Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I could see podcast or audio book listening a little faster tbh. Depends on your listening speed and how much fluff there is.

Definitely heard of a lot of people who swear by the podcast speed listen.

this is the only way i listen to podcasts. speed between 1.7x and 2.5x depending on accent/nationality (e.g. americans tends to speak relatively slowly).

I was aware of this but cannot comprehend it - 1.25 or so, possibly.

Does it pitch up or is there an algorithm that keeps the pitch at a more normal level?

all normal pitch. we have the technology!

amused by the slow-talking american stereotype tbh. that’s just out radio/podcast voices, I swear! (it is not)

yep, so: normal pitch + ~2x speed + trimming silence/gaps = knocking over a 45 minute podcast in 20 minutes

the future is now

If a podcast has that much dead air and pointless content... I'll just not listen to it.

https://www.blinkist.com/
this would be the most offensive version of "save time consuming as much content as possible" if it wasn't all business and self-help garbage

you gotta remember australians live much faster

(autocorrect changed it to ‘love’ and I can’t comment but am intrigued)

most australians talk way too quickly, even as a native i find it ridiculous

narwefugindontwhatchatalkinboutman

But yeah I had no idea sped up podcasts were a thing til I saw... some recent show or movie where one of the characters was listening to a sped up podcast to cheer themselves up. Fuck if I can remember what it was now. I watch too much TV.

you have all outlined several reasons why i can't enjoy podcasts
and yes people are savages for playing movies at 1.xx speed, wtf

My bf's podcast is full of broad ockerisms and a LOT of swearing. Its grate!

The DVD software on my old laptop would sometimes start playing stuff slightly faster after I did a slow rewind to catch a missed line or something. Always a little disorienting although I can see the appeal if you wanted to blast through something.

I listened to Chris Hayes’ recent podcast on Kashmir at normal speed while walking the other day and I still had to concentrate super hard to follow all the information. I’m reporting you 2.5 freaks to the FBI

i listened to all of ‘the testaments’ at 2.5, it was the perfect speed

I listen to all my lps at 45, for the same reason.

Better to go the opposite so you have the Satanic Alvin & The Chipmunks experience all the time.

But yeah I had no idea sped up podcasts were a thing til I saw... some recent show or movie where one of the characters was listening to a sped up podcast to cheer themselves up. Fuck if I can remember what it was now. I watch too much TV.

Think that may have been Fear The Walking Dead but not 100% sure.

It was definitely a show that I watch on 1.2x speed (using VLC) so the podcast bit sounded even faster

Yeah it was FTWD

enjoying Ferris Bueller Beyond Thunderdome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XvFO83LXBE

interested to see how they manage to continue this story after the way season 1 ended

Finally finished Daybreak. I am very surprised Gregg Araki didn't do some episodes; it seems totally his thing & with the netflix affiliation. I said above it was so stupid but I liked it. I think I ended up really liking it. It felt heavy handed at times but those times are the things I most remember, like the latina morrissey cover band sing your life I am a monster episode. The last episode I kept yelling KNEEL JOSH W*******.

and the music is also so heavy handed but I loved it too much also...

I don't suppose "The End of the F***** World" could be described as a fun viewing?

I thought the first season was fun.

Forgot about that show! I didnt finish S1, I found the female lead a bit annoying.

was the ending of the show different to the comic?

yeah it was fun, I forgot about that. That's another show that looked like it was thrown into the netflix AI blender that spit out Daybreak. All of these things are kind of blurred together in my head now.

Watching Haunting of H House (again) w my 13 yo. She:”Nell is her own trauma.” Damn

That's another show that looked like it was thrown into the netflix AI blender that spit out Daybreak.

I think it was a real show first, on Channel 4 in the UK.
There was something about the casual cruelty of it that I disliked from the get-go. Never made it through to the end.

iirc ch4 showed episode 1 and after that it was All4 only (or whatever it was called in 2017). i hate it when they do this (mainly with Walter Presents selections)

I loved The End of the F***** World

> whatever it was called in 2017

4od

Tried to watch this Bill Burr special (Paper Tiger) last night and we had to turn it off, partly because our son was there (he's 13) and he really doesn't need to hear that sort of shit, but also, very little of it was even remotely funny. I"m not familiar with his stand up at all prior to this but I have friends who thought some earlier things were great; is this a huge departure? Because this was sub-Andrew Dice Clay material and he doesn't even have the excuse of a persona to hide behind. It just struck me as a bunch of white angry douche ranting.

that's kind of his thing. there is sometimes a self-awareness there to a degree, for instance he will sometimes do bits where his wife, who is african american, is the foil and it's clear in the bit that she is the one with the more reasonable/correct take. but yeah, his style is "angry guy at the bar"

yeah I'm a little confused why any of it is considered funny. LIke there wasn't a single joke in the 25 minutes of it I bothered to watch, just obvious dimwitted white guy challops. at least write a joke, for fuck's sake.

he's obnoxious

I don't like comedians that generally just yell their material (see also: the first couple decades of Chris Rock's career)

where his wife, who is african american, is the foil and it's clear in the bit that she is the one with the more reasonable/correct take

Maybe this is not the same thing, but more broadly, I am so tired of the childish/rulebreaking man who has a sensible wife who reins it all in and helps him fix things. It's so tedious. And it's in everything from Twitter joke formats to standup specials to children's television. There was some space rescue cartoon my nephews were watching that seemed to consist of the dad and the son going off on a harebrained plan and getting into trouble, and then the mam and the sister would come along and put everything right and roll their eyes. I just hate it.

The first comedian (Tracey Ashley?) on Tiffany Haddish's They Ready has a bunch of bits about being married to a white man and they were pretty LOL great. I think I had to finally give up on Bill Burr, it was work watching his act. I couldn't stand the screeching.

Tiffany Haddish's They Ready

I watched a bunch of these, some of them were p good like the one you mention, others needed a bit of work

Yeah, I remember laughing a ton during Tracey Ashley's set. The rest I can't really recall (or even if I finished it).

Burr had a big joke about wanting to drive by a feminist protest and yelling offensive things. And it isn't even funny. It's the sort of thing I'd hear when I was in college in the early 90's from guys who thought they were being funny. and now it warrants a comedy career? stuff is lazy. I could write this stuff in my sleep.maybe I should be an 'edgy' comic, it doesn't seem to take much work to get a netflix special.\
\maybe I hate comedy these days. I also watched the much praised Great Depresh (Gary Gulman) and didn't think very much of that was funny either.

bill burr's steve jobs bit is funny imo, and his some people don't know about lotion set up.

I am so tired of the childish/rulebreaking man who has a sensible wife who reins it all in and helps him fix things. It's so tedious. And it's in everything from Twitter joke formats to standup specials to children's television.

otm
long suffering/cleans up your mess woman-in-the-house is a tired and unfunny trope

Having not seen any of Burr's comedy but knowing he was well-regarded, I walked out ten minutes into his show a few years ago when he had done nothing but yell about how people who fly coach are slow at getting onto aeroplanes, and things his maid does which annoy him.

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, September 19, 2019 5:58 AM

love when twitter funny people
rightfully skewer “wife guys”

like wow, your bit is self-deprecation about how your wife is tired of keeping you functional, really funny

it's really late onset boomer humor 3.0? or something?

just actually shuddered at the idea that the show Home Improvement might show up on a bingeable streaming service