Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Greta cast, but that still looks pretty bad. And not bad meaning good.

I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be a thread for or any talk about Jeff Sharlett's series The Family?

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/netflix-the-family-jesse-moss-secret-christian-cult-washington-dc-869396/

Or did I just miss it?

decent stuff. been following his work for so long there aren't really any new uh revelations but it's new to my gf and she is very much like wtf!

I keep wavering on watching it (The Family). Did you enjoy it?

more odd new FRIENDS things:

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/236e7b22-a705-4d5c-8a65-d70a61b4dba9/comments_tab

i saw a lot of these at the jonas brothers show on saturday

https://etsy.me/2xy9HwI

I keep wavering on watching it (The Family). Did you enjoy it?

there's a related shirt on maura's etsy link that I cannot believe exists

omg

i've been watching The Family and am also on episode 3
thoroughly disgusted! still watching...
the real kicker was seeing Mark Sanford on Meet the Press in the morning claiming that he was going to challenge _rump in the primary and then watching ep 2 where he visits the Appalachian Booty Trail and gets counseled about sinning in his gross xtian dorm for adult men.

i am having a very difficult time believing that any of them care about Jesus at all in spite of their loudly proclaimed Jesus myopia

watched two episodes of the family so far and think it's well-done — i'd forgotten about that terrible Sanford thing. Seems almost quaint now! What a bunch of assholes.

they are disgusting! i have a hard time believing anyone actually believes they were chosen by god. i realize this is probably a shortcoming of my own imagination but the degree of removal from reality required to believe that all of these men are chosen by god leaves me speechless. they are repulsive. still watching!

addendum: i have a hard time believing anyone actually believes they were chosen by god to hoard power and influence in the political sphere

I’m on ep 4 now and I’m here to say this is not “news” exactly but it’s horrifying to see the throughline of “Jesus and family and friends” spread like a virus all over the planet. The white supremacy machine never sleeps 😢

this planet is tragic and doomed as long as these people are working their “Jesus magic”

the part where the guy said “all you have to do is say his name — Jesus — and the doors open” 🤮

I am pretty much atheist, is this going to be as bewildering as the Abducted in Plain Sight documentary?

Way way worse imo — affects vastly larger swath of humanity than a tiny cult 👎

Or a single abduction

If the words “nonconsensual diplomacy” in the name of Jesus make you recoil, I think it’s important viewing

Also? The next time you hear 45 refer to Norway you’ll know why 🤮🤮🤮

basically there is a large group of people in american public life for whom "jesus" is a code word for "power at all costs and by any means" is how i break it down to an extent

Jane The Virgin S5 is out and the first episode has an unbelievably great 7-minute (!) continuously shot monologue from Gina Rodriguez, A++

I can't believe we don't have a thread for that show, but I guess the last season is a little late to start one

I am halfway through the second epi of The Family. These people are all lunatics. It's a faux spiritual MLM scheme.

it's a diabolical fraternity with enormous tentacles :(

nothing good comes out of a room full of white men that need to keep a secret.

watching them claim over and over that it's "just Jesus" and exploiting/abusing the concepts of "friends" and "family" in addition to poor old Jesus all over the world floating on their official capacity as USA elected officials to conduct what does boil down to "nonconsensual diplomacy" -- it's not for the faint of heart! they are truly evil imo.

It's a great racket that they came up with. That the "chosen one" will be a complete tool to be used by Jesus.

Re: Mark Sanford (HA!): "As a result, "hiking the Appalachian Trail" or "hiking the Appalachians" became a euphemism for a sexual scandal in the English language." -wiki

Enjoyed the new Simon Amstell special, 'Set Free'.

He's very skillful at displaying his vulnerability.

Instant Hotel is some addictive stuff. I really hope they're going to do more of it.

i read the Family and C Street back when they were released and didn't shut up about it for weeks. while a lot of it does seem rather quaint in the age of trump
i thought the Wolf King episode did a nice job of tying it all together.

The Inbestigators is fantastic kids TV (from the people behind the equally ace Little Lunch).

Also thought the first episode of The Dark Crystal was really good although quite um, dark in places.

The Bletchley Circle appeared on my netflix a week ago and two episodes in, I love it. (especially coming off The Bodyguard which was pthsssth (how did that get so any awards???))

Dark Crystal is SO fkng good, cannot stop watching

We started it and could only handle 15 minutes. I am going to try to start it again when I can concentrate more. It seems to get really good reviews.

Like the original film I do find it requires an odd kind of concentration to get into - I suppose because everything is different.

The Dark Crystal was the first movie my parents ever took me to see in the theater. I now realize I have no clue what is going on in this ( I finished one episode).

About halfway through the latest series of Thirteen Reasons Why. I get why ILX is suspicious of it but I think it's amazing - contemporary young adult social issues as interpreted by wildly ambitious, hyperliterate and audacious-to-the-point-of-horrifying Gen X goth writing/direction team. Even if I'm watching through my fingers, even if my sense of the show's moral centre undergoes all sorts of sickening rollercoaster upheavals, it's the most compelling thing on television by a street

Also it has an amazing soundtrack. Spotted Ride's Sennen in the last episode, alongside more contemporary offerings (the latest Low album makes an appearance in the same episode I think)

You might want to check out Euphoria

I watched the first season of 13 which was fine. The second one was bad. I am not touching the 3rd even though I am thrilled about the character who was killed. I kind of dislike all the actors on the show.

c+p for every television thread tbh

The third season of 13RW is the best so far in terms of actual writing imo, though I wouldn’t expect everyone to agree owing to how ethically queasy it can be at times. Its internal morality system has gone wild! It’s also leaning in heavily to the whole paranoid noir aesthetic and it just works so well.

Obviously super indulgent and road trip conceit lazy, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjljgkCQv5c

road trip conceit lazy

as opposed to the detailed, intricate concepts behind the previous Between Two Fernses, the CBB TV show, and Michael Bolton's variety show?

Yes. Road trip is what comedies do when they don't have enough ideas to fill an entire script.

(with exceptions, of course!)

seems like an excuse to hang sketches together, like those other Aukerman shows and the last long-form Ferns

Sixth season of The 100 is up - not bad for a CW sci-fi show but it's always rushing forward with 'what terrible thing can happen before this commercial break' and would be much better with a little pacing.