Netflix Archives – The College View

“Marianne” brings French horror to a modern audience

November 27, 2019

Released back in September, “Marianne” is a French Netflix original series that serves as a triumph for horror.

Life in the apocalypse is just what you would expect in Netflix’s “Daybreak”

November 13, 2019

What’s life like in the apocalypse? According to Daybreak, it’s like a mash-up between Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Mad Max.

Fractured fails to stray from classic thriller tropes

October 30, 2019

From the onset, there is a sense of foreboding in the new Netflix thriller, “Fractured.” This is possibly due to the fact that the plot of the movie seems very familiar to “Shutter Island” and “Flight Plan”, where actress Jodie Foster searches for her missing daughter on a flight.

Criminal highlights the lasting nature of crime dramas

October 30, 2019

Netflix’s new police procedural anthology series, Criminal, throws out the tried and tested format for something more intense and claustrophobic.

El Camino ties Breaking Bad’s loose ends

October 30, 2019

Although Walter White exclaimed: “We’re done when I say we’re done”, it seems like Netflix quite finished with Breaking Bad after all.

Móltaí Netflix don Fhómhar

October 16, 2019

Fómhar atá ann agus is ionann sin go bhfuil na laethanta níos giorra agus níos fuaire. Tá na crainn lom, níl aon duilliúr ar na crainn agus tá se fluich! Mar sin, suí ar an tolg, faigh deoch the agus cas air Netflix. Feach ar an liosta seo chun inspioraid a fhail.

The Politician serves as a satire of student politics

October 16, 2019

Netflix’s The Politician premiered on the streaming site on September 27th 2019 and despite being hailed as “hollow” and “mean” by critics it is currently one of the highest rated shows on Netflix.

Arrested Development suffers its namesake

April 17, 2019

Arrested Development will not see a sixth season. Will anyone care?

Netflix’s Madeleine McCann documentary falls short of expectations

April 17, 2019

The aspect that predominantly jumped out to Netflix viewers, was that the McCann’s themselves played no part in the documentary.

Netflix’s Sex Education is cringey in all the right ways

March 6, 2019

The electric cast is what makes the show as the preconceptions of each character are very different to what they turn out to be.

The Sinner series two is challenging our perceptions of crime once again

December 12, 2018

It is this prejudice towards alternative lifestyles that allows the show’s creators to guide us down a completely different narrative, one that blames Julian’s upbringing and the people around him, therefore distracting us from the truth.

A modern twist on classic horror, The Haunting of Hill House

October 31, 2018

The genius of the series The Haunting of Hill House, written and directed by Mike Flanagan, is to draw a line between supernatural terror and the unresolved traumas of childhood – the closest the majority of us will come in real life to being spooked by our past.

Will Black Mirror’s choose-your-own-adventure episode create a trend?

October 17, 2018

The concept of ‘choose your own adventure’ has been tried and tested for years in video games and has found to be very successful. Generally referred to as roleplaying games or RPGs, players are taken on a journey from building their own character to choosing how they handle difficult situations and how their decisions ultimately change their character’s fate.

“Take Your Pills” documentary focuses in on Adderall abuse

April 18, 2018

One is tempted to go on the dark web and purchase a few bottles of the pills themselves. Or even book a psychiatric appointment and fake their way to a nice, gift wrapped diagnosis and prescription. They make it seem so easy.

Netflix’s ‘Love’ takes a bow after three seasons

April 4, 2018

Most real-life love stories don’t have the fairytale ending often portrayed in television, which is why it’s probably a good thing Netflix’s Love has concluded after only three seasons.

Disjointed portrays the highs and lows of cannabis

March 7, 2018

Disjointed, the new Netflix original comedy show, is showing that legal marijuana is not all highs – it has a serious side too.

Mindhunter is mind-blowing

December 6, 2017

Mindhunter, a new series recently added to the growing pile of shows released by Netflix, has been receiving nothing but praise and it’s no surprise. This show is one of the most interesting and engaging

Stranger Threads

November 15, 2017

The release of Stranger Things 2 has seen merchandise for the Netflix original series pop up everywhere, from Topshop to independent Irish designers, Helen O’Neill tells us more about the fashion taking over the upside down and beyond.

A World turned upside down

November 15, 2017

The Netflix cult show picks up around a year after Will Byers’ escape from “Upside Down”, but behind the colourful arcade screens and Halloween decorations, there’s something strange lurking in the town of Hawkins.

Review: The Confession Tapes

October 11, 2017

The latest crime documentary series released by Netflix, The Confession Tapes, will leave you on-edge and full of doubt. The documentary takes us through real life cases of false confessions. You could never imagine admitting

Review: 13 Reasons Why

April 19, 2017

These days high school drama shows are not hard to find, but they are hard to like. They are usually the same old over-romanticised, over-materialised, over the top crap. However, 13 Reasons Why is different.

Was Gilmore Girls worth revisiting?

February 8, 2017

After years of long-term fans patiently awaiting an update from our beloved Stars Hollow, Netflix brought us a six part mini-series, Gilmore Girls: A Year in The Life, to revisit the Connecticut town. If you’re

A series of fortunate adaptations

February 8, 2017

The new adaptation of ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ on Netflix brings a whole new interpretation of Lemony Snicket’s dark and depressing tale of the Baudelaire orphans to the streaming platform. The story begins small

What now after What.CD?

November 30, 2016

Last week saw the closure of the infamous music and file sharing site What.CD making them part of the club of fallen piracy giants like Napster, Kickass Torrents and the original Pirate Bay. In a

The Get Down should not be in Stranger Things’ shadow

September 28, 2016

Many students have spent their summers indoors intoxicated by Netflix content. This summer was a particularly fruitful one for the company with new seasons of the charismatic Orange is the New Black and the addictive