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Lawyer. Writer. Columnist. Geek. Eternal optimist. Fangirl since the dawn of time. Hates the color yellow, olives and cigarettes. Has a recurring nightmare where she’s forced to choose between sports and books. Falls in love with fictional characters.

‘One Day at a Time’ Adds Indie de Beaufort & Alex Quijano

It’s a family affair, and it will continue to be so, at One Day At A Time. The show, which is now filming it’s Season 3, is adding two new characters to Season 3, according to Deadline. India de Beaufort…

Amazon’s ‘Jack Ryan’ is Bo-bo-bo-boooring

When Alyssa and I walked into Ballroom 20 for a screening of Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan during San Diego Comic Con, we had no expectations. No, really, we didn’t. We just walked in early because we wanted to make sure…

‘Iron Fist’ Releases New Season 2 Trailer

Netflix’s Iron Fist, which will premiere in less than a month, just released it’s first official trailer for season 2, and we literally only have one question: where’s our villain? I mean, there’s a villain, yes, but it’s not the…

‘Anne With An E’ Renewed for Season 3

Green Gables, here we go again! Anne With An E has been renewed for Season 3, which means we won’t be saying goodbye to Anne, Gilbert, Matthew or Marilla anytime soon. Thank you, TV Gods. Thank you Netflix. Anne with an…

7 Reasons Why You Should be Watching Netflix’s ‘Cable Girls’

Netflix has a lot of original content, probably way more than you have had time to sift through. At times, it can get overwhelming to have that many choices. First world problems, I know, but how can you pick between…

FYI: Real Diversity Starts in the Writers Room

Every so often I find myself writing headlines, looking at them and thinking, well, isn’t that just obvious? Why does it even need to be said? And yet, sadly, we live in a world where they still do. This morning,…

‘Cloak and Dagger’ 1×10 Review: Learning to Care

Well, talk about going out with a bang. A very LITERAL bang. Cloak and Dagger closed Season 1 with “Colony Collapse,” an episode that flips the tables – so to speak – for our titular heroes, as well as establishes…

‘Iron Fist’ SDCC Interviews: Female Empowerment and Romance Ahead in Season 2?

Netflix announced during San Diego Comic Con that Season 2 of Iron Fist, the ‘other’ Defender – perhaps, our least favorite one, would premiere on September 7th. And yet sitting in the press room and hearing the actors and new…

Our SDCC2018 Highlight: #SaveTimeless

San Diego Comic Con is in the books, and as we look back on it’s 2018 edition, I have to categorically say the highlight for us was …well, the #SaveTimeless movement. Even if, due to busy schedules and the general…

‘Luke Cage’ Season 2 Review: High highs and Low lows

At times, I really liked season 2 of Luke Cage. I definitely liked it more than I liked the first one, which started amazingly, lost steam around the middle and just never recovered. But I also had more problems with…

CBS SDCC Interviews: ‘Tell Me A Story’ and “Magnum PI’ Leave A Mark

Sometimes you go into a press room for something and end up leaving with a new appreciation for other things. That’s what happened to us during the CBS press room at San Diego Comic Con. We were there for Charmed,…

Cast of ‘Episode IX’ Announced – With One Big Surprise

A galaxy far, far away is not done with Carrie Fisher. Not that any of us could ever be. Today, Star Wars announced the official cast for the yet untitled Episode IX. With it came the confirmation that the role…

‘Charmed’ SDCC Interview: Jennie Snyder Urman Talks about Why it Was Time for This Charmed

The Charmed reboot has been controversial, to say the least. Some people (*raises hands*) loved the original but are still willing to give this new, diverse reboot a try – especially because it’s not the same characters. Others just don’t…

‘Cloak and Dagger’ 1×09 Review: What Makes a Hero

When you’re asked to fill in for a review, you always hope you get this kind of an episode to sink your teeth into. Because this was a hell of a penultimate episode in what has been a hell of…

Exclusive: Elijah Bynum Talks his Directorial Debut ‘Hot Summer Nights’

Directing your first feature film is, of course, always a dream come true. More often than not, the road someone takes to get to that place, is a story almost as, if not more interesting, than the actual film. The…

Exclusive: Maia Mitchell talks ‘Hot Summer Nights’

Well, its summer, so what could be more appropriate than a movie called ‘Hot Summer Nights’? The aforementioned movie, a coming of age story about an awkward teenager who gets in over his head dealing drugs while falling for his…

‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 to Air in First Half of 2019

Winter (season 8) is coming sooner than we expected. God, how I’m going to miss that joke when the show is finally over. We’ve known for a long while that we were going to have to wait a while for…

Our ‘The Gifted’ Soundtrack

Whether you’re big on music or not, you probably can’t escape relating some songs to your favorite shows or coming up with a soundtrack for it in your mind. It happens to all of us. You’re listening to the radio…

‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Reboot in the Works

Look, we’ll be the first to admit we love Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and after all the love I’ve thrown the Charmed reboot it’d be very hypocritical of me to now say I want nothing to do with another reboot…

Our ‘One Day At A Time’ Soundtrack

You know how some shows you watch with a soundtrack in your mind? You can hear what they sound like, in a way. Or how some songs just so profoundly remind you of a character that you’re forever convinced the…

‘Anne With An E’ Episodes 2×01-2×05 Review: Adventure is not outside; it is within

Oh, Anne. How I’ve missed you. How I love you. How little I care that you’re not exactly the same Anne I grew up with. Because that’s the thing, once again, the thing that will cause division – Anne With…