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If you need something to watch for a few hours, do yourself a favor and watched Netflix new show, Nailed It. I'm not a huge fan of baking or cooking shows, but there really needs to be more than six episodes of Nailed It. Or at least there's a promise for a second season. Nailed It is a baking show for home bakers who... aren't really very good, or experienced. There are three challengers in each show, and two challenges. The first challenge, Baker's Choice, gives the baker's a chance to pick from one of three similarly decorated treats to try and recreate. They're given between 45-50 minutes to attempt the recreation and then judged on both sight and taste. The winner of Baker's Choice gets a prize (a stand mixer in several episodes) and the chance to wear a bright gold chef's hat for the second round signifying that they're the one to beat. In the second round, they start from scratch and all three are tasked with recreating an amazing cake ...

I managed to finish Jessica Jones Season 2 tonight and as the title might suggest, I'm not really sure how I feel about it. I didn't watch The Defenders (maybe I'll get back to it, but it's not a priority) so I'm not sure how well any of it ties in, or doesn't, to what happened there. Although I feel like it's probably pretty stand-alone from it, given that the only real ties I saw/heard in season two related to Jeri. For a pretty spoiler-free review I can say that I both enjoyed Jessica's progression in this season and what the focus was for her with Kilgrave out of the picture. I can also say that it's pretty freaking cool that they employed female-only directors for Season 2, however there was also a long way they could've gone to improve some of their diversity issues. Black women specifically got an unfair shake on screen and in ways that absolutely could've gone any direction. It's not enough to cast black actors, there's no ...

I love a good surprise movie. The Super Bowl was over by the time I saw the announcement for the new Cloverfield movie, so I finished what I was working on and hopped over to Netflix. Now, I never watched the first movie. I wanted to, but knew I wouldn't be able to handle the shaky-cam production. However, I saw 10 Cloverfield Lane at the theater and loved it. I'm a huge fan of horror movies -- especially ones that build really well, and ones that tease you about just how threatening the thing you think might be threatening really is. You're supposed to spend all of that movie wondering what the real threat is. Is it John Goodman's character or is he really a nice guy protecting our heroine from what's happening outside? Sure, it's not ideal, the situation, but how much can you trust about what's happening inside that bunker? I'm a sucker for that ambiguous villain.  The Cloverfield Paradox feeds on another one of my favorite horror g...