Flashback (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
How far would you go to remember someone from 15 years ago who disappeared? Especially if under the circumstances most would happily choose to forget?
Young Adult
In the Young Adult tag, you’ll find coming-of-age stories and productions featuring those in their late teens through twenties getting their lives together.
Carnaval (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Despite seeming like a generic party film/ girls trip, there is more to Carnaval than meets the eye.
Sweet Tooth: Season 1 Episode 1 [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The premiere of Sweet Tooth pushes the idea this might be the type of show you have to give a few episodes before you can say whether it is for you or not.
Port Authortiy (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In the heart of New York, a Pittsburgh transplant hopes to start a new life living with his half-sister, but when that doesn’t come to pass, he develops a chosen family.
Made For Love: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Made For Love is the type of show that fits into the streaming wars demand for content, no matter how quirky or niche the product.
Panic: Season 1 Episode 1 [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Panic seems like a potential sleeper hit for Amazon Prime that just needs to be discovered by the right people to blow up.
Genera+ion: Season 1 (Part 1) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Genera+ion might represent the next generation of youth dramas which contain a whole new slew of problems, but they all boil down to the same you’re used to.
Horimiya: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While Horimiya starts off cute, with a potentially beautiful and complicated story, it eventually boils down to something silly and at times bloated.
Run The World: Season 1 Episode 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Run The World presents itself with many familiar characters and storylines, but there is hope it can establish its own identity in time.
Love, Death and Robots: Ice – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Two brothers, separated by one having modifications and the other not, have a night out where they bond and could potentially lose their lives.
The Promised Neverland: Season 2 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The Promised Neverland: Season 2 is a proverbial sophomore slump compared to season 1 as it presents no credible threats or reasons to get invested.
The Water Man – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
The Water Man is wonderfully cast, but the story doesn’t match up to their talent after a certain point.
Two Distant Strangers – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In this 30-minute horror story, a young man is caught in the loop of a cop killing him in a multitude of ways.
Taking The Fall (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
After a 6 year bid, a young man comes home to a party featuring all the people he took a fall for.
To Your Eternity: Season 1 Episode 1 “The Last One” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
To Your Eternity begins as a slow show, one which may come off potentially dull, but by the end, you’ll realize it hooked you without you knowing.
The Nevers: Season 1 Episode 1 “Pilot” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
After a celestial event in 1896, many people, mainly women, have gained gifts. However, for those without them, especially in positions of power, they are more so threats than anything else.
Shadow House: Season 1 Episode 1 “The Shadow and Her Doll” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Shadows House begins with establishing its core relationship, featuring two strikingly different opposites.
Voyagers (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
At times, Voyagers is the teen romantic drama you didn’t know you needed. Yet, with not always being scientifically sound and not using some characters to their fullest – it does falter.
Super Cub: Season 1 Premiere Episode 1 “The Girl With Nothing” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Super Cub is the epitome of the slice of life genre. It presents an everyday person, in animated form and focuses on the simple joys and dullness of life vs. the occasional chaos.
Higehiro: Season 1 Premiere, Episode 1 “The Teenage Girl Beneath The Lamplight” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
In a show with one of the longest titles we ever had, you have a 26-year-old taking in a teen runaway and trying to keep their relationship appropriate.
Redo of Healer: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Redo of Healer is your classic, starts off violent and shocking, but as you become adjusted to the sex and violence, you realize there isn’t much there.
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Closing out the franchise, Violet Evergarden: The Movie gives Violet the closure she has desperately needed and the tears you expect.
The Vault (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
The Vault may not be competitive in the heist genre, but It does work as something to watch when nothing else is new or on.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation may get to be a bit much at times, with its ecchi, but beyond that, it is one of the most consistent quality shows we’ve seen in a long time.
Caught By A Wave (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Caught By A Wave is a simple romance with enough drama to keep it from getting dull, but never enough to make you take situations mentioned too serious.
Servant: Season 2 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While, like most M. Night Shymalan productions, you have to wait till the end for things to get good, Servant season 2 will make you interested in a 3rd season.
Tribes of Europa: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Tribes of Europa does well in getting you interested in a post-apocalypse Europe, but more so in how the world and cultures shifted than its characters.
Cherry (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
While Cherry is too damn long, Tom Holland, and especially Ciara Bravo, present the most beautiful, f***ed up love story you might watch for a while.
Trust (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In this “Did they or didn’t they” movie, Trust pushes you to wonder who is a liar and whether the circumstances absolve one from the result?
Genera+ion: Season 1 Episode 1 “Pilot” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Genera+ion seeks to break away from young adult show trends by having their characters be three-dimensional people and not primarily defined by a specific struggle.
Coming 2 America (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Coming 2 America has its moments, but as it hints itself, like many sequels, it was unnecessary.
Boogie (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Boogie tries to be a coming of age tale, romance, drama, and feature its leads heritage to varying degrees of success.
Chaos Walking (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Chaos Walking doesn’t necessarily utilize Daisy Ridley to its best, but Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, and David Oyelowo compensate for that.
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Raya and the Last Dragon acts as a reminder Disney can still make impactful original productions that will not only make you cry but be added to their collection of classics.
Stealing School (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Stealing School may make you fearful of computer science majors as you watch one do whatever it takes to graduate.
Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry acts as a reminder of not only the brilliance of Eilish, but of her age, frailty, and how a small team made a world-renowned artist.
Ginny and Georgia: Season 1 Episode 1 “Pilot” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Ginny and Georgia comes off like that film you wanted to be a series, and after watching the first hour, you’ll be left so happy there are so many more.
Millennials: Season 1 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Despite the show being called Millennials, most of the jokes will feel very much rooted in the 90s – especially considering how politically incorrect they are.
Tribes of Europa: Season 1 Episode 1 “Chapter 1” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Netflix has a new epic on its hands and considering the vast and complicated world in Tribes of Europa, there is more going for it than against it.
