It is so funny, and I think what I love is that it's a sort of very smart satire of Internet personalities who will do stupid things for likes and clicks. He gets divorced because one of the prompts is what is it like to get divorced? And then his ex-wife pops up from time to time and is really angry with him.

As the show progresses, you have to kind of watch in order, because there's threads that move along. Like what is it like to get addicted to drugs, or sleep with a celebrity, or experience road rage? He will not not do something no matter what it is. And so viewers and I put 'viewers' in quotes, because these are obviously actors, but they, you know, ask him to try out things. Gibbs, who's played by the delightful Meghan Stevenson, who manages to be both bubbly and deadpan as she announces Forrest's new prompts. And basically the setup is, it's like a mockumentary style. It was based off an Australian TV series, and this version stars Andy Daly as Forrest MacNeil, who is this, like overly enthusiastic and pretty dim critic who sets out to review basically all aspects of life. I've been re-watching Review, the great TV series that aired on Comedy Central. Roxana Hadadi The Criterion Channel's 'Starring Michelle Yeoh' movie playlist And it bummed me out because, again, it was hitting the pleasure center part of my brain. It was so good, but it totally disappeared, made very little impact. it was sort of like the male version of Bend It Like Beckham. Blinded by the Light is another film that Gurinder Chadha has made. Also Mira Nair's work and how important they were in breaking boundaries for female directors, and female directors of color. You know what? I am not ashamed to say that Jonathan Rhys Meyers in this movie is an incredibly beautiful man, and I will take a love interest if he looks like that.Īnd I would also encourage people to watch the rest of Gurinder Chadha's filmography, like we don't talk enough about her work. It really took me back to being a teenager and wondering, like, would I ever get to do what I want to do? The movie just still works so well. I re-watched it, it's on Disney+, and it just made me so happy. I was going to talk about Bend It Like Beckham.

Director Gurinder Chadha is pictured at the Cannes International Series Festival in April 2019.

At Hell's Gates by Monique Happy