Reservation Dogs (HULU) Willie Jack, Bear, Elora, Cheese and the gang from the Rez.
This might not be an all-ages family show (I think 10+ is 👍🏼) depending on your family’s tolerance for normal life shit like, drinking, smoking, and family fighting. I watch it with my kids; you decide. There are depictions of sex and sex positivity with the average jokes about “men” and their general lack of accountability for everything. I am not talking about feeling bad about how you treat others and the self destruction that comes with it. I am instead talking about the real ass work of accountability and making sure your actions are congruous with repair and accountability)
This season has some intense “scary” scenes such as the teenagers being chased by a mob of angry white men. For me it was triggering because I have been followed/chased by white people in big trucks in rural areas - but that’s life for a POC kid raised when I was.
Keep this between us - HULU/Freeform
This is a four part docu-series on grooming. Grooming is a definition that is curiously absent from most dictionaries. The Oxford English Dictionary defines grooming asTransitive. Of a paedophile (who spells it like this?): to befriend or influence (a child), now esp. via the internet, in preparation for future sexual abuse.
I have to note that even this definition of “grooming” which shows up only as a “draft” and not quite accepted into one of the numbered definitions of groom/grooming.
As such, demonstrates the intentional silencing of the insidiousness of pedophilia in general and grooming specifically. The psychological manipulation, as demonstrated in the documentary, is eerily similar in all the grooming cases. Groomers are sexual predators and have fucked up minds that think alike.
I began to think about the times times in my life where I witnessed, or was a victim of grooming. I know that my subconscious knew there was a predator, even in times when I didn’t intellectually know. I then created an icy block to older men - I was always suspicious and really tried to avoid ever interacting with a man - they actually grossed me out. This in no way means that the child victims hold any responsibility. Instead, i am demonstrating that pedophiles have impacted my life, I closed myself off to many things for safety. What part of childhood did I lose because of pedophiles? What part of my beautiful journey was changed by pedophiles.
The documentary tells the story like a novel - each episode a chapter unraveling yet another heinous detail. I want to tell so much more - but you gotta watch it to appreciate it. One thing I will note - “TOM” gives me the heeby jeebys.
Rap Shit: Shawna and Mia. HBO MAX
MY review of this is on deck for the Fall entry - even though I already watched the whole series. Issa Rae’s hands are all over this - and I am here for it - all of it. These rappers are Zoomers and I loved watching a show about the youngins’ (zoomers are born between1997 to 2012) and how they learn to show up for their dreams in this messed up society. To Be Continued////