Netflix Picks!

My favorite thing about Summer is catching up on all the tv and movies that I missed throughout the year, and tanning because the 90's girl in me still loves the smell of No-Ad Sunscreen. (Seriously, brings me right back to my childhood!)  Since I'm a full-time Mom, and right now I'm doing it all it makes it difficult to digest any pop culture besides articles on kids fashion trends, or how much arsenic is in our apple juice. Somewhere in the middle, we all need a little R&R and the good news is you can take Netflix anywhere. Thus I bring you my Netflix picks, for my Summer '14 mix!

T.V.

1. Orange is the New Black 

While everyone else was elbows, eyeballs, and everything else deep in to the first season I was avoiding the long term commit to a new series. I adore True Blood, Bob's Burgers, Adventure Time, The Walking Dead, and rerun's of vintage TMNT. (Ssshhh don't tell anyone I'm a closet super nerd because I swear it's starting to show!) However, I started watching OITNB and accepted a whole new set of characters that I've learned to embrace. I have to say, so far Red is my favorite. I love that she was running the kitchen, and her minions had their hands in every single business deal at Litchfield Correctional. I have no words, with the exception of obsessed!

2. The Carrie Diaries

I miss every single solitary syllable of all six seasons of Sex and the City. As I was coming of age, Carrie Bradshaw painted the tapestry that I dreamt of being my life in 10-15 years. Fate intervened luckily, and now I'm more of a Charlotte and then sometimes a raging Samantha but only on weekends. I totally missed the train on the The Carrie Diaries, but it's no surprise since it's on the CW. Not so suprinsingly they tackle a few above and beyond issues that the CW usually shys away from and with the backdrop of the greatest, juiciest, Big Apple behind them I'm amazed we've only got two seasons. I'm halfway through the first season, but I'm entrenched in the recreated 80s fashions all done up by none other than Eric Daman, (also the designer from Gossip Girl). Right now only the first season is available, but look out for season 2 which should be coming soon!

3. The Paradise

The Paradise, is the Austen-esque, Are You Being Served, of the new-age. It's absolute perfection! Small-town girl moves up to working in the late 1800s, in the first English Department Store. Oh did I mention Moray? He's like Colin Farrell's hot twin come once more. Look out for the notion's counter girl, she's hilarious and the relationships that develop within the store. It's like a constant comedy of errors as Denise finds her way up the career ladder.

Honorable Mentions; House of Cards, Sons of Anarchy, The IT Crowd, The Venture Brothers, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Louie.



Movies

1. Can't Buy Me Love

Remember McDreamy from Grey's Anatomy? I could literally wax poetic about my 80s dream guys, and this is because that's pretty much the only action saw in high school. Can't Buy Me Love, is yet another classic, from the dawn of an age where the Swatch Watch, and a pining, sensitive heart of a teenage boy in the Midwest was pop culture currency. (If you're new to the game, you'll notice the nod to this film in the final few shots of Easy A.) For me, it's without a doubt a classic!

2. The Immigrant 
I just saw this movie this morning, but it's definitely something you should see. I guess I missed it in theaters, but it's a very detailed look inside an early immigrants life as she makes her way from Poland to New York City via Ellis Island's horrific immigration procedures of the 1920s. Jeremy Renner plays my favorite character of all time, the romantic illusionist Emil, and Joaquin Phoenix is funny, dark, and cunning as Bruno. Marion Cotillard plays the immigrant Ewa, whose mysterious and  tragic tale lead her straight into the arms of a bourgeois pimp from Brooklyn. (Also, it's a pretty decent date night movie!) It was one of my favorites out of the new stuff that Netflix has released this round.

3. Drinking Buddies
I don't think I can rave enough about this one, after all Olivia Wilde is my girl crush but it's truly a fantastic look at the age old saying, "men and women can't be friends." The soundtrack is so good. It takes place in a craft brewery behind the backdrop of Chicago. They ride bikes, and talk about real grown up relationships that make you all cringy at times. Jake Johnson, who hails from New Girl territory is the perfect indie love interest dream team with Olivia Wilde, but then there's Anna Kendrick who comes in to destroy it all, (in a good way). Another great date night option, or for a girls night in.

What should I watch on Netflix next? Tell me! I love movies :)
xo,
C