Contributor: Emily Tsiao

Emily studied film and writing when she was in college. And when she isn’t being way too competitive while playing board games, she enjoys food, sleep, and geeking out with her husband indulging in their “nerdoms,” which is the collective fan cultures of everything they love, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate and Lord of the Rings.

The 100

The 100 has turned into a decidedly violent, often bloody drama—part Lord of the Flies, part Planet of the Apes, part Lost as reimagined by the CW.

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Culture Clips: Maxed Out on Streaming Services?

HBO Max debuts this week leaving many people reeling as they pick and choose which streaming platforms are best for their families. As Vulture.com points out, “Finding something to watch on TV used to be as simple as turning on the set, flipping throug …

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Military Wives

Military Wives deals realistically with the reality of war and deployment—especially its effects on those who stay behind.

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Do Disney’s Recent Kids Shows Pull Punches on Important Issues?

When Disney+ was introduced last year, it kicked the nostalgia of my adolescence into overdrive. With shows such as Boy Meets World, Lizzie McGuire, That’s So Raven and many others from my youth now at my fingertips (not to mention lots of spare time t …

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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Adora’s pledge to fight for “the honor of Grayskull” may lose sight of other honorable qualities.

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kids on phones

Thirty-Four Years on Screens?!

If you’ve ever worried whether or not you spend too much time looking at screens, consider this: A new study commissioned by Vision Direct reports that “the typical person will spend a staggering 34 years looking at phones, computers or televisions.” S …

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Emma. (2020)

The promise of this witty, PG-rated period piece is briefly undermined by some surprising content.

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Entertainment That Might Cure Your Boredom (and Benefit Others)

“We may be apart right now, but coming together has never been more important,” says the Global Citizen, an organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty. And it has a point. It seems crazy that just a few months ago, we were all commuting to and fr …

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Dead to Me

It goes in some dark directions that plenty of viewers won’t want to go.

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Go! Go! Cory Carson

Sure, the show has a few tiny bumps—but for the most part, Cory Carson runs smoothly.

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The Photograph

PG-13 content concerns ultimately temper the sweet-but-substantive reconciliation at the heart of this story.

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Valley Girl

Valley Girl—a remake of Nicholas Cage’s much raunchier, R-rated 1983 version—still has its fair share of PG-13-level concerns.

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Culture Clips: Pomp, Circumstance and the Coronavirus

Well, here we are in week…wait, is it week six or seven of quarantine? Honestly, I’ve lost count. Regardless, though the days have started blending together, for many folks, this week of quarantine stands out as preschools, kindergartens, high schools …

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Hollywood

This Netflix miniseries rewrites Hollywood’s history–sometimes for the better, but often for the worse.

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I Still Believe

I Still Believe is a poignant portrait of faith and doubt, love and grief, heartbreak and hope.

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