Photo courtesy of Gordon Correll, flickr. Netflix has been on a roll lately with a series of hit shows with excellent multi-season potential. Among these is the 2018 series “You,” in which an obsessive bookstore employee, Joe Goldberg, stalks women he believes to be his ideal love interest and commits […]
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Squid Game a visual spectacle that can overindulge in itself
Photo courtesy of Fair Use, Wiki. South Korean film and television has been slowly but surely overtaking the world in the past few decades, most notably with the recent Academy Awards wins for Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite.” Nobody can argue that this mainstream popularity is not deserved, especially when considering […]
Netflix’s new Britney Spears doc hollow and poorly timed
Photo courtesy of Jennifer, Flickr. To the public eye, Britney Spears is many things. She’s been given so many different masks to wear that some of them have begun to blur into one another. How does one separate the schoolgirl outfits that defined her “Baby One More Time” era from […]
Midnight Mass’s stellar acting makes up for its various flaws
Photo courtesy of Netflix, wiki. Mike Flanagan, best known as the creator of highly successful Netflix horror miniseries “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” returns to the same streaming service with another supernatural — and this time quite religiously themed — episodic journey by the […]
“Sex Education” comes back harder than ever before
Photo courtesy of MTV International, Wiki From breakups to vulva cupcakes, the third season of “Sex Education” has yet again balanced heart and humor. The Netflix original series dropped its new season on Sept. 17 after a long wait due to COVID-19 halting the production in 2020. Debuting in 2019, […]
“Shadow and Bone” brings a fantastical world to Netflix
Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore, Wikipedia When I was 16 years old, if I wasn’t at home or school, you could likely find me at the library. It was there that I first came across a book called “Six of Crows” by an author named Leigh Bardugo. I checked […]
“Why Are You Like This?” captures the intimacy of inclusivity
Photo courtesy of Mal Vickers, Wikipedia “Why Are You Like This?” is Netflix's latest Australian-based series that was released on Friday, April 16. Originally featured in the Australian comedy anthology series, “Fresh Blood,” the anthology featured multiple shows with various plots. The original show was released in 2018 on Australia's ABC […]
The case that put Aunt Becky behind bars has come to Netflix
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Directed by Chris Smith, known for his work on the documentaries “Tiger King” and “Fyre,” “Operation Varsity Blues” tells the sordid tale of the 2019 college admissions scandal primarily through reenactments. There are also interviews with everyone from co-conspirators to bystanders in the field of […]
“Ginny & Georgia” delves into issues around identity
Photo courtesy of Fair Use, Wikipedia Released on Feb. 24, Netflix’s new series “Ginny and Georgia” follows 30-year-old single mother Georgia (Brianne Howey) as she raises her two children, who each have different fathers. Her children include 15-year-old Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and 9-year-old Austin (Diesel La Torraca). The family […]
New Netflix true crime docu-series disappoints audiences
Photo courtesy of Fair Use, Wikipedia It began on Oct. 15, 1985. It ended the next day. Three bombings shook Salt Lake City, Utah, leaving its citizens feeling uncertain and unsafe. At first, it appeared that the bombings had three total victims, each of them connected to the Church […]