Author: Jamie Whitebread

Why We Need More of Marvel’s Moon Knight

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Is a vague TikTok really the only clue we have about a potential second season of Moon Knight? Give us the official word!

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Scene Breakdown: The Meaning of “Enough” in Bridgerton’s “After the Rain”

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Bridgerton’s Portia Featherington falls into what I like to think of as the “Severus Snape League.” Is she someone that I like as a person? Not necessarily, at least not a great majority of the time. But is she someone whose depth and complexity makes her one hell of a character? Absolutely. Thanks to the Bridgerton show writers, and to how wonderfully Polly Walker plays her, she quickly became one of my favorite characters to watch. Many of the things she did and said were frankly awful, but then she’d turn around and tear her husband apart for gambling all

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‘Addams Family Values’ Should Be Your Summer Vibe Inspiration

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We’re now at the midway point of summer, and whether you’re the type of person who desperately wants to hold onto every warm day we have left or the type of person who has already moved into countdown mode for the fall, 1993’s Addams Family Values makes for a great watch this time of year. You may well be surprised if you haven’t seen it, assuming that it definitely skews more Halloween, and it mostly does. The Addams Family inherently exists in a state of perpetual autumn, but the storyline of this delightfully macabre film actually plays out during the

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Quietly Keeping it Together Elinor Dashwood Style

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Cruella is a true vibe of a movie, and I found Emma Thompson delightful to watch in it, but that’s unsurprising, as I find her delightful to watch in pretty much everything she does. A few days after going to see it, Sense and Sensibility was on television as I was flipping through channels, and that’s always a movie I keep on whenever I come across it. It’s a favorite of mine not only because it’s another great Emma Thompson performance, but because Elinor Dashwood holds a special place for me as one of the Jane Austen heroines whose personality

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Lucifer’s Dan Espinoza and Finding Possibilities for Self-Improvement Even in the Unlikeliest of Circumstances

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*Spoilers for Lucifer Season 5B ahead* One of the things I’ve always liked best about Lucifer is how openly it’s shown the benefits of therapy and the necessity of tackling our trauma. Every character on the show deserves an ode to the hard work they’ve done during their self-improvement journey over the course of the series, but it’s Dan Espinoza who has always been the most fascinating to me in that regard, in large part because it could have so easily gone in a different direction. Lucifer and Chloe are our main characters, it’s a given that they’re going to

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Scene Breakdown: A Little Bit of Alexis Helps a With Whole Lot of Anxiety in Schitt’s Creek’s “Driving Test”

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One of the strongest facets of Schitt’s Creek is the Rose family’s ever present love for each other despite all their trials and tribulations during their time in the town. Even when they fight, it brings them closer together in the end, and there are no resentments or grudges that last long enough to bring the audience’s mood down. It’s aspirational stuff, and just one of the many reasons this show is still so beloved. There’s one Rose family conflict that means the most to me personally, the one scene above all others in the entire run of the show

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