Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

lol I haven't thought of the Peach Pit in decades

yeah it's really weird, because I know the cast has had big careers after but I just wasn't into them at all. It was fine. I went to hs in virginia in the 90s.

oh yeah +1 for atypical. I really enjoyed it.

I think the daughter on atypical is playing Ted's? daughter in the new bill and ted movie.

Oh, shit, Atypical is the one about the teen with autism? I think we watched maaaaaybe the first episode of that a year ago and absolutely hated it.

No doubt these shows are all being made by people who were teens 20 years ago and whose only exposure to teenagers are the Hollywood kids they cast.

Chuck Forsman doesn't cast the English TV shows based on his American books.

I'm not entirely sure what you are talking about; this show is American, I thought. I'm not familiar with the comic book author, but looked him up, and indeed, he was a teen ... 20 years ago. fwiw.

as a family we're all enjoying Tiger King

I'm not entirely sure what you are talking about; this show is American, I thought.

The previous Forsman adaptation was made for an English TV channel, in England, starring English actors in their 20s, by the same English producer / director of I Am Not Okay With This. His short films prior to End Of The Fucking World were made in England. Casting the adaptation of I Am Not Okay With This would probably have been the first time in his life he was around "Hollywood teenagers."

Forsman was a teen 20 years ago, and the teens in various of his works do seem to be inspired by his own experiences, but both he and his partner have worked as lecturers and tutors for college-aged kids in the last decade.

Interesting. Anyway, I was talking about this new show, which I have heard from multiple places is a show that shows teens being teens. And I commented how teens being teens in these shows often reflects literally none of the teens I know or live with, nor do they reflect what studies repeatedly show contemporary teens are or are not doing, and I hypothesized it's because all the creators were basing their stories on their teenage years 20 years earlier. I predict in 20 years someone will make a show about teenage boys hanging out in their rooms and playing online games.

Also this is a fictional story (about teenagers with psychic powers). Movies that have relatable adults engaging in identifiable behaviour don’t necessarily show them flossing and making coffee and checking their facebook wall multiple times per day of story time, even if that’s a major part of how your suburban neighbours’ lives play out as you observe them.

this is fiction? is that why nobody poops?

ffs, this whole thread needs to go into quarantine now.

Yerac, Tan France is on Celebrity Bake Off. I am not watching it!

is he baking or a judge? I just want to judge things in life as a career.

He's baking.

Crip Camp is up!

I know it's been mentioned but seriously holy shit at Tiger King.

Also this show coming out in the middle of a pandemic is just... idk a giant self-own for humanity? There's something ironic about watching horrible people do horrible things to caged animals while being caged up ourselves.

Feel Good is good (on Channel 4 in the UK) and I'm astonished how great Mae Martin is as an actual actor but there's something annoying me about it that I can't quite place. Maybe it's that this new love of hers, for whom she's turning her whole life upside down, is just pretty insipid and has nothing to offer (apart from validation of Mae's desperate, grasping insecurity). To be fair this is the same thing that I don't like about Shrill. So maybe it's me

Was this the thread where we were talking about fuckinghell timeloop films? Cus Viavarium is really good, really stressfull, maybe relevant? ok sicpedant not literally timeloop, but fucking hell, I am annoyed by nonexistent children screaming right now, I cannae imagine folk with actual children right now

Basically imma go out dig in the garden right now...

Like maybe this would be better in some gaming thread or or whatever, but the reason I never completed Yoshi's Island was that constant WAAAAAH! WAAAAH! whenever you lost the baby, and I donno this film has me triggered

do you guys know any good netflix documentaries / docu-series ? haven't seen many but my favorites so far were probably untold history of the US and inside the mossad

ok sicpedant not literally timeloop,

I endorse any timecockery in film and would enjoy a thread dedicated to them

(this movie does not appear to be on DVD or Netflix streaming, and to still be ~in theory~ working through the festival circuit, RIP)

Me too. There was a bit of chat here
Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Vivarium is on Amazon to rent, apparently, also it stars Imogene Poots, who is a person whose name I refuse to believe is real, like Piper Peraboo and Peekaboo Street.

Along w Scoot McNairy & Skeet Ulrich: all names that make me giggle & seem made up

Non Zappa division, presumably.

if they were both around in the '90s, we definitely would have had seen their buddy-cop films advertised with big

SCOOT
SKEET

posters in Video Ezy

I knew the new season of Ozark would be dark, and they did take it there

Not an REO Speedwagon fan then?

lol

yeah finished last night, fuuuuuck

fyi discussion over here: Ozark

OHHH, something I was surprised and excited to discover buried in the dusty subbasement of Netflix: what appears to be the complete contents of Kino Lorber's Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers and Pioneers of African American Cinema box sets. They're listed as television shows, iirc, with the individual films indexed as episodes.

if you haven't seen The Great Hack, go watch it immediately. mind blowing 🤯

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8GxLP1FHo

Thanks for the tip!

I watched the first season of Freud this past week. It was entertaining, good actors, great sets, a healthy dose of creepy occult shit, A+ facial hair. On the other hand, the premise and plot were fairly ridiculous. Essentially a creepy mystery show set in a 19th century Vienna, in which hypnosis is used like a Marvel superpower. If you are looking for an informative show about the life of Freud, this ain't it. If you want some lurid kicks, and don't care much about realism, this may be for you.

Lurid kicks, I'm on it.

this seems like 100% my jam

theres these books i love about Arthur Conan Doyle & Oscar Wilde solving murders together & it holds ZERO real-life water but is a great time imaginary-wise & so i would definitely be coming into this almost ready to shed what i know of Freud & go forward in life accepting this fictional Freud instead

i will def watch

plus that actor is so handsome my god

theres these books i love about Arthur Conan Doyle & Oscar Wilde solving murders together & it holds ZERO real-life water but is a great time imaginary-wise

These sound fun - what books are these?

Interpretation of Murder has Freud as a detective.

By Jed Rubenfeld

those ACD and OW books are by gyles brandreth. run away!

is it just me or is the Netflix 'family films' selection - with the extremely honourable exception of the Ghibli films - total fuckin trash?

this is like....... a massive need for the world rn

The ones I read were by Vaughn Entwistle

- The Revenant of Thraxton Hall
- The Dead Assassin

They’re really good!

(xposts to Roz)

Thanks VG! Some fun AU mystery fanfic is probably just what I need in these quarantine times.

is it just me or is the Netflix 'family films' selection - with the extremely honourable exception of the Ghibli films - total fuckin trash?