Tag: Linda Mendoza
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Clean Slate review: family healing and comedy
Clean Slate stars Laverne Cox as a trans woman who returns to her Alabama family home and a father (George Wallace) who does not know his child is a woman. She’s been away and out of touch for 23 years.
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Survival of the Thickest, Michelle Buteau goes for it all
Survival of the Thickest (a terrible title, by the way) takes on several themes and story arcs. To get through them all in 8 half hour episodes is quite the feat from Michelle Buteau, who wrote the series based on her own book of essays. There are minor spoilers ahead.
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Review: Harlem, 4 women and their relationships
Harlem is about four women and the disasters and successes of their sex lives. Its 10 half-hour episodes get off to a rocky start. The storyline gains strength as it goes along. Season 1 ends on a cliffhanger. Now that I’m invested in these characters, I certainly hope there’s a season 2. This is a…
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Review: Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever tells a coming of age story. The heroine is a first generation Indian American teenage girl. The story is based loosely on creator Mindy Kaling’s high school experiences.