Insecure: Season 2/ Episode 7 “Hella Disrespectful” – Overview/ Recap (with Spoilers)
All the signs are there that people need to move on but, unfortunately, until the point is smeared into people’s faces on Insecure, the point doesn’t come across.
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Insecure: Season 2/ Episode 6 “Hella Blows” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
“Sometimes saying goodbye means you’re making room for something better.” This quote is a lesson damn near every last character needs to learn. As for why, look below.
Game of Thrones: Season 7/ Episode 7 “The Dragon and the Wolf” [Season Finale] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While there are no epic battles and only one significant death, the 7th season finale of Game of Thrones finds a way to make things business as usual in some areas and up the ante in others.
Insecure: Season 2/ Episode 5 “Hella Shook” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Things are starting to get a little rocky in Issa’s work life but are holding steady for her ho phase. Meanwhile, Molly learns her role model parents aren’t as perfect as she thought they were.
Game of Thrones: Season 7/ Episode 6 “Beyond the Wall” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
All I can say is, considering what happens this episode, I don’t think Daenerys nor Cersei will have time to battle for the Iron Throne. Especially with the Night King now having a trump card.
Insecure: Season 2/ Episode 4 “Hella LA” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Daniel returns to Insecure and while things are awkward between the two, Kelli helps push them together. Meanwhile, Molly is propositioned and Lawrence has a threesome.
Game of Thrones: Season 7/ Episode 5 “Eastwatch” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
A slew of reunions come about and only three lead to smiling faces. The rest lead you to believe someone is going to die.
Insecure: Season 2/ Episode 3 “Hella Open” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As Issa begins to enter her ho phase, Lawrence comes to realize that maybe he isn’t as much of a good guy as he thinks he is.
Game of Thrones: Season 7/ Episode 4 “The Spoils of War” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Stark reunion is nearly complete and with growing closer to Daenerys comes Jon Snow having his first opportunity to influence her decisions. Leading to her making herself known to Jamie personally.
Insecure: Season 2/ Episode 2 “Hella Questions” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
My name is Amari and I’d like to hand in my #TeamLawrence card due to him being an F*** boy. Who do I need to talk to? […] No, I don’t wish to subscribe to #TeamIssa, though I do enjoy her storyline more than ever. Is there a #TeamMolly or even a #TeamTasha subscription available…
Game of Thrones: Season 7/ Episode 3 “The Queen’s Justice” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
A long time coming reunion, another unfortunate death, and two of the biggest characters on the show coming face to face. We’re coming toward the end of the series and they are finding ways to up the ante. Leaving this fan to wonder, how epic could the series finale be?
Game of Thrones: Season 7/ Episode 2 “Stormborn” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As everyone tries to gather allies, we are reminded it is not the number of allies but the quality of generals and soldiers that win battles.
Game of Thrones: Season 7/ Episode 1 “Dragonstone” [Season Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Game of Thrones remains perhaps the only show which can be more than 3 seasons in and still entertain its audience.
The Defiant Ones: Part 4 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The end of The Defiant Ones brings us the rise of Eminem, more name dropping, then how Beats by Dre became the phenomenon that it is. Thus leaving only how the money from that Apple deal was spent for the ending.
The Defiant Ones: Part 3 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
At a certain point, Jimmy’s story stops and just merges with Dr. Dre. Thus giving Interscope it’s meteoric rise. Yet, as before, while we hear people praise Jimmy, Dre shares his spotlight with the artist he helped make into legends.
The Defiant Ones: Part 2 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As with part 1, while Jimmy gets the privilege to name drop music legends, the more personal side of Dre competes with that. For while Dre’s time in NWA is featured, as well as Ruthless records, it is his personal life which you remember the most.
The Defiant Ones: Part 1 – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
After the still fairly recent NWA movie, Straight Outta Compton, you might think the world was done putting the spotlight on Dr. Dre. However, there is always more to a story than even a two and a half hour biopic can cover. Especially one you are sharing with 4 other men. For it was missing…
Big Little Lies: Season 1/ Episode 7 “You Get What You Need” [Season Finale] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Big Little Lies, honestly, ends in an anti-climatic way. If only because the whole “Who killed who” reveal isn’t impactful nor the reveal of who has been bullying Amabella.
Rock and a Hard Place – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
For those of you familiar with the movie Major Payne from the 90s, imagine all the comedic elements stripped and Payne being part of a reform school. This documentary strongly resembles the hardline efforts you might remember in that movie as various men and women try to not only give these young cadets second chances…
Big Little Lies: Season 1/ Episode 6 “Burning Love” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Maintaining a healthy and happy relationship with your spouse and children is hard. Just like marriage, raising a child depends on compromise, defying expectation and sometimes what you thought was normal, and constant adaptation. For love is precious yet can be fleeting. Especially when abuse, miscommunication, or irreconcilable beliefs are put into the equation. With…
Big Little Lies: Season 1/ Episode 5 “Once Bitten” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Everything is coming apart. The ideal relationship, the ideal family, the ideal mother and child relationship, it is all going to hell. Which, at one time, was something which could be endured, given a stiff upper lip, but that pose can’t be held forever. After awhile, that lip trembles, tears fall, and your grip loosens…
Big Little Lies: Season 1/ Episode 4 “Push Comes to Shove” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Closure and being happy. One usually means having the other but there is usually some obstacle in the way. Of which, usually it is one conversation which could clear things up, allow you to get something off your chest, and give yourself the permission to move on. But getting to that point of having that…
Big Little Lies: Season 1/ Episode 3 “Living The Dream” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Living the Dream is a strange episode title for it seems most of the characters are either living or remembering their most fearsome nightmares.
