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Freeform’s Love in the Time of Corona may go down in history as the one show nobody wanted to see. A snapshot of the miserable shutdowns done with all the subtlety of the Party of Five reboot. When even The Daily Beast calls it “unbearably on the nose and oversimplified,” something clearly went wrong.  

On Friday, Netflix premiered Teenage Bounty Hunters, a dramedy about high school girls who become assistants to a local bail recovery agent.

Land development and ranching are both dirty, mean and violent businesses, if Yellowstone is to be believed. Hollywood loves to make businessmen their villains and Yellowstone is no exception. The twist in this show is that the Dutton family and their foes are all willing to be evil to keep or to get what they want.

As if 2020 didn’t have enough racial tension, HBO decides to throw fuel to the fire through its latest series Lovecraft Country. Based on a 2016 novel, the story is yet another remark about how racist America is. This time, we’ve got the usual “timely” comparisons between 2020 and the Jim Crow era.

Abortion is becoming a popular genre in Hollywood nowadays. Mainstream shows and independent movies are eager to dive into the empowering and somehow hilarious idea that is killing an unborn child. But now HBO is going deeper by attacking the very concept of motherhood itself. And it’s supposed to be funny.

An episode of ABC’s racial comedy black-ish that even the liberal network deemed too controversial to air was finally made available for viewing on the streaming site Hulu on Monday. From painting Trump as a “scary,” “Shady King” that “everybody” is afraid of, to praising Al Gore for caring about climate change and winning the popular vote (while pointing out that Trump lost it), the…

Monica Dutton bravely helped discover a rapist and murderer of Native American women in this week’s Yellowstone. The unnamed man who had been preying on reservation women turned out to be a white, natural gas worker who would offer them a ride when their cars broke down. 

Making white people and energy companies look evil is a two-fer in the liberal Hollywood playbook. But it…

Like its heroes, HBO Max’s Doom Patrol is kind of a mess. The former DC Universe show is yet another example of TV writers thinking the concept of superheroes being noble people doing the right thing is too boring. Instead, we get a raunchy series that has the gall to have Jesus drop an f-bomb. I’m starting to miss the liberal fantasies of Stargirl.

DC Universe and CW’s Stargirl has been a pleasant surprise over the summer. Unlike our other female superheroes, Stargirl managed to make it almost an entire season without bringing up anything political. Unfortunately, that came to an end in the latest episode, though probably not in the way any liberal fan would think.

The HBO show I May Destroy You is a British series exploring the psychological trauma of rape and sexual exploitation. This week’s episode, "Social Media Is a Great Way to Connect," attacked straight white men as a group, in particular, for sexual abuse. 

Editor's note: Season 1 of Tell Me A Story was originally released on the streaming service CBS All-Access in 2018, but the premiere will air for the first time on the CW at 9pm eastern on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. The following is a review of the first episode as the article originally ran on October 31, 2018.

The HBO series I May Destroy You is a complicated and at times nihilistic show set in London exploring the horror of rape. It rightfully calls out sexual violence. However, it also eagerly promotes popular left-wing feminist trends such as a graphic depiction of "period sex."

Netflix has been dripping with viciously anti-Christian content for years now, from teen dramadies mocking Christian beliefs to post-apocalyptic movies portraying Christians as the villains.

Leave it to one of the most liberal shows on television to cave to an actress who didn’t want her progressive character to play nice with a conservative character who she claims is “complicit in the oppression of so many,” and whose "politics are actively harmful.”