Most of the time when my husband and I try a new show on Netflix that we’ve never even heard of until we spot it in some suggestion list, it’s not very good. If it’s not a Netflix original or something I’ve caught wind of in some way during my personal quest to stay informed… Continue reading Borderline is a Lot of Office-Like Fun
I think my husband and I didn’t really know what we were getting ourselves into when we started watching the Netflix original drama-thriller “Bloodline.” Mostly, I think we decided to give it a whirl because Kyle Chandler, the dad/coach from “Friday Night Lights” was the star. We’d liked that show quite a bit and considered… Continue reading Netflix’s Bloodline is a Deep, Dark Study of Sin and Guilt
Typically, when I sit down to watch a Pixar movie with my toddler (or in the past, by myself or with my husband…), I know it’s going to be good. Let’s forget about Cars 2 for a moment, and acknowledge that Pixar knows what they’re doing when they set out to make an animated film… Continue reading Inside Out is One of Pixar’s Best
Whenever my husband and I finish a show on Netflix, we tend to have to try at least two or three new ones before we settle on one we like enough. Between our high moral standards and our snobbishly nit-picky artistic ones, we’re very hard viewers to please in general. But this is especially true… Continue reading Broadchurch is a High-Quality Procedural
The Amy Adams/Clint Eastwood baseball movie Trouble with the Curve recently came to Netflix. I’d heard of it before, was vaguely aware that I’d heard of it in a positive light, but didn’t know too much about it. Not a huge baseball fan myself (at least not since I was about 14…), I wasn’t sure… Continue reading Why I Enjoyed Trouble with the Curve
Disclaimer: I haven’t seen season two; this post is on the contents of season 1, which is currently available streaming on Netflix. I had literally never heard of “Life in Pieces” when it came to Netflix a couple months ago. Apparently it premiered on CBS in 2015, but I guess I missed it. When I… Continue reading The Highs and Lows of CBS’s Life in Pieces
I’ve been a fan of historical drama since my pre-teen days of reading things like Little Women and wondering why Little House on the Prairie was so boring. So I do love when I happen upon a movie, or even more so a series, that is set in some interesting time period of the past… Continue reading AMC’s Turn is an Excellent Historical Drama
This post is about the American version of “The Office,” not the smuttier British version. I was never a huge fan of NBC’s “The Office” when it was in its prime-time prime. I’d tried watching it once or twice at some random mid-season episode and couldn’t quite understand the hype. The funny thing is, my… Continue reading The Office: Nine Seasons of Fun
