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The coming-of-age drama, Cuties, shows the perils of growing up as it focuses on an 11-year-old girl who’s torn between her traditional Senegalese background and a dance troupe from her school. Amy (Fathia Youssouf) is a Senegalese girl who has immigrated to a housing estate in Paris. Her mother (Maïmouna Gueye) and the family matriarch (Mbissine […]
This Sunday, September 20th, marks the 72nd Emmy Awards (airing on ABC at 8:00PM ET/7:00PM CT). We’re also still in the throws of a global pandemic, so instead of a glitzy red carpet, television’s royalty (and the occasional film star) sitting in an auditorium pretending to be thrilled with losing a golden statue to a […]
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss the streaming wars and the release of Mulan on Disney+ in the first podcast episode.
Since the rise of Netflix and streaming the future of home entertainment was going to be through the internet. For a time, from 2013 to 2018, it seemed possible due to dominates of Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. But I personally believe the predicted death of physical media has been grossly exaggerated. The claims that physical […]
In the past week I’ve watched both seasons of Netflix’s Umbrella Academy and I have to say it was one of the most frustrating viewing experiences I’ve had this year. It’s really easy to write a rave of a series or to pan a season of TV. It’s much harder to write about a show […]
We are living in a golden age of TV thanks to the streaming revolution. Showrunners and directors have been given more creative freedom and there has been a constant flow of new shows. Yet the rise of streaming has been so fast that it leads to the fears that we are on the edge of […]
Like many women who grew up in the late 80s/early 90s, Ann M. Martin’s “The Baby-Sitters Club” book series holds a special place in my heart. I remember taking the books out of the local library as a kid (starting with the “Baby-Sitters Little Sister” series that followed Kristy’s step-sister Karen and then “graduating” to […]
The Office and Parks and Recreation are routinely heralded as two of the best comedies of the 21st century (and both are often mentioned on “Best of” lists that encompass a more significant period of time). But what fans of both shows will be quick to mention is that they became beloved in spite of […]
The fourth season of The Last Kingdom is the biggest season yet and sees more conflict between the Saxons and Danes and within the Saxon kingdoms. Years after the events of Season Three the peace between the Saxons and the Danes is about to break. The Danes led by Cnut (Magnus Bruun) have amassed a large army […]
Confession: I meant to write this article last year, right after the premiere of Dead to Me in 2019. But life in the Time Before was hectic and it never got written. However, now with seemingly unlimited time on our hands, the time has come to sing the praises of my two favorite trashy Netflix […]