CC and Imogen’s Netflix Reviews!

 

Cheer:

Cheer is a docuseries that is a low commitment with only 6 episodes. The show is all the rage with some of the cheerleaders even hosting the red carpet at the Academy Awards. It follows the Navarro College championship cheerleading team from a small town in Texas on their quest for their 14th national title.

 

CC and Imogen’s review: 

Unlike other cheer shows or movies like Bring it On, you can actually connect with each cheerleader and his/her backstory. They do a good job of not only focusing on one person, but is a true team show. We would highly recommend this show because it was a great combination of sweet and suspenseful. 

 

What others think: 

Rolling Stone says, “Cheer has a winning formula that’s made it TV’s first breakout hit of 2020!” While Glamour Magazine reviewer states, “Cheer on Netflix is everything I look for in a show: emotional, compelling, addicting, and so well-made!”

 

Next in Fashion: 

Hosted by Tan France & Alexa Chung, this show is about challenges and runway shows that display each partnership’s talent and creativity! There are 18 contestants to start (9 pairs) and a challenge everyday. They have two days to make their piece and then there is a runway show, where celebrity guests help the hosts decide who won the challenge and who is getting sent home. There are 10 episodes, each about 50 minutes long.

 

CC’s review: Next in Fashion is a mix of Project Runway and a cooking show, so if you watch either of those, this could be a show you really enjoy. The contestants all have very different styles and specialties and it’s a really fun show to watch. If you liked Queer Eye, Tan France (the fashion specialist) is a great host too! 

 

Imogen’s review: I am on episode 5 on Next in Fashion, and I like it. I started watching it because I was bored, but I quickly got hooked on it. My favorite part of the show is how one type of garment clothes can mean something so different for different people. I love watching the runway shows, when everybody shows their take on the theme.

 

What others think: Although CC and Imogen like the show, the public has some mixed reviews on it. The Diamondback, the online blog for the University of Maryland, states, “If you can only afford a subscription to Netflix, then I would recommend Next in Fashion. But only then.” The Diamondback also claims “the show can’t really find a reason to exist outside of the fact that, ‘hey, Netflix doesn’t have a fashion reality competition yet, so let’s make one.’” Audience rating summary gives the show a 3.7 out of 5. Plus, the toprating says that it is a better version then Project Runway because the contestants treat each other better and there is more focus on the creations and less on the drama. 

 

P.S. I Still Love You (the sequel):

The sequel to the romance, To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, a movie about a girl named Laura Jean who wrote 5 intense love letters to 5 boys. They are her proudest possession. She is antisocial and in high school so her little sister sends the letters out to every boy she wrote to. This causes all sorts of things to happen, but many people loved this movie and were looking forward to the release of the sequel. 

 

CC and Imogen’s review: We both agreed that we loved the first movie, it’s one of our favorites- so we were both really excited for the release of the sequel. CC watched it first and didn’t love it. If you really loved To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, we suggest watching it but not have your expectations too high. If you haven’t seen either, I suggest just watching the first one. 

 

What others think: Vox Magazine rated this movie 3 out of 5 stars. They say that the sweet moments that seem unscripted in the first movie don’t happen at all in the sequel. Everything seems more distant, more like acting and less genuine. “Those kinds of moments don’t exist in P.S. I Still Love You. The closest you get is Peter telling Lara Jean she has really nice handwriting before we coast into a wordless montage of paper lanterns floating.” NPR says that the sequel “doesn’t have the same effortlessness or the clean throughline that To All The Boys did, but that’s partly because it’s a more complicated story emotionally.”