Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

it's frustrating sometimes w/ podcasts bc on ilx if someone says something really stupid you can yell at them

If podcasts "can be anything", then how come 99% of them start with like half an hour of two identical-sounding hosts laughing uncontrollably at each other's witless banter

some things attract a certain thing.

xp because you are listening to that kind of podcast?

I don't have time for that either

why are 99% of novels about nurses who can't find a man to romance and appreciate them? I am DONE with books!!!

sorry guys, i've run the numbers

i feel like my hatred of and disinterest in podcasts is v similar to my hatred of and disinterest in modern literature, and i have no interest in this position being interrogated

especially in the netflix thread

The only podcasts I’ve managed to listen to are true crime/murder/journalism podcasts, everything else has been uniformly terrible.

I think I could get into podcasts if I drove, that would seem like the perfect environment to listen to one. I can't really do it at home.

every minute listening to a podcast is time i could be listening to music instead

otm

i've tried listening to podcasts at home and as far as i can tell it can't be done

I've learned that I can listen to pods at home while washing dishes, cooking, and showering. No other time, especially not while working.

The descriptions I hear of favorite podcasts from family and friends make them sound like Paul Harvey segments stretched out to nauseating length. voodoo chili otm.

time spent listening to anything but music is time that could be spent listening to music; good point!

some podcasts *are* music

Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour—that's a podcast.

I wonder if people used to talk this way abt "radio"

i mean... if you're broadcasting a radio show and it's all music, that's a playlist?
anyways, i'm okay

digging this wolfman jack podcast