Sometimes when I look up Oscar-nominated movies (since I often haven’t heard of them until they are nominated), I get really excited about them. The Big Short was not one of those movies. It’s about some guys predicting the housing market cash of the mid-2000s and making a bunch of money off it. Oops, I… Continue reading The Big Short Exceeded My Small Expectations
*Update: This show seriously gets better and better. While I liked the first season (for all the reasons I discuss below), I now consider it to be pretty darn fantastic in its outstanding writing, storylines that continually surprise, and consistent portrayal of family and marriage as good and beautiful. There seemed to be quite a bit of… Continue reading This Is Us is Popular for Good Reason
House of Cards wasn’t really on my radar as something I wanted to watch. It wasn’t in my Netflix queue, and I honestly didn’t know too much about it. Then one day I was on the outskirts of a conversation with some fellow Christian screenwriters (who, obviously, talk a lot about the best movies and… Continue reading Why We Stopped Watching House of Cards
I’m kind of a sucker for historical dramas. Especially romances. So when I saw the trailer for Allied, which hinted at both a romance and a thriller aspect that would keep Luke interested, I added the movie to mental Redbox list. The concept is strong: Brad Pitt, a WWII spy, meets beautiful female WWII spy,… Continue reading The Trouble with the Allied
When my husband and I started watching “Iron Fist”, we had high hopes for it. So far, Daredevil was the only Netflix Original Marvel universe show we had watched, and we had kind of loved it. We were looking forward to more of the same quality in “Iron Fist.” As we watched the beginning of… Continue reading Iron Fist is No Daredevil
Fox’s new drama series “Pitch” was on my radar when it came out this last fall, but I wasn’t terribly interested in watching it until I saw some good reviews by a Facebook friend of mine. A series about a girl who becomes a major league baseball pitcher? Interesting, but I guess I thought it… Continue reading Fox’s Show “Pitch” Blindsided Me (And Made Me Really Angry!)
I don’t like football. I’ve tried. Really. Growing up with a Seahawks-crazy dad and brother, in addition to grandparents and uncles, I’ve tried many times to understand what in heck is going on. And I failed. So I never really expected to be crazy about a high school football show. But the thing about the… Continue reading Why I Loved Friday Night Lights
The CW’s “Frequency” looked to me like it might be okay, when it first came out this last fall. But it didn’t excite me enough to jump on the premier bandwagon and wait to watch an episode faithfully every week. Then it quickly came to Netflix, and it was trending (which, incidentally, doesn’t necessarily mean… Continue reading “Frequency” is… Fine
