Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

We just watched "The White Tiger," which I thought was going to be a certain type of movie, but ultimately turned out to be pretty dark stuff!

Felt like it was part of the same anti-capitalist cinematic universe as Snowpiercer and Parasite.

I really liked it.

Yeah, I got some serious Parasite vibes from it. And, um, GoodFellas.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/entertainment/chappelle-show-dave-chappelle-netflix/index.html

lmao at the Dave quotes in this

like, yes I'm glad he was able to finally get paid but also did you ever consider how "I called the head of Netflix and told them they made me feel bad, so they took my show off of the programming" would land with people who don't worship you

(obv for varying values of "finally get paid", to be clear)

does he say anything about feeling bad about people catching COVID at his "fuck masks" superspreader shows

uh what are you talking about

i don't think he went to far as to say "fuck masks" but
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dave-chappelle-sounds-off-on-capitol-rioters-covid-cowards-in-video-on-chappelles-show-netflix-return

gonna be generous and say this is just him being old and cranky (all his current material has this... weirdness.)
and hopefully not slowly turning into Charles Barkley

a "hero", lol

I read that and I knew he had been holding shows with social distancing; I was looking for sic's source for a "fuck masks" stance.

About him holding indoor residencies at venues that do not require masks, participants posting photos of unmasked hugs with each other and audience randos captioned "WE ALL GOT RAPID TESTED SO SHUTUP!!"*, at one of which "Someone in Dave's circle... got Dave sick... Radio Rahim got sick, the photographer's son got sick, I don't know if the photographer got sick. A lot of guys got sick. Louis CK—" Chappelle's partner in the residencies not quarantining after this transmission, and continuing to do live shows six days/the next weekend after Dave was diagnosed.

And about Dave probably, even before the Netflix deal, having enough money to be able to sit at home for ten months and not endanger employees, venue staff, peers, freelance photographers and their children, or audiences, let alone actively promoting maskless embraces with strangers.

*

“They are approved for use when someone has COVID-19 symptoms, so using them to screen asymptomatic people who want to gather at a club is not necessarily going to prevent an infected person from slipping through,” an epidemiologist and bioethicist at Virginia Tech said. Antigen tests like the ones Rogan and Chappelle provide at their Stubb’s residency require a relatively large amount of virus to turn up positive; people with lower amounts of viral particles—perhaps because they’re early in their infection—may receive a false negative even though they’re perfectly capable of spreading the virus.

Frequent rapid testing is an effective means of identifying cases within a community (or workplace), but it doesn’t change the fact that any single negative result may be inaccurate, and it’s no excuse to disregard basic safety protocols. When I asked Lee if there’s any conceivable reason someone shouldn’t quarantine after exposure to Covid-19, she demurred. “Contacts to persons who test positive for COVID-19 infection should enter quarantine immediately and remain separated for at least 10 days, or until day 7 if you have a negative test then,” she said. Again, six days elapsed between the Stubb’s show and the Antone’s show.

xp yes, not an exact quote, but a clear ethos

I would like to believe you are smart enough to recognize that there is a difference between "we thought we were being careful" and "we don't need to be careful" but precedent shows that whenever you've decided you don't like someone, you zero in on the least-charitable characterization of their actions possible and then present them as if they baldly stated that, so I'm going to let this go

His outdoor shows in Ohio seemed to show evidence of being careful, and I thought it was good of him to try and find a way for people to have collective entertainment in trying times.

Relocating to another state, in winter, in order to hold maskless indoor shows, and encouraging staff and audiences - from his position of influence and authority - to believe that rapid antigen tests provided any level of safety, I believed was reckless and massively irresponsible. Chappelle's entourage and a freelancer's child subsequently catching COVID due to this may or may not back this personal opinion up.

(I started to be more cautious in my positivity when people were posting backstage photos from the Ohio shows, featuring wealthy comedians who had travelled across the US to meet up, perform, and then travel again afterward. I think this activity was dangerous, but it's not because I'd earlier "decided I don't like" Sarah Silverman or Michelle Wolf. Have comfortably settled on deciding I don't like Louis CK, though.)

is anyone else watching "Money Heist" a.k.a "La Casa De Papel"? Completely over the top, ludicrous, and thoroughly enjoyable "heist gang" madness, I recommend watching in the original Spanish with subtitles.

yes.
its the most fun, switch off brain tv show ever.
i cannot wait for the next season.
and as always, switch off dubbing, and watch with subtitles.

