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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guest Billie Jean Doheny, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.

This week, Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes’ The Next 365 Days.

It has been one year since Laura had her fateful encounter with the Italian gangster Massimo. In that year, Laura’s life has been turned upside down by sex and violence, passion and revenge. Recovering from her latest trauma, Laura finds herself questioning her relationship to the possessive and temperamental crime lord, drawn to the more sensitive gardener, Nacho. Laura finds herself confronted with a choice, one that will define far more than the next 365 days.

At time of recording, it was ranked 68th on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 5th February 2025.
• The Next 365 Days at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDb Bottom 100 at time of recording.
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• Michele Morrone talks to The New York Times about making 365 Days, July 2020.
• Blanka Lipińska talks to The Oprah Magazine about her inspirations for 365 Days, February 2021.
• Taylor Andrews at Cosmopolitan unpacks the horrifying subtext of 365 Days, June 2020.
• Kate Lister discusses the “ravishment fantasy” at iNews, October 2018.
• Genna Rivieccio at Culled Culture discusses the complicated sexual politics of 365 Days, July 2020.
• Meghan O’Keefe at Decider debates the voyeuristic sexual thrill of 365 Days, June 2020.
• Sam Dean at The Los Angeles Times reports on the controversy over the discovery that Flamin’ Hot may not, in fact, be based on a true story, May 2021.
• Yolanda Machado reports at Entertainment Weekly on Eva Longoria’s response to discovering that Flamin’ Hot is not based on a true story, June 2023.
• Rick Porter at The Hollywood Reporter reports on Nielsen’s efforts to expand its measurement of streaming viewership, April 2021.
• Lillian Rizzo at CNBC reports that Netflix will be officially submitting its viewership as it moves to ad-supported tiers, October 2022.
• Rick Porter at The Hollywood Reporter considers the opaque nature of streaming ratings, December 2022.
• The Futon Critic reports on The Next 365 Days‘ first week in the the streaming charts, August 2022.
• Press Party reports on The Next 365 Days’ second week in the streaming charts, August 2022.
• The Futon Critic reports on The Next 365 Days’ third week in the streaming charts, August 2022.
• Christopher Grimes at The Irish Times reports on Netflix’s decision to release its streaming data across its entire library, December 2023.
• Netflix releases its engagement report for the first half of 2023, December 2023.
• Netflix releases its engagement report for the second half of 2023, May 2024.
• Netflix releases its engagement report for the first half of 2024, September 2024.
• Genevieve Koski and Keith Phipps discuss the impact and scale of Fifty Shades of Grey at The Dissolve, February 2015.
• Deirdre Donahue at USA Today on how Fifty Shades of Grey upended the publishing industry, August 2012.
• Callie Bost at Business Insider on the spike in rope sales around the publication of Fifty Shades of Grey, June 2012.
• Andrew Buncombe at The Independent on the increase of sex toy sales following the publication of Fifty Shades of Grey, February 2015.
• Christopher Ingraham at The Washington Post on how sex toy injuries surged after Fifty Shades of Grey was published, February 2015.
• Anne Helen Petersen at BuzzFeed writes about “the sly capitalist seduction” of Fifty Shades of Grey, February 2015.
• Michele Morrone talks to Decider about working on the 365 Days franchise, August 2022.
• Ana Huang and Rina Kent talks to NPR about the “dark romance” genre, February 2023.
• Magali Bigey at The Conversation writes about the emerging “dark romance” genre, November 2024.
• Jason Murdock at Newsweek reports on the #365dayschallenge trend on TikTok, September 2020.
• Georgia Aspinall at Grazia reports on younger women boasting of harm received imitating 365 Days, July 2020.
• Ellie Fry at The Independent reports on TikTok‘s delayed reaction to the domestic violence memes related to 365 Days, September 2020.
• Ellie Fry at The Independent on how 365 Days encourages the “memefication” of domestic violence, August 2020.
• Elizabeth Harris at The New York Times considers the emergence of #BookTok, March 2021.
• Elizabeth Harris at The New York Times considers the influence of #BookTok, July 2022.
• Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry and Alexandra Schwartz talk at The New Yorker about the success of “romantasy”, February 2025.
• Ian Sandwell writes at Digital Spy about the changes made in adapting The Next 365 Days, August 2022.
• Emmy Griffiths at Hello! writes about the fan backlash to the book of The Next 365 Days, April 2022.
• Blanka Lipińska talks to Today about how her opinion of Laura has changed over the years, August 2022.
• Ian Sandwell at Digital Spy considers the ending of the film adaptation of The Next 365 Days, January 2024.
• Suzanne Braun Levine writes at The Huffington Post about the older female readers drawn to Fifty Shades of Grey, April 2012.
• Bowker considers the reader demographics for the Fifty Shades of Grey books, November 2012.
• Olga Khazan at The Atlantic considers why men like to watch women with women, March 2016.
• Tim Fitzsimons at NBC News reports on why straight women enjoy watching gay male porn, July 2018.
• Hilary Keyes at Japan Today considers the adult entertainment aimed at women, April 2020.
• Kirsty Kawano at Savvy Tokyo considers the popularity of the “boys’ love” subgenre in Japan, December 2024.
• Jessica Lindsay at Metro considers the “handkerchief code”, June 2022.
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