• No one knew, but Netflix added an iconoclastic, “other” series,

    Brand New Cherry Flavor

    , on

    Friday

    that may well enjoy word of mouth.

  • If the series starts in the Hollywood of the 1990s, the viewer quickly finds himself lost between monsters and discomfort, David Cronenberg and David Lynch

  • The actress Rosa Salazar is amazing and hypnotic, we would follow her everywhere

As the end of summer approaches (sorry), you have already finished

The White Lotus

on OCS, bingé

Cruel Summer

on Prime Video like our colleague Fabien, tried

Ever

Gone

on Netflix… So you have some time to a new series? Absent from the platform's schedule, put online without any promotion, the mini-series in eight episodes 

Brand New Cherry Flavor

has been available since Friday on Netflix, and it is the curiosity of the summer. Maybe even Netflix's “least Netflix” series. Explanations.

Adapted from the eponymous novel by Todd Grimson,

Brand New Cherry Flavor

follows the arrival of young director Lisa Nova (Rosa Salazar) in 1990s Hollywood. Her short film caught the eye of producer Lou Burke (Eric Lange) , who wants to make him the new rising star of cinema.

And put her in her bed.

Faced with his refusal, this potential Weinstein steals his film.

Lisa then turns to the strange guru Boro (Catherine Keener) for revenge, and… vomits kittens.

Atmosphere.

On the mental roads of David Lynch

We should not, even it is impossible to reveal more, but know that the series is the most iconoclastic of the Netflix catalog, with

The OA

. Which perhaps explains why the platform was unsure of what to do with it. The story very quickly takes side roads, and invokes as much the zombies of George A. Romero as the

body horror

of David Cronenberg, passing, of course, by the mental roads of David Lynch of

Mulholland Drive

and

Lost Highway

. Sensitive and Cartesian souls abstain.

These references serve as benchmarks but not as limits.

Because

Brand New Cherry Flavor

is as much in the cinema as in the occult, even links the two, and thus recalls another novel of the 1990s,

The Conspiracy of Darkness

(

Flicker

in VO) by Theodore Roszak, deemed unsuitable - Darren Aronofsky s 'There is broken teeth - and inspiration for the episode 

The Absolute End of the World

of John Carpenter in 

Masters of Horror

.

Nick Antosca, a future “master of horror”?

“In cinema and television, we are living through a very interesting period for genre authors and directors. Even if they are not original stories, they find a way to reclaim them, and bring a unique vision, ”explained screenwriter Nick Antosca of

Channel Zero

, his previous series adapted from 

creepy. pastas

, and already at the time “the best horror series you don't watch”. This comment also applies to

Brand New Cherry Flavor

, which he co-created with Lenore Zion and which happily breaks down the boundaries in dream and reality, reality and fiction.

The risk for the spectator to get lost is very real, but there is the cast, in the first place of which Rosa Salazar, seen in

Alita: Battle Angel

and

The Labyrinth

, and amazing and hypnotic in Lisa Nova.

We would follow her anywhere.

That's the case to say.

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