Fantasy Island: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Once again, Fantasy Island returns, but this incarnation has women as the lead, strips away the horror element, and tries to bring something new to the formula.
Season or series reviews of shows, summarizing all you need to know in one post.
Season Review
Season or series reviews of shows, summarizing all you need to know in one post.
To Your Eternity: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
To Your Eternity creates the opportunity to know a character from birth and watch as they navigate hardship, their first taste of love, and the side effects of trauma.
Dear White People: Season 4 (Volume IV) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Dear White People ends triumphantly for most, as we not only get to see how senior year went but get an idea of what the future holds.
Sex Education: Season 3 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
With the introduction of two non-binary characters, Sex Education continues to explore the complications of relationships beyond the drama we’ve all grown used to.
Motherland: Fort Salem: Season 2 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In its second season Motherland: Fort Salem seems overwhelmed by what it can say, do and show, to the point it barely succeeds in what it does do right.
David Makes Man: Season 2 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Thanks to a time jump that isn’t adequately reconciled, combined with diminishing the role of most characters, David Makes Man strips away a lot of what made you a fan in the first season.
The Ms. Pat Show: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The Ms. Pat Show, while raunchy, is also one of the funniest new shows to come out in years; while having a heart most shows struggle to make feel authentic.
The White Lotus: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The White Lotus may not hook you from the beginning, but with its murder mystery and after some characters escape your preconceived notions, it gets better.
The Nevers: Season 1 (Part 1) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The first half of The Nevers makes you wonder if the second half of the season is needed to appreciate it or if it’ll just end up more of the same.
Bigger: Season 2 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While in the midst of a pandemic, nothing slows down the characters of Bigger from better things, bigger drama, and people from their past shaking their world.
Genera+ion: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Genera+ion, while flawed, more than makes up for its low points by featuring queer people of color who bring a wealth of diverse stories.
Queen Sugar: Season 5 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Season 5 of Queen Sugar, despite addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020’s Black Lives Matter movement, is a reprieve from what the show has perennially given viewers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Double Cross: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The second season of Double Cross improves on the first, thanks to Robin’s inclusion and the Detective Ryan hell-bent on justice.
It’s A Sin: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
It’s A Sin does deserve points for slightly altering the narrative regarding the AIDS pandemic’s early years, but eventually, it’ll feel like more of the same.
Would You Rather: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Would You Rather gives you a raw teenage experience, sans the usual sex and drugs.
Ready To Love: Last Resort – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Despite changing some aspects of the show, Ready To Love still struggles to end up with three couples and cast people who can handle what the show calls for.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Season 4 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comes to an end, and, honestly, you’re reminded more so of where the series went wrong than what it did right.
Bridgerton: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Bridgerton on its surface can be breezy and a quick watch. However, if you choose to analyze it, it can be far deeper than a girl finding love in a newly diverse world.
Adachi and Shimamura: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Adachi and Shimamura takes the slow and steady approach to love. Thus giving you something which may feel annoyingly slow at times, but often authentic.
For The Love of Jason: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
UMC’s newest show For The Love of Jason has everything it needs, except enough episodes to not feel a bit rushed.
Industry: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While Industry does not have every character live up to its potential, Myha’la Herrold and Ken Leung damn near save the show.
His Dark Materials: Season 2 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While the men of His Dark Materials are borderline liabilities to the show’s greatness, the women, more than enough, make up for what nearly every male character lacks.
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters – A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
“In Search of the Sanderson Sisters” is truly a labor of love with moments that remind you why Bette Midler is often associated with being camp.
Lovecraft Country: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
“Lovecraft Country” continues the burgeoning tradition of, within the fantasy/horror genre, embedding Black stories to bring America’s shameful history back to life.
Raised By Wolves: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While “Raised By Wolves” starts off with so much promise, by the end of season 1, nearly every bit of its potential is lost.
Michelle Buteau: Welcome to Buteaupia – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
“Welcome To Buteaupia” will remind you of when comedians got hour-long specials because it was time, and they deserved it, rather than a network just needing content.
Rent A Girlfriend: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While “Rent A Girlfriend” began with the possibility of being more than another male fantasy anime, it shifts to being what was expected.
P-Valley: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While P-Valley takes a while to get its groove, and has misplaced focus with its characters, by the end you’re hooked.
The Chi: Season 3 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As The Chi continues to prune and grow, you can see it is fearless as it pursues avoiding routine and stagnancy.
Lucifer: Season 5 (First Half) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The first half of Lucifer’s 5th season reminds you how procedural storylines impede greater development of characters, no matter what the show.