#StayHome. CREDIT: INTO ACTION
I thought I would share some of the less recommended shows I’ve watched during this period, that isn’t Tiger King (2020) or TikTok videos. Below is a non-exhaustive list of television series I’ve watched since late-March.
YOU Season 3 stars Penn Badgley and Victoria Pedretti. CREDIT: Netflix
After a relatively quiet Season 1 buzz and successful Season 2 (thanks to Netflix), YOU Season 3 (2021, developed by Sera Gamble and Greg Berlanti, based on the books by author Caroline Kepnes) returns almost two years later with Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) settling down into a fictional suburban hellhole known as Madre Linda. They now have a 6-month old baby named Henry Forty Quinn-Goldberg and are trying to keep their marriage alive, while fitting into a new community.
Tanner Buchanan (left) stars as Cameron Kweller and Addison Rae (right) stars as Padgett Sawyer in He’s All That. CREDIT: Netflix
He’s All That (2021, directed by Mark Waters) is a remake of 1999’s She’s All That, though I’m pretty sure that the former just gender swapped the main characters and borrowed the makeover plot point. Aside from that, the 2021 movie has been Gen Z-fied with social media and influencers.
From left to right: Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) and Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) escaping from their enemies in Black Widow. CREDIT: Marvel Studios
Marvel Studios has been promoting Black Widow (2021, directed by Cate Shortland) for over a year now with its first official teaser trailer being released in December 2019. The second female-led movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) was delayed multiple times due to COVID-19, but it finally settled on a release date in July this year.
Sarah Shahi (left) stars as Billie and Adam Demos (right) stars as Brad in Sex/Life. CREDIT: Netflix
Sex/Life (2021, created by Stacy Rukeyser) is a television show that I never intended to watch, but a Just Jared Instagram post had piqued my interest of this Netflix series because apparently Adam Demos, who stars as one of the leading men Brad, went full frontal in one of the episodes.
Amy Adams stars as Anna Fox in The Woman in the Window. CREDIT: Netflix
Delayed multiple times since 2019, The Woman in the Window (2021, directed by Joe Wright) is based on the novel of the same name by author A. J. Finn aka Daniel Mallory, and follows an agoraphobic child psychologist Anna Fox (Amy Adams) who claims she witnessed her neighbour (Julianne Moore) being murdered from her window.
KJ Apa stars as Nico in Songbird. CREDIT: STX Films
As one of the first major feature films to be produced, filmed and edited during the COVID-19 pandemic, Songbird (2020, directed by Adam Mason) is set in 2023, where the world is in full pandemic mode and quarantine camps are in existence; “munies” (people who are immune to the virus aka COVID-23) like Nico (KJ Apa) are the only people who get to roam the streets in the new normal.
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