Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

I also love Schitts Creek, I should be clear. I just worry that I live it because I came into it with low expectations, and if you come into it with high expectations you will be v disappointed.

And Patrick is the greatest, how dare you.

Yeah, I was skeptical and only kinda begrudgingly half watching when we started Schitt's and by the end I had died laughing umpteen times and shed more than a few tears and it had become one of my favorite shows of the last several years. Both hilarious and emotionally resonant. And yeah, it takes a season or so to get fully in gear, deal with it.

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I take it back re: Patrick. It's too risky to make enemies of both Canada and Ireland.

i should rewatch schitt's soon. It is also one of my favorite shows of recent times. I saw a funko? of goth amish david that was kind of lol.

it's an extremely sweet show, portrays a practically utopian vision of society, and is funny to boot what isn't to like??

one of the things i loved the most about it is how the family share certain quirks, facial expressions + vocal tics - esp love the puppy dog face that alexis + david are both experts in. also anything involving moira but especially when she says "but what about the babee?" such a quotable show too.

I swear to god that this exact same SC conversation happens every six weeks.

It does! I also disagree with the thought that there's not any long-term movement in the show. Each of the characters (except Johnny? who starts and ends solid?) moves from a sitcom cliché to a roundly-realized person over the course of the seasons.

Yeah maybe I was not clear enough that SC is one of my very favorite shows of recent times, too, and I actually loved it right from episode 1! So I think what I'm saying is that if you start watching it and it's not enough for you in whatever way, I don't think it's going to become enough for you in season 3.

The only things keeping me from getting into it (so far, after five or six episodes) is that I find Catherine O'Hara's has-been diva character too familiar and the two kids a little too annoying, and the same goes (at least at this early stage) for Chris Elliott. On top of that, the generally charming down-to-earthness of the town often gives way to a pretty broad, boring, almost smugly obvious kind of comedy that I'd expect in a lesser sitcom. But to be fair, all those things I can easily imagine getting toned down a bit as it gets more assured, so that alone could be a reason to stick with it.

Chris Elliott is and remains the worst part of the show, so don't expect that to change. I like him generally but his character is a pretty consistent misfire.

I find Catherine O'Hara's has-been diva character too familiar

See my take on this is that I also find, I dunno, "Proud Mary" familiar, but it's a hell of a song and if I am in the presence of a really tight band playing it really well I am gonna be into it every single time and there are few comics who can play a song tighter than O'Hara

in later seasons some of O'Hara's line deliveries are surely unprecedented in the history of human speech

OTM. Moira's so earnest and pathetic! I see the whole joke of her character as being a bad actor feigning at being a good and important actor, and the creeping awareness of her own insufficiency. Her affectations are so hollow, they don't fulfill her even slightly –– and the moments in which she drops her pretenses are always rewarding/surprising. (Her last line during the S4 Christmas special!) I love her. Her scenes with Alexis are A+++.

I like Catherine O'Hara's over the top approach- to me that is encouraged when the medium is a quirky charming sitcom with a baseline of what I agree with JiC is sort of an "obvious kind of comedy"... and to my earlier point I think Eugene emphasizes that comedy style in the wrong way unfortunately by being the opposite. Overall I guess I feel like cartoonish big personalities are what make it fun and successful. I'm only somewhat through season 2.

Schitt’s Creek does get better and winds up being one of the best and most heartwarming shows I’ve ever watched. It is so fucking good.

Seriously contemplating buying a T shirt that says we don’t deserve Catherine O’Hara.

Gossip is the devil’s telephone

just wanted to note that Jocelyn and Stevie are also great characters, imo

one of the shows strengths is that it leaves the serious issues largely unexplored, as subtext for the laughs. e.g. David and Stevie's relationship arc, which is a very sweet portrayal of fluid sexuality imo

or maybe I should say that the serious stuff is there as subtext, but it's done so well that it just rolls by

Would highly recommend watching the special that aired after the season finale if you can find it. The cast is all super weepy over the show ending, the impact on fans, etc. It's moving.

I’m only on S2 (long story) and I love Stevie but want her to be.... more than she is? somehow? it feels like she kinda only exists in relation to David.

She does get more of her own thing later iirc.

(I'm still waiting for the last season to hit netflix)

amazing that Catherine is still only the second coolest o'hara

Stevie gets the best redemption

mentioned it in the foreign language thread but gonna rec it here too. 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay' is absolutely stunning to look at, completely gorgeous. the lead actress also wears some amazing fashions and the character she portrays is totally compelling. also the fairy tales her children's book author character comes up with are as dark as classic fairy tales too. loving the director of the hospital as well.

amazing that Catherine is still only the second coolest o'hara

Frank's a good poet but not THAT good

Netflix just added a movie I might like!

Watched a couple of episodes of The Babysitters Club with the kids earlier.

Don't know anything about the source material but was suitably impressed and looks like another good family show to add to the list.

Schitt’s Creek does get better and winds up being one of the best and most heartwarming shows I’ve ever watched. It is so fucking good.

me and the young'un are nearing the end of s4 and absolutely loving it.
it is exactly the perfect way to counteract the chaos in the real world.
so many beautiful moments, and genuine laughs.

There are no limits to the number of threads you can have. A Schitt's Creek thread can be anyone's at the click of a few buttons.

lol pas-agg

totally :) I paused a good while before I submitted.

I have everyone's best interests at heart and feel that a more nuanced conversation could be had on a dedicated thread and it's absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with me being very easily annoyed.

I watched the first ep of the new Unsolved Mysteries thing and it’s actually pretty good?

Not doing hokey re-enactments like the original, more straight true crime doc sorta thing. Which I’m normally allergic to, but that first story was genuinely bizarre.

xpost Well, it probably makes more sense to occasionally discuss the show in this thread (dedicated to the platform which arguably popularized the show) rather than create a whole new thread for a show which is over and done, is the thing.

mods how do you killfile a show

Eurovision movie is stupid, silly & I enjoyed it immensely

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