Favs of '25

In this episode yes, I'm day late dollar short. I'm talking some of what I happened to enjoy in the year on 2025!

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Hello, welcome to AM Reviews. I am Angelina Maria. On tonight's docket, we'll be talking about Faves of 25. I know it's March. I'm know I'm two months too late. Uh Day Late Dollar Short, don't care. I was supposed to do this a couple months ago and I didn't get around to it. Oh well. But anywho, I'm gonna also say this caution, spoiler alert, spoiler alert. That is pretty much how I describe the films, the documentaries, and the TV shows that I'll be discussing tonight on tonight's program. Anywho, let's get started. First up on the docket is a few movies that I was um that I enjoyed um last year in 2025. Um, first up is Old Guard, which is actually a Netflix original film. Um, I want to say it came out in the summer. It does start Shali Steron. Just um just to give a little backstory on what the film was about. First of all, the film is actually based on a book series. Um, but anywho, Shali Steron's character, she is they're immortal. So it's a group of these immortals, it's a couple, uh it's it's a gay couple of two men. It's a uh the black girl, she's the youngest of the immortals. We have a guy that actually turned on them for money, so they had to bring him back into the fold. And actually, the one of the the guys and the gay couple, they was both Italian, by the way. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say I'm I'm right. Um, anywho, one of them who was like the hardest on dude when he found out he turned on them because they both got tortured. He um he ended up having compassion for him because he was like, dang, bro, like, yeah, you messed up, but we spent all these these decades and some of them's hundreds of years together. So he was like, I can't just forget that because you did that one thing that really just upset me. Um, and then there's of course Shelley Steron's character, and then there's an Asian lady who got trapped due to the Salem Witch trials, and they put on like this iron casket with the holes out for the eyes and the mouth, so that way water can get in, because they threw her at the bottom of the ocean. So that way water can get in, because every time she lived, she died again, and she just keeps regenerating to die again. And it was like torturous. And she had that, I think she stuck at that for like when was it saying when my shot? 100 years, some hundreds of years ago. Don't ask me, I forgot, bro. That's part of school, and I've been out of school a long time. So, whenever the heck that took place, that's how long she'd been in, like 150 years, 100-something years, a long time. Anywho, so um Shirley Steron was looking for her, and she ended up finding other people along the way, according to one dude who was like, he would sketch what was going on and he would have dreams, and once he'll have dreams of one of the old guards, he will see um that they were um, he will see if they live in or dying. So they all had like a power, and the youngest who is the last old guard to live, she can she can kill everybody because she's the last one. So the black girl who is the baby, she could kill everybody. So Shalise Theron is coming in, not Shalise Theron, but Uma Thurman helps get the Asian lady out and end up fighting them because she, by her being the first one, she could take the power of the youngest one, which happens to be the black girl, and the black girl can kill everybody. If she transfers her power, she could give it to the oldest, but she has to willingly give it up. So the way that it legs off, she um pretty much like I think she likes to drugs everybody, kidnaps the girl and all that stuff because she wants the power so she herself can stay alive and then also take everybody else's power away from them. Um, so yeah, I think it's a pretty good time. Like if you're in a sci-fi and immortal and just like stuff like that, or even book series and things like that, because it is based on a book series. So if you're into stuff like that, I think you enjoy the film. If I have to rate the film, I would give it a uh seven out of ten. I think it's a pretty good time. If you haven't seen the first one, I suggest watching the first one or re-watching the first one because that's what I had to do. I had to re-watch the first one because they years apart, and then to refresh my memory, and then I went in and watched the second one. Um, next up, um, the movie train is highest the lowest, which is um Spike Lee and Denzel Washington coming uh coming together again, I think for the third time. I think for the third, third or fourth. They got a few films together. Um, um, directed by Spike Lee. I'm gonna say also written by Spike Lee if I can remember, because this also came out in like the summers. Um anywho, so the movie stars Denzel Washington where he plays a music exec um by the name of King David. So I want to say King David started off as a rapper, almost like how like like in uh the best way for me to think about it and describe would be like Jay-Z. So, like how Jay-Z started off as a rapper and then he turned to like a music exec, and then he like started having his own artist and things of that nature. So it's like that type of concept or what have you. So the only thing is at this point in time, King David is kind of like, I ain't gonna say falling on hard times, but he wanna kind of like his business and his record label ain't doing as great as he wants to do. So him and his partner is like, hey, we need to merge it with some people to go and get it, everything going the way it needs to go and the way it's supposed to go. So he like, okay, cool. Only thing is he ends up with a dilemma. His son ended up, he thinks his son ended up getting kidnapped. Come to find out it was not his son, but it was Jeffrey Wright's Wright son. So Jeffrey Wright is like his bodyguard, his driver, it's like his right-hand man or what have you. So his son ended up getting kidnapped, but he thought initially that it was Denzel thought initially it was his child because that's what the kidnapper said, I got your son. Because Jeffrey Wright's son wore like um Denzel's son's jacket or something like that. So he was like, I'm looking for him in this jacket or whatever. So that's the child he snatched, and he was like, Okay, I'm willing to pay whatever. I I forgot what the amount of money was because, like I said, it just came out in the summer, and I was supposed to do this month ago. Anywho, so he won an X amount of dollars, and that was around about the same amount of money he needed to make said business deal so that his business, his music business would not go under. And so he got with the police. Come to find out, his son walked in the door, but walked in the door late. You're like, What the heck are you? I thought you got kidnapped. And he was like, What? No, I didn't get kidnapped, but I almost did. I tried to stop do from get kidnapped. Come to find out, it was Jeffrey White's son. So he was like, Jeffrey went to Denzel and was like, I know your son is safe. He said, but if you could save mine, that'd be nice. So he was like, but my son here, my son, good. This ain't my problem, bro. He was like, he was like, but but my son don't. I don't want my son to die. So he he made a deal with the blue. So Denzel was in between the rock and our place. Either save my label or save your son. And I know you can't pay me back because you ain't got the money. I know what I pay you, and I know what you make. You don't have the money to pay me back, especially not to keep my record label and all that stuff. So, anywho, he talked to the police, and this got to be in Brooklyn. But in Brooklyn, I know they call it the subway because it goes underground, it also does go above ground, just like I live in Chicago. In Chicago, we have the L. It does go underground, under underground, with the ground, and then above ground. And the subway does the same thing in New York. They just call it the subway because a lot of when you go in, you got to go underground, and a lot of the L's are like that as well. So I digress. So he gets to fighting with um ASAP Rocky's character who who happens to be the kidnapper, and he gets to arguing with him and fighting with him to the point where he loses the bag of money, and did nobody get the money. So not a money lost. So he goes to the police, like, hey, y'all gonna ensure this money, right? And they was like, not a problem, you shouldn't have lost it. Then he goes to the record company, like, hey, y'all saw what happened. I the money slipped. How we know you didn't drop it on purpose. So it was kind of like he started off in between a rock and a hard place between save my company and save this man's son. To I lost the money, didn't possibly lose my company, and all I got is a child in the hospital who can't help me find this man so that way I could prove to my company that I didn't, you know, because some people was like, How we know you didn't work with him? Really? Really? So it just was like all bad for a while. But the only thing about Denzel Washington's character, King David, was he had a really, really good ear. Because even his son had brought him early in the film, had brought him Ice Spice or whatever, and he was like interested in meeting with her and stuff like that, and possibly trying to bring her on. And he was like, he heard because the dude, I think, put the music on SoundCloud or something like that, and he was like, he would do that, like listen to different um platforms where music could be found so that way he can see, bring in a new artist and see what that was about. He was like, No, I heard this song. This was playing in the background when he was talking to me. I know music. And the boy was like, I don't know, maybe. And he was like, help me. So come to find out, he ended up tracking a dude, and he was like, he ended up finding which is ASAP Rocket's character, he end up finding his baby mama, and she was like, Yeah, he idolized you, da da da. And sure enough, that's what got him caught up. And he ended up going to jail, and he was like, We should work together. And this, this, that, and the third. He was like, Are you crazy? Almost lost everything because of you. And it also this ordeal kind of made Denzel realize as a creator, which I feel like happens to a lot of creatives, um, is when you create whatever your whatever type of creative you are, it is a craft, and it's something that you have to keep up with. And I feel like sometimes creatives lose that sometimes because they start out with for the craft and the creation and the journey and all that stuff. But once they start making a lot of money, sometimes they get caught up in the money. And I feel like that's what Denzel's character was starting to realize like I was in it for the cash and not the craft anymore, and I need to get back to that. So he did kind of like, you know, step down and step back and things like that. But of course, ASAP got handled, and Asa was pouty and in his feelings that Denzel wasn't like, yay, I like you, you almost ruined my life. Um, anywho, if I had to rate the film, I would probably give it a 7 out of 10 as well. Um, if you were a fan of Spikely and Denzel coming together, I think you will like the film. I know some people was like critical about it, but last time I checked, it was still like um Apple TV's top films and things like that, even now, 2026. So I don't know. Um, I enjoyed it, I think it was really, really good. I also had a dope, dope um soundtrack from what I listened like throughout the film. I feel like the the score, that's what it's called. The score was pretty cool for the film. So I think it was better to put on um Apple TV. So I think if it was on like Netflix or Hulu, your score could be cool, but that's not the most important. So um there's that. But um, I enjoyed it. So, anywho, moving on to the next thing, um, will be wicked two. It's a lot of twos. It's wicked two. Um, I actually went to the theaters to see that. Um, I I really enjoyed Wicked One. So, of course, for me with Wicked Two, Wicked Two pretty much because Wicked One was like the prequel, like the whole we meeting Alphaba, Golinda, we meeting everybody versus Wicked Two, it's more of a it kind of tells you how we get to Thor Dorothy and how she ends up getting to the to Oz, and then kind of like what happens after she gets to Oz. So you kind of learn, you learn how to um Calvin Lion, you learn who