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 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
Update: Season 3 of this series is pretty fantastic! I gave the season its own review, I liked it so much! My husband and I started watching the Netflix Original series “Daredevil” a few months after it was released, kind of on a whim, knowing very little about it, beyond that it looked at least… Continue reading What Catholics Should Know About Netflix’s Daredevil
I must confess that I was excited to watch Netflix’s new series, “13 Reasons Why.” As much as one can be excited to watch something that has as the core of its premise a teenager killing herself. Mostly, I was intrigued because I knew it was adapted from a best-selling young adult novel, and I… Continue reading The “13 Reasons Why” Issues that No One is Talking About
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
