Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

indeed i was -- and it was miserable, some of the worst years of my life objectively speaking. i am not nostalgic for that time whatsoever.

apologies for the tmi, netflix thread!

i hated my teens.
absolutely the worst time of my life.
saved only by nme/cabaret voltaire/on-u sound/foetus.
however, my own teens are living a very different life.
and if they get to learn about their own sexuality via a brilliantly funny/beautifully made tv show, then more power to them.

xpost etc.

I was a miserable teen and watching the show is kind of healing. Everyone is supported in some way, bad adults exist but they're countered by ones who have their shit together, and there's a sense of solidarity I seldom felt as a kid

https://gizmodo.com/at-long-last-our-netflix-autoplay-nightmare-is-over-1841499223

About time!

great news! hate those so much.

I really liked being a teenager, but not in an weirdo nostalgic way. I still really love all shows about teens. I still have to finish the second season of Sex Ed.

I once watched Superbad with my father in law while all three of us sat on our bed because our only tv was in the bedroom and he was visiting. We did not know the movie was going to be that sexual.

Granted, my FIL has been married 5 times so I am sure he was like "whatevs".

Superbad was interesting in that it straddled a time between a lot of the "teens trying to hook up! male hijinks!" and a somewhat different era. It felt dated in an odd way only a few years after release.

The dumb kid stuff and ott cops being idiots, maybe more timeless

Any non-sitcom series recommendations? Need something to sustain me in between episodes of Picard.

Cheer!

Watched and enjoyed!

About time!

I watched Bridesmaids with my mom, and there is that scene with the mom who has three teenage sons, and she complains that there is semen stains everywhere, on blankets, on all their laundry, and my mom laughed like I've kinda never seen before. Yeah, it was awkward.

Re Sex Education, I can't believe how much the actor who plays Adam looks like the actor who plays his father, Mr Groff. They are not related irl.

Re Sex Education, I can't believe how much the actor who plays Adam looks like the actor who plays his father, Mr Groff. They are not related irl.

isn't it?!

Wow, was wondering about that.

In related news, I was really pleased with all they did in S2 w/Mrs. Groff, especially given how she had maybe three lines first time around.

Yes, I really liked the character and was happy about that too. I also liked the female empowerment thing around the "breakfast club" scenario in s2. ep.7

They did that really well. An homage without it being obnoxiously shoved in the audience face

Watching Locke and Key, a terribly named but fun hokum - seems to be a lot more ‘adult’ than it’s otherwise YA nature.

The closed captions for one scene read “dubious instrumentation”

Also, starting a show with the exact worst haircut is the Chekhov’s gun of makeovers.

Re Sex Education, I can't believe how much the actor who plays Adam looks like the actor who plays his father, Mr Groff. They are not related irl.

― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Friday, February 7, 2020 12:41 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Sameeeee!!! I also looked them up!

In every episode, I laughed, I cried, I empathized. I love it.

Giri/Haji has an early episode where someone is searching a crime scene to "investigatory music." xxp

locke and key is based on a comic so there you go with the name

Written by Stephen King's son, isn't it?

First episode was enjoyable and intriguing but then that probably applies to about 90% of Netflix's original content

Sour Grapes, a doc about a con man and counterfeiter in high-end wine, moves fast and is compelling/fun.

Sex Education renewed for a third season.

Totally deserved. One of the best shows of the past several years, anywhere.

I'm sure it's very good (I've only seen the first episode) but unfortunately the teenage discomfort I had with the thought of other teenagers having sex has morphed into a middle-aged discomfort with the thought of teenagers having sex so for these reasons I'm out.

I reckon the actors are all at least 25 if that helps.

There's a fair amount of grown-ups sexing too.

The stupid no-more-trailer-autoplay setting doesn't work. I've done everything. It works for a while, and then it resets itself to playing the trailers again. It's very annoying.

Sour Grapes, a doc about a con man and counterfeiter in high-end wine, moves fast and is compelling/fun.

The New Yorker profile on him ripping off the lesser Koch brother is really good.

Sex Education renewed for a third season.

They'll have to hurry up and film it as the campus where they shoot the school scenes is being turned into a housing estate

Next in Fashion is a tremendously good competition. The stakes felt uncomfortably high at times though.

i just started that last night! I love alexa chung and Tan.

Yes they work very well together. You're in for a treat!

Does anyone know why there’s so much smoking in Netflix shows? I’m assuming big tobacco money is involved somehow? Seems anachronistic and kind of gross

which shows? I haven't noticed this. I was just thinking last night how it's so nice that netflix makes so many things that aren't white dude centric.

speaking of shows with too much smoking, the new season of narcos mexico is pretty good so far except for an awkward Quavo cameo scene

I remember smoking being incredibly prominent in Mindhunter but that's not so anachronistic.

halfway through Next In Fashion. It's so turned up. I love it.

The people coming in with known partners and the banter makes it seem like a Christopher Guest thing.

I'm at the point in the show where they stop being pairs and go single. I like the show fairly well but have a lot of problems with it which essentially boil down to Tan France and how shite his patter is. I can bear him in a show with other people with enjoyable patter but on this is just so exposed and I cringe at everything he says in advance because I know what he's going to say before he says it.

Project Runway regular is doing better now that they revamped it but their casting seems fairly tired comparatively.

Is Tim Gunn still on PR? because NIF needs a frontperson who actually knows how garments are constructed and the ways in which that might be difficult & critique that. I love Tim Gunn.

I found it unfair that some couples had been working together for a decade and others were just two people who'd never met.

I sound like a dick, sorry.