The Monday Edition - Feb 18, 2019
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Books, Good Enough, Jen Petro-Roy, You Are Enough

Jen Petro-Roy Addresses Body Image and Eating Disorders in a Powerful Pair of Middle-Grade Reads

Good Enough and You Are Enough book covers, both by Jen Petro-Roy. One is a yellow color with creep eyes and the second is a blue background with the title in yellow letters.
Despite the millions of men and women that suffer from eating disorders, there are few resources to help the young people living with these illnesses to find recovery. Jen Petro-Roy, with Good Enough and You Are Enough, attempts to fill in the gaps with her dual releases that tackle the issue in both fiction and non-fiction for middle-grade readers.
Big on the Internet, Don Cheadle, Saturday Night Live, transgender rights

Don Cheadle Brought Powerful Political Fashion Choices to SNL

Host Don Cheadle wearing a fantastic suit during the Saturday Night Live monologue
Subtlety is overrated. Don Cheadle is perfection.
Movies, Captain Marvel (movie), Wonder Woman

For the Last Time, Let’s Not Pit Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman Against Each Other

Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel strike heroic poses in their respective posters.
In a genre built on the staple of the origin movie, where usually a man discovers he has superpowers and learns how to use them and saves the day, two women following the same path is apparently too much of the same thing.
TV, Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom

We Don’t Need Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom Revival Preaching at Us Thank You Very Much

sorkin
It's 2019, and Aaron Sorkin continues to ruin himself for the lot of us.
TV, Jessica Jones, Netflix, The Punisher

Netflix Cancels Jessica Jones and The Punisher, so Bye Bye Marvel

Jessica Jones and The Punisher in their Netflix series.
Thanos's snap, and Disney's own streaming service, have upset the balance of the universe.
Movies, Black Widow, Marvel Entertainment

Black Widow Standalone Movie Bringing in Ned Benson for Rewrites

Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in Infinity War in one of the new scenes in which she had a speaking role, which is a blessing and a curse considering who the actress is.
Ned Benson, of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby fame, is being called in to rewrite the script for Marvel's Black Widow standalone movie, directed by Cate Shortland.
Movies, bo burnham, Eighth Grade

Bo Burnham Takes Writers Guild Award for Eighth Grade, and Rightfully So

Elsie Fisher as Kayla in Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade.
For so long we, as women, were told the coming-of-age stories of men but were rarely given films that focused on our own struggles in growing up.
TV, contributors, Netflix, The Umbrella Academy

5 Umbrella Academy Plot Points That Aren’t in the Netflix Show

The Umbrella Academy kids in uniform.
Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s The Umbrella Academy made its Dark Horse Comics debut in Sept. 2007. After years of rumors that the comics would be adapted for the screen, Netflix premiered the Steve Blackman-run series on Friday, Feb. 15. With 10 hour-long episodes in its first season, The Umbrella Academy alters the plot of the original comics to be more fitting for TV, which means keeping some elements and eliminating others, of course.
Big on the Internet, Disney, Star Wars (franchise), things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: Disney+ May Be Planning Several Shows Set in the Star Wars Universe

Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian
Now, the gang from Solo: A Star Wars Story may be hitting the small screen as well.
TV, Heaven, Miracle Workers, The Good Place

The Imperfect Afterlives of The Good Place and Miracle Workers

Daniel Radcliffe and Geraldine Viswanathan in Miracle Workers
Both shows share similar sensibilities: that Heaven isn't all it's cracked up to be, and it bears more than a passing resemblance to Earth.
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