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What It Feels Like
Lisa Nova comes to 1990s Hollywood to direct a horror film. A producer betrays her. She seeks revenge through occult means. The curse spirals out of control. Rosa Salazar is Lisa in the adaptation of Todd Grimson's novel: Hollywood as nightmare, revenge as body horror, surreal LA noir.
The 7-Dimension Analysis
Characters & Acting (8/10)
Rosa Salazar as Lisa: the aspiring director, the wounded woman, the revenge-seeker. Catherine Keener as the occultist who helps her. The performances embrace the surreal. Salazar commits to the physical demands.
World Building (8/10)
1990s Hollywood: the industry, the predators, the occult underground. The world is dream logic—Hollywood as hellscape. The surrealism operates by its own rules.
Cinematography (9/10)
Netflix production with surreal vision: 90s LA rendered as nightmare, the body horror visualized, the occult staged as practical effects. The style is unique—Lynchian without being Lynch.
Visual Spectacle (8/10)
The body horror: what Lisa must do for the curse, what the curse does to others. The spectacle is uncomfortable—vomit, transformations, the supernatural rendered as organic. Not for the squeamish.
Conceptual Density (7/10)
Revenge, Hollywood exploitation, what women must sacrifice, whether revenge is worth the cost. The show explores these through surreal metaphor. The body horror is thematic.
Narrative Drive (7/10)
Lisa's revenge, the curse's consequences, the Hollywood industry's predation. The structure is surrealist nightmare—the drive is watching the spiral. The pacing is dreamlike.
Narrative Path & Resolution (7/10)
Complete miniseries. The revenge is taken, the cost is paid, the ending is appropriately surreal. The story concludes but not neatly. Ambiguous and fitting.
Where to Watch
US: Netflix
UK: Netflix