Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Can't imagine Snowpiercer being any good, given the film was rubbish and didn't have enough plot to last a couple of hours.

it's not just a straight rip of the film though. they're investigating a moider on the train. i watched the first one, it wasn't terrible even though it featured someone saying "you know how hard it is to find love on this train", don't think i can be bothered to carry on with it though.

White Lines is terrible on paper, even down to a L*wrence F*x cameo, but is in practice a total blast.

I've finished the first season of The Kingdom, and the thing I like best about it is the one guy who throws himself everywhere.

Season 2 of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts out a week Friday

I tried one ep of Snowpiercer and couldnt get past the conceit which was bad enough in the film but at least the film had some style and balls, the TV series just made it all feel real clumsy.

Finally starting on Money Heist after grudgingly liking White Lines; Money Heist much better and more fun.

Man that Space Force show is horrible, I don't know why I should have expected otherwise...

greg daniels is not having a good year

I couldn't even make it to the end of the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q6Co-nd0lM

https://hyperallergic.com/570010/netflix-documentaries-explained-history-101

just finished the who killed malcolm x docuseries. good stuff.

Season 2 of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts out a week Friday

After a very ho-hum start and some chronically underwhelming animation, season 2 ends up in a very powerful place.

Eurovision movie is stupid, silly & I enjoyed it immensely

2/10, plenty of fun

I love Eurovision A LOT but I could barely watch that trailer

same

ymmv but i have no regrets

I really liked the first two seasons of The Sinner but this third season is so bad, so very very bad.

Oh rly? that was going on my list but I was already half-arsed about it

I finished She-Ra and the last season is excellent -- which I say as someone who didn't like season 1-4!

yeah I gave up about halfway through s3
such a bummer bc i loved s1 and 2
I gave s3 a lot of leeway bc I love Matthew Bomer & Chris Messina, and I mean I adore Pullman of course OF COURSE who doesnt
but this season just spins its wheels for so many episodes! and i honestly dont care about this story at all. it was like a bad Bret Easton Ellis knockoff

there is going to be a season 4 in 2021 - hopefully that will be better?

(the sinner, i mean)

Super duper late to Schitt's Creek and it's enjoyable but I feel like my biggest issue is that Eugene's character kinda sucks... he doesn't seem to really have any interesting character traits. He's just mostly the straight man in every gag, and otherwise doesn't have a strong defining characteristic; a little bumbling, a bit out of touch, a little shy, kind of polite, sometimes full of himself (but always in that obvious way where it'll blow up in his face)... his only reliable quirk is the not very funny bug-eyed face he makes whenever someone opposite him does something wacky. I just wish he had more of a "thing" like the other characters. Feel like it's an acting weakness not a script one, because he's also the only character who I can imagine looking into the camera and shrugging at any given point, but everyone else is easier to believe no matter how silly they get.

I finished She-Ra and the last season is excellent -- which I say as someone who didn't like season 1-4!

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why would you watch 4 (?!) seasons of a show you don't like...

i'm guessing kids are involved

oh, that old excuse

I stalled around season 2 of Schitt’s Creek. Perfectly amiable, and I like the cast, but nothing about it was really pushing me toward wanting to see more. My sister says that season 3 is a game-changer, though, so maybe I should give it another shot.

Did Netflix pull the assortment of older MST3k’s they used to have on there? I’ve searched, and all I can find now are the two revival seasons.

I needed another cartoon to watch after I caught up on Kipo, and I also wanted to see why my favorite character on She-Ra got a haircut.

Also, 13 half-hour episodes isn't much a commitment.

I know there are so many reasons why it happens, but I haaaaaaaaate when I hear stuff like "season 3 is where it all comes together." Like, episode 3, I can handle that, but season 3? That's a lot to ask of someone if they're not really digging the first two seasons, as 10+ hours of something is a lot of slack to give any show. Anyway, we found the first few episodes of Schitt's Creek ... yeah, perfectly amiable and sometimes funny, but we got distracted and I don't think we finished the first season, and since my wife (who was the one who suggested it) hasn't mentioned it since, I probably won't bring it up. So much content, so little time ... actually, so much time these days, but at the same time, so little time.

i take it you're not a square/enix fan

Seinfeld is Imo the best sitcom ever and doesn't really hit its stride tie season 3.

