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 Hey Binge-watchers, Wanna watch something that doesn't make you endlessly scroll on Netflix/ Get cozy in your quilted blankets and lean into those fluffy pillows and get ready to be hooked to some binge-worthy shows. Slide into your favourite pair of loungewear/PJ's/hoodies and joggers/Kaftans/T-shirts and jeans. Grab some crisps or spicy rice crackers to munch on. Watch to your hearts content. Here are the 3 shows I've watched so far:  1. THE ROOKIE SEASON 1-4 This show stars John Nolan who is a 40-something year old man who rebuilds his life by joining the LAPD as a rookie. He proves all the 20-something year old rookies wrong and dives headfirst into 911 calls and risking his life to protect and serve the citizens of L.A. It follows the lives of fellow rookies, training officers and seargeeants alongside commanders as they shape his rookie career and make him become an officer that can be trusted to have a gun and badge while following protocol out on the streets of L.A...

 Hey Binge-Watchers, Get cozy and flick through some awesome shows to watch. This show is about 3 kids who died in a bouncy castle at a birthday party and the trauma tht their deaths led to their family members. It's a Spanish drama but you can watch it in English if you can't be bothered to read subtitles.  This show is about figuring out how to move on after tragic deaths of children and wondering how a survivor can live with the death of her 9 year old friends. It's about making sure this event will stay in the past and the families can move on. It's a gritty, emotional, dramatic show that will make you scream at your TV and cry at the same time.  It'll make you see that law-enforcement in Spain can be corrupt and you have to take matters in your own hands to find the real killers of your children. Having the police in your pocket isn't the greatest life-goal characters should be aspiring to. There's a lot of flashbacks and cover-ups due to greed and mone...

 Hey New Parentals, It's a daunting thing to bring new life in this crazy world, but it's a gift. Your heart swells with happiness and the first time they open their eyes your heart is filled with ove and it squeezes a bit. That tiny fist wrapped around your finger will melt your heart. You're kind of wrapped around their finger from that first moment you lay your eyes on your little human that you can call yours. It's about feeling that deep bond that links you to them for life. They steal your heart and attention and they're your entire world. You'll protect them with your live and nurture them to become the greatest person. You'll see them as perfection from the moment you first meet them.  It's about celebrating a new family member and loving them no matter what. You'll look forward to seeing their personality as they change. You'll see you in that little face. There will be first words, first steps, scraped knees, forehead kisses, cheek kiss...

 Hey Binge-watchers, Wanting to watch something new tonight? Check out this coming of age teenage drama that is about teamwork, finding ourself in a new town and re-inventing yourself. Being from a big city and moving to a small town is overwhelming for the main character, but she is battling the issue of going to a prep-school while being poor.  Navigating the rich kid crowd is not difficult for her as she's a tough cookie. Teegan Towel whips a crew team into shape as she figures out how to be a team player. She's gotta be able to connect with the other people on the team by not always looking out for number 1. This show is amazing. It'll make you shout at your TV and get worked up as she does dumb stuff and two-times 2 boys on the team, but she ends up liking Cam and kissing him towards th end of the show. OOH major spoiler alert. Don't read that if you've not watched this show.  This show will have you at the edge of your seat and you'll be sitting there in a...

 Hey Bookworms, Find a new and enthralling romantic comedy to stick your nose into that is based on a Netflix movie called People We Meet On Vacation. It's a fast-paced, modern work of art that brings up complicated emotions that blurs the lines between friendship and the fantasy of being more than friends. Travelling and hiding feelings about your best friend while taking the iconic Summer Trip every year.  It's filled with love, laughter, heartbreak/heartache. You'll be engrossed in reading the fictional drama in this compelling, award-winning controversial masterpiece between the complexities of being in the permanent friend-zone and wanting to be in the head over heels, madly in love sinking ship that the main female lead Poppy is constantly jumping on and off when she's in the presence of the irresistable male protagonist Alex.  This book will give you the feels. Get ready to grab a box of tissues as you're sobbing along with the character Poppy as you enter th...