he is and how he's made, you learn about like why he was able to talk and all that. You learn about like of course we learn how the fly monkeys were made because we learned that in one. So the cowardly lion and the flying monkeys, we learned about how they was made in one, technically of wicked, but of course they reappear in two because now it's like how Dorothy ended up getting the Oz, and like it's like the behind the curtains, behind the scenes of Dorothy's whole journey in Oz. So, of course, like they don't really show Dorothy. They I think they show like her back and stuff, like her hair and stuff, but like they don't really show her, they show mostly her shadow because it's like we've seen that film. We've seen the wizard of oz and we've seen the wiz. We know what happened when Dorothy got there. We need to show you what happens outside of her. So we see how the Tin Man is made. We see how how Dorothy House ends up on top of Alphabet Sisters, and we end up seeing how the scarecrow was made. So it's it's just kind of interesting to watch. And then we also see like the aftermath of like Dorothy going home, Dorothy beating the the um wicked witch of the West, Alpha, and see what happens like after and things of that nature. Um, this film I'm not gonna spoil too too much because I think you should watch it. Um it's a really, really good time. And I also started like 3D and stuff like that, which I think kind of made it kind of fun. But if I had to rate it, I would probably also give this one. I would give this one actually an eight out of 10. Um, because it really makes me want to like watch the Broadway play and things like that and kind of see how everything kind of came about. So I'm like really interested in that. Um yeah, it was a really good time and I enjoyed it. Like I said, if you like Broadway plays or if you liked the first wicket, I think you will enjoy this. I think I like the first wicket better, but I do think both was really, really good. Um, so yeah. But last up on this movie train, train is what I believe to be the best film that did come out in 2025. Um, Argue with Your Mama, I don't care, which happens to be Sinners, which I did actually go to the theaters to see, and I saw it six times. I saw it six times alone, so I can imagine what other people did. I heard a lot of people saying it on social media that they saw it two, three times, three, four times, things like that. So I myself saw it six. And what's funny is when I first saw, I actually first saw the trailers for it, I was like, I'm not watching this. I was no, no, no, no, no. And then eventually, right before it came out, I saw one last trailer. And when I saw one last trailer, I was like, hmm, let me see what the heck this is about. So I ended up going, and it was funny because it's a uh film with uh Lawrence Fishburne and Rami, Rami Mack, or whatever, I think it's called The Apprentice or something like that. The dude is like the an accountant and some some mess. Anywho, I I was more interested in that, and I was like, ooh, let me watch Center do a double feature, watch that film, watch Sinners, and then if I don't like Sinners, at least I like something, and it comes to find out it was the other way around. I that movie. Anywho, back to Sinners. Um, Cinners from the moment it came on, it was amazing. I literally I love how like a lot of people missed the point, and it was like, but she explains the point of the film in the beginning of the film. So, like, literally, she explains like sound, she explains the ancestry, she explains the gift, the talent, and things like that. She pretty much explains Sammy, like some people have a voice that can transcend not only genre, but generations, and I believe that to be true. So, in real life, I believe that's a real thing, and that's the type of voice that Sammy had. Voice Sammy had the type of voice that not only transcended genre, even though he preferred blues and grew up singing gospel, his voice also transcended uh generations. Mind you, dude was a Dublin dude, which I don't even know what Dublin music is called, but um uh Scottish rock or something like that, or Scott or Sky or something like that, things came out S-K A I ska or something like that. So, like he got that type of person's attention who was singing Dublin songs, so it's like that ain't blues and that ain't gospel. So, how you get his attention? So, um, but anywho, for those who have not seen it, just to give kind of a little bit of the plot, is it takes place uh about this boy by the name of Sammy, aka preacher boy. His he is that of a preacher's he's a preacher's child, and it takes place in the Delta, Mississippi. So this is like the 1930s, 1940s. So black people, yes, are still picking cotton. Only difference is they're getting paid for it. Not much, they're getting paid like nickels, or they're getting paid like wooden things or coupons that really only work around there because we're not really trying to give y'all no real money for real. So um, Sammy has these two cousins by the name of Smoke and Stack, who are played by Michael B. Jordan, both smoke and stack, and they were from the Delta, Mississippi, but they end up going to Chicago. So they lived in Chicago, I think they said seven years, nine years. They lived almost 10 years, just under 10 years, but um, give it take a few years. So they had lived in Chicago for some time. I think, oh Lord, I'm probably gonna mess this up. Stack ended up working for the Irish people while smoke ended up working for the Italian people. Now in Chicago, we had our Capone at that time, who is Italian, if I'm I want to say I'm correct, Italian. I don't know who the heck our Scottish person or Irish person would have been. That would have been a gangster, but in Chicago, so who knows? So, anywho, they end up working, so they end up ripping them both off because and bringing the liquor back to the Delta, and they was like, We're gonna open up a dupe joint. So they decide to open up a dupe joint, they get the random talent. One of the people they go get is their little baby cousin, Sammy, because he's older now, and they had gave him a guitar before he left. So they was like, hopefully he could play the guitar at least. He might not know how to sing, can he at least play? So by this point in time, they go get Sammy. He wants to ride off with his cousins or whatever. They go end up getting Delroy Lindo's character, which is the older guy who's the drunk who can uh play the harmonica and play the keys. So they get him, and uh they get the dude that played cornbread, which I can't think of his real name. He looked like a vlog uh uh and forest Whitaker had a son. He liked uh him. So, anywho, they get him out the cotton field or whatever, and they all start the Duke joint. Of course, they go get their women. Smoke goes and gets Annie, which is the lady I can't think of her name right now, and I don't want to mess it up. She comes from Loki, she played the officer in Loki. So if you have y'all seen Loki, that's who the heck she is, and that's where I knew her from. Anywho, um, he goes get her because she could cook and things like that. So it's like, can you cook? stuff like that. And she also is like, I don't want to say she's in the hoodoo, so I think she's from Mississippi. No, I'm lying, she's not from Mississippi, she's from Louisiana, but she moved to Mississippi. So she has like um, for those who know, like voodoo, hoodoo, stuff like that, which some people think is black magic and think it's bad and demonic. Uh, and I feel like anything is how you use it. Like, if you use it for bad, it don't matter if you're a Christian. If you use the Bible, you try to curse people with it, you still being wicked. But if you use hoodoo and voodoo and you blessing people and healing folks, hey, I you know, whatever. But anywho, so they get her, and then of course, Stack was messing around with Grace is the Asian lady, so they end up getting the Asian uh people together, Chinese people together, and the wife's name was the woman's name was Grace. I cannot think of a man, I cannot think of uh Haley Steinfield's name in the film. Uh-oh. Anywho, get the white looking girl. And actually, come to find out, which I knew her from pitch perfect. Um, I did not know she was part black. I actually found out in the film and had to Google it while watching it. But anywho, so every the gang gets all together, the juke doesn't go on well, Pearline doesn't even show up, she gets the singer. Come to find out, we didn't know she could sing either. So Del Roy Lindo also reinforces his character, reinforces what was said in the beginning of the film. Hey, this is a talent, this is a gift, use it, da-da-da-da-da. And he explains what it is and what it does. So the point and theme of the film gets explained multiple times, but a lot of people miss it. And the main point and theme of the film, um, for those who did miss it, was pretty much as black people, we are how can I put this? We we usually have a talent and a gift that can transcend not only genre but generation, right? So, and then it's like a double entendre. So, let me go with the name, the point of the name, right? Sinners, sin can only be in if you let it like sin has to be welcomed in. So, with vampires, vampire. If you know anything about Dracula and how vampires came about, it's supposedly a man was dying and he wanted his son back, so he made a deal with the devil, and then he his son came back when his son came back with a curse, and that only way he could live was at night, and he had to suck blood. That's like the whole Dracula thing. That's how vampires supposedly came about, viewing the the folklore of vampires. Cool. So, only way you could let a vampire in, a vampire cannot just walk in. You have to invite them in. That's what he's saying. Sin is so that's that's the first part. Sin can only be invited in. If you don't let sin in, it cannot come in, and you can cast sin right back out, and it cannot come back in until you invite it. Cool. All right. That's the first part. The second part with black people, because there's a black thing. Also, the indigenous people was depicted. So this is one thing I did like with the indigenous people. They was depicted and tried to help the white people, knowing they were the clan, because he saw the little robe and hood, and he was like, You don't want to listen? Something to go down? That's your problem. I tried to help you. And they left. And I like that they left in the film because if we're gonna be honest with ourselves, we we saw what the white people did to the indigenous people. That's why, in order for them to exist for real, for real, they had to mix with black folks. That's why you have a whole bunch of black folks running around talking about some I'm part indigenous. And they're not wrong because a lot of them had to mix to keep their bloodline going. And then they got pushed off to pretty much a corner of this country, which is crazy. All right, so there's that. Then back to the black people. Well, black people, we are business people, we are creative people, we are talented people, we are strong people. But the thing is, whites don't like that, they hate that. So what they'll do is I don't want you, but I want your talent, I want your strength, I want everything that you, I want the essence of you, I just don't want you. Which don't make no sense because how do you get the essence of somebody and remove them from them, from the thing? Don't know that no, that's not how that works. That's like taking a body and say, I'm gonna remove the spirit. Then you ain't gonna have no body. Ain't no point of that body, that body is nothing without the spirit, and that's the thing. White people be wanting the spirit and the essence of black people, but don't want black people. Well, then you're not gonna get that. And every time you try to duplicate it, you're not gonna have it. And then it's also minority groups, and I like that he did it with agents because I feel like they do it most, them and Latinos too. Sorry, sorry, Latinos, but other cultures will take from black people as a form of profit, especially agents, as a form of profit, not all, but then the moment stuff gets real and the moment they have to stand with us, they pull a grace and they leave. Homeboy, her husband, he was willing to stand with us. And because he wanted to love and honor his wife, that's why he did, she did, and that baby ended up being an orphan. The very thing you feared the most was the very thing you got because you