Honor Society is a Dark High School Comedy That Doesn’t Entirely Succeed in Going its Own Way
Do you ever wonder about your teen years? The years where you constantly bickered with parents, made and lost friends, and endlessly competed with everyone around you. Most adults would agree that teens are a menace. Yet, why do adults…
Euphoria Continues to Tell an Engrossing Story about Messy Teens Despite Some Missteps in Second Season
Euphoria returned to the small screen almost three years after the end of its first season. By any measure, its second season is an unqualified success: it has garnered 2.4 million viewers on HBO Max, and it generated tons of…
Kota Factory Season Two: Does it Glorify What it Intended to Trash?
With the reviews Kota Factory garnered with its first season I was concerned ‘what if it is nowhere near as good as what the YouTube views and reviews indicate?’ So, was it? The answer is a mix of both. Kota…
Reservation Dogs is a Game-Changing Coming of Age Show about Indigenous Teens, Starring and Created by Indigenous Voices. And it’s Funny, Too!
Reservation Dogs has quickly channeled the initial excitement of seeing a Taika Waititi collaboration with indigenous creators into one of the most well-paced and well-realized first seasons in recent history. Not only is it groundbreaking, it is also heartfelt and…
Sex Education Delivers its Best Season Yet in Season Three, Exploring its Characters and Taking Them in New Directions
We mentioned in our review of the second season of Sex Education that the show had improved from the first season and turned into a wholesome ensemble. The trend continues with season three, which is, perhaps, the best season yet.…
Moxie: Too Much Rage, Not Enough Discourse
Netflix’s new teen comedy Moxie — directed by Amy Poehler, who also stars as the protagonist’s mother — aims for riot grrrl rage and radical girl power action, and tries its best to be intersectional with its stellar cast. The…
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things Carves Out its Space in the Increasingly Crowded Time Loop Genre
When The Groundhog Day came out twenty-eight years ago, who would have thought it would launch a genre of time loop movies almost two decades afterwards? But that has indeed been the case: from slashers like the Happy Death Day…
To All the Boys: Always and Forever Ends the Trilogy in Grounded Fashion, Anchored Around the Leads’ Great Chemistry with Each Other
To All The Boys I Loved Before was part of Netflix’s 2018 wave of romcom revivals. While there were other good movies like Always Be My Maybe, it’s All The Boys that spawned two sequels. While the first sequel, To…
Why The Half of it is One of the Better Romcoms of the Last Five Years
I ought to begin by mentioning that Netflix has finally made the better YA romcom after years of trying sporadically. Truth be told, I failed to approve of the hype surrounding movies like To All the Boys I've Loved Before,…
Never Have I Ever Tells the Age-Old Coming of Age Story, this Time from the Perspective of an Indian American Teen
It’s hard to do a teen-centric coming of age story right, especially when there have been so many attempts in the last couple of years. Never Have I Ever tries to do it by taking a fresh perspective: that of…
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