I hated Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” adaptation for lots of reasons. You can read my rant in The 13 Reasons Why Issues No One is Talking About. But despite the travesty that that show was, my love of young adult stories prevails. So now, there’s this young adult movie out on DVD. I wondered if… Continue reading Before I Fall: The Antithesis of 13 Reasons Why
I never watched any of ABC’s popular drama “Lost” when it was still airing weekly, but I definitely remember the buzz and excitement over the last couple seasons. I especially remember hearing people discuss and speculate on what the last season meant, on whether the characters were actually in purgatory or something like it. Years… Continue reading ABC’s Lost: The Good, the Bad, and the Super Confusing
Update: Season 2 has a few additional moral issues to be aware of, highlighted below. When I was about 32 weeks pregnant with my now 7-month old son, my husband and I had just finished the show we’d been watching nightly on Netflix and needed something new to try. This was right as the antsy… Continue reading What Makes Netflix Original “The Crown” So Good?
I think it’s not a big stretch to say that most fans of the original “Gilmore Girls” series were somewhat unsatisfied with the way it ended. Not enough closure, no real evidence of happily-ever-afters for the characters we had grown to know and love… And now, suddenly, in our social-media-outcry day and age, we have… Continue reading The Disappointments of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
I remember when “Gilmore Girls” was in its last few seasons on the CW. I was in high school at the time, and it was one of the first shows that I ever watched weekly as it aired. Eventually I gave up on watching it back then, because of the terrible plot directions of the… Continue reading Gilmore Girls: A Fun Chick Flick of a Show
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
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
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
My husband Luke was in a journalism class last semester, and he had a homework assignment to watch one of two journalist-themed movies, one of which was the 2016 Oscar winner Spotlight. Because he had already made his Catholicism known to the rest of the class, he thought he ought to choose that movie for evangelization’s… Continue reading Why I’m Glad I Watched Spotlight
