The Nerds of Color

6 days ago | thenerdsofcolor.org | Kelly Martinez

Buckle up, peaches! A new season of Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia is just around the corner, and it looks like it’s going to be a wild ride. The popular YA comedy-drama follows unconventional mother Georgia (Brianne Howey) and her teenage daughter Ginny (Antonia Gentry) as they attempt to escape Georgia’s less-than-pure past and start a new life in the quirky small town of Wellsbury, Massachusetts. Unfortunately for the duo, trouble always seems to be just around the corner.

6 days ago | thenerdsofcolor.org | Swara Salih

Nadia Osman joins us once again to review Ramy Youssef and Pam Brady’s new raunchy animated series on Amazon Prime. The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, and more all-American animated adult tv comedies have graced our screens for decades, mercilessly interrogating the all-American life and if it’s all it’s cracked up to be.

1 week ago | thenerdsofcolor.org | Laura Sirikul

When it comes to Asian American Pacific Islander (or diaspora) stories, relationships with immigrant parents and dealing with generational trauma (typically) go together hand-in-hand. It makes all Asians – East, Southeast, South, Southwest – and Pacific Islanders feel connected somehow. The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival highlights stories like that in their APT: Advanced Parenting Too portion of their Shorts program.

1 week ago | thenerdsofcolor.org | Laura Sirikul

The creatives behind Prime Video’s Lee Soo Man: King of K-pop documentary have heard your outcry about the controversial trailer. The trailer features snippets of SHINee’s Jonghyun’s funeral as the discussion of “the Dark Side of K-pop” plays over it. The negative impact of K-pop culture has been discussed from the lens of the West, as if K-pop is the only problematic industry.

1 week ago | thenerdsofcolor.org | Mike Manalo

Ellie and Dina have officially reached Seattle. However, almost insurmountable challenges in Ellie’s quest for vengeance present themselves, as the WLFs have taken over the city. Chief among them, a new threat (in the form of a familiar fan-favorite actor) emerges. All this, plus a very emotional and soulful callback, and more in this week’s The Last of Us.The episode begins with a flashback to Seattle in 2018, 15 years after the Cordyceps pandemic began.