Five Points: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Five Points really helps legitimize Facebook Watch as not yet another platform getting into the original content game, but a platform which may have something different to present.
Be it the characters’ perceptions, the jokes or drama, or simply because it seems all the time and effort made into the production seriously just paid off, this is a show to watch.
Five Points really helps legitimize Facebook Watch as not yet another platform getting into the original content game, but a platform which may have something different to present.
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Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why continues to push the TV landscape and harness the types of stories and visuals only seen in indie movies. Giving a sometimes too raw, to the point of seeming for the sake of dramatics, story.
Ali Wong proves that comediennes can be vulgar and funny, while not being self-deprecating in the process.
The second season of Atlanta doubles down on the eccentrics of the first and with that comes more inventive stories and the question of what was done purely because Glover and co. had the money to do it?
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With this series, we get a taste of the Black Panther in such a way that may never be seen with this much investment again.
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The overall goal of Wherever I Look is to fill in that space between the average fan and critic and advise you on what’s worth experiencing.