Lisa, focused and furious, quickly takes up Boro’s offer to destroy his life without fully realizing how that choice might affect hers, too. Lisa’s thirst for revenge is aimed squarely at Lou Burke (Eric Lange), a predatory horror director who takes advantage of Lisa in order to steal her short film for his own material gain. To this long avowed horror wimp, though, the show isn’t particularly frightening so much as unsettling (though I wouldn’t recommend that anyone follow in my footsteps by trying to eat lunch while watching it - a huge, if obvious, mistake). The series takes place in a neon-tinged, pulpy version of early ’90s Los Angeles that owes more than a little to horror B movies and paperback books that historically have existed in media’s margins. Stine book come to visceral life, if Stine’s “Goosebumps” series were rebooted for the adult David Lynch devotees his imaginative kid audience eventually became. “Brand New Cherry Flavor” - adapted by “Channel Zero” producers Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion from the novel by Todd Grimson - feels like an R.L. A dark and twisty series that delights in getting truly gross, Netflix’s newest tells a scattered tale of vengeance and ownership that’s lucky to have a stellar performance at its center. Otherwise, the limited series is moreso impressed with its own daring to Go There, or to be as disgusting as the freedom of a streaming service will grant it. This sequence of events is only unusual in the world of “ Brand New Cherry Flavor” insomuch as it demonstrates something akin to a sense of humor about its gross-out surrealism. 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Netflix Live-Action Series Sets Main Cast How 'Brand New Cherry Flavor' Created Its Crazy Kitten Sequences Manny Jacinto Is Moving on From 'The Good Place' “Tell her I’ll go back to puking,” Lisa says to Boro’s stupefied lackey (Mark Acheson), who can only grunt in response as he shuffles away. Lisa’s temporarily mollified - until she experiences the bodily result of that request, which is, to say the least, far worse than any of her previous retching. “Fine, no more throwing up kittens,” she says as she steps back into the shadows, disappearing into the lush jungle that’s overtaken her Los Angeles home. “No more throwing up kittens!”īoro shrugs, less than bothered. “No!” she practically growls, staring Boro down. A few days after enlisting enigmatic witch Boro ( Catherine Keener) to put a curse on a director who’s wronged her, young filmmaker Lisa Nova ( Rosa Salazar) is sick of throwing up slimy, mewling kittens as a consequence.
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