 Hey Bookworms,  Wanting to add a book to your T.B.R (To Be Read) lists? Dive into a great literary masterpiece that will have you glued to the pages of the book. You'll have your nose buried so deep in this book because you can't put it down for even a second. You'll be absorbed in it until you can't even put it down and miss doing some of the mundane tasks in life like housework or praying. It's written by an incredible author who is bringing back the nostalgia of being in Korea and Japan in the 1900's.  This cultural novel was written by a Korean-American author called Min Jin. It's about love, sacrifice, suffering, being poor and trying to find some sense of happiness in life while being labelled as a 'yakuza.' This critically acclaimed masterpiece is full of heartbreak, death, unlawful incarceration. You want the characters to get some type of success, but they fall into the trap of ruin and war. The book is split up into three different parts t...

 Hey Binge-watchers, Wanna have a movie night? Get all cozy under the warm quilted blankets and throws. Slide into your loungewear/PJ's and watch Moana. It's a live action version of the animated movie that we all love and have watched billions of times. It is a twist on the award-winning Disney movie, but has different scenes and some of the dialogue is not the same in the live action movie.  It's about Moana trying to sail across the vast ocean to find a solution to keep her island alive. She meets the aloof, cool, one-of-a=kind, shape-shifting demigod Maui and they help each other to become heroes in the eyes of humans and her people. They overcome daring and dangerous obstacles to get to the goddess tafiti and restore her heart so they can save the islands from dying.  This movie will have you sitting at the edge of your seat while you hold your breath to see if they defeat the lava monster Takah and escape from a shallow crab who likes shiny things. The songs will ha...

 Hey Binge-watchers, This is a total throwback to Disney Channel, when you used to watch Wizards of Waverly Place back in the day. Dive into this continuation of the show as it features the next generation of Russo kids. Sink into the world of Magic, teaching young wizards and facing evil forces that threaten to ruin a young powerful wizard while she's adjusting to the mortal world and has to conceal her identity as a wizard.  This show will make you sit on the edge of your seats while you're laughing at all the funny scenes in the show. It'll make you sit at the edge of your seats in anticipation at the dark forces that threaten to drain her powers and create rifts between her and Justin. It will make you feel sad at some parts as she's wrestling with the idea of getting close to the Russo's and how she can be part of a family without knowing where she came from and how she's going to connect with Roman and Milo, who have to live with her.  I'd rate this sh...

 Hey Binge-Watchers,  Want to find a short and easy watch filled with the darkness of the supernatural world? Hop over to Disney Plus and check out this show called Coven Academy. It's a school for young witches and warlocks to learn about their powers and how to use their powers to combat evil forces in the magical world. Some of them are protected and they know nothing about the supernatural world having lived a boring mundane life for so long.  It's a supernatural coming of age dramedy that focuses on these teenage witches and warlocks to learn how to control their powers and fight evil forces, vampires, and other supernatural territories that have creatures that hate them. It's an easy watch as the episodes are really short. Meet Briar Roberts, who doesn't have a clue about the supernatural world. She's thrown into this world without a warning and doesn't have a choice but to form friendships and find her sisters in a coven and accept the dangers, thrills, r...

 Hey Book-Geeks and TV-Nerds,  Building up the brickwork of finally being who you are is figuring out where you wanna be rooted outside of the mould of perfection. You're oozing with that awesome, unfiltered easy-going, calm vibe, until the questions and doubt hits you like a slow moving unsuspecting punch to the gut. That red-hot simmering anger that you buried away underneath the darkness that comes with it resurfaces like molten hot lava firing up the balled up rage that isn't you. You hide the exploding elastic band of seething impatience underneath a calm serene lake of being super relaxed most of the time until the classic act of being questioned kicks in like you've been caught red-handed digging the trench of trouble that you weren't even standing near. The shovel wasn't in your hand, yet you are in the metaphorical hotseat of answering a million and one questions that you can answer and those one's you don't know how to answer and they leave you abs...