I doubt schitt's creek gets that much better - I've watched the first 4 or 5 episodes, it's fine, it's much better than any other Canadian tv show that has been made recently, but it's not even as good as US sitcom pabulum like Modern Family

I don't know Square/Enix. Is that a video game company?

The secret (which we've all discussed on various threads) is often just to skip the first season of shows. "Buffy," "Parks & Rec," US "Office" ... a lot of these you can just dive into a season or so late. Even the best (like The Shield or The Americans) often start strong, dip, then spike up again. Just like Covid.

to maximise your time saving, skip all series of most shows imo

Done!

You can jump seasons in Schitt's Creek without really missing anything

Honest question, then how does it get better?

Ummm, character development, writing, tone? You'll definitely miss some character development if you skip seasons, but there's not really a complex narrative arc. Each episode is more or less self-contained.

I don't think you can jump very many seasons in Schitt's Creek without missing information that's important to the series. OK, it's not exactly Dark, but it has a through line.

When I first started watching it, before most of the hype started, I thought it was a bit stupid because it was so unrealistic, even by gentle sitcom standards. But it very much grew on me over time (especially since the episodes are only just over twenty minutes each, so it's not exactly a massive time commitment). To me, it reached its peak with the end of season four. I'd have been happy if it had stopped there.

I don't know Square/Enix. Is that a video game company?

I guess my harsh Eugene criticism was not as controversial as I thought.

I would like to advocate for Schitt’s Creek! Really good imo. Between watching it alone and dipping into the later seasons with my partner, I can confidently say that 1.it is consistently funny and 2. It’s worth watching linearly.

Holy shit, I am not making this up. I was sitting on the couch and my wife comes up, and I forget what we were talking about, but she mentions, completely out of the blue, after months of nothing, that she wants to give Schitt's Creek another shot! I'm not kidding, this just happened a couple of hours ago. I think a co-worker brought it up with her yesterday. What are the odds? Anyway, the odds were so bad that now I feel fated to give it another shot. We've watched a couple more episodes of season 1 and ... yeah, it's kind of sitcom dumb and the characters are annoying, but whatever, I'll stick with it. With enough beer anything is OK. Still, these are sort of my least favorite archetypes, the Norma Desmond like former diva and clueless cartoon city rich kids in the small town, a la Doc Hollywood or whatever, where everyone is like that annoying person (sorry, fans) on The Good Place who is always, oh, I haven't had shrimp like that since George Clooney took me out on his yacht with George Soros! Anyway, let's see where it goes.

re the sinner, i'm spoiling but idc: I just couldn't believe this season was really about a good-looking, happily married, wealthy white guy who goes on a killing spree because wahhhhhh he just doesn't feel his life has any meaning anymore and misses the time when he and his college best friend were really into nietzsche. and the lead cop continually making excuses for him, because they "share a connection". gross and really tone-deaf.   

i still haven't seen schitt's creek, it's not on my country's netflix for some reason.

agree 100% roz

the nietsche stuff got a big rmde

the reaction shots alone make it must-see.

it also does this thing where you both 1) can’t wait to see the main characters get their comeuppance (apart from johnny) & 2) are rooting for them at the same time. it’s not a unique thing to do i guess but they pull it off so deftly.

I think if "amiable" is not enough for you, Schitt's Creek is just not going to be your jam. Its entire selling point is that you are gonna spend twenty amiable minutes at a time in Schitt's Creek and people are gonna be fundamentally good people with quirks and... that's it. For me it's like a balm in awful times.

totally.

Also, Johnny/Eugene Levy is brilliant. If you want a boring straight man to rag on, choose Patrick.

Take that back you monster. Patrick is Canada’s goddamn national sweetheart.