Lissete Lanuza Sáenz

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Lawyer. Writer. Editor. Former Senior Editor in charge of Features, Lists, and News at CBR. Freelancer at TV Guide & Remezcla. 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.

‘Party of Five’ 1×07 Review: Find Your Voice

Party of Five’s “Speak for Yourself” was all about finding your own voice, even if, sometimes, finding it is only half the job. You still have to figure out what to do with it. Emilio, Lucia and Valentina went through…

‘The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia’ Advance Review

I’m not sure what I wanted from The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia – it’s hard to look back and say I had any expectations about a show that has gotten surprisingly little promotion and even less hype. But I…

Oscars 2020: Where are the Women?

Watching yesterdays Oscars 2020 ceremony felt a little bit like trying to reach for the impossible, and then finding that you have managed to take one, maybe two tiny steps forward. Progress, but is it really? Sure, Parasite won big…

I Will Go Down With This Ship: Jamie and Claire Edition

Ships. In entertainment, and especially, in fandom, we live and die by them. Which is why every Friday, we’ll be focusing on a couple, analyzing why we ship them, and overall, just proclaiming our eternal love for those couples that…

‘Briarpatch’ 1×01 Review: Where’s The Tiger?

I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect from Briarpatch’s pilot, officially titled “First Time in Saint Disgrace,” or from the series in general. What I do know is I didn’t expect this episode to revolve around escaped zoo animals. What…

‘Party of Five’ 1×06 Review: Impostor Syndrome

Party of Five’s “Patch Job” does a great job of straddling the fence between the small concerns, like we talked about last week, and the bigger ones, the ones that change lives. They do that by focusing on the repercussions…

23 Times We Shipped Captain Swan

It’s been a while, but good ships never really disappear from the collective consciousness. And it’s February, the month of love, so we thought we’d go back and examine some of our favorite ships, and why we shipped them. Bring…

‘The Good Place’ Series Finale Review: The Time of Our Lives

It strikes me as both incredibly strange and unbelievably fulfilling that I find myself feeling this emotional after having watched The Good Place series finale, titled “Whenever You’re Ready.” Strange because I never really thought we’d get here, never wanted…

Goodbye, Arrow. Goodbye

Please don’t ever come back. Into my life, into the world, into existence. Please, let me forget I ever invested my life into something that was going to end up being so …unsatisfying. I hated Tony Stark’s death. It soured…

‘Party of Five’ 1×05 Review: Parenting

Party of Five’s “Rafa” goes micro while the rest of the show had been going macro, and it’s both incredibly appreciated, and absolutely necessary. Yes, the restaurant is a concern, and the big issues of what being latinx means in…