Nicole Stawiarski
Lead Content Manager for The Thought & Expression Company, Inc.
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Every Netflix True Crime Title Released This Year (September 2025)
It’s time once again for our monthly True Crime check in, pulling together all of the new Netflix titles from 2025. This month, we’re sharing upcoming and recent releases for September. Check out the complete list below, and stay safe out there True Crime fans! Beauty and the Bester (9/12) This three-episode series explores the…
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What To Watch This Week, September 8 – 14, 2025: ‘Demon Slayer’ + ‘Only Murders’ Are Back
This week two beloved series return, one with a new season, and the other with a film, while a slew of new series make their debut, covering a number of genres and languages. And this weekend two major events are streaming live, and you won’t want to miss them. To get the full download, check…
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Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ Isn’t True to Brontë—But It Will Complete the Twilight-to-50 Shades Smutty Fanfic Loop
I have been to the actual Wuthering Heights. I traveled by plane and train and bus and foot, halfway across the globe, just to visit the setting of one of my favorite books, which I have read and underlined and written in more times than I can count. But the degree of my love for…
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I Walked Out Of ‘Honey Don’t!’ Confused About Everything BUT My Sexuality
Movies don’t always spell themselves out for us, and their endings don’t always wrap up neatly in a bow. Sometimes they’re gnarled knots we need to untangle once we’ve left the allegory of the “movie theater” cave, and we’ve had time to absorb and decipher its projected shadows. All of that is to say, in…
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I Didn’t Think I Could Miss Anthony Bourdain More—Until TikTok Influencers Started Hanging With The Taliban
The internet wasn’t always such a cesspool… Or at least, I had no idea if it was back when my dad first let me use his work laptop to log onto DisneyChannel.com to play free games back in the 90s. That slow as molasses dial-up session probably pre-dates the New York Times essay that would…
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Watch This Netflix Show If You Ever Felt Too Nerdy To Fit In
If your intellectual interests made you stick out like a sore thumb growing up, and you dreamed, not of changing yourself to fit in, but of living in a world where your passions could be not only understood but appreciated, have I got the perfect protagonist for you… Meet Maomao, an orphan born and raised…
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What To Watch This Week, August 25 – 31, 2025: ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ + Return Of The ‘Walter Boys’
Netflix is bringing an A-List line-up to a new original movie today, My Life With The Walter Boys is back for a second season, and we haven’t even made it to the weekend yet! There’s wrestling, true crime, and a high stake thriller still left to see, so check out our full weekly streaming guide…
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I Can’t Believe I’m Saying This, But Harem Anime Is The Most Interesting Thing On Netflix Right Now
I know what it sounds like, but trust me when I tell you this is way less creepy adult bookstore, and way more One Thousand and One (aka The Arabian) Nights. Harem Anime is all about court intrigue. Palaces full of women (or men) supply an emperor (or empress) with pleasure and procreation, but that’s…
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8 New True Crime Titles To Watch On Netflix In August
Netflix has kept True Crime fans busy this summer with plenty of new releases to keep your curiosity satiated, for the time being at least. Check out new titles dropping as early as this week, and the latest hits that are available to stream tonight. I mean, you’re not a real fan unless you watch…
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Netflix True Crime Roundup (August 2025)
It’s time once again for our monthly True Crime check in, pulling together all of the new Netflix titles from 2025. This month, we’re sharing upcoming and recent releases for August. Check out the complete list below, and stay safe out there True Crime fans! Upcoming August Releases Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (8/29)…
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Behind Its Literal and Figurative Body Counts, ‘The Hunting Wives’ Is Really About Messy Love
Romance, as a verb, becomes the ultimate manipulation.
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Travis Kelce Is Dressing For The ‘Joe Dirt Gaze’ In His GQ Cover Shoot
It’s a very busy week for powerhouse couple Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. He’s on the cover of GQ today (8/12), and the Chiefs’ ESPN documentary is dropping this Thursday. But before then, Swift is making her first appearance on his and his brother Jason’s podcast, “New Heights”, to speak exclusively about her latest album,…
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What To Watch This Week, August 11 – 17, 2025: Texan + Korean True Crime
New titles are falling from the sky this week, and this weekend is especially ripe for true crime fans. We have new info on decades old cases and a follow-up to a chilling tale about self-professed prophets. Check out everything you need to know in streaming below! Streaming Friday August 15, 2025 Fit for TV:…
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I’m Sorry, But ‘My Oxford Year’ Was Nowhere Near As Good As ‘The Life List’
I loved The Life List, and had the highest hopes for My Oxford Year. I even watched all of Sofia Carson’s films in the lead up to its release. But, much to my disappointment, it didn’t live up to the hype. My only consolation is in my opportunity to gloat and flex my bragging rights,…
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The First Two Minutes Of This Netflix Thriller Is A Jaw-Dropper—But The Ending To Episode 1 Is 100% ‘Chef’s Kiss’
The crime thriller genre gets pretty predictable when you know what tropes to look for, and Dept. Q has its fair share. Prickly cop with a difficult home life who uses cockiness and sarcasm as a coping mechanism? Check. Bureau politics and systemic incompetence our hero must bend [read: break] the rules to rebel against?…
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Only Brittany Snow Could Get Gays And Gun Owners Hooked On The Same Series
As newscasters continue to report on how politically polarized this country has become, and politicians continue to claim they each have the solution that will finally bring us together, I did not have it on my 2025 bingo card that the person to actually get it done would be Brittany Snow. Because when I saw…
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Sofia Carson: The Disney Channel To Mainstream Celebrity Pipeline Has Evolved
I am fascinated by Sofia Carson. I admittedly had never heard of her before Netflix’s original rom-com The Life List captivated audiences earlier this year, but as I looked into her career and filmography, I arrived at one very important conclusion/hypothesis: The Disney Channel star to mainstream celebrity pipeline has evolved.
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Brutally Unfiltered Ratings Of Every Sofia Carson Movie On Netflix
After Netflix made Sofia Carson their official host for Netflix Tudum 2025, I knew I had to keep an eye on her. The streaming giant was betting big on the actress with two rom-coms in the same year, and it was time to do some reading up on their latest star-in-the-making. So, I watched all*…