 Hey Binge-Watchers,  Scrolling through Disney Plus, and not finding anything interesting to watch? Sit back and relax against those recliners and watch The Artful Dodger. Based on the iconic character The Artful Dodger from Charles Dicken's Oliver Twist. It's a historical adventure wrapped into a period drama in 1850's colonial Australia. His character as Dodger is known to be a nimble-fingered pick-pocket, but he's trying to redeem himself by being an honest surgeon in the colony of Port Victory.  Meet Jack Dawkins (Dodger) who's played by Thomas Brodie Sangster, he's a respected surgeon, but what happens when his mentor and surrogate father Norbert Fagin (David Thawlis) come to the colony and interrupt his ex-convict life by ruining his peaceful life with the thrill of scheming and thievery?  He faces gambling debts that are held over his head as leverage by the looming despair of having his surgeon hands being cut off, which is a perfect opportunity of Fagin...

 Hey Binge-Watchers,  Wanting to watch something different on the 'flix? This is a Spanish drama, but you can watch it in English. It's a psychological thriller mini-series that will make you sit at the edge of your seats in anticipation about the heart-pounding, heroic, daring stunts that the main character Angela does to avoid being in an abusive marriage. She is manipulated, viewed as being mentally unstable, and lives in physical, emotional and mental terror from being seen as nothing and being belittled for not being able to fight back until someone reports this sick twisted monster of a man She's isolated from the world and made to suffer physically, psychologically, emotionally, and mentally as her husband exerts his male dominance over her in a horrible disgusting way.  She meets a man called Edu who's been sent by her husband to murder her, but then she's painted as a crazy person, and she's doubted by everyone except a witty, intelligent, self-assured ...

 Hey Binge-Watchers,  Flicking through Netflix and you don't have an inkling as to what you're gonna watch? Sink into the cushions of your recliners and watch this murder mystery that is both thrilling and haunting. It will make you gasp as some of the scenes and investigations will make a shiver run down your spines. The Witness will make you feel hooked from the first episode to figure out what happened to a young mother who was full of life and why she was murdered so brutally in front of her innocent child.  HUGE SPOILER ALERT THERE. If you've not watched this show DO NOT READ the words above. If you have then you will be reeling about who the real killer is and how a man is wrongfully accused of murdering a young mother. You will be feeling sick to your stomach at the brutality of the murder and how the child is suffering from mental trauma as the experience caused him scars on his childhood. What happens when the boy who is now an adult can't face the trauma that ...

 Hey Binge-Watchers, Wondering what to watch on Disney Plus? Grab your TV remove and head over to Disney Plus while you're chilling in your P.J's/Loungewear/Hoodies and joggers/T-shirts and shorts. These 2 shows to watch are:  1. ADULTS: This show is similar to the award-winning sit-com Not Suitable for Work. It's about five friends who live under one roof in New-York. It's about these friends living in their friend's parent's house while they're away on holiday and so many things go wrong, which is funny to see. The show follows these 20 something year olds as they face challenges and struggles in their chaotic co-dependent lives while facing career struggles, health insurance issues, modern dating, and early adulthood all while crashing in Samir's childhood home in Queens.  The show has 2 seasons that will make you sit at the edge of your seats with belly-aching laughter as you watch the characters doing the most silliest things while existing in each ...

 Hey Binge-Watchers,  Recently, I've been watching shows back-to-back without releasing awe-inspiring content to recommend to y'all who are obsessed with watching. Sit back in those comfy recliners, grab your snacks and your TV remotes that you are hogging or are a general 'Remote Master.' These 3 shows should be added to your lists: 1. NOT A STRANGER: This show features a woman who is wronged and cheated by the man she loved. She orchestrates a plan to infiltrate his house and get revenge for being broken up with. While having a secret relationship with her boss's husband she spikes the lady of the house's drinks to reclaim what she lost. She was fired from her previous job after losing a child and goes to work for Funda, while Ilker struggles with having her in the house.  After the truth comes out about how Funda was made to feel mentally ill, confused,  suffers memory loss, and behaves erratically. She goes to a wellbeing centre to get away from Nazli.  Don...

