Topic: Thread of totally awesome Netflix Instant recommendations

Dexter
It's one of those shows that people seem reluctant to start. I think it's easy to assume you know what it'll be like before watching it. However, it's brilliant.

Bates Motel
Like Dexter pre conceived ideas can put you off starting, and it takes a couple episodes to find it's groove. It's so good tho!

Power Rangers Dino Charge
If your looking for somewhere to start or return to with Power Rangers this is it. It's perfect right from the first episode.

Riverdale
Everything that's good about high school teen dramas (plus a healthy dose of Twin Peaks) in one self aware show. Another one that's excellent right from the first episode too.

american vandal was surprisingly a lot of fun considering it's a mystery show about someone drawing penises on cars
it's very well written and even well shot sometimes, pretty good mockumentary imo

I've recently started watching the detective serie Brooklyn Nine Nine and it was surprisingly comical. The last episode was about a vandalist drawing penises on police cars. Wait that sounds oddly similar to what @bobhobobstudios described o_O

• Knights of Sidonia (Netflix Original) - Mecha anime set in the far future that sees humanity teetering on the edge of extinction as they battle a mysterious alien lifeform known as the Guana in deep space. It clearly takes a lot of inspiration from 80's & 90's mecha, but with a modern touch, and I found it to be a great watch. Biggest disappointment is that, at this time, it's incomplete. Here's hoping for a season 3 (also wasn't a fan of the direction the romantic sub-plot was taking, but that'll vary from person to person).
• Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light (Netflix Original) - Drama based on a true story that sees a son trying to reconnect with his estranged father by getting him to play FFXIV (they had played the Famicom games together when he was a child). It wasn't the best thing I've watched this year, but it was different enough to be amusing & worth a look.

• KuroMukuro (Netflix Original) - the latest mecha anime I've watched on Netflix, and it's the best one yet. Turns out that all the myths of Ogres during the Sengoku Jidai were true, but they were really alien invaders! Now in modern day, Earth's only hope of winning a second invasion rests on the shoulders of a samurai who survived in suspended animation inside a mech from the previous invasion. I really loved the show's style, and I really enjoyed the romantic subplot as well.
• Fuller House season 3 (Netflix Original) - Pretty much more nostalgia bait for fans of the original series, but I'm more than okay with that, lol. In an interesting development, it looks like part of the next season, hopefully all of it, will take place in Japan.

Currently watching Stranger Things season 2 (Netflix Original).

Wow! it's been quite awhile since I last posted in here.

I've since finished season 2 of Stranger Things (Netflix Original) twice actually, as the rest of the family finally decided to get into the series sometime after I finished watching it myself, and it was pretty fantastic as expected.

Also watched Blazing Transfer Students: Reborn (Netflix Original). Pretty zany live action sequel to a manga (you heard that right). Pretty much, a group of high school students are trained in battle to infiltrate other high schools (as "blazing transfer students") and right what's going wrong in them. It's really zany, crazy, and Japanese in all the best ways.

Also just finished up Marvel's the Punisher (Netflix Original). Pretty good show, though like the rest of Marvel's offerings on the service, it's not one of my favorite Netflix originals. Still a good watch though, and very violent, oh so violent.

@RR529 Also watched Blazing Transfer Students: Reborn (Netflix Original). Pretty zany live action sequel to a manga (you heard that right).

I have this on my queue. Now I have to watch it.

Granted, I've never read the manga that it's based on, but I believe the school principal (you'll get a kick out of him when you see him, I think) was supposed to be the protagonist of the original manga.

Good Morning Call season 2 (Netflix Original) - Loved the first season of this when it came out (one of my favorite shows of 2016), so I was stoked to see a season 2 pop up. It wasn't quite as enjoyable this season (though that may be because the novelty has worn off, as I've since watched other series in the same genre), but I still very much enjoyed it, and even teared up during the finale.

Fuller House season 3, part 2 (Netflix Original) - The Tanner-Fullers went to Japan! Granted, it was for only one episode, but it was great. Overall the show continues to be good fun if you're up for it's flavor of nostalgia tinged cheesiness.

A.I.C.O. Incarnation (Netflix original) - Sci-Fi anime set in a near future where a mysterious sentient bio-organic sludge (known as "Matter") threatens to overrun Japan, and then the world. Of course, being an anime, the key to the problem turns out to be a seemingly ordinary high school girl, and now an elite team of divers (people who venture into the contaminated zone to retrieve items/data) is tasked with escorting her to ground zero (a trek never before accomplished). It was a pretty decent watch, but nothing that really stood out. If you like sci-fi though it may be worth a look.

