Should You Watch Clannad?

I love watching slice-of-life anime for the same reason I love watching sit-coms I’ve seen a thousand times before – it’s a comfort, like a warm blanket in winter, or some chicken soup when you’re not feeling very well.

Clannad, then, is a big snuggly blanket and a giant bowl of soup and twenty other soothing things all put together. It’s sweet to the point of being sickly sometimes, but that’s alright – in fact, that’s one of the reasons I love it so much.

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Should You Watch Night Stalker: The Hunt For a Serial Killer?

Netflix’s new limited series Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer is not viewing for the faint-hearted. That probably goes without saying, as if you know even a little bit about the content that the series covers – the discovery and subsequent capture of notorious serial killer Richard Ramirez, dubbed by the media as the Night Stalker – you know that things are going to be pretty disturbing.

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Should You Watch The Midnight Gospel?

When I first started writing this piece, it was genuinely just a review for a TV show. However, The Midnight Gospel is unlike anything I’ve really seen before, so I think it warranted more than just a standard review. This, more than any other review, is my own personal opinion, so take it with a grain of salt. The Midnight Gospel is a show both based on and deserving of conversation. We need to talk more about how we connect personally to art – after all, isn’t that the point of it?

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