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The Politician is a star-spangled and pretentious show with nothing exciting to offer
November 3, 2019By: Lubaba Mahmud, Staff Writer The Politician is a try-hard, muddled mess of a series that painfully falls short of its aim to be an enjoyable satire. Released last month, the Netflix comedy-drama centres around character Payton Hobart’s wildly ambitious dream to become president of the United States, the first step of which (he thinks) is to be elected student body president of Saint Sebastian High School. Although The Politician was created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan — the same creators of successful teen series Glee — the show had me rolling my eyes at its insincere…
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Staying In: Tuca & Bertie
May 17, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Tuca (Tiffany Haddish) is a loud, easygoing, unemployed toucan whose best friend 5ever is a socially anxious, bakeaholic songbird, Bertie (Ali Wong). They have little in common other than that they’re both scrambling to pretend they’re…
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GLOW uses the best and worst parts of professional wrestling for a show unlike any other
July 22, 2018Written by: Gene Cole Professional wrestling shows up in a lot of media. Sometimes it’s presented as a small comical reference or as a hobby of sporty characters, but most people only see its surface-level elements. Netflix’s GLOW is one…
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Lemony Snicket’s famous work is reinvented through TV
May 20, 2018By: Jennifer Russell The Netflix original A Series of Unfortunate Events artistically captures the bleak yet hilarious world that was first created by Daniel Handler (AKA Lemony Snicket) in his novels. Even though the story focuses on the lives of…
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