Bloodivores: Season 1/ Episode 1 "Bloodivores" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview See this episode as just an introduction, laying the foundation, before the show may just get good.
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Trickster: Season 1/ Episode 1 "Mirage on D. Hill" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A group of eccentric people run a detective agency. The older men focus on local crime and the younger guy focuses on lost pets. Though with an old foe back in action and the kid detective finding a possible ally, expect things to get a bit more interesting in Shibuya! Trigger Warning(s): Multiple Suicide…
Queen Sugar: Season 1/ Episode 1 “First Things First” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview OWN is a slept on channel. Granted, starting things off with a slew of Tyler Perry productions didn’t begin its scripted foray with the best reputation. However, since branching out to different visionaries OWN arguably has gained the type of programming you’d have expected the decades old BET to have had years ago. So…
Queen Sugar: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Evergreen” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Family. Be it by bonds created by blood or choices we made, it gets complicated. But no matter the bond it always takes two or more to maintain that connection and keep it beneficial. Which can be hard when ego, our own inability to communicate, and distrust gets in the way.
Queen Sugar: Season 1/ Episode 3 "Thy Will Be Done" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Everyone grieves differently and the pain isn’t consistent. There are good days and bad days, but it is the things left behind which matter most. So when those things are being ravaged through or taken from you, naturally it can lead to you being left a bit messed up. Which with what everyone is…
Falling Water: Season 1/ Episode 1 "Don’t Tell Bill" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Three people all missing one person each. Is the key to saving that person their dreams? Much less this mysterious rich man named Bill Boerg? Trigger Warning(s): Suicide
Westworld: Season 1/ Episode 2 "Chestnut" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview As it seems more hosts begin to gain memory functions beyond their design, in the distance trouble is coming possibly from corporate. Trigger Warning(s): Gratuitous Violence (Gun Violence)
Certain Women – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Certain Women is pure indie. There is no drama, there is no comedy, it is just slices of people’s lives at which, to some, maybe their dullest moments.
Atlanta: Season 1/ Episode 1 "The Big Bang" [Series Premiere]- Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview It’s the birth of a new series and strangely, it’s a dramedy. Which is surprising in a good way for it makes it feel like Atlanta is bridging the gap between the comedy star Donald Glover is known for and the rare, non-soap opera styled depiction of not only Black people but issues which…
Atlanta: Season 1/ Episode 2 "Streets on Lock" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Episode 2 arguably isn’t about pushing the story forward or featuring its stars. It is more so about establishing the people the stars live around and their environment. For whether it is normal people who get arrested for just drinking on their porch, trans folk, or kids acting out what they hear on rap…
Atlanta: Season 1/ Episode 3 “Go For Broke” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview “Go For Broke” arguably is about fighting becoming broke. For in the pursuit of dreams and all your ambition, there are bills to pay, children to feed and, in Earn’s case, a woman to try to not lose the respect of. Though, little by little, even if she loves him, his inability to compromise…
Atlanta: Season 1/ Episode 4 "The Streisand Effect" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Al, as has been seen, is a sensitive soul, a bit thin-skinned, but until this episode, we didn’t know how bad it was. Some online semi-famous person gets under his skin to the point he has to confront him. As that happens Darius and Earn go out because Earn needs some kind of money…
Bull: Season 1/ Episode 1 "The Necklace" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Another show dealing with lawyers in and out of courtrooms and our protagonist using their eccentric team to get the verdict they want. Sounds like it could be boring right? Well, remix the situation with the protagonist being a psychologist and not a lawyer, and watch as even minor characters are analyzed and given…
Lettin’ It All Hang Out [Book Review] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview You Better Work! Well, for most of RuPaul’s life that is just what he did. Whether is was working on a signature look, how to perfect his hair, makeup, or tuck, or climbing the stairs to stardom, working is all he did. All the while battling a few addictions, failures, and being grossly misunderstood…
Collected Quotes: Letting It All Hang Out
Best Of (On Kurt Cobain) […] I think there’s no getting around that twenty-something roadblock. That point in your life […] when [you] have to take a massive reality check. You finally have to face the fact that things are never going to be the way you thought they would be. It’s at this point…
In The Country We Love (My Family Divided) [Book Review] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview From her childhood to her adult years, Diane Guerrero takes us through the highs of her family being a cohesive unit, to one by one them being deported and her being forced to rely on friends, her parents, and a boyfriend, to be her main support system.
Collected Quotes: In The Country We Love (My Family Divided)
Best Of Truth is, among low-wage earners busting their tails to make the rent, one’s feelings are seldom discussed or acknowledged. Emotional wellness is a First World luxury. “Chapter 3: Underground.” In The Country We Love (My Family Divided) – Page 37 In immigrant communities all over the globe, celebrating is part of the culture….
