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Almost three months ago, VH1 kicked off the ninth season of the highly popular show RuPaul’s Drag Race, where fourteen drag queens compete for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar through challenges, runways and lip-syncs. We have had incredibly gagworthy moments, like Valentina’s unforgettable mask and Eureka’s tragic injury, but in two weeks the
Photo Courtesy of UntitledTV.com The popular Showtime television show Shameless, based off of the U.K. version, encompasses a “white trash” family living below the poverty line in the southside of Chicago. With a deadbeat dad, no mother in sight, 20-something-year-old Fiona Gallagher is forced to raise her five siblings (Lip, Ian, Debbie, Carl and Liam)
Netflix is an amazing place filled with hundreds of movies and TV shows that appeal to almost everyone. With such a wide array of content available, there is something out there that is perfect for everyone and since most of us are on summer vacation, this is a good time for us to dive into
With the new season of Orange Is The New Black coming June 9, a lot of old emotions have bubbled to the surface. People have very mixed opinions regarding the final episodes of season four. On the one hand, the show failed in their representation of police brutality by the aggressor they chose. They gave us a
Multiple of my friends suggested that I watch the show Dexter. And so I did, hoping that for once a thriller wouldn’t romanticize mental illness. Obviously, I was disappointed. Dexter is a thriller TV show that narrates the life of a serial killer. Dexter only kills people that were acquitted on murder charges even though
I don’t get crushes. I just — found her interesting! It’s a friendship crush, if anything. Ever since the newest adaption of the Archie comic’s ‘Riverdale’ came out, the CW has come under fire from A-spec audiences for the erasure of Jughead’s canon asexuality and aromanticism. Aromantic and asexual audiences have had little to no representation in
Warning: Sense8 spoilers ahead! It’s not every day you find a brown woman portrayed with actual nuance on mainstream television. This is part of a representation problem encountered by almost every ethnic/marginalised minority on-screen – a problem steeped in incompleteness, narrowness and stereotypes. But the recently-cancelled (alas!) Netflix show Sense8, a series that has been
Photo credit: ABC Ben Higgins’ season of The Bachelor marked a new obsession for me. With Olivia Caridi as a hilarious and somewhat frightening villain, I felt myself drawn to the franchise and its shenanigans. It didn’t take more than an episode or two for the noticeable lack of POC to become apparent to me.
With a subtle tap on your screen, a versatile world of daring storytelling comes to life. That’s what Netflix is to most of its subscribers. Setting the stakes high is Netflix’s everyday procedure. Being the most talked about on-demand service does, however, have drawbacks. Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings has spoken out on the company’s success
Pretty Little Liars is known for having problematic storylines. From the continuous romanticization of a student-teacher relationship that only gets creepier and creepier, to further provoking negative stereotypes by having their big bad be a transgender woman. Then most recently it was revealed that Alison was impregnated with Emily’s eggs against both their knowledge. How
What a way to start Pride Month. One of Netflix’s most LGBT+-inclusive shows is no more, being cancelled just after two seasons. When Sense8 first came out in the summer of 2015, everyone raved about its inclusiveness overall — LGBT+ issues were raised and diversity was a key factor to the series’ plot. The story
From family to equality to racism, Hasan Minhaj’s comedy special on Netflix outlines his upbringing in Davis, California. He describes growing up with only his father until the age of eight, where his mother brought back his little sister, whose existence had been unknown to him until his mother’s move to the United States. The
