Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

robot looks too much like Johnny 5

Has anyone watched Tig Notaro's One Mississippi on Amazon? I heard her talking about it on the radio a few days so I decided to have a watch (I know of her, but I don't really watch standup so I haven't seen her) and wow it is an amazing show.

All of the short films he (the district 9 guy) have done recently are also rubbish; some nice effects, but awful scripts, and a real relish taken in human degradation

Any recommendations for good stuff on Amazon Prime? I just watched Fleabag, which was excellent, but there's pretty much nothing else I can see worth watching, just an endless sea of Tom Cruise movies.

season 1 + 2 of Gomorrah is A P.

on season 2 of Gomorra -- it's still good but it's a little tough going at this point. Ciro isn't a *great* character, since his unlikable qualities are virtually all he has left, and it's unbelievable that anyone would follow him or trust a word he says since he's the most obvious Iago on the planet (which is more problematic than him being unlikable.) i think the Salvatore Conte-focused episode i just finished cemented that for me, so much depended on things going exactly as he foresaw and everything was very much telegraphed. but i'm going to continue on, the good stuff is very good.

also going back to early in S1, i feel like there were some hints dropped that he was the police informant but nothing explicit iirc?

I overlook a lot of Ciro's character flaws because he carries male-pattern baldness with such pizzazz.

I think he’s a good snake

i really enjoyed the Don Pietro/Gennaro stuff, after they had to escape from that assassination on their contact. Gennaro roaming around trying to get to Don Pietro was great, all of those rides to German gas stations, loved it.

trying out Halt & Catch Fire

one mississippi is great, get on it

H&CF I never got past ep1--the "hilarious" armadillo killing, the stupid sex scene... it felt like a show trying so hard to be edgy that it forgot to be good

I will investigate one mississippi and gamorrah, cheers!

Argh, neither of those are on Prime in Australia. Fucking thing.

H&CF rewards ploughing through ime

I agree, it's not an edgy show at all and it improves pretty quickly, though I don't think it really figures everything out until s2.

thats what i’ve heard

I really want to watch H&CF, should I plow through it and then appreciate season two more gradually, or start with two?

This has been up for a few days and is worth the watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99NaRJQzXiM

plow through, s1 is pretty good too

H+CF is among the best shows I've ever seen, even if the first season is sub mad men early 80s retro. Just binge the first season, which has it's moments, and enjoy the next 3 because the next 3 are truly fantastic.

thank you, trusted associates

i love H&CF! would watch the whole thing again.

I love Toby Huff is a lot if what is getting me through these early eps. Also the music.

it really does get better and better.

Toby Huss's arc is great on the show

man i love the engineer that is the wife of the shlub engineer

ok ep 6 things are finally loosening up, this is becoming v watchable.

Alias Grace was pretty meh

so funny that i've been watching W1A and then a big ad comes on netflix for the inclusive Big Family Cooking Showdown. so close to Britain's Top Family!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2P0QoejVT8

my family has absolutely no time for W1A. i could watch those staff meetings all day long.

I never even watched the 1st season of H&CF

I still have not watched the final two episodes

oh man.

they are really good.

Just finished American Vandal, I think it might be the best thing Netflix has done. Some incredible performances too - the girl in the wayback gang, the crying scene in the last-but-one episode, whoever wardrobed Alex Tromboli - amazing.

it's a good show!

they did a great job of showing the dynamic of high school kids and the pettiness of teachers and administrators. I remember trying to keep my head down during high school but remember hearing about beef between teachers, or between teachers and students, and trying to figure out wtf was wrong with people

there was an insanely irritating and petty science teacher at my high school, and I learned over time that a guy who did more coordination things for the district that I ended up being mentored by for science fair stuff used to be a teacher at my school until his irritation with her interest in teacher politics drove him away. the best/worst part was he ended up being in charge of science curriculum for the district, and ended up butting heads with her yet again

the subplot in Mindhunter on netflix also captured the weird teacher work dynamic pretty well

American Vandal was so superbly cast

re: the didion thing i'm hesitant... what will it give me that reading didion won't

Yeah, as much as I love Didion, I didn't enjoy it that much. If you know her story already, there is not that much to gain

u get to see her making cucumber sandwiches

Looks like a load of decent US series have been added to UK Netflix - The West Wing, The Office, Parks & Rec, Cheers, Frasier

decent US series [...] The West Wing

*narrows eyes*

o_o

Well the first couple of seasons seemed pretty decent to me the first and only time I watched them 17 odd years ago

you haven't been keeping it. the west wing is now responsible for all our ideological troubles.

keeping up*

it's compelling in the really Sorkiny way, has aged really badly imo

actually i do wonder what the west wing looks like from the perspective of 2017 - unbearably quaint, probably

I don’t doubt that

I enjoy lots of television that appears to be men making forceful points in long form dialogue at each other (possibly written by someone who loves coke) but you just have to recognize for what it is

terrible?

i don't think i could ever force myself to watch Frasier again.

that show is a motherfucker with secrets.