Dear White People
Based on the 2014 movie Dear White People, Netflix provides a much-needed continuation on the journey of black students attending a predominantly white Ivy League college, Winchester University. I highly recommend that viewers watch the original movie to get a better sense of the characters’ background. In spring 2017, Netflix made an original series showing the struggle of black students, ti...
Bojack Horseman
Bojack Horseman is a true trailblazer of modern television-- a crude, vulgar, and pragmatic cartoon set in a universe where animals and humans are socially equal. The show, featuring a washed-up, alcoholic, former TV celebrity horse named Bojack Horseman, does an impeccable job tackling social issues and crafting diverse characters. Bojack’s counterpart, a lazy but lovable man named Todd, depict...
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale, released in April of 2017, depicts a dystopian future in which the United States has been taken over by a conservative form of government and renamed Gilead. The show, based off of the novel by Margaret Atwood, centers around the handmaid of one of the founders of Gilead as she fights against the corruption of the country. In Gilead, the women are given little to no rights and the wo...
Nathan For You
No other show in 2017 had smoke detectors being used as an instrument, a computer repair store with an all asexual staff or reunited an old man with a lost love besides Nathan For You. Nathan For You is a “reality” show that is also a comedy show. The show follows Nathan Fielder, a comedian turned business marketer as he helps small, struggling businesses draw in customers with grand but absurd id...
Ball in the Family
Ball in the Family is a new American reality TV show that airs on Facebook Watch every Sunday. The family is very “basketball-oriented,” as all three sons play basketball competitively. The show first premiered on September 10, 2017, and captures the personal lives of each member of the Ball family. This includes Lonzo, LiAngelo, LaMelo, and LaVar Ball. Given the fact that the Ball...
Ozark
Created by Bill Dubuque, Ozark is a show that follows the grim and daring adventure of a financial advisor who becomes entangled in Mexican drug trade putting his wife and two children in danger. Marty Byrd, the protagonist, proves how thin of a line accountants tread between daily finance loops and cartel money laundering and shows why the American dream is within every one of our grasps; it’s just up...
13 Reasons Why
The first season of 13 Reasons Why came out on Netflix this past year. After only a day, the show received many views from all audiences. The show is based on the book 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher, a story that takes you through the life of a high school girl named Hannah Baker. Hannah committed suicide and left behind thirteen tapes to give to the people in her life who she felt took part in her d...
Master of None
Master of None, a comedy-drama Netflix Original series, stars comedian and actor Aziz Ansari, who also writes, directs, produces, and created the show. The first season aired in 2015 and was met with much critical acclaim and it was nominated for four Emmy awards, winning one. The second season was released in 2017, leading to many more award nominations. The show follows Dev Shah (Ansari), a New ...
Riverdale
If there is one show that took television by surprise it would have to be Riverdale. It has become one of the most hyped up shows of 2017 with so many twists and turns. The show is based on the lives of small-town high school teenagers that have to deal with the implications of a fellow classmate’s death. The teenager that died was named Jason Blossom and he has a sister Cheryl, who was there when h...
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a show that became popular this year for its more-than-obscure comedy. The show features a girl named Rebecca Bunch, who is madly in love with her ex-boyfriend, Josh Chan. Her obsession with him is so strong that when she hears he lives is West Covina, California she drops her high paying job in New York to follow Josh there. Once settled into her new Californian residenc...
Stranger Things 2
CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS Stranger Things 2 was released on October 27, and it was all anyone seemed to talk about for months. Stranger Things revolves around four boys who live in the suburbs during the 1980’s and their story when one of them goes missing, and they met a strange girl named Eleven. Stranger Things 2 picks up about a year after Will Byers, the missing boy, has returned home, an...
Broad City
With 2017 returned the Comedy Central original show Broad City for it’s fourth season. The shows accounts the reckless lives of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer as 20-something best friends who attempt to flourish in the city of New York, but constantly seem to have things go the opposite of the way they intend. The show has always held a quirky aspect, but the Broad City’s latest season pushes the li...
Las Chica del Cable (Cable Girls)
Las Chica del Cable is Netflix’s first original Spanish drama series, centered around four young female switchboard operators in Madrid, Spain in the late 1920s. Season 2 was just released December 25, 2017, and is already a must-see. The show shows the society towards women during that time and how the four women juggle work, heartbreak, death, love, and womanhood. The four main characters: L...
How To Get Away With Murder – Season 4
**Warning: Contains Spoilers** The title of this show alone should entice anyone with a slight curiosity in devilish crime, but if you're just simply interested in suspense and the exceptional actress that is Viola Davis then How To Get Away With Murder is the show for you. It would be this season which would bear change and emotional baggage. One of the Keating 5, Wes, has just died by arson in Mrs. Kea...
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