yonaalby rileigh callie
Analisa Wisdom
I don't have Xfinity or centurylink, but I really wanna see season four of MLP Fim. When will it appear on Netflix? It's not there yet. I know it's after the season ends, but I am pretty sure adventure time-season 2 ended, and I haven't seen season 2 on Netflix, either. How long does Netflix usually take to upload a new season after it ends? Really wanna see season 4!!!
Netflix itself is cheap and a very good provider for shows that don't have a...well... dedicated fandom like mlp has. For example Scrubs and Code Monkeys can't really be found online as easily as MLP can but Netflix has all the episodes. Shows like that are great for Netflix but MLP is thankfully available to anyone lol.
Could take a while. Possibly after the season has finished but it might even take a few months after that. I live in the Netherlands myself, and season 3 only got on netflix since the start of this year.
Also, FYI: as of this moment hubnetwork.com has all of the currently aired episodes of Season 4 streaming for free on their site. Probably won't be there after the finale, so hurry if you're going to watch them that way.
It's officially summer: that heinous point in the year when so much good television evaporates and we must crawl into the depths of Netflix and Hulu to survive until winter. It is this level of desperation that recently flung me in the unlikely direction of the first season of Beverly Hills 90210.
I originally decided to revisit Brandon, Brenda, and the gang because I imagined they would unintentionally make me laugh out loud a lot. And they did -- any and all scenes involving surfing or dancing are a guaranteed laugh riot in this thing. Comedy gold also comes in the kinds of scenes that involve Brenda crashing a driver's ed vehicle because she sees Henry Winkler (why him?!), and dialogue that leaps in all kinds of absurd directions on the regular ("Janet Jackson has laryngitis! Kenny is drunk and you have to come and get me!")
I had not, however, anticipated falling into a binge-watch situation, but did because -- surprise! -- Beverly Hills 90210 is, for the most part, entirely un-ironically, a really great TV show. Obviously, we're not talking Breaking Bad levels of excellence or anything, but if we can keep My So-Called Life on a pedestal, the first season of 90210 deserves a place on the podium as well (even if the rich kid characters are inherently less likable than Rickie Vasquez and Rayanne Graff).
90210 was undoubtedly what we looked to in the pre-Kardashian age to find out how rich kids in LA lived, and for millennials, this thing is a goldmine of information about How Teenagers Used to Live. Seeing all of these hot young things trying to organize their lives while tethered to landlines, phone booths, and library desks is moderately heartbreaking in 2017, especially in the episode where the Walsh family's landline breaks and the telephone company tells them they are "lucky to have a number."
The other remarkable thing to note is that, in 1990, photos were literally never taken unless you were (a) working on the school newspaper (those used to exist!), (b) on vacation, or (c) about to go to a dance. And forget about casually making videos -- those puppies required borrowing 25 pounds of equipment. Don't even get me started on the alarm clock situation, or the fact that both men and women felt okay about wearing vests over absolutely anything, on an almost-daily basis.
Despite all of the nonsense that dates the show, 90210 is still masterful at passing on life lessons. There are substance abuse problems (for both parents and teens) peppered throughout the series. Issues of privilege also weave throughout, thanks to Brenda trying to keep up with her super rich friends, and the fact that Andrea is from a poor part of town and committing school district fraud to go to a good high school.
Season 1 also tackles date rape, safe sex, AIDs, cancer scares, drunk driving, single parenting, adoption, virginity loss, and, in two separate episodes ("East Side Story" and "Every Dream Has Its Price Tag"), the issue of underpaid immigrants. Not bad for what could've just been, essentially, a super long advertisement for rampant capitalism.
On the downside, 90210 is consistently an overwhelmingly white prospect. People of color are generally reduced to corridor and crowd scenes and, once you notice, it is an aggravating thing to behold every episode. One of the only occasions that affords black characters the opportunity to speak is in "One On One," an episode that concerns itself with the fact that West Beverly High recruits African American students from outside the school district to populate their basketball team.
