Well Netflix just got better! A new google chrome extension called “Better Browser” allows Netflix viewers to find highly specific categories for films and series. According to Sunday Express, “users can use secret codes to find “extremely specific” genre categories, of which there are more than 15,000″(FOX31). Likewise, the days of having to manually scroll to find the perfect film or tv show is over. Now, viewers can finally see their zombie rom com at the click of a button. It saves time and makes customers happy.

How to Install Better Browser:

Step 1: First download google chrome if you don’t already have it
Step 2: Type in Better Browser for Netflix in the search box
Step 3: Choose website link to chrome web store and click install.
Step 4: Open up Netflix and log into your account
Step 5: Click Browse all and specific categories should appear

Enjoy 🙂

Reference:
Ruble, Eric. “Chrome extension provides new way to find hidden Netflix categories”, FOX 31 Denver, 2018, https://kdvr.com/2018/11/03/chrome-extension-provides-new-way-to-find-hidden-netflix-categories/

Disenchantment is a American animated Sci-fi comedy about a princess, her personal assistant, and her pet demon that go on adventures and cause mischievousness. Her father, King Zog, is ruler of Dreamland and first and foremost a father to Bean. He is like every traditional father with the belief that she needs to have her underneath his win at all times but sometimes he takes it to an extreme and ends up locking her up in her room. It makes sense that he would do this as a result of her mischievousness throughout the series but when she is trying to help her kingdom and her father, he tends to not see this and it drives him over the edge, locking her up in the tower. Watching this series, I observed the strictness of gender roles and what it means for a woman in her time. King Zog wants her daughter to get married but she sees this as a political tactic to maintain the royal family of Dreamland and this is due to the fact that he thinks that his daughter is not able to make her choices and should just be married off. On the contrary, Bean does not want to marry just anyone and she does not want to be tied to commitment at the moment and would prefer to have fun and live her life. So, she struggles to live up to her dad’s expectations but she also desires to be her own person. In episode 1 of season 1, Bean was forced to marry Prince Guysbert in order to secure a political alliance between her father’s kingdom and her will-be-husband father’s kingdom but she ran away from the palace at night to avoid getting married. She ended up going to a local tavern to play poker(Coate,”Disenchantment”). Bean, being the woman that she is in her time, is limited to the belief of growing up to be married at a young age and live a boring life while her husband takes care of the kingdom and she chose to run away from that. This shows us that Bean promotes the feminist ideology of our time in which a women is allowed to do as she pleases with her life and not confine herself because of what society says. Society is cruel. It tells women that they need to have a man in their life to function and once they have that man, they are subliminally labeled property of those men. For example, back in 2014, Ariana Grande was filmed saying that “I’m not Big Sean’s Ex or “Niall’s possible new girl”(Woodward, “Buzzfeed”), she is her independent person. That being said, she is shutting down this idea that a woman needs to have a man to be of value and when talking about Disenchantment, we also see this resistance and advocacy for women’s liberation. I think that Bean is a feminist icon that can reach audiences, even male audiences through comedy.

References:
Coate, Isaac.”Disenchantment Season 1 Episode 1 Recap.”ComingSoon,https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/reviews/968611-disenchantment-season-1-episode-1-recap

Woodward, Ellie. “19 Times Ariana Grande Shut Down Sexism The Hell Down.” Buzzfeed, https://www.buzzfeed.com/elliewoodward/times-ariana-grande-shut-sexism-the-hell-down

Haunted is a paranormal docu-series that recounts the experiences of survivors of the paranormal. In the first episode, four survivors are sitting in a living room area telling their personal stories. Each of the their stories appear believable based on the details they provide but a docu-series does not automatically declare that the recounts are true. Plus, this is not a live feed of the stories but the filming of a series which means that multiple takes were done if something was not said right. Each of these individuals could have been given a script of some sort and allude to this ambience of terror and horror through fabricated ghost stories. With reality tv, it is very easy to get confused with what’s real and what’s not. The Kardashians have provided us with content that seems to good to be true and Kim Kardashian, herself, said that some aspects of their lives are hidden or toned down and it’s all for boosting ratings. How are we to know that some aspects of this show maybe exaggerated or entirely false. A professor and part-tome ghost hunter, Vic Tandy, wanted to debunk the ghost experiences in the cellar at Coventry University in England and he did he set out to investigate and discovered “the fear frequency. By measuring infrasound levels, he determined that high frequencies can cause people to see optical illusions, get chills, feel anxious, and other effects.”(Insider). This being said, Jason Hawkins from the first episode could have been experiencing the fear frequency and so could have his parents which caused hallucinations and maybe even then, the stories about his parents experiencing things themselves could have been false. Overall, I’m not saying that these experiences are exaggerated or fake but it there can be some sort of scientific explanation for these occurrences. Now, it is up to you, the audience to decide whether you believe these accounts or not!

