Meg Dowell

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Grey's Anatomy recap: What you're looking for

6 days ago | culturess.com | Meg Dowell

Amidst another Grey's wedding, others' love lives are growing more complicated. WARNING: This recap contains SPOILERS for Grey's Anatomy Season 21, episode 17 "Love You Like a Love Song."Simone and Lucas remain on Amelia's service and have been helping to care for her patient, who is still paralyzed. Nearing the end of their intern year and frustrated with the grim prognosis of their patient, neither is in a good place mentally.
Andor Season 2, episodes 7-9 review: Welcome to Andor's rebellion

1 week ago | dorksideoftheforce.com | Meg Dowell

Each new Andor episode further enriches the ever-expanding Star Wars universe. WARNING: This review contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: Andor episodes 7-9. It's been clear from the very first Star Wars: Andor episode that this show is different.
Welcome to the infamous Grey's Anatomy wedding

1 week ago | culturess.com | Meg Dowell

Another wedding, another pending disaster ... probably. Tonight's episode of Grey's Anatomy -- presumably centered around the long-awaited wedding between Jo and Link -- brings back the usual anxieties and curiosities about yet another ceremony with the potential to end in disaster. Not all Grey's Anatomy weddings themselves are over-the-top dramatic, but when they are, they're as memorable as ever.
Genevieve O’Reilly has always known exactly who Mon Mothma is

1 week ago | dorksideoftheforce.com | Meg Dowell

She reacted to her character's speech in the most recent Andor episode. Genevieve O’Reilly could have easily lost her chance to truly bring Mon Mothma to life. In the final cut of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, you can briefly see her in the background when Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker make their destructive return to Coruscant. She does not appear again and has no lines.
Grey's Anatomy preview: A surprise return

1 week ago | culturess.com | Meg Dowell

The beginning of the end (of Season 21) is upon us. The end of Grey's Anatomy Season 21 is only weeks away, and the show seems to be gearing up for a whirlwind spring finale. Last week's episode ended with the revelation that Jo and Link's wedding would be happening in just four days -- among other things, of course -- and thanks to the promo for this week's episode, we know the wedding is going to be the next main event.
The Siege of Mandalore was the end of an era in more ways than one

1 week ago | dorksideoftheforce.com | Meg Dowell

Five years later, the end of The Clone Wars stands out more than ever. While many of us may have purposefully forgotten much of the year 2020, the end of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is one of few highlights that remain fresh in our minds even five years later. The seventh and final season of the show premiered on Disney+ on February 21, and played out over 12 episodes divided into three four-episode story arcs.
Making the MOST of a Star Wars Day weekend with A New Hope

1 week ago | dorksideoftheforce.com | Meg Dowell

Star Wars just hits different on the big screen. I've been lucky enough to see most of the Star Wars films on the big screen by now. Only three of them, however, have played before my eyes on premiere weekends. Recent theatrical re-releases have raised the number higher, but until this weekend, A New Hope was not yet on the list.
Thunderbolts* really is the MCU movie everyone needed

1 week ago | culturess.com | Meg Dowell

It's 2025, and somehow the MCU is suddenly better than ever. Everything we said in our recentThunderbolts* movie review is true: The film is a good time despite following the not-always-perfect Marvel Cinematic Universe formula. But it's also much darker than I expected. Much more raw and unfiltered. I'm not used to leaving an MCU showing unable to shake off a distinct heaviness left by a story that didn't try to appeal to my ever-growing desire for genuine, joyous escapism.
Review: Tales of the Underworld finally masters the art of the Star Wars vignette

1 week ago | dorksideoftheforce.com | Meg Dowell

It took a few tries, but Tales of the Underworld finally got there. WARNING: This review may contain SPOILERS for Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld. Since its beginning, the Star Wars: Tales series -- Tales of the Jedi, Empire, and now Tales of the Underworld -- has operated on the premise that in order to better understand familiar characters from a galaxy far, far away, we needed to experience more vignettes of their lives.
Grey's Anatomy unfairly sets Amelia Shepherd up to fail

1 week ago | culturess.com | Meg Dowell

Amelia was given an impossible task, and doesn't deserve the pending fallout. This review contains SPOILERS for Grey's Anatomy season 21, episode 16. Grey's Anatomy, much like its fans, is no stranger to tragedy. It's called a medical "drama" for a reason.