didn't want to stand with black people. The scariest thing, because you didn't want to stand with black folks, and then of course, you had the darkest woman, which is Annie, which I don't think that was her name in the film. Anywho, you have Smoke's wife, which is the black lady. She's the one, the most resourceful person in the whole film was the black woman. And I'm not saying that because I'm black woman, because she was. She she knew how to cook, she knew how to keep acting. She was like, Why do you think you were safe in Chicago? You and your brother. She pulled the thing out, she was like, You still got that? Like, she kept them safe. And the moment he took it off, that's when everything went awry. The whole time she was able to keep him and his brother safe. And the moment he had the he took it off, everything went went to hell in the handbasket. So, anywho, she ends up finding out, she was like, he either a hang or a vampire. So she was like, if he a haint, he's not gonna respond to this. But if he's a vampire, he is. So she would was smart. Let me go ahead and throw this garlic in your face, and you respond. So she found out he's a vampire. They found out they're a vampire, and what a lot of people miss um was like when um Ramick comes in. Now, mind you, a lot of people are like, Well, Ramick's not white, he's he's Scottish. True, and initially they weren't deemed Scottish, and Irish people were not regarded as white people, they was indentured servants and had to serve next to us, what and then became overseers. A lot of them did. So that part is true, but the thing is you're white presenting, and you will use the fact that you're only white presenting and not fully white, and then to get in with the blacks, and then once you benefit off of us, item out, and that happens a lot, so there's that whole thing. Um, so that's what they were trying to trying to get you to understand as well, and then last but not least, the Ku Klux fan, which really are the Aryan race white people. Oh, you thought I gave you this this this building for you to do, have a duke doing and really work for real? Nah, child, no, no, I this is a slaughterhouse, and I love that in the end it was him killing the KKK. That warmed my little bitty heart. I was like, kill him again. I'm sorry, I'm not though. Anywho, a lot of people missed the point of like him uh passing and then seeing his wife, and then there was like some people made fun of it, and I was like, No, it was like the point of him knowing he can come home, and when he comes home, he's gonna be with his family in heaven. Like, that was that was the point of that, which I thought was beautiful. Um, but the lat the final final scene, which I love because, like I said, I'm from Chicago, and uh Chicago don't get a lot of credit for really nothing other than gang violence. That's the only thing y'all want to give Chicago credit for. I promise y'all, y'all don't want to give Chicago credit for nothing good, which is wild to me, considering how much we have contributed to this country as Chicagoans, but I digress. Anywho, I love that they had Buddy Guy, which is a blues legend and the father of Shauna, who is actually a rapper that used to rap a lot with Ludacris in the early 2000s. Yes, so to have Buddy Guy be like the older Sammy and stuff like that, I thought was really, really dope. And I um shout out to Ryan Coogler for doing that because he wrote, directed, and uh produced and everything in the film, and he's from Los Angeles. Uh well, he's from California. I don't want to say Los Angeles because I don't know exactly where he's from. Because I don't he might be from Oakland, Compton, he might be from the Bay Area. I don't want to get this wrong, but I know he's from California, and the fact that he acknowledged a city he didn't have to. He could have made them from he could have made them from his home and he decided to make them from mine. So I really appreciate that. Anywho, oh, before I go on to the next thing on the program, I do want to rate this film, and if I have to rate it 10 out of 10, and I think they deserve every Oscar that they up for. I know they probably gonna get snubbed, but if anything, I need Michael G uh Michael B. Jordan to win, I need Del Roy Lindo to win because people think that man just came out. First of all, that Negro was in Crooklin. That movie came out in 1996, I think. That's my favorite Spike Lee film. And he was a Leo mama and Romeo must die. That's 2000, 2001. The man been out over 20 years at the bare minimum, and he's been out longer than that, technically. But I'm just saying, if we doing film, the man been out like 30 years for sure, for sure. So, um, and I'm glad this is his first Oscar noms. I really hope Dell Rolando get it. And I think Michael B definitely deserves it. And I'm gonna need best pitcher and best direct director. I'm gonna need that. Because for that music scene alone, yeah, I'm I'm gonna need that. But anywho, like I said, I give it a really I give it a 15 out of 10 because I ain't never seen the movie six times in theaters. No, never. So that that was phenomenal. Anywho, next up on the program is uh a few documentaries that I saw um in 2025. Um, first up being aka Charlie Shane, which first of all, I didn't know Charlie Shane was Latino or Hispanic. I didn't know that. I thought they was Caucasian. Uh, who is his uh brother? Uh I can't think of his name. Emilio Escobez or something like that. Emilio Escobez, him, whatever the heck his name is, him. That's his freaking brother. And I was like, what? That's not his brother. Come to find out, them people are not they know. And I think they did the white thing to kind of pass, especially because his dad was an actor, and his dad had uh played in the character, played a character that like, I ain't gonna say tormented him, but he like his dad kind of suffered from like alcohol and drugs and stuff like that. And Charlie Shane kind of watched it, him and his other brother watched it, and it got he pretty much mimicked the behavior, and then also he was like so high up with his films and then ended up being like TV with like two and a half men and stuff. I also never knew the man did crack. I'm gonna be honest. Anytime somebody is not black, and I know this is gonna sound racist, but I'm black, so I can kind of say it whenever because black crack was originally come down from the government to give to black people to make them addicted so they can end up in prison. The drug dealers can end up in prison, and the drug addicts can end up in prison. That was the whole point of crack. Send these Negroes to prison because once I give you crack, you're gonna have to fight for turf, then I'm gonna have to give you guns. Everybody going to prison. That was the whole point. Being a crack addict, being a drug dealer, crack dealer, crack addict. Both of y'all go to prison. So to hear anybody else do crack, I'd be like, How the heck did he even get over there to you? Because it was not put in your neighborhood, it was intentionally putting ours. So, how did you even get over there? And it was funny because it was also not a black person selling him the crack. I was like, what? Um, and he he was doing eight balls, like he was doing an eight ball a day. For those who don't know, an eight-ball is a pretty big rock of crack, so that's a lot, and he was doing a lot, and then he had a car, a Porsche. I want to say he kept driving off the cliff like two or three times, and then one he did eventually clean up his life. Um, even after two and a half men, he went on like tour and was just talking to be talking, and people was paying him for it, and but he he did clean up his life. I think I don't want to say he's a single father, but he is though. He actually is a single father because the last baby mama is baby. She she she couldn't really get it together. She's still struggling, from at least where the doc point was. Um, it was pretty good. Like, I feel like this. If you was interested in two and a half men, like I did, I didn't like just watch watch two and a half men, but I had seen episodes and it was I thought it was a pretty cool show. So I think if you was kind of interested in it, you are going to enjoy this because you're gonna be looking like, Are you serious? It's kind of crazy. Um next up is catfish unknown number. I'm not gonna hold you. This this story okay. Let me go back just a second. If I had to rate Charlie Shane's documentary, I'm not gonna hold you. I would give I'll probably give about a seven out of ten. It was pretty cool to watch. Anywho, back to catfish. This takes place. I can't think of the small city, I'm gonna say Missouri, and I don't want to be wrong. I think it's in the state of Missouri, but I don't want to be wrong. Anywho, it's in the Midwest, I know that for sure. Um, so it's this little white girl, she's about in six, seventh grade. I can't think of the baby name. Um, but she ended up dating this little white boy named Owen. Cool. So they dating each other, talking or whatever. Out of nowhere, the little girl gets uh um a text. You're ugly, you're fat, Owen don't want you. Da da da da da. It's round about homecoming. Let me not say homecoming. I'm gonna say what it was round about some little dance. Okay, so she like, what the heck? Whatever, go to the dance on, have a good time. So a year later, text message pop back up. You're ugly, you're fat, he wants me, he come to me, da da da, all types of craziness. So then Owen started getting the text as well. Yeah, da da da, all this sexual, perverted, just crazy text message, just outlandish. So it gets to the point where Owen's mama and the little girl mama get to go into the school. They want an investigation done, they get to go into the police, an investigation is being done, they get to calling the girl she was beefing with. Um, and they're like, she didn't do it. They get to calling her, they get to checking cameras, they get to calling old friends that she used to be cool with, that she ain't cool with no more. The little girl gets depressed. Cool. This goes on for the calendar year. This takes place. Come to find out, they bring in somebody else. Another dude. Was it? I don't think it got the FBI, but it got to like higher up. It got to like a real, real investigation. Like it got higher up. They bring in a dude in, like a detective. I think at least made to a detective. A detective get in, get to doing it. It's like he kept the looking around, he was like, I can tell you exactly who did this. The mama. So they like they go to the mama house to arrest her. They but this I'm not gonna hold you, and I'm not trying to be racist. If they was black, ain't no way they would have been this calm talking to this lady, but I digress. So they be like, hey, you want to sit down? We need to talk. Oh, what are we talking about? So we had a break in the case. Oh, okay, what happened? Well, come to find out, you are the one harassing your daughter, you are the one harassing Owen, and you are the one harassing the cousin. Because it got so bad, she got to harassing Owen's cousin. Had that baby just said huh her little braces. So she was like, Oh, oh, oh, really? They was like, We're gonna have to check your computer, we're gonna have to check your phone. Come to find out the mama lied about a job. Mama ain't had no job, never had a job. Even her own cousin was like, Oh, she does lie. I could have told you that it was bad, like it was so freaking bad. But the thing that really killed me was the police was so freaking calm with her, and I'm looking like, if it was anybody else, y'all would not be this calm. Y'all would be get on the ground, especially because technically you are the one that fought for said investigation, and you are the reason why we investigating people, and you the problem, and you asking for a problem to be solving you the issue. They was calm with her, they ended up telling the daddy and ended up telling the daughter what happened. The mama, I think, went to jail for like a year or two. She didn't go to jail too too long. She went to jail for a little bit, so she goes to jail, she came back. Of course, they like, you can't be the daddy. Like, I want a divorce. Come find out he she was lying. I think she like ran through some money. Like, it was all types, because I think they had to move, it was all types of craziness. And um, to be honest, also, I think the mama wanted the son because that's just weird. She wanted the own boy, that's just weird. Um, but um the daughter by the end of the film, by the