History Series / BrandNewCherryFlavor

* TheNineties: The series is stated to be set in "the early nineties", although a definitive year is not actually given, and the only real signs of the period presented in the series are clothes and vehicles.[[note]]Since Lou makes a reference to Creator/StevenSoderbergh having just landed a big development deal after the success of ''Film/SexLiesAndVideotape'', as well as a FreezeFrameBonus showing a poster for the first ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' movie, this likely places the series somewhere around 1990-1991.[[/note]]

''Brand New Cherry Flavor'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} SupernaturalFiction Horror series created by Lenore Zion and Nick Antosca, based on the novel by Todd Grimson. Set in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles during TheNineties, it follows aspiring filmmaker Lisa Nova (Creator/RosaSalazar), who has arrived in {{Hollywood}} after her short film attracts the interest of bigshot producer Lou Burke (Creator/EricLange), who tells Lisa that he wants to expand it into a feature. However, when Lisa spurns Lou's sexual advances, he steals the film's rights from under her and proceeds to cut her out of the production. Desperate for revenge, Lisa strikes a deal with a mysterious witch named Boro (Creator/CatherineKeener), placing a curse on Lou that begins to have creepy - and horrific - effects on both Lou ''and'' Lisa. The series combines neon-soaked noir with copious doses of BodyHorror and BlackComedy.

* IAteWhat: This is Mary's reaction upon discovering [[EyeScream what happened]] when she filmed the final scene of ''Lucy's Eye'' while high on peyote.

** Also Lisa herself. Yes, Lou stole her movie and cut her out, but her revenge against him really went too far and involved many people outside of her revenge target, Lou. This causes Lou to go to further extremes to take Lisa out and hopefully put a stop to whatever is going on.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Well, less evil and more an enormous jerk, but Lou does love his son Jonathan and is [[AdultFear deeply worried for Jon's safety]] when he goes missing, and when he sees that Jon's been reduced to a zombie servant for Boro, he's genuinely heartbroken and devastated.

* CastingCouch: Although she's not an actress, this very much applies to how Lou approached Lisa, basically admitting that if she had just had sex with him, he would have let her direct the movie and helped catapult her career. ANd going by some lines from Jonathan, this is apparently a regular habit of Lou's.

* TheNineties: The series is stated to be set in "the early nineties", although a definitive year is not actually given, and the only real signs of the period presented in the series are clothes and vehicles.[[note]]Although Lou makes a reference to Creator/StevenSoderbergh having just landed a big development deal after the success of ''Film/SexLiesAndVideotape'', likely placing the series somewhere around 1990-1991.[[/note]]

** [[spoiler:Boro. She's always charming, polite and cordial to people, even if she's planning to do horrible things to them]].

** [[spoiler:James, the scumbag thief that Lou ultimately hires to kill Lisa. Suffice to say, having his head nearly torn off by Lisa when he goes to try and kill her the second time is pretty damned satisfying]].

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Taken to the extremes with [[spoiler:Lisa, after she's brutally beaten and left for dead. Despite suffering massive injuries, after a couple of rounds in Boro's healing milk bath, she emerges without a scratch on her]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Lisa manages to stop Boro from taking over her body, and finally gets her revenge on Lou, rendering him blind, helpless and living with the knowledge that his actions ultimately led to his son's death. Alvin Sender even buys ''Lucy's Eye'' and offers Lisa the directorial gig. However, Code, Christine and Roy are all dead, and Boro escapes by taking Mary's body, meaning that she's {{still out there somewhere}}]].

* CastingCouch: Although she's not an actress, this pretty much applies to how Lou approached Lisa, basically admitting that if she had've just slept with him, he would have let her direct the movie and helped catapult her career.

** The worm inside the crushed powder that Lou snorts, believing it's cocaine. [[spoiler:It's the final crux of the curse, causing all of Lou's nightmarish migraines, and Lisa removing it leaves Lou permanently blind]].
* CloudCuckoolander: Boro[[spoiler:, or at least, that's how she presents herself]].

