Models Inc. was messy, glamorous, wildly overdramatic 1990s soap perfection. Aaron Spelling turned a modeling agency into a runway-adjacent crime scene, and honestly, television was better for it.
Rachel Khong’s My Dear You comes in weird and stays weird, with stories about race, love, ghosts, sex dolls, God, and the general inconvenience of being human. Not every story lands, but even the misses are strange...
Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto delivers a sweeping, emotionally heavy love story about identity, sacrifice, and the secrets families carry across generations. Find out why I gave the book 3.75/5 stars.
Three people were in that car. Only Mackenzie Shirilla got a documentary — Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagane deserved more. What else was left out of The Crash?
A 22-year-old on TikTok told me I’m too old to watch a college romance like Off Campus. I have never been more motivated to write 1,000 words in my life. I know we are not the target audience for Off Campus. I...
Unknown Number is a Netflix true crime doc that starts as cyberbullying and catfishing and ends with a jaw-dropping twist you won’t believe. Spoiler Warning!!! I can’t talk about this documentary without spoiling it, so...
A heartfelt, funny, and deeply emotional story of found family, The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune will break you, heal you, and stay with you long after the last page.
When Ebby’s wedding day ends in heartbreak, she uncovers family secrets and ancestral connections that change everything. Read my review of Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson.
American Murder: Gabby Petito on Netflix offers a deeper look at the well-known case and transforms a true crime headline into a heartbreaking, human story.
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