Now that the premiere has come and gone, the fun can really begin with story arcs and subplots. This episode has Brett and Denise taking a dance class as it was one of their wedding gifts, and Diana struggling to come up with a menu for a famous chef at the London restaurant she works at, as she and Easton
Read moreThe job of a season premiere is to establish story arcs and subplots for the season. This premiere did its job perfectly. The second season of Aftertaste kicks off with roughly a year passing since the events of the season one finale, with Diana returning from London with her new boyfriend, Harry, for Brett and Denise’s wedding. It’s revealed in
Read moreScrubs: Interns is a web series based on the medical comedy-drama, Scrubs. Scrubs: Interns features four interns in their first year at Sacred Heart Hospital: Katie, Denise, Howie and Sunny. According to its Wikipedia page, Scrubs: Interns, has Sunny directing the series as a video diary project, and each of Scrubs’ main cast members appears in at least one webisode.
Read moreAs well as reviewing the parent series and season two web series, Sidelines, I decided to review the season one web series, The Goss Boss (or TGB). According to the parent series’ Wikipedia page, The Goss (GTB) is a “fictional gossip show that covers the feuds and fashions featured in Playing for Keeps.” Liz Baldwin, General Manager of Digital at
Read moreWelcome to my nightmare.** Acrimonious (Part II) I had to kill her. Everyone thought she was perfect, including me, but during quarantine, I met the real Annette. Bossy, controlling, not the meek doormat I agreed to marry. Lifting a dumbbell off the stand in my home gym my first thought, hit her over the head with it? No, too obvious.
Read moreEarlier this year I entered the NYC Midnight 100-Word Microfiction Challenge for the second time. The Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to write original 100-word stories by giving them a specific genre, action, and word assignment, to complete within 24 hours of receiving it. Every writer is placed in a specific group based on the
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and establish new story arcs and subplots for the next season (if there is another one). I felt that this finale mostly did its job. As the season has been establishing Henry and Clare’s relationship from the start, from both their perspectives (from when Clare met
Read moreThe job of a season’s penultimate episode is to provide a springboard for the finale and I felt this episode did a good job. Rather than multiple Henrys time travelling all over the place, this episode has a singular focus – Henry meeting Clare’s family. The episode kicks off with 28-year-old Henry meeting Gomez at a bar for a drink.
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and subplots, and establish new ones for the next season (if it’s renewed), whereas the job of a series finale is to wrap up the entire series completely with no loose ends. You can always tell when the writers of a show write their finales when
Read moreThis episode explores Henry’s condition and his relationship with Clare from the perspective of Gomez, Charisse and Ingrid. The episode kicks off with Henry going to Clare’s apartment where she meets her best friends, Gomez and Charisse for the first time. Gomez immediately annoys Henry due to his jokes mocking his profession, as well as his possessiveness over Clare. Gomez
Read more
