[Review] DC’s DOOM PATROL Season 1 Episode 1

Title poster of DC’s DOOM PATROL featuring Diane Guerrero, Joivan Wade, April Bowlby, Timothy Dalton, Riley Shanahan, and Matthew Zuk as “Crazy” Jane, Victor Stone, Rita Farr, Dr. Niles Caulder, Robotman, and Negative Man respectively, standing outside and inside a grey mini-bus parked in the middle of nowhere in a dystopic, old-western backdrop. On the left side, there is an albino donkey halfway pictured into the photo. Photo courtesy of DC Universe. All rights reserved.

DC Universe is at it again with another original liveaction drama series, this time focusing on the characters created by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney, and Bruno Premiani. DOOM PATROL is an emotionally-driven, action/adventure, absurdist, contemporary fantasy thriller focusing on Cliff Steele (played by Brendan Fraser and Riley Shanahan), “Crazy” Jane (played by Diane Guerrero), Rita Farr (played by April Bowlby), Larry Trainor (played by Matt Bomer and Matthew Zuk), Niles Caulder (played by Timothy Dalton), and Mister Nobody (formerly named, Eric Morden; played by Alan Tudyk). Not present in the pilot but soon to make his appearance later in the series is Victor Stone (played by Joivan Wade).

[Review] Roswell, New Mexico Season 1 Episode 1 “Pilot”

Promotional poster of Roswell, New Mexico featuring Jeanine Mason and Nathan Parsons as Liz Ortecho and Max Evans respectively. Photo courtesy of SpoilerTV.

Set in modern America, Roswell, New Mexico follows Liz Ortecho (played by Jeanine Mason) as she returns to her estranged hometown days before the tenth anniversary of her sister Rosa’s death. On the way, she meets up with an old crush, Max Evans (played by Nathan Parsons), and later encounters a traumatic event that sets forth the central conflict of the episode. Evans meets up with his siblings, Isobel Evans (played by Lily Cowles) and Michael Guerin (played by Michael Vlamis), where the events that happen to Ortecho is discussed and the reason it impacts them which develops into another secret that connects back to the Ortecho family. Meanwhile, Ortecho does some digging of her own about her traumatic experience and finds help from another old friend, Kyle Valenti (played by Michael Trevino), who eventually departs with his own adventures and uncovers a family secret that involves a government conspiracy. The big conflict ends just as you’d expect, but it leaves room for exploration in later episodes.

[Review] The Passage Season 1 Episode 1 “Pilot”

Title poster of the FOX network drama series, THE PASSAGE, featuring Saniyya Sidney and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Amy Bellafonte and Brad Wolgast respectively. Photo credit: SpoilerTV

In an apocalyptic tale that parallels reality, The Passage centers a high prestige research facility seeking a single vaccine for all the world’s diseases. These research doctors find themselves on track after a simple event years ago, and their unreluctant next step brings us to our protagonist, Amy Bellafonte (played by Saniyya Sidney), a ten-year-old child, who is, as the show determines, an untraceable, unwanted, and unknown child. Bellafonte has a tumultuous experience in this first episode that leads her from feeling alone in the world to slowly starting to open up as she meets agent Brad Wolgast (played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar), who is initially tasked to retrieve her. This new spin on the vampiric lore is the perfect balance of action, adventure, drama, and sci-fi.

[Review] DC’s TITANS Season 1 Episode 1

The promotional poster for DC’s Titans. Photo credit to the DC Universe Titans page

DC’s TITANS is an 11-episode DC Universe-exclusive, original drama series following Bill Finger and Bob Kane’s Dick Grayson, Marv Wolfman and George Perez’s Raven and Koriand’r, and Arnold Drake and Bob Brown’s Garfield Logan as they slowly come together while navigating their own dire circumstances and undergo tremendous personal growth. For this season, their beacon is Raven, and the focal characters are the gothic empath and Grayson. A cult targets the young, thirteen-year-old, Raven, called Rachel Roth, in a “conspiracy to bring hell on Earth” (DC Universe). Created and developed by Geoff Johns (The Flash, Suicide Squad), Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind, Star Trek: Discovery), and Greg Berlanti (Arrowverse, Love, Simon) and executive produced by Johns, Goldsman, Berlanti, Sarah Schechter (Deception, Supergirl), Greg Walker (Without A Trace, Vegas), Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Call), John Fawcett (Orphan Black, The Man in the High Castle), Gabrielle Stanton (Haven, Ugly Betty), and Richard Hatem (Witches of the East End, The Mothman Prophecies). The pilot was directed by Anderson, written by Johns and Goldsman, and produced by Robert Ortiz (Salvation, The Host), Carl Ogawa (Arrowverse, Blindspot), Jennifer Lence (Arrowverse, The Tomorrow People), Tom Flores (Smallville, The Shannara Chronicles), and Christiana Hooks (Queen Sugar, Still Star-Crossed).

