Three Netflix movies to stream if you loved ‘Roommates’
Fair play, really! Because getting here after bingeing on Roommates says a lot about your taste. The film has finally started picking up proper attention on Netflix this week, and it’s not difficult to see why.
It follows Devon, starting uni and trying to get herself sorted, when she meets Celeste during those early days, where everyone is still figuring each other out. She decides she wants to share a room with her, which, at the time, makes perfect sense. Celeste comes across as confident and put-together. The dream roommate who seems easy to get along with. And it works for a while.
The girls settle in, and after getting to know each other, they fall into that routine you do when you are living in the same space. Of course, tiffs are unavoidable, but when they start turning into rifts, there is a problem. It starts with a comment here and a reaction there, but it grows. You start noticing how they handle things differently, how neither of them is ready to back down.
And since it is a quite relatable topic to the cosmopolitan viewership of Netflix, people are watching and loving it. And now that you’ve binged it too and want more, we have three brilliant suggestions for you, and don’t worry, we won’t suggest Mean Girls. The reruns need to stop for a while.
Three Netflix movies to stream if you loved Roommates
Senior Year (2022)
Okay, Senior Year might take a very different route than Roommates, but it still carries that same feeling of being out of place around the people you technically are meant to connect with. The story follows Stephanie, who wakes up at 37 after spending twenty years in a coma and decides to return to high school to finish her final year. Way to go, Stephanie! And all this poor girl expects is a second chance to pick up where she left off, but what she actually finds is a completely different environment where nothing works the way she remembers. Of course, it’s been twenty years.
The people around her have moved on, and more importantly, the social rules have changed. The confidence she once had is dead and buried. She keeps trying to push herself back into that space, but the more she does, the clearer it becomes that she no longer fits in the same way. And that’s where it connects to Roommates. It’s that same tension of being stuck in a situation where things do not work out for you, no matter how hard you try. Rebel Wilson, as usual, will make you laugh effortlessly, and so will the film.
Booksmart (2019)
Booksmart is a movie that starts with a rather simple idea, but as the film develops, it becomes more about how friendships change when expectations don’t line up. Actually, it’s true for all sorts of relationships, but friendships are the ones that hurt the most. It’s the story of Amy and Molly, who are about to graduate and realise they have spent all their time focusing on academics while others have managed to balance both work and social life. Motivated by YOLO, they decide to make up for it in one night, expecting it to go exactly as planned.
As the night progresses, things begin to, well, not work out their way. Once they get onto the racetrack, they realise their responses to various situations are very different. They make choices that the other doesn’t agree with, and that gap between them becomes more noticeable. The friendship remains strong, but now there is no clarity. And didn’t the same thing happen in Roommates? For a while, everything was okay, but then it became more complicated when pressure became the third friend. You should play this when you want something more relaxed and humorous.
Do Revenge (2022)
Ahh, one of the fairly streamed and loved films of Netflix, Do Revenge, is our last recommendation. And yes, it might not be a “roommate” situation as such, but planning and plotting and, more importantly, the twists are what you’ll love if you haven’t watched it. It is the story of Andrea, whose social standing is damaged after a private video is leaked, and Eleanor, who has her own history tied to rumours that affected her reputation. They agree to help each other get revenge by targeting each other’s enemies, all to avoid suspicion. Genius alert!
Now, we won’t be giving any giveaway here because this is a movie you need to explore on your own. With Netflix gems like Maya Hawke and Camila Mendes, you know this is going to hit just the spot Roommates did. And we have Sophie Turner, too, to spice things up, so brace yourself accordingly.