Which one of these streaming banners is for a biopic mocking the exact low-effort Oscar bait that the other one is: Is it Brain On Fire, the brave story of real-life journalist Susannah Cahalan (Chloe Grace Moretz) who can no longer tell fact from fiction after she gets diagnosed with her brain literally being on fire …
Or is it Teresa: The Making Of A Saint, which chronicles a young Mother Teresa (Megan Fox) as she enters the convent and must make the harrowing choice between giving love to one man or all of mankind?
Unfortunately for those of us who don’t like the idea of our brains spontaneously overheating and Netflix using that nightmare as C-grade filler content, the meta one is Teresa. Another: Which of these is an actual Netflix reality dating show and which is a 10-year-old 30 Rock sketch: Milf Island, where twenty bikini-clad cougars compete in seduction challenges or get voted off the island by a panel of young manlets …
Or Age Gap Love, where several May-December couples vie to convince audiences that their love is real despite the trophy wives constantly checking their Cartier watches waiting for the Grim Reaper to show up?
Again, the former Survivor spoof has the less embarrassing honor of being on Nestflix. Let’s end with a hard one. Guess which depressingly low-effort Adam Sanders vehicle is a parody: The Do-Over, where Adam Sandler unconvincingly fights crime in his favorite tropical holiday destination …
Or Murder Mystery, where Adam Sandler unconvincingly solves crime in his favorite tropical holiday destination …
Trick question: both of those were made by Netflix, and both of them are an absolute joke. However, if you want to get properly existentially philosophical, there’s plenty of actual meta-mindscrewery to ponder hidden inside Nestflix’s catalog. Like how, for example, both Netflix and Nestflix have an entry for The Truman Show, what with the film being set almost completely on a film set. Which begs the question: Which parts of that movie are supposed to be fictional, and which parts are supposed to be fictionally fictional?