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  The following text contains Spoilers! After six seasons, Lucifer had finally come to an end.  This final season started by being a little disappointing to me. Yet, to tell you the truth, I was already quite suspicious about it, to begin with. I believed that the show should have ended in the previous one.  What could be coming next? A new and totally different narrative line with Lucifer being God? That wasn't what we signed up for, was it? Fortunately, I was wrong. Slow starting The first couple of episodes were very slow, and frankly, I didn't like them.  In a way, they served the only purpose of giving us some context on what was going on. Dan is still trying to adapt to the after-life. Chloe is more boring than ever, and Lucifer… Well, he is trying to find himself, his purpose, his call. In fact, in this season is quite evident the ambiguity - he can't lie, but he rarely tells the whole truth. It's curious. Amenadiel and humanity Amenadiel is living like an a...

  If you knew that an asteroid was about to collide with Earth and annihilate us all… what would you do?  This is the beginning premise of Salvation . It all starts when a brilliant MIT student finds out that the world is about to end. With this discovery, Liam enters a hallucinating race against time. Yet, to have such knowledge is more complicated than it looks. It is not just about how could he save the planet, but also how could he keep going? How to lie to his loved ones? Do they deserve to know? Is it his right to keep them in ignorance? Is it even his choice? How to pretend everything is okay? How to live your everyday life?  The greater good Liam quickly discovers the ugly face of acting in the “greater good” name - deception and treason.  Would you sacrifice half of the world population to save the other half? Would you choose to save everyone or no one at all? Some decisions are impossible to make. That's explored in this show - the characters' psychologica...

  Old tombs, ancient curses, or perhaps… Well, something like that, right? This is what you expect from a Tomb Raider movie. Yet, wait… who is this girl? If you, like me, were used to Angelina Jolie, I introduce you to Alicia Vikander . A great actress and a suitable Lara Croft - you may need some time to adjust the difference, but she is good.  Adventure! As a good old action/adventure movie, in Tomb Raider , you’ll find quite a few exaggerations and some incongruence. It doesn’t matter. This was what we signed up for! When you decide to watch a movie like this, you expect to be entertained, not to discover the next masterpiece of cinema. You have many adventures, with some breathtaking moments, puzzles to solve, mysteries to look for. It is all about good entertainment, and that’s it.  Have fun I saw a lot of bad reviews, but I don’t think it is that bad. Nowadays, we tend to rationalize and intellectualize everything. Tomb Raider is entertaining. Isn’t it the point? ...

  Young Royals is a Swedish show about a prince being integrated into an elite boarding school. He is sent there, after a viral video on the Internet creates a scandal. A teenager in the middle of an identity crisis, as any other teen. Yet, he has responsibilities. He is a Prince.     Good Characters One thing that I’d like to highlight about this show is the quality of the characters. There are no shallow characters. Each one of them has a personal story, their pains, and their struggles. Everyone has good and bad sides. All of them need understanding. August, the Prince’s cousin, is one of the main characters, and he is absolutely hateful. However, his complicated life story makes him more human to the viewer. I also feel the need to reinforce the fact that the teen characters in the show are really teens. Instead of the 20’s years old actors American TV put on as teen characters, these kids are very young, with acne and all the “flaws” an average teenager has. Th...

  This is not, usually, “my kind of show”. I started watching when I saw the protagonist was Richard Madden. Then, after - I’d say - 20 minutes, it was impossible to stop. Mystery and suspense The show became very popular in the United Kingdom, and that’s not surprising. It is very good. The story is very well conducted, with the right amount of mystery. You have a fantastic conspiracy, despite the cliches emerging in the second half of the season, and it’s breathtaking sometimes. The protagonist, David Budd, is also a fascinating character. It has depth, and a rich background - you always find out something new about him. His professionalism and personal values, and the way he deals with the conflict between those two things put us to think. How far would you go to fulfill your responsibilities, regardless of how you feel about them? Relate and connect Many people might look at the show from a “political perspective”. We can’t deny the political part of it, obviously, but me… I f...

  Sex/Life is a huge Netflix success. In my country, it was in the top 10 for weeks! But what is it? The show tells us the story of Billie, a married woman with a stable and calm life. Like all of us, Billie has a story, a life before marriage, and parenthood. She misses what she had before: the excitement, adventure, and sex.  Is it enough? Time passes to all of us, life changes, and sometimes you miss old times. Those times when you were young, fun, and reckless. That’s what is happening to Billie. She is married, she has two beautiful kids, a perfect husband, but she is not entirely happy. She misses her old life; she misses her old self. Sounds profound? A deep story about feelings and transformation, about knowing yourself? It could be, but… It could be better I believe that many of us can relate to Billie. While our lives change, even if it is in a good way, it is impossible not to look back. I mean, who never asked ‘What if?”.  Yet, the show is a bit weak on that...