Leap (Ballerina) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Despite your usual Weinstein Company delays, Leap or Ballerina is surprisingly touching and the only quip that can really be made deals with the music and villain.
SukaSuka: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Late Autumn Night’s Dream” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While the first episode was a bit rough, what was the highlight of the head and tail ends of that episode get spread out throughout this one. Especially as you realize the purpose of all these young girls.
Anne (Anne with an E): Season 1/ Episode 5 “Tightly Knotted to a Similar String” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Off the top of my head, I cannot think of another show which consistently has me smiling a goofy smile, laughing, and crying, from episode to episode. Hell, I can’t think of many movies that can do that without someone dying or someone going through something awful. Yet, somehow this show can make you cry…
Collected Quotes: Born a Crime – Stories from a South African Childhood
In this post, you’ll find quotes from Trevor Noah’s Book Born a Crime – Stories from a South African Childhood.
TV Series Collected Quotes: Akatsuki no Yona (Yona of the Dawn)
In this post, you’ll find a collection of quotes taken from the anime Akatsuki no Yona (Yona of the Dawn).
Alice to Zouroku: Season 1/ Episode 3 “Cards” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
After a rather tame 2nd episode, Sana faces the members of the facility who want their experiment back.
Sandy Wexler – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
As comedians get older, usually they retreat into the dramatic fields and start exploring what else is out there for them. Yet, for Adam Sandler, thanks to a multi-movie Netflix deal, it seems he feels validated in sticking to his old ways and not making any changes to his formula. Hence, Sandy Wexler.
Little Boxes – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
If Get Out is the horror version of what Black folk fear they may go through in the suburbs, Little Boxes depicts what for some is the reality.
Re:Creators: Season 1/ Episode 2 “…… that wasn’t funny.” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
As expected, the characters born out of someone’s imagination wish to confront their creators. However, two new creations get in the way of what would have been our first heart to heart chat.
Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka (OVA: “Is It Wrong To Seek A Hot Spring In A Dungeon?”)- Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
“Is it wrong to try to pick up hot springs in a dungeon” just gives us a quick reminder of who is who and doesn’t press the story forward.
Sin – Nanatsu no Taizai (Seven Mortal Sins): Season 1/ Episode 1 “The Proud Fallen Angel” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Like many an action oriented anime focused on women fighting, you’re basically given softcore, highly censored, hentai.
Shingeki no Bahamut – Virgin Soul: Season 1/ Episode 2 “The Miserables” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Nina becomes aware why Azazel is pursuing a war between demons and humans as the conditions they are subjected to are revealed.
Andi Mack: Season 1/ Episode 3 “Shhh!” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
As the family dynamic continues to work itself out in Andi’s household, Buffy gets into sports and Cyrus is just the supportive best friend.
Just a Couple: Season 1 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Just a Couple is the type of show which helps you realize that while Black actors may get more opportunity for roles in America, the Brits are the ones with more diverse choices.
The Fate of the Furious – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While most franchises run out of gas by the 2nd sequel, The Fate of the Furious finds a way to push out another hit thanks to the reminder that, at the end of the day, it is all about family.
Greenleaf: Season 2/ Episode 5 “Point of No Return” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Jacob and Kerissa, after spending most of the season, and Kerissa’s case the show, in the background, have the type of performances that will leave you shook and will explain why this episode is called “Point of No Return.”
Laura Mvula: Generation Anxiety – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While you could write this off as a 15-minute“Celebrities Are Like Us” piece, there is an attempt to get you to understand how debilitating anxiety can be and that those who suffer from it are not alone.
The Outcasts – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Outcasts is neither as bad as you think it may be, nor something you’ll be surprised by how much you like it.
Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka? (Sukasuka): Season 1/ Episode 1 “Broken Chronograph” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Let’s just say this, there is an interesting story at the beginning and at the end of the episode, but what lies in between may not be something you can be sold on. At least this early on.
American Playboy – The Hugh Hefner Story: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Before the Bunny: Marilyn Monroe” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
With a strong focus in using archival video when possible, and using actors to fill in the blanks, American Playboy – The Hugh Hefner Story, finds a rather interesting way to liven up the documentary genre.
Anne (Anne with an E): Season 1/ Episode 4 “An Inward Treasure Born” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
With school becoming another place of torture, Anne avoids it at all costs. However, after a heroic deed forces one of her classmates to live with her, it seems she brings another person to #TeamAnne.
