Jenna Ortega’s Controversial Thriller Heads to Netflix Despite One of the Lowest Possible Rotten Tomatoes Score

Summary:

• Next week Netflix is going to add badly-received Jenna Ortega’s thriller.
• It is criticized for exploring the theme of a forbidden romance between a teacher and a student

The audience perceives Jenna Ortega mostly as the rising scream queen due to her bright roles in slashers Scream and X, as well as in Tim Burton’s Wednesday. However, now the actress starts to conquer other movie genres, with the one attempt clearly being not so successful as it assumed to be.

The point here is that Ortega starred in this year’s erotic thriller, the main leitmotif of which is itself dubious, apart from the very quality of the movie. Indeed, its plot revolves around the relationship between a teacher and a student, played by the Wednesday star.

It follows an 18-year-old girl falling in love with her professor at a creative writing class, while he finds himself shocked both by her skills and her attractiveness. Suppressing his obvious feelings for a student and then blatantly rejecting her, the teacher later becomes the victim of her angry revenge, which includes blackmailing.

Despite the presence of the obvious condemnations of this type of relationship and the fact that it is a teacher who is presented as a victim of this conflict, the movie was panned by the audience by raising such an issue on the big screen.

Many argue that it clearly romanticizes the inappropriate romance and doesn’t tell that the students are almost always manipulated by their professors in their sexual exploits, and not vice versa, as they’re in a vulnerable position behind their supervisors.

Ortega, who is now 21, starred together with the industry’s accomplished Martin Freeman (Fargo, Sherlock, The Hobbit). The John Watson actor is 31 years older than the actress is, which correlates well with their characters’ age difference.

The actors’ onscreen chemistry is, indeed, believable, and at the same horrifying. “They did have tension and I could feel it come through the screen and it keeps you wanting something to happen but when it does it's satisfying in such an unsatisfied way,” concludes Redditor @CrustyTina.

We’re talking about the poorly received thriller titled Miller’s Girl, which became not only a box office failure, but also a critically destroyed movie. It gained a shameful 29% on Rotten Tomatoes and is claimed to be superficial and clickbaity.

Check out the hottake "If it's not controversial, it's not interesting," delivered by the movie’s premise, as Miller’s Girl will become available on Netflix on April 25.