Author name: Virginia DeBolt

Hannah Gadsby in Nanette

Review: Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

Hannah Gadsby: Nanette is a must watch brilliant hour from Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby. It’s strong, it’s powerful, it’s purposeful. It’s funny.

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Kerry Armstrong, Julia Blake, Hanna Mangan Lawrence in Bed of Roses

Review: Bed of Roses, season 1

Bed of Roses is an Australian comedy/drama series. It consisted of 3 seasons, running from 2008 until 2011. AcornTV now has seasons 1 and 2 streaming in the US. This is a review of season 1 only.

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Sarah Stern, Jean-Christophe Folly, Julia Piaton in To Each, Her Own

Review: To Each, Her Own (Les goûts et les couleurs)

To Each, Her Own (Les goûts et les couleurs) is a French film now on Netflix. I found the main character irritating in numerous ways, but stuck with it to the end to see what she would finally do. What

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Amandla Stenberg holds a sign that says Find Your Voice in an ad for The Hate U Give

Watch This: Trailer for The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give is based on Angie Thomas’ best-selling novel of the same name. Amandla Stenberg stars as Starr Carter, a high school girl who watches her friend shot by the police.

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Mike Colter in Luke Cage

Review: Luke Cage, season 2

Luke Cage season 2 is a treatise on power. Who has it, who wants it, what it does to the people who have it, and what it does to the people who are stripped of it. Mike Colter is back

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Billy Bob Thornton and Nina Arianda in Goliath

Review: Goliath, season 2

Goliath, season 2, is a full on murder mystery with Billy Bob Thornton playing the semi-drunken investigator/lawyer with a heart of gold who tries to spring an innocent kid from jail.

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Taye Diggs and Lucy Liu in Set It Up

Brain Dump: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Set it Up, and The Bold Type

In this brain dump I’m disgorging tidbits about Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Set it Up, and The Bold Type. One’s to binge watch, one’s a movie, and one’s a series on Freeform.

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Paul Nicholls, Sunetra Sarker, Liz White, Jo Joyner, Poppy Lee Friar, Adil Ray, Arsher Ali, Amy-Leigh Hickman, and Sam Retford in Ackley Bridge

Review: Ackley Bridge, season 1

Ackley Bridge tells the story of a school in the mythical English Yorkshire town of Ackley Bridge. White and Asian (Pakistani mostly) folks have lived together in the small town for years, but their children have gone to segregated schools.

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