Review: Bridgerton
Bridgerton, a Netflix series set in 1816, follows Daphne Bridgerton as she tries to find love. The show is loosely based on real-life events and the novel written by Julia Quinn. I say loosely due to...
Category: TV
Netflix’s Selena: The Series Review
Netflix released Selena: The Series on December 4, 2020. The show is a retelling of the life of famous Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla and her family. Born in Texas in 1971, Quintanilla entered the...
Three true crime docuseries for end-of-summer streaming
With the summer theatrical blockbuster now a remnant of the pre-pandemic past, streaming services of every corporate stripe have rushed in to fill the void. And since the true crime genre has long...
How cop shows serve to reinforce the racism at the heart of our culture
Mareike Jenner, Anglia Ruskin University TV police shows are a complicated strand of entertainment. Unsurprisingly, they have come under the cultural microscope in response to police brutality and...
Mystic Quest brings us the quarantine episode everyone needed
While we’ve only just now hit the halfway point to the year, 2020 is already been pretty damned rough. As of writing this, various American cities are in the grips of massive protests and riots...
Midnight Gospel: this is your brain on podcast
Somewhere along the way, it feels like podcasts took over. There is a podcast for everything, and I do mean everything (if you don’t believe me, just google whatever obscure hobby plus the word...
The year’s barely started, but Mythic Quest already delivered one of the best TV episodes of 2020
I’m sure you’ve noticed, but we now have about 10,000 dedicated streaming services. Everyone wants in on that, including Apple, though they’ve done a pretty piss poor of promoting their Apple...
The Man in the High Castle: fiction for contemporary reflection
We tend to believe that populations are capable of understanding the causes of the history we live through. However, history has been repeated in various scenarios, demonstrating that minority...
10+ pop culture releases from 2019 worth revisiting—or discovering—in 2020
While 2019 was a crappy year for politics and the effects of climate change (among other things), it was an outstanding year for pop culture. If you had trouble navigating the firehose-like release...
The best television surprises of 2019
So much television is produced nowadays it’s impossible to keep track of everything that comes out. Between the usual network and cable content and the ten thousand or so streaming services that...