end of the documentary is pretty much like, you know, that's my mom, I love her, da-da-da. And I was like, I mean, I get it, because that baby, I think even by the end of the documentary, couldn't have been no older than 15, 16 years old. And if that was my mama that would have done that to me, well, I'll be done with her. But you gotta think about it. If her mama did this via text, her mama talked to her cash crazy like that. Like she, like literally, when when they when the police was telling her, the detective was telling the daughter and the daddy, hey, this is the mama doing it. The mama opens her arms for the to console her baby, and the baby goes into the mama's arm to be consoled by the person that did this to you. That's like that's like somebody stabbing you and being like, Oh, I'm sorry you're bleeding, I'm sorry you're bleeding. Like, huh? When I say it crazy, is it's a it's a good watch, but as a black person go like, that's white, that's past white people, white people. I'm not gonna hold you. It's kind of past it, but I digress. Um, if I had to rate the documentary of catfish, I ain't gonna lie, it was really good. I had to give that an eight out of 10. That was that was that was pretty good. Next up is the truth about Jesse Smollett. Um, for y'all who do not know, um, a few years back, I'm gonna say 2019. It was a little before COVID, so it'll be like 2018, 2019. Anywho, um, uh Jesse Smollett was on a big, big show called Empire, which is created by Lee Daniels, and he played the middle child who is Jamal of Lucius Lion and Cookie Lion, who are played by um Terrence Howard and Chiraji P. Henson. And he's the middle child, Jamal. And Jamal was the one that can sing, but also was gay because the oldest son was Andre. Andre had no musical talent, but he was good at business and um had the bipolar schizophrenia, which he inherited from Leslie Ugghams, who played Lucius Lyons Mama. And then um the youngest child, I want to say his name is Bashir Gray, he played um not Jamal. Hakeem. He played Hakeem, who can rap like his daddy, any who? Um, the middle child in the uh in Jamal, whose real name is Jesse Smallette, who I want to say is the big brother to uh Journey Smallette. I think he's the big brother. I think he's older than her, I'm not sure. But I know for a fact he's her brother. Anywho, um, round about 2019, a few about a season or two before Empire actually completely ended. Um he had caught up in a scandal because Empire was actually shot on the west side of Chicago. So it was actually shot in Chicago, even though it was based out of the storyline, it was based out of New York. The the uh show itself was actually based, was filmed in Chicago. So he during the time of shooting, he sat up there and he had said that in Chicago, it was two white men that came up to him and said they didn't necessarily say MAGA, but they was like racist and they was on some um homophobic slurs, they said race, racial and homophobic slurs at him in Chicago, downtown area. Okay, so he said that they put a noose around his neck in Chicago at 2 o'clock in the morning in January. Okay, so for those who do not know anything about Chicago, I am from Chicago and currently live here back again. That story didn't add up to me at all, and at the time I was not living home in Chicago. You said in January at 2 a.m. Downtown area, racist and homophobic. White people came into and put a noose around your neck. Now I'm not saying that there's not racist people in Chicago, I'm not saying that there's not racist people that be around downtown. I'm not saying that there's not homophobic people. I am saying that downtown Chicago is the most visited touristy place. You're gonna see all types of queens, okay? You're gonna see all types of trainees, you're gonna see all types of people, you're gonna see people that ain't gay but just like to dress in a different you're gonna see all types of folks, you're gonna see all types of races, literally in ethnicities and cultures, and that is celebrated, especially near the downtown area of Chicago, because a lot of people now if he said on the south side, west side, you know, up north, especially up north, I would have believed it. South side, west side is mostly black people, so but up north, I would have been like, oh well, I can't say it. But when he said downtown, I was like, Well, uh about the live, you know, so cool. And then he said 2 30 in the morning in January, you know how cold it'd be in Chicago at 3 p.m. It might be six degrees, 2 30 in the morning, it's negative seven degrees. No one is being racist at that time of day because it's too cold to be racist and it's too cold to be homophobic. So I never really believed the story. So when a documentary comes out, I just want to see what he had to say. Now, I'm not gonna hold you. I'm from Chicago. The police are not known to be right here, they was in cahoots with the government to kill Fred Hampton. So I'm not gonna hold. We got two corrupt lying parties saying that the other is lying, they point fingers at each other, but neither one of you negroes tell the truth. So who am I just believed? But in the documentary, I'm not gonna hold you. You're not gonna be, you're not gonna learn anything. You're you're gonna learn Chicago police PD is corrupt. We all know that. That that can goable. Them Negroes is trash. Well, Justice Mollette's story don't add up. It never did. So you got the Chicago police story not adding up, and then you got Jesse Smollett's story not adding up. So you just sitting up here with a question mark, like, okay, so all I got out of this is both you Negroes live, which is what I figured out. Y'all gave me a documentary for no reason, but this is what I really believe happened. I believe that Jesse, he I didn't know he had a music deal. I believe that Jesse Smollett had a music deal, and somebody told him, hey, you need to separate yourself from Jamal. And the best way to do that is to get your name in the noose as Jesse Smollett and not Jamal of Empire. That's what I believe. Because he told them to cut the body cams off. And then my thing is this I've trust me, I've been through some stuff, especially some dealing with some racism. You don't want to sit in the racist thing that you just endured. You don't sit in it. Somebody put a noose around your neck, first thing you're doing is taking that mess off. He walked all the way home, I went all the way home with it on, waited for the police to do whatever. He said, Cut the body cam off once you see him with the noose around his neck. I was like, Yeah, it's giving cahoots. It's giving cahoots. And then Chicago has a lot of security on a lot of stuff. And because big city, a lot of money, you know, some of the security. Be police officers that are active police officers. They just now get transferred to this thing. Um, and if you know anything about that, like certain cities have that where, like, police officers, firefighters, that they'll move to that site, especially in TV and film. They'll go there and but they still do their job. It's just that they do that as well. So there are some police officers that work, they still police officers, but they work as a formal security or something like that. So it's easy for him to have them like, hey, I think I'm gonna do this. What police officer buddy? I'll slide you some money. Chicago BD corrupt, they're going for the dollar. So that's what I really believe happened. Only difference is now because he's Jesse Smellet and people loved him and people liked him and cared about him because they'd grown to love his character. And then also, like I said, his sister is Johnny Smellet. So we like to smell that family, and they was out in like the late 80s, 90s. It's just that she the one took off, and you know, so she the Michael Jackson of the family. He ended up being kind of like the Janet, but you know, Janet took off way sooner, but I digress. So it's like he ended up kind of being like the Janet, if anything, you know, technically he wouldn't even be Janet, he would be more like Tito, but um, yeah, he probably like Randy Tito, he'd probably be like Tito, anywho. So he kind of took off a little later, but it's like, oh yay. So, you know, people cared about him, and when it got out of hand, it was like he ended up going to jail because the police was like, I don't blame them. I'm gonna take up for this little lie you done came up with. Like, I'm not gonna take the file for this. You're gonna have to take the file for this. But then, of course, by the end of the documentary, it ended up being, yeah, check me out. I got music coming out. It's like you you could have just went on your social media at this point in time and put your music out, and that would have separated you from Jamal, but you chose to do something stupid, and now that's hanging over your head. If I had to rate this documentary, I'm not gonna hold you. It's a six out of ten. I'm I feel like this. If you just want to hear him talk, go ahead. But if you think you're gonna learn anything, you're not. You're not because I learned nothing. Moving on. Um, next up is a documentary that I'm not gonna hold you, but also all these documentaries actually were on Netflix, every last one of them. Um it's called Hell in a High Water. So this documentary talks about what happened in Katrina and during Katrina, which for me, my mama is uh from Bogaloosa, Louisiana, and I used to go to New Orleans as a kid. So, and actually, the year Katrina happened, we were supposed to go back to New Orleans. We would go every few years, and then we were supposed to go again uh the following year, but she ended up passing at the top of that year, so we never got to go. And by the time I went back, it was 20 years later. Anywho. Um Helen Hot Water pretty much talks about what happened in Katrina and it does have like real footage of like people's last moments. I'm not gonna hold you. It's there's three parts to it. I cried in every part, every episode I cried, and I'm not a crier. The first part talks about like what they did with Hurricane Bessie, like they bombed the levees so that way they can drown the ninth war. So that way the um commercial district um didn't have to be affected by the water. They end up doing that, and um they end up bombing it, so it affected the ninth world, which is where the black people were, which they did gerrymandering and like uh which is foreboding, but they did the um the uh what's it called? Redlining, where they was like forcing people, black people to pretty much, which Louisiana period, especially New Orleans, it's underneath the water level, it's below sea level. And the ninth ward is made like a bowl, it's made like a little bowl, so water can easily fill up in there. That's why if you ever been to Louisiana or like New Orleans, you see their houses is like stacked up on their houses, are built on stilts, pretty much, like not like a normal house that sits on the ground. It is built on like stilts, so it almost looked like the house can walk. So that way, if water comes, they the house won't be underwater, you know. Um, so anyway, they that was with Hurricane Bessie. So a lot of the black people that did not die, most of them didn't die, actually. So they just like carried their kids on top of them or their goods and and belongings on top of them, and they just made their way into the district, into the commercial district, which was the very thing that white people did not want. They didn't want the black people over there, and I think Bessie happened like the 60s. So, come 40 years later, is Hurricane Katrina. And this time, they didn't take care of the levies like they were supposed to, and yes, Hurricane Katrina did come. Yes, it destroyed people, yes, it killed people, and things like that. That that is very much true. Cannot take that away from that natural disaster. That did happen, but Katrina had been gone for like 12 to 24 hours. Katrina had been gone, gone, gone. Katrina had been left, she'd been moved on, packed the bags and gone on about her day. This is what happened. They didn't take care of the levies the way they were supposed to. Them got darn levees broke, and them levy and that water went into the commercial district and kept kept going and just kept going to the point where the like bodies that would have been in tombs, which they do talk about on the swamp tool and stuff like that, got getting out the look uh of the tombs and everything. Like it was bad. Like people that weren't supposed to be affected ended up being affected. This is where I started to really cry. Y'all did not have food for these people, but y'all had fight for these people. Y'all didn't have, y'all had the army, y'all didn't have a turkey sandwich for these people, but y'all had tanks for these folks. Y'all didn't have a burger, but y'all had bullets for these people. And then what was really crazy was then y'all tried to play a race war at this point in time, really ethnicity war. Oh, white people is looting, but oh, that they're finding food. Finding food. They went in the store and stole the food too. Black people, they're looting and stealing food. We they were doing the same exact thing because they were drowning. Like, to be honest, the people that survived and the people that received help did not receive it from President Bush, did not receive it from the government because the government sent in the military, they sent in guns, they sent in the army. These people just suffered a natural disaster. And not only that, the levy that was supposed to prevent some of the damage that happened that made it so catastrophic did not do its job because it was not taken care of properly. So now these people are truly suffering, truly, truly suffering. And everybody admitted to how they got out was the next person that helped them. Neighbors helped each other. More people would have died had they not been like, F this, we got to get up out of this together. And then what was really bad was when people was trying to find their way out and find their way to safety, the army was pushing them back towards the danger. You want me to lay next to people that are literally dying next to me for days. For days. