REVIEWS
Post-film thoughts.
Resident Playbook: Growth at the Heart of Life and Death
In the place where life, death, and everything in between coexist, Resident Playbook (2025) takes us back to the Yulje Hospital universe in the form of young blood.
The Pitt: Medicine Without Melodrama
With enough driving force to keep you latched onto every medical malady, though, you’d assume The Pitt is another stock series full of shock value cases and genius treatment plans. Instead, The Pitt is a jarringly intimate look at the inside of a Pittsburgh trauma center that is understaffed and underfunded—with all the ideological weight these settings and circumstances must bear.
Adolescence: Patriarchy Laid Bare
As Jamie pleads his innocence, Detective Bascome, portrayed by Ashley Walters, slides printed screenshots of Jamie’s Instagram across the table. They display a series of aggressive comments and innuendos that the young boy typed under suggestive photos of female Instagram models. “How do you feel about women, Jamie?” Bascome asks. Immediately, I perk up in my seat. This is not what I expected.
Squid Game Season 2: Improving Debt Culture Critique Through Diversity
Modern media has an expiration date. Films and television series retain relevance in the news cycle for a week maximum. Yet almost a month after its release, Squid Game Season 2 still trends in Netflix’s “Top 10 in the World” ranking. How has this internationally acclaimed thriller maintained viewership and high social media status for so long?