Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

xpost Is Rhythm + Flow good? I was wavering between that and Nasty Cherry but I hadn't read anything interesting about either yet.

i loved it tbh.

if “the British Baking Show, but hip-hop” sounds good to you then yeah, it’s fantastic. no “I didn’t come here to make friends” fake drama, some genuinely exhilarating moments, great hosts, and great guests.

The episode of The Movies That Made Us I saw kind of sucked.

Same format as The Toys That Made Us, which is also corny as hell (and also has a recent third series).

I’ve watched a lot of those over family gatherings. I admit to be interested in the content but damn are they obnoxiously put together. Least favorite quirk is replaying a snippet from an interview like 13 times an episode.

Key Grip: “We had no idea what we were doing!”

*re-run that clip twice every time in the story the production seemed dicey*

i don’t imagine I’ll ever watch any ____ That Made Us. Just seems like “those terrible VH1 talking head shows, but with better production values”...

but with better production values

That's generous.

Toys That Made Us is really quite good!

I only watched the GI Joe one but it wasn't bad. Definitely felt like it was made for cable with all the repeating clips (to catch people up between commercial breaks)

i thought the he-man one was really revealing! same for barbie and TMNT. I appreciate how annoying the editing can be but the intelligence behind it is real.

The toys series makes more sense. Haven’t really heard those stories before. The movies series seemed somewhat redundant. Like surely there are DVD extras that tell the same story? Didn’t feel like there was a lot I didn’t already know.

yeah, i'm not bothering with it; none of those are movies i need to know anything more about.

6 Underground is better than I would have expected.

Very Tony Scott circa Domino

I watched 6 Underground and have no clue what it was about. The best thing about it is that a Franco character gets violently killed at the start. I also think I may not like Ryan Reynolds.

but his teeth are so white

someone needs to count the shots in that thing

i made it through 20 min before turning it off. that chase was a coke-fuelled nightmare to watch

idk how michael bay manages to make me hate car chases, explosions & ryan reynolds (all things i normally love unconditionally) but he succeeded

finished "Black Spot" yesterday.
bloody loved it.
definitely something to watch during the dark autumnal season.

Veg, if you like Tony Martin & Ed Kavalee chatting, there’s an absolutely gold Michael Bay anecdote on last week’s Little Dum Dum Club

ooooh thx sic!

Tried to cure a small bout of insomnia last night with "Don't Fuck With Cats"... man, that is some fucked up shit. Do not recommend.

Why? What's it like?

It's a 3ep true crime series about internet obsessed types trying to track down a guy who posts videos of him killing cats(++) online.

Yeah I watched the preview thinking it was something lighter and yeah, no thanks.

i saw the splash and assumed that was what it was about and so didn't watch it. i would watch a video of that man being killed tho

ugh, nope, not what I was hoping for

Yeah, I watched the preview and then had to look up who it was about. I don't know how I missed the news about that guy.

Couple of "Witcher" reviews I've read have been "Cats"-level negative.

There is a Top Boy thread on its own but Top Boy (everyone compares to The Wire) is really good. I didn't know it was a netflix reboot from a Channel 4 show so I ended up starting with season 3 and then 1, 2. Just finished it.

xp

weirdly pleased about this because i'm sick of the eternal internet gamer circle jerk to The Witcher

I think it's a dumb game so am likewise heartened.

it is sorta weird to be pleased that a tv adaptation of a video game is bad bc you didn't like the [critically acclaimed] game it was based on, but i liked witcher 3 so what do i need

know

Watched the first episode and not sure why it would get Cats level reviews. Bit of a Vikings/Last Kingdom vibe but with added monsters & magic - big, gory hand to hand battles and court politics & intrigue (and a few cheesy/bad monologues)

Maybe it goes tits up in subsequent episodes

a tv adaptation of a video game is bad bc you didn't like the [critically acclaimed] game it was based on

I've actually since seen a few more balanced reviews. One big complaint is how, at least at the start, it goes full GoT in the boobs and blood department.

i am aware but the ppl i was responding to were talking about the game

2020: in which people on the internet complain about a streaming episodic series based on a game based on a book being too derivative

Another game adaptation which shows how terrible game writing is.

My calculus isn't hard:

1. Ressentiment over game loved by other people.
2. Henry Cavill is IIRC kind of a garbage human (not that I followed every twist and turn of his utterances so I may be missing context).

does this have more or fewer boobs than his previous pulp tv show, The Tudors?

presumably more blood, although they got up to beheadings on that one

wait is the witcher series specifically based on the game's interpretation of the books and not just the books?

I think just the books, but absolutely influenced by games because it’s the pre-existing visual narrative adaptation

Two episodes in and no boobs in sight but more beheadings than you could shake a stick at xps

Wait, I could have sworn one review I read said the boobs were front loaded in the first episode, and that there were seven (!) naked ladies! Yeah, the catty EW review (F) is where I read that:

Anyhow, the pilot also features two rough-and-tumble princesses (Freya Allan, Emma Appleton), a wizard (Lars Mikkelsen), and totally gratuitous full-frontal female nudity. There are seven naked women in the first episode alone, Darren. Seven! I… think I’ve seen enough?

https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2019/12/20/netflix-the-witcher-review

Im not sure how groovypanda missed it but yes, that scene was very "we can be hbo too!" To its credit it was more backgrounded than in similar scenes on GoT, but still completely gratuitous

I'm two eps in and liking it ok, but it seems they're trying to get through a lot of plot in a short amount of time. I would want it to move slower, thus far

Actually yeah I remember now. That was early on in the first episode and I was half watching as finishing off some work stuff.

There's also a very bad sex scene in the first episode but both actors are fully clothed.

so it IS based on the game then

Finished Don't Fuck With Cats last night despite it being utterly worthless

Hated it not because I was squeamish or "triggered" but as a piece of journalism or as a documentary with ostensible artistic merit, either way a failure

All the nuance, sensitivity, and sense of context of a CBS News special but since it's on Netflix, it's getting way more attention than it deserves

I don't do a lot of true crime but is a lot of it as glib as this was? Jesus fuck

TIL there is a remake of Jacob's Lader