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Positive:
7
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comAug 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It's as ambitious as anything Netflix has produced this year. Held together by an incredible performance by Rosa Salazar, it’s not a show in which everything "works," but it’s also quickly easy to forgive its missteps because it’s clearly the product of a showrunner willing to take risks. ... Recalling everything from “Wild Palms” to “Lost Highway,” “Brand New Cherry Flavor” will be far too strange for a lot of Netflix subscribers—this is a good thing.
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Aug 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The tone here is David Lynch meets David Cronenberg meets Quentin Tarantino, moody and heightened in the early episodes, then ever more weird and gory. It all hinges on Salazar and treatises may be written on her huge, expressive eyes, which jump between angered, exhausted, erotic and (repeatedly) horrified.
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Aug 10, 2021
Season 1 Review:
In another show, Lisa might have been the naïve victim in a cautionary tale about what can happen in the pursuit of power. Instead, as the series brings her own transgressions into focus, she remains bracingly imperfect, an anchor for the deep and hopeless pessimism that Brand New Cherry Flavor clearly and forcefully articulate.
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Aug 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
[Rosa Salazar] isn’t the only reason to watch Brand New Cherry Flavor, but she’s surely the best reason to keep watching a show that, stretched far beyond the capacity of the material at eight hours, will probably be too disturbing for those who like their entertainment vanilla and too vanilla for those who like their entertainment truly and consistently disturbing.
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Aug 13, 2021
Season 1 Review:
[Rosa Salazar] imbues every [scene] with vivid emotion that almost — almost — grounds the show’s self-consciously weird reality. Any time “Brand New Cherry Flavor” gets specific about Lisa’s pain, it comes close to working. Too often, it loses her personality and motivation to Boro’s jungle, Lou’s ego, or the omnipresent viscera of her own blood and guts betraying her along the way.
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Aug 11, 2021
Season 1 Review:
A technically competent, thematically bankrupt, utterly gratuitous pastiche of L.A. noir and body horror in the early David Cronenberg mold. ... “This world we live in is predators and prey. And each and every one of us is both,” Lou tells Lisa, in the first episode. ... As disappointing as such a glib argument would be from a better-made series, it renders Cherry Flavor fully execrable.
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