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Ben's Column: Homemade Season One Review
Check out Ben's review of #Homemade Season One, on Netflix.
Homemade: Season One (2020)
Premise: Confined at home as a consequence of the COVID-19 outbreak, filmmakers created personal, moving stories that capture our shared experience of life in quarantine. (more…)
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Ben's Column: The Midnight Gospel (2020) Season One Review
Check out Ben's review of Netflix's The Midnight Gospel a show he says "is so endlessly rewatchable; you may need a second viewing to wrap your head around the heady dialogue, or just to catch all the rich sight gags."
The Midnight Gospel (2020)
Premise: Clancy, a spacecaster with a malfunctioning multiverse simulator who leaves the comfort of his home to interview beings living in dying worlds.
It’s hard to imagine what TV’s cartoon landscape (outside of Fox’s primetime lineup) would look like today without Cartoon Network’s already-classic Adventure Time. The show may not have been the first…
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'Schitt's Creek' glances back as it moves ahead in emotional finale
‘Schitt’s Creek’ glances back as it moves ahead in emotional finale
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Schitt’s Creek ends with a declaration of love.
In the series finale, during a ceremony presided over by Moira, with Alexis, Johnny, and the rest of the town watching on, Patrick and David finally exchanged vows: a cappella Mariah Carey from Patrick and weepy sincerity (followed by a winking inside joke) from David.
The outpouring of love wasn’t limited to the grooms. All over the…
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Quibi's 'When the Streetlights Go On' proves bite-sized drama can be satisfying
Quibi’s ‘When the Streetlights Go On’ proves bite-sized drama can be satisfying
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‘When the Streetlights Go On’ gives me immense hope for a format I’d previously dubbed dead on arrival.
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Combing through Quibi’s catalogue, I was certain…
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'The Walking Dead' sends Michonne out on a new adventure
‘The Walking Dead’ sends Michonne out on a new adventure
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Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 10, episode 13.
After eight years on The Walking Dead, Michonne (Danai Gurira) exited the series Sunday night with a big send-off episode titled “What We Become.” The installment focused entirely on her character, who hasn’t been seen in several episodes.
It wasn’t a big surprise, considering we’ve known Season 10…
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I have surrendered my mind and soul to Bravo's 'Family Karma'
I have surrendered my mind and soul to Bravo’s ‘Family Karma’
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I lost my whole damn mind watching Bravo’s Family Karma.
I clock my first cringe of episode 1 at approximately 30 seconds in, when Brian refuses to put his phone away during an interview so he can text on it and find a wife (90 percent of my responses came from Brian, but we’ll get to that). The first two episodes had my shouting in expletive-laden Hindi at my desk and swiftly destroyed…
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The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 223 – American Vandal – The Neon Demon, Wet Hot American Summer, Dunkirk, Manhunt: Unabomber, War for the Planet of the Apes
In today's OV we review #AmericanVandal and have an extended potpourri segment!
http://traffic.libsyn.com/obsessiveviewer/OV223.mp3 RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV223 – American Vandal – The Neon Demon, Wet Hot American Summer, Dunkirk, Manhunt: Unabomber, War for the Planet of the Apes In this episode, Tiny and I review Netflix’s true crime satire American Vandal and then discuss a plethora of Potpourri covering Manhunt: Unabomber, The Neon…
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Fall Pilot Pick: SPEECHLESS
Speechless intrigued me from the start. I was not only interested to see a show based on a premise such as this, but I also was really curious to see how Minnie Driver would do in this kind of role.
If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, check it out below.
Overall, I was pleased with both. It was clear right off the bat that the show never intended to use cerebral palsy as a scapegoat for a bad narrative. In fact, the opening scene has much more to do with Minnie Driver’s character than it does anyone else, including and especially JJ.
The show takes the right approach in exploring the impact of a child/sibling with cerebral palsy without JJ (the son with cerebral palsy) being the absolute focal point. His presence creates this entire world’s worth of situations, and I really enjoyed watching Maya DiMeo (Driver) being who I assume is the voice of every frustrated parent of a disabled or special needs child.
The show kicks off with what we learn is yet another move for the DiMeo family, as lead by the matriarch of the family, Maya DiMeo. So far, no previous location has been good enough to handle the range of JJ’s needs. But this place could be different.
The pilot finds the family in various situations with their new community, who clearly represents the general public and our inherent awkwardness with those who are different. There were real moments in the show for me where I saw how a certain character or characters were reacting and I realized that I likely wouldn’t know what to do in the same situation. The narrative made me feel like I was watching a training on “How To Not Be An Idiot Around People With Special Needs” but in a good way.
From a writer’s perspective, I really enjoyed the father-son discussion scene in which the duo chooses to take a drive to their favorite hill and watch cars bottom out as they hit the end of the hill too fast. This setting puts a delightful filter on what would have been an otherwise over-dramatic scene. It also ends with one of my favorite lines from the pilot.
“I get to be right and you get to be lazy. Our two favorite things!”
There were minor things throughout the episode that were off-putting, but nothing too extreme, except for the scene where Ray (the other teen son in the family) says goodbye to his best friend at their old place. The scene exists to establish Ray’s love of astronomy (which has its payoff later), but it’s a notable “look how funny we are” scene, which bears no relevance to anything else. I think that teens joking about sex is about as unfunny as it gets. It’s a cheap laugh from shock value, not from genuine humor, and ultimately does a disservice to the rest of the episode.
If you’ve liked half-hour family comedies before, this could be another one to add to your queue. Give it a shot.
SPEECHLESS premieres Wednesday, September 21st at 7:30pm on ABC.