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen. If you think America is garbage, trust me, this documentary ain't gonna make you think anything better about it. It's gonna make you look at America and be like, I knew you were strange. I knew you was garbage. Uh I and the thing that bothered me was like at the end of the day, I don't care if they're black, white, I don't care if they're Latino, I don't care if they're Asian. At the end of the day, the people that suffer were all human. Humans suffered. You watched your family member die, like literally. This documentary show people saying, I think this is gonna be my last moment on their cell phone. Let's record our last moments, bruh. People's last moments, dying words, dying words is in this documentary. But y'all care because of the color of their skin. That is the wildest crap I've ever seen in my life. At the end of the day, we all be red. At the end of the day, we all need to eat food and drink water. At the end of the day, we all need oxygen. That sounds like we all human to me. When I say if you want to be, if you want to cry and you want to say that America is trash, please watch this document. It is a really, really good documentary, though. But it also showed that how humans can come together, truly come together. Because when faced with true adversity, we knew we could not count on the government, so we didn't, and they helped each other. Everybody that made it out that was alive, they you do not hear them say, Oh, the government helped me. No, you hear them say, a neighbor helped me, a stranger helped me, I'm gonna help this stranger. And that shows that people, when it's time to, we really can't come together, which was beautiful. If I had to rate this documentary, I'm not gonna hold you. I'm giving it a nine out of ten. It is a really, really good uh documentary, but I will say this gun get your clean legs ready because you're gonna be crying. If you feel half of anything, you're gonna be crying. Last up on this doc list, last up on this doc list is the Diddy Doc. Oh my god. Uh this documentary, I'm gonna say this, and I'm not even gonna stay on this documentary long. Um all I'm gonna say is this what Diddy did to people was horrible. And how did he rose to fame was do death and decay and destruction. Okay, that's how he rose to fame. Diddy has daddy issues, he's haunting a go, he's uh chasing a ghost, and I feel he feels like he's haunted by one. It's just my opinion. Um, but I will say this a lot of what happened to people, and I know some people gonna think I'm being insensitive, but I'm just being honest. For the love of money is the root of all evil for the love of money, just pay attention for the love, not having money, not working to get money, that's not a problem. It's for the love. A lot of what happened to some of these people was now some of these people just straight up victims to be victims. I ain't gonna lie, hold you. Some of Cassie was a straight up victim. That lady that he assaulted and then showed tapes around, and pretty uh lady in the beginning. We see her in the first episode because it's three episodes to this as well. Um, she was a straight up victim. But the people I'm talking about is the dude uh who we call Leon, the dude who was his business partner with the locks, homegirl Capricorn. It's a couple other people. I'm not trying to say what y'all went through. I'm not trying to make a light of what y'all went through, but what I will say is this he would promise people money, promise people fame, and not really go through on it, which we've all kind of seen. Why you think like all his artists never made it past two albums? All his artists, he don't have not one artist, even himself when he did Diddy Dirty Money, they did not go back, they didn't go past one album. How about that? And that album ain't even bad, especially with the time in which it came out. It's not even bad. Literally, none of them made it past two art uh albums. He never paid anybody, and one thing that I will say that I believe happened that's true, and people try to argue it wasn't, was what he did to Biggie. Yes, I believe that first of all, I believe he definitely had both of them killed because he wanted he wanted the fame, he wanted to be next to Biggie, and Biggie was getting next to Pac. And that was a problem for him. That was an issue for him. That if Biggie and Pac would have really came together, that would that would have that would have been that would have been Snoop and uh Drake coming together. Because technically they both big a lot of people don't know this. Pac is from the east coast, the man from Harlem. He went to, I think he went to go live in Los Angeles when he was like 14, 15 years old. That's why um uh Jada knows him. She's from Philly. No, she's not. No, she's not, she's not from Philly. Ooh, but she is from the east, she's from the east. I think Jersey maybe, but she's from the east, I know for sure. She's not from the west coast at all. So that's why she's so you know, she knew him. So he really from the east. So if they would have got together, that that would have been just dope. Um, and he I think he he didn't like that because he wanted that spotlight and he wanted to be next to um Biggie. Um, but like I said, for um the people, some of the victims, some of y'all was in the love of money, like the the Leon dude. I'm not saying this is my thing. He only promised dude like he didn't even promise him thirty thousand dollars. Dude promised him like twenty-eight thousand, twenty-nine thousand. It wasn't even thirty thousand dollars, it wasn't even six figures. How about that? It wasn't back to it wasn't even fifty thousand dollars, it wasn't even a whole bunch of crazy money. He promised him not even thirty thousand dollars, and you worked with him and all this other stuff, and you tell him and you go to sleep and you wake up, and sometimes your butt was sore. Sometimes you wake in the wake up in the bed with a woman, sometimes you wake up with ditty, but you don't know what happened, and you put up with that, sir. I'm not trying to make a light of your situation, but for the love of money, you you sold your little booty hole and then you never got the money. Well, yeah, why would I pay you? I could just sleep with you. And then when he found out he was on drugs, you weren't like, okay, I'm not with this, let me back up out of this. He was like, Oh, okay. Cause you wanted$28,000? That is crazy. Now I can see if he said$280,000, I still wouldn't have gone, but I'm like, well, these six figures. I mean, that's a life changer.$28,000 might be a year changer, not a life changer. A quarter million dollars is a life changer. That could be a life changer for a normal person. But$28,000 people make more than anywho. Then his partner, I think his name was Eric. His partner, you just let him finesse you completely. You let him finesse you completely. Then he was like, then he sexually assaulted me. I'm not trying to be insensitive, sir. But you let that go on for money, you let that go on for fame and notoriety. You wanted the fame, you wanted the money. Diddy knew that, and he manipulated a lot of people out of their draws, especially men. He knew how to manipulate people out of their draws because he knew they wanted fame. And Cat Williams said that that he said, I wanted for the power. And people said Cat Williams crazy, people said Cat Williams was wrong. K Wims had been saying the things same thing for 20 years, and then this came out and it was like, Oh, he wasn't lying, he ain't been lying for 20 years. He even said, I wanted to desperately go to these parties to he found out what went on in them parties, and he was like, No, I'm out, I'm out, I'm out, I'm not tooting it up for nobody. I'm a boy, Damon. Y'all remember my famous line? I'm a boy, Damon. What? But anyhow, if I had to rate this documentary, I will say it was very well put together. 50 Cent did do a really good job, even though I don't like to get 50 Cent credit for a goddarn thing, but he does do well with TV, so he did a good job on this. Um, but like I said, if I had to rate it, I'm not gonna hold you. Documentarize, I give it a 10 out of 10. It was a very good documentary, very good. All right, next up is some shows that I found very interesting in 2025. Um, first up is um Beyond the Gates, which actually is historical because it is the first soap opera created by a black person, especially a black woman, and it's the first soap opera that had came out, I think in like 25 years or 20 years or something like that. It had been at least 20 years, it was it'd been on a really long time, and um it stars uh Tamara Tooney, who is from As World Turns, as well as she played Emmy Miranda, she played the Emmy on um, she plays the medical examiner on um come on, S U. Larnold SBU. So she stars as Anita Dubois and Follows the Dubois family and things like that. So it's a really really good um, really, really good um show. It's a soap opera and it comes out in the middle of the day, but you can like stream it um same day, few hours later, on um Paramount Plus, but it comes on CBS. It is really, really good though. So, and I shout out to the lady that made it. I can't think of her name at the moment, and um, I like that. I like historical things. Next thing is uh the resident. I can't think of that baby name right now. I'm so mad. So the residence um takes place, it's kind of like a clue, it's kind of like if you like to show clue, like who done it, um, but it takes place in a White House, but it's not the president that ends up getting uh murdered, it is actually like the chief of staff. He ends up getting murdered. So, because I can't think of names right now. Um, if you ever seen Orange the New Black, she plays Crazy Eyes. She played a lot of roles since then, but she plays Crazy Eyes, that's what she's most famous for. And then Homegirl, if you've ever seen This Is Us, she plays the wife to Sterling K. Brown's character, which see, I don't know that baby name. I know his real name, I don't know the character name, but she's the black wife on there on This Is Us. I think her name was Beth on the show. It was Beth. Her name was Beth on the show. I just can't think of her name on this show or her name and her real name. But um, yeah, so it pretty much follows uh who done it, who who you know killed the chief of staff, and even possibly why. It is really, really fun because the lady who plays uh uh I think her Debo is her last name. Uh I A A Dot is her like her last name. I can't think of her name right now. Um, anywho, she plays um a like this really, really great, I'm gonna say investigator. I don't want to call her a detective, a really, really great investigator, and she has a very unorthodox way of finding things out and figuring things out, and of course, she's gonna end up figuring out who did it, and she's a bird