Tag: netflix
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Music From “On My Block” Is on My Playlist
Over the past few years Netflix, has blessed us with amazing shows like 13 Reason Why, Stranger Things, and Orange is the New Black. In March of 2018, one of the best show has come across my television in months: On My Block. On My Block is a coming-of-age comedy drama about four funny, street-wise…
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Godless, The Netflix Miniseries that Rewrites the Western Genre
While I’ve always been entertained by the concept of the Western genre, I can’t say that I’ve really enjoyed watching the movies that it produces. Even a satire like Blazing Saddles had me struggling to stay invested. Netflix’s new miniseries, Godless, embodies all of the fear and danger of a classic Western, while adapting to…
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Nice Guys Take a Breather, Netflix’s Love Wins This Round
Somehow, the Netflix original series Love manages to take the tired “nice guy gets the bad girl” trope and spin it on its head. Not only did writers Judd Apatow and Lesley Arfin manage to create a show with both authenticity and dimension, they did it without demonizing or gold-plating the two very human principle…
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Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why to… Not
Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why left a lot to be desired. Not that Jay Asher’s book by the same name did much better. To be concise, it was a teenage melodrama with a convoluted, repetitive and unlikely story. It was a grim and morbid version of any Freeform drama, reminiscent of the tone of Pretty Little…
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return – Next Sunday AD
After much tape circulating, a bevy of internet rumors, and a successful crowdfunding campaign, Mystery Science Theater 3000 is back at it again with more bad movies than you can shake a Netflix series at. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return is the long-awaited continuation of the cult-favorite television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 or…