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  • The Harbingers Review

    The Harbingers Review

    Going into this series — a Tribeca official selection from 2025 — after finding it on LinkedIn, I expected something like “The Prestige” book or movie. What I got was something far more nuanced, emotional and not a simple revenge story. Also no dead women. With season two starting in a couple of days, it’s…

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  • The Line Episode 1: “Fides, part 1”

  • Red Sands Investigations

  • Mac (and Bonnie’s): Steady Storytelling

    Mac (and Bonnie’s) comes recommended by Ana Muso who calls it “well done, with a lot of heart.” This audio drama series is a podcast where steady and somber are the keywords best used to describe the show. Both in terms of plot/structure and the performances. For a story about moving forward and looking back,…

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  • Where the Stars Fell: Inclusivity as Twist?

    Where the Stars Fell is crowdfunding its third season. It’s also the first submission we received on our Audio Drama recommendation form. Where The Stars Fell was Recommended By…

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  • Timestorm Essay

    Preface During Fall 2021, I wrote an essay on the first two seasons of Timestorm through the lens of a customized 20th century theory of interpreting the world. Its original incarnation, called “grotesque realism” is attributed to Mikhail Bakhtin of Russia. My Latinx American pop culture class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign simply called it…

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  • Bronzeville Season Two

    The second season of Bronzeville takes what worked with season one and amps the story portion up to a 2000s Scorcese film level of quality. A Non-Linear The Departed with a Black Cast The vibe this story gives off is The Departed meets Pulp Fiction. It has all the engagement of the former and the…

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  • Angela Davis’ 1972 Trial: Dramatized

    Some things people expect in a period piece about Black people. The portrayal of traditional racism in the civil rights movement, slavery in the south, Jim Crow laws, and segregation. Others, like the imprisonment of activist Angela Davis, are topics glossed over at best; forgotten at worst.

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