Netflix Anonymous

Category: dribblings

I’ve been watching a lot of TV lately. Mostly in the form of streaming Netflix. We all have our guilty pleasures. Mine is mostly awful TV shows and MST3Ks. By awful shows I mean, I’m currnetly watching complete series-es of:

Hoarders
Fame
Ruby
Missing (what?)
Psych (what what?)
And I’m currently waiting on them to send me the first season of Beverly Hills 90210.

Mr. Fleegan’s guilty Netflix pleasure is B, C, and D grade horror movies. titles we’s watched recently include:
Blood Surf
House of Carnage
Bloodsucking Redneck Vampires
Living a Zombie Dream
Retardead

There’s this thing about Netflix though, the more stuff you watch the more it reccommends for you. “If you like Hoarders, you might like Mythbusters.” That kind of thing.

Well apparently our TV and movie choices have been so low on the scale that it’s now recommend the shittiest thing it can find:

worst. show. ever.
A terrible show from the ’70s called The Secrets of Isis.

Look, we all know I have no taste. I loved the Xena show (until about the 5th season, anyway, or whatever season they went to China? and Xena learned to fly or something? The Gabrielle hooked up with some crazy with lady with a scratchy voice and antlers? OH MY GOD, REMEMBER HER? Yeah, I tuned out after that.) But this Isis show is so bad. And not in the so-bad-it’s-good kind of way.

The main lady is, Joanna, and she’s a science teacher, although I’ve yet to see her in the classroom. And this one time she went to Egypt and found an ancient amulet that no gives her the powers of Isis. This is all explained to you in the opening credits. So now, Joanna is back in California (I assume) and she helps fight crime. It’s worse than I’m making it sound. When she turns into Isis she has this extremely long black hair. And she flies. Sort of. It looks like she’s just standing in place. And when she uses her powers she has to chant these rhymes. Plus, see the bird on her arm? This bird is not explained. It wasn’t in the first episode at all. Then in the second ep, it’s there in the science classroom. Does it belong to the school? Then it helps her solve a crime. Is it a magic bird? Is it a person that’s been turned into a bird? Did the bird come with the science class? Or did it come with the ancient amulet? Shit! I don’t know! I hate that bird! I hate Isis! And damn you, Netflix!

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