Money Heist is great until it weirdly has to be the same tv show over and over again. It’s the Spanish Prison Break

I put it top of my ballot in last year's tv poll but was the sole voter. great cast, inventive plotting, morally ambiguous, thoroughly ridiculous. warning though, things do not wrap up at the end of season 4.

I stopped midway through season 3 as it did seem to just be repeating itself. Might go back at some point though

ooh that sounds amazing ty for the rec

Bonding is really good, and at 11-15 minutes an episode, perfect for my current attention span.

Chappelle should not have traveled to another state to do those shows; no comedians should be doing that. He in particular doesn't need the money so why he did it is beyond me. Irresponsible.

Excellent landscape cinematography porn in Magical Andes

Maybe we need a general thread for crafty competition shows (bake-off, sewing bee, throwdown, blown away...) but The Big Flower Fight is pretty entertaining, some v impressive creations and um colourful characters on show.

That's a good idea.

Anyone else watching Snowpiercer S2? It's not worse than S1, maybe even better!

I've been enjoying Snowpiercer but maybe because my expectations were super low going into it after talk here and elsewhere. Binged season one a couple of months ago and have been watching this one as they're released.

Quite enjoyed the first season but not enough that I've felt compelled to pick this one up. I suppose I probably should.

Thought "Operation Varsity Blues" was mostly good and informative, a hybrid of footage 'n' talking head documentary and reenactment. As I was watching it I thought the music sounded pretty familiar. I guessed Nine Inch Nails, and indeed, it was by Atticus Ross, who it turns out can capably crank out his own evocative NIN-esque film scores even without Reznor's involvement.

I'm a few years late but I've been enjoying S1 of Halt and Catch Fire

xpost matthew modine was pretty great in the reenactment bits.

speaking of documentaries with "operation" in the title... it's going off netflix end of this month but anyone interested in wild crime capers should watch "Operation Odessa", about a hare-brained/genius scheme to sell a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel in the early 90s.

didn't know anything abt it going in but it was incredibly entertaining. All three main characters in this (a Russian mobster, a Cuban drug trafficker, and a Miami car dealer) were hilarious, engaging and likeable, and you have to keep reminding yourself that these are objectively bad dudes who you wouldn't necessarily want to encounter in real life.

also, Vanilla Ice makes an important, off-screen cameo.

Audrey Hepburn doc is wonderful.

oh I hated that. we rented it off amazon a few days before it showed up for free on netflix and I kicked myself. almost no focus on her movies per se, and that would be alright, but the run time is unforgivably padded out with those ballet re-enactments.

Wow, "Operation Odessa" was totally bonkers.

I haven't been on the site in a minute, but logged in today and saw I Am Not Okay With This as a featured attraction and got pissed off all over again about that cancellation.

Huh, I hadn't read this before. An interview with the creator at length about why Netflix dropped it.

https://www.insider.com/i-am-not-okay-with-this-jonathan-entwistle-cancellation-netflix-2020-10

"I think that one of the problems we faced with 'I Am Not Okay With This' is that in many ways I considered it to be a smaller, niche show and they considered it to be a replacement for 'Stranger Things,'" Entwistle said.

Thanks for that! Good read that answered some lingering questions I had.

My girlfriend is watching Ginny & Georgia and I think it is genuinely the worst tv show I’ve ever seen.

City of Ghosts is labelled a kids show but worth watching even if you're not a kid - like if Toca Boca made a show with the High Maintenance crew about occluded LA histories: cute and moving and even profound?

I watched I Am Not Okay With This, a show with a lot of potential which failed straight off the bat. Underpowered, underwritten, underdeveloped - there's so much in it that could have been good but they didn't achieve a fraction of what it could have been and it doesn't make much sense. I wouldn't have renewed it either, tbh, sorry.

boooo

Yeah, boooo

I guess I'm a bit late on this one, but Stranger Things is kind of good.

Sophia Lillis is good in Not Okay. That film on Prime that she's in, Uncle Frank, is really great if you don't mind sentimental things, which I don't. I think she's going to be a big star.

Take it from me, The oracle of what is good :D

Uncle Frank is in my saved list specifically because of her, but still haven't seen it yet.

My girlfriend is watching Ginny & Georgia and I think it is genuinely the worst tv show I’ve ever seen.

i haven't seen it but tempted to agree solely based on this clip going round a few weeks ago

I’m done with netflix pic.twitter.com/UxdknaPbw9

— s. (@lisasrina) February 25, 2021

they seem nice

How did Babysitters Club do in forks' tv poll? Because it is the first series I've watched in a LONG time that doesn't feel like work or obligation, with a palpable amount of love and generosity to everything you see onscreen.