It's been a strange year and it's been an especially quiet year for TV that hasn't looked the way it's done in the past. But there have been surprising delights sprinkled throughout particularly where finales are concerned. This year sounded differently, too as we took Year-End Reviews to Marvelous Geeks Podcast in a two part... Continue Reading →
Best of 2020 TV Part II: Romantic Relationships and Episodes
On this week’s episode of Marvelous Geeks, Gissane Sophia sits down with Katie from Nerdy Girl Notes and Heather from TV Examined to break down their Best of 2020 in TV romantic relationships and episodes. Part II of our Best of 2020 will go into series like Schitt’s Creek, Normal People, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, The Rookie, One... Continue Reading →
Best of 2020 TV Part I: Characters, Performances, and Platonic Relationships
On this week's episode of Marvelous Geeks, Gissane Sophia sits down with Katie from Nerdy Girl Notes and Heather from TV Examined to break down their Best of 2020 in TV characters, performances, and platonic relationships. Part I of our Best of 2020 will go into series like Julie and the Phantoms, The Baby Sitters... Continue Reading →
Best of 2020 Novels: The New Releases We Loved Most
2020 didn't give us much, but with pandemic furloughs, it did give some of us a lot more time to read and for that we're surprisingly grateful. We even started a historical romance book club! Now that one is unsurprising, we know. Thus, while I mainly caught up on reading I had missed from a... Continue Reading →
2019 Year-End Reviews: Episodes
This isn't a critical review of what makes an episode flawless, it's a list of the TV episodes I found myself either revisiting after completion or the ones that I couldn't look back on that continued to haunt me long after the credits stopped rolling. These are the episodes that left me in complete and... Continue Reading →
2019 Year-End Reviews: Romantic Relationships
In the words of Louisa May Alcott: “Love is a great beautifier.” Whether it's platonic or romantic, the love we share with others plays a vast role in making us better humans. Some of the couples on this list were tragically set for an unhappy ending, but that doesn't change the fact that what's happened between... Continue Reading →
2019 Year-End Reviews: Platonic Relationships
We celebrate the gifts that are our families and friends far too infrequently. There's a specific day set in calendars for couples, and Leslie Knope coined the perfection that is Galentine's Day (February 13), but even still, while it's progressive and amazing, it's just not enough. If a TV show or film doesn't have a... Continue Reading →
2019 Year-End Reviews: Characters
Out of all the articles that release for our end of the year celebration, discussing my favorite characters is somehow the one that always brings on the tears. A well written character whose arc guides the story is the reason I love television so much. The opportunity to see these people live and love and... Continue Reading →
2019 Year-End Reviews: Performers
We don’t all agree on everything, but I feel it’s safe to assume that the majority of us in this community of writers are under the rightful belief that this has been a stupendous year for performances. Especially where limited series are concerned. Vulnerability isn’t an easy emotion to master when acting, but the people... Continue Reading →
2018 Best of the Year Reviews: 10 Relationships
After I've found characters whose lives I'm invested in, my brain then automatically goes towards intricately analyzing the relationships they've got -- both platonic and romantic because I'm a big believer in the fact that no one should ever be alone in this world. No one can accomplish anything alone. And ultimately, we as people... Continue Reading →