Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

yeah totally. and the fact that they never explored the details of The Actual Murder for anything more than as a jumping off point to spend an entire season on the suspect/s was lazy & kinda bullshit imo.

yeah, if it were a 45 minute documentary you could justify the narrow focus, but 10 hours is some generous breathing space

About the only saving grace is the absurdity of Avery's lawyer. She storms in talking about how brilliant she is, and ultimately her plan amounts to throwing Brendan Dassey's brother and mother's boyfriend under the bus.

i have zero desire to watch s2 of making a murderer

same, the first series (while good) was hardly objective at all, more a lobbying effort

I can't even think back to the specifics of it to draw out the example I'm thinking of but about halfway through S1 of it it was clear that the defence attorney's had had an own-goal, a gaping hole, in the prosecution that they failed to spot. This is a pretty pointless comment though because I can't recall specifically what it was but, holy shit, that was a 90-120 minute documentary at the very most.

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the whole thing was so sordid and depressing that ten hours (now twenty) of your time is actually something that you would invest yourself in if you were being paid for it rather than... actually paying for it.

This is possibly due to low/shifting expectations, but I actually liked the ending of Hill House. There were one too many long monologues (though I get this is a Mike Flanagan thing) but I felt the ending more or less made sense for every character involved.

It's nice and unusual to have a horror story where characters behaved like actual people whose interactions and reactions are informed by their past, and who are changed by what they went through. And agree it works to think of the horror elements more as a metaphor for mental illness/family trauma.

Couldn't get through the first seasons of Making a Murderer.

Generally not a fan of these Serial-like true crime shows... I think the only one I ever really got into was The Jinx, and that was because the documentary makers not only had a genuinely fascinating subject but also managed to unearth crucial new evidence. And even then there was something morally/ethically iffy about how they chose to treat that evidence.

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yeah i agree

Without spoiling too much, bye ending to hill house completely changes the nature of the house, and the spirits there.

And it sucks

Went back and watched Maniac after giving up at first (thanks to Shakey for giving me the nudge), and it was great! It was weird, but just grounded enough to still resonate with me.

Maniac was good

My only real complaint was the exoticism of japanese culture, which at times seemed out of place and done for its own sake

We should do a Hill House thread tbh

there's something about the font that norsemen uses which means every time it shows up on my netflix i can only read it as 'NOR SEMEN'

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The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix (Spoilers)

Has there been anything really, really excellent in the last few years, or just a lot of stuff that's pretty good? What are the outstanding shows since say 2015?

on Netflix or just in general?

really, really excellent imo:

Better Call Saul
Insecure
Maniac
The Terror
GLOW

better call saul and insecure are not netflix original programming though

for NF originals I'd say Glow, the OA, Stranger Things, Gilmore Girls reunion, Ozark, Godless, HIll House, Love, are all excellent post-2015 series. Still haven't seen Narcos. Bloodline was pretty good but just shy of excellent. And still haven't seen a bunch of the animated stuff or other comedies (like One Day at a Time). There are only a few things I've really disliked; Atypical for one, Gypsy was another.

I kind of like House of Flowers but only got three episodes in before I got distracted.

would submit the last two seasons of kimmy schmidt

gilmore girls reunion was actively terrible (i'm a fan, i still watched it twice)

for me Mindhunter has been the best original NF show, followed by GLOW.

Narcos is good too, some cliched bits and when they veer from the facts and into fiction it's pretty obvious but it's a good drug war thriller.

haven't been able to bring myself to watch the second season yet, but american vandal deserves to be on any list of the best shows of the last three years

Bojack and Kimmy are outstanding.
Love, Stranger Things, Glow, OITNB, Dear White People are VG+.
Gilmore Girls, Ozark and Queer Eye are fun.

re: American Vandal: for some reason I watched the first two eps of s2 and haven't been compelled to return. s1 is probably their best season of anything

American Vandal should've been a lot shorter.

there's something about the font that norsemen uses which means every time it shows up on my netflix i can only read it as 'NOR SEMEN'

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor semen stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Netflix only:

Mindhunter
The Expanse - since they are taking it over form SyFy
American Vandal
Stranger Things season 1 (season 2 was bad imo)
Narcos
Chef's Table
Godless (finale fell flat but I enjoyed it overall)

Is Norseman good? I finally stopped watching Vikings after I realized I was only into it because Ragnar Lodbrok was crazy hot.

if we're expanding beyond netflix, better call saul and good place are the best shows on television. the best show of the past however many years is hannibal, which ended in 2015 so i'm counting it

otm to those three. and I'll add Rectify which is my favorite show if the decade

mindhunter, lady dynamite, GLOW, bojack, big mouth all good

oh yeah both seasons of lady dynamite are wonderful, i forgot

oh man, i have such a strong, visceral dislike of Lady Dynamite. I could not get over thinking Bamford was doing a weird Sedaris impersonation.

... yeah i don't see that at all

in particular i love lady dynamite for how surreal its plot movements are and how often its reality breaks down. and also how funny it is

I guess if you've never seen Maria Bamford before, you might think she was a fake character in LD?

"better call saul and good place are the best shows on television"

absolutely.

is Spartacus still on netflix? starting near the end of s1 it's the best show ever

(pls avoid if you have no tolerance for camp, gore, or cheap digital effects)

Expanse is going to Amazon (not Netflix). But still good!

And Big Mouth may be the best show on Netflix.

favorite Netflix series this year:

Big Mouth
The Haunting of Hill House
Ozark
Wild Wild Country
The End of the Fucking World

non-Netflix

The Terror
Better Call Saul
Difficult People

non netflix totally agree with Good Place, Saul, Difficult People and strongly adding Killing Eve and Mrs. Maisel.

End of the Fucking World def a fave Netflix show. A few episodes into Haunting of HIll House and not feeling it.

non netflix original, but I can't believe how good the first season of The Sinner was.