watcher, so like because she watches birds and that's how she like clears her head and does things like that, that's how she figures it out, and she's gonna be able to figure out who done it. Um, and it's really, really fun to kind of see her go through the different stories and the different personalities and things like that. Um, really, really fun. I'm not gonna spoil the TV shows because I actually want y'all to kind of watch them. Um, and then next up, another thing that oh, another thing that I was not gonna watch, but I ended up watching it. Shout out to Miss Pat because if it was not her and her daughter talking about it um after the BT Awards, I was not gonna watch it, and that's Divorced Sisters. I'm a fan of sisters, so when I heard Tyler Perry made Divorce Sisters, I said, you ain't even try, you ain't even try, but it does star Kadem, um Kadem Ellis. Um, if you watch Sisters, it's Zach's wife in real life. It stars her, it stars Latoya Lucky, and I can't think of the other ladies. It stars um Ron Rico. He's one of the husbands. He's actually Kaden's husband. Uh, I can't think of buddy's name right now. I see his face, but I can't think of that baby name. But it's it has like it has a really cool cast. Um, it's a really good show. So pretty much what it does is it follows this time, it follows five women. Like her sisters had four, and then they ended up with five. This time he was like, no, I'm gonna do the five formula. So it starts five women, but four of them are friends. So uh you have, I can't think of nobody's name. This is really sucky. So, anyway, you got five friends, they're all married. No, so mind you, two of them are still married, which is Latoya Lucky and Kaden. They're still married, having marital problems, but they're still married. Also, it stars uh Devon Franklin, which is was was the first was the pastor and was uh Megan Good, now her ex-husband. Um he's in there as a Toya husband. So he's the pastor. Surprise, surprise. He's he's a pastor in there. So the toy is the first lady, and then they have two kids. And actually, the son that's on this show is also the son in Beyond the Gates. So it's kind of funny because he's doing both shows right now. So, anywho, it starts them, so they're a married couple, and they are first lady and pastor. Then you have Kadima, her husband, which I forgot what he does, but she's a lawyer, right? Then you have the other friend, um, she has like afro like hair, her like big afro curly afro, she's a realtor, and it's the new guy that comes into town that she's like showing stuff to, and then we have another friend, she's just rich for the sake of being rich because her husband was rich, but he left her for a white woman. So, and she she into bondage and all types of stuff. And if you watch All the King's Men, All the Queen's Men, the dude that played Doc, his real name, he was his stripper name was Bolo. I don't know that Negro real name. I know a stripper name from from Real Housewives of Atlanta, and his stripper name from from All the Queen's Men. So all I know him is by Doc and Bolo. I don't know that Negro real name, but anywho, he's on that and he plays her uh love interest, which her name is not Bridget, and then there's Bridget who is um she's um Latoya's like uh assistant. So these five ladies are navigating relationships. So Bridget is in a relationship with a young man and things like that, and they want her to let him go because he is a goofy, but it's another older man that actually likes her that's more of her age, but you know, she she ain't really responding to him too tough, and then you have um. You have the the one that's with the husband that left her. His name is Franklin. He left her for the white woman. She's crazy. Like, I actually like her, but she's crazy. Like, she burnt the lady with coffee. She's crazy. She don't, she, she's crazy. She's fun though. She's she's interesting. Whenever she pops up on the scene, my God, today it's gonna be just that a freaking scene. And then, of course, you have Latoria Luckett's character who she has her issues with um with her husband and their marriage, but she's willing to stand by him and things like that. And you know, so and then there's like I said, Kaden with her husband, but that that might have been some infidelity. So yeah. I'm not gonna hold you. I didn't, I wasn't gonna watch the show and I wasn't really for it at first because I was like, Tyler Perry didn't even try. But I do love Cadeen because I also I love the Ellis family, Ellis family period, and I do like Latoya Luckett um as well. So I was like, when Miss Pat and her daughter, Ashley, was like, you know, we like it, it was kind of cool. I was like, let me see what it's talking about. And then I turned it on. I was like, God dogged it, Tyler Perry. Darn it, he did a good job. So I would say give it a try. At least give it a try. The whole first season uh is out. I don't know if they're gonna do uh part B to season one or just do a season two. You never know what topic. Anywho, next up is um Safe Space, which can be found on Tubi, which uh Beyond the Gates is on CBS and Paramount Plus. If you didn't watch it live, The Resonance is a Netflix original. Um, that whole first season is out. Divorced Sisters is found on BET Plus, it is a BET Plus original, and then there's Safe Space, which is what I'm gonna talk about now, which can be found on Tubi. And that is actually a Kevon Stage Studios, yeah, Kevon Stage Studios production. Um, it is really, really dope. I love Kevon Stage, Kevin Fredericks. I love him, especially when he gets to be with the stage crew, which is him, that chick angel, uh Tony Baker. Um, to hear more. That's like the core of the stage crew, but that's also Patrick Cloud, B Lou, um uh Mel Mitchell, um Denora Wilcott, because more so Quinn Walters, which actually Angel bought them, but still like they kind of like the the the outer, like it's part of the stage crew, but they you know. So I um that's everybody who's in it. Uh it's a couple more people than that I name. I think her name is Jamila. I follow her on TikTok, but I think her name is Jamila. She be uh what they call it, yappin or whatever. Her. Um, if you want to know which one she is, she's the one with the Nora Wilkes. She's the one that got the mama, the mama-in-law that's the issue. When I say her, Larry. Larry, Larry. So, pretty much, let me tell you what it's about. So, Safe Space is pretty much because sometimes uh Kevin, Kevin on stage be watching like reality shows with his wife. Actually, they used to have a podcast with that chick angel and her husband, Marcus Tanksley, which is he ain't in the show, he ain't in this one, he in church of season two, though. Anywho, they would rate um, it was called The Baldwin Beautiful, where they would talk about reality shows, which I think is like Love Island or something. Anywho, so he pretty much took like uh couple's therapy and all that stuff into like them therapy shows and made like a mockumentary out of them, which is hilarious. So he's the therapist, right? And it is kind of like sketch, so it's like it's kind of sketch and improv at the same time. So it's like all he did was y'all and I couple, y'all and I a couple, y'all and I a couple, and it's like, okay, this is gonna be our issue, and it's like that's it, and he just let them go. And speaking of that, Chick Angel, like if you watch like um, oh my gosh, Assistant Living, telepray's assistant living, her husband is the husband on Assistant Living, which his name is Naeem. I can't think of his last name, but his name is Naeem. And anywho, him on that with Angel, and they going in on each other. It is hilarious to see these couples kind of disrespect each other, not fully, but it's kind of funny to watch them. It is hilarious. He put Patrick Cloud and Mel Mitchell together, and she was talking about the men she could be with that was slid to her DMs, and it was funny, like it is freaking hilarious. Then sometimes they'll turn on him, and like one was like, Oh, so you're not gay? That's what makes me think you're gay. Like, he was like, First of all, there's nothing wrong with being gay, and there's nothing wrong with it. I'm married, like, bro, it's so funny. So it's like if you like, and I know some people like, oh, I don't want to watch too be for nothing. I'm telling you, please go over there. Yes, the c is worth the little few ass that you're gonna have to watch. That show is hilarious, like B Lou's character. Uh, she wants her man to be like, she from I think she's from like New York or something like that, and she wants her man because she got on Tibbs and everything, which is kind of funny. So she wants her man to be like a rough neck. Now, dude, mind you, he used to like be real rough and rah rah rah, he muscular, but then he stopped being as rough and started being real gentle, and she like, yeah, choke me, yeah, yeah. And he like, see, I don't I don't like doing that, Queen. You so she's like, Oh, it is so freaking funny to see these couples interact because like Quinn and Tahir, she he be fat and she used to be fat, so she stopped being fat, but she liked to see him eat. It is the craziest freaking thing. It's the craziest thing. Like, you see these couples come together, you're gonna be like, just divorce. Oh no, Tony Beck and his wife. She she wants a lot of sex, and he's like, I don't want to do all that, I don't want to do all the sexing. She said, All right, well, I'm gonna have to get somebody else. He said, Good. Let me go help you find the dude. She was like, What? Freaking hilarious. The show is freaking hilarious. He, I love it. I love it, I love it. I can't wait to see more of what Kevin came on stage has to offer. Season one, I'm actually gonna rate this one. I'll give it 10 out of 10. Is he is hilarious, it is hilarious. Um, anywho, next up is um, this is actually you can find on Disney Plus, um, which is and if you have the Disney Plus Hulu bundle, you can find it on Hulu as well. Um, eyes of Wakanda, which is once again, as y'all, I don't know if y'all notice, I like Ryan Kugla. He done showed up everywhere except for the documentary. He makes a documentary, it's gonna be on hit too. Um, Ryan Kugla made I uh Eyes of Wakanda, and that is actually the dude that uh did sinners, did uh Wakanda, Wakanda Forever, all the creeds, the creeds. So that's him. So pretty much what he this is actually animated. So what he did was he shows like the different uh uh Dasha Mallory, them people, so that's like which are the bald women with the spears, them people, the Dajja Mallory. So he he shows them and like the artifacts that they have to find that has the um it ain't antimanium. What is it called? Vibranium that has the vibranium, so they gotta go get that back and retrieve that and stuff like that. So that's the thing with him. They're going to go find that and like pretty much save the world and and do their missions so we get to meet them and things like that. It is really, really good. Yes, it's animated, but it's not necessarily for children, I think it's more of a family thing. So I say please, by all means, give it a go. Definitely. Um, really, really good film. I don't know if I think it's just a mini-series, so I think it's done. If I had to rate it, I'm not gonna hold you. I'll probably give it a nine out of ten. It was really, really good, and I really, really enjoyed it. Um, if not a ten out of ten, I really enjoyed it. Next up is Ironheart, which I want to say Ryan Kuglu was behind this too. At least it was the producer. So this takes place for those who do not know, and real in one of the universes and the comics, which she actually, I yes, Ryan Kugla was behind this because ironheart showed up in uh Wakanda Forever. Um, and that's she ended up helping Suri, your home, and stuff like that. So, this is the thing about um this particular thing is for those who do not know, and and like one of the universes in the comics, um, Iron Man passed on the mantle to Iron Heart. This is why Robert Downey Jr. himself was like, oh no, I'm passing it to her because that's how the storyline really went. That's why she's Ironheart, because she was inspired by Iron Man, and she's actually from the south side of Chicago. And uh she actually made it to MIT. She kind of got kicked out of MIT because she was selling like her homework and like selling parts and stuff like that because she went to help her mom and stuff like that, which also has Kree Summers for those who do not know who Chris Summers is. Kree Summers is uh