In Midnight Mass, a horror master and kid who definitely didn’t want to be at Sunday School—writer/director Mike Flanagan—delivers a twisted vampiric take on Catholic scripture, replete with guilt, judgement, and creatures literally devouring the body and blood of the Holy. For those of us forcefully versed in Catholic teachings, the scripture’s metaphoric (?) cannibalism… Read More »
You’d be hard pressed to find a fictional hero as compelling as Herman Knippenberg, the Dutch diplomat in Netflix’s The Serpent who initiates an international investigation into the crimes of Charles Sobhraj, a con man and killer responsible for at least a dozen murders. Knippenberg, the on-screen character, fills the series’ truth-seeking detective role. But… Read More »
There’s nothing I find more entertaining than watching the process of celebrities learning TikTok dances. I’ve seen what I look like in the mirror while I’m trying to teach myself how to do one of those 15-second routines…and it’s not the cutest. The feeling of knowing that famous people do very normal and sort of… Read More »
Well, well, well. Now that Friends has been plucked away from Netflix, it looks like it’s time for you to find a new series to watch. The streaming service just added a thriller series called Messiah, and if you’re thinking of burning through the entire first season in a single afternoon, you might want to… Read More »