Have We Become Too Cynical?
The last time Netflix released a trailer for this movie, I said it didn’t have a real story and that almost no Netflix movies have clear, straight-forward stories.
With this new trailer, I’m still not seeing any driving desire for just one thing in the main character of The King.
If any genre demands — nay, cried out for — a singularity of purpose in its hero, it’s medieval historical drama.
Read the summary! Previously, I used the meandering official Netflix one, here is a much shorter version from IMDb:
Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life.
Again with the navigating! And this time they add in some “emotional strings.”
Jesus Christ, when will it end?
No! We Are Not Too Cynical.
It’s the algorithm that is wrong!
It’s wrong because women are allowed to watch.
When movies get turned off, Netflix notes the scene when the movie is turned off and they stop making sequences of that type in their movies.
When women are watching genres that weren’t made for them, they are turning off movies in those genres unless they have womanly things in them.
Which means a lot of navigating emotional strings inside an aimless fucking chaos.
I think we’ve just had a breakthrough here, fellas.
You know what to do.
The King with give us a lot of gossip and relationship bullshit when it debuts November 1, 2019 on Netflix.