Citations:
Ashe, Stephanie. “7 famous ghost stories that turned out to be total BS.” Insider. 23 Apr. 2018,https://www.thisisinsider.com/ghost-stories-that-turned-out-to-be-fake-2018-4

In episode 9 of A Haunting of Hill House, Mrs. Crain has a migraine while in her reading room that she tends by going downstairs for a glass of water. Next, she went back up stairs to her room and once she opened the door, she saw a Morgue, and her twin children as adults, Nellie on the table and Luke on the floor dead. At first, she didn’t realize that these were her children but with a closer look and her sensitivity to the paranormal, she knew those were her twins. Unfortunately, there she understood that her “dream” was alluding to her children’s death. And from there she vowed to always protect her littles ones, even if it came to the point in which she would keep them safe from the house by attempting to poison them, as seen in the same episode. Eerily, in episode 1, Shirley Crain had been done placing make up on her late sister in prep for her funeral and her body is laying down on the same table and with the same hair and make-up just as experienced by their late mother. As she was about to turn off the lights, she saw her mother laying on the table next to Nellie’s just like her mother saw her youngest daughter laying down the table of a morgue. Therefore, Olivia became more protective of her kids and in a specific dream she had one night, Poppy Hill, of the house’s former residents appeared to her and asked her if she would do anything to protect her kids from the pain and suffering of the outside world to which she said yes. Therefore, Mrs. Crain could not be hallucinating because in the kids’ adult life, Nellie dies. In fact, the dreams she had about Poppy Hill and the old lady, one of the house’s former residents, were real. She was even convinced by Poppy that she needed to give herself to the house and her children to keep them safe from the outside world but the ghost really wanted to increase the house’s residents. Thus, she took her children and Mrs. Dudley’s child into the red room to drink tea that was poisoned so that she’d end “their suffering and her suffering from the outside world”. In fact, the house was the one that made them suffer. Fortunately, her husband came into the red room and saved their children but Mrs. Crain hurt her head by being pushed against the wall by her husband while trying to escape with the children. She was then tempted by Poppy to end her life which she did by falling to her death from the spiral staircase. Here, it can be understood that Mrs. Crain foresaw her death in her children’s death because as a mother, she understood that she would do anything for her kids, even if it meant that she had to pass away. She attempted to take the twins with her to the spirit world but learning that her husband had taken them away, she chose to end her own suffering and become a part of the house.

In a interview with Kevin McCarthy from FOX 5, from the cast of A Haunting of Hill House, Michiel Huisman, Elizabeth Reasar and Oliver Jackson-Cohen were asked if they had any real life experiences, whether ghost encounters or any nightmares. Michiel spoke first saying that he always had night terrors about being kidnapped by a witch and that they would always be reoccurring, and Elizabeth spoke up and said that she also had night terrors about being kidnapped, just not specifically by a witch. Oliver had a fear about being possessed. From what we know, these nightmares come from a fear of the unknown and that fear of the unknown is what sparks curiosity inside of us. These fears of nightmares, unconsciously, drew these actors after all these years to take on the role of the Crains and even other roles in horror series and movies. Ultimately, partaking in these works fuel actors or actresses’ curiosities of the unknown, just as experienced in their dreams. As written in the article, 5 Reasons We Enjoy Being Scared,”Our world is easier to engage with when things make sense to us; and so, some may choose to engage further with ‘the unknown’ in order to better make sense of the situation”(Psychology Today). That being said, the cast experienced something that they can not make a meaning out of and although they may not consciously state that they would like to gain more of an understanding, unconsciously they would like to understand and thats why a series like this one and horror films help fill that void.

Citation:
Dwyer, Christopher. “5 Reasons We Enjoy Being Scared”.Psychology Today, 19 Oct. 2018, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thoughts-thinking/201810/5-reasons-we-enjoy-being-scared

Episode one begins with the Crain Family living at the Hill House, also known as the most haunted house in America. In the series, four siblings have encountered many experiences during your childhood which can not be explained and with no luck,they have a mother and a father that do not believe what they are experiencing. In a particular scene in episode 3, Carla Gugino, who plays the role of the mother, Olivia Crain, has migraines and these migraines allow her to see and sense energies about people, objects, and certain situations. Maybe this ability has a certain connection to her own death. During episode one, Mr. Crain awakes his children to tell him that they need to leave the house and never look back and takes his three girls, Shirley, Theodora, Nell and his one boy, Luke, to his station wagon while he looks for this other son, Steve. When he finally returns with Steve, all of the children turn to him to ask about their mom to which he does not answer and drives away. Steven Crain, the eldest son, says that he sees their mom looking down from the window on the second floor and his father responds by saying to not look at her because that is not their mother. Ultimately, he never told his children what had happened to their mom and later on in life, when he did, he told them that their mom was mentally ill and that she had passed away without clarifying any details. But, this raises a false flag! Mr.Cain does not believe the paranormal encounters that his children had experienced but all of a sudden one night he tells Luke, while waiting to take him to the car, that he is afraid of the house and then when they get the car tell his children they have to go without bringing their mother along with them? That to me sounds a little too fishy and the dad should positively be labeled as a suspect. And in episode 1, it is made known that, as adults, Nell Cain died under mysterious circumstances. Consequently, that night, Nell called her father and asked if he was okay to which the change of scene shows Nell parked in front of her childhood home. Next, and Older Mr. Crain gets up from his bed and goes to visit his daughter which is then presumed dead by her father but will not disclose the information surrounding her death to his other children. This is the second time he does this to his family and without any explanation. It seems more like we have a murder mystery in front of us than just mere ghost stories. Yes, the Hill House was in fact haunted but maybe there was something more dark at the time, maybe the stresses surrounding their new home mixed in with the hauntings caused a younger Mr. Crain to become mentally ill and murder his wife. This is just something we will have to see as the show goes on!