Nicole Stawiarski
Lead Content Manager for The Thought & Expression Company, Inc.
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Just Finished ‘Squid Game’? Stream This Underrated Movie Starring The Front Man
When I first watched The Queen’s Gambit, I had a rudimentary understanding of chess, but that didn’t stop me from diving head-first down the rabbit hole of the world and its characters. I watched A Beautiful Mind never having taken a calculus class, and Interstellar with little more knowledge about the cosmos than how to…
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Netflix Rom-Com Roundup (July 2025 Edition)
Our Times (June) Nora and Héctor are married physicists living in Mexico city when they are transported 60 years into the future, from 1966 to 2025, by a lab experiment that doesn’t go according to plan. As they adapt to modern life at different paces, their relationship is strained when they are forced to confront…
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This Show Is So, So, So Perfect To Fall Asleep To
Part of getting older is slowly turning into your parents, and for a lot of us in our 30s, that means starting to watch HGTV. But one significant generational gap remains consistent—we are having a much harder time becoming home owners they did. So in many ways, a channel that was once considered a pinnacle…
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Is ‘Mindhunter’ Returning To Finish The BTK Case?
We fell in love with Holt McCallany in his role as FBI Special Agent Bill Tench on Netflix’s psychological true crime series Mindhunter when it first aired in 2017. He was the perfect foil and friend to partner Holden Ford, and had an incredibly character arc as he worked to balance the deeply disturbing aspects…
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Did Sofia Carson’s New Rom-Com Trailer Just Spoil The Ending?
Sofia Carson is Netflix’s rom-com golden goose, and her fifth feature film with the streaming giant after the success of The Life List earlier this year, My Oxford Year, is primed to be the OTT event of the summer. Not your typical book to film adaptation, screenwriters Allison Burnett and Melissa Osborne based the film…
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10 Netflix Original Series That Redefined Television
Our favorite DVD delivery company turned global streaming giant was able to disrupt the home entertainment industry not just by investing heavily in technology, but making an equally massive bet on original content. I took a stroll down memory lane by downloading my own watchlist history, and here are the original titles that have become…
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I’ve Been Burned By Netflix Cancellations Before, But ‘Pulse’ And ‘The Residence’ Hurt Different
Let me just start by saying that I would have done CPR on Pulse longer than medical student Dennis Whitaker worked on his hopeless patient on The Pitt. So it’s no surprise Netflix is cutting its losses after going head-to-head with HBO over two very different medical dramas; the reviews and word of mouth agreed…
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Netflix’s Newest Anime Feels Like A Feature Film You Can Watch On Your Lunch Break
It's an espresso shot of quality television for people who don't have time to sip a whole cappuccino.
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‘Squid Game’ Season 3 Had The Most Terrible And Poetic Deaths Of The Entire Series
The beauty and the terror of each subsequent season of Netflix’s Korean language global phenomenon, Squid Game, is that we perceive the impending emotional turmoil before it arrives. We know both the characters we fall in love with and despise are in for equally gruesome deaths, and it’s that dramatic irony that creates a heightened…
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This Netflix Rom-Com Is As Fun As A Summer Fling
The Hindi film industry has been going through non-stop transitions ever since COVID. The pandemic halted production and theater attendance, and in the lull, the top tier talent all got married (to each other) and started having families.
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4 Fierce Detectives We Love (Almost) As Much As Cordelia Cupp
Netflix’s The Residence may have given us our new favorite character of 2025 in Cordelia Cupp, but with no clear word from the streaming giant on the future of the series, or her career, we have to turn elsewhere to get our dose of kick-ass female detectives. Luckily, there are plenty of great options to…
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Two Californians Renovate A French Chateau In HGTV’s Best Show Yet
Part of getting older is slowly turning into your parents, and for a lot of us in our 30s, that means starting to watch HGTV. But one significant generational gap remains consistent—we are having a much harder time becoming home owners they did. So in many ways, a channel that was once considered a pinnacle…
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4 True Crime Shows To Stream On Netflix In July
A True Crime addict is never satisfied, no matter how many podcasts or documentaries they get their hands on. Luckily for us, Netflix has four new titles out with compelling footage and interviews, many of which have never been seen before. Check out each of them below! Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders This three-part docuseries…
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What To Watch On July 7, 2025: Two New Hulu Premieres
If you’re stressed about heading back to work after the long holiday weekend, fret not, Hulu’s ready to take the edge off with two new premieres. Whether you’re a reality TV junkie, or prefer a scripted drama, there’s something to catch your attention. Last, but not least, one of our favorite parody films is ringing…
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5 Video Games That Would Make Amazing TV Shows
After decades of milking the comic book cash cow, Hollywood is realizing that video games may be their newest recycling center for plot lines. Now that Severance (inspired by “The Stanley Parable“) and the eponymous The Witcher and The Last of Us series have gained commercial success, here are five titles that deserve their own…
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This One Clue Explains The Entire Second Season Of ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’
You may have missed it, but in the very first episode of Nine Perfect Strangers Season 2 Annie Murphy’s character, Imogen, starts pelting pharmacologist Martin with questions about Masha’s model for the retreat. She name drops everyone from Bettelheim’s The Uses Of Enchantment to Jungian archetypes—which she claims are tied to an “ancestral memory of…
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What To Watch On July 5, 2025: It’s Christmas In July!
I know we just wrapped up the ultimate summer holiday, but no one is giving you a chance to catch your breath, because ‘Christmas In July’ is here, whether you realized it was coming or not. TV is chomping at the bit to get us in a different holiday spirit, and it’s not just Hallmark…
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The Best Netflix Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Thriller You’ve Never Heard Of
Netflix knows the value of a good adaptation, and the massive streaming giant has been sourcing IP from across the globe, of high and low-brow character to further flesh out their expansive library. After last year’s One Hundred Years Of Solitude brought Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez’ Colombian classic to life, Netflix is turning to…