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True Spirit, the Jessica Watson story
True Spirit tells the true story of Jessica Watson, an Australian girl who had a dream – a seemingly impossible dream – and made it happen. At 16, she became the youngest person to ever sail solo around the world.
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Modern Love, season 2, all kinds of love
Modern Love is an anthology series based on personal essays about love that appeared in The New York Times “Modern Love” column. Season 2 brings 8 new and varied stories about all kinds of love. This series is on Prime Video. Modern Love does an outstanding job with inclusive storylines and casts. It brings in […]
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Flack, season 2, careening toward rock bottom
In season 2 of Flack, the PR firm led by a group of women continues to make even the worst people look good. PR genius Robyn (Anna Paquin) spirals down the path of her addiction toward what should be a wake up call. This series is on Prime Video.
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Flack, season 1, makes the worst people look good
Flack, season 1, takes a group of amoral PR people and sets them to work fixing the images of celebrities who have secrets to hide. This British series is billed as a comedy, but it’s more of a sad commentary on the state of the world. After airing in the UK and on Pop TV […]
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Review: Furlough
Furlough is a lighthearted comedy dressed up in serious outfits. It’s about a part-time prison guard meant to take a prisoner on a home visit to see her dying mother.
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Brain Dump: Tell It to the Bees, Peppermint, Runaways
It’s time for one of those posts where I dump a whole lotta short thoughts outta my brain. This one includes Tell It to the Bees, Peppermint, and the Marvel series Runaways.
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Watch This: Trailer for Furlough
Furlough presses all the right buttons. Female leads, female director, and the promise of a fun comedy. Check out the trailer.
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Review: Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams is a science fiction anthology of 10 episodes streaming on Amazon. Instead of reviewing the anthology as a whole the way I normally would a TV season, I’ll briefly discuss each individual episode. Various writers took the short stories of Philip K. Dick and made them into the individual tales […]
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Watch This: Trailer for Electric Dreams
Electric Dreams, or more correctly Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, is an anthology sci-fi series based on the short stories of Phillip K. Dick. It has 10 stand alone episodes. It’s coming as an Amazon Prime original.
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WIGS: Web Series Extraordinaire
Some of the best stories you’ll find anywhere are now playing on your computer on a YouTube channel called WIGS. WIGS offers original series, short films, and documentaries, all starring female leads. There are numerous offerings on WIGS. Some films are one episode, some 3, some 12, some with more than one season. All feature […]
Reviews of movies and TV focused on women