Three Trailers Gives Netflix Credit For Doing Rom-Coms Right

By Jen Maravegias | Film | January 12, 2024 |

By Jen Maravegias | Film | January 12, 2024 |

If I had to come up with my own title for Joe Keery’s (Stranger Things) latest project, I’d call it Manic Pixie Dream Weirdos Rob A Bank. I’m a fan of Keery. While I’m not familiar with Morrone as anything other than one of Leo DiCaprio’s exes, I hear she was very good in Daisy Jones and the Six so Marmalade seemed promising. Until they started talking, and then I found my nerves being grated by their dialect choices. Maybe Aldis Hodge (Leverage) will even everything out. If nothing else, it’s another opportunity for Keery’s luscious mane of hair to shine through.

Marmalade will beginning streaming on Prime Video on February 9th.

I don’t know anything about the books the 3 Body Problem is adapted from. They were going for moody and suspenseful with this trailer, but they landed on boring. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the brains behind the Game Of Thrones series, are also responsible for this, which means it’s carrying extra baggage from the get-go. Plus, it’s on Netflix, where everything ends up looking the same regardless of how it starts out. Despite a strong cast that includes Eiza González (Baby Driver), John Bradley (Moonfall), Benedict Wong, Liam Cunningham (The Last Voyage of the Demeter), and Jonathan Pryce, I don’t have high hopes for this.

3 Body Problem premieres on Netflix on March 21st.

I hate to shill for Netflix twice in one article, but someone stole the ballerina vampire child trailer from me yesterday. So, instead, let’s look at something Netflix is good at producing: mid-market rom-coms! Players stars Gina Rodriguez, Tom Ellis, and Damon Wayans Jr. It’s highly probable that Rodriguez’ character is going to wind up with Wayans Jr. at the end of this movie, but it’s the journey not the destination with these things. This journey includes a lot of Tom Ellis, and I consider it a personal failure that I wasn’t able to nab a shirtless screengrab for this article’s header. Mea Culpa.

Players will be available to stream on Netflix beginning on February 14th

I have no explanation for this week’s lagniappe. Nor should this be considered an endorsement of this show. I’m very much in the “let’s point and laugh at this concept” camp for about 90% of reality/unscripted television. And I don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum, but the phrase “throuple up” made me vomit in my mouth a little bit. My God, maybe Peacock IS The Bad Place.