Tag: Erica Dunton
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We Were Liars, YA story packs a punch
We Were Liars was a slow burn for me. The first episode was mindnumbingly ordinary. But this coming of age story based on a novel by E. Lockhart grows more and more complex, mysterious, and fascinating with each episode as it leads you carefully to a wow of an ending full of surprises.
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The Girls on the Bus review, women power takes a ride
The Girls on the Bus takes four different women journalists and puts them on a bus following after a candidate for President. The political aspect of the story forms the background for the central relationship between the women.
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Julia: S2.E5 Bûche De Noël
Julia: Bûche De Noël shares some good laughs, twin David Hyde Pierces, and the sad realization that for all the things that have changed, things are still the same.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty, feel good young adult series from Jenny Han
The Summer I Turned Pretty is another young adult coming of age drama from Jenny Han, who created the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series. The main character is a Korean-American girl just turning 16.
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Julia, episode 4, Petit Fours
Julia, the drama series about Julia Child, uses episode 4 to bring in more humor and an awareness of what Julia’s growing popularity would mean to Julia and Paul Child. This episode was directed by Erica Dunton. Instead of discussing the entire episode, I want to concentrate on Julia’s growing fame and her ahead-of-its-time marriage…
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Review: Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings
Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings is a set of 8 stories based on songs from Dolly Parton’s past. The stories are unrelated and can be watched in any order. All of them are stories about love and faith and do indeed tug at the heartstrings.