Lord of the Flies: The BBC Brings Art to Netflix | SVU

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 110 minutes

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This week, Matt and Jordan fight over the conch in their review of the BBC’s new four-part adaptation of The Lord of the Flies, now streaming on Netflix. The duo dives deep into Jack Thorne’s "cinematic" take on the classic novel, debating the effectiveness of its character-focused structure and its haunting visuals. For Rec Seg!, they've got Flies-inspired recommendations that range from the whimsical to the harrowing; and in response to listener emails, recommendations for an overseas deep-cut horror film and an experimental short (that may just scratch that jam-band itch). Plus, Matt faces his fears as Producer Sam takes over as "Dungeon Master" for this week's game, The Streaming Limited.

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0:29.9	The team behind last year's adolescence is taking us back to freshman year English.
0:35.9	It's a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies playing exclusively
0:40.1	on Netflix. I'm Matt Singer. And I'm Jordan Hoffman. With more movies, more series, more stuff going
0:48.1	straight to streaming than ever before. It felt like the right time for a podcast that keeps track of
0:52.5	it all. And that podcast is film spotting,
0:55.3	streaming video unit. And this week, we're going to talk about the BBC's adaptation of Lord
1:00.9	of the Flies, which is available on Netflix. Plus, we're going to talk about this week's
1:06.6	new to streaming titles, plus we're going to talk about some deep cut streaming recommendations,
1:12.6	plus we're going to have a new game.
1:15.8	And this time, this is exciting.
1:17.7	Sam, producer Sam, is the dungeon master of the game,
1:21.2	and I get to go head-to-head against Matt Singer for the first time.
1:24.7	It's all coming up on FilmSpotting SVU.
1:32.3	Welcome to FilmSpotting SVU. I'm Matt Singer. And before we get started here, just going to mention one more time. We are here to help you, the listener.
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