Month: March 2019
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Grey’s Anatomy: Silent All These Years
The episode “Silent All These Years” of Grey’s Anatomy (season 15, episode 19) is remarkable. With women writers, a woman directing, and a cast made largely of women, this episode is proof of the power in letting women tell their stories. Spoilers everywhere ahead.
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Review: Queer Eye, season 3
Queer Eye came back to Netflix for a 3rd season. This series continues to change the lives of the people who get a makeover as well as anyone watching who needs to learn more about empathy, compassion, and acceptance.
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Watch This: Trailer for L.A.’s Finest
L.A.’s Finest has some awesome women leading the action, and for that reason it might be a fun watch. It’s a police drama starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba. It will be available On Demand starting on May 13.
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Review: Tea with the Dames
The delightful 1 hour and 24 minutes you spend with Tea with the Dames will make you smile until your face hurts.
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Review: Mirage (Durante la tormenta)
Mirage (Durante la tormenta) is a new Spanish language film on Netflix. It stars Adriana Ugarte in the key role. I remember her performance in The Time in Between very well, and was happy to watch another story with her in the lead.
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Review: Cold War
Cold War (Zimna wojna) is an epic and tragic love story that begins in 1949 in Poland and ends in the 1960s. During those years the protagonists travel all around Europe.
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Review: Colette
For me, Colette was a mixed bag of good and bad. I still recommend seeing it, in spite of my less than 100% glowing review.
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Brain Dump: The Fix, The Village, For 80 Days (80 egunean)
A few quick looks at this and that today. Two new TV series started this week, The Fix and The Village. I found a movie about two women in their 70s who fall back in love after not seeing each other for 50 years. It’s called For 80 Days (80 egunean).
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Watch This: Trailer for Gentleman Jack – UPDATED
I’m quite excited about Gentleman Jack. It’s an 8 hour historical drama series about Anne Lister, one of England’s earliest out lesbians. It’s written by Sally Wainwright. It stars Suranne Jones. Could anything get better than that?
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Review: Catastrophe, season 4
The 4th and final season of Catastrophe has Sharon (Sharon Horgan) and (Rob Delaney) fighting and making up with amazing frequency. Both of them are depressed about where life has led them, but it felt like the funniest season yet. Minor spoilers ahead.