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Watch This: Trailer for Gypsy

2 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / June 15, 2017 / Billy Crudup, Brenda Vaccaro, Coky Giedroyc, Gypsy, Jonathan Caren, Karl Glusman, Lisa Ruben, Melanie Liburd, Naomi Watts, Sam Taylor-Johnson, season 1, Sophie Cookson, Victoria Mahoney, Women Directors

Gypsy is a new Netflix original starring Naomi Watts as a therapist who is apparently more twisted and in need of help than her patients.

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Selenis Leyva in Orange is the New Black

Orange is the New Black Season 5: Thumbs Up vs. Thumbs Down

Leave a Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / June 14, 2017 / 13th, Adrienne C. Moore, Alan Aisenberg, Alysia Reiner, Amanda Stephen, Asia Kate Dillon, Beth Dover, Daniella De Jesús, Danielle Brooks, Diane Guerrero, Emma Myles, Francesca Curran, Jackie Cruz, Jessica Pimentel, Julie Lake, Kate Mulgrew, Kelly Karbacz, Kimiko Glenn, Laura Gómez, Laura Prepon, Laverne Cox, Lea DeLaria, Michael Harney, Miriam Morales, Natasha Lyonne, Nick Sandow, Orange is the New Black, Rosal Colon, Samira Wiley, season 5, Selenis Leyva, Taylor Schilling, The New Jim Crow, Uzo Aduba, Vicky Jeudy, Yael Stone

Orange is the New Black season 5 was both an emotional thrill ride and a disappointment. I want to discuss my likes and dislikes about the latest season. This is not a detailed review. There might be a few spoilers

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Tatiana Maslany as Rachel in Orphan Black

Orphan Black S5 E1 The Few Who Dare

3 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / June 13, 2017 / Ari Millen, Calwyn Shurgold, Cynthia Galant, Elyse Levesque, episode 1, Evelyne Brochu, James Frain, Jenessa Grant, Jordan Gavaris, Josh Vokey, Kevin Hanchard, Kristian Bruun, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Orphan Black, Rosemary Dunsmore, season 5, Tatiana Maslany, The Few Who Dare

Orphan Black season 5 begins with “The Few Who Dare.” We’re right where we left off, with Sarah injured on the island, Cosima and Charlotte in the village on the island, Delphine looking after Cosima, Mrs. S and Kira held

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Melanie Scrofano, Tim Rozon, Dominique Provost-Chalkley in Wynonna Earp

Wynonna Earp Season 2 Opened with Surprises

3 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / June 12, 2017 / Dominique Provost-Chalkley, Emily Andras, Kate Drummond, Katherine Barrell, Kevin Hanchard, Melanie Scrofano, Rachel Skarsten, season 2, Shamier Anderson, Steel Bars and Stone Walls, Tim Rozon, Wynonna Earp

Season 2 of Wynonna Earp raced out of the starting gate, ran 12 furlongs at fun speed, and won everything.

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Tatiana Maslany as Cosima in Orphan Black

Just Thinkin’ Here

2 Comments / News, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / June 9, 2017 / Orange is the New Black, Orphan Black, Wynonna Earp

Three shows I love premier this weekend with new seasons. In the past, I’ve written recaps of Orphan Black. I’ve written several series level posts about each season of Orange is the New Black, but no recaps. In season 1

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Review: I Love Dick

Leave a Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / June 8, 2017 / Andrea Arnold, Chris Kraus, Griffin Dunne, I Love Dick, India Menuez, Jill Soloway, Jim Frohna, Kathryn Hahn, Kevin Bacon, Kimberly Peirce, Lily Mojekwu, Roberta Colindrez, Sarah Cubbins, trailers, Transparent, Women Directors

I Love Dick as a television series is highly unusual. As a work of art it is a dazzling meditation on love, sexuality, and feminine perspective. The series shows the imagery and iconography of the female gaze explored through sexual

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Review: Cable Girls (Las Chicas Del Cable)

8 Comments / Spanish Language, Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / June 1, 2017 / Alan Turing, Ana Fernández, Ángela Cremonte, Blanca Suárez, Bomb Girls, Borja Luna, Cable Girls, Call the Midwife, foreign tv series, Gema R. Neira, Grey's Anatomy, Las Chicas del Cable, Maggie Civantos, Martiño Rivas, Nadia de Santiago, Netflix, Nico Romero, Ramón Campos, season 1, Teresa Fernández-Valdés, The Imitation Game, The Time in Between, Yon González

Netflix first Spanish project is Cable Girls (Las Chicas Del Cable). I’ll review the 8 episode season 1 of this female-powered drama. Minor spoilers ahead.

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Review: Frequency

2 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / May 27, 2017 / Ada Breker, Daniel Bonjour, Dennis Quaid, Frequency, Jeremy Carver, Jim Caviezel, Lenny Jacobson, Mekhi Phifer, Peyton List, Riley Smith, Rob Mayes, Toby Emmerich, Women Directors

Frequency is a series about a father and daughter communicating across time. I just watched the first and only season on Netflix and was enthralled by every second of it. I don’t know why I didn’t hear about it or

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Ellie Kemper in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 3

Leave a Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / May 25, 2017 / Adrienne C. Moore, Amy Sedaris, Andrea Martin, Beyoncé, Billy Magnussen, Carol Kane, Daveed Diggs, David Cross, Dylan Gelula, elders rock, Ellie Kemper, Jane Krakowski, Jon Hamm, Laura Dern, Lauren Adams, Lemonade, Matt Oberg, Maya Rudolph, Mike Carlsen, Orange is the New Black, Peter Riegert, Phyllis Somerville, Rachel Dratch, Ray Liotta, Robert Carlock, Sara Chase, season 3, Sol Miranda, Tina Fey, Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Women Directors

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is back with season 3. It’s as funny as ever. Kimmy is no longer the wide-eyed child all new to the world after 15 years locked underground. She’s developed a certain mature wisdom – not always reliable,

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Niecy Nash, Carrie Preston, Judy Reyes, Jenn Lyon, and Karrueche Tran in Claws

Watch This: Trailer for Claws

2 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / May 24, 2017 / Carrie Preston, Claws, Eliot Laurence, Harold Perrineau, Jenn Lyon, Judy Reyes, Karrueche Tran, Nicole Kassell, Niecy Nash, Rashida Jones, Women Director

The life and crimes of 5 women who work at a Florida nail salon is the focus of TNT’s new series Claws. A show about a sisterhood of 5 women sounds good to me.

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