The following story contains spoilers for the end of Brand New Cherry Flavor on Netflix. Horror fans got a real treat with Netflix’s Brand New Cherry Flavor, an eight-part series set in the cutthroat world of early ’90s Hollywood. Our story here follows Lisa Nova (Alita: Battle Angel star Rosa Salazar), a young filmmaker looking to expand her groundbreaking short film into a major motion picture. Along the way she meets sleazy-but-talented producer Lou Burke (Eric Lange), a rising star actor (Jeff Ward), and an eccentric woman who…is basically a witch (the great Catherine Keener). The story is the best kind of horror—basic enough to follow, but with enough disgusting, David Cronenberg-esque body horror, and enough what the fuck? style David Lynch existentialism to really make you question just about every minute of what you just watched. Salazar has a rough edge to her protagonist that makes us root for her just enough, while Lange channels his inner Jeff Goldblum to play the slimy-but-charismatic type of Hollywood producer we’ve all heard so much about. The series gets increasingly gross and violent as it moves along, but when it finally reaches its concl… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
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Brand New Cherry Flavor Probably Won’t Have a Season 2