The Trans List – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview/ Review (with Spoilers) The Trans List, in many ways, seems like the thereafter or “Where Are They Now” sequel to Laverne Cox’s The T Word. For with each struggle as a child, teen or young adult, you have this person who made it. They sometimes aren’t 100% sure how, but here they are. Alive,…
Big Little Lies: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Serious Mothering” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview/ Review (with Spoilers) As we get to know the woman of Monterey, surprisingly Madeline almost seems like the normal one. Especially as the state of Celeste’s relationship is revealed and Jane’s vulnerability makes you question her mental state.
Big Little Lies: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Somebody’s Dead” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview/ Review (with Spoilers) While each and every big name actor and actress in this film have had polarizing roles and performances in their filmography, for each and every one this show seems to be a quick reminder. A reminder to those who love their work why they are fans and for those who don’t…
Bessie – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Bessie is the type of film which doesn’t have the same dramatic flair of big screen biopics, but the actors try to compensate by bringing the dead back to life and reintroduce them to a whole new generation. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
The Leftovers: Season 1/ Episode 1 "Pilot" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview 140 Million people disappear from around the world without explanation, and the pilot presents the world for those left behind. Review (with Spoilers) Whenever HBO decides to stray away from a group of white people dealing with living in whatever city they are in, usually they have an interesting show. Now, with The Leftovers,…
The Night Of: Season 1/ Episode 1 "Part 1: The Beach" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview You know how a movie builds, peaks and usually, ends just before you are sick and tired of it? Well, this episode is just like that and you can only hope future episodes have that same high to low or this is going to be a long journey. Rating: Stick Around Trigger Warning(s): Mutilated…
Westworld: Season 1/ Episode 10 "The Bicameral Mind" [Season Finale] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview And so the journey ends as all could have predicted, but it is never about finally arriving at point Z from A is it? It is about all the letters and details of the journey to that point. Review (with Spoilers)
Insecure: Season 1/ Episode 8 "Broken as Fuck" [Season Finale] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview The season ends with one of Issa’s relationships saved! Can you guess which one? Review (with Spoilers)
Westworld: Season 1/ Episode 9 "The Well-Tempered Clavier" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview We finally get to meet Arnold. Review (with Spoilers)
Westworld: Season 1/ Episode 8 "Trace Decay" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview As some grow closer to the maze, you realize it isn’t just this mystical place in the park but it may just be the park itself. Review (with Spoilers) After watching this episode and not rushing into the recap/ review and just letting my thoughts simmer, I realize what my issue is with this…
Insecure: Season 1/ Episode 6 "Guilty as Fuck" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview As the titles of the episode become the best way to summarize each one, so begins the need to side eye both Issa and Molly. Review (with Spoilers) Perhaps the most interesting thing to come out of this year’s quality Black television is the varied views and conversations which previously were rare occurrences. For…
Westworld: Season 1/ Episode 7 "Trompe L’Oeil" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview While most of the plot follows the trajectory you expect, then comes a truly shocking moment. Review (with Spoilers) Perhaps for the first time since this show started, I was honestly shocked by something. There was a moment, naturally toward the end, when you realized that a lot of things aren’t what they seem…
Westworld: Season 1/ Episode 6 "The Adversary" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview The arrival of the board is nigh and with Maeve becoming aware beyond even Dolores and the staff of Westworld all hiding secrets as their peers discover them, so comes the question of who is really what they seem to be? Review (with Spoilers) I usually dog out Westworld but I have to admit…
Insecure: Season 1/ Episode 4 "Thirsty As Fuck" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Just as Lawrence’s relationship with Issa is recovering, here comes Daniel. Meanwhile, Molly is still trying to find someone of status to commit to her as Rasheeda seemingly became her problem. Review (with Spoilers) There is nothing to really roar about when it comes to this episode. It has its cute moments here and…
Insecure: Season 1/ Episode 3 "Racist As Fuck" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Issa owns up to her end of her and Lawrence’s relationship problems, as Molly finally gets into “The League.” Also, Issa shows she is more than a token at work. Review (with Spoilers) I scream glory, glory hallelujah for while I can usually find a whole bunch of issues with a show to the…
Westworld: Season 1/ Episode 4 "Dissonance Theory" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview The threat of the hosts changing seems to no longer be the only thing the people of Westworld have to worry about as the threat of the board coming has now turned into a promise. Review (with Spoilers) At this point in the season, I’m just accepting that the hype was not met and…