Tag: TV Review
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“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” is Sitcom Diversity Done Right
This side-splitting workplace comedy features a diverse cast and tackles challenging social issues. Other sitcoms should take note.
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‘Fargo’ (2014): Does the True Story Genre Need to be True?
Although Fargo is not actually based on a true story, I do believe it is worth the watch. It has drama, suspense, and a mysterious figure to keep you engaged.
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What to Watch After “Tiger King”- Recommendations
A.K.A. White Men Being Gross Finishing Tiger King on Netflix can feel like a letdown. What do you watch for the rest of the quarantine? How do you find more things to binge? What about your needs? Other documentaries feel so tame after the dumpster fire flamboyance of Tiger King. There seems to be no…
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Taking a Break from the News by Watching the News- but does “Last Week Tonight” Count?
Acutely funny and always well-intentioned, Last Week Tonight has a lot of heart for a satirical-news program.
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Three Moments in “The Star-Spangled Man” That Aren’t Being Talked About Enough
This past Friday, Disney+, and Marvel released the second episode of their new original mini-series, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Directed by Kari Skogland and written by Michael Kastelein, this is the first to see Sam (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky (Sebastian Stan) battling together. With the announcement of John Walker (Wyatt Russell) as the new Captain America (ugh)…
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“Terrace House”: The Kinder, Gentler Japanese Alternative to Reality TV
“Terrace House” improves on the standard reality TV format by affording its cast privacy, freedom, and respect.
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Netflix’s “Self Made”: What’s Fact and What’s Fiction?
Netflix takes some liberties in its portrayal of Madame CJ Walker, a trailblazing Black entrepreneur.
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“Bury Your Gays” Trope in TV and How “Wynonna Earp” Defies it
I think that the happiness and survival of “Wynonna Earp”’s LGBTQ+ characters is incredibly refreshing in contrast to the prevalence of queer suffering and death in other television.
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‘WandaVision’ Episode 5 Flips the MCU Upside Down
The following review contains major spoilers from ‘WandaVision’ Episode 5, “On a Very Special Episode…” Even though this week, both Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany were teasing a “huge cameo” in the show, I didn’t expect it to come so soon, let alone the fifth episode. What I didn’t expect was for me to jump from my bed and scream so…
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The 100: Highlighting Humanity’s Successes and Failures in Overcoming Hateful Rhetoric
The 100 imagines a future where humanity’s overcome some of its most pervasive forms of prejudice—only to create new ones.