The premise is problematic as hell on a plethora of levels, but the episode ultimately succeeds in highlighting still-relevant issues around race, education, and white privilege. Furthermore, because the audience is automatically inclined to sympathize with Brandon and Steve, and both characters reveal themselves to be racist in the episode, it ultimately forces viewers to examine their own prejudices -- which, if you're a teen watching a show this incredibly white, is probably pretty damn necessary.
Ultimately, even if you only come to Beverly Hills 90210 to see men wearing crop-tops, David Austin Green doing Vanilla Ice dancing, Jason Priestley having an affair with paisley shirts, and a bunch of 25-year-olds pretending to be high school students, it's worth sticking around for everything else the show offers. Sure, Beverly Hills 90210 is ridiculous -- but it's also surprisingly underrated.
A pretty, blonde woman paces in the glass cage where she is being held captive. She chokes back tears and threads paper into a typewriter. In voiceover, we hear the poem she is writing. Despite the tension of the moment, as I watch I can think only one thing: this poem kind of sucks.
Where to start with the problems with this poem? First of all, inverted fairy tales (western fairy tales, at least) have been done to death in contemporary poetry and fiction. The idea that the fairy tales we hear as children will not deliver in reality is not new ground. The poem itself is also fairly unfocused, trying to handle too many heavy issues (class differences, sexual assault by a family member, parental neglect, relationship violence) without giving any of them the space they deserve. If I were to give feedback on this piece in a class or workshop, I would advise Beck to pick ONE issue she wants to write about, and save the others for future poems. The poem also lacks interesting language, opting instead for cliche-sounding, but ultimately nonsensical, similes.
You\u2019re reading a guest post on PopPoetry by Frances Klein (she/her), a poet and teacher writing at the intersection of disability and gender. She is the author of the chapbooks The Best Secret (Bottlecap Press, 2022) and New and Permanent (Blanket Sea, 2022). Her poems and writing have been published by River Styx, Tupelo Press, and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Vonnegut Memorial Library. Klein currently serves as Assistant Editor of Southern Humanities Review.
In Caroline Kepnes\u2019 2014 thriller, You, bookstore manager Joe Goldberg becomes obsessed with grad student Guinevere Beck. Joe\u2019s obsession leads him to kidnap Beck (as she is called throughout) and lock her in the basement of his bookstore. In the novel, Beck is a fiction MFA candidate at Brown University. The novel makes brief references to Beck publishing essays and poems in online journals, but she is clearly presented throughout the text as a fiction writer.
One theory is that poets and poetry are familiar ground for showrunner and screenwriter Sera Gamble. In an interview with Grazia magazine, Gamble describes using her own experiences as a young writer to influence Beck\u2019s character. In fact, Beck even performs part of a poem Gamble wrote at an open mic in the pilot episode.
Our other theory is equally practical: poems are shorter than stories. There are multiple times throughout the first season of You where Beck\u2019s poetry is read, either by the character herself or in voiceover. The poems are used to drive home character details about Beck, or to make plain some of the show\u2019s themes for viewers. Practically speaking, it would be impossible to accomplish the same effect in voiceover with a short story, which would take something like 15 minutes to read out loud. Poems can more easily cut to the heart of a scene, whereas short stories require more context and space.
For either of the above reasons, Beck is a poet. That brings us to the follow-up question: is she a good poet? Is she good enough to be believable as a poetry candidate at NYU? The short answer is no, but I\u2019ll elaborate.
Over the course of season 1 of You, Beck\u2019s poems are read three times. The first instance, as we\u2019ve discussed, is the open mic in the pilot episode. The poem Beck reads there includes lines like, \u201COne day you won\u2019t need love anymore\u201D and \u201CYou wrote poems about him/you still write poems about him/you\u2019re writing one right now.\u201D This is a poem Gamble wrote as a young woman, one she admits is bad, describing it as, \u201Cpages of angst.\u201D There are actually stronger lines in the original poem, which Gamble shared on Instagram in full to celebrate the show\u2019s debut episode. However, Gamble seems to have selected the tritest lines to include in the episode. This is fitting, considering the scene is intended to show Beck failing miserably at reading, being heckled before leaving the stage without finishing her poem.
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