Articles by Sarah Jessica Rintjema

'Mo' Season 2 Brings Mo Problems, Mo Laughter

Created by Mohammed Amer and Ramy Youssef

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2025

We return to the luckless Mo Najjar (played by comedian Mohammed Amer) in the second and supposedly final season of Netflix's 'Mo,' the...

'Squid Game' Loses Its Own Deathmatch in Season 2

Created by Hwang Dong-hyuk

PUBLISHED Jan 6, 2025

Season 1 of Hwang Dong-hyuk's anti-capitalist thriller 'Squid Game' sits atop the Netflix throne. The cultural phenomenon debuted in 2021...

Pkew Pkew Pkew Are Easy to Root for on 'Siiick Days'

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2023

Siiick Days sees Toronto's Pkew Pkew Pkew making tongue-in-cheek reference to a certain pandemic from recent history. Although COVID-19 sti...

Reality Is a Sci-Fi Dystopia, So 'Black Mirror' Has Nothing Left to Say in Season 6

Created By Charlie Brooker

PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2023

Although known in recent seasons for its hit-and-miss episodes, the tech-dystopian anthology series Black Mirror is still iconic for a reas...

'I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson' Season 3 Eases the Drudgery of Existence

Created by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin

PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2023

Tim Robinson is back, louder than ever, and dedicated to ruining every social situation he's in on Season 3 of I Think You Should Leave wit...

Don't Watch 'The Watcher'

Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan

PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2022

In June 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus bought 657 Boulevard, a six-bedroom, 110 year-old home in New Jersey. Three days after purchasing th...

'The Woman King' Gives Its Characters the Royal Treatment

Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood

PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2022

Loosely based on the the Agojie, an all-female warrior army who guarded the West African kingdom of Dahomey roughly between the 17th and 19...

'Squid Game' Is Worthy of Its Place Atop the Netflix Throne

Directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk

PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2021

Exploring themes of income inequality, capitalism and Hunger Games-esque nature vs. nurture sociology through a South Korean lens, Squid Ga...