Streaming Exclusive: The Shows I Meant to Watch

Before starting this project, I had seen exactly 9 episodes of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. It is only 10 episodes. That should be easy to blow through. I thought when I started this project that surely at some point during the 31-day project, I would get around to this last hour of content. I did not. Before starting this project, I’d seen 4 episodes of Amazon’s The Man … Continue reading Streaming Exclusive: The Shows I Meant to Watch

Streaming Exclusive: The Blog About Not Blogging

While I am not egotistical enough to believe that this blogging project had hoards of fans who read it religiously, I still owe an explanation to anyone who’s been trying to keep up. I haven’t written in several days in part because it’s really hard to write when you don’t feel proud of your writing. I hate feeling like I have nothing to write about … Continue reading Streaming Exclusive: The Blog About Not Blogging

Streaming Exclusive Days 9 and 10: Endings and Beginnings

Anne’s Note: I didn’t blog yesterday because I had not streamed anything the day before. I’ve been getting into a bad cycle of forcing myself to blog before watching anything. The problem with this is that some days I’m so tired from blogging that I end up not watching anything and thus have nothing to blog about. Since the ultimate purpose of this project is … Continue reading Streaming Exclusive Days 9 and 10: Endings and Beginnings

Streaming Exclusive Day 7: Still Keeping it Casual

My Mood for the Day:  What I Watched: Hulu’s Casual (S1:E4-S1:E6), plus seeing I, Tonya at the cinema. What IMDb says: A new comedy series about a bachelor brother and his newly divorced sister living under one roof again. Together, they coach each other through the crazy world of dating while raising her teenage daughter. My Thoughts On What I Watched: I continue to enjoy Casual. These three episodes maintained the charm of the … Continue reading Streaming Exclusive Day 7: Still Keeping it Casual

Streaming Exclusive Day 5: Hulu’s a thing.

My Mood For the Day: Wanting to finish Master of None. 

What I Watched: Netflix’s Master of None (S2:E9-S2:10), Hulu’s Difficult People (S1:E1), and Hulu’s Casual (S1:E1-S1:E3).

What IMDb says: The personal and professional life of Dev, a 30-year-old actor in New York. (Master of None) 

— Life is really tough for Julie and Billy, two 30-something aspiring comics living and working in New York City. While their friends and acquaintances move on to find success and love, they continue to struggle with careers and relationships, getting more bitter by the day. (Difficult People) 

— A new comedy series about a bachelor brother and his newly divorced sister living under one roof again. Together, they coach each other through the crazy world of dating while raising her teenage daughter. (Casual)

 

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Albums to Listen to Instead of Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’

There are enough think pieces on the internet explaining why Taylor Swift is mildly irritating, so there’s relatively little point in me writing another one. What I HAVEN’T seen on the internet is a list of music for people who like Taylor the Musician, but are becoming more and more irritated with Taylor the Celebrity. Or maybe you have no problem with Taylor, and perhaps … Continue reading Albums to Listen to Instead of Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’

Do I Even Like Stranger Things?

People who have known me a long time know that it took me a ridiculously long time to finish the Harry Potter books. This isn’t because I thought the books were bad, it’s because I realized around 12 years old that I wasn’t reading out of genuine enjoyment, but out of social pressure. It was what everyone else was doing. It was something you did to feel relevant in the sort of bookworm social circles that 12-year-old me associated with.

The current version of this is Stranger Things. It’s not a BAD show. But the more I watch the more I can’t help but think that I’m not watching it out of genuine enjoyment, I’m watching because if I don’t watch it right now, someone might spoil it. It feels like a show I’m supposed to like. I WANT to catch up on Jane The Virgin, Crazy Ex Girlfriend, This Is Us, and Hell’s Kitchen. But I NEED to watch Stranger Things because I’m trying to have a blog about movies and tv and Stranger Things is something I should probably write about for SEO purposes. And just think of all the memes I wouldn’t understand if I didn’t watch Stranger Things. I NEED to be able to understand the memes and so apparently I NEED to watch Stranger Things.  Continue reading “Do I Even Like Stranger Things?”

Marshall Should’ve Been a Miniseries

So you may be vaguely aware of the fact that Chadwick Boseman is continuing his string of biopics about awesome, trailblazing black guys. Good for you Chadwick Boseman, you go Chadwick Boseman.

The latest of these of course is Marshall which seems to be getting relatively little hype despite being a decent movie about an important man with several B-list celebrities and also Kate Hudson. Continue reading “Marshall Should’ve Been a Miniseries”

Just A Short Essay On How Amazing Bojack Horseman Is

I’ve spent the past week binging my favorite Netflix Original, Bojack Horseman. Yes, Stranger Things, House of Cards, and Orange is the New Black, pale in comparison to the amazingness that is Bojack Horseman (insert something about how they’re totally different genres that shouldn’t really be compared here).

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