Episode 90: The Power of the Dog, Wild Things, Don't Look Up

What's New to Netflix

Another year, another podcast. This month on What’s New to Netflix Instant!? we reflect on 2021 when we talk about our favorite and least-favorite films we reviewed on the show in the past year all before going through the new stuff coming to Netflix in January 2022.

Then Benedict Cumberbatch gets upset when his brother, Jesse Plemons, hastily marries Kirsten Dunst, and when her son comes to live with them the tension builds to a fever pitch in Jane Campion’s western, The Power of the Dog from 2021. Next, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, and Denise Richards have threesomes and do awful things for money but who’s playing who, and who could be playing all three of them? We find out in the twist-heavy Wild Things from 1998. And finally, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are scientists that discover a comet headed for earth, but no one cares that the world is going to end, especially President Meryl Streep and her son, Jonah Hill, in the satire, Don’t Look Up from 2021.

All of this plus Mark Zuckerberg removed our Facebook page, Jack Black with dreads, TikTok meets The Real World, Riverdance: The Animated Adventure, ripping off Saved by the Bell, Kevin James: Pee Wee Football Coach, and The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window and other ridiculously long-titled shows for people that are really into ridiculously long-titled shows for the purpose of comedy.

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