 Hey Binge-Watchers,  Ready to kick back and relax while being the sole commander of your T.V remote? Lounge back in your recliners and switch over to Netflix on that Amazon Fire Stick that is amazing to watch on. The Perfect Lie features families living in Surburbia while dealing with the death of a friend. Getting involved with The Dinner Club has consequences that get the characters in sticky situations. The police dig into the fire that is first perceived as an accident, but what if it wasn't an accident and done on purpose?  Characters go behind each others backs, cheat on spouses, have a lot of money that makes them filthy rich and spoilt with parents who can make problems disappear. They can do crazy unhinged things in the name of love so the person who they want to be with until death do us part can't leave them and have a better life so they do things that make them desperate to cling on to the person who is making them feel insecure and second guess themselves....

 Hey Binge-Watchers,  Looking for a gritty crime drama that features ex-con turned Private Investigator who is trying to make a difference in society by trying to clear his name and get back in the good books of the world? Sit back on those sofas and get comfy while opening Disney Plus and click on R.J Decker. It's a show where he's inserting himself back into society to catch out those people who have committed crimes and who've caused deaths that are highly suspicious and unusual.  This show will make you feel the suspense as he meets up with the person whose brother framed him and sent him to prison for 18 months. OOH SPOILER ALERT! They work together to earn each other's trust and to seek forgiveness in each other to find redemption in the crazy world of Fort Lotterdale. This show will get you hooked from the first episode of season 1 to the 3rd episode of season 2. It'll  make you sit at the edge of your seat in anticipation to see how he uses his high I.Q to s...

 Hey Binge-Watchers,  Looking for a light-hearted, easy, fun, heart-warming, and nostalgic movie to watch with a brand-new addition to the quartet of Toy Story movies? The fifth movie is now streaming on Disney Plus. Go check it out while you're sitting in the dark rooms filled with the cinema vibes that you've created with the brilliance of ambience.  The movie follows a really important message that kids need to learn in the 21st Century as this world is filled with the addiction of technology. Scrolling, Watching, tapping and texting is the new fixation these days in the world of innovation. It's about not getting too attached to screen-time while still learning how ot play instead of discarding your toys and shoving them in a dusty corner to be forgotten in teh dark. It's about re-igniting the spark of imagination and interacting with people in real life than in the digital worlds that we create through gaming.  Jessie embarks on an adventure to get Bonnie to mak...

 Hey Binge-Watchers,  Wondering what to watch while you're Netflix and chilling in the dark with the dim ambience of the low lamplight? This will take you back to your high-school or college days when everyone was gushing about being on Team Edward or Jacob. The movies feature young Bella Swan who moves to Forks and meets the alluring, captivating vampire Edward Cullen who is a mystery to her and she enters his world for the first time. Edward leaves her to have a normal life in the sequel and she meets the funny best friend Jacob who takes her mind off the pain of losing the love of her life, but then he falls for her until she's forced to go after Edward and save him from the Volturi.  In the third film the Cullens team up with the werewolves to fight off Victoria and the newborn army and Bella is thrown in a tangled situation where she has to  choose between Jacob and Edward, but she loves the vampire too much to leave him and chase after the dream of becoming a v...

 Hey Binge-watchers, Netflix and chilling tonight? Kick back to this easy, feel good small town watch featuring Maggie's past coming back to bite her in the backside. Cal is sucker-punched in the gut when he finds out truths that he can't digest, no matter how easy-going he is. The tension between him and Maggie is so thick when he finds out she was married and she's having second-thoughts about whether she's all in with him or not. THAT WAS A MAJOR SPOILER ALERT. Dpn't read that bit if you've not watched this show.  A new chef comes in to town and Sydney who's come out of a stressful relationship is attracted to this popular/hot-shot chef from the Big Apple (New York City). Two kids come to the crossing and Cal is determined to help them out, but will he be able to get them out of sticky situations? He grows attached to them and tries to help while being faced with flashbacks from the past. Will he give Maggie another chance as he's given Ben?  This sho...

