Essential Entertainment Weekly

  If you’re anything like me, ten 20 minute episodes in a season are too easy to binge-watch.  I binge-watched both seasons of  “Never Have I Ever” on Netflix in one week. I was hooked after the first episode. I fell in love with the inclusivity and loveable characters of this show immediately. Unfortunately, there is no official release date for season three.  For many shows, COVID halted their filming. For example, “Stranger Things,” another Netflix original, had to push back their fourth season (which I also cannot wait for). Thankfully, it was confirmed in August of 2021 that “Never Have I Ever” had been renewed by Netflix for a third season. We may not have a release date, but at least we know that it is coming! According to What’s on Netflix, “‘ Never Have I Ever’ made it into the top 10 lists of over 70 countries around the world, making it number one in several countries. The show was able to make it to number one in the United States for a short period of t...

When I saw the trailer for “A Promising Young Woman” back in 2020, I knew that I had to watch it. Now that it is on HBO Max, I was finally able to. Cassie’s badass and merciless character, played by Carey Mulligan, represents the general population of women who are fed up with rape culture as well as those who have seen the suffering of a loved one who has been sexually assaulted. This secondhand view of the rape of Cassie’s best friend, Nina, makes the film a little bit easier to digest-- especially for the men watching the film, who cannot understand the female experience of rape culture. However, men can relate to Cassie’s character by imagining Nina as their best friend, sister, wife, etc.  The film opens with Cassie pretending to be so drunk that she is unable to stand. A “nice guy” comes over and offers to help her. Unfortunately, he cannot resist his desires and ends up taking her to his apartment where he makes unwanted advances on her. When Cassie drops the “sloppy drunk” ...