‘Moon Knight’ Review: Ancient Egyptian Gods and Trauma
Spoilers Below MCU’s Moon Knight miniseries, created by Jeremy Slater, centers around Marc Spector/Moon Knight (Oscar Issac), a superhero with a dissociative identity disorder. He…
Paloma Bennett is an emerging film and television reviewer based out of Los Angeles. She has written reviews for Whedonopolis, Fandomopolis, Women at Warp, and her own blog Decoding the Daemoverse. In the past, Paloma ran MAE, a feminist film and television review blog. She produced and co-hosted a monthly film podcast called Jump Start Cinema sponsored by New Filmmakers Los Angeles.
She has a B.A. in Film and Digital Media from UC Santa Cruz and a Masters in Cinema Critical Studies from San Francisco State University. Paloma loves everything pop culture, including TV shows, movies, comic books, and podcasts. The first major fandom she was geeky about was Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
‘The Staircase’ Miniseries Review: Murder Tearing a Family Apart
The Staircase miniseries, created by Antonio Campos and Maggie Cohn, is a mesmerizing crime drama based on the true-crime docu-series of the same name directed…
‘DMZ’ Miniseries Review: Vision of Hope
Spoilers Below DMZ, created by Robert Patino, is a compelling DC comics dystopian miniseries centered around NYC Medic Alma “Zee” Ortega (Rosario Dawson) searching the…
‘The Gilded Age’ Season 1 Review: Generational Wealth vs. Social Climbers
Spoilers Below The Gilded Age Season 1, created and written by Julian Fellowes, is an entertaining historical drama that wrestles with gender, class, and race.…
Euphoria Season 2 Review: Heartbreaking & Beautiful Innovation
Spoilers Below Some adult language is used in this review. Euphoria Season 2, written and directed by creator Sam Levinson, is a surreal, innovative teen…
‘Peacemaker’ Season 1 Review: Quirky Morally Grey Heroes
Spoilers Below Peacemaker Season 1, created and written by James Gunn, is a funny, heartwarming black comedy D.C.E.U. Superhero television show. The show is centered…
‘And Just Like That’ Season 1 Review: No Magic and Surface Level Woke Culture
Spoiler Warning And Just Like That Season 1, developed by Michael Patrick King, fails to deliver the magic of the original Sex and the City…
‘Yellowjackets’ Season 1 Review: Character Driven Mystery
Yellowjackets Season 1 Spoilers Below Yellowjackets Season 1, created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson, is a brilliant American drama that jumps through time while…
‘Dickinson’ Season 3 Review: Queer Women Love Story and Mermaids as Poetry
Spoilers Below Dickinson Season 3, created by Alena Smith, ends the origin story of the iconic Queer poet Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) in a surreal…
‘Hawkeye’ Review: The Christmas Buddy Superhero Series
The Hawkeye miniseries, created by Jonathan Igla, is a Christmas extravaganza that acts as a New York superhero origin story for Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld).…
‘Succession’ Season 3 Review: Clash of the Gods and Satirical Sibling Drama
Spoilers Below. Succession Season 3, created by Jesse Armstrong, focuses on the battle between Media God Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his son Kendall Roy…
‘Cowboy Bebop’ Season 1 Review: Mixed Bag, But A Fun Ride
Cowboy Bebop Season 1, developed by Christopher Yost, creates a neo-noir cyberpunk stylized world. But there are some issues with how the characters are depicted.…
‘Locke & Key’ Season 2 Review: Forgetting Grief
Spoilers Below Locke & Key Season 2, developed by Carlton Cuse, Meredith Averill, and Aron Eli Coleite, weaves a suspenseful, fantastic story about growing up…
‘You’ Season 3 Review: Problematic Riveting Content
Spoilers Below You Season Three, created by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, has a compelling story but is problematic from the jump. Erasure of Toxic…