I spent this weekend in bed watching a buffet of bad movies on Netflix streaming. What we used to do on sick days before the Internet, I have no idea. Netflix even offers a category specifically for my sick days. It's called, “Quirky Independent Romantic Dramas with a Strong Female Lead.”
After going through a few, I started to notice that the title of the category should have been renamed, “Trite Romantic Comedies Where The Couple ALWAYS Ends up Together.”
I have since had to dig through Netflix in order to find movies more my speed—by which I mean movies that end tragically, like “The Puffy Chair” or “Wendy and Lucy.”
This article appears in May 17-23, 2012.