In December of 2024, I published my post examining LGBTQ+ representation in Western animation and anime, noting that twenty-six anime with direct, or indirect, yuri themes aired. This included some of my favorites, with yuri subtext, like Dungeon Meshi, Girls Band Cry, My Deer Friend Nokotan, Mayonaka Punch, Pon no Michi, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in […]
The Housemaid Review
The Housemaid is a domestic psychological thriller based on a novel by Freida McFadden and pits a young starlet and Oscar-nominated actress against each other. Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) is a young woman who served 10 years of a 15-year prison sentence. She applies for a job to be a live-in maid for a wealthy […]
Anaconda (2025) Review
The Anaconda series has received a reboot with the team behind The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and they give their version a meta, self-aware approach. Doug McCallister (Jack Black) and Ronald “Griff” Griffen Jr. (Paul Rudd) are best friends who had Hollywood dreams when they were young. However, their careers didn’t pan out the […]
Burkely’s Top Twenty Yuri Webcomics of 2025 [Part 3]
As I’ve noted in parts 1 and 2 of this series, yuri webcomics are popular online. This post will focus on teen romance and slice-of-life (Love and be Loved), teen romance (Letters on the Wall), teen drama and slice-of-life (Slice of Life), and young adult comedy and romance (High-Class Homos) comics. As a warning, this […]
Hazbin Hotel Season 2 Review
Hazbin Hotel has returned for a second season, setting out to provide more adult musical entertainment as Heaven and Hell are on the brink of war. It has been a month since Charlie Morningstar (Erika Henningsen) and her friends defeated Heaven’s Exorcist army, and Niffy (Kimiko Glenn) killed Adam. The Hazbin Hotel has suddenly become […]
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants Review
SpongeBob SquarePants is Nickelodeon’s most popular original property, and he stars in his fourth feature film, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. SpongeBob SquarePants (Tom Kenny) has finally grown to be 36 calms tall, meaning he can ride the Shipwreck rollercoaster, but ends up bottling it after seeing it. After Mr. Krabs (Clancy Brown) tells […]
Stranger Things Season Five Part Two Thoughts
I’ve been writing about television for a long time. And during that time, I’ve come to recognize a handful of truism that tend to separate the good from the mediocre when it comes to effective dramatic storytelling. Now, for folks who have studied criticism – or literature, drama, creative writing, any of the major arts, […]
The Copenhagen Test Review
The Copenhagen Test is the type of series that frustrates me more than anything. It’s got a cast of rising stars – Simu Liu (Barbie, Shang-Chi), Melissa Barrera (Scream V and VI), and Sinclair Daniel (The Other Black Girl) – with a stellar supporting cast – Brian d’Arcy James (Spotlight), Kathleen Chalfant (The Affair), Saul […]
Fackham Hall Review
From the people who watched the first two seasons of Downton Abbey, Fackham Hall is a spoof of British period dramas. The film features an ensemble cast as it rips into a popular genre. The Davenport family have owned Fackham Hall for generations, but the family patriarch, Humphrey (Damian Lewis), has no living heir. His […]
Pluribus – La Chica o El Mundo Review
Well, that was a hell of a mic drop last line – and something fun to tide us over until we get that second season (which has already been greenlit by Apple, so fear not, it is coming). But what a wild ride. We got to see just who Manuosus really is – and how […]










