2016 has been shit. Decipher the why’s for yourselves, but there are plenty of them. Due to this-perhaps inspite of it-more and more we have turned to entertainment to keep the demons at bay and distract our mind with television…
TV Review: Westworld 1×03 “The Stray”
(SPOILERS) The questions continue to mount in Westworld, and it now ranges past just the park and control room. After the first two episodes zipped by with heavy exposition and intriguing characters, episode three, titled “The Stray,” executes a different approach in a slower-paced…
TV Review: Insecure Series Premiere – “Insecure as F*ck”
“We are just tired of being expected to settle for less.” This one line is one of the parts that resonates the most from the premiere episode of the new HBO series, Insecure. That line comes with many layers of…
TV Review: Westworld 1×01 “The Original”
(SPOILERS BELOW) Westworld is without question HBO’s biggest make-or-break series since Game of Thrones first premiered. Sure, their miniseries and TV movie departments have continued to perform well, but the network has struggled to conjure the next big hit series. After several…
Movie Review: Class Divide
One of the most blatant and unacknowledged problems facing my hometown of Chicago is gentrification. I’ve seen ethnic and low-income neighborhoods slowly and rapidly turn into hot spots for the privileged and higher earning folks, who are mostly – let’s…
TV Review: Ballers Season 2
Within the past few years, Dwayne Johnson has finally risen to the superstardom that audiences believed he had the potential to achieve. Unlike a lot of actors that rise to that level, Johnson’s success isn’t dedicated as much to a…