Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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ok so The Vault was kind of a fun way to spend part of an evening

Boy, Gerald's Game sure was some rough stuff, and one two minute sequence in particular is perhaps the most difficult to watch scene I've ever squirmed through, but the leads are great (Bruce Greenwood is always good, Carla Gugino under the radar for too long, for no good reason) and the story very timely, in its way.

The End of The F***king World is pretty brilliant imo

Kind of done with serial killer things, tbh.

Like, even when Natural Born Killers was first out I was kind of done with them.

It's not really a serial killer thing

I didn't think it added up to much though tbh. Started off strongly, but never really came together for me, and it felt overstretched even at eight short episodes. Great soundtrack though

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it’s better than that, tho granted i say that as someone who isnt done w serial killers

the serial killer stuff is a framing device & drives the story but it’s more about being a teenager & being surrounded by adults who disappoint and or hurt you

i didnt know fran from Black Books was in Episodes -i’ll give it a look!!

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, January 23, 2018 4:43 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tamsin Grieg is also in Green Wing from a few years ago and was in The Archers for years.
I got o see her playing a Conservative PM live on stage about 10 years ago too

nice!!!

I really enjoyed the End of the Fucking World, too. I loved what it did to the English landscape - making it seem like the landscape of my childhood, i.e. empty and monumental. And Sheppey, where it ends, is, basically the end of the world. I have family who've settled there and it's like nowhere else I've ever been. It was perfect.

Does anyone know where it was filmed?

Like the suburban parts.

The bus station was in Guildford, apparently.

the two kids were perfectly cast, great performances from the two of them

I want to thank everyone in here who recommended Episodes, specifically because I have now experienced the joy of Daisy Haggard as "head of comedy" Myra Licht. I could watch her grimace and wince and talk with a ridiculous nasal vocal fry for hours. She's my favorite actor now, in anything.

i was kinda surprised there wasn't a thread for it when i brought it up here. i thought it might have been one of those old hat things that people had talked about a bunch on ile but i couldn't find anything. but maybe its not monumental enough for that. i thought it was great. and the perfect Brit-length for a series too with a beginning, a middle, and an end. i'm glad showtime didn't make them film a zillion episodes. it would have ruined that.

I had to bail on Episodes... I got to the 3rd episode with all the stuff about Leblanc’s huge hog & i just couldn’t. it’s funny in places but it’s just not for me

Tracks is so good. The book it's based on is also very good!

https://www.amazon.com/Tracks-Womans-Across-Australian-Outback/dp/0679762876/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

i put it on my wishlist, definitely want to read!

Which of you goofballs recommended The Vault, even as a distraction? It's weirdly well directed and acted, but it's so stupid and incoherent and inert.

like your face

Did you see it? None of it made any sense! At least my face makes sense!

Netflix makes me incredibly anxious these days, i should probably cancel my subscription

It's pretty overwhelming, isn't it?

We started Episodes last night, saw two, er, episodes. It's OK, sort of on the nose, with a few chuckles per ep. We'll give it a couple more.

I was the Vault guy. It's the right mix of "hey pretty inspired" and "lifted wholesale from other movies that make no sense paired together"

"A ghost that makes a creepy oldie play on the radio every time he appears? Sure, we can add one of those."

I stopped watching Netflix, they keep wanting me to watch terrible things that will stress me out. I only watch PBS series now. The 39th season of This Old House, Generation NEXT is really great.

"A ghost that makes a creepy oldie play on the radio every time he appears? Sure, we can add one of those."

Just to nitpick (since the movie doesn't really deserve it): why Tommy James's "Crimson and Clover?" It would have been more time appropriate to play the Joan Jett version, since he's a 1982 ghost, right? Lotta other stuff didn't make sense, either. Reminded me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1x_BLhreRs

(I mean, it wasn't that bad, but it just wasn't surprising or scary or anything, and then it's padded out with the usual horror cliches. Yet it's well acted and directed!)

Well the original is better for one thing xp

Don't disagree there! But they make a point of setting the ghost origin story in 1982, which happens to be the exact year the Joan Jett version came out. Maybe they couldn't get the rights? It would have been super easy to change a line or two and make the ghost origin the '60s, didn't have to be 1982. Better yet if the creepy old music the ghost played was "Super Freak." People would be all "do you hear that? Super Freak?! Spoooky!"

I had to bail on Episodes... I got to the 3rd episode with all the stuff about Leblanc’s huge hog & i just couldn’t. it’s funny in places but it’s just not for me.

My wife and I are in the exact same place, literally and figuratively. We just finished the third episode, and we both agree it's hovering precipitously between B-/C+, with the occasional joke maybe a B+/A- and a bunch of others maybe C-/D+ (like the non-stop lazy dick jokes of this third episode). It doesn't help that we don't particularly like the leads, or even know if we're supposed to like the leads. The minor character/executive who constantly looks like she smells something funny makes us laugh on sight, but that's like 5 seconds of each episode so far. We'll probably give it one more then move on.

it is pretty crotch-centric. i grew to enjoy all of the characters a lot. even Merc. Carol is kinda my fave. if i think about the character she was at the start and everything that happens by the end, it's pretty darn insane.

and the brits definitely grew on me. i wasn't sure if i wanted to keep watching after the FIRST episode.

Carol is kinda my fave. definitly is so much more of a likable character when the show ends

got 2 eps left of Halt & Catch Fire and I've really enjoyed the whole trip and I'm going to be sad when there's none left.

alt theme

Hey @PFTompkins, I was inspired by your acapella. Here’s your “Halt and Catch Fire” theme with the music it deserves. pic.twitter.com/ZRLc8g8VHk

— D/A/D (@zachrobinson) January 28, 2018

excellent!

I was kind of enthused by the fact the soundtrack has the theme song, because I thought it'd be an extended version

but it's the exact length of the opening credits!

personally i throw an Ozzy "AY AY AY" ala crazy train in there. i'm probably not the only one.

That final stretch of H&CF is so good. Glad it got to end strong, but I grew to love those characters so much I would have happily taken another three seasons of it spinning its wheels

I can't believe we're only six episodes from the end. I want to stop watching now, so that it's just perfectly preserved forever for me.

(I also can't believe I didn't realise until the middle of season three that Scoot McNairy is the bloke from Monsters. Very poor. Knowing what people were in is normally my forte.)

I don't think we've talked about Dirty Money yet? I'm only two episodes in but it's great. I am somewhat apprehensive about the dramatized scenes, especially with the monkeys in the first episode.

Just caught up with EOTFW, it's a good as everyone says, some amazing performances too - the girl, the Irish dad, the sweet idiot at the garage.

i was allergic to the first 5 minutes

I knew Altered Carbon had the potential to be a guilty pleasure if they didn’t botch it too badly, and I gotta say, enjoying it so far

yeah, same

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Same! It has a lot of "edgy" signifiers. I thought it would be another one of those heartless shows that bullies you into feeling like a square because you can't appreciate its cheap, humourless nihilism. But then it gets better, pretty quickly.

It looked good, but I started to find it difficult to follow half way through (not having read the book and watching whilst smartphone browsing).

the jungle episode of planet earth II has to be seen just for the capybara reaction shot after another animal does a thing (no spoilers)