Nicole Stawiarski

Netflix’s first English language medical drama packed a punch with a constant barrage of hard-hitting conflict and suspense that often veered into outlandish territory, but it’s most subtle and realistic storyline flew so low under the radar you might have missed it completely. As a queer person, it had me second-guessing my own ‘gaydar’ right […]

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There’s nothing more bittersweet than reaching a much anticipated season finale, and no show in recent memory has done a better job at building intense anticipation across such a wide audience as Squid Game. But before you fall into the depths of despair, convincing yourself there’s nothing worth watching in Squid Game‘s wake, give these […]

Eldest daughters like me have always been suckers for the female mentor comedy. With no older sisters of our own, we looked to the likes of Tyra Banks in Life-Size, Brittany Murphy in Uptown Girls, and Anna Faris in House Bunny to fill that need for an older, wiser, woman with more sex appeal than […]

Netflix’s newest period drama, The Lady’s Companion, takes all of the best elements of Bridgerton from the manners of the 19th century marriage market to its bright whimsical costumes and choreographed dance numbers, and combines it with the most memorable structural elements of the 2001 film, Amélie, including a playful, omniscient narrator, quirky flashbacks that […]

The ‘Caitlin Clark effect’ has made a monumental impact on women’s basketball, and the Indiana Fever point guard has been credited with generating an estimated 26.5% of the WNBA’s economic activity for the 2024 season. With ticket prices on the rise, and an ever-growing fandom, the appeal of catching her talent (or the media-generated rivalry […]

Today we have a new action-packed series launching, a beloved comedy going strong in it’s seventeenth season, and a classic coming of age film ringing in another anniversary. Check out everything you need to know in streaming below! The Gringo Hunters Netflix is bringing us a limited series about an elite Mexican police task force […]

The main character in Johnston McCulley’s 1919 serialized novel, The Curse of Capistrano, Zorro, has made his mark (literally) on all kinds of public property, but perhaps most notably on the silver screen. A nobleman who returns to Spanish California after studying in Spain, he adopts the alter ego and hides behind the identity of […]

Focus Features dropped the new trailer for their upcoming film starring Aubrey Plaza and Margaret Qualley, Honey Don’t, and boy are we obsessed with the new avatars they are stepping into. The film will be the second installment in Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s “lesbian B-movie trilogy” following 2024’s Drive Away Dolls (also starring Qualley), […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It’s an espresso shot of quality television for people who don’t have time to sip a whole cappuccino.

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 […]