Category Archives: Reviews

Web Series – The Good Place Presents: The Selection

The Good Place Presents: The Selection is a web series that was made to serve as a “story bridge” between the third and fourth seasons of The Good Place (although it’s set during the events of Season 3, Episode 12 (Chidi Sees the Time-Knife). As I’ve reviewed The Good Place series in its entirety, I felt it was only appropriate

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My Life Is Murder – Season 2, Episode 4 (Look, Don’t Touch)

This episode is all about exhibitions. The episode kicks off with Alexa meeting up with Harry to be given the case of the week. Daniel Woodward, a historian and owner and main presenter of a visiting costume exhibition at Auckland Museum. Daniel’s body was pulled from the Harbour after he was killed from blunt force trauma to the head. His

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TV Show Analysis – Charmed and the Ripple Effect

Charmed (the original series) revolved around three powerful, sister-witches known as the Charmed Ones, who use their powers to fight against evil. Charmed’s premise in itself revolves around a big picture, almost common morality—good vs evil—however the season two episode, Morality Bites, focuses on the sisters’ personal morality, and how the choices they have made based on this morality have

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TV Show & Movie Analysis – Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology

We all love TV shows—whether it’s romance, dramas or comedies—and we not only love TV shows, we love the characters that come with them. In fact the characters, or at least one of them, are generally the reason why we love certain TV shows. A good character is rounded, multi-dimensional and relatable. With the latter term, relatable usually means human

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My Life Is Murder – Season 2, Episode 3 (All That Glitters)

This episode gave us an insight into the drag queen and Alexa’s personal world. The episode kicks off with Alexa visiting her brother, Will, in prison. Afterwards, Harry meets with Alexa at a café and gives her the case of the week – David Holmes, aka Needa Martini, a drag queen found dead in the cabaret club where she was

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My Life Is Murder – Season 2, Episode 2 (Oceans Apart)

This episode was all about surfing and hot weather. The episode kicks off with Alexa going on a morning run, eventually going to see Harry. Harry gives her the case of the week – a professional surfer, Rory Byrne, who died three weeks earlier while training. The cause of death has been ruled as drowning due to a heart attack,

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My Life Is Murder – Season 2 Premiere (Call of the Wild)

As it’s been two years since the season 1 finale aired, I had to re-read my review of the finale to remind myself of what happened and how the show operates. The main feature I pointed out in my review was that My Life Is Murder had self-contained episodes rather then lengthy story arcs, and it looks like this is

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Charmed (Reboot) – Season 3 Finale (I Dreamed A Dream…)

The job of a season finale is to close off the season’s story arcs and establish new ones for the next season. This finale did its job perfectly. The stakes were actually raised with this finale with Madeleine Mantock’s (Macy) departure. Full disclosure, I became aware of Mantock’s departure from the show and the fact that Macy was going to

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Charmed (Reboot) – Season 3, Episode 17 (The Storm Before the Calm)

The job of a penultimate episode in a season is to provide a springboard to the finale, this episode did its job perfectly. The episode kicks off with the sisters going into the Tomb of Chaos to see Aladria. They tell Aladria about the Whispering Evil and she gives them three options on how to defeat it – option one

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Charmed (Reboot) – Season 3, Episode 16 (What to Expect When You’re Expecting the Apocalypse)

This episode was all about taking on the Whispering Evil and Abigael finally making peace with her sister. The episode kicks off with a woman getting into her car and finding Abigael in her back seat, the woman is revealed to be Abigael’s sister, Waverly. We then cut to Mel having difficulty building a crib for the baby and Jordan

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