“To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” Film Review

Warning: Major Spoilers below! When I first watched the trailer for the new Netflix film To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (based on a novel of the same name), I wasn’t sure what to think. Personally, I am not a massive fan of overly sappy movies or shows because I find sappiness to be disingenuous most of the times, or romanticized to a point of unbelievability. That’s sort of how this film came across, but what caught my eye was that the main character was a PoC (actress Lana Condor is of Vietnamese ethnicity, playing half-Korean character Lara Jean…

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Why Sense8 deserved a Season 3

Netflix’s Sense8, a show that started in 2015, has taken its viewers on a wild and emotional ride. After season 2’s cliffhanger ending, we were aching for more, only to find out that Netflix cancelled the show due to the high production cost and not enough viewership to maintain the budget. Though it was a fairly straightforward reason to do so, Sense8’s audience was enraged that one of the most refreshingly inclusive, diverse, and thought-provoking shows was cancelled. Many petitioned for a renewal, though the odds seemed dire. However, in true spirit of the hopefulness in humanity that Sense8 inspired,…

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The Rain – Netflix’s New Binge Worthy Show

Given the political turmoil and violence the world has witnessed in the past few years, it really is no surprise that there has been an increased interest in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic shows. And Netflix’s new Original Danish show The Rain, which came out May 4th, fills that interest to a T. The eight episode show is premised on an unknown ecological disaster that results in rain being a fatal toxin to anyone caught in it. Not only that, but you can get infected by getting your feet wet in a puddle and infect others before dying. This sets up the…

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