* CreatorThumbprint: Anyone who's seen a Nick Antosca series will be very comfortable with much of the show's imagery, featuring creepy BodyHorror, disturbing-looking beings, oodles of surrealism and heavy use of the UncannyValley. One reviewer even described it as essentially being "''Series/ChannelZero'' Season 5".
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Although it's a pretty well-known TruthInTelevision regarding the seedy underbelly of Hollywood, Lou's behavior with Lisa, promising to take her under his wing to mentor her to stardom, and then cruelly cutting her off and trying to sink her fledgling career because she wouldn't sleep with him, would definitely remind viewers of producer and convicted sexual predator Harvey Weinstein, who pulled the same tactic on numerous actresses (most notably Creator/RoseMcGowan). Lou's speech and cadence is even very similar to Weinstein's.

* FatalFlaw: Pretty much everything that befalls him could have been avoided had Lou resisted his urge to try and sleep with Lisa and if he had handled her rejection in a more mature manner.
* GenderFlip: Boro is a man in the book and is played by Catherine Keener in the miniseries. [[spoiler:Although in both Boro is originally a man, and a woman is just the latest body he inhabits in the show.]]

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Boro's cadre of zombie servants, who, despite being dead, still possess enough rudimentary intelligence to perform tasks and maintain a slight vestige of their old selves. This is due to their being the more old school "magic-based" zombies, as opposed to the modern virus-based ones.

* VillainBall: Lou is ultimately the one responsible for the curse's success, due to willingly allowing Lisa to take some of his pubic hair (a required ingredient for Boro's spell that Lisa had failed to obtain) in a moment of hubris. If he hadn't, or if he had've just waited another half hour, the curse wouldn't have been placed to begin with.

* EyeScream: the series.

* EyeScream:

* GrandTheftMe: How [[spoiler:Boro has managed to live as long as she has, possessing the bodies of people who are implied to have some magical talent. She mentions that, after a time, they sort of fade into the background, and she all but confirms that she retains the body until it can't survive any longer]].

** We don't get to see [[spoiler:Lisa kill James, we just hear it from inside the wardrobe]].
** Also, we don't get to see [[spoiler:Mary kill Code, just the aftermath when Lisa finds his body]].

* SexMagic: After Lisa licks a poisonous toad, Boro tells her the only way to finish the ritual is by Lisa indulging in this and BloodMagic. Lisa manages to persuade Roy to help.

->''"I want to set his life '''on fire'''"''.
-->---'''Lisa Nova'''

* BiTheWay: Lisa. When asked by Boro for the name of the boy she lost her virginity too, she replies "Isabelle".

* KilledOffscreen: We don't get to see [[spoiler:Lisa kill James, we just hear it from inside the wardrobe]].

* EyeScream: What happened to [[spoiler:Mary while shooting ''Lucy's Eye''. When shooting the film's final scene, she actually tore her own eye out with her bare hands while high on peyote and ''ate it'']].

->'''Lisa:''' ''"I want to set his life '''on fire'''"''.

''Brand New Cherry Flavor'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} SupernaturalFiction Horror series created by Lenore Zion and Nick Antosca, based on the novel by Todd Grimson. Set in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles during TheNineties, it follows aspiring filmmaker Lisa Nova (Creator/RosaSalazar), who has arrived in {{Hollywood}} after her short film attracts the interest of bigshot producer Lou Burke Creator/EricLange), who tells Lisa that he wants to expand it into a feature. However, when Lisa spurns Lou's sexual advances, he steals the film's rights from under her and proceeds to cut her out of the production. Desperate for revenge, Lisa strikes a deal with a mysterious witch named Boro (Creator/CatherineKeener), placing a curse on Lou that begins to have creepy - and horrific - effects on both Lou ''and'' Lisa. The series combines neon-soaked noir with copious doses of BodyHorror and BlackComedy.