Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

i was surprised there wasn't a thread for it! but yeah, other than a couple luke-warm episodes in the middle, it was consistently great from start to finish, and i can see myself rewatching it sometime soon.

Cautiously enjoying “kominsky method” which I keep calling “meyerowitz stories” in my head. Sour Alan Arkin is a pleasure and MD keeps shit moving

i got back on netflix after quite a few years off due to $$$$$

it's surprising how the selection is even shittier now than it was

Trying Travelers, enjoying that it's more of a traditional show than a 13-hour long bad movie.

i was surprised there wasn't a thread for it!

dangit, i'm the worst! i searched for Netflix Maniac, but couldn't find one. do you know the name of it?

it just bugs me because i KNEW there was one! in fact, i'm pretty sure the reason i started watching it is because i recognized the name from seeing the thread pop up every once in a while.

a thread for the show "Maniac"
(curse of the quote marks)

I absolutely loved this show.

ty!

now I need to find the "Maniac Cop 2" thread

why do people keep putting quotes around TV series and movie titles, there is no style guide to which this adheres, gadsarnit!

AP Style tip: Capitalize film titles and put them in quotations: "Lincoln," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Skyfall" and "Argo."

— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) January 9, 2013

Style-Guide-Burn!

whaaat. i was always told it's ALL CAPS or italics

Journalism has its own rules based on readability (IIRC from high school and my one college journalism) above all

I don't know of any style that says ALL CAPS - italics or underlining for everything that adheres to MLA/ALA unless impossible, then you use quotes, or the AP style where you use quotes for everything.

The Chicago Manual of Style (which I think is better than AP) says to use italics for complete works (movie, album, book etc) and quotes for individual songs, titles of chapters, etc

I'm also pro Chicago style - italics always look and read way better than quotation marks, especially when you're also quoting any lines in the movie or anyone you've interviewed about it!
gah underlining is the worst (written notes excepted)
I watched Passengers the other day and it is also the worst

AP title style is helpful when you're dealing with a format that doesn't always allow for italic type — for example, a newswire service like AP, or some types of video captions.

guys. what are we doing.

does anyone know how to pronounce missouri

does anyone on the show Ozark ever say it out loud

bringing it all back home, full circle

Glad other folks gave Maniac some love, I really liked it. Not sure which genre exercise/parody was my favorite, maybe the 20s heist/comedy of manners one or the fantasy one. The mafia one definitely went a little overboard with the gore.

mafia was my least favorite. i really enjoyed the one with the lemur...i just kind of assume that was supposed to be Jersey?

Anyone tried '1983', the alternative-history Polish series?

^^ Cosign

Just finished Dark and Netflix is recommending that to me

The Kominsky Method is pretty good. Danny Devoto as the urologist has me LOLing

^^ yes, this was very touching and funny.

we are currently enjoying the hell out of Jane The Virgin

Has anyone watched Happy as Lazzaro yet?

On netflix?

It's licensed to Netflix in North America.

Lucky you!

I'm not in that category.

Unlucky us!

Watching now!

Marcella is a real test of my ability to tell white guys apart but I'm loving it otherwise. So angry, and so not just another bitterly angry man cop.

Bird Box! Feel like there should be a thread because that shit was riveting. I had some issues with it but I have not been on the edge of my seat like that in a while .

Cool! It's getting mixed notices, probably more so in Denmark because everyone hates Susanne Bier. I like her, though.

The trailer for Bird Box looked really meh, but maybe we'll give it try. I just watched Cam. That was really weird.

I liked birdbox a lot!

Bird Box was a heartwarming movie for the holidays.

"You", the show with Penn Badgley playing a deranged version of his Gossip Girl character, is ridiculous and trashy and populated entirely by characters from the quiddities/agonies NYT thread. I LOVE IT.

Took off my blindfold this morning to discover that 45,037,125 Netflix accounts have already watched Bird Box — best first 7 days ever for a Netflix film! pic.twitter.com/uorU3cSzHR

— Netflix Film (@NetflixFilm) December 28, 2018

funny, that's how many people on my social media said it was terrible.

The movie was a lot like Unfriended.

the trailer for birdbox made it look like a shallow Quiet Place rip off but I'm hearing much better things

I thought it was better than Quiet Place but I probably prefer gore over tension.

It was a little bit more like The Mist than the Quiet Place in terms of dynamics (excluding the end).

whatever about their respective quality, it's a little silly to call a movie that came out in the same year as A Quiet Place (and that's based on a novel from 2014) as a rip-off

holy shit A Quiet Place came out this neverending year...