Day Twenty Six : Netflixing

Date :  Sunday 26th January 2014

Time : 17.46

Location : Millennium Apartments, Birmingham

Netflixing

This weekend has consisted of  :

- Football

- Gym

- Xbox

- Netflix. 

Today, especially, I have done a bit of Netflix binging. I believe the term is 'Netflixing'. Where you get really hooked on a TV programme on Netflix. 

I've suffered in the past, and now, I feel like I'm coming down with a mild case.  Long before I am writing this, I binged on the entire Netflix offering of The Office (US).145 episodes, to be exact. It was just so good, I was obsessed.

Today, I was keen for a spot of Netflixing. So looked through my recommended list. On it, I found 2 films, and a TV series that caught my eye. 

Would You Rather, a 2012 horror / thriller (that I'd never heard of) looked OK. It was pretty short so I thought I'd give it a go. It seemed fairly low budget, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It followed the typical student game of 'Would you rather', where you are pitted two awful scenarios, and have to decide which you would rather do. 

In this film, however, it was a crazy millionaire who offered participants of the 'game' the option of causing intense physical pain to the players peers. 

It wasn't a bad film .... It wasn't brilliant, but not bad! Check it out. 3/5.

Next up, a film that I've actually wanted to see for a while, but never got round to it. Youth in Revolt is a charming film, with Michael Cera (off of Superbad) and the brilliantly named Portia Doubleday.  

Cera plays your typical American 'high school nerd' who has never had a girlfriend, and is - of course - still a virgin. His 'trailer trash' family spend a week at a holiday camp where he meets and falls in love with Doubleday. When it's time to leave, they plan how they can spend their lives together, which ended with nice boy Cera turning into a rebel (thanks to his uber cool alter ego). 

It's a great film, only about 90 minutes, funny and easy to watch. 4/5.

Finally, I started watching a new series, to replace the 'The Office (US)' shaped void in my life. I've watched about 5 episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and so far it hasn't disappointed - especially for a show I'd never even heard of 7 hours ago!

It's about a group of friends who own an Irish pub in Philly. It's funny, it's silly and its definitely watchable. It's just your typical American Sitcom about this groups trials and tribulations of grown up life. I haven't too much to report on it, but I'll certainly be watching more tonight! 

One final thing. Today I ALSO caught the new Andy Samberg police sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine about the goings-on at a Brooklyn police station. It's on E4 on Thursdays, at 9.30pm (I think) - and after one episode I can tell I'm going to enjoy! 

Wow. My last 2 blogs have been long!

If there's any shows on Netflix you'd like to share leave a comment :) 

Lesson of the day - Just because you haven't heard of something, doesn't mean its not very good!