Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

It was the most Ryan Murphy Ryan Murphy series yet, and I was good with that.

lol that’s a good description!

my biggest problem was Darren Criss’s character stuck out like a sore thumb by being so “woke”. i didnt enjoy that character at all.

and i know there is full sincerity behind what they do for Rock Hudson by giving him the chance to come out publicly & in one light it’s a nice what-if: but there’s an inherent judgement in that “what-if” that just sat a little wrong with me - i felt defensive somehow, for him & his actual life.

is Hollywood better than his last series which started good, got terrible, then ended in an interesting manner but looked like the next season would be an entirely different show? FWIW this is my reaction to almost all of his series.

yeah, ryan murphy is only good for 3-4 episodes ever for me. it's like he gets tired of his 'great idea' halfway through.

i did finish Pose though. but i had to struggle a little to get through it.

Personally - it’s WAY better than American Horror Story, but not as good as Peopje vs OJ Simpson or Gianni Versace. Maybe a step or two behind Pose? imo

the first series of Pose is great; still haven't watched the second one. Is a third coming or did it end?

the second season was ok. i think there is a third coming out at some point.

i think i also don't like the actors he loves to cast again and again.

oh i did like the people vs OJ a lot.

all this murphy talk is reminding me that i never watched the final episode of feud.

that was a good show!

Hollywood was just what I needed atm but I wouldn't make any great claims for it. I guess they are setting up Mira Sorvino's character for s2 but she was so underused it seemed pointless. It was good to watch Patti LuPone. I couldn't quite work out whether Ernie was taking advantage of Ellen, I guess I missed something there.

I thought Sorvino's performance was very touching though.

Holland Taylor, who plays Ellen, is the real-life partner of Sarah Paulson!

Sorvino was great, loved the meeting with her & Lupone& the casting director, made me so teary

I suppose his OJ and Gianni Versace ones are so much better because they are one-and-done ideas. Maybe he should stick to that. He seems to be great across, say, six episodes.

The People Vs OJ Simpson was a Scott Alexander & Larry Karazewski project that Ryan Murphy got signed & directed one episode of, in line with their Ed Wood, The People Vs Larry Flynt, Man On The Moon, Big Eyes and Dolemite Is My Name.

Well, I guess that would explain it.

Never Have I Ever is really good.

i was going to watch that soon, since I liked Half of It a lot.

I'm watching Never... right now and I love it.

Midnight Gospel is my shit

i love the animation and often the dialogue too but the pop philosophy/theology is almost not weird enough? more new age than like gonzo art bell insanity? and if it's going to be straight forward i sorta wish it was more serious philosophy/theology if that makes sense? it's not my sweet spot iow but the animation is more than enough and it is at times actually cool to listen to too but sometimes someone says something that seems pretty trite + vapid to me but interviewer is so effusively "wooooww that's beautiful," and i don't feel it.

i love the animation and often the dialogue too but the pop philosophy/theology is almost not weird enough? more new age than like gonzo art bell insanity? and if it's going to be straight forward i sorta wish it was more serious philosophy/theology if that makes sense?

my thoughts exactly

also episode 3 has that child murderer Damien Echols on it

*ducks*

For those unaware, most of the dialog in Midnight Gospel is directly from the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast. I’ve likely heard every episode of it yet I’m not at all into Midnight Gospel. Animation doesn’t do much for me.

didn't know we had west memphis 3 truthers up in this joint

echoing Mordy and jim's quotes. just in general, i kinda hate podcasts for their lack of intelligent editing, this seems like a ridiculous way to tell any story.

You're wrong but whatever

I'm okay being wrong if that's wrong. I tried three episodes and it barely held my attention.

I need to watch adventure time I guess, love the animation in this.

FWIW, i adore Adventure Time! This doesn't look a lot like it though.

kinda hate podcasts for their lack of intelligent editing

what about the ones with intelligent editing

please to inform me of them

i just thought it was weird that you thought they turned a two hour podcast into a thirty minute cartoon with no editing

totally with ulysses on this. i can never get into podcasts

I can't either and the ones that sound like RadioLab with too many people talking over each other whose voices all sound the same drive me up the motherfucking wall, regardless of whether I find the subject interesting or not.

xp the half hour version desperately needs editing! we're not gonna find common ground here i'm afraid.

the only podcast i can listen to is 99%. most podcasts are unlistenable. xpost otm

please to inform me of them

what topics, people or genres are you interested in listening to podcasts about?

The People Vs OJ Simpson was a Scott Alexander & Larry Karazewski project that Ryan Murphy got signed & directed one episode of, in line with their Ed Wood, The People Vs Larry Flynt, Man On The Moon, Big Eyes and Dolemite Is My Name.

pissily

I said what I said (with love)

I, too, enjoy lists of facts

none taken

(a bunch of people were going "why is this biopic about a crux moment in the life of a problematic creative figure so different from & more satisfying than all of the other work written by bloke x?" and I intended "it was written by some different guys who wrote all these other biopics about a crux moment in the life of a problematic creative figure" to be a for real helpful answer)

when people say they don't like podcasts I'm assuming they mean those w/ all the This American Life/radiolab affectations?

it's a medium! That's like saying "I don't like listening to anything, with my ears" or "I don't like books"

podcasting can be anything...personally I have zero patience for edited/scripted things but do I like a bunch of podcasts that are just people in conversation

yeah i hate people in conversation because most people have bad opinions and they talk too much.

insert gif from Carol of Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara sharing a look as a guy talks and talks

xp but most of *everything* is bad

ha exactly
I do not have time for time-inefficient transfer of information

*spends evening on ILX*

some things attract a certain thing.