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…
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…
‘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…
‘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…