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Image Source This post was originally shared via my weekly newsletter, ‘What I’m Watching’. Click here to subscribe, and have the content come to you! (This piece contains spoilers for Netflix’s Sense8 – you have been warned!) Netflix has come under fire recently for its tendency to giving a platform to progressive, inclusive and boundary-pushing shows, before cancelling them after just two seasons. Sense8 is one of them. Created by the Wachowskis, this ambitious, world-spanning show is the story of eight sensates – people across the globe who all took their first breath at the exact same time on the 8th of August 1988. They were living their life as normal humans until they were ‘birthed’ by a mysterious woman called Angellica (Daryl Hannah), and became inextricably connected forever. ...

Image Source This post was originally shared via my weekly newsletter, ‘What I’m Watching’. Click here to subscribe, and have the content come to you! (Warning: the below contains mild-ish spoilers for Amazon Prime series ‘The Boys’.) Amazon’s new series The Boys imagines an America where superheroes walk among humans, and capitalism has turned them into money-making machines with a much bigger reach than even Kevin Feige’s MCU has in our universe. ...

Image Source This post was originally shared via my weekly newsletter, ‘What I’m Watching’. Click here to subscribe, and have the content come to you! Say what you like about Tom Cruise – he knows how to make a damn good action movie. The man is 57 years old and last year starred in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth in the iconic secret agent series – and they just keep getting bigger and better. It seems Cruise has found a strong creative partner in director Christopher McQuarrie; either that or McQuarrie is carrying out some sort of elaborate plan to send him to his death, which, judging by the stunts Cruise pulls off in this film, would not surprise me. ...

Image Source This post was originally shared via my weekly newsletter, ‘What I’m Watching’. Click here to subscribe, and have the content come to you! Warning: contains mild spoilers for Euphoria, but only for Kat’s storyline. Promise. The premise for Euphoria feels like any other teen show: an ensemble of characters from varying cliques (popular girls, jocks and weirdos included) all attempt to navigate adolescence, participating in parties and prom nights whilst still trying to make their grades. ...

Image Source This post was originally shared via my weekly newsletter, ‘What I’m Watching’. Click here to subscribe, and have the content come to you! I used to fucking love New Girl. I loved it’s manic-pixie-dream-ness, even though I knew I should know better. I loved it’s offbeat humour. I loved Nick Miller. Actually, I stand by that one. What a guy. But on a rewatch, I’ve realised just how much of a sausage-fest this supposedly female-led comedy is. Whilst it’s created by a woman (Elizabeth Meriwether), starring a woman (Zooey Deschanel) and even has ‘Girl’ in the title, it couldn’t be further from what we want when it comes to a sitcom that ticks feminist boxes. ...