It's always interesting when a new movie shoots to the top of Netflix's chart – some combination of marketing, algorithmic favour and genuine appeal takes hold and people flock in droves to see the hot new thing. In Netflix's particular case, the charts seem to be really resistant to snobbiness, too, with plenty of movies having occupied the top spot despite dire reviews.
Now a new one is taking its turn – Thrash, which I suspected could be a breakout hit the moment I saw its first corny teaser trailer. It takes the long-established shark movie format and injects a ridiculous twist by basically crossing it with another type of disaster movie: environmental disasters. Now it's sitting pretty at the top of the global Netflix movie charts.
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