In Kipo and the Wonderbeasts, a teenage girl is lost in the big, evil world is a common trope for television, especially animation. This Netflix animation television series is different. Usually, such stories don’t catch my attention. I’m not thirteen-years-old, and exposure to the “real” world has desensitised me to the naïve, often cliched wonder depicted in such cartoons.
Netflix’s Chess Drama Queen’s Gambit Will Leave You Breathless Almost Till The End
Queen’s Gambit’s story follows Elizabeth “Beth” Harmon’s through the world of chess, set in the late 1960s, in a coming-of-age meets The Dark Horse story.
Handmaid’s Tale – is there place for hope in dystopia?
Where do we go from Gilead?
** Warning: Some probability of spoilers here **
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is essential reading.
Netflix’s Sacred Games retains the moral core of the book, but not much else
Netflix made a good choice picking up Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games for its first Indian series. The novel, even when it released in 2007,
Search Party is What Girls Would Be If The Characters Had A Purpose
A television series about a group of millennials struggling in New York — sounds like I’m talking about Girls, doesn’t it?
Bollywood’s Silence on #MeToo Speaks Volumes
Sexual Harassment of Women in male-dominated industries did not start with Harvey Weinstein. The #MeToo movement didn’t start with celebrities.