Annie – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview While, arguably, there wasn’t much of a need for another Annie adaptation, it doesn’t keep this film from perhaps being one of the best renditions. Review (with Spoilers)
Anna (Mindscape) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview When a young girl claims everyone is against her, will you believe what she says, what you see, or what everyone else believes? Review (with Spoilers) Though perhaps I shouldn’t be reliant on one film, or show, being a reason to take interest in any actor’s career, especially after watching The Quiet Ones, just…
Animals – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A junkie love story which has us watch how far the two will go to find a score. Trigger Warning(s): Depictions of Drug Use Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Animal Kingdom: Season 1/ Episode 1 [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview After the death of one boy’s mother he finds himself living with the family she left behind, likely for good reason. Rating: Watch It Trigger Warning(s): Blood, Drug Use, and Guns Characters Worth Noting Smurf (Ellen Barkin) | Andrew (Shawn Hatosy) | Barry (Scott Speedman) | Joshua (Finn Cole)
Anesthesia – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview This film explores a sense of numbness, for a lack of a better way to put it. Be it because of isolation, drugs, or because you put logic over emotion. Which I’m probably not selling that well, but believe me when I say it is worth seeing this. Trigger Warning(s): Self-Harm (Burning one’s self),…
Collected Book Quotes: Tar Baby
People don’t mix races; they abandon them or pick them.” — “Tar Baby.” Toni Morrison “It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end. Work? At what? Marriage? Work and marriage? Where? Who? What can I do with this…
Collected Book Quotes From: Sula
“[…] my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely.” — Sula Peace – Sula: Page 143 “The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.” — Toni Morrison – Sula –…
Collected Quotes: Song of Solomon
“She needed what most colored girls needed: a chorus of mamas, grandmamas, aunts, cousins, sisters, neighbors, Sunday school teachers, best girl friends, and what all to give her strength life demanded of her and the humor which to live it.” — Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, p.307 “Slave names don’t bother me; but slave status…
Quotes From: Perks of Being a Wallflower
“[…] sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.” — Mr. Bill – Page 24 – Perks of Being a Wallflower “Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it’s no excuse.” — Dad – Page 28 – Perks of Being a Wallflower “[…] I think it’s bad when the…
Collected Quotes: Year of Yes (How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person)
Year of Yes Chapter by Chapter Review Best of In public, I smiled. A lot. I did a HUGE amount of smiling. And I did what I called “Athlete Talk.” […] Athlete Talk is when the athlete goes before the press and keeps a smile on her face, voice bland and pleasant as she deftly…
Collected Quotes: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Best of I realized that leaving wouldn’t be like I had imagined, like casting off a weight. Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me. — “Chapter 11.” Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Collected Quotes: Eleanor & Park
Best Of “Nothing before you counts, and I can’t even imagine an after.” — “Chapter 40.“ Eleanor & Park – Page 184 “I love your name. I don’t want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.” — Park – “Chapter 19.” Eleanor & Park – Page 89
Quotes from Maya Angelou’s Biographies
Quotes from Maya Angelou’s books: A Song Flung Up to Heaven, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Heart of a Woman and more.
Collected Quotes from: A Series of Unfortunate Events (A Bad Beginning – The Wide Window)
Best of […] it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed. — Bad Beginning (Page 34)
13 Reasons Why Franchise: Collected Quotes
In this post, you will find a collection of quotes from the Thirteen Reasons Why (Th1rteen R3asons Why or 13 Reasons Why) franchise. I hope you’ll enjoy what you find.
Collected Quotes from Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
“Living by other people’s definitions and perceptions shrinks us to shells of ourselves, rather than complex people embodying multiple identities.” — Redefining Realness: Chapter 18 “New York, 2009” – Page 249 “I could no longer maintain the shiny, untarnished, unattainable facade of that dream girl. […] In mere moments, through the intimate act of storytelling,…
Collected Quotes: Peace from Broken Pieces – How to Get Through What You’re Going Through
“[…] lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt. Lives fall apart when the foundation upon which they were built needs to be relaid. Lives fall apart, not because God is punishing us for what we have or have not done. Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they…
Collected Quotes: Looking For Alaska
Best Of “It was right then […] that I realized the importance of curves, of the thousand places where girls’ bodies ease from one place to another, from arc of the foot to ankle to calf, from calf to hip to waist to breast to neck to ski-slope nose to forehead to should to the…
Collected Quotes from “Paper Towns”
Best Of “Each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen: these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack open in places. And I mean, yeah, once…
Collected Quotes from The Fault in Our Stars
““You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, […] but you do have some say in who hurts you.” — Augustus Waters – The Fault in Our Stars – Page 313 “My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.” — Augustus Waters – The Fault in Our Stars – Page…
Collected Book Quotes: If I Stay
Chapter 14 “Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.” — “Chapter 14.” If I Stay (Page 99) “I had broken through some invisible barrier and could finally play the pieces like I heard them being played in my head, and the result had been something transcendent: the mental and physical, the technical and…
Collected Quotes from Where She Went
Collected quotes from the Gayle Forman book, “Where She Went.”