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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.

‘Dollface’ Season 1 Review: With A Little Help From Your Friends

It’s hard to review Dollface, though I previously attempted to do it without spoilers, so hey, if you haven’t finished watching yet, you can check that out first. If you have, and/or don’t care for spoilers (hello, like-minded individuals), you’re…

‘The Good Place’ 4×08 Review: We Could Have Had it All

The Good Place does this thing, every season, where they move the plot along much faster than you thought they were going to, and all the sudden it’s episode 8 and you’re like wait, we’re getting the answer to the…

‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’ is Actually …Fun

I know, I know. Feels a little like blasphemy. But hear me out, because I promise, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, despite the, ahem, less than idea name, is actually, not as bad as you expected it to…

‘His Dark Materials’ 1×02 Review: You Can Be Extraordinary

Watching “The Idea of North,” I’m reminded that His Dark Materials and I go way back. I read the books for the first time when I was a teenager, and spent many a day trying to make sense of the…

Tracy Ifeachor Talks Tara’s Journey on Treadstone

Tracy Ifeachor is uniquely cognizant of what it means to play Tara Colman in the current political climate. An investigative journalist who’s unraveling what’s going on with a secret government project that many people would kill to protect? Might not…

‘Let it Snow’ is What YA Dreams are Made Of

Let it Snow is many, many things. It’s a story about Christmas, complete with more than one musical number (yeah, I’m as shocked as you are), a hell of a lot of snow, and the typical setting for these types…

Can ‘Frozen 2’ Actually be Good? We Really Hope So

Look, the promotional material for Frozen 2 has looked consistently amazing. I’m a big fan of the original. So yes, I’ve been paying attention to the hype surrounding the second movie, because …if it was bad, I was just gonna…

D’Arcy Carden to Star in ‘A League of Their Own’ Series

I’m not sure what’s better, that I didn’t know Amazon was developing an adaptation of the movie A League of Their Own, which is only like one of the best – if not THE actual best – sports movie to…

‘The Good Place’ 4×07 Review: Let’s Talk About Chidi

The Good Place‘s “Help is Other People” marks the midway point of this, the final season of the show, and there’s a lot we could discuss at this point, from the messaging (which remains on point), to the way these actors…

‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Is Diverse and Feminist AF

If you’d asked me before I went to the theater to watch Terminator: Dark Fate if I’d be writing about it, the answer would have been no. Action films are usually, well, just action films, and as much as I…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Scharnitzky talks Petra and ‘Treadstone’

For Gabrielle Scharnitzky, playing Petra means a lot. It isn’t just because she knew the source material before taking the role on Treadstone, or even because Hollywood’s ageism issue makes it so that roles like Petra are few and far…

77 Thoughts We had While Watching Bluff City Law’s “American Epidemic”

Bluff City Law is the kind of show that makes us think. It’s also the kind of show that, sometimes, has our mind going a million miles an hour. So, this time, I wanted to try something different for this…

‘Dollface’ is the Friendship-focused Comedy we Deserved

At first, Dollface is just a little too much. Too weird, too hard to follow and just too damn real. But that’s just the first impression. Soon, it settles into the kind of show I always knew I needed but…

EXCLUSIVE: Garth Stein Talks ‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’ and What’s Next

For Garth Stein, seeing The Art of Racing in the Rain, come to life was “really, really weird.” If you think about it, how could it be any other way? Writing a book is, in many ways, like having a…

‘Pearson’ Cancelled at USA And We’re Angry

 The hits just keep on coming. This time, with Pearson. We’ll be the first to say the first season of Pearson was uneven – too much Bobby Novak at times, too much setup in general – but the show, like…

‘Holiday in the Wild’ Review: Is This Even a Holiday Movie?

On the one hand, I wanted a different kind of holiday movie, I did. Not everyone’s holiday is about snow, and decorations, and if Holiday in the Wild does one thing right, it’s give a glimpse of a different type…

The 5 Stages of Emily Bett Rickards Returning to ‘Arrow’

It could be no other way. Emily Bett Rickards is reprising her role as Felicity Smoak in Arrow. She will appear in the series finale. No, really, nothing else made sense. This show has been as much about Felicity as…

‘The Good Place’ 4×06 Review: Be Better, A Chip Driver Mystery

The Good Place’s “A Chip Driver Mystery” not only manages to move the plot forward – with John finally in on Jason’s secret, and absolutely everyone, from Simone to Chidi, and even Tahani, ready to call Brent out on his…

What the ‘Timeless’ Characters Would Dress As for Halloween

We all love Halloween, and we love dressing up. And yet, the funny thing is, for a show like Timeless, the characters got to dress up so many times, as they went from era to era, that would they really…

Marla Sokoloff Talks ‘The Road Home for Christmas’ & ‘The Christmas Hotel’

Marla Sokoloff can do it all. Or, at least, talking to her, you get the sense that she thinks she can, and she’s very much gonna try. If you ask us, she’s succeeding. Last Saturday, we got to see her…

‘The Good Place’ 4×05 Review: Change is Your Friend

What is good? What is bad? What is growth? The Good Place, as always, manages to tackle all these existential questions, while still making us laugh. “Employee of the Bearimy” is yet another episode where this show takes the time…