Neo Yokio: Season 1/ Episode 1 “The Sea Beneath 14th Street” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
If you are aware of Jaden Smith eccentricities and find it a bit too weird for your taste, steer clear of Neo Yokio.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle, matches, if not surpasses, its predecessor when it comes to action, maintains when it comes to touching moments, but utterly fails when it comes to its multiple villains.
Channel Zero: Season 2 (No-End House)/ Episode 1 “This Isn’t Real” [Season Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Watching Channel Zero: No-End House is like being a kid and watching a sport you enjoy vs. playing it. It’s mostly boring, with a few moments of excitement, but ultimately a lackluster experience.
Greenleaf: Season 2/ Episode 15 “Two by Two” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Faith, money, morals, and understanding. Four words which are the themes as temptation lurks about and few can say they are truly holier than thou on Greenleaf.
Insecure: Season 2 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Insecure: Season 2 for some characters was a stepforward. One in which you could see maturity and growth. However, sometimes becoming a better person is just uncomfortable so some end up regressing. More on that below.
Netsuzou Trap: Season 1/ Episode 12 “Trap 12: Why Did It Take Me This Long to Realize” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
So who, in the long run, wins Hotaru’s heart? Her abusive boyfriend or her childhood friend who has been awfully hot and cold.
The Wilde Wedding – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Wilde Wedding, while slightly pretentious, and seemingly made for big city indie lovers, is rather charming and contains the rare depiction of love in a senior age.
Koi to Uso (Love and Lies): Season 1/ Episode 12 “Love and Lies” [Series Finale] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
It’s the final episode of Koi to Uso (Love and Lies) and so comes the question of: Who ends up with Yukari?
Liar: Season 1/ Episode 2 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Liar has to be one of the few shows which has me really second guessing what I think, what I should write, and I both love it and hate it for that.
Vesper – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Vesper is the type of film which reminds you of when the story was the focus of mysteries and thrillers versus jump scares.
Princess Principal: Season 1/ Episode 11 “Humble Double (Case 23)” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
Operation: Changeling finally arrives and also goes awry. However, not for Control and what they planned but Ange.
Knight’s and Magic: Season 1/ Episode 12 “Knight & Dragon” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
Ernesti faces his first defeat by means of a draw, but seemingly the finale will be the ultimate battle between Ernesti and Lord Gojass.
Smartass – Overview/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Joey King continues to build up the idea that she is definitely someone to keep on your radar. For while Smartass kind of seems like a “meh” film, her persona makes it something worth seeing. As for why? Well, look below.
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Movie) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
First They Killed My Father is perhaps the best war movie, be it theatrically released or online, in years. For it isn’t about patriotism but about history. One which this movie actually makes you want to explore further. Trigger Warning: Violent Images Used Below
Badu vs. Everythang – Overview/ Review
While seeing Erykah Badu isn’t a life-changing experience, experiencing her artistry is definitely something for your bucket list.
Raven’s Home: Season 1/ Episode 8 “Vending the Rules” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
As Chelsea is forced by Raven to face what Garret did to her life, we learn Levi is walking in his father’s footsteps.
Shingeki no Bahamut (Rage of Bahamut) – Virgin Soul: Season 1/ Episode 22 “Which Way Is The Wind Blowing?” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
The truth about what Charioce has been pursuing all this time is revealed and it leads you to question if the ends justify the means.
Better Things: Season 2/ Episode 1 “September” [Season Premiere] – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
Better Things returns and Sam’s house is in a bit of disarray. Though, as I’m sure Sam would say, “What else is new?”
A Pain Less Ordinary by L.V. Pires – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
If FreeForm ever decides to do mini-series, A Pain Less Ordinary by L.V. Pires should be one of their first adaptations in the format.
Collected Book Quotes: A Pain Less Ordinary
Page numbers are based on a .pdf sent by the author. It’s a funny thing about hope. When it dies in you, everything turns black. The world starts to turn angry and mean. And you can try to put hope into other things, like hoping you’ll grow up and never be such an awful mom, but those hopes…
Greenleaf: Season 2/ Episode 14 “The Father’s Will” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
What Basie Skanks started, bringing up homosexuals during that church meeting, comes to a head as Lionel and Aaron come to Cavalry and dig up old and new skeletons.
Wonder (Chapter by Chapter): Part 1/ Up to Page 43 – Overview/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Wonder’s trailer, similar to A Dog’s Purpose before that was released, has consistently made me bawl. So, to build up some strength before the movie, I got the book and while, as of page 43, my Puffs tissues remain untouched, I do feel like I’m being setup.
Netsuzou Trap: Season 1/ Episode 11 “Trap 11: Thanks, And I’m Sorry” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
After speaking with Takeda, Yuma decides to confess her feelings to Hotaru. However, considering who Hotaru is, does she even desire a serious relationship?
Liar: Season 1/ Episode 1 [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Liar plays on the stigma, prejudice, and assumptions surrounding rape. Of which, it does so in a way which forces the viewer to confront their own bias.
Jeff Dunham: Relative Disaster – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While Jeff Dunham’s stereotypical puppets are losing their edge, Walter and Peanut help show Jeff still has it.
Koi to Uso (Love and Lies): Season 1/ Episode 11 “I Don’t Care If It’s a Lie” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
Is there any hope at all for what Ririna may be feeling or has she long succumb to the idea that she should just be happy Yukari is in her life?
Insecure: Season 2/ Episode 8 “Hella Perspective” [Season Finale] – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
Up to a certain point, you may think that everyone maybe getting their situations together. But, in the long run, happy and functioning people don’t keep shows running.
Princess Principal: Season 1/ Episode 10 “Comfort Comrade (Case 22)” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
It’s another origin story episode, this time focused on Ange’s time in Control’s spy farm. But while the show presents a ho-hum backstory, the ending gives it the jolt it desperately needs.
Knight’s and Magic: Season 1/ Episode 11 “Hit & Away” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
As the approved by Ernesti, written by Ernesti, tale of his triumphs over all opposition continues, another villain pathetically bites the dust.
Raven’s Home: Season 1/ Episode 7 “Dancing Tween” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
As Chelsea cements the idea she isn’t a complete airhead, Raven tries to be supermom and Nia expresses some anxiety about the 6th-grade dance.
Shingeki no Bahamut (Rage of Bahamut) – Virgin Soul: Season 1/ Episode 21 “Vengeance” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
The fate of El (Mugaro) is revealed, and it takes us one step forward to what maybe the final battle between the gods, demons, and mankind.
#RealityHigh – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Thanks to some bizarre decisions, #RealityHigh loses the few things likable it had to utter and complete nonsense.
Home Again – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
In order to enjoy Home Again, I want you to strip away the idea you need the usual drama we see in movies and TV. For what seems to be the pursuit in Home Again is showing weird and complicated relationships. Ones which, by the grace of some other worldly being, come into our lives…
Greenleaf: Season 2/ Episode 13 “Silence and Loneliness” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
Guilt and insecurities are the focus of this episode. Especially as people expose their soft under belly to those who can, or have, hurt them the most. More on that below.
Stephen King’s IT (2017) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
The new version of Stephen King’s IT is deserving of a bit of praise. With it being a theatrical release, rather than TV miniseries, it is quite creepier. Also, the young actors are pushed beyond what the original kids were in terms of giving their character’s heart. Yet, there is the problem it disappoints as…
The Bold Type: Season 1 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Bold Type is the perfect mold between FreeForm’s primary focus and that of its former identity, ABC Family. We get both FreeForm’s obsession with young, modelesque young adults while we get what ABC Family did best. Which is pushing the envelope, bring about diverse and intriguing stories, while also catering to that a teen…
Netsuzou Trap: Season 1/ Episode 10 “Trap 10: What Exactly Is Our Relationship?” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
While we are given nothing new in terms of Hotaru and Yuma’s relationship, we are given some additional insight into Fujiwara and Hotaru’s.
The Bold Type: Season 1/ Episode 10 “Carry the Weight” [Season Finale] – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
The Bold Type ends its first season reminding fans, and those curious, what it is essentially about. Finding love, making mistakes, showing initiative, and realizing there is more to life than your 9 to 5 and parties. Whenever possible, find meaning in your work and life for that is what makes you the bold type.
Collected Book Quotes: Surpassing Certainty — What My Twenties Taught Me
Best Of And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And…
