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Sex Education Season 4: Happy Endings
The following review contains spoilers for Sex Education Season 4 on Netflix Editor’s Note: This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist. Sex Education began with the premise of an on-campus, student-run sex therapy […] More
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Sex Education Season 4 Is Woke As F*ck & We Love It!
Editor’s Note: This piece on Sex Education Season 4 was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist. Well, I’m sad to say that our beloved Sex Education has finally ended. Please send well wishes and positive […] More
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Heartstopper Season 2 Doesn’t Disappoint!
This review contains spoilers for Heartstopper Season 2, written by Alice Oseman and directed by Euros Lyn. Streaming on Netflix August 3rd. Editor’s Note: This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist. Heartstopper Season […] More
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Good Omens Season 2 Isn’t the Love Story We Asked For
The following review contains spoilers for Good Omens Season 2 on Prime Video. Editor’s Note: This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist. After the wild success of Good Omens on Prime Video, Neil […] More
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in SeasonsEverything I Love About Heartstopper Season 1
In preparation for the highly anticipated Season 2 of Netflix’s Heartstopper, I’m looking back at Season 1 and dissecting everything about it that made so many people fall in love with Charlie and Nick. I hadn’t heard of Alice Oseman’s graphic novel series before the show came out, but you best believe I sped through […] More
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in Seasons, Compelling CharactersIn Defense of Claire Bear: On The Bear Season 2
The following contains spoilers for The Bear Season 2 in its entirety The Bear Season 2 has been met with nearly universal acclaim, which is correct because it is absolutely wonderful. But, looking at some of the reactions one might find online™ it would seem that the central relationship between Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and […] More
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Titanic Topics in I’m a Virgo Season 1
Throughout its first season I’m a Virgo tackles some titanic issues: Wrestling with the nature of identity, social perceptions and how media influences them, capitalist exploitation, and the overall existential crises inherent in existence, just to name a few. The undercurrent throughout all these topics being a search for genuine human connection. Yet, it cleverly […] More
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in SeasonsWhy Black Mirror Season 6 Is So Toothless: A Theory
About five years ago, a little site called 25 Years Later, which had started to cover the return of Twin Peaks, and which I read as a fan of the same, decided that they would continue beyond the end of that series and begin to cover other TV. I responded to a call for writers, […] More
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The Bear Season 1 Recap: One More Food Service Before Season 2
The following recap and review contains spoilers for The Bear Season 1 (created by Christopher Storer and directed by Christopher Storer and Joanna Calo) As FX on Hulu prepares for the second season of its all-of-a-sudden smash hit, The Bear, to drop on June 22, there are parallel questions running through both the plot of the […] More
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The City on Fire Season 1 Finale Doesn’t Ignite
The following review contains spoilers for the City on Fire (2023) Season 1 finale, now streaming on AppleTV+. City On Fire bombed their audience with a three-episode premiere on May 12, fit with a sloshy plot structure and predictable strings. Through sizzle to steam, the epic conclusion from the producers of Gossip Girl and The […] More
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The Full Monty TV Series: Still Dancing After All This Time
The following review contains spoilers for The Full Monty (2023), a sequel TV series from FX Steeped and rooted in the same issues and politics as the original, The Full Monty sequel series delivers harsh societal critiques while simultaneously offering the same old humour and quirky misadventures from 25 years ago. Although… perhaps with less […] More
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Reflections Before the Yellowjackets Season 2 Finale: On Nat, Lottie, and “It Chooses”
The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets through Season 2 Episode 8, “It Chooses” If you read my weekly Yellowjackets recaps (and I hope you do!), you’ll know that I had something of a negative reaction to S2E8, “It Chooses,” when I first watched it, which at the time of this writing wasn’t all that long […] More