she played Frankie, no, Freddie. Frankie, she played Freddie in a different world. She's actually the librarian in Abbott Elementary. She literally voiced your childhood. If you are a millennial, she voiced your childhood. She played Susie Carmichael. Uh, she played a lot of stuff, she did a lot of voice work. Check that lady up, check our resume. It's very sexy. Um, but anywho, she actually is the same, she's a sorcerer in this, just like Doctor Strange. She's a sorcerer, she teaches her daughter to be a sorcerer, but she ended up leaving the school, her and her husband, because she got pregnant with her daughter, so she ended up leaving. So she's kind of not official like Doctor Strange, but kind of. So I'll I'm not gonna be shocked that Doctor Strange showed up. They did introduce another character. Disney Ro gives me the devil vibes. I can't think of that sneeze name right now, but they do introduce him and they introduce this cloak character, which he ended up the dude, the cloak character, the Kate character, um, who she ended up working for, working with, he ended up working with the guy that is gonna be introducing his name begins with an M. I want to say it's almost Montero. I'm gonna say, but I could be wrong. But yeah, so pretty much it follows this girl who um she ended up having to go back to Chicago and she ended up working on this. Um she ended up working on her suit, right? But she wanted AI for her suit, right? Like how uh Jarvis is and um Iron Man suit. She ended up making a version of it, but she her dead friend. So her her stepdad who helped raise her and her dead friend, they ended up dying in a robbery gone wrong. And she ended up, she was still cool with the brother, and she ended up making the AI her, so like she could project her out and control the suit and stuff like that, which ended up being kind of like an issue for her because it was like, My friend is dead, but my friend ain't dead because the the when she made the AI, it was connected to her brain. So when she went to sleep, I think she ended up like dreaming of her friend, or a memory of her friend popped up, and then it materialized into the AI, then now her friend is the AI. So that was like something for her to deal with as well. Um, but she ended up um kind of like helping the villains. She wasn't trying to help the villains, but she ended up kind of like helping the villains because I think she like wanted to get back at some people or like she wanted a piece. That's what it was. She was looking for a piece, and the dude that uh turned on Iron Man, his his sums collecting all the pieces, so it's really, really uh it's a really good watch. I I don't think this is a limited series, I think it's gonna go on for seasons, but I really, really enjoyed it. Um, so um I think if you like Iron Man, you like Marvel, and especially if you love the way they interweave, because I love the interweaving of Marvel, especially what Disney's doing with Marvel. And I know some people don't like all the interweaving. I like it um because it's like it makes you be like, bruh, if you want to know what's going on, you're gonna have to watch Marvel. You're gonna have, and I'm a true Marvel fan. Like I wrote a paper on the history of Marvel, so I can't get enough of Marvel. So I'm that's just me though. But I think if you like Iron Man, you like even like learning new characters and stuff like that, because I didn't read the comics, I would love to. Um I read some of them, but not really, so yeah, really, really good. Um, last but not least of the shows that I enjoyed in 2025 is actually a show that barely came out in 2025, came out tail end, came out November uh 2025 or end of December. I mean I mean end of October, it ended in December. Is Brian Murphy's All Fair. Um I'm I'm so glad this show got a season two. I'm not gonna hold you. This first of all, this this show takes place about a female lawyer, which can be found on Hulu. It can be found on Hulu. Um, if you have the Hulu Disney Plus bundle, you can also watch it on Disney Plus. It is a Hulu original. Ryan Murphy, you did that. Not only that, the cast. So I'm gonna start with the cast, and I know some of y'all ain't gonna like some of these cast members. It is what it is now. It stars Kim Kardashian, Naomi White, Glenn Close, Tiana Taylor, Sarah Polson, and Nisi Nash. Let me tell you something. When I saw the trailer, I was like, okay, I'm interested in this. Because I love literally half the names I just said I love. I love Glenn Close. I know who Naomi Weiss is, but I ain't gonna say I love her. Okay. No diss towards her. I just I don't know enough of your work. I love Lil Close. She played Corella Deville, um, amongst other things, but she played Corella Deville. Um, I love Tiana Taylor. I've actually loved Tiana Taylor since uh what sweet 16. I've loved her since then, so I've been following her since whenever the heck that came out. So I know that's been about 20 years because my me myself was like 12, 13, and I'm 32 now, so I know it's been about 20 years. I've been following her whole career. Um, and then there's Sarah Postman. I've loved her ever since I saw American Horror Story. I love that lady. Um, and then last but not least, Nisi Nash. I've loved her since the Bernie Mac show. So some of these women, I've been following you forever. And loved you forever. Now, Kim Kardashian, of course, I know who she is because of Kim Kardashians, and I'm not gonna lie, as a black woman, I have very conflicted feelings towards this lady. Um, but my thing is this it ain't necessarily her fault. Y'all made the game and she knew how to play with it. I can't hate her for that. Y'all can get mad at she's still from black women. Well, guess what? If the system wasn't set up for it to be so easy to steal from black people, she probably that probably wouldn't have been that girl tactic. I'm just saying, I digress. And this show, um, so the the uh Kim Kardashian plays Laura Grant, um Lynn Close plays Dina Stein Steinfield Steinland, something she got a funny last name. Then you have um Naomi Watts that plays Liberty Liberty Ronson, Liberty Ronson. Uh you have Tiana Taylor that play Milan, they did not give her a last name. And if they did, I don't want to recall it. You have Sarah Paulson that plays Carrington Lane, but they call her Carr. And then you have last but not least, Nisi Nash, who plays Emil Green. I'm gonna say this. They are divorced lawyers at their own boutique. So um Alora Liberty and Emerald. They have a boutique together, but they all and and Carr has her own law firm or law office, but they all used to work under Dina, who's played by Glenn Close. Now, Tiana works for Alora Liberty and Emerald. But uh Milan ended up sleeping with um Alora's cousin. If you have not seen this spoiler alert, spoiler alert, plus this that's told in a pilot. So that that's you'll learn that the first five minutes of the show. Like, not the first five minutes, but like you'll the first episode you'll figure that out. Anywho, so I'm gonna say this and I'm gonna get off of it. First of all, when I say when I first saw it, I saw the rotten potato, uh rotten tomato, rotten potatoes, rotten tomatoes, I saw the I saw the whole nine, right? And it was like, oh, it's it's bad. I saw people make fun of it, dah dah. The first three episodes was very olor, Grant, Kim Kardashian, heavy, right? So everybody thought the show was gonna be about that, and episode four came out. Niece I'm gonna say that one the whole government night Carol Denise Niecy Nash Betts that baby played she played the hell out of Ember Green. She played that role, she played that role, she played it. I whenever I would see Miss Nash Betts play a character, I'll be like, Oh, you know, it's niece Nash. It's you know, that's you know, it's I know she does a good job every time I see her, but I knew her name, so I would just see her. Hey, even in Dom. I was like, Oh, you know, it's Nissan Nash. I think shut up for getting Amy by the way. She needed nothing, Ryan. Go get the girl one more empty. She needs one more. Okay, let me tell you something. She played that role so well. Then when the next week came, I looked at it, it was number one. I said, Oh gosh, they get the season two. Her, this is the Emerald Green Carrington Lane show. It is the car and emerald show, baby. The monologues, the the back and forth between them two, because carr ended up on the app. So let me just give a little bit of backstory before I really get into it. So, pretty much, and they showed in the first 10 minutes. So, pretty much, they all worked under a law firm under Dina, which is Lynn Close character, and it was the boys' club. And uh, first of all, speaking of their fashions, their fashion speaks to their personality and the case. So, I also pay attention to that. So, Dina, she wears a lot of suits, but I like her shirts and brooches, it'll be very feminine. So, she was in the boys' club, she was the only woman. That's why she brought in nothing but women. She brought in, she brought in uh Liberty, which is Naomi Watt's character, she brought in Laura, which is Kim Kardashian's character, she brought in Carrie Teen Lane, which is uh Sarah Pulson's character, and she brought in last but not least, Emerald, who is Nisi Nash Bet's character. Cool. So she brought them all in. That made her no longer the only girl. When they got tired of that, they was like, bro, I'm not gonna be disrespected by these old white men. Like, I'm so tired of this. So Liberty and Allura was like, We're gonna leave. And then Alora was like, Well, what the heck do you want us? Like, what the heck do you want to do? Because like they're they're the managing partners, like, we really can't do nothing. And she was like, We're gonna do something getting the heck up out of here. So, anywho, she ended up, they end up leaving. No, they end up Dina ended up finding out. She was like, I know y'all wanna leave, you know, what's up with that? And she was like, if y'all want to leave, I'll give y'all my blessing. She said, Y'all can only take one person with you, though. Either another lawyer or another uh uh worker of this law firm, or but not a client. So you can take a person that works in the law firm or you can take a lawyer with you, but you cannot take a client. I mean, I can't let you do that. Who? So she gave her blessing. So mind you, she knew it was gonna be between Carr or Emerald, which they call them carr and em. So they end up going to Emerald, which is Nisi Nash Bet's character, and they, you know, she talks, she has triplet son. Now, mind you, both of them are single mothers. Carr has a daughter, and Emerald has uh three, uh, she has triplet sons. So Car has a two-year-old, M has eight-year-olds at home. So cool. So they hear her checking her sons, da-da-da. So they like, you can come on with us. We're gonna go ahead and leave. We finna, you know, we're gonna blow this pop stickle popsicle stand. And she like, but I am I finna give her like does she not like my work? Like, you know, she just questioned everything, like, what the heck? And she was like, but I got something good going on here. She was like, Well, if you come with us, you I'll make you a multi-millionaire within two years. She said, Let's go. So car, so M ends up telling Carr, but not to rub it in her face, like, girl, if they call me, I know they're gonna come get you. They can only get one though. So then they like, why won't you take me? You took Emerald, dah dah da, why you told emerald? And it's like, yeah, because she's coming. And then she was like, Well, Dina's gonna, she's gonna have, you know, she's gonna get you. And they was like, Dina blessed us. It was hard then, you know, like she was for it. And sure enough, she felt the way about it, she felt rejected. And this is now fast forward 10 years later, where they differ deal with different cases, and the Laura has to go through a divorce with her husband. I'm gonna be honest, this show is so freaking good. Now, I'm gonna say this them first three episodes, if you are not a Kim Kardashian fan or you do not care for Kim Kardashian, still watch them first three episodes because them first three episodes are very heavy, Kim Kardashian. The rest of them are not, though. The rest of them are not. Literally, episode four is all about Emerald, which is Nisi Nash Bet's character. It's all about her. And then you see her and carr go back and forth. You see her and Dina have an interaction. You, it's not about Allure. Actually, after episode three, it stopped being about