 Hey Binge-Watchers, Before you watch the new season go ahead and recap seasons 1-4 to refresh your memories on what happened in the show. Season 5 follows the crew going after Blackbeard's Blue Crown and the Royal Merchant Gold while seeking vengeance for the death of their best friend JJ. It's about the Pogues grieving after losing their friend who is like a brother to them.  The search for the Blue Crown leads them to go on an international hunt through Morocco, Spain, and Croatia to track down Groff who murdered JJ in cold blood, while trying to authenticate the Blue Crown. OOH MAJOR SPOILER ALERT THERE! If you haven't watched the new season don't read this part. They form an unlikely alliance with Sarah's brother Rafe while they navigate high-stakes clashes with rival factions and smugglers. Sarah is going through pregnancy while embarking on dangerous reckless missions to help the Pogues recover what was rightfully theirs.  Kiara struggles with losing the love...

 Hey Binge-Watchers, If you liked Bridgerton, you'll like this period drama set in rural Australia in the turn of the early 20th Century. Basically in the late 19th to early 20th century- more like 1890s-1900/1901. The storyline follows a young woman called Sybylla who is forced to conform to the social normality of society where the class divide between the poor and rich is shown to her as reality checks by seeing the difference between her and Nell. The show shows themes like the heavy patriarchal expectation of forcing young women into marriage  and doing house-hold chores rather than having a fulfilling career.  Sybylla is a head-strong, intelligent, ambitious heroine of the show who is an aspiring writer who fights against the pressures of society to be a married woman. Her creative mind makes her create content that is frowned upon in society as poetry is not meant to be shared out loud in the middle of debut parties when you overhear the chauvinist male prospects h...

 Hey Book-Geeks and TV-Nerds, This is the greatest feeling in the world. To be acknowledged when you're a silent warrior being a background character when you're oozing main-character/protagonist/hero vibes. Your phone will ping with a message or video of someone screaming your name like a crazy fan-gril and that carefree wild unrestrained laugh will bubble up and escape from your dry cracked lips that are sealed tighter than a bank vault when you're sealing it with the 411. Your heart buzzes with some type of buzzed up flicker of happiness and it's one fleeting moment, but it makes your day to know people are remembering you billions of miles away. It's about being appreciated for who you as a person. That bubbly loud persona that gets buried under the layers of paint on a blank canvas comes back, and you're grinning like a mad hatter from one of the most awesome films of all times in the history of Disney, A.K.A Alice in Wonderland. The whirlpool of anxiety an...

 Hey Binge-Watchers,  Looking for something new to watch that's a fusion between Hollywood and Bollywood? Kick back in your seats and watch this movie that's about friendship, dance, being a young Indian girl in college that is in the Diaspora, while being judged by the other students as being different. This masterpiece is filled with culture as well as being all about Bollywood Collegiate Dance. It's about figuring out where the characters fit in the world of academia.  It's a coming of age movie about besties Anjali and Maya navigating life at UCLA, but things go wrong and their friendship is tested when they join a Bollywood dance group. They find romance, friends, and the confidence to put themselves out there even when disaster strikes. Some of the dances are amazing in the movie, the choreography is original, and unique, and mind-blowingly next-level amazing.  It's about not being afraid to go after the things you want and to keep it real with your besties ev...

 Hey Binge-Watchers, It's time to get back into another season featuring your secret crush Theo James from the world of Divergent as the character Four turns into the dark and brooding Duke Eddie who is secretly taking his illegal activities to a whole other level. He gets tangled up with the mob while facing betrayals and figuring out how to be EL JEFE, while getting away from the controlling grip of Bobby Glass.  Switch to the second season where Freddy is a literal Judas and works against his own brother as he's influenced by dangerous decisions to reclaim his seat at the table. The show goes from being in English to parts in Italian and Arabic and partly in German. You gotta read those subtitles to keep up. You'll be gripped by the danger and pure magnetic charisma that the Duke has which will make you wonder if him ans Suzie are a thing. Or if him and the Italian Beauty the Contessa is interested in him rather than being in a purely professional relationship.  It's...

