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 →
TV’s Most Satisfying Series Finales to Date
The final episode of a TV series doesn't just wrap things up in a neat little bow, but it exposes the heart of the series. It could make the series absolutely perfect or completely horrifying. Something can be so good until it's final moments where literally it could undo everything. We all know that one... Continue Reading →
Profound Gratitude for The Good Place’s “Whenever You’re Ready” and Why it’s One of the Most Unforgettable Series Finales to Exist
I’m still not ready to talk about this episode or The Good Place in its entirety as a series. I might never be ready, but that’s the point isn’t it—to take the leaps even when we aren’t fully there? The Good Place is an incredibly special show. It’s remarkably unique and its series finale singlehandedly... Continue Reading →
Social Distancing TV Recommendations
I bet this isn’t the first of these articles you darling readers will see and it certainly won’t be the last. We’re here to give you some of our current favorites, older favorites, and shows that’ll essentially keep you busy. We all make a list throughout the years, but never get through it right? Well,... 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 →
This Week’s Most Exquisite TV Moment
November 10-16 “The Funeral to End All Funerals” | The Good Place "This is the whole story. No one is beyond rehabilitation. Brent spent a year being an absolute diaper load of a human being, and the points total tells you that. But what that number can’t tell you is who he could have become... Continue Reading →