What I Watched -- A Smorgasbord of Netflix Entertainment

Zombieland was a pick of S's.  I didn't think I was going to like it at all.  It is exactly what you would expect -- the last few people alive in a world dominated by zombies.

It is, however, funnier than I would have expected.  I sat down in front of the TV to do other work, and ended up enjoying it.  Emma Stone is a girl crush of mine, so she always helps, but Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg both played their roles to a T.

Bottom line: brainless but funny.





The Kindergarten Teacher was a pick of mine.  Maggie Gyllenhaal always does complex stuff, but this one was weirder than most.  She plays -- not surprisingly -- a kindergarten teacher.  She develops an overly close relationship with one of her students who has a penchant for poetry and whose father is questionably interested in his son's abilities.

Bottom line: odd and confusing, but with the heart that Maggie always brings to her work.









I've watched a lot of legit cooking shows.  Nailed It is not that show.  If you need to watch something silly and brainless, but still about cooking, this is the show for you.  All the contestants are total kitchen disasters, and the question is really which one of them is the least bad.  But watching them be so terrible is pretty dang funny!