 Hey Binge-Watchers, Looking for a short and sweet watch filled with drama, crime, and mystery? Jump into Netflix's gritty drama where an innocent man has to do everything in his power to find his son who the world thinks is dead, but he's determined to go above and beyond to prove the theory that his son hasn't been brutally murdered by his own hands.  He teams up with a journalist who turns out to uncover clues that the police don't, and they both go up against powerful people who are willing to assert their dominant power to keep him locked up so he doesn't uncover the truth of where his son is. It's about love and loyalty and doing whatever it takes to get to your child. You will do things that will go against your moral compass and go head-to-head against people who have the police, and a hospital employee in their pocket.  It's about evading the FBI until they believe you with the proof that the child who was presumed dead and buried is alive and well ...

  DRIFTING APART Blending into the space between us like a chameleon blending into colour. There’s nothing that holds us together like superglue. We used to pour emotion into each conversation like filling a cup full and spilling it all over a surface. Now it’s a blank canvas between me and you. We’ve drifted apart until there’s a whole ocean of silence between me and you. Thought I was your red line, un unbreakable bone between me and you. Yeah, yeah. Don’t know where we stand in this lonely island where we’ve outgrown each other. You broke the trust in me like a fragile tower of glass breaking into a thousand shards crushing me like an arrow to the heart. Now I gotta figure out how to stitch the bleeding heart that I wore on my sleeve with all the hope I had of being a hero. Whoa. We’re like aimless driftwood never building back the burning ache of sorrow into a beautiful garden of redemption. Maybe I’m the villain in this twisted web of storylines that yo...

  Burning air filling my lungs like the burn of helium filling up a balloon. Can’t catch a breath as the ashes of confidence are sitting at my bare feet as I look at the burning flames of a crumbling empire settle around me in the smoke of stupid, reckless bravery that sent everything in the trench of trouble I’m digging. I’m blasting out of this shell of silence that I’ve built with my blood sweat and tears. It’s time to rise like a phoenix from the flames and regain the crown of high self-assurance that was on my head. Keep that royal flush close to my chest, cuz we can’t reveal all the cards yet. Do I have a seat at the table? Or do I have to be a tight Gringotts vault of secret and truth? It’s the code of silence from a morally gray tale in the romance book that I’m clutching in a tight fist scrunching up the white pages into a closed up book that buries emotion under the surface. It’s all about weathering the calm before the storm, when your red-hot molten lava of si...

 Hey Binge-Watchers, Looking for something that has that Wattpad morally grey male character who is in the mob? Switch over to Netflix's gritty crime show about a cleaning lady who's willing to do anything and everything to go above and beyond to save her ick son. She had to do things that she never thought she'd do like team up with the underboss of the Armenian mob. She later goes and works for a cartel and falls in love with the cartels male boss Jorge Sanchez.  She has to cut up bodies, kill people and hack into the mainframe of a powerful man who has the government and police in his pockets virtual businesses' to save Jorge. SPOILER ALERTS. Don't read this if you've not watched it. It's about her being a superhero to save her son while she's an undocumented person living in America. It's about sacrifice, love and loyalty. It's about blurring the lines of right and wrong and colouring outside of the lines of the law to get what you want to pr...

 Hey Awesome Event Attendees, Before attending an event, you're climbing into your car and you get told about an assistive tool hitting your face and breaking your tooth one day, and you get angry cuz it's the billionth time you've heard this line and you just shout 'I'M NOT!' then you've dug a shallow ditch of trouble that extends into a deep gaping trench that you wish you hadn't dug to channel your inner older sibling's confidence and speak up for what you believe in, and assume you get heard and your ideas/opinions get taken into consideration when they clearly haven't been taken on the chessboard of wit and sheer levels of high intelligence. Your cool confidence gets stripped down to the bone and you're left shaken up with a gaping open wound of self-loathing and silence that doesn't fit your mafia-boss level energy. You wallow into the shame that comes with the Asian Diaspora's old-school ideals of you being respectful, but not ...