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Aug 10, 2023 · Movies and television shows can profoundly impact our lives. They're windows into alternate realities — ones that terrify us, delight us, break our hearts, and motivate us.
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- Bojack Horseman
- The Good Place
- The Umbrella Academy
- Jessica Jones
- Modern Love
- The Bold Type
- The West Wing
BoJack Horsemanis, without a doubt, one of the best adult animated series of our time. It’s set in a bizarre world where anthropomorphic animals interact with humans (like it’s no big deal), where the titular character is a washed-up actor with more issues than Vogue. He’s also quite the antihero, which makes him all the more relatable — but also a...
What happens when a morally bankrupt person somehow ends up in a heaven-life afterlife by accident? Such is the premise of The Good Place, which also happens to be the name of the said afterlife. As you might have guessed, its opposite is called the Bad Place — where the main character, Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) probably should have been. T...
Perhaps the best way to describe Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, in a nutshell, is this: think of the X-Men characters, except they’re all adoptive siblings who grew up to be 30-year-olds with lots of angst and baggage. I mean, if you spent your childhood under constant pressure to be top-notch superheroes from an emotionally distant father figure,...
It’s not every day that we meet a superhuman who very much dislikes being called a superhero. In Jessica Jones, the titular protagonist with superstrength did use to be a superhero. But after a traumatic experience with a literally mind-controlling villain, she turns to a career as a private eye. On the outside, Jessica (played by Krysten Ritter) i...
As some of you might already know, Modern Loveis based on the long-running, crowd fave New York Timescolumn. It’s definitely one of the most feel-good and inspiring series to watchon Amazon Prime; with each episode presenting different takes on the all-too-elusive term that is “modern love.”Dubbed as a rom-thology, it explores love in its different...
The Bold Type is another inspirational series set in the Big Apple. It centres on a stylish trio who are living their dream careers in a famous women’s magazine. There’s Jane (Katie Stevens), a writer constantly defying the “Write what you know” advice; Kat (Aisha Dee), a social media director exploring her racial and sexual identity; and Sutton (M...
As far as cult-classic must-watch TV shows go, The West Wing is your best bet for characters that inspire self-improvement. The overall plot serves as somewhat escapist fiction in a world where many have become quite jaded about politics. This political drama takes place mostly inside the White House, under the administration of fictional Democrat ...
With Enrico Colantoni, Nida Khurshid, Eileen Soong, Tamir Yardenne. This offbeat, shameless comedy follows the lives of eight diverse writers vying for a staff writer position on a television series at United Broadcasting Station (UBS), a once-prominent, but now-declining dinosaur network.
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- 2020-02-14
- Comedy
- Enrico Colantoni, Nida Khurshid, Eileen Soong
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This offbeat, shameless comedy follows the lives of eight diverse writers vying for a staff writer position on a television series at United Broadcasting Station (UBS), a once-prominent, but...
A portrait of the demise and fall of the Soviet Empire as seen through the eyes of the people who endured it. The film explores the power of human spirit in its battle against adversity. Director: Peter King. Votes: 30.
Eight writers in a TV network diversity program catered toward PC culture, compete for a staff position while being led by a racist, washed-up exec left over from the days before cable.
