By This week brings us what is possibly my favorite genre mixture ever. The story of La Llorona, or the crying woman, may not be terribly well-known to North American audiences. It tells the tale of a woman who drowns her children to please a man she loves, since drowning one’s children immediately elevates one to the status of Hottest Thing Ever. The dude is not impressed, so the woman kills herself, wandering the afterlife looking for the children she murdered in the name of a hot date. Now you can see such a family-friendly tale in the form of an animation! Thanks, La Leyenda de la Llorona!
Similarly horrible, you can now watch fine, upstanding reality shows like Basketball Wives and Teen Mom on Netflix. The particular combination of La Llorona and Teen Mom is pretty much the best thing. On the plus side, there’s also a movie about Stan Lee that could be pretty interesting.
Hit the jump for dead babies!
- @Suicide Room
- Attenberg
- Basketball Wives (TV)
- Black Butterflies
- Bob the Builder: Adventures by the Sea
- The Coca-Cola Case
- Crazy on the Outside
- The Devil’s Mistress (TV)
- DreamWorks How to Train Your Dragon Legend (TV)
- The Future
- Grace, Milly, Lucy…Child Soldiers
- Grandmaster
- In the Cold Light of Day
- In the Land of Blood and Honey
- Inkubus
- Joint Body
- La Leyenda de la Llorona
- Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen
- The Last Detective (TV)
- Life with Murder
- Metal Tornado
- Mutant Girls Squad
- Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague
- Play On
- Reuniting the Rubins
- Snow on Tha Bluff
- Soda Springs
- Teen Mom (TV)
- The Tested
- Wiebo’s War‘
- With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
New additions to Netflix Watch Instantly apply only to readers in the United States. For those in other parts of the world, your choices may vary.