Altered Carbon (Netflix original) - Set in a future where death is a lot less permanent (our conciousness is backed up on a drive called a "Stack", and can be "Re-Sleeved" into another body... for a price), "terrorist" Takeshi Kovacks is re-sleeved into a new body after a 250 year sentance thanks to a wealthy eccentric who wants Takeshi to use his skills to solve his own murder. It's a pretty dark series, but really worth a watch. The special effects look really good for TV, and it invokes the aestetic of Blade Runner, the story has many twists, and I really liked the character of Poe.

If you like documentaries (I'm a huge nerd for them lol)

Rotten (about US/world food industries)
Wild Wild Country (about yogi cult/movement in the US in 1980's)
Making a Murderer (about a murder case in Wisconsin conviction)
Cooked (food documentary by famous food history/trend author Mike Pollan)
BBC Nature series, all great there are a few but the best IMHO would be Planet Earth II
Icarus (Russian doping in Olympics)
Hot Girls Wanted I and II (current porn industries trends)
Ken Burn's series, but the newest one and one of the best is the Vietnam (Vietnam War with interviews etc.)
Blackfish (about the marine mammal park ie SeaWorld industry)

I took a bit of a hiatus from Netflix, but I'm back!

GLOW season 2 (Netflix Original) - I quite enjoyed the first season, and season 2 was no different. If you like 80's and/or wrestling, check this series out.

@ReaderRagfish Watched an episode, being Bill Nye fan as a kid in the 90's...not really a fan of this series. It seems more political than actual science to me. And that late 80's and 90's "Nickelodeon" feel to him is gone. Maybe I've just matured or his shtick is just cornier now. Maybe I didn't give it enough chance being turned off by the first episode but I didn't like it at all.

I did enjoy NDG-T's Cosmos, I wish he'd do more shows on NF.

@Lloiddd, I did hear recently that they're going to be doing a new season of Cosmos soon, so that should be good as I enjoyed the last one (of course, Netflix probably won't get it until at least a year after Fox/Nat-Geo are done airing it).

@ReaderRagfish Yeah there's one that came out last year...IDK if it's that bad (this is just my opinion) but it's definitely underwhelming compared to the old Bill Nye. I think the biggest problem is it's more political + a lot of his fans are in their 30's now and maybe his act has finally...really isn't what it was.

@RR529 that's awesome. I don't have cable anymore but use to consume anything with Kaku and NDGT on Discovery, Nat Geo.

This one I'm excited for...like a fantasy version of Futurama. lol

I’ll add Life After Beth to this list. Watched it the other day and it cracked me up.

The Crown season 2 (Netflix Original) - Not quite as good as season 1 IMO (I really enjoyed John Lithgow as Winston Churchill), but it's still an immaculately produced & interesting series.

Troy: Fall of a City (Netflix Original) - Sword & sandal miniseries that chronicles the fall of Troy with some light fantasy elements sprinkled in. It's not must watch, but if you like sword & sandal stuff it's worth a look.

On a side note, I just got a new smart TV for my own personal use, and provided it holds up (it's a budget set), I should be able to watch Netflix & the like more often (maybe even enough to follow 2 shows at once!). It's worked pretty great so far.

@RR529

Will check it out been looking for something new. I’ve just finished Bates Motel which was excellent - can’t recommend enough.

Dragon Pilot: Hisone & Masotan (Netflix Original) - Anime in which Japan has long since held the secret that they have dragons backing up their military (disguised as kites in feudal times, and fighter jets in modern days), with human pilots (rather than riding on their dragons, the dragons swallow them and they "pilot" them from the inside). It's actually more of a feel good cutesy show, but was enjoyable enough for what it is.

ReBoot: the Guardian Code season 2 (Netflix Original) - Second season of their terribad ReBoot reboot. As a fan of the original I just kept watching to see if it would get any better. It didn't, but I'm a glutton for punishment, lol.

the Outsider (Netflix Original Film) - Film set in Osaka in the late 1950's in which an expat is accepted into the world of the Yakuza after saving one of their own in prison. I liked this one quite a bit and say it'd be a good one to add to your list if you like 20th century period pieces and/or Japanese themed film.

Lost in Space (Netflix Original) - Never really watched the original, but I got pretty hooked on this. A tad slow in spots maybe, but if you have any interest in sci-fi be sure to add this to your list.