[Review] Step Up: High Water [Full Series]

“Step Up: High Water” is a 10-episode, hour-long YouTube Red drama series that premiered January 31. It follows the story of ten characters who all have some relation to the performing arts academy known as High Water based in Atlanta, Georgia and founded by the legendary Sage Odom. The series was created by Holly Sorenstein (Make It or Break It) and executive produced by Adam Shankman (A Walk to Remember, Hairspray), Jenna Dewan Tatum (Step Up, Take the Lead), Channing Tatum (Step Up, 21 Jump Street), Jennifer Gibgot (The Pacifier, She’s All That), and Sorenstein. It stars Lauryn McClain (Daddy’s Little Girls, BearCity 3), Petrice Jones (Play the Devil, iBoy), Jade Chynoweth (Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, 300: Rise of an Empire), Carlito Olivero (East Los High, Making Moves), Eric Graise (The Walking Dead), Kendra Oyesanya, Terrence Green (Being Mary Jane), Marcus Mitchell (High Strung, Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming), Ne-Yo (Battle Los Angeles, Red Tails), and Faizon Love (Friday, Elf). Its recurring guest stars include Naya Rivera (Glee, The Royal Family) and R. Marcos Taylor (Straight Outta Compton, Baby Driver). This is a drama series with a focus on dance that features a variety of real-world topics that impact working class and poor people of color.

[Review] The Quad – 02×01 ‘#INLOVEANDTROUBLE’

The Quad is an hour-long, HBCU-themed television drama series created by Felicia D. Henderson and Charles D. Holland and developed by Rob Hardy. It airs Tuesdays at 10:00 P.M. EST/9:00 P.M CST on BET. You can also check out episodes on BET’s website if you can’t watch it on television or missed it. The show features a diverse cast of mostly black actors from a variety of ages, experience, and appearances including Anika Noni Rose, Zoe Renee Thomas, Jazz Raycole, Jake Allyn, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Michelle DeFraites, Peyton Alex Smith, Sean Blakemore, and E. Roger Mitchell. The series premiere was produced by David Grace, written by Henderson, and directed by Michael Allowitz. Guest performances included RonReaco Lee, Redaric Williams, Seth Kuhlmann, Aeja Lee, Katlynn Simone, Miles Stroter, and Larry Rhem. The show follows nine characters in their lives surrounding the HBCU that is Georgia A&M University, abbreviated as GAMU. It features intense situations and scenes such as (physical and sexual) assault, relationship drama, death and grief, drug dealing, street violence, power dynamics, hazing, toxic masculinity, police brutality, family drama, abuse, structural and institutional antiblack racism, poverty, and social pressures.

[Review] Black Lightning 01×01 ‘Pilot’

I wrote a review on my Tumblr blog already, but I will fluff it out and add some other comments. It will all be under the cut, but first of all, I want to say that Black Lightning is a much needed show, and it was about time that there was a show dedicated to black superhero family that didn’t focus on light skin or high yellow black women with brown skin or dark skin black male counterparts. Also, that included a wlw character in the family because, guess what, black queer people exist, and we are everywhere. We are the ones creating and maintaining black culture. We’re the ones dying for existing. We’re the ones putting in work. We’re the ones bettering ourselves. Anyway, once again, I’m not a professional reviewer, and I’m still new to reviewing, so this isn’t the best, but here we go.

X4 – 声にしたなら English translation lyricso

歌詞 かし 英訳 えいやく えいご 英語 日本語
ロマン字 ひらがな ふりがな 松下優也 まつしたゆうや
X4 Matsushita Yuya Lyrics Japanese Hiragana English Lyrics

[ALBUM REVIEW] Mhysa – fantasii

I am not good at reviews. This is my first ever review, and I specifically did this album because I was supposed to listen to Mhysa for the longest, but I kept putting her off because of executive dysfunction. I’m glad that I finally got to it.

List of upcoming albums of 2018

I wanted to have a list of artists to remember to check out for 2018, both artists I love and artists whom are new to me. I forget about all the great artists out there worth checking out, so I wanted to have a concise article that included all of them, and I wanted to share my interest with my readers. Some of these albums and pre-releases I’ve heard already while others are new to me and expectant. I wanted to make clear that this is an album-only list. Singles, mini-albums, and extended plays are only mention if they are pre-releases. I’ll update this article periodically. The format is (YYYY.MM.DD)