Hidden Gems of Netflix's Watch Instantly

Not sure if it's a hidden gem, but Girls 5 Eva feels like 30 Rock but with a failed girlband trying to make a comeback in their 40s

This is a song about about one of the singers' concerns that her son, an only child, is going to grow up as a weirdo unless she has another baby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6na...

I watched Winter on Fire, which is a documentary about the Maidan revolution in Ukraine. It's very good and very intense, but also graphic. Brought me to tears several times. Worth a look.

Then I binged the first season of Alice in Borderland and started the 2nd. It's pretty great, and very pretty. It's a little like The Cube meets The World Ends With You.

I watched You People. It was allright. Had some chuckles. The resolution was a bit too quick and neat. A big “meh”.

fangblackbone wrote:

Good to hear. If Cornish is the reason its good then I do hope he stays on for sure.
My wife told me that the kid that plays Lockwood, while having theatre experience, this is his first on camera role. Damn those Brits! I need to go study over there. They are the masters of stillness without stiffness. (Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman are par exemplar of this)

edit: it seems Cornish is directing a Snow Crash series...

Just getting around to watching it... he reminds me a lot of a young John Barrowman from Torchwood.

Aggretsuko Season 5 is coming out on Thursday and it's going to be the final season... It's never been as good as the first season but I'm still enjoying it. If an anthropomorphic red panda who sings death metal in a karaoke room to vent about how boring and oppressing her accounting job is sounds like something you would enjoy, check it out.

I’m having fun with Physical 100

Finished Aggretsuko season 5, and I really, really liked it. The whole series has done some incredibly good social commentary, and this season is no different.

Coming in April. Covid I believe hurt the last season quite a bit. Hopefully this Movie is more like the first few seasons of the show.

Medmey wrote:

Coming in April. Covid I believe hurt the last season quite a bit. Hopefully this Movie is more like the first few seasons of the show.

Was it covid that gave them the new writer? Because she was the worst thing...

I watched the new Luther movie because the tv show was fantastic. I think whoever write this reaaaaally wants to make him the next James Bond because it was as implausible and dumb as those movies.

Don’t get me wrong. I will watch Idris Elba drink tea for two hours, just don't go in and expect a well written crime drama. Its James Bond v2.0.

Fredrik_S wrote:

I watched the new Luther movie because the tv show was fantastic. I think whoever write this reaaaaally wants to make him the next James Bond because it was as implausible and dumb as those movies.

Don’t get me wrong. I will watch Idris Elba drink tea for two hours, just don't go in and expect a well written crime drama. Its James Bond v2.0.

Totally. Serkis is a total cardboard cutout in that role and the secondary characters are completely unsympathetic. The mental leaps they seem to effortlessly clear to blame Luther for everything makes me think very unkind things about them.

Same reaction around here. A real let down.

Looks like this may be a fun season.

Shadow and Bone Season 2 (after 3 episodes):

The casting is great as before.

It feels a bit rushed to me - it's just zooming through all the plot and character arcs - to the point where I wonder if they don't think they're getting any more seasons. Script seems a little weaker than season 1, or maybe they had to rush a bit more and so it feels a bit more clunky. I'm enjoying the Crows plot more than the other plot, but they're my favourite characters and books, so that's not very surprising.

DudleySmith wrote:

Shadow and Bone Season 2 (after 3 episodes):

The casting is great as before.

It feels a bit rushed to me - it's just zooming through all the plot and character arcs - to the point where I wonder if they don't think they're getting any more seasons. Script seems a little weaker than season 1, or maybe they had to rush a bit more and so it feels a bit more clunky. I'm enjoying the Crows plot more than the other plot, but they're my favourite characters and books, so that's not very surprising.

I think they said a while back there would only be one more season.

I think the similarity in titles had me thinking it would be a bit more like Locke & Key, which I thought was mostly slow, uninteresting, and hard to relate to. I was pleasantly surprised at how much better written and portrayed the characters and their motivations were. I am very much looking forward to season 2.

Oats Studios feels like a mix of Black Mirror and Love, Death & Robots. But while the two tend to tell full stories, Oats Studios episodes feel more like glimpses or teases. I liked it, but don't watch it thinking you'll get a conclusion to any of the stories.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Oats Studios feels like a mix of Black Mirror and Love, Death & Robots. But while the two tend to tell full stories, Oats Studios episodes feel more like glimpses or teases. I liked it, but don't watch it thinking you'll get a conclusion to any of the stories.

Oats Studio is just Neill Blomkamp f*cking around with story ideas and special effects. It's essentially an experimental version of sci-fi anthology shows like The Outer Limits/Twilight Zone/Etc.

OG_slinger wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

Oats Studios feels like a mix of Black Mirror and Love, Death & Robots. But while the two tend to tell full stories, Oats Studios episodes feel more like glimpses or teases. I liked it, but don't watch it thinking you'll get a conclusion to any of the stories.

Oats Studio is just Neill Blomkamp f*cking around with story ideas and special effects. It's essentially an experimental version of sci-fi anthology shows like The Outer Limits/Twilight Zone/Etc.

This...

I guess Netflix isn't including the announcement video that explains this.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Oats Studios feels like a mix of Black Mirror and Love, Death & Robots. But while the two tend to tell full stories, Oats Studios episodes feel more like glimpses or teases. I liked it, but don't watch it thinking you'll get a conclusion to any of the stories.

There were some semi-interesting ideas in that series, and some spectacular special effects too , but it really was just a series of half formed ideas rather than anything narratively coherent

so apparently Netflix is making a Scott Pilgrim anime and the entire cast of the movie is returning for it:

Yessss

It looks like a film about street cats in Istanbul is coming to Netflix in April (at least it is in the UK.) It’s original title was Kedi but it seems to have been renamed Stray. It’s a charming film. Well worth watching.

Stele wrote:

Yessss

After I saw the Netflix announcement today I started rereading Scott Pilgrim for the first time since it was published and I’m even more hyped now, as good as the movie is I had forgotten how much better and more nuanced (and weirder) the comics are. I hope the anime series can do it justice.

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EXTRACTION 2 | Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix

I thought he died in the first one.

The Thing was added to netflix. One of my top ten horror movies. The practical effects stand up to the best effects coming out today. Not the newer remake, that is hot garbage. I'm talking about the 1982 John Carpenter movie about a shape changing alien just trying to find his way home or kill a bunch of people. Kind of hard to tell because I don't speak alien and lets face it humans are a holes.

I actually didn't despise the prequel. Only watched it once when it came out though. Have to give it a rewatch to see if my opinion holds.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

The Thing was added to netflix. One of my top ten horror movies. The practical effects stand up to the best effects coming out today. Not the newer remake, that is hot garbage. I'm talking about the 1982 John Carpenter movie about a shape changing alien just trying to find his way home or kill a bunch of people. Kind of hard to tell because I don't speak alien and lets face it humans are a holes.

If you want to get the story from the alien's point of view, read "The Things" by Peter Watts.

slazev wrote:

I actually didn't despise the prequel. Only watched it once when it came out though. Have to give it a rewatch to see if my opinion holds.

I watched it for the first time a few days ago. Once it got going it was good, but I did have some issues with the setup.

Spoiler:

Mainly that they seemed to largely ignore that they had discovered an intact alien spaceship in favor of focusing on the frozen lifeform. I'd have at least expected that there'd be a second team studying the spaceship while we followed the group extracting the creature from the ice, but i guess they didn't want to have that many characters around since they'd all need to die by the end.

It probably helped that I haven't rewatched the original in a few years, so I was largely judging it on its own merits and not comparing it to the original.