her for real, for real. Then you get to episode five. Five is very car heavy, it's mostly about her, and you actually don't even see the other girl. For real, for real, because it's mostly about her. Episode six is about Nina. Actually, I'm lying. It's actually about everybody. It is the divorce of Alora, but it's about everybody. This is when we first see Emerald M, which is Nisi Nash Bet's character, we see her take take first chair and actually be the lawyer at first chair. She actually uh is the lawyer and has the fight car in court. That's something that's never happened before. Because Emerald, the reason why Emerald got picked, she is actually Intel. That baby, because she used to be a uh uh police officer. And actually, if you're a Reno 911 fan, you won't actually like this. Because the dude that used to be her partner is the dude that played, what was his name? Jones. Um yeah, he was Jones on the show because she was Williams, yeah, he was Jones. So if you like, if you're a Nisi Nash fan, well, Nisha Nash Betts, let me say her full last name and not be disrespectful. Um, if you are a full like Nisi Nash Betts fan and you watch like Reno 911, dude was on that, or you watch the soul man, which is what she did with Cedric and Santa, he was also on that too. So if you like like her like that, you're gonna like this because he's he he does show up. Also, the dude that was on the rookie was in there too. Um, the black dude that was her love interest, he only was on her love interest for like five minutes, but still, because she mostly was with her um husband and in that show, but I digress, so yeah. Um, but back to season episode six is like mostly about everybody, but once again, we see get to see Car and M just battle it out, and I love to see them too do it because it's it turns into the Carn M show. I love it. Episode seven is a lot about Dina, it is literally about Dina, and then Carr trying to really warm up to Dina, but it's mostly about Dina. Um, and then episode eight and nine is actually all about all of them and then trying to find a way to get them back together and how Carr may feel about certain things and stuff like that. So, like I said, a really, really, really, really, really good show. I know people don't like Kim Kardashian and feel a way about her, but it's like, bruh. I will also say this when it comes to Kim Kardashian. One thing I do like that what Ryan did was he put her with a cast he knew was gonna help her grow. To be honest, Tiana Taylor, you know, used to be with like Kanye and all that stuff, and um and has far as I know, has no beef with them and cool with them. Um, but like Nisi Um and Sarah, they've already worked with Ryan on quite a few projects. So they know how to work with him and go with him and stuff like that. And I think they were really good actresses to put their arms around Kim and be like, because mind you, and a lot of in the show, you see her, they uh do the camera where it's like her and Nisa would turn to each other almost like a face-off. So you see both their profiles, and I kind of like that, and then they'll go like turn to look at Sarah's character, and I like that because it shows like those are the two people that she had to interact with. To be honest, on the show, them the two she had to interact with the most. If you see a lot of us, she's interacting with them quite a bit. So I do like that he gave them, he gave her those two people because they did, they was like, they lifted her up and was like, because she's trying to acting thing too now, and I feel like this. Okay, y'all don't like that girl for what she did. Okay, whatever, whatever. Can she act though? And she did a good job of her character, and I think they gave her a character that she could do well with, and she did. And her castmates, you know, actually supported her and was like, okay, you want to do this, let's do this. And they did, and it seemed like they all enjoy each other and have fun. I seen some of their interviews and stuff, and it looked like they liked each other, so it really worked. Even Glenn Close was like, Okay, baby, I'll put you under my wing, you know, and I loved it, I loved it. So I'm really happy for it. Can't wait for season two. I actually, like I said, I'm gonna need you to get um Denise and Ash, Denise Nash Bet's baby. Yeah, get that baby one more Emmy. She needs one more because she ate down as Emma. Get that baby one more Emmy. She needs one more. She don't got enough, not for me. Anywho, moving on. Last but not least, I know this episode is long. This is a very long episode. I did not intend for it to be this long. Anywho, um, I have a couple of honorable mentions. These did not, some of these did not actually come out in 2025, but their season did, and I just really enjoyed it and I wanted to highlight it. Um, once again, um Kevin Fredericks, aka Kev on Stage. He has a show called Churchy, which originally was on the K O S S app, which is Kev on Stage Studios app, um, which I saw when it was on there, and then when it made it to BET Plus, which it made it to BET Plus in 2024. But pretty much BT Plus didn't really do too much to it. They did very light editing, they pretty much just cut that chick angel out and did like a little bit of editing with the credits. They didn't do that much editing for real, for real. Um, when you actually seen the original episode, they might have done a lot of stuff behind the scenes that may seem significant to him. But as a viewer, I'm looking like, I don't see what y'all did for real, for real. But outside of cut that chick angel out. But um, anywho, um season two, he got a chance to really do it through BET and with BET to actually do it this time. And he himself was a showrunner and the editor of this this time, so and it was really, really funny. Um, this time he got to add a few of his friends that didn't get to be in season one because he couldn't afford them in season one, if we just being honest, um, or couldn't get him to do it because of scheduling, if I'm being honest. Um, anywho, first up being Tabitha Brown. She's in here, she's the mayor. Um, because this takes in Lubbock, Texas, yeah, Lubbock, Texas. We have Tony Baker who's in here. He's like this businessman, but he's like kind of crooked. Um, he's in here. It's a dude, I don't know his name, but he's like his rival, a rival pastor. Um, Lexi got to stay. Um, if y'all know her, she delayed to be she be on Instagram and social media, called like it's like soul questions or something, or something like that. But I like her. Um who else? Um, if you watched the first season of Dude Devil's Inquired, he stayed in there. Who else I'm trying to think? I'm trying to think. Um, Marcus Hanksley was made a guest appearance. Actually, all his kids made the guest appearance as well, as well as his mama. His wife just didn't make it. It's crazy. Again, uh, but it's really, really good. So this time he actually is really being serious about being a pastor this time. And he um Quinn Walters is also a part of it, and to hear more was a part of because that wasn't a part of it last year. So um this time he's like serious about being a pastor, he's really like willing to take on the reins of being a pastor, and I feel like this time we really got to see him do that, and you get to see the adventures. And they changed his girlfriend out, which I'm so happy for. I'm so happy about that. I'm not gonna hold you. The let young lady's name is Jasmine Love. If y'all watched um uh Miss Pat Settles it on B E T, she was in the first season, she was one of the jurors, so I was actually happy about that, and I actually like that chemistry, so we get to see a relationship grow and build. I don't know if they're getting the season three, I pray they are though, because it's really, really good. And it's the episode on there, I think it's like episode four, season two, and it's the one where Quinn Walter's got to get like I think her driver's license or something, and she kept going down to the courthouse. When I say she, I she had me dying laughing. That lady had me hilarious, so I was really, really happy to see that. Um so um, like I said, can't wait for me to get to season three. Um, next up is Wednesday season two, which is on can be found on Netflix. Um, I'm a big Wednesday fan. I actually like what they did with season two, what we learned that kind of where her power comes from. We kind of learned why Tyler is, what the heck he is. We learned about thing. Come to find out, we learned about thing. We learned about why Gizmo is such an issue for the school. We actually learned about Homegirl that's a siren. We learned about her. Like we actually we get to get a little bit of backstory and we get to learn about people that we hadn't learned about and or get to know more about them and things like that. It was really, really good. We get to see how things come together, and then Ene get to learn a little bit more about her too. So there's that. Um, these two shows actually did come out in 2025, and they both can be found on CBS. Um, if you watch them live, if not, you can watch them both on Paramount Plus, literally the next night, which is Matlock. So this show starts Kathy Bates, and it's pretty much like a spin-off the real Matlock, which was uh made by Andy Griffith, well, starring Andy Griffith. And pretty much what happens is uh Kathy Bates character, Matt Madden, Maddie Matlock, Madeline Matlock, she has a daughter that ended up, you know, due to the opioid crisis, she ended up passing away. And because of this, she ends up leaving her, uh Maddie with a grandson by the name of Alfie, her and her husband. So she finds out that the comp the law firm that supported the company, Well Brexa, could have prevented this drug from going out that would have saved her daughter life. And because of that, they did it, and then her daughter ended up OD, and her daughter wasn't the only one. So she ends up on like this war path of finding these people and seeking justice. And with that, she ends up um becoming, she was already a lawyer, but she became like um a lawyer in the law firm and kind of sneaking around and doing a little bit of detective work and things like that, and um to see well, undercover work to get what she can to see who did it, who was behind it so she can get them locked up. It is a really, really good show. Um, I actually like to see Kathy, I'm a big fan of Kathy Bates, but I actually like to see Kathy Bates in this role. And I like it because it's like she's an older lady, a fish out of water, and also has Bo Bridges in it as well. And I I just like to see the um the the way the show is constructed. I just like it. Um, it is currently in season two, so if you have not seen it, you can catch up. And they actually have episodes running right now. The day it comes out, I don't want to lie. I want to say I'd say Tuesday or Wednesday, if not Thursday, something like that. Um, but last but not least, um of these honorable mentions um is Watson, which actually stars Morris Chestnut, um, which I also like as well because Watson was actually a friend of um in the sidekick too. Um baby. What is that baby name? Um Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes. Okay, so this time he's actually they made him black and he has to still deal with Mayorti, uh, the dude Mariordi, or how I can be mispronouncing his name, him and they made him Asian, which I like. And um so he has to like battle him because he he um thinking that Sherlock is past, um, and when he woke up, his like he ended up with like an injury because they all end up like jumping off a cliff into like this river, and then um he had to um he had to like find like the pieces once for his own brain and his own like issues and stuff like that. And he has like this interesting hospital that he runs with his um now ex-wife, and he takes on very, very special cases and like hit um health anomalies and things like that. So it's really, really cool if you want to find like if you're into medicine or just like interesting sci-fi type stuff. Why didn't you say sci-fi? Well, yeah, I guess you can't say that um type stuff, you will like this as well. So those are my honor honorable mentions. I know this episode was long, it was not intended to be this long, but I guess I had to cover a whole year's worth of things. So let's see how short that was gonna be. But anywho, um, I've been Angelina Maria. Thank you so much for sitting with me and listening to me as I talked about my faves of 2025. Hope to see you soon. Okay, bye.