"TV NEWS IS BLACK COMEDY OR EVEN SURREALISM: TAKE YOUR PICK"
Lots of new Netflix films ( and series ) have come out recently, but who had time to see them? So many provocative and pertinent news events on TV have occupied our time and attention instead: the mid-term elections; Zelenskyy's Congressional address; attack on Pelosi's husband; January 6 revealing testimony; and House Speaker stalemate. We needed to watch some fictional films for a change. No real-life stuff like on TV, no open-endings where conclusions are still evolving, no tragedies that we can't escape. Something a bit different, no doubt. Enter three movies trending around the same time, chosen randomly by this critic and remarkably similar in their characteristics. While these three samples give viewers a break from TV news, they can also be described as odd, unexpected and disconcerting. Just like some TV coverage. The most obvious similarity among the Netflix movies ( GLASS ONION, WHITE NOISE AND WEDNESDAY ) are their mixture of somewhat similar