A cursory look into Netflix’s daily top ten informs us a great many revealing things, chief among them that quality, or shortage thereof, doesn’t have bearing on viewership, but in addition, further along the list is an underlined reminder that nostalgia nevertheless rules. It is not only any nostalgia however a certain type that transports thirtysomething millennials back once again to their teenage years, as evidenced by the present success of Clueless or Jurassic Park or Moesha or Friends, quick access to movies and shows a lot of us had to struggle for back into the time.
It’s filtered right through to their initial content strategy too, whether it is rebooting The Babysitters Club, casting Jennifer Aniston in Murder Mystery or Sandra Bullock in Bird Box or Christina Milian in Falling Inn like, the latter now leading to a different fallen star headlining her very own low-budget rom-com through the exact same writing duo of Hilary Galanoy and Elizabeth Hackett. Continue reading “Love guaranteed in full review – frothy Netflix dating app comedy”