Brand New Cherry Flavor
2021
Original language: English
- drama
- mystery
- sci-fi & fantasy
The story
A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge — and kittens.
What it’s like
Saturated, sun-bleached Los Angeles in the early 1990s: hot daylight through motel blinds, sodium-orange streetlight, pastel and neon motel signs, and a glossy, deliberately artificial palette that tips into lurid nightmare as the story goes on. The camera moves with a restless, slightly off-kilter energy, sliding through drained swimming pools and cluttered bungalows, and the score leans on eerie synth drones and buzzing, dissonant textures that make ordinary rooms feel wrong. Its vibe is feverish, sticky and darkly funny, somewhere between a dream you can't shake and a cult film gone sour. Episodes move fast and strange, lurching from absurd comedy to abrupt, unsettling turns. Intensity is high: frequent graphic sex and nudity, gory body horror with bodily transformation and blood, and pervasive dread and cruelty, with some violence that lands hard. The emotional register is anxious and disorienting, following a woman pushed into desperate, vengeful territory by a predatory industry. It suits a late-night binge for viewers who like David Lynch-adjacent weirdness and genre-bending horror, not anyone seeking gentleness.
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