Netflix not necessarily slave to the sunk cost fallacy.

What else did you expect though? No new shows?

I hadn't heard much news from Dragon Prince and half expected it to be another Netflix casualty but a season 4 teaser just dropped so yay!

It's been so long since the last season my enthusiasm dwindled a bit, but I'll definitely give S4 a watch, maybe after a recap

My daughter is a mad fan and as I understand it, it was renewed up until season six?

Add another one to the trend: Netflix is releasing a fictionalized account of the Thai flooded cave soccer team rescue story ... a year after the excellent documentary "The Rescue," which itself came only a couple of years after the story dominated the news in real time.

Mo is great.

And after Prime did a fictionalised movie of same.

Seriously? Wow. So the Thai cave rescue happened in 2018. There was a (great) documentary released about it in 2020, a Ron Howard (?!) movie version of it on Amazon now, and a fictionalized series coming to Netflix this year? Jeepers, why not just give it its own channel.

Is Mo a remake of Man Like Mobeen?

Not at all

Reading the wikipedia entry for Man like Mobeen, no it's not a remake. But now I want to track down and watch Man Like Mobeen! Thanks!

it’s great

me and mk2 properly loved Mo.
best thing i have seen on netflix in a long time.
we then watched his recent standup special on netflix, and the two are very connected.
basically, watch the series, then the special.
a lot of it makes a lot more sense if you have seen the series.

I need to finish Mo but after six episodes i feel like it's been jamming too much storyline into too short a period of time, like it's afraid it won't get renewed so it has to tell all these plots right NOW rather than giving the audience room to breathe. it's making for some tonal dissonance where I'm meant to care simultaneously and at the same level of engagement for Mo's addiction to lean and his issues with his sister and his family being threatened by a gangster and his job insecurity, all being treated with varying levels of seriousness? The pace for the first two episodes was great but it's spinning out a bit now.

That said, still very much worth watching. Great acting, solid writing, stories I've never seen before. Mo's code-switching alone is worth the price of entry.

forks : i totally agree re storyline squash, as i had exactly the same concerns.
but just watch to the end of S1.
cant say any more than that.

"Code-switching." is a good description. Especially going to the flashbacks about how he developed that (because that's likely what really has happened) is very fascinating. My wife normally has to have close captioning on because of hearing difficulties, but you really need it for this show. The slipping seamlessly between English, Spanish and Arabic can be dizzying.

I've watched the first four episodes and I too love it, although the episodes are a little short at 21 minutes. I'd prefer it if they were bang on half an hour. I feel like maybe it wouldn't seem so squashed then.

Also I've watched the first hour of that Persuasion film and my god, it's worse than I thought it would be. I can see what it's going for with the modern language (characters talking about finding themselves and stuff) and the jokes about ghosting and playlists, but it's nowhere near competent enough to pull it off.

Never Have I Ever keeps sneaking out seasons at a consistent pace. This new one was the weakest so far because they try to give every character a storyline or two, and the cast is pretty huge by this point, so the stories feel rushed and more sketched out than detailed. The show is still pretty funny tho, particularly the scenes with Devi's family. There was one sequence in episode 2 that made me laugh harder than anything I've seen this year

I liked this season more than last. Last one had moments where Devi was so unlikable. I thought this season handled the other characters well. Even Trent was fleshed out.

Yes they did improve that aspect of her but I thought she was still pretty unlikable this season. feel like that's her thing

feels ironic that netflix, the originator of the "box set drop", has kill bill vol. 1 but... not vol 2? c'mon

oh and like…. none of the japanese is subtitled unless you turn on english subtitles, in which case you also get all the english subtitled as well, and the music cues etc. I don’t remember how it was in the cinema? was the japanese subtitled or not? feels like somebody fucked up. if the japanese isn’t supposed to be subtitled then it shouldn’t appear even when the subtitles are turned on, i’d have thought

That seems to happen a lot on streaming. Kind of an all or nothing model. For example, it happened with the Comanche version of "Prey," where if you wanted Comanche with English subtitles you had to settle for full closed captioning. "Thunder rumbles." "Music plays." "Footsteps." Etc.

i have now googled and yes the cinema release had subtitles for the japanese parts. thanks netflix i hate it!

Yep subtitles are fucked on a lot of Netflix films imo. Think I watched Sicario with (CC) subs on but the Spanish parts just had no subtitles whatsoever. Then watching it normally they had English subs in the Spanish bits.

kind of surprised tarantino hasn’t raised a stink about it but maybe there’s not a lot he can do.

Good chance he doesn't even know

He probably hates subtitles in general because they cover up the feet.

Wow at the finale of Midnight Mass in that I had no idea there's likely to be a season 2 as Flanagan's shows are usually one offs

Argh, The Midnight Club not Midnight Mass

New season of The Dragon Prince next week!

First episode of Kleo was considerably less hi jinks and more trigger warning than the trailer let on, but I'm still in.

The Sheng Wang comedy special is fantastic.

First episode of Kleo was considerably less hi jinks and more trigger warning than the trailer let on, but I'm still in.

The admittedly small sample of stuff that I'd read about it was about how fun it was, which is not how I'd remotely describe the first episode, after which I bailed. Does it get better after?

I’ve watched three episodes and it’s way more serious than I expected

Although maybe it’s light breezy fun for a German show

Cabinet of Curiosities has been really good so far (I've seen first three episodes)

The Autopsy was excellent and full on hands over face in places

I watched the first three last night. the first was fine, the second was wild, the third was absolutely phenomenal. and yes, truly horrifying at the end.

It’s entertaining though not like super great. The autopsy was pretty good apart from when the switch is happening and the outgoing creature will not stop talking, it really ruined the atmosphere.

Have only watched four episodes so far. The fourth one was promising but predictable, it reminded me of Death Becomes Her and a million other things but wasn’t as good as any of them.

I watched first 2 Cabinet 0f Curiosities last week and was thinking of posting about it here. I see at least one other person is watching it.Some of the dialogue seems a little melodramatic but it does seem to be quite watchable. Fits this weekend at least.

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.

― chap, Monday, August 3, 2020 7:18 PM bookmarkflaglink

just watched all four seasons.

Third season definitely the worst and completely broke from the formula. agree that the character was insufferable and Pullman couldn't possibly have sympathized with the dude. his own wife got it right, dude was a privileged fuck cosplaying nihilistic murder because he had a midlife crisis.

Fourth season redeemed it a lot, even if it was a bit of a retread of Winter's Bone

Cabinet #3 was wild and gross and pretty great. The first two were fine and the fourth predictable.

It’s all about the 7th one anyway.

I enjoyed the two Lovecraft ones despite Crispin Glover's accent and the liberties taken with Witch House.

Still have the last two to watch.

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.

― chap, Monday, August 3, 2020 7:18 PM bookmarkflaglink

just watched all four seasons.

Third season definitely the worst and completely broke from the formula. agree that the character was insufferable and Pullman couldn't possibly have sympathized with the dude. his own wife got it right, dude was a privileged fuck cosplaying nihilistic murder because he had a midlife crisis.

Fourth season redeemed it a lot, even if it was a bit of a retread of Winter's Bone

― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, November 2, 2022 8:14 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i didnt make it past the first ep of season 3 i cant believe how bad it was. do i need to watch it or can i skip to season 4 w no issues?