Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

:D

The “Monty Python Almost the Truth” doc is really good. May have been up there for years but my first time seeing it. Just make it past the horrific intro.

Okay I'm only going to say it once but...Warrior Nun. If anyone wants to talk about it, come sit over here by me because I AM HERE FOR THIS CHEESY SHOW.

sorry, i noped out of the trailer

I mean if the sentence "secret sect of warrior sisters loyal to each other unto death training to kill demons and save humanity" does nothing for you I can't help you with that.

I'm trying to wrap my head around how everyone's favorite show is not that good. Guess I'll have to try it

only 11 of the 12 seasons of Big Bang Theory are on there, if you want to hold off

As the guy on here who steadfastly stans for cheesy supernatural warfare shows on Netflix (cf my Hemlock Grove thread) I am 100% satisfied by The Order (warlocks and werewolves on campus) and recommend it to one and all

Actually, definitely not one and all, just one and all who like this kind of thing

there is a show streaming somehwere (hulu?) that is post-apocalyptic YA but they are dancers and they discover hip-hop in the archives and I guarantee, without watching it beyond the trailer, or any of these other probably terrible shows like the Order and Warrior Nun, that this show is worse than them.

the order is so much weirder than it has to be, lots of unusual and kinda compelling performances too.

we've been doing one episode of the order a night, followed with an episode of (netflix streamable) bravo con artist dramedy impostors, which is very competent and generally well cast. great uma thurman role.

The first episode of the Middleditch and Schwartz show was pretty funny, if you like improv.

the order is so much weirder than it has to be

YES -- this is exactly the quality I look for in these shows (Hemlock Grove too!)

I'm about halfway through the first season of the Order. It's very watchable and better than I thought it'd be but not something I'd recommend as a must watch (so far anyway)

the order isn't like "good" in a vulture thinkpiece way which is where the charm comes from imo. it's just fuckin stupid which is all i want in a tv show.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/fucking-stupid-is-all-you-want-in-this-tv-show.html

I'm 3 episodes into WARRIOR NUN and I wish it had more action, but nothing about it has been a dealbreaker (though some of the stuff about the Crusades is problematic).

did they change the name because Netflix execs thought it sounded like areola and were afraid the whole show would get me too'd

I was unaware it was based on a manga called Warrior Nun Areala, but I feel like names in the title is more of a manga thing?

it's an American comic fwiw (by a Taiwan-born manga fan), but I'm pretty sure that I've seen other American comics with names in the title. can't be sure though

The construction of putting a description before the name (“Battle Angel Alita” versus “Alita: Battle Angel” is what I was thinking of

Son Of Thunder, Arak

Floor is Lava is just the kind of dumb game show brain requires. I’m already awaiting the oral history of how that show got made 5 years from now.

Old Guard - not bad, some of the fights were a little over-choreographed

Wish this was the ‘90s and it was a syndicated show about the characters through history, though. Immortal Xena

the comic has more of the through-history stuff aiui