Watched List: February

Alright, my dears, here's the lowdown on my top five viewing experiences for February (and, yes, all of them are from the narrative goodie jar that is Netflix): 5. The Witcher Based off of a video game (which was based off of a series of short stories by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski) Netflix takes a …

The Flawed Premise of You (Season 2): Episodes 6-10

Read my thoughts on episodes 1-5 here. This article contains major spoilers throughout. Looking at the title of this commentary I figured I’d start this second part with answering the question of What is a premise?  A premise is the laurels upon which the narrative rests.  Basically, it is the idea behind why this story …

The Flawed Premise of You (Season 2): Episodes 1-5

I’m five episodes into the second season of Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble created series You (previously on Lifetime, now on Netflix) and I find myself constantly musing over exactly what it is about this season that, at least for this viewer, makes it feel less engaging than the first season, as well as slightly …

(SPN) Castiel: Angel or Man?

Please do read about exactly why I'm hooked on the show Supernatural (SPN) in this previous post, and get a sense of why this study of one of my favourite characters ever on television even came about. Castiel has an amazingly complex and brilliantly structured character arc, and while I wrote this about two years …