Home: Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 2 Recap
MANNNNNN listen. Why does Game of Thrones play me like a fiddle so often? I am a willing instrument in their shenanigans orchestra and I’d have it no other way. Let’s just get into it. The Cave After over a season of absence, we are back with Bran and the …
The Red Woman: Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 1 Recap
I’ve been fiending for Game of Thrones since they left us last season with our collective hearts broken. I LEGIT flipped out and screamed when the camera zoomed in on Jon’s face, lifeless and surrounded by blood. This is how they gon do us, huh??? This is the first season …
Because BLACK GIRLS ROCK! 2016 Was Dope: My Recap
The Gap just dropped an ad on how girls can do anything, featuring a Black girl who is being used as an armrest by one of the white girls. Kirsten West Savali wrote an amazing piece on The Root about it. Read: The Price on Our Heads: New GapKids Ad Sparks Racially …
I See You: Scandal Episode 514 Recap
You’ve probably been wondering where I’ve been on the Scandal front lately. I’ve missed the last 2 episode recaps because I have been traveling the last 4 weeks. So much so that I haven’t been able to catch up to watch the eps until much later after they aired. But …
It was Hella Onyx: The Blackest Black History Month Ever
The Blackest and best Black History Month ever ended yesterday and I am just reveling in it’s abundant noirness. Still. It was utterly lit. Like Olympic Torch lit. Like Christmas Lights when you do too much so you keep the neighbors up all night because your house is one giant …
Let’s Talk About Chris Rock’s Oscars Opening Monologue
I did not plan on boycotting the 2016 Academy Awards but I also didn’t plan on watching it. You’re probably like “wait what?” Yes. I take “boycott” to mean I’m making a conscious decision to show that my support is not going to be added to the mix. I just …
The Candidate: Scandal Episode 511 Recap
Sooooo the way my travel schedule has been set up and will continue to be, it will be hard for me to get these recaps up before Sunday. Scandal comes on Thursday nights and for the next 4 weeks, I will be out of town for the live-airing. It would …
It’s Hard Out Here for a General: Scandal Episode 510 Recap
SCANDAL IS BACK, SNITCHES!!! I wrote a piece the other day on what I’ve thought the trailer meant, so read that. But let’s get right to it. I’m thirsty. Dining Pope – We land 6 months past where we left, and Sally Langston is still being Petty Labelle on her …
Scandal is Back Tomorrow But Old Olivia Might Be Gone
Chile… now you know the last two months without my Gladiator baes of Scandal have been tough. Thursdays ain’t been the same since Olivia Pope and her crew of Misfit Toys left us for winter break. Tomorrow, though? They are gonna be back, snatching all our edges and making us …
Sounds Like James Franco is Columbussing Zola’s Story (UPDATE: Zola is Involved)
Remember the chaos-filled story that a stripped named Zola tweeted (read: Lessons from Zola’s Story: The Great Saga of Trapping and Mayhem)? Of course you do. The epic tale took us all by storm and the internet spent like a week talking about it, which by today’s standards is a long time …