No sooner did “A Easy Favor” hit Netflix on Might 19, 2024, than it rocketed its means into the streamer’s Prime 10. Based on FlixPatrol, which tracks streaming knowledge for a number of platforms worldwide, the movie landed within the quantity two spot on Netflix within the U.S. as quickly because it dropped and should properly attain #1 by the point I’ve completed penning this. As all the time, it is best to take Netflix’s viewership numbers for the flimsy metrics that they’re. Nonetheless, if Amazon wanted any reassurance that it made the precise name green-lighting a sequel (which has Feig, Kendrick, and Energetic returning together with author Jessica Sharzer), then it simply acquired some.
“A Easy Favor” itself has acquired all of it: Blake Energetic adorned in debonair fits, Anna Kendrick channeling her pent-up power into enjoying Citizen Detective, and a delectably self-aware story ripe with darkish household secrets and techniques, treachery, steamy trysts, martini-sipping, and gossipy elementary faculty dad and mom who you simply know are going to get all up and concerned in your personal enterprise. The one caveat I’ve is that Paul Feig might stand to enhance his path. He is come a good distance from his point-and-click strategy on the in any other case nice “Bridesmaids,” but he nonetheless leaves one thing wanting. A filmmaker with extra gusto may’ve actually leaned into the sleaze of “A Easy Favor,” all whereas serving up the broad laughs that Feig excels at delivering. Here is hoping he turns up the juice and emulates different filmmakers in actually letting his freak flag fly with the sequel.
Within the meantime, you may pour your self a martini of your individual, chillax on the sofa (or your most well-liked piece of furnishings), and whittle away a few hours within the afternoon by streaming “A Easy Favor” on Netflix.