Tag: Women Directors
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Hacks, season 2, more delightful than ever
Hacks. What can you say about a show as wonderful as Hacks? It’s funny, it’s charming, it’s truthful, it’s touching, it’s dark comedic perfection. Jean Smart is the ultimate perfection as the struggling comedian Deborah Vance.
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Review: Night Sky, family drama and sci-fi mystery
Night Sky intrigued me. It was about a happy older couple who shared a secret about an alien world. The human relationships in the story were warm and wonderful, even as the sci-fi aspects of the story were mysterious and largely unexplained. There are spoilers ahead.
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The Lincoln Lawyer and his moveable office
The Lincoln Lawyer you probably saw with Matthew McConaughey back in the day featured the same main character as this TV series version. Both are based on novels by Michael Connelly, who worked on the series as well. This time Mickey Haller is played by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo.
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The Flight Attendant, season 2, Kaley Cuoco is everywhere
The Flight Attendant, season 2, is a voyage of discovery and acceptance from Kaley Cuoco. Cuoco plays an alcoholic flight attendant who gets caught up in a dangerous situation. She can barely cope with normal life. The crazy things that happen to her make for a wild ride.
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Conversations with Friends: bring on the dysfunctional relationships
Conversations with Friends is a slow moving Irish tale based on a novel by Sally Rooney, who authored the very popular Normal People from a couple of seasons ago. Once again we have people desperate for love, but unable to create functional loving relationships because they are pretty dang messed up as human beings.
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Review: I Love America, good grief
I Love America has some very negative reviews talking about superficial characters, plot development, and unlikely romcom stories. But I think a lot of people who looked at this film as a romantic comedy missed the point. I found at least one part of the story that was beautifully done and may have been the…
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Review: Along for the Ride
Along for the Ride tells about Auden (Emma Pasarow) and the summer she spends in a small beach town before her first year of college. It was directed and written by Sofia Alvarez based on the novel by Sarah Dessen.
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Review: Grace, how writers write
Grace is a 2018 film hidden in the deep recesses of Prime Video. It was directed by a woman so I took a look. I enjoyed this character study of two very different writers who struggled to write.
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Winding up season 1 of Naomi
Naomi on the CW is a superhero coming of age story. The superhero here is a high school junior beautifully played by Kaci Walfall. The casting in this series is inclusive and one of the best aspects of the series.
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Julia, episode 7, “Foie Gras”
The “Foie Gras” episode of Julia was directed by Jenée LaMarque. In this episode Julia Child (Sarah Lancashire) went to New York City to give a keynote address at a gala for public television. During her visit she met both pleasant and unpleasant people.