Anne (Anne with an E): Season 1/ Episode 3 “But What Is So Headstrong As Youth” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
There are a lot of firsts in this episode. Anne’s first day of school, perhaps the first boy to have a crush on her, and also there is even a first for Marilla as well. The first time she really thought about being a mum.
Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho (Grimoire of Zero): Season 1/ Episode 1 “The Witch and the Beastfallen” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
In a world of beasts, demons, and witches, the humans are amassing a genocide against them all in fear of their strength and power. But, for some, like those known as the Beastfallen, they never got to choose what they were so they try to prove themselves an ally of humans for the sake of…
Anne (Anne with an E): Season 1/ Episode 2 “I Am No Bird, and No Net Ensnares Me” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Anne continues to pull on your heart strings as she tries to find a place to call home for while her imagination is a wonderful place to escape, she needs somewhere to unlace her boots.
Alice to Zouroku: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Dreams of Alice” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
This episode is dedicated to fully understanding how alone Sana was and how much she has to get acclimated to the normal world. Alongside that, we meet Zoroku’s granddaughter who takes care of Sana for the day.
The Get Down: Season 1 (Part 2)/ Episode 11 “Only From Exile Can We Come Home” [Season Finale] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While the whole Ramon thing gets kind of blown over, the season ends on what could be considered a high note. For there are drastic things seen with the majority of the characters which warrant some clarification, and a continued story, hopefully sometime in the future.
Re:Creators: Season 1/ Episode 1 “I Will Remember Everything That Happened To Me” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Contains affiliate link Re: Creators may have your generic male lead but, as always, the show is saved by the women who suddenly enter his life.
The Get Down: Season 1 (Part 2)/ Episode 10 “Gamble Everything” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
In the last episode, I said someone likely was going to die, well someone does. It is just not someone I would have guessed.
Shingeki no Bahamut – Virgin Soul: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Red Dragon” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Despite not watching the first season and being new to the property, I was left completely sold and plan to fit in some time to watch the first season.
The Get Down: Season 1 (Part 2)/ Episode 9 “One by One, Into the Dark” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
The repercussions of the last episode become clear and these young men and women are forced to decide who will dictate their fate? Also, of the possible paths they can choose, be it what’s easy or the dream, which road will they head off on?
Clockwork Planet: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Gear of Destiny” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Watch the preview above. Seems cool right? Something which gives you a slight steampunk vibe, with a rather interesting synopsis about a brilliant high school dropout that lives in a world which is a machine. Yeah, the preview is cool, the synopsis supports it, but pretty much the most noteworthy thing is the gratuitous amount…
Tsuki ga Kirei: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Spring and Hard Times” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
This is a slow anime. One which isn’t seemingly going to rush how two strangers become friends, much less in a relationship.
The Get Down: Season 1 (Part 2)/ Episode 8 “The Beat Says, This is The Way” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
With the threat of his lyricist maybe leaving The Get Down Brothers, Shaolin screws up a major opportunity for Zeke and seriously sabotages the group’s future.
The Get Down: Season 1 (Part 2)/ Episode 7 “Unfold Your Own Myth” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Get Down returns and picks up with the kids becoming local stars but no fame comes without a price. Which, for most of them, is a lack of freedom or access to the ones they care about the most. Thus leaving room for others to make their moves in.
Anne (Anne with an E): Season 1/ Episode 1 “Your Will Shall Decide Your Destiny” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
You ever see a description in which they note “Based off the classic […]” and you begin to think to yourself, “By whose standard?” If only because: A) You’ve never heard of it and B) You’ve read many a classic before which was shite? Well, strangely enough, Anne is more so an exception than following…
Greenleaf: Season 2/ Episode 4 “Revival” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While “Revival” reminds you of the importance and beauty of the church, at the same time it makes you want to shout Mac’s line “And you call yourself a Christian!”
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
For those who have followed WB Animation’s darker cartoon versions of the Batman franchise, especially dealing with Damien, this pretty much maintains previously established standards.
Sagrada Reset (Sakurada Reset): Season 1/ Episode 1 “Memory In Children” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
At first, you’ll admire the tone, pacing, and what this anime seemingly wants to do. However, after awhile, you begin to wonder how long is this episode and if you could really deal with Haruki’s monotone voice another minute.
Chewing Gum: Season 2 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Everyone’s favorite odd Black girl Tracy is back in Chewing Gum and in this season, prepare for more of the weirdest sex situations you have perhaps ever seen and some attempt to mature and grow.
