Melissa Linares
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Melissa is a 20something-year-old pop culture lover living in South Florida. She has been passionate about storytelling for as long as she can remember. She loves books, movies, and television; any great story that can make her cry or laugh, or both. She is an unashamed and unapologetic fangirl of way too many fictional characters and is still waiting for her Hogwarts acceptance letter to arrive in the mail.

TV Review: Bates Motel (5×01) “Dark Paradise”

The season 5 première of Bates Motel was all the bloody mess we’ve come to expect from the series. Although this will be the final première of the show, this season has been set up to be the most thrilling.…

TV Review: The Fosters “Dream a Little Dream” & “Cruel and Unusual”

Two weeks of The Fosters means two weeks of a lot of drama, this family has truly been through a lot. “Dream a Little Dream” begins in an unusual format for a family drama, a bit Twilight Zone but very…

TV Review: The Fosters (4×11) “Insult to Injury”

The Fosters is back with all new episodes! This was a bit of an unsurprising première, in my opinion. The episode continued with Callie’s rogue investigation gone wrong, her desire to help has continued to get her into trouble and…

MTV Announces Transgender Awareness Week Programming

MTV announced yesterday the programming they have scheduled in honor of Transgender Awareness Week. Programming that will highlight the stories and struggles of the transgender community and ways in which we can all be allies and messengers of love and…

New Trailer for ‘The Space Between Us’

The new trailer for The Space Between Us has finally arrived! The film from STX Entertainment stars Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield, Carla Gugino and Britt Robertson. Inspired by the real life efforts of Elon Musk’s SpaceX program to colonize Mars,…

TV Review: The Fosters “New York” & “Collateral Damage”

The last two episodes of The Fosters were jam-packed with drama and some of the biggest cliffhangers the show has ever seen; so let’s get right to it! “New York” was another lovely flashback episode, past memories surfacing as the…

TV Review: The Fosters “Highs & Lows” & “Girl Code”

The last two episodes of The Fosters were definitely intense for the entire family, especially Mariana as she prepared for the upcoming Robotics competition. In “Highs & Lows” Mariana begins to overwork herself and her team for the competition. Perhaps it…