The initial set-up of YOU, Lifetime’s new crazy-addicting soapy drama is pretty skeevy. Joe (a perfectly creepy Penn Badgley), a humble bookstore clerk, falls head-over-heels for a customer, Guinevere “Becks” Beck (Elizabeth Lail) after she flirts a bit with him while buying a book. He gets her full name from her credit card (which, he […]
Author: Jean Henegan
Based in Chicago, Jean has been writing about television since 2012, for Entertainment Fuse and now Pop Culture Maniacs. She finds the best part of the gig to be discovering new and interesting shows to recommend to people (feel free to reach out to her via Twitter if you want some recs).
When she's not writing about the latest and greatest in the TV world, Jean enjoys traveling, playing flag football, training for races, and watching her beloved Chicago sports teams kick some ass.
AMC’s Humans is Everything HBO’s Westworld Thinks It Is
HBO’s Westworld is one of the most talked about shows of 2018. It’s also not a good show. Despite the continued buzz surrounding it (and the ridiculous number of Emmy nominations for famous film actors who are “slumming” it by working in a gorgeously shot, poorly written HBO drama), Westworld is a show far more […]
Why You Should Drop Everything and Watch HBO’s Succession
When HBO’s Succession premiered back in June, it didn’t get the best of reviews. Critics were relatively cold on the series, and like many, I decided I would skip it. After all, in the age of Peak TV, there’s barely enough time to watch the shows you love, much less add a new show, sight […]