GLOW

Netflix continues to bring us superb series and GLOW is about as outstanding as they come. I should have watched this last month for my celebration of all things female and the YASS Queen month.

Alison Brie is Ruth and the main star of this terrific show. Her character is flawed and outstanding all in one. The music is super 80's and fun, the fashion is camp and Jenji Kohan of Weeds and Orange is the New Black fame lends her hand on the producing side to this next chapter in Netflix's drama/comedy domination.

While HBO struggles with only two remaining seasons of Game of Thrones and no big franchise to replace it, I hear True Detective will be back for hopefully a redeeming third season. Netflix is now officially the powerhouse TV company to keep up with.

Poor old Showtime was beaten by HBO, the US commercial networks never had much on the cable champions of the golden era of TV and AMC continue to be the dark horses with the hugely successful The Walking Dead (and less successful Fear The Walking Dead).

Back to GLOW, it is Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling and it is gorgeous, beautifully shot, beautifully set  and most importantly characters the audience can really back and identify with.

After struggling through the woeful third and final season of Bloodline this is definitely a redeeming Netflix series I have come to love the streaming giant for.

This is one of those series you can truly binge and just say goodbye to an entire Winter weekend in Sydney. I got nine episodes deep in one weekend alone. The thirty (odd) minute episodes just breeze by with a string of four letter words and great acting.

Highly recommend this, check out the trailer below and get ready to fall in love with the next sensation on Netflix.

Silver Screen in 2017 {It Comes at Night}

Sadly this is nowhere near as Get Out and I was so gosh damn excited for It Comes at Night. Like All Eyez on Me in relation to 2Pac, this film lacked something, (something was lacking so much the man next to me was snoring so loud it scared me more than the film at times) can I tell you dear reader what that was?

It Comes at Night is scary and tense in parts however I found it slightly dull.

I don't want to give away spoilers cause that is mean, Joel Edgerton is great as normal however like his recent film The Gift it was a bit blah.

The ending also was one of those where the lights sprung on straight away, the sleeping man next to me got one hell of a shock. The fact as well the film was only just over 90 minutes but felt like a three hour marathon told me the pacing of the film at times was so slow it was like the third and final season of Bloodline.

I didn't hate everything about this film but it wasn't great. After the suspense and the faboulous Get Out, I was wanting more from this film. I am not not surprised it only got a limited release in Sydney.

It Comes at Night has some talented folk it but it struggles to fire, 3 Stars.

WOW! 25 Years Since Melrose Place

One of my favourite TV blogs to read daily noted this morning it's been 25 years since Melrose Place burst onto the screens back in 1992. The first series was a dogs breakfast but enter stage left Heather Locklear and the madness of Marcia Cross (AKA Kimberly) and who could forget Jane's kid sister Sydney (Laura Leighton).

In series one back in 1992 one season wonder Amy Locane (who) swanned around the pool area and impressed a much younger Grant Show (Jake) and Andrew Shue (Billy, who was so nerdy and cute back in the day). Then the drama and the beach fits became a weekly thing and the Australian show tagline was born Tuesday nights a Bitch!

Melrose Place came onto the screens when I was 10, wondering why on Earth I found another man (Andrew Shue, at times Grant Show) super attractive, this show was a sexual awakening as well as my early first love for US dramas.

Melrose Place was the product of Beverly Hills 90210 (later changed to 90210 for a CW revival which in it's own right lasted five seasons) and gave birth to the short lived Models Inc (which I always loved).

The CW also gave a lifeline to Melrose Place bringing it back for one season of 18 dramatic episodes in 2010. Unfortunately unlike 90210 it didn't find an audience on the youth network and it got pulled to make way for the likes of The CW hits like Vampire Diaries and Arrow and more superhero shows than one can poke a stick at. Funny thing is they are giving Dynasty a go at a remake this Fall (US for Aussie Autumn, however US Fall is our Spring).

Melrose Place, the memories and all in my birthday month, it reinforces (along with Grinspoon's debut recently celebrating 20 years of release) that I am no longer a young one anymore.

That said with age comes experience and I can truly say I have experienced a lot, more than a lot of (almost) 35 year olds.

Thanks for the memories Melrose Place, Models Inc and all forms of 90210, these were truly great shows back in my hey day.

Love Child Season 5?

The fourth season of Love Child has wrapped up and I think the axe is about to drop on one of Channel Nine's only dramas. The show was lucky to survive after a woeful rushed third season last year and this season it fumbled around with new cast members and a random guest appearance from Ronan Keating.

Love Child hobbled over the line with 532,000 viewers last night for it's final hooray and maybe the end of the road. With drama becoming increasingly expensive and Australian viewers tuning into more and more Netflix dramas is it even worth the Australian networks commissioning more dramas?

This week alone in the midst of Winter school holidays Home & Away last night managed 732,000 viewers, Wanted on Monday night on Seven scored 634,000 and last week Cleverman really struggled to launch it's second season with 151,000 viewers.

So are interested interested in drama on live TV? Netflix is huge down under, Wentworth was a popular and critical success and a successful import but with a number of titles failing to reach that magic million what does the future hold for Aussie dramas?

Love Child tied up so many loose ends as it wrapped up last night one can only imagine it's time for the axe to fall as it had a good four year run, in the current climate of networks in administration and struggling for viewers, more dramas may fall upon the wayside. Sadly.

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Silver Screen in 2017 {The House}

I have never loved Will Ferrell and honestly the sequel to the not that funny Daddy's Home does look exhausting but I had to give him and Amy (Poehler) a go in The House.

Amy did Hilary well on SNL and was a star alongside Tina Fey in Sisters, so I was willing to let my hairs down in this latest Hollywood smut filled adult comedy.

Lennon Parham from a number of shows/movies was a bit of a standout.


Look this film is rather average, despite the fact there are some funny scenes, one liners, however at times slapstick takes over and the plot becomes ridiculous.

It does clock in at less than 90 minutes so it's short and sharp and to the point but it does in points fill like this could be a 60 minute comedy special on Netflix.

Not the greatest comedy this year but Snatched set the bar low, LOW. So I will pass this and Randall Park was still sexy as fuck as a Wall Street coke addict. Nice, my kind of man.

3 Stars.

YASSS Queen: Day Fourteen - Finale

As June comes to a close, EOFY strikes and Winter is almost at the halfway mark we say goodbye to all the amazing ladies who have made YASS Queen month! Great to see Una before the end of the month and I hope to head off to the pictures this weekend as I launch into Instagram, oh geez. Yes this Blog along with Flashing off the Record will go social.

Time as promised to honour some of the best women in News in this country. Firstly to the women I wake up with in the morning, Virginia Trioli and Del Irani.

 



Of the evening I love a week bit of Leigh Sales & Emma Alberici...





Yes I love the ABC and looking abroad it's 100% all the way.... SAMANTHA BEE, YASS QUEEN!

Thanks to all the ladies that have made this BLOG shine, shine, shine!