9.99 for the SD version on ITunes.

Watched first couple of episodes of Lilyhammer last night. Pretty funny stuff.

I two have just watched the first couple of episodes and enjoyed it. Gives me some hope for AD.

Watched the first episode of "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret." It's an IFC show, and if the rest hold up as good as the first one does, it will be fantastic.

Really enjoyed the 1st season of Sons of Anarchy, much to my surprise. One of those shows that's been on my radar for a long time and I just basically ran out of other shit to watch. Glad I finally came around.

I wished I hadn't, those poor people.

Being Elmo, a documentary on the puppeteer who does Elmo finally hit Instant. Highly recommended.

Watched the first season of this tonight, absolutely great. David Cross plays Todd Margaret, who through a series of misunderstandings and lies gets hired to go to London to sell energy drinks by the abusive owner of his company who is played by Will Arnet.

Netflix maybe coming to cable.

Netflix, Cable Partnership Could Make Streaming Service Into On-Demand Option

Watched "Please Vote for Me". A 60ish minute documentary about how 3rd or 4th graders (forget which) are allowed to vote for class monitor for the first time. The campaign ends up like many of our campaigns and it's really fascinating. Definitely recommend.

+1

This is one that has been on the back burner for me too. I need to watch it.

Another one that sat in my queue for a long time was Breaking Bad. Just watched the first three seasons and wow, that show is great.

I saw Lincoln Lawyer is on Instant now.

I have been watching ken burns baseball...it is too relaxing tho. Right to sleep on most nights.

Yea, it's not something I'd watch as I'm going to bed. It's an amazing series, and I've kind of made it tradition to watch it the week before Opening Day. But it will knock you out pretty quick. It's kind of like a book.

Season 2 of Archer is now on Instant.

Chasing Ghosts - about the Twin Galaxy arcade in the 80's - not quite as good as King of Kong, but interesting. Also season 6 of Doctor Who is up.

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

One of the rare times I didn't like something, and I stuck with it just to give it a chance. The last two episodes for season one helped solidify things though.

Rango has apparently been added to their streaming lineup, according to a tweet I saw earlier today. Might watch it at some point.

/tk

Human Centipede 2 now up.

LOL

I enjoyed Chasing Ghosts as a nice companion to King of Kong.

I listened to a review/recap by JD on the Howard Stern show and that was quite enough. It was an entertaining listen, a good way to get a sense of the insanity that is Human Centipede 2 without actually having to watch it - I believe it's on youtube if anyone's interested.

I see the cartoon version of Planet Hulk is on Instant. Just skimming through the TPB was glorious enough. I have to watch this.

That is next up for me. Just finished "Walking Dead" Season 1, then went and found season 2 elsewhere to get caught up on that show.

I mixed up Planet Hulk with World Wide Hulk. Still fun to watch, but I had already seen it.

Hey I was wondering if someone could help me. I have a ROKU2 XS steaming to my Samsung tv. The picture quality is HD and sound is good. But when there's a lot of movement it looks like it blurs. Kinda like it can't keep up.
My speed test is 54 mbit/sec and upload is 9.

I don't get it.:confused:
Oh btw it's a wired connection.

how old is the TV? what's the model # of the set?

It's 4 years old and it's a Samsung LN52A650 model.

I'd assume you have the motion plus 120hz setting on...perhaps adjust that setting. That's a really nice model. It may just be the signal quality for certain models.

Yeah I've messed with the motion setting. Watching cable there is no problem at all. I'm guessing it's something to do with this certain tv. Pisses me off. Or maybe it is the signal. But dammit my bandwidth is fine.
Thanks for the reply. :)

Just watched Breathing Room last night. Its one of those movies like Cube, Exam, Nine Dead, etc. where a bunch of people wake up & have no idea where they are or why they are there.

This was definitely the weakest movie of that ilk. I don't recommend it unless you (a) love those types of movies & don't mind B- acting...and (b) enjoy being annoyed by gaping wide plot holes.

When I watched AppleTv streaming content on my sister's fancy LCD TV with 240hz, I couldn't take it. It looked like everything was filmed with a handheld. The picture was just unnatural it the extreme. I have no issues on my plasma. My guess was that it was all of the special processing to create the frames for the additional hz. While it looks like you've already addressed that are there any other settings you have activated like a sports/game mode or "smoothing" that might supplement the motion setting.

having never touched the roku...im betting it hs to do with compression data frag skipping..or possibly if its a very busy segment im not sure of the upconvert ability of the box.

Waiting for Superman is well worth the watch. Certainly brings a lot of food for thought to the table.

I am sure that this isn't a secret but Monk is on Netflix instant and is definitely a fun show. My wife and I watched the whole series (7 seasons or so) over a 3 month period a few years back. We left wanting more.

A ton of TED Talks on Netflix Streaming = Awesome

"Drive" is on netflix. I enjoyed it though I thought Gosling's character wasn't cool like Steve McQueen, more like detached and robotic. While I assume that he becoming friendly with the single mom and child allowed him to become more human, I just wasn't buying it.

Still for a noir film, it was beautifully shot, and while the outcome was rather linear(by linear I mean straightforward in its story), it was still enjoyable to me. I did enjoy Albert Brooks as the bad guy (shoulda been nominated) though and man is Ron Perlman an UGLY mofo.



Edit: fixed a grammar issue and explained linear a little better.

Drive is really divisive around here. Thanks for the heads up though, I was really wanting to see it again.

Drive is pretty divisive everywhere. People seem to either love it and think it's genius or hate it. It's just one of those films.

For whatever reason, I am in neither camp. I liked it well enough and enjoyed it, but didn't necessarily love it.

I saw mention of "Drive" being up on Netflix and went to check it out. It was a movie that I was really interested in when it first came out, to where I was about to go see it myself on a random day, but something came up last minute.

I was amazed that I couldn't get through it, and I ended up shutting it off about halfway through. Outside of the opening scene, I was ridiculously bored. I think the love interest storyline with the neighbor got introduced way too quickly and that threw it off for me. And I personally like Gosling as an actor, so it's not some sort of vendetta in my case.

Legend of the Seeker. I wasn't especially familiar with the books, but the series was good enough to make me check it out. I've skipped around the first season, but on the whole, I've been enjoying the characters a lot.

It's only got 2 days left, and I saw it here because of previous recommendations, but Ip Man was fantastic. Some of the best martial arts action sequences in any movie I've seen.

Enjoying Louie right now. FX really brings it.

Someone mentioned Peepshow and I'll second it. Very funny show!

I know a few folks have already mentioned it, but Tucker and Dale vs Evil was pretty excellent. :)

I went based off of the recommendation of that show in this thread and after being done with season two I do find it pretty funny.

30 for 30 has been added to streaming.

Even if you're not a sportsfan I cannot highly enough recommend Two Escobars. A fantastic fantastic look into Columbia during the height of the Cartel's power.

Other 30 for 30 favorites of mine:
Best That Never Was
Winning Time

This is FANTASTIC news.

30 for 30 showed me how much the talent of a documentary maker matters. I always thought that the subject matter had more to do with it. I was wrong.

You recommend Winning Time. And you are right. That is a GREAT documentary. And the subject seemed so stupid: those few years when Reggie Miller and the Pacers met the Knicks in the Eastern Conference playoffs--with neither team winning a title. I mean, who cares, right? But, wow. Just watch it. It is a ton of fun.

On the flip side, the 30 for 30 to which I was most looking forward was the one on the birth of Fantasy Baseball. I mean, how could that not be an amazing documentary? Well, watch it. It wasn't.

Cool that they are on Netflix now so I can see some that fell through the cracks.

The 30 for 30s rock. Happy to see them. My recommendation is Run Ricky Run which is. A piece on Ricky Williams and mostly centers on his stepping away from the game.

Because I'm too lazy to look, does it have any of the "ESPN Film's presents...". I caught most of the original 30 for 30 films but missed most of the latter releases.

Best friggen news of the day.

Awesome, thanks for posting this. I've only seen one or two of these and am very happy to see it come to netflix. Never occurred to me that this is something they would get access too.

I'm a Cubs fan and somehow missed the Bartman one. Can't wait to finally see it.

That was one of the first one's I watched (after Fernandomania), it was really sad.

Season 1 of Wilfred

Brilliant!

Bill Burr's "You People are all the Same" is only on Netflix and is really funny.

Damn, I just watched Senna, have to agree, one of the better docs around. Very emotional and intense.

Have to say watching Jim Hensons The Storyteller series really impressed me - too bad there is only one season but it's really incredible both the quality of the stories and how they are portrayed with the limited 80s special effects. There's also a few episodes of the follow-up, based on Greek myths.

I loved these as well...for their time period, they are really well done.

Apparently Dinosaurs (Not the mama!!) is now streaming on Netflix.

I watched Bellflower this weekend... give it an 8 out of 10.

This is one of those standard 2-guys-preparing-for-the-apocalypse-while-one-of-them-falls-in-love stories. You know the kind. It almost breaks the needle on the "weird-o-meter"... but then the last 30 minutes or so, it comes around to be something a bit more... and it just knocks it out of the park. There is a little bit of time-shifty weirdness, and the end is not exactly what I would call "decipherable"... but that doesn't make it any less fun to watch. Provided you like watching supposed 20-somethings act like completely insane people. If not, you probably want to skip.

Dumb question. I believe the answer is "no," but anyways I was wondering if there was a way to delete viewed history. My daughter has watched many of the Spongebob episodes, but they don't seem to restart at the beginning, causing much rewind drama and anguish. I got her one of those fake roku d-link boxes because I did not put a satellite receiver in her room.

So what's the story with Mad Men? Anyone know when it will be available to watch instantly?

It is right now.

It's not showing up on my account. Are they making less available to watch instantly if you're on the watch-instantly-only plan?

I've been watch-instantly-only since they changed their policy and "Mad Men" has been in my "que" the whole time. I haven't checked it in a while though...

I'm referring to Season 5. I should have made that clearer. I'm seeing other references now to the fact that Season 5 is available if you sign up for both DVD and streaming service. What horsebleep.

FWIW, only season's 1-4 show up for me on instant, and I have a 2 at a time sub. So no need to jump to conclusions about it. Best guess is just prior to the start of season 6.

Fair enough.

I would highly recommend The League to people here. Kind of a bit like It's Always Sunny. Takes a few episodes to get going but I think hits it's stride around episode 4.

Oh yeah, totally agreed.

I gave this one a shot last night because movies like this are right up my alley. The movie was pretty good but I have to say I am lost on the ending. Were there two different scenerios shown in the end(like watching an alternate ending) or am I just completely lost? It's almost like one of the endings is from his insane "Lord Humungous" mind and the other is what really happened.

As I said... I couldn't really figure it out. It seemed like the end part with the girl was where he was completely detached from reality, so I do think there was some sort of "alternate reality" going on there.

Freaks and Geeks is now on instant play. Can't believe that show didn't last longer.

If you are inclined to watch any nature, history, or geography based shows I encourage you to search for National Geographic and check out how many specials they have on there now. They recently added a LOT of great ones. The best thing about it is how large the catalog is on Netflix now, making it easy to find something that interests.

To me, that show not making it is the single dumbest decision in the history of TV.

Undeclared, another Judd Apatow show with some of the same people, has also been added to instant viewing. That was horribly treated by the network as well.

Watching the Halloween episode for Freaks and Geeks should really be an annual tradition.

I watched Outsourced (the movie, not the TV show) on Netflix this week and thought it was pretty good. I'd never heard about it before, but apparently it was the inspiration for the NBC sitcom from last year. The movie is so much better.

Amores Perros - Three stories from Mexico City that come together.

It's not a happy movie so dont watch if you're looking for laughs, dont like subtitles, or are offended by dog fighting. But it's a great movie.

I'm just finishing up "Durham County" (three 6-episode seasons), an extremely dark Canadian crime drama. The first season is tremendous. Great television -- creepy, albeit sometimes pointlessly creepy for the sake of being creepy, but very well done. Outstanding acting in this series, particularly from Justin Louis as serial killer Ray Prager.

Second and third seasons are still pretty good but it drops off somewhat.

Not sure I've seen anything so relentlessly grim, though. I need to follow this up with something cheerier, like maybe Schindler's List or the Zapruder film.

Anybody else watching 'Once Upon a Time'? I've been really impressed with season one on Netflix, so much that I'm now DVRing season two as it airs.

It has been really surprisingly good. A novel concept, executed very well. Dare I say it, but OnceUpon a Time is good TV

I watched an episode of it one day and ended up watching the whole season over the course of the next week and a half. I love the show and how they have done things.

Thanks for the Durham county recommendation. Started it last night when you suggested it and am on the last episode of season 1 now. Very grim and such an amazing atmosphere.

For those of you with kids, Netflix just signed a huge deal with Disney. A lot of the older Disney content is available, along with other movies/shows to be rolling out. Major game changer.

Netflix signed a deal with Disney. The benefit of the deal will actually take time to kick in, but it is still a boon.

It's already a great deal if you have kids with the $7.99 streaming option. With Disney added, it's an absolute no-brainer.

So does the Disney deal imply that Netflix will be streaming the Star Wars franchise stuff, once the new stuff comes out (and possibly the old)?

/tk

They did specifically mention that in one of the articles I read.

See my previous comment about it taking time for the good stuff.

Very excited about Last of the Mohicans and Apocalypse Now.

Netflix New Releases for December 4th, 2012

Here are some interesting streaming releases from the past week: Young Adult, Whale Wars (new season), Vanilla Sky, Stake Land, Scream, Sexy Beast, S.W.A.T., Red Dawn, The Presidio, The Last of the Mohicans, Kung Fu Panda: Holiday, The English Patient, Commando, Batman: The Movie, Apocalypse Now, and Half Baked.

At least Red Dawn is the good version.

I've been wanting to see "Stake Land" for a while now.

Young Adult is pretty freaking good.

Is this accurate? I watched part of Vanilla Sky and Red Dawn on Netflix streaming a few weeks ago. I could have sworn I saw Last of the Mohicans available, too.

Edit: just looked at my history and I watched Vanilla Sky on 9/14 and Red Dawn on 7/9. I wonder if they often recycle "new" releases?

Todd & the Book of Pure Evil..

It's a cross between Evil Dead and a High School Drama. It's a fun show to watch.

I really wanted to like this movie. A great cast, but at the end of it, I realized that I had just spent an hour and a half watching a horrible person acting horrible without any kind of self-realization or anything. The main character was completely unredeeming and not in a very entertaining or charming way (say, like a character from Seinfeld or something). She started horrible and self-centered and stayed that way. When the movie ended I was just glad that I didn't have to be in her presence any longer. Not even the fact that she was Charlize Theron could save her. (And that's saying a lot.)

I was more into Patton Oswalt's peformance I guess. :shrug. I thought he was pretty awesome in the movie.

I thought he was great too, which just made me all the more irritated at Charlize.

If you need your Uwe Boll, video game movie fix, Far Cry is also available today.