Considering, well, the state of the country and the world, The Handmaid’s Tale was a wrecking ball coming straight for your gut. Coupled with the fact that it’s set in Cambridge/Boston, where I live, it felt genuinely terrifying to me. I had read the book back in high school, but had forgotten much of the details. Incredible performances (Alexis Bledel and Samira Wiley!!!) really make the terror of it all really sink in.
I've never watched Girls, so I can't comment on how this show compares, but Insecure is the show I would point to for so accurately depicting what it's like to be a young millennial (especially a young millennial woman of color) now.
This show is so adept at navigating aspects of being bicultural while being smart, funny, and having a whole lot of heart.
I found it a bit dry at points, but Queen Seondeok is one of my fave historical figures. Overall, still enjoyable, and Goh Hyunjung as the villain is phenomenal.
This show contains practically all of the elements I enjoy in my television. Beautiful period costumes! Antique telephones! Independent ladies! A chance to practice my Spanish! And SPOILER in the second season, ~MURDER~. It’s not an excellent show, per se. It often falls on tropes and flimsy plotlines, but it is positively enjoyable.
The humor is a bit off-kilter, which is what makes it so fantastic and so beloved. The most-recent Netflix season (after years of being gone) isn't great, but there's talk about the show coming back for another season now, considering they figure it's timely for a show about a "narcissistic, erratically behaving family...and their desperate abuses of power." Ahem.
I really wanted to like this. It has Yeon Woojin! And also Hyosung! And has to do with mental health! But it unfortunately fell flat and became a bit of a tangled, convoluted mess.
There was talk about it having been bought for an American remake a few years ago, so watch this now before the inevitably subpar remake happens! As you can guess from the title, it’s about time travel. We Koreans do love our time travel and this show has got the whole Inception-esque twists and turns things down. As often is the case in these dramas, there’s a terrible wrong that happens and our hero wants to fix it. In this case, the lead guy’s dad was killed and the lead doesn’t think it was an accident. But of course, time travel has its consequences…
The little I’ve seen of the second season feels a little bit off-the-rails, but the first season was delectable. I love the dark take on the Archie-verse and I also love seeing heartthrobs from the 80′s as the grown-ups. I also just love a good teen drama.
I’m still not perfectly sure where I stand on this in terms of a developmental psychology/health point of view. I do think it is a dangerous, dangerous thing to be messing with the topic of suicide in the form of enticingly palatable and powerful television. And I recognize I was fortunate enough to be in a good place to watch this and be okay. I had read the book when I was younger, and so my ears had perked up in recognition upon hearing about this show. From an entertainment point-of-view, yes, this drew you in and was compelling. However, I really don’t think there needs to be a second season.
If you're in the mood for something light and hilarious and with musical numbers(!), this is a great pick.
This show contains practically all of the elements I enjoy in my television. Beautiful period costumes! Antique telephones! Independent ladies! A chance to practice my Spanish! And SPOILER in the second season, ~MURDER~. It’s not an excellent show, per se. It often falls on tropes and flimsy plotlines, but it is positively enjoyable.
Generally hailed to be the Greatest TV Show of All Time. Not a happy show by any means. I will say, though, that it's my plane show, so I know firsthand that sometimes it is embarrassing when the person next to you looks over and wonders what the heck you're watching (It doesn't shy away from nudity or violence).
This show is so adept at navigating aspects of being bicultural while being smart, funny, and having a whole lot of heart.
An unjustly-cancelled cult classic that is fantastic about depicting the woes and joys of adolescence in suburbia. Plus, lots of cast members who are big stars now!
This show is so adept at navigating aspects of being bicultural while being smart, funny, and having a whole lot of heart.
This show is so adept at navigating aspects of being bicultural while being smart, funny, and having a whole lot of heart.
This show is so adept at navigating aspects of being bicultural while being smart, funny, and having a whole lot of heart.
This show is so adept at navigating aspects of being bicultural while being smart, funny, and having a whole lot of heart.
I haven't watched the American remake, but the French original is excellent. Spooky but also touching, about dead people suddenly reappearing in a small village.
