Marvel’s Jessica Jones is the second superhero in the Netflix saga, which began with Daredevil a few months ago. My greatest weakness, occasionally I give a damn. -Jessica Jones This show is about Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), a girl facing the troubles of PTSD from a bad situation that is slowly but surely coming back to …
Aziz Ansari’s new show, Master of None, came out on Netflix this weekend, and if you like his style, it’ll be five hours well spent. The storyline follows Dev, an actor living in New York, making his money doing commercials and shooting a movie. His search for a girlfriend, Rachel (played by the insanely cute Noel …
Happy Valley is a Netflix Original from the BBC, which consists of six one-hour episodes in Season 1, with Season 2 coming out in 2016. The show centers on a police sergeant in West Yorkshire, who is trying to raise her granddaughter, who’s mother’s probable rapist has just been released from jail. She becomes intent …
Rashida Jones dipped her toe into the Documentary pool, and belly flopped instead. Hot Girls Wanted explores the porn industry and how hundreds of people are getting sucked into it, for all the wrong reasons…all just to make a quick dollar without thinking through the consequences. While Jones successfully shows tactics used by “Talent Agents” …
Over the weekend Netflix released the prequel to the 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer, with a show about the first day of camp. Lots of cameos (Weird Al, Joh Hamm) and a full cast of returning characters (Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd, etc.) lead this show as a hilarious mix of stupid humor. Yet with …
A little while ago I spoke about my tiptoeing into the stocks, and since then have played a bit with Apple (AAPL), Michael Kors (KORS), and Lands End (LE). With the 7-to-1 split yesterday of Netflix (NFLX), it made it a prime time to get in with Netflix. Instead of laying out $700 for a …
Just by the heading of this post alone, you need to realize that there are going to be spoilers in here. So much happened in this season, but like in Weeds previously, I felt like Jenji Kohan took her foot off the pedal a little bit as the series hits a few seasons in. I’m …
Daredevil is Marvel’s latest installment, this time in the form of a Netflix exclusive 13-episode TV show. The first of 5 such shows on Netflix features Lawyer Matt Murdock (played by Charlie Cox) who was blinded as a child and now uses his heightened senses to help stop crimes as, under what the media call …
When I saw ads and read previews for this show it was all about “The return of Kyle Chandler”. And while John Rayburn, Kyle’s character, plays a major part in Season 1, I think the focus should be on the brilliant performance of one of the most complex characters currently in a show, Danny Rayburn, …
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a new comedy on Netflix written by Tina Fey and starring Ellie Kemper. Trapped in a bunker by a preacher in Indiana for 15 years, and being told the world had ended and only the stupid have survived, is only the start to Kimmy Schmidt’s life as a “former mole women”. …
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