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Isha Aran
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Isha is a staff reporter who covers pop culture, representation in media, and your new faves.

No Brooklyn Nine-nine again. Not surprised, but thought it better than Kimmy Schmidt, which I love, and those and The Good Place are the only comedies I watch.
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It was also shown in the Far East Film Festival in Italy earlier in the year where it won both the audience award and the Black Dragon award (voted by a subset of the audience - mostly academics, critics and hardcore cinephiles). Read more

I want to see this! Although I’ll probably have to watch it alone. I suspect it will make me cry. Your description of the movie is stirring up feelings. Read more

I agree, it was a really smart and endearing show. My wife and I watched it and after a while she got into it. I was worried because they front loaded the season with a little bit of nudity, and nothing turns my wife off of a show faster than gratuitous nudity which is why I can’t get her to watch OitNB. But after Read more

The show is great on many levels. The story is compelling, and the performances from everyone are stellar (Marc Maron is great playing what is essentially an older version of his younger self). Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin are fabulous; I read several recaps/reviews where people thought Ruth was like this shows Piper, Read more

Yeah, the whole thing is like an American celebrity going to Korea and saying that they had a lovely time visiting Japan’s war dead shrine. Maybe it’s a good idea to take the time to do a bit of research before you do something that pisses off a lot of people, even if you had the best intentions when you did. Read more

The US has a very special form of racism afoot. Other countries/cultures just don’t understand it from a historical perspective. Many of those places it’s actually more outward, which is just as evil, but in the US most of it is internal and only comes out when en-mass, say legal legislation, or in supportive crowds. Read more

So K-Pop people have the same misunderstandings of racial and cultural issues as wealthy (white) people that have lived in gated communities for generations. Read more

So, my 6 year old son has ALL of these and loves them. He’s actually currently playing with one. If a bunch of ‘cool’ boy dolls makes it more ‘acceptable’ for little boys to play with dolls I’m all for it. Read more

Dodai, Isha, and Danielle: Y’all